Why don't these A-holes just leave the damned haunted houses?? Seriously, the very first moment some B.S. was going down I'm out! Some of these families stay for months after the most ridiculous "experiences;" which leads me to believe those stories are bogus.
And I don't want to hear some crap about mortgages. Yeah right, if I witness a god damn latch unlock itself & the door open right before me, that's it! I'm gone!
These A holes are looking to make money off of their lies by way of book sales and possible movie deals. They don't move because they need enough time to put their ideas to paper.
Then they can also have time to talk with neighbors about strange events in the house to have corroborating evidence if anyone asks the neighbors.
That is hilarious
shareYeah, I've never understood this either.
It seems commonplace to hear things like, "during the evening, I had a terrifying encounter that almost gave me a heart attack. Later that night while I was asleep, I had a second encount--" wait, what!? You had a terrifying encounter and then you just went to bed later that night? I'm pretty sure if most people had that happen to them they'd sprint out of the house and, at the very least, go and stay with a relative (or in a hotel) for the night.
If you just moved out and stopped paying your mortgage your credit would be screwed. Would you be able to just up and move out of your house tomorrow (assuming you don't live with your parents?) I doubt it! Moving is expensive and it's not just something you can do overnight.
With that said, please believe if I saw what these people have seen, I WOULD NOT stay in the house...I'd at least stay with my sister until I could figure out my next move!
They make it pretty clear in a number of episodes that the people couldn't afford to move out of the house they just moved into. Listening to a show is a good way to learn.
shareYou can sit there and say that you would sprint out of the house but you wouldn't because people don't want to believe.
They go back to sleep because they try to rationalize that it's not real that there is "No such thing" this is a natural human reaction when was the last time you had a bad dream? Or ran up the stairs at night when the lights were out even tho you know there isn't anything there?
Did you sprint out of your house no because you told yourself there was nothing there. Well maybe there was and you will be on an episode and people will say the same thing.
"Listening is a good way to learn."
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you seen some of those episodes? Even if you were the staunchest of disbelievers some of the garbage that supposedly occurs could not be ignored. We're not talking about the occasional, "oh, that's funny, I don't remember putting my keys next to my Ouija board," or "that's funny, Iz don't remember leaving the kitchen light on. In some episodes it seems the very lives of their children, let alone their own lives, were put at risk of substantial harm & possible bodily injury or even death in one episode; but nope, mom & dad are like, "It's cool that a ghost almost tricked my daughter/son into committing suicide, I'll let that one slide."
And I don't give a flippity-flop how poor I am, if I saw a flippin-floppin apparition on my way to the kitchen to make a PB&J sandwich at midnight or doors were opening to say, "hey whuz up, why don't you come on up to the attic?" Or my kid is like, "hey dad, the sad clown is telling me to jump out of the 3rd story window, that it's fun to fly," I'm freaking out of there, leaving the kid & everything. Stop defending these buffoons, it's fake; no one would stay if their lives were truly endangered. Now if the ghosts are all cool & want to do the laundry and/or cook, that's different. In that case, these people are just liars!
@briscut: sorry to disagree with you, but from experience, leaving home, particularly as the owner who is responsible for one's own property, really is an incredible & drawn out, pain in the A++. Throw in a 'M', and those who desire to move quickly, suddenly find that things do, indeed, get a whole lot more complex.
In other words, *unless*, you are (or become) fabulously wealthy, you might one day appreciate that it is nothing but hassle and stress to leave a house one both owns, and lives in, for another - and I'm talking about one that *isn't* further complicated by a haunting (which, I might add, must be legally disclosed, at the pre-contract stage, in some states).
Indeed, throw in a haunting on top, plus (... & it *is* incredibly convenient, of course, that you don't want to hear about them, but they are a fact of ordinary life, which, very much, tie most people to their respective dwellings) ....yes, ...a mortgage, and you might - perhaps some distant day from now - get a sense of all the very real BS, which is involved in doing so. BTW, your credit record, and/or how financial institutions perceive your handling of same, is of incredibly real importance to most people in this western world. Need I say then, that it doesn't look too good, if you've borrowed the largest sum in your life to live in a property which you'd like to walk out of, a little later, and then there's the little matter of that very large debt - BUT NO - DON'T Worry at all, because the large, faceless financial institution, which reports regularly to totally understanding credit agencies, also totally understands every single one of their very few clients who want to leave haunted properties quickly...
Hmmm.
Hmmmmmm!
Alternatively, you could try and convince yourself, as many do, that it's all in the mind, and just seek to get on with life, which is a very human thing to do when faced with the apparently irrational and unscientifically proven problem which a haunting tends to be. Until, you the afflicted parties just can't stand it any more. Then, and not before, it's finally time, after trying to live with it for so long, to move on.
Nonetheless, it is very much a matter of established fact, with all other things being equal (i.e., reasonably steady income/health etc.), that many (if not most of us) are still, and at some point in their lives, left to face, plus overcome, the three most potentially stressful situations, in life:
Dealing with a divorce.
Dealing with the death of a close relation/loved one.
Moving home.
"Darling I've just had a long day at work, why are you looking so stressed?"
"A nasty ghost has just turned our paintings upside down, and scared the kids so much that it took them longer to sleep this evening."
"Darling, I've really just had a long day at work!!! Can we please deal with this some other time? I need to sleep, please!"
or
"That sounds dreadful, ok, forget about the mortgage, the business I have to run, the fact that this will destroy our once excellent credit record, *and* the fact that we've nowhere else to move to right now, nor any additional funds to pay for it - we'll just put the house straight back on the market tomorrow."
The latter might be *your* solution, but it is argued that most people do a lot, an awful lot, of the former typical conversation/above reasoning (+ more), for very good reason, *before* anything else, is even considered. Put all of the above together, and people do not move quickly from haunted houses.
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Sandwiched between The Principle of Mediocrity & Rare Earth Theory, you should see The Fermi Paradox