Haunted House

[Sam Or I]

A group of friends of mine are getting together to go spend the night in a "real" haunted house sometime next month. I just toured the place today to see it. It was a small little house that had been recently remodelled, it was actually in real nice condition. The house used to be a torn up abandon drug house which something happened in. The girl I went with "thinks" she can feel something. I did not feel a damn thing. The guy bought the house and is now letting people stay a night in it for a price, I think it is like 20 bucks a head or something, He actually has a waiver for people to sign. If nothing else I can play practical jokes all night. I will bring the typical vioce recorder (I actually have a real good portable one) and a camera. I will play ghost hunter for the night.

[Sam Or I]

P.S. any recomendations to disprove a haunting?

[Superboy]

When I was in highschool, I had a group of friends who adamently believed in ghosts and hauntings. In an effort to prove them wrong, I took them to a "haunted house" for the night. It was a creepy looking house in which a young girl had been murderd years before and there had been several ghost sightings since.

As soon as we got there my friends all said they could "feel a presence". All night they would get themselves worked up over noises they heard; one girl swore she saw a young girl in the mirror in the bathroom, another said she could hear a young girl laughing. Dozens of times, they would swear they heard something or saw a girl out of the corner of their eye.

It wasn't until the next morning that I told them there never was a murder, never any ghost sightings and that the house just belonged to a friend of mine who had lived in it his whole life. It was a good way to demonstrate how much of that shit is just a person's imagination.

If I were you, I'd make up a specific history for the haunted house your going to, a detailed story of a child murder or something like that and see how many of them see or hear or feel something that matches with what you make up (assuming they don't already know the history of that house).

[Surlethe]

P.S. any recomendations to disprove a haunting?

Look as hard as you can for tangible evidence. When you don't find any, there's your proof.

[Sam Or I]

Heres a link to some photos
http://paranormal.meetup.com/436/photos/

I cannot see what I am supposed to be looking for unles it is the lense glare. There is no text so I assume thats what they are pointing out. Or it was just photographs of the evening.

[Stark]

Actually, I remember flicking through some 'ghost book' as a kid (with, like, Casper and shit in my head) and looking at similar photos with nothing in them. Deeply disappointing.

But giving them ideas to feed their imagination, then later saying it was all bullshit, is the easiest way. Indeed, many of them won't even believe they have seen/heard anything: they'll just say they did to be a part of the drama. Revealing the false background makes them all liars equally.

[Tasoth]

Go with the suggestion of BSing a backstory and not letting know it's fake. Since they want to it to be true, since they already believe in ghosts apparently, their mind will start fabricating sounds, images and physical feelings such as being touched. The longer they're in there and the more they're left alone by themselves in a room, the more they'll start hallucinating things since their mind will start feeding on itself in fear.

[Jericho Kross]

Post some of the pictures when you get them. Also have some fun with your friends[like scare the crap out of them].Have fun.

[Resinence]

The longer they're in there and the more they're left alone by themselves in a room, the more they'll start hallucinating things since their mind will start feeding on itself in fear.

Locking someone in a small room with no light and just one window gets this going best.

[Dooey Jo]

What you must do is obviously to build yourself one of these:


And then proceed to scare the crap out them under the false guise of science. Have them follow you, and when the meter goes to the red, stop, hold out your free hand to stop them, and say:
"Stop! I get a reading... There is something here..."
Or something like that.
Also, it must have a clipper, like mine, so you can clip it to your belt, otherwise it's not cool enough.

[Mrs Kendall]

Wait! This guy is rolling a joint, no wonder they see shit when they investigate a home .

That house does look nice, too bad they're waisting it for such sillyness. Although the guy is probably gonna get rich from charging 20 bucks a head!

I hope you know deep down you're being conned .

[Elfdart]

I think the reason haunted houses work when it comes to scaring people is that at a gut level, people don't want to hang around somewhere if they think a person was killed there. Fear of the dark and the unknown are also big factors. If you want to make people see or hear ghosts, all you have to do is tell them a half-baked ghost story about how someone was murdered there and that people see strange lights and hear strange sounds. Their imaginations will do the rest.

[wolveraptor]

In more densely populated countries (like most of Europe: America is probably too widely spaced), there's probably been at least 1 murder/death in every building at some point in history. Hell, in Europe, a lot of the buildings are old enough that it's almost guaranteed. Point that out to them. If you're in America, this is less likely to be true, although you could go with the whole "Native American burial ground" thing. I bet there are the decomposed remains of aboriginals all over the damn place. It's not like Americans chose just one place to kill them.

As long as you're bringing a tape recorder, record some weird voice on it and play it in the middle of the night. You could tape yourself screaming eerily or something. Nothing's better than tormenting these supernatural crackpots.