10 Things To Know Before Investigating A Haunted House
Updated 2025.05.14
You may feel you have to seek them out in odd and hidden places, and it can help to have a concentrated place where to look, but Spirits exist everywhere.
Those who genuinely wish to communicate with you will often gladly come to you when asked and when using the right tools and approach methods.
Those who are kind, compassionate, and loving in Spirit, such as your Spirit Guides, Angels, and Loved Ones, are available anytime, anywhere you are. Yet, paranormal investigations and going to specific haunted houses can be fun, informational and give you practice interacting with and interpreting new energies.
You get to connect with different Spirits, cross-test your gifts alongside history that can confirm your receptions, providing validation, and you learn new techniques, as the more types of Spirits with whom you communicate, the more you learn about The Spirit World.
If you do choose to go on a paranormal investigation in an unknown location, there are some things I'd like to share before you go that may help keep you safe, secure and free from friends once you leave.
10 Things To Know Before Going On A Paranormal Investigation
1. Some Spirits Are Friendly
When I used to do wildlife guiding, I learned that some creatures are friendly and curious about humans. Even within the same species, you'll have specific individuals that are more curious towards people and some individuals would rather be elsewhere.
The same is true with The Spirit World - some Spirits are very talkative and responsive and others would rather stand off and observe.
So if you pick up an energy and get nothing intuitively, sometimes this is just how that individual is.
If you visit the same place over time, you may get the same 1-2 individuals that always seem to appear and put on a show. There are Spirits that enjoy connecting with the living.
2. Spirits Have Their Own Sets Of Boundaries
Not all Spirits respect wishes - even if you ask.
If you've practiced spirit communication at home and set times and rules for the entities on your property or in your ancestry, they may all understand how to best communicate with you already.
When you go to a new place, you’ll have a new set of energies to figure out. Some Spirits have never talked to a human before, or they are recently deceased and haven't learned how yet.
So before you go, decide boundaries, and once there, tell the Spirits present what they are. The Spirits usually can hear humans speaking when they are in the same room with them.
You may run into a few non-compassionate or desperate Spirits, but for the most part, when you go looking for ghosts, those who appear are just as curious about you as you are them.
3. Be Willing To Stand Your Ground
For those energies which are intense, a firm, confident body language will often help. If an energy touches you, firmly, calmly and neutrally say stop, if you’d like it to stop. If they keep doing it, you can leave. If a Spirit really wants to communicate they will be respectful and you can tell them how to best interact with your energy.
You can usually get these Spirits to detach from you by following the activity with an energy clearing.
5. Some Spirits Just Like To Have Fun
Some Spirits are more playful than others and will do eyebrow-raising things just for a laugh or to make a point. There are comedians on the Other Side. Just observe and witness the fun, but do not take it personally or absorb it.
One way to not over think some of the spiritual activity you experience is by telling yourself,
“There are things on this Earth that I’m not only just beginning to understand” or “That was interesting, I wonder what will happen next.”
This helps you keep things mentally light.
6. Compassionate Communication Can Get You Results
Being observant, intuitive and gentle will help Spirit open up in encounters and make them more likely. Go into your encounters with a willingness to understand, not a need to have things go a certain way.
Most Spirits can show you images in your mind's eye, send you feelings or vibes, telepathically drop thoughts into your energy field or make physical objects move to communicate/
When you genuinely attempt to ask questions and are prepared to intuitively get to know who is present, you’ll receive the best results possible. Using physical tools can help supplement and validate anything you pick up with your sixth sense, but they are usually not necessary.
7. Careful About Leaving The Premises
When you leave any space with known entities, especially if you are aware there are lower vibrational entities present, you always want to check to make sure you aren’t carrying home anything with you.
Spirits, without physical bodies, can easily follow you home. Once, my fiancé and I went on a ghost tour in an old brewery around here with known non-human Shadow Spirits and when we got home, the security alarms started going off. We checked and there were no humans or animals around the home - something that has never happened before.
We cleared our energy and the home, and it stopped!
Upon leaving your investigation, scan your energy field in meditation, then clear yourself and your space using your favorite energy clearing method - prayer, smudging, reiki, sound healing, etc.
If you have something with you, you'll usually notice unusual activity within 24 hours, like bizarre dreams or weird and unusual things happening.
At this point, there's still plenty of time to ask this Spirit to go home and I would, before further disruptions happen.
Note: If a negative entity followed you home, for example, you visited somewhere with potentially a demonic haunting, this can cause escalating chaos until you address the situation. The level of escalating chaos can vary from fights breaking out amongst your normally peaceful family members to expensive things breaking to new mental health issues. The sooner you clear your space, the better.
On the flip side, if a positive entity has attached itself to you, usually your life improves and you’ll want to amplify its presence by offering gratitude. The level of escalation that things go well can range from relationships improving to promotions at work to things mysteriously working out for you somehow.
8. Spirits Use Different Tools To Communicate
Not all Spirits know how to use electronics to communicate yet, but for those who do, bring extra batteries, and carry your back up devices.
If there are Earthbound Spirits present, fully charged cameras or phones can die, car or phone batteries drain and multiple flashlights can give out.
If you are in a rural location, preserve your power, use low battery mode or turn off automatic scans for wi-fi to save your charge, but these safeguards are not always guaranteed when working with The Spirit World.
If you are going at night when electrical interference tends to be lowest, having more than one light is something I feel is just so important; some like to have more than one camera or phone, a back up battery charging unit is also very helpful.
If you don’t get anything using one device or technique, try another tool.
Having multiple devices helps because all tools are calibrated differently and to pick up on different things so what works for one Spirit may not work for another and vice versa.
Not all Spirits know how to use the electronic tools you have - so when you arrive, explain, out loud how they should use the tools.
Not all are familiar with modern equipment, but most are willing to learn. When you teach those in Spirit present how to use the communication devices present, they have an easier time using them or will, over time, begin to learn how to use them.
Most of those in Spirit can manage subtle movements of sensors and physical objects, and are comfortable non-electric forms of communication.
So, if you have a pendulum, dowsing rods, or something that you can notice that can move, bring it and use that.
9. You Can Ask For Protection From Benevolent Spirits
Ask the Angels to help protect you; my preferred Angel to call on for protection is Archangel Michael, but the Angel you choose for protection can depend on the job you’re doing.
Use this Archangel Michael Prayer or this Guardian Angel Prayer before you go.
You can also make up a prayer for each situation - simply take a deep breath, visualize yourself being wrapped in Angelic Light and speak internally or out loud your request for the investigation.
10. Use A Buddy System
Ask someone to go with you - everyone has different talents when picking up on energies, so this person can help direct you to the spaces in the house or structure where they are sensing things, which can help you save time on where to set up.
With more people on the team, you have more areas of expertise, so if something you don’t pick up, the others may.
So to recap…
Going on a Spirit investigation can be fun, get you in touch with new groups of Spirits that widens your understanding and it can help those in The Spirit World who have stories to tell share their messages.
These tips can help make your experience more fun.
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