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This article is about "unresolved" cases – the cases that we cannot resolve, and the hauntings that we cannot stop.
1. The Karmic haunt:
The first kind of case that I have dealt with many times that we could not resolve is a karmic haunt. A Karmic haunt is a haunting that has come about because of something that the client did to incite the wrath of the spirit. Karmic hauntings are something that we usually step away from, as we know that the only chance of them being resolved is if the client makes some sort of restitution, in some way for whatever they did to bring the haunting about. People sometimes think that prayers can resolve everything and that their efforts are not or should not be warranted to stop the spirit from tormenting them. I have had clients that did not want to hear that some action on their part was required to stop the haunting. Other clients were willing to admit to their fault in the matter and willing to try and do what was necessary to resolve the issue. Sometimes under some circumstances that can be possible, but other times it is not possible, as they cannot do whatever the spirit demands, in order for them to forgive and forget. Murder victims, and others whose death was the result of another's actions in anyway, sometimes just will not be stopped in their campaign for revenge. No amount of prayers seem to help and all negotiations with the spirit seem to hit a brick wall. Karma comes in many forms and spirits do participate in it, sometimes bringing it first hand to the door of those who wronged them or their loved ones, for that matter. This kind of Karmic haunting can also arise from stealing from the dead or taking things from an abandoned home etc. To steal from the dead is also to steal from their living heirs and both of these things offends the spirit. Either you return what you stole, or you will be haunted.
2. The Black sheep sympathy haunt:
The second kind of haunting which sometimes cannot be resolved is the one where the client has a bond to the spirit, which does not allow for them to dismiss the spirit from their home and their life. We have all lost loved ones and we miss them, we pine for them, and sometimes we bring them to us. Depending on the spirit's emotional stability and their acceptance of their death, this can have some very bad results. I have seen many cases which I will call "black sheep" syndrome. For example, if you have someone in your life, whether a relative, a lover, friend etc., who is a negative, aggressive and troublesome fixture in your life, yet who you still hold a soft spot for, in your heart, for whatever reason, then you keep them around and you suffer at their hands. This is something many people do all the time. It could be because of co-dependency, fear, apathy, or because they were your blood and you can never turn away from your blood even if they are ruining your life, Sometimes, even after they die, you don't push them out of your heart. Since they probably have not changed just because they may have passed from this life, if they were a bad person, then they may come back to cause pain to others. They may be very angry or resentful of being dead, even if their death was caused by their own recklessness or disregard for life. So they may return as jealous, bitter, spirits to punish those who are still alive or even attach to them, in order to try and experience the things they can no longer partake in, in this world. If you hold onto the sympathy, the sentiment, or that little soft spot for them because they may have had one good trait or whatever, then you give them a continual conduit to you. Then you will never be rid of them because some part of you still accepts them consciously or unconsciously. On this side of the veil and the other, "tough love" only goes so far and if it does not work then you have to sever any warm feelings for that person or let them take you down with them. This kind of case can never be resolved until the living person changes their mind about the dead person and pushes them out of their heart, their home and their life. I once had a case where I told a spirit that the family did not want them there and the spirit replied via EVP saying "That's what you think!" If anyone in the home is accepting of the spirit, then the spirit can remain there.
3. The family intervention haunt:
The third kind of case that usually cannot be resolved is what I call the "family intervention" case. This happens when a deceased loved on decides to come back to try and guide or chastise, another living loved one, who the spirit feels is headed down the wrong road. I see this all the time. If the spirit is justified and the living loved one is doing something really detrimental to themselves or others than the spirit that is doing the haunting is actually out for the loved ones best interest and therefore cannot be driven away by any traditional means of house cleansing. If a living person, let's say, is doing something self-destructive, morally wrong, or even criminal, to the point where they are jeopardizing their lives and those of their other family members, and the spirit of that person's Grandma, {for instance}comes back to raise hell, then that is a family intervention. This kind of case has to run its course to its conclusion and neither God nor the haunts resolutionist is going to stop it.
4. The grief bond haunt:
The fourth kind of case that I see often is the "grief bond." This is a haunting that begins shortly after a death of a loved one, where both the deceased and the living person left behind, just cannot let go of each other. One is grieving for the person who passed away and the dead person is grieving not only over their own death, but the pain of the loved one left behind. This happens when the living person left behind does not want to accept that the person is gone from this world and the deceased loved one does not want to leave this world, or this life. If contact is made and kept up by both parties, through evp, psychic communication, etc. then it keep the deceased person in a confused state of limbo where they are still apart of this world, and not ready to embrace the next one. This is a bad situation because both parties stagnate and neither lives the life they have now, [one here and one on the other side], to their full potential. There is a lot of truth in the old saying that "if you love someone truly, then you have to love them enough to let them go."
5. The Doomed Location haunt:
This kind of haunting happens because the location is just a permanent energy portal of some kind, that is a permanent part of the astral or ethereal terrain, that will not be changed, moved or affected by the living on this earth. Basically this means that there are some places where we are not meant to be living, because they serve as a thoroughfare for other entities, or a portal of some kind between the worlds, where things come and go on a continuous basis. For example, let's say that your or someone else built your house on land that was once a cemetery, a burial ground, or a power center of some kind, that serves to be a transition point or a travel pathway for spirits of all kinds. Or perhaps a very tragic and monumental event took place there like a disaster or a battle in which many people died and had much emotion and or angst before they died there. Portal exist wherever there was a need for a transition door, due to a massive amount of death in that location. There are also other types of areas that are conducive to paranormal activity because they contain several features, which feed energy of all kinds into that location. For example: I know of a very haunted area in a small town. This area has an interface, a power plant, Native American land and burial grounds, two other graveyards, and ley lines running right underneath it. Talk about a power center? Trying to live in a home in an area like any of these is like trying to live in the middle of the airport. You are going to have much people traffic there all the time. Dead people can be just as disruptive to your daily life as living people, so you may have no choice but to move if you ever want to have peace.
When it comes to resolving any haunting, the first and most important responsibility lies with the person being haunted. In order for any haunts resolutionist team to help, the client has to be honest and upfront with the team, about what they feel may be going on and why. A haunts specialist can't just come in and solve your problem and chase off your spirit, if there is some underlying circumstance that you fail to mention, out of fear, guilt, or you're considering it too personal, to relay some type of information. While most hauntings are benign and many may be totally unrelated to the client at all, "some" hauntings are the direct result of the client's actions in one way or another. This can happen even without the client being aware of it right away. It may be something that happened ages ago that you forgot? You should always voice any thoughts or ideas you have about who or what might be present in your home and why. Maybe the thing you thought had nothing to do with it, is exactly the thing you overlooked? If you are experiencing what you think could be a karmic, haunt or some other kind of haunt that directly involves you then it is in your best interest to level with the person who you call in to help, and also to listen to their advice, once the identity of the spirit and their agenda has been verified. Total honesty and total co-operation are essential elements to resolving the haunting together. Also remember that in the course of trying to resolve a haunting the spirit may divulge some things that you failed to mention to your haunts resolutionist. Better they know all the facts and possibilities to the best of your knowledge, if you think you know who or what may be haunting and why, directly from you. This way, everyone is on the same page and better prepared to deal with whatever comes out or arises during the course of the investigation and attempted cleansing of the case.