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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The reason old buildings are "haunted" is usually carbon monoxide. That's why modern buildings don't have ghosts.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just read a post-it about that...

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

in my own handwriting no less

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 11 points 1 month ago

I'll check on it after a nap

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it can also have to do with pipes and stuff vibrating at a sub-audible frequency which can cause feelings of dread and fear. Horror movies use this technique pretty frequently.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

It also depends on people who believe in ghosts. A normal person just hears pipes making noise.

I went to my buddies house one day and he was excited to show me a video he recorded.... of particles of dust being lit up by the cameras light. I almost felt bad to say the truth because he was so excited to have captured 'ghosts'.

[–] edg@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

I already fill that role in my household.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It probably takes a century or so for a ghost to manifest.

In the time span of eternity, 100 years is nothing.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s a lot of paperwork they have to fill out first. Permits and inspections. The bureaucracy of the afterlife.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Luckily there's a handbook, though I've heard it reads like a VCR manual.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Making 12:00 flash on the VCR display was another classic haunt, but no one has a VCR anymore.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Now they make your smart bulb disconnect from the network.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It used to read like stereo instructions, so it's improved

[–] lazyViking@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The show ghosts has a ghost that died in the early 2000s and he is just a baller "the pantsless ghost of a wealthy Wall Street stockbroker from the early 2000s" and he just wants to party

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

T Money!

When is the new season? September?

[–] lazyViking@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh man, you just made me look it up, and now I realise there are way more seasons than the two available on my localized netflix 😵‍💫

and it seems like season 5(!) is set for October, so I got some months to binge it all 🤩

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Woot! Yah, my eyepatch is handy sometimes. This show is worth it.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's the only thing on CBS worth watching.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's also the UK version which is way better. But way fewer episodes and it's ended.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ooooUUUoooooOOOOuuuu Diiiiccckkkkssss ouuut for Hhhhaaaaammmbreeee ooOOOOuuuuu

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

koooOOOnnyyy twennnnty twellllve

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

"Get PWNT Noob" is written in blood on the walls. A classic late 90s haunting.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a ghost pops through the wall singing OH SNAAAKE AH SNAAAAAKE OHOOOOOH IT'S A SNAAAAKE

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger Mushroom Mushroom

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The causes might be environmental.
Haunted houses are a product of the US culture and the oldest houses commonly in use there are from the 1700s.
But it also needs to be fairly isolated - nobody is going to notice a haunting in the middle of a city.

[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

"Haunted houses are a product of US culture", right...

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

There are plenty of haunting stories that predate the US by several thousands of years.

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Rawr XD" why not "Rawr X3"?

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago
[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

I'd totally buy a haunted mansion if it's haunted by a ghost from the 1990s. Hell yeah.

...Oh, I can imagine more headlines. Someone spending a lot of money to buy a house haunted by a communist, and the sociopolitical debate this purchase creates.

[–] Iapetus@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm pretty sure my ghost is still partying with the goths, in the loft I lived in in 2010.

If you start seeing phantom CD cases with lines of speed racked up on them, or hearing the faint sound of epic mashups, you'll know you're in the right loft.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 month ago

They haunt the abandoned malls and apartment buildings rather than old houses...

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

I would immediately find an exorcist to banish that bitch.

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

ghost ghost i know you live within me, feel as you fly