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Living With Ghosts
5 tips for living and thriving in a haunted house

By Geoff Williams, FrontDoor.com | Published: 8/10/2010

Some people don't mind living in a home with unexplained noises or sightings.
Matt Chambers never believed in ghosts until he recently encountered one in his house. While in the bathroom, Chambers heard his wife Jennifer in the nearby kitchen, egging on his cat Mukky to kill a spider it was swatting his paw at. "Get it, Mukky," Jennifer urged several times. Then, on the other side of the bathroom door, Chambers heard a man's voice say, "Mukk!"
Chambers stiffened, baffled because the voice almost sounded like his own, and of course, that was impossible. Then it came again:"Mukk!" Chambers quickly left the bathroom and asked Jennifer if she had heard anything while he was in the bathroom.

"Yeah, you mumbling," Jennifer replied. "But I couldn't tell what you were saying, so I didn't answer. I was just waiting for you to come out and repeat it."

Encountering a ghost sounds like the stuff of campfires and Hollywood movies – unless, of course, you've actually had an encounter with someone from the other side. Chambers admits that he would have once laughed at the idea of taking an article titled, "Living with Ghosts," seriously: "I've always been a skeptic when it comes to the paranormal," insists Chambers, a 34-year-old graphic designer who lives with Jennifer and their two young children in Germantown, Ohio. "I've had friends and family tell me story after story of their ghostly experiences and truly believed they were sincere in the fact that they believed these things actually happened. Most of the time, I'd just bite my tongue and act interested, just to avoid being rude."

And then he met John, the man who had taken an interest in their cat. He can't say for sure, but after talking to neighbors, he is pretty sure that the voice belonged to his house's former occupant, a man who died of cancer in hospice, just about a year before the Chambers moved into their new chambers. Yes, as unbelievable as it may sound, Chambers is pretty sure that the previous owner of his house never really left.

So what do you do when your living arrangements suddenly involve the dead? Watch the movie Ghostbusters for some insight? Call the police? Run out of the house, screaming? Well, you could do one or all of the above – or you could keep reading for our advice for living among the afterlife.

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