I was recently thinking about residual hauntings and found this article- http://www.sgha.net/articles/r…..haunt.html

While I've been in a bit of an allergy-induced brain fog lately, what I took from the article was that the concept of residual haunting goes against all physics. The article basically looks into energy absorption. Each level of the electromagnetic spectrum has it's own different interaction with matter. For instance, low frequency radio waves pass right through our body as if our bodies were transparent. The other example they give is lower UV rays which only penetrate through the immediate layers of your skin. Every wave spectrum treats different matter differently.

From there the article kind of lost me(despite my usual interest in physics talk). Ultimately, they come to the conclusion that energy can NOT imprint and be replayed by the earth or the surroundings. It's "physically" impossible for matter to absorb any energy that might have been given off during a heightened event, and even more impossible for said energy to then in turn penetrate our skulls to create the "haunting" that is perceived by our eyes and minds.

I didn't, however, read of any other explanation in this article lol.

It was rather interesting to me, though, since I've questioned the widely accepted theory of residual haunting, myself.

So- any thoughts, ideas, theories of your own?

Well in the few investigations that were "repeat" of what was thought to be "paranormal" sounds (foot steps) – one of our team members is a Home Inspector.

In ALL the cases we found that these were "natural" related … either – ants, termites, mice, rats, dry-rot and foundational questions or "left overs" where these were the problems and not taken care of – after the 'damage' to various degrees were done.

How did we know ..?

We had permission to remove a section of molding drilled a small camera hole and piped a flex-cam (fiber optic) through the floor. Amazing what you find between floors or under the floor. Some people were actually "grossssssed out" by what they saw was between their floors.

Some also became aware they would need to do some repairs by what they saw …. some also had disclosure legal issues to persue … because they were not told about 'this' or 'that' problem with the house .. which in the State of Washington you HAVE to tell and disclose when selling a home.

I agree that most footstep sounds can be explained, but I have experienced some that just seemed beyond explanation.

For example, our house in PA. I often heard heavy boot steps on the concrete floor of our basement. Of course, when I'd go look, there was nothing there. If there had been an outside entrance to our basement, I would have believed that it was an intruder, but since there was no way into the basement other than from inside our house I was baffled.

My husband told me it was the pipes. Of course, he was always thousands of miles away at the time, so it was easy for him to say. One morning, though, we were lying in bed and BAM! BAM! BAM! there were the footsteps. My husband leaps out of bed, yelling "call the police: there's someone in the basement!". You can imagine my satisfaction when I reminded him, oh no, honey, "It's just the pipes. /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

We never could find a logical explanation, nor a rhyme or reason for the foot steps.

My husband is an engineer, so believe me, if it was a possibility, it was explored. /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />