From experience, nobody believes in a haunted house, until it tries to kill them!

I grew up experiencing hauntings complete with thrown dishes. Possessed people are worse though.

Also, there is a court case in the USA where a guy was attacked in bar bathroom by an entity. He was able to prove through testimony that it represented a clear and present danger to people in the bar. He won his case.

@Demolishun Having a healthy fear of the unknown is wise.

@bazmd I don't fear evil entities. I say prayers and they leave.

@Demolishun I lived in a haunted house, I'm still working out what happened. it ended spectacularly with one fatality and the event even made the news, the reporters lied. The events leading up to it were like living through a Psychological Horror.

It was like something in the house got jealous and had a major tantrum, it tried to persuade me to leave, but having no fear I stayed until the final battle. ;)

@bazmd there are different kinds of hauntings. Some are absolutely malevolent. Sorry you went through that. Sounds terrible.

@Demolishun Living in a large empty house by yourself can have an unusual effect, you will begin to notice peculiarities to the point of questioning the evidence being observed at hand.

One time, during a conversation with a friend from Canada who's a writer and publisher, I said "I think this house is haunted" and in that instance the light bulb in the room blew. I sat there in the dark, it spooked the dog, I remained calm, I think at that point, acknowledging what was happening coincided when it became more physical.

I was looking at some of the news reports of the event and every detail was incorrect that, to me it all looked made up, even I wasn't mentioning anything about the supernatural. I contacted the bbc reporter, and told them what they published was wrong in every possible way imaginable (still no mention of supernatural goings on) They expressed the current thing and hearsay that was going around and stuck with that nonsense.

@Demolishun A representative from the insurance company called them a "bunch of clowns".

@bazmd The AP is a bunch of pathological liars.

the lights in my place keep breaking recently

by this point I'm using AI as a mystic guide to how doomed am I

bought some Bluetooth lightbulbs that let me color them. don't know if I'll cause a fire hazard. there's a dude who calls me a witch and he advocated I get them. but they say not suitable for enclosed spaces and I specifically need a light for the enclosed ceiling lights. sigh

We should harness those forces to train LLMs

@jestdotty Use gels for lights, but if there's no fumes coming off them they should be fine.

As an infant I lived in a violently haunted house. My parents still talk about it from time to time, how the TV would just turn on in the night to static, lights turning on and off, one time a plumber was over and said something tried to push him down the stairs (he wouldn't come back to the house...)

The house ended up burning down after they sold it and there's a gigantic water tank there now, which is super creepy to me for some reason.

Interestingly my parents still don't believe in spirits and ghosts even after all that shit, and honestly I have trouble too (hard to believe until something happens to you), but I think it's foolish to assume there ain't some shit going on there.