Have you ever noticed that haunted houses always have a similar sort of look? There are a couple of types, but they are all very much alike within those types.
You have the two-story weatherboard, with a balcony and a gatehouse. There will be creepers on at least one side, and probably a rose garden.
Then you have the gothic manor. Typically dark brick or stone. Iron front gate. You know the rest.
What about the haunted pubs and hotels? Look closely, and you'll see they are not really that dissimilar.
Well, there is a reason that haunted houses are all like that.
It is not because horrible things happen in places like that. Far more horrible things happen all over the place, and never get haunted.
No, it is because places like that attract ghosts. They are safe places for them - creating just enough psychic energy to maintain them, without being so much that they move on.
I guess you are now wondering why there are so many of them, aren't you?
Well such places have always appeared here and there. All the way back to the caves. There were always the special ones that the ancestors favoured.
But one day an actual architect died in such a place, and he taught his children what he worked out after his death. And so they set about to build more of them. And so did their children.
And that is why we have so many haunted houses these days.
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