Ghost in Baby Monitor

[Astrayus]

Re: Ghost in Baby Monitor

The title of your post gave me chills! I'm also an avid horror fan when it comes to books and movies, lol. I'm curious on what you decided to do. Did you do something light? I probably would have done a small protection charm for the baby so that only things with her greatest good in mind would be able to contact or play with her.

[lillywolf]

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As others have said, if you are not feeling any negativity from this entity, I wouldn't consider banishing it. I would advise looking after how your daughter responds to it, if she does at all. If it makes her uncomfortable, there is something to be said about that. But if she doesn't mind, and you don't see an issue with it, there's no reason not to coexist.

I agree, BUT like someone said in another post, you will be amazed at how respectful a spirit will be if you just tell them some ground rules. You just say that you do not want to banish them from your house, BUT there are rules you need to follow and if you break the rules then you will leave me with no other option, it does work as I have first hand experience with that.

[Poshi]

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As others have said, if you are not feeling any negativity from this entity, I wouldn't consider banishing it. I would advise looking after how your daughter responds to it, if she does at all. If it makes her uncomfortable, there is something to be said about that. But if she doesn't mind, and you don't see an issue with it, there's no reason not to coexist.

[Optimistic discord]

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A few weeks ago, my daughter was crying in her crib so I went in, soothed her, and went back into the living room where my husband was holding the baby monitor. He was telling me something that I was halfheartedly listening to when all of a sudded an opague circle, about the size of a half dollar, appeared in the monitor. It's movement was swift, not like a moth or fly, etc. It started at my daughters feet and then moved towards the top of her head where it stopped. For about a second it remained there untill it zoomed off out of the monitors view.

Last night I had a similar encounter, except this time it didn't seem to pay any attention to my daughter.

I"ve had encounters with one or more spirits in this house. I know whatever it is is not evil/has bad intentions - I've been around "bad" entities before - I've just never experienced an entity quite like this one.

Any thoughts? Should I be concerned even if I don't "feel" anything bad?

A lot of good advice in this thread

My thoughts:

1-Its a normal mundane natural phenomena (but you've said there is a history of encounters)
2- Its an external entity, possibly a familial/ancestor spirit or a Cofgod (household spirit/Brownie/Hob/Kobold).
3- It could be a manifestation of your daughters Fetch or indeed her Hamingja.

Either way I would not worry to much, even a malevolent spirit would be foolish to attack an infant such an action would incur the wrath of even the most sedate Cofgod and ancestor spirits. And even an infants Fetch is a potent adversary.

[Doc_Holliday]

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I agree with lily and others who have said the same thing. My grandma used to always talk about how at night an orb would come visit her (And act in the same way the one that visited your child did.) and my grandma was positive it was her deceased husband watching over her, it made her feel comfortable. In that house I still swear I feel my grandpa watching me (In a comfortable way.)

[lillywolf]

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If you do not feel threatened by it, then I wouldn't banish it, another thing it might be is someone wanting to protect her....maybe an ancestor or close relative passed, just a thought. I had my grandpa come and visit me alot while I was young, he died before I was old enough to know him ( I was 6 weeks old), I also used to have a girl come to see me and it later turned out to be my mum's sister who died at a few months old.

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[GypsySeaWitch]

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Why the belief in it being a ghost right off that bat? It could have been a guardian spirit or even a type of fey. I've been doing paranormal investigations and generally if you do not feel threatened, it most likely isn't something to worry about. However, as others have suggested protection works can be done but I suggest you make sure to say that guardian spirits are still welcomed.

[Corvus]

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One of my favourite methods of cleansing an area is to ring a bell. Our house has a lot of them, including a huge one from an old, defunct chapel. Every few weeks Mr Penry uses it to cleanse the mountainside....

I like bells too myself. Nothing cleanses an area like a clear ring from a bell

[Tylluan Penry]

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One of my favourite methods of cleansing an area is to ring a bell. Our house has a lot of them, including a huge one from an old, defunct chapel. Every few weeks Mr Penry uses it to cleanse the mountainside....

[LizardMind]

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Thank you (:
This is perfect. I can have my cake and eat it too!

Salt and sage work too.

[Aonani]

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If I were you, I'd just do something simple to put my mind at ease. Put something made of iron, like a skillet, in your child's room, or hang a small pouch of dill in the crib, out of reach of baby, of course. You can hide these things for the time being if they would irk your husband. Either one will protect the child from malevolent spirits.

Thank you (:
This is perfect. I can have my cake and eat it too!

[Clive]

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If I were you, I'd just do something simple to put my mind at ease. Put something made of iron, like a skillet, in your child's room, or hang a small pouch of dill in the crib, out of reach of baby, of course. You can hide these things for the time being if they would irk your husband. Either one will protect the child from malevolent spirits.

[Tylluan Penry]

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Perhaps I should mention here that it's all a question of balance. I don't believe that spirits and entities are our natural enemies. And children often learn a great deal from having them around. If their motives were questionable then I would call them out on it - but otherwise, no. What gives us the inherent right to go round banishing things we don't even understand?

Now that said, anything that jeopardised my child's safety is quite another matter. Hell hath no fury like a Tylluan in protective mode....

[Ophidia]

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Well, if it makes you feel better then you could do some protective work around your daughter, but I wouldn't worry too much. I'm not a great believer in banishing unless things get out of hand. It's quite possible for us all to live amicably together on the various different planes/worlds. It might be worth speaking to it and setting down a few ground rules - you'd be surprised how often that settles things!

^ Ditto to this.

Spirits and entities are always attracted to babies. Babies also seem to have a natural immunity to malevolence.

[Willow]

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Well, if it makes you feel better then you could do some protective work around your daughter, but I wouldn't worry too much. I'm not a great believer in banishing unless things get out of hand. It's quite possible for us all to live amicably together on the various different planes/worlds. It might be worth speaking to it and setting down a few ground rules - you'd be surprised how often that settles things!

This, unless things get a little too weird. I won't overstep my bounds here, but as a child I had a few ghost "friends" who came to me once in awhile when I was having... let's call them issues. :P When I couldn't talk to anyone else. They seem to be drawn to children, often even in a benevolent way.