Peter Carter

What would you do if you thought your house was haunted by a ghost or poltergeist? In the following selection, Peter Carter tells the story of a woman who believed she had a haunted apartment. He also discusses the troublesome symptoms in other haunted homes. Carter describes his three—step plan for dealing with haunted abodes, including the use of a feng shui practitioner. Feng shui is the Chinese art of arranging one's environment so that it invites good spirits and repels bad ones.

Carter is a senior editor at Chatelaine magazine.

"Ourfatherwhoartinheavenhallowedbethynamethy- oh jeez what comes next"" Paula was choking on her own fear, and familiar words had escaped her for a moment. She was sitting in a dark room, praying at an auctioneer's pace because seconds earlier, she had stared down a ghost and...