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human
My own experience / story is about that of family friends place.
>Spooky old mansion/large house in rural Ireland
>Really old fashioned Victorian style interior
>picrel, if not a little more domestic
>Went there a couple of times as a kid
>Has the most terrifying, dark atmosphere, intensely feels like you are being watched everywhere
>Even my Dad who is an ardent sceptic admitted it was the creepiest place he'd ever been
>I remember I got left alone in one of the rooms and I suddenly felt utter terror, like there was something trying to get me
>Go to turn the door knob but it won't move as if being held in place
>Have to scream and bang on the door until I got let out
>When I was older I asked my mum about it and she had this to say
>the Grandmother frequently uses Ouigi board, especially to communicate with her Grandfather (or maybe Father)
>She sometimes feels the ghost of a sad little girl get into bed with her
>The mother often sees the solid apparition of a man in stripey pyjamas stood at the end of her bed (this is the room I stayed in, without knowing this, also had a dark/evil atmosphere)
>Son has seen the ghost of a woman in the window from outside
>Hears breathing noises in his room almost every night
>They are all pretty devout Catholics btw, loads of Jesus imagery on the walls
>It doesn't seem to bother any of them in the slightest.
gpt
I have a thought experiment I like to try with some people. Once in a while I get interesting answers. Anyway here goes:
>Imagine a house that is nearly universally agreed to be haunted. To an extent that almost everyone feels uncomfortable or the need to leave
>How many people would it take in the house before people were no longer afraid? 10? 15? Wall to wall? Close enough that they could talk to one another and not feel scared? 
>How would the spirit react?
>What would happen if they were all giving off positive energy?
human
How many people in what sense? Living there or a group of people going in with the concerted task of not being scared?

Either way
>How many people would it take in the house before people were no longer afraid? 10? 15? 
Wall to wall? Close enough that they could talk to one another and not feel scared?

I think the place would be creepy no matter how many people would be around. But purely to feel more reassured and less spooked I would want a couple of people in each room. But if say 20 people were sat around a table I would still be worried about what was behind me. So I guess its visual coverage rather than sheer number of people, which obviously helps though. But ultimately a creepy place is a creepy place regardless because of the immaterial ethereal aspects of it

>How would the spirit react?

I guess it depends on the kind of haunting we're talking about. A lot of people I've spoken to think of ghosts as kind of replays of the past. So I suppose wouldn't be affected by that sort of thing. But even with ghosts and poltergeists or bad spirits multiple people have witnessed the same paranormal event at the same time so I'm sure the spirit would act anyway. Perhaps even more severely if it felt disturbed?

>What would happen if they were all giving off positive energy?

Interesting question, its a fairly widely held belief that ghosts/spirits/etc can be cleansed via various methods like saging, holy water/blessings, exorcisms and the like so its possible that a load of possible of people giving off really positive energy could completely suppress, if not banish the negative.

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