Majority of American houses are haunted, homeowners say: survey (www.latintimes.com)

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Nearly two-thirds of American homeowners believe that their house is haunted, according to a new survey.

The survey by Angi, a service to help people find home service providers, found that 60% of homeowners believe that they may be living with ghosts.

Of the 1,000 homeowners surveyed, more than 65% claimed to have experienced unexplainable occurrences in their homes. About 31% reported hearing unexplained sounds in the walls, 30% reported creaking floorboards and 24% reported hearing unexplained footsteps.

About 13% of respondents reported seeing or hearing the toilet flush on its own. However, Angi did note that there is a phenomenon called "ghost flushing" where toilets will flush on their own due to a leak somewhere in the home's toilet system.

Almost 20% of homeowners surveyed said they were scared of one or more parts of their home, such as their basement or attic. Nearly 60% said they would not like to be left alone at home.

However, 58% of respondents said they would consider living in a haunted house if it meant saving money.

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[-] Clent@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Majority of Americans are superstitious morons. A majority of those will believe any study they've skimmed if it confirmed their biases

[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Only 1,000 people polled? We need more stats than that, before this can be called Data

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

also a survey by Angi screams selection bias. i hope.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Not being able to explain noises doesn't mean they think it is haunted. Most people don't know what sounds are made by pipes, the house settling, or the occasional animal that found a way into the attic or walls.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

Someone said they'd seen a ghost twice in my previous house - a Victorian era labourer in a flat cap. What they didn't know was that the house was used as a base by the workers building the houses on the block it was on and the opposite block (the garden used to run all the day to the road behind as it was used as the yard for storing timber and bricks - the plot was later sold off so another house could be built on it). When we later redecorated and, stripping back to the plaster we found that the workers had painted it to make it more homely.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Disheartening.

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