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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''hanter'', probably from Old Norse ''heimta'' to [[lead]] [[home]], pull, claim, from ''heimr'' home
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1a : to [[visit]] often : frequent
:b : to continually seek the company of
*2a : to have a disquieting or harmful [[effect]] on : trouble <[[problems]] we [[ignore]] now will come back to haunt us>
:b : to recur constantly and [[spontaneously]] to <the tune haunted her>
:c : to reappear continually in <a sense of [[tension]] that haunts his [[writing]]>
*3: to visit or inhabit as a [[ghost]]
==Description==
A '''haunted''' house is a house or other building often [[perceived]] as being inhabited by disembodied [[spirits]] of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the [[property]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychologists Parapsychologists] attribute haunting to the spirits of the [[dead]] and the effect of [[violent]] or [[tragic]] [[events]] in the building's past such as [[murder]], [[accidental]] [[death]], or [[suicide]]. More [[scientific]] [[explanations]] for the perception that a house is haunted include misinterpreting [[noises]] naturally present in structures, waking [[dreams]], suggestibility, and the effect of [[toxic]] substances in environments that can cause [[hallucinations]].
==See also==
*'''''[[Ghosts]]'''''
[[Category: Psychology]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''hanter'', probably from Old Norse ''heimta'' to [[lead]] [[home]], pull, claim, from ''heimr'' home
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1a : to [[visit]] often : frequent
:b : to continually seek the company of
*2a : to have a disquieting or harmful [[effect]] on : trouble <[[problems]] we [[ignore]] now will come back to haunt us>
:b : to recur constantly and [[spontaneously]] to <the tune haunted her>
:c : to reappear continually in <a sense of [[tension]] that haunts his [[writing]]>
*3: to visit or inhabit as a [[ghost]]
==Description==
A '''haunted''' house is a house or other building often [[perceived]] as being inhabited by disembodied [[spirits]] of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the [[property]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychologists Parapsychologists] attribute haunting to the spirits of the [[dead]] and the effect of [[violent]] or [[tragic]] [[events]] in the building's past such as [[murder]], [[accidental]] [[death]], or [[suicide]]. More [[scientific]] [[explanations]] for the perception that a house is haunted include misinterpreting [[noises]] naturally present in structures, waking [[dreams]], suggestibility, and the effect of [[toxic]] substances in environments that can cause [[hallucinations]].
==See also==
*'''''[[Ghosts]]'''''
[[Category: Psychology]]