According to the (more sciencey) haunt investigation shows, most haunty effects are from old plumbing, inappropriately shielded magnetic fields, air pressure, and so on.

So if you fix all the problems in the process of replacing the house, such as modernizing the electrical wiring, then yeah, the venue will become less haunted.

If, however, you fail to remove the bodies, proverbially or otherwise, you’ll just piss off the ghosts.

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.

It depends on how quickly each piece is replaced. It takes some time for the ghost to attach to new boatds and beams. And thats of course not considering haunted indian burial grounds, creepy mirrors or goth chicks moving in, that yhrows the calculations way off.

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.

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.

If you give the new pieces enough marinating time for the ghosts to penetrate them, then no. Of course marination time depends on the density of the material you are replacing and potency of the ghost.

For example, a hardwood floor with a benign Casper like presence probably will need a few centuries, whereas insulation foam with something more akin to the demon from the exorcist needs a few weeks. Times and temperatures will also vary by altitude and local climate and alignment to laylines.

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.

No. Ghosts are bound by contract to the screening shooting location, not the props.

Are they attached to the physical house or to the idea of the house?

It depends on the type of haunting, and also what’s keeping them there. In my experience they could be attached to anything from an entire room to a single item, like a matchbook. In any case usually a good fire and total demolition of said location would be best.

Depends. Did you replace the hidden summoning place or the Indian burial ground, too?

Ghost stories are about haunted and damaged people. Not actual ghosts. So no, the individual/s being haunted would still be haunted.

Sissyphus’s boulder rolled down and demolished that house, is Sissyphus happy?