Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Environmental Science and Geography of Haunted Buildings

Different Scientific Basis of Haunting

Haunting in buildings can now be explained on a scientific basis as due to ill understood physical properties of their geographical terrain. The readers would get the idea that haunting are real, but that the explanations for them are different from what are expected in conventional, often superstitious view. Almost all forms of haunting can be shown to have scientific basis.

There is hardly any need to involve the concept of spirits of dead people or real spirit entities of another world. This is not to say real spirits do not exist, although the author is inclined to believe that they have better things to do than loiter around to scare people. That should be the end of the matter, except that it is evident that, in many cases, the haunting produce physical forces, which can have serious ill-effects on the well-being and health of people, at times, causing the death of people.

There should be better understanding of haunting, as they indicate physical environmental conditions which could have adverse effects on human health and well-being. Knowing the environmental causes of haunting we can take steps to eliminate their harmful effects.
In the investigative study of locations of about 170 haunted building spots, it has been found that the locations of haunted buildings could be found associated with these natural geographical features:

hill tops (52) – 34%
ends of hill spurs including road bends (61) – 39.9%
promonitories (19) – 12.4%
large old trees (9) – 5.9%
underground instability (12) – 7.8%

The percentage is based on the exclusion of the cases of paranormal experience and cemeteries-hospital-prison in haunting.

The discussion indicates that the different types of haunting (other than the paranormal poltergeist type) are caused by and fixed around distinctly different physical environmental geographical features, which may be summarized as follows:

1. Geological Formations, especially hill tops and spurs, promonitories and underground channels and lacunae. These geological features are usually associated with fault lines and underground water veins.

Underground water veins and channels. They give off electromagnetic fields, positive ions as well as radioactive radiation. They can also cause ionization of the air above them.
Some of these underground channels and caverns may trap gases and rotten vegetation and other materials which release organic gases. They give rise to unpleasant rotten smells and can also burst into flames. These are probably common in certain rock formations like limestone and riverine alluvial soils.

Faultlines. Radiation and gases would seep from the interior of the earth through these faculties.
They also warp the local electromagnetic fields. Piezoelectric effects would cause ionization and illumination of air above them.

Faultlines could also be the paths of both surface and underground water channels.
Open spaces, like golf courses and graveyards. The undulating terrain has spots which collect water bodies, especially under cold weather conditions. Their floating white masses are often mistaken for ghosts.

These areas may have underground water veins and faultlines which compound the situation. All sources of ionization and piezoelectric effects would give rise to charged bodies. These charged bodies in cold moist places would attract water molecules and take the form of white ghostly bodies, often with “long hairs and without legs”. Other charged bodies could directly burst into luminous bodies, which are likely sources of many UFOs.

Exposure to winds, at hill tops, ends of hill spurs or ridges and promonitories. These winds would produce direct vibration, including infrasounds, which would directly give rise to haunting effects. The winds also blow up dust and soul particles whose friction would produce electrostatics.

2. Biological Factors

Old large trees. Owing to their absorption of water, they create underground water veins, which give off electromagnetic fields as well as radioactive radiation. They can also cause ionization of the air above them. These trees could be associated with snakes living in the holes formed by the roots, as well as the arboreal feral cats.

Forest animals like arboreal feral cats can be associated with large old trees. These animals are night animals and thus wander at night in the tree canopy. They often give our whining sounds like children or women crying and they also give out laughter-like sounds. These are not strictly ghosts or haunting. But they can attack people, hence the lethal mysterious bite and scratch marks. Many pontianak incidents could be sue to these arboreal feral cats.

3. Paranormal Properties
The next group of haunting, representing a different class of haunting from the above and not tied down to any particular geographical feature, are those cause by paranormal powers in human beings, which are manifested under certain circumstances, like in psychics and mystics.


These forces are connected with either the pituitary glad or pineal gland or both. Those, which manifest as haunting, include the poltergeist powers connected to growing adolescents, children, pregnant women and release of paranormal energy from people who have violent emotions.

These are the only case, which approach the supernatural and yet have their own scientific explanations. But, they can also be facilitated or triggered off by aberrant or bad physical environmental geographical conditions.

Those scientific environmental and geographical factors interacting in haunted spots are further elaborated below, including their significance in feng shui.

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