Written & Reported by Lynda Quirino
A curious reader recently asked an interesting question of us. Apparently, her apartment is quite hauntingly active, and she noted that there were straight pins placed in the corners of the door frames and in the corners of the rooms where the ceilings meet the walls. She asked if this had any significance whatsoever, and whether we had heard of such a thing at any time in the past. My response was a resounding YES!The pins in her doorway are definitely a sign that someone who once lived there attempted to dispel some "force" or haunting of some kind. Either iron nails or straight pins would be placed in doorways and window frames, and often where the ceiling meets the walls, in order to discourage the entry of any entities into the alleged haunted location. It was thought that these entities would be "wounded" by the offending sharp objects and would therefore be less prone to entering. There was also some belief that curses or deeds of witchcraft could not enter someone's place of residence because witches were afraid of pins and needles (especially iron). In some areas, where bodies were known to lie in state in residences, the same would be done to discourage other spirits from "robbing the soul" of the newly departed, since it was thought that the spirit would "hang around" for 3 days before moving on. It could be that either someone in the apartment was afraid of an existing entity and tried to discourage it from coming in altogether, or that someone had been "resting" in the apartment at some time and this was done, again, to discourage entry of some alien entity. If the pins are still there, then, it's difficult to know what to do since after the body had been taken to its intended burial site, the pins were then removed to "let go" of the spirit. It could be that perhaps someone had died in her apartment at some time and their soul is "trapped" there by the remaining pins. (If the pins prevent entities from getting in, it would prevent the ones already inside from getting out!)
What kinds of "things" are happening in this apartment? Many of the apparitions or sensations she is experiencing are familiar to most whose lives are invaded by unknown "visitors". In her own words, she is experiencing the following:
I had noticed odd things happening in the apartment when we had first moved in. As more things started to happen and still are, I started to think of the pins and if there was a tie in to them both. This also made me think back a few years to the noises that I heard (noises that had no reasoning to them) and thought that it may be possible that a ghost was haunting the place. |
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