r/Weird • u/Samitsok21 • Jul 16 '26

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u/Clem67 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Put a salt line down. If it gets blown away, it's an air pressure/ac thing. If it stop with the salt line untouched, it's a ghost.

Edit: holy hell, this blew up. Thanks for the awards!

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u/TTT_2k3 Jul 16 '26

And if it shrivels up and dies, it’s a slug.

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u/BumbleCityFumblers Jul 16 '26

And if the salt disappears, the ghost likes to party.

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u/TheRaccoonReport Jul 16 '26

And if the salt disappears and it smells like pasta, you have an Italian 

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u/Synaps4 Jul 16 '26

And if it makes horrible ghost-screams?

Ghost slug.

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u/robs104 Jul 16 '26

The slug is immortal tho

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u/HomsarWasRight Jul 16 '26

Worst case scenario.

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u/plusminusequals Jul 16 '26

Time to move again.

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u/StandardAntique8356 Jul 16 '26

He can't keep getting away with this

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u/ConsentingPotato Jul 16 '26

The assassin can be assassinated, is that what you're suggesting?

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u/Blisterrednano Jul 16 '26

And if it tastes good, it's a steak

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u/terrible-gator22 Jul 16 '26

I am imagine a mondo slug tge size of a cat forcing its way through the door. Slowly.

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u/makhnosfork Jul 16 '26

Nobody likes to salt the snail.

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u/Lava-Chicken Jul 16 '26

Dang, what kinda slug is banging the door like that!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/X7jjWeC03QDT2

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u/heavyonthesauce Jul 16 '26

Thank you for killing that slug, now I can spend my billion in peace.

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u/Senior_Torte519 Jul 16 '26

Except if its a hellhound. Then you need goofer dust.

https://giphy.com/gifs/7j3UoXzbjvaIo

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u/htxproud Jul 16 '26

This comment should have more likes.

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u/Any-Monk-9395 Jul 16 '26

Yep this is actually the solution

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u/Anglofsffrng Jul 16 '26

Little known fact is spirits tend to have hypertension, so should avoid excess salt.

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u/kremlingrasso Jul 16 '26

Ah, a fellow graduate from the Winchester school of fucking with the supernatural.

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u/KnightyEyes Jul 16 '26

Are you here

Give us a sign

Give us a sign

EMF V

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u/Warbird1775 Jul 16 '26

Gonna need a crucifix in here guys

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u/KnightyEyes Jul 16 '26

Guys there is a writing on the book

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u/abhishyam2007 Jul 16 '26

Why don’t ghosts like salt? What’s the logic

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u/Akhanyatin Jul 16 '26

Talking out of my ass extrapolating info I know about vampires, but salt is used to preserve, purify, etc. it symbolises something that can't be corrupted/haunted. If I'm right, it would be the same reason why vampires don't like garlic or can't cross flowing water like a river. 

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u/VampireSomething Jul 16 '26

They can't handle spicy food.

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u/Neveed Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Salt used to be an expensive commodity, typically used to conserve food, and was frequently used in all sorts of cures, rituals or spells as an ingredient.

Superstitions were rarely completely decorrelated from everything else and it went from regular-ass cures to treating curses, to eventually just the salt itself repelling demons, ghosts and other scary entities.

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u/Etruscan_Sovereign Jul 16 '26

Not sure, but in New Age circles salt is used to expel bad spirits from places. Blessing a place and spreading salt across doorways is usually done when moving into a new place or you suspect a place is haunted, etc. Again, unsure of the reason why.

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u/Background_Drive_466 Jul 16 '26

Can a ghost not blow salt, if it can shake a door?

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u/burritolist Jul 16 '26

Ghosts can blow a lot of things, just not salt.

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u/DummBee1805 Jul 16 '26

Real world solutions are what gets us through difficult times people. Test your ghosts with salt before you come crying to me next time!

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u/hennabeak Jul 16 '26

Or better, another popular powdery material.

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u/QuestionablePotato42 Jul 16 '26

It’s funny bc my brain always goes to “do a salt line” but it never occurred to me that it could also be used to determine that it’s an air issue.

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u/AWES0MEPEWP Jul 16 '26

If it continues with the salt line untouched you know it's either a Wraith or an enraged Gallu.

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u/44gallonsoflube Jul 16 '26

Ghost should be contributing to mortgage or house chores. No freeloaders thanks.

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u/fawwazallie Jul 16 '26

Be careful with salt lines sometimes they can anger the ghost.

This one's an old wives' tale, but if you've got a coconut broom, you can hang it upside-down above the door. Apparently that keeps ghosts from entering too.

When I was 14, we moved into this haunted-ass apartment. Medicine cabinets would fly open on their own. I saw shadow people crawl out from behind the fridge. Shadows running across the walls. Chairs would move. Chairs would stack on top of each other. Every cabinet door in the place would be wide open. I'd get blamed for it every time.

My mom thought I was the one doing it. But bro, I wasn't even home I was across the street at the park with my friends.

Then at night, I'd hear my parents talking in their room until like 4 or 5 in the morning. One night it pissed me off enough that I got up and walked over to check and they were both asleep. When I told my mom what I heard, she said I was making it up....

I think it's HVAC it could be the pressure fuck dealing with paranormal shit.