Restless spirits tend to stick around....

Funeral rituals assist in spirits moving on.

Well my house was built pre 1880's and back then they used to lay the bodies out in the home. While living here for the past 8 yrs we have had numerous strange things happen but nothing that I would call full blown haunted. Food for thought I suppose.

Spirits like to linger in places they were familiar with in life. Unless they worked or lived in the funeral home or somehow actually died there.. there is nothing to connect them to it. By the time a person is seen in a funeral home for wake's etc the soul has long since left the body.

I'll give you a personal story about a Funeral Home:


My family moved into the third floor of a building that our family friend owned. He lived on the first floor. This building was a former funeral home, and his apartment was the show room and the third floor was the director's apartment. There was a back staircase that went all the way to the basement. When we first moved in, we helped our friend clean out the basement. There were still gurney tables down there when we moved in. I always got a really bad feeling when I was down there, and at the time attributed it to being freaked out about the place being a former funeral home.

I was home by myself one day. There was nobody in the apartment and our friends downstairs were out for the day with their kids. The main front door was locked and you had to use the buzzer to ring in. I took a long bath as I had just got done with a practice for the day that left my muscles very sore. About 20 minutes into my bath, someone knocked on the bathroom door. I said "I'm in here Dad. I'll be out in a bit." Well, nobody answered the door. I yelled to my Dad again, and again there were a few knocks on the door. I said "What do you need?" At that point I got out of the tub, put on a towel and opened the door. Lo and behold, nobody was there. I checked the main door to the apartment, and it was still locked. Nobody had been home. At that point I rinsed off, got dressed and took off to the coffee shop down the street until my Dad got home that evening. When I told him about what happened, he shrugged it off until something happened to him.

He was doing laundry in the basement one afternoon and when he went down to switch from the washer to the dryer, there were clothes strewn all over. Once again, the neighbors weren't home so we knew that it wasn't them. The washing machine was brand new and had a locking mechanism that we checked. It worked as it was supposed to. Instead of cleaning up the clothes, he ran upstairs to tell me what happened. We went down to look at the mess, and all the clothes were back in the washer, with the lock closed on the washer. We moved out about 2 months later.

This was one of the weirdest things that's ever happened to me (minus some of the investigations that I've been on), and I still remember those two incidents like they were yesterday. I never really liked that place, and it burned down about 4 years later, and I said "good riddance."

I don't know why spirits would hang around funeral homes in the first place, unless some of them are stuck into their bodies until a proper burial happens. I tend to think that it may have been the former funeral director still hanging around, as he died in that building. I never saw the clothes strewn on the floor in the basement, so maybe my Dad was messing with me, but the knocks on the bathroom door are what sealed the deal for me.

Anyway, that's my story, for what it's worth.



-TS

I would say the soul or spirit, which I believe is 'energy' has likely already left the body.

As for someone's questions on hospital, there are purported to be many 'old' hospitals haunted and I would also say currently operating hospitals, as they are a huge business, frowns on and discourages employees for reporting any sort of pecularities outside of to the management.

Might get you fired... I've been told lots of nursing homes have incredibly strange activity...

Have you ever watch Ghost Hunters or Zak Bagan on travel channel?

Well, some people theorized that hauntings are no more than "recordings"of residue life-energy that "engraves itself to places of great joy and/or sorrow for the dearly departed.

The morgues are the place where the empty shell ends-up, without any connection to the place where the person actually died.

It could explain why many hauntings occur often in places that have measurably different energy signatures due to kinds of stone, streaming water nearby etc.

It doesn't seem too inconceivable to me that certain (quartz?) minerals, with a constant stream of water or air over it, or near it, can act like the recording-heads of old fashioned tape-decks. So, that if someone dies violently or something, that final burst of life-energy engraves itself -gets "recorded"- so to speak, or even death-cries, and gets re-played everytime certain athmospheric circumstances "trigger"said recording. It could also explain why profi Ghost-Hunters often seem to measure increased magnetic activity at haunted places.

I know, it's a bit of a techie interpretation, void of religious and/or philosophical considerations, but to me it seems plausible.

just my $0.02 though

you have a good point there. like the Goth comment lol.