With the caveat that this is all make-believe, it seems like your typical ghost is anchored to a location, not some specific piece of wood or plaster within that location that could be replaced thus “removing” the ghost. They are well known for passing through physical matter as if it weren’t there, so the idea that they would be somehow pegged to a specific piece of physical matter doesn’t seem right. Ghosts are also known for haunting things are newly built on the site of old haunted houses or graveyards, which also points to not being able to dissolve ghosts simply by destroying or altering the physical area around the site of the haunting. Thanks for coming to my lecture lol.
In the immortal words of Stan Lee. “It’s a story, it depends on what the writer decides.”
What if they’re haunting the physical location and not just the building? I’ll have to check the ghost handbook.
Let me know what you find
If the ghosts are of ded contemporary physicists they’re probably haunting the region of space that our solar system occupied in the galaxy when they died.
So mostly floating in space
Moon’s haunted
Depends what reference frame they died in. If it’s inertial, they’ll be in an orbit, and will spend most of their time falling through the Earth’s deep interior. Occasionally, they’ll surface.
Moral: Don’t be a physicist.
If you dig the location up enough do they leave or haunt it more? Just sort of angrily floating where the ground used to be?
New ghost busting method: just keep replacing floorboards one at a time until you find the one that the ghost is attached to, then send it to landfill.
Landfills must be full of angry ghosts from demolished buildings.
Build an entire new home all out of materials from previous haunted houses with ghosts attached to them and have them brawl it out battle royale style. Every nail, Every board, Every strut should come with a ghost.
I actually love this idea as the big boss for a paranormal investigation table top. Have the villain of the story build a haunted mansion out if stollen ghosts.
Ghost stories are about haunted and damaged people. Not actual ghosts. So no, the individual/s being haunted would still be haunted.
ghost stories are mostly about microorganisms that people couldn’t see before microscopes were invented.
I’m sure some are about carbon monoxide.
Most ghost stories I’ve read have been about haunted places and haunted things
ghosts are like fungus in the timber, sure you can replace every part one-by-one and they go away, but miss one and the smell won’t go out and re-infect the whole house. so it’s not really worth it.
Ghosts have to go somewhere, so you have to rebuild the original house to lure them away
Are they attached to the physical house or to the idea of the house?
And do we see Platonic ghosts themselves, or just their shadow?
They will haunt whoever replaces the parts
Sissyphus’s boulder rolled down and demolished that house, is Sissyphus happy?
One must imagine Sisyphus happy, the haunted house of Theseus was really driving down property values.
at least the area is still connected with public transport. the trolley service is great, hopefully no one ties anyone on the rails.
I heard a ghost story about a college dorm that caught on fire and burned to the ground. The school rebuilt it but the floors were spaced differently so the ghost would appear at the old floor’s level. So half a ghost popping up through the floor or little ghost legs popping down for the ceiling.
It seems to me that ghost location is relative to sea level. Maybe they attach to the closest neat rock in the case of a fire. Anyway, tumbling them for several weeks seems to detach the ghosts because my rock collection shows no signs of apparitions.
It seems to me that ghost location is relative to sea level.
Do you know if they use Swiss or German sea level?
Since ghosts aren’t real and were never there to begin with, they can’t really “go away”, so I’m going to say no.
Boooo
You’re boring
OP should’ve posted to !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml, if they want meme answers. If they want a factual answer, then “ghosts don’t exist” is that.
Maybe people just confuse extradimensional beings as ghosts
Extradimesional is literally just a more sciency-sounding way of saying “the spirit world”, with all the exact same tropes involved.
So, extradimensional beings don’t exist.
Or one can take it as a nice though experiment, despite the non existence of ghosts. It can be a fun question to answer that way, without it being a shitty one.
Thats how I thought of it, i dont actually believe in ghosts lol
Probably not, because when one piece gets replaced the ghosts in the surrounding pieces inhabit the new piece before another piece can be replaced.
Turns out ghosts were just termites all along.
Grossest episode of Scooby-Doo yet.
Maybe… Depends on how you believe in ghosts. Some beliefs say wood can hold the spirits, so if that’s what you think I imagine replacing the ghost filled wood would remove the ghosts.
If you don’t believe in ghosts at all, well, then this is kind of a weird thing to ask. 🤷♂️
