CAN SPIRITS ATTACH TO THEIR EARTHLY HOARDING?

Is there a direct relationship between someone hoarding a large amount of objects and their house becoming haunted?  Can spirits still have attachment their earthly possessions? Is that rustling sound that of a mouse or a restless spirit?

Here is my updated blog about a subject I touched on in July, 2013.  I first broached the idea of a possible relationship between hoarding and haunting and indeed there may be some merit to this. We may have discovered some possible photographic evidence to support this theory.

The definition of Compulsive Hoarding (or pathological collecting, or, informally, pack ratting) is a pattern of behavior that is characterized by the excessive acquisition of and inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment.

Many of you I am sure have seen an episode or more of popular TV shows dealing with this subject of excessive hoarding. It shows where people basically filling up their “free space” they occupy with tons of stuff which seems to fill a void in their lives. But the psychological effects (and possibly psychic effects) of literally isolating and suffocating themselves in this environment is like having their life force sucked out of them! This disorder affects more than 3 million people in the U.S.

It was true of my deceased friend Paul who lived his last few years in more and more isolation, as both his parents were deceased and he was estranged from his only brother and his family hadn't been invited to his home for several years. He always seemed to have excuses when I would mention I'd like to stop by to see him, which put a strain on our thirty year friendship. He lived among his “museum” of artifacts and hundreds of boxes of collectibles and I don’t know whether he preferred it that way or felt trapped.



He was an anthropologist and world traveler who not only collected art objects but also brought home some ancient artifacts from his time excavating in South America. He felt apprehensive leaving his home for long periods of time, neglected going to the doctor (even after numerous pleas from me) and became paranoid of even having workmen come in to fix his bathroom plumbing. He had bars placed on his windows-he was like a virtual prisoner in his own house. We later found out that Paul* had been living in very hazardous health conditions with the discovery of dust, mildew and black mold when cleaning out his basement. * named changed

We have no proof but it is safe to bet that these years of accumulated harmful vapors in the moldy air caused him to be ill and his asthma condition to worsen. He told me he was using his inhaler more frequently and it may have masked his heart disease when he was short of breath thinking it was just his asthma. By the time the paramedics got him to the ER he was unconscious and showed signs of a heart attack several days earlier.  There was so much damage to his heart the doctors were unable to save him. What a sad way to live, to die, and then to haunt!

Some of the "hoard" in the basement which became the epicenter of the haunting. A tiny fraction of what we had to clean out in the next 10 months.

So what causes the Haunting?

A collector, who brings items purchased at garage sales, thrift stores or in their travels into their home, may find they have ghostly attachments. Basically, you can be bringing the ghosts into your home! With that you can be bringing some type of unusual low-level energies into your environment.

Our particular experience relating to this phenomenon is told in my book, Estate of Horror, and how we had to clear out fifty years of accumulated hoarding by my friend and his family and were then confronted by terrifying poltergeist activity. The more we tried to de-clutter the house for eventual sale, the more the strange activity escalated.  We learned from a psychic medium that came to the house and was in communication with my friend Paul, “That my deceased friend and his family were upset with the major changes happening to the house and their emotional attachment to their hundreds of possessions did not end with their lives. They still wanted everything to remain the same.” 

We found this to be impossible to comply with as the house was to be sold and the proceeds donated to charity as specified in my friend’s will. I had no choice but to carry out his wishes. Tons of junk were put out in the trash. This made the ghosts angry and the haunting at the house become dangerous.

Here are several images we caught of "faces/spirits"? near the collected items. We had no idea at he time we had captured these images which look like faces. See inside red circle. It resembles my friend Paul facial structure and features.

BEFORE

           The face here looks more delicate like a child or female?

Yes, clearing out clutter and debris can improve a “hoarders” life one box at a time. With professional counseling, clutter-busters and experts in organizing, a person can get help.  There can be a psychological release that is physically, emotionally, and spiritually liberating in changing their lives. But, what about the possible psychically linked energy that may have been attached to some of the objects?  Does Hoarding and Haunting go hand in hand? It’s just a theory, but from my personal experience, I believe it to be one that deserves further investigation.

What happens to those of us who cleaned out a hoarder’s house? In my case, you write a book www.estateofhorror.com about your experiences of being the Executrix of a deceased friend’s estate, that is a hoarding nightmare, as a cautionary tale. In the ten months time it took us to clean out the house we found we had disturbed something supernatural and liberated some evil spirits that continue to haunt us even today! 

This is now documented in my sequel, Dark Transference.
www.hauntedauthor.com