First of all, to the people answering here... don't write publicly if you have no concept of punctuation. A paragraph-long sentence is maddening to read.

I consider myself a Christian person and have spent most of my life very skeptical of "ghostly" encounters. Needless to say I've never had one. I used to believe (like hh) that once you die your soul either went to heaven or hell. And if a person encounters an entity it must be demonic. But being of reasonable intelligence and open minded to the fact that there are things of the spiritual world we aren't meant to completely understand... I do believe people see things. And they aren't necessarily from hell.

It is widely believed that when we die we see "a light" and we are meant to go toward it. Toward God. Nowhere is it written that a soul must go to the light. It stands to reason that some do and some don't. There could be many reasons not to... fear of judgement, fear of leaving loved ones behind, a desire for revenge, etc. I think it's very narrow minded to classify every unexplained phenomenon as demonic.

However. If I were to encounter a shadowy figure in my home, in the dark, at night... I would certainly be frightened and want to know what I could do to make it go away. I would try a pastor first since Christianity is a major part of my life. If that didn't help I would seek out a medium to come perform a cleansing. From what I hear they burn sage all around the house and somehow use salt to create a barrier around the outside. I hope this helps.