According to the (more sciencey) haunt investigation shows, most haunty effects are from old plumbing, inappropriately shielded magnetic fields, air pressure, and so on.
So if you fix all the problems in the process of replacing the house, such as modernizing the electrical wiring, then yeah, the venue will become less haunted.
If, however, you fail to remove the bodies, proverbially or otherwise, you’ll just piss off the ghosts.
With the caveat that this is all make-believe, it seems like your typical ghost is anchored to a location, not some specific piece of wood or plaster within that location that could be replaced thus “removing” the ghost. They are well known for passing through physical matter as if it weren’t there, so the idea that they would be somehow pegged to a specific piece of physical matter doesn’t seem right. Ghosts are also known for haunting things are newly built on the site of old haunted houses or graveyards, which also points to not being able to dissolve ghosts simply by destroying or altering the physical area around the site of the haunting. Thanks for coming to my lecture lol.
Would a court order for the ghost to vacate a property work? Assuming there not a libertarian.
It depends on what you do with the replaced pieces. If you rebuild the house somewhere else the ghost might go there. Or maybe the ghost gets split between the two houses. Or it goes back and forth. Or… I don’t know, which one is the old house?
no but the elves and fairies would get banished back to their lands.
According to the documentary “Ghosts”, the inhabitants of Button House are unable to leave the area. Despite some of tfem predating the house.
I own the axe that George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree. Of course I’ve had to replace the handle. And the head. But it occupies the same space.
is this a sneaky John Dies at the End reference?
Unfortunately as long as the idea of the haunted house persists, you’ll have to keep dealing with the nonsense.
No. Ghosts are bound by contract to the
screeningshooting location, not the props.Merasmus is that you?
In the immortal words of Stan Lee. “It’s a story, it depends on what the writer decides.”
What if they’re haunting the physical location and not just the building? I’ll have to check the ghost handbook.
If the ghosts are of ded contemporary physicists they’re probably haunting the region of space that our solar system occupied in the galaxy when they died.
Depends what reference frame they died in. If it’s inertial, they’ll be in an orbit, and will spend most of their time falling through the Earth’s deep interior. Occasionally, they’ll surface.
Moral: Don’t be a physicist.
So mostly floating in space
Moon’s haunted
Let me know what you find
If you dig the location up enough do they leave or haunt it more? Just sort of angrily floating where the ground used to be?
No, they are haunting the location, not just the house.
Does this mean if you die on a moving vehicle, your haunting spot keeps on moving in whatever direction?
I think it actually depends on the ghost. Like if you replace part of the car, it will still haunt it. But if you replace all the parts at once, the car will be significantly less haunted.
Similary, if you rebuild a building to be similar, but not quite same, the place is still haunted. But if you like build a mall, it would be significantly less haunted.
Replace all the parts at once
AKA buying a new one?
Only if you junk the old one in the same place. /s
If you give the new pieces enough marinating time for the ghosts to penetrate them, then no. Of course marination time depends on the density of the material you are replacing and potency of the ghost.
For example, a hardwood floor with a benign Casper like presence probably will need a few centuries, whereas insulation foam with something more akin to the demon from the exorcist needs a few weeks. Times and temperatures will also vary by altitude and local climate and alignment to laylines.
Professional ghostbuster right there
It depends on how quickly each piece is replaced. It takes some time for the ghost to attach to new boatds and beams. And thats of course not considering haunted indian burial grounds, creepy mirrors or goth chicks moving in, that yhrows the calculations way off.
I mean goth chicks moving in would likely accelerate the attachment rate by 100 fold for horny teenage boy ghosts, but likely increase the attachment time by 1000 fold for old widow ghosts.
