Ghostly Adventures Quotes

“residual haunting: A spirit that is trapped in a continuous emotional loop.”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“hypnotherapy: The treatment of an ailment through the use of hypnosis.”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“Any animal that is used by a witch for surveillance or for casting spells. A familiar can also be the witch in animal form.”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“demonologist: Someone who studies demons and is well versed in nonhuman activity.”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“the young seem to have a vision the rest of us lose as we get older. Perhaps their minds are too innocent, and they have not been told that ghosts do not exist. They see because they have not been told not to see.”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“Often a haunting begins with changes made to a house. One idea is that the energy change sparks a ghost that is already there and makes it easier to see. The more accepted belief is that the change interrupts the safe place the ghost knows. Imagine people moving into your house and making it their own. You would be helpless to stop them and angry.”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“make contact with ghosts often feel as if they are alone, which is one of the reasons they stay silent about what has happened to them.”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“Two of the most widely known catalysts for a haunting are the renovation of an old house and the moving out of a person’s possessions. Both disrupt the known world for the spirit, and may even seem criminal to the ghost if he doesn’t know he is dead.”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“Can a person change after he dies? Traditional paranormal investigators say no. A ghost is the person he was before he died, and there is no revelation in death that magically makes bad people good.”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“that makes them gasp. Sometimes even the normal paranormal becomes abnormal. The hauntings began early”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“thumping normally and then spiking every once in a while. Every so often, even though they have become used to sharing their”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“Some people live through hauntings for years. They become part of their lives, and outsiders can never understand. A house becomes like a heartbeat,”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots

“Something about them does not make you feel at ease. In Salem, Massachusetts,”
― Christopher Balzano, Ghostly Adventures: Chilling True Stories from America's Haunted Hot Spots