Can anyone suggest any way I can get some help with a ghost who has been living in my rented home for a long, long time...the landlady told me about her when I moved in, but she wasn't any trouble till lately when she is apparently trying to get attention, perhaps wants help moving on, I have tried a soul retrieval to help her move on, but things keep happening. Annoying things. It seems she is tampering with my smartphone, which is a bit alarming. Any suggestions, anyone?

Thanks, Vicky. I did do soul retrievals twice in hopes the problem would disappear. There is a problem in the house in that the roof is leaking and I will have to move, probably early in the new year. It might be related to the ghost problem in some way. I've never had to deal with a restless spirit before, though I've done soul retrievals before. Well, it's a long story because it started a while ago with someone, during the night, going around the house and opening all my blinds, which I always shut at night and then drew the curtains across. In the morning, the blinds were all open when I drew the curtains back in the morning. This went on for a while and then it stopped after I tried to do a retrieval for the person. I had a feeling it might be the spirit of a previous landlady I had in a different address; she would come into my house when I was out (not allowed, but she did it anyway) and she often fiddled with things, like my windows--open or shut, whatever she wanted. It was very annoying and I complained, but anyway, she passed away and I had no reason to think she had not fully passed over. But when the blinds were being fiddled with, I wondered if it was her, asking for some help, which I tried to give her in the retrieval. OK, that was that.
A few days after the blinds stopped being opened, this thing happened. I have a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, and those things can do stuff all by themselves sometimes...for example, my phone will turn its sound off quite often, I have to watch for that happening. But I guess that's just something they do. But the other day I had trouble with my tap water which had tasted very bad and I asked my good neighbour next door if I could get some water from her till it was fixed. She brought over a big jug of water very kindly. However, the time at which I phoned her to ask if I could get some water was, say, I don't know, maybe 3 in the afternoon or something. Well, before I phoned her, before I even knew I was going to have to phone her, somehow my smartphone messaged her on the text function around 2:30 or so and sent her, not one, but three, different messages, one after the other...each time, the message read, like, io or pio or sp or something like that. Nonsense. Well, she doesn't have a smartphone so those stupid messages went to her landline, and the phone rang three times with these ridiculous messages....coming from my phone number. Right. Then I actually phoned her to ask about getting some water. I did not notice that the three messages had gone to her until after I phoned her, so I couldn't figure out what was happening. I saw the three messages and knew I had not sent them. I went over to talk to her about that, I had no idea how they'd gotten sent. It must have been an annoying thing, the phone ringing three times with only those silly messages being spoken by the computerized operator, but she didn't seem annoyed. But then she explained, the three messages, texted messages, came through to her landline BEFORE I phoned her asking for the water. That is, BEFORE I even knew I was going to have to phone her. Before I knew my water had gone bad.
So that's what has been happening. So I was concerned especially that the ghost had figured out how to use my smartphone...they do like electronic stuff...and if it really got good with my phone, I could see that I could be in difficulties. So that's what happened. However, since I emailed Bruce (he hasn't replied yet) and then put the post up on the Board, the trouble has, so far, stopped. Except, of course, my phone keeps turning off its sound without warning, but it seems to be something these crazy phones just do. So I don't know...we shall see. The roof in this house is leaking quite badly, was supposed to be repaired and that didn't happen, so I will be moving in a couple months anyway. All very troubling, taken in total. I will try that idea about protecting myself and my home that you suggested there at the end of your post. Thank you for that.   

By the way Vee, I once lived in an apartment complex and had noticed my heat turned down when I know I had had it turned up when I left.  And one day I had just gotten out of the shower when I heard what sounded like my front door being unlocked and opened.  I had only a towel wrapped around me but I grabbed a baseball bat and was at least going to attempt to beat the crap out of whoever it was.  I had the bat raised in the air and scared the you know what out of one of the maintenance staff, a woman.  She said she was sorry, she was in the wrong apartment, etc.  Well I knew she was lying, she was there to turn down my heat!  I complained to the office and they of course said they didn't allow that sort of thing to happen.  Bunch of liars!  I let them know that if that if it happens again I'd call the police. It never happened again.

Those really are strange events all closely related.  Doesn't sound like coincidence. 

Do you know where you'll be moving yet?

Interesting experiences.

I witnessed an apparent "spirit phone call" myself a few years ago. It was a little while after my mother's funeral, and my sister and I were sitting in the undertaker's office discussing the making of a new headstone to replace the smaller one which existed on the plot where her ashes had been buried. It is the same plot where her parents are buried. My mother had lived with me, and after her passing, at that time I was the sole occupant of the house. My sister lived (and still does) about 100 miles away.

At some point during the conversation, my sister's mobile phone (a simple non-smart phone) rang in her bag. As she reached for it and pulled it out, it stopped ringing. When she looked at the displayed number, and showed it to me, we were both amazed to see that it was the number of my landline phone at home. Of course, there was nobody at my home to have made the call, as I was at the undertaker's. The undertaker (a very pleasant lady) immediately said, "That's your mum!". And to this day, with no other "normal" explanation (such as call-forward etc) we have to agree with her . When I got back home from the undertaker's, the house was empty and in darkness, with no sign of anybody having been in there to have made the call.

Among several strange associated incidents, I will mention one other, which occurred when my other half Sue and I were visiting the grave plot a couple of years or so after mother's passing. A Lavender plant we had planted there a few months earlier had become a little overgrown and "leggy", and I said that I wished we had a pair of hedging shears with us to trim it back with. However, after finishing some general tidying-up, I collected the weeds, rubbish etc, and took them to one of the cemetery rubbish bins about 30 yards away. When I got there, I was dumbfounded to see, right at the top of the bin, a pair of hedging shears, sitting there with handles open as if offering themselves to me! I took them back to the grave plot where I showed them to an equally dumbfounded Sue. After using them, I returned them to the bin.

This may have just been a massive coincidence, but I have never before expressed a need for shears while out, and have never before (or since) come across any while out, either in that cemetery, or anywhere else, so I am inclined to think it was yet another little "sign". 

The IP theory seems like a good possibility, Vee. As you say, see what may or not happen now you have made the address available.

Modern digital equipment does seem more prone to manipulation by non-physical entities than the old analogue things were/are, although of course spirit phone calls have a fairly long history. Digital photographs certainly seem to show effects more often than the film versions. Being more direct processes, digital systems may be easier to bias from a non-physical position.

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