Get to Know your Ghosts - Residual Haunt

The most common style of a human haunting is a residual
haunting. A residual haunting is like having an impression
made in time. The entity may seem to be lost in a time warp.
The spirit really isn't even there, only the energy is.

In most cases people may here screaming or crying due to
the violence factor that may have caused this traumatic
event to happen. People may also hear the sounds of
footsteps walking on the stairs or through hallways.

Typically the repeated event is whatever the person who
left the energy behind did often or an significant event that
they remember happening to them. It is almost like it the
energy has become part of the dwelling that they once
occupied on an every day basis. These haunting styles
always seem to happen in the same place every time.

There is usually very little you can do on this style of a
haunting except make the family who is having these
problems understand what is going on and explain to them
that they are in no danger due to the energy not being
controlled by the person who left it behind.

There is no actual entity present in this style of haunting,
and the energy that was left behind is just like a video
playing the same scene over and over again. Eventhough it
is not aware that people are there, it can still be a scary and
emotional situation to the people who have to deal with it
happening in their home.

It may happen every night or every week or even every
year. It is the most frequent haunting investigators will
come across in their cases. An investigator will tell you
there is nothing they can do about this style haunting and
they are correct. People need to either except what
happens and learn to deal with it, or move on.

-Jason (TAPS)