Hunting Ghosts
March 20, 2009
Hunting for ghosts has become the favorite pastime for all ages. Television shows also add fuel to this ghost hunting fire and rekindled many legends.
Students and young adults are first to hunt for locations that claim to be haunted. They even go to abandoned houses and office buildings looking for something paranormal. Hazing is common among them and at times, they dare their friends to spend a night camped in empty houses, dingy cottages and even forests.
The movie Blair Witch Project is a classic example of teenagers exploring unknown places searching for something out there, to get famous. They rarely think of the consequences and all they seek is the thrill. Urban legends spring up from time to time and they go out to prove they are real and not just a myth.
Many try out séance and call out to spirits. What they fail to understand that only the evil ones linger. The good souls pass to the higher level. The wicked and treacherous souls hang around because they are afraid to move on because they know what it will be like on the other side. They would have to face the hellish tortures for their bad deeds done in their lifetime.
These evil souls then capture the mind and body of the innocent souls and enjoy controlling them. They use the teenage minds and bodies to satisfy their unfulfilled desires and also seek revenge on those who had troubled them when they were alive. Ouija board is used by most people for a night of fun and adventure without knowing the right technique and devoid of a spirit guide.
Most of the curious people go to libraries to look for spells, recipes for magic portions, to find ways to put a curse on people, how to make voodoo dolls and capture ghosts. But what they don’t realise that even if they succeed in bringing a ghost to respond to them, how will they make it go back.
Haunting occurs most of the time when the spirits are called and then they are not sent back to where they came from. The spirits hang around and instead seek thrill troubling the ones who summoned them. Book of horrors, directory of spells and many such books are widely sorted after. Only a trained spiritualist or medium will know how to respect these souls and request them to go back.
Different cultures have their perspective about life after death, the soul and their migration to the other side. Ancient rituals are carried out and most of them are related with the departing of the soul from the body.
Respecting the dead and allowing them to remain in their plane is the best way to lead a peaceful and productive life.
©Nayna Chakrabarty, 2007-2009. All Rights Reserved.
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