starting to wonder about my new apartment

[SkyLark2019]

Worry less, live more.

There's no reason to be upset.

[PilgrimsProgress]

I've been dealing with cigarette smoke smell the past couple of months. It's a common paranormal phenomenon, evidently.

A psychic told me it's a land spirit, he's harmless, is infatuated with me, doesn't want to go into The Light cuz I'm his dream girl. I'm not flattered! She said his spirit guides will be coming to fetch him and take him into the light soon. Not soon enough for me!

Reading opinions on the OP's dilemma, I can debunk mine:

I don't smoke.

No one I know smokes.

The neighbors in my building and the building next door (only four units each) don't smoke and are seldom home as they travel frequently, often gone for weeks at a time. One reason I like it here - very quiet.

It's a 100 yr old building and the only thing 'shared' is a solid brick and plaster wall with the adjoining apartment. No upstairs, no basement, not on the street side of the building.

Hardwood floors were newly refinished when I moved in years ago. Ceramic tile on bathroom floor. Kitchen linoleum is one layer over hardwood floor.

When I've smelled the smoke strongly, I've gone outside, front and back, to see if anyone was there. Nope. And there was NO smoke smell outside. Only inside.

Apartment manager and handyman don't live on site. It's hard to get them to show up even when tenants ask!

I might know who it is, though. Many years ago there was an old geezer, alcoholic bum, who'd sit on the curb smoking. He always gave me a big, gap toothed, tobacco stained smile. I was civil to him, nothing more. Cops took him away eventually when he beat up his wife. Both died years ago.

[pathrunner]

Well there you go, the old guy loved the area so much and also developed a crush on you so he refuses to leave!

Seriously, I think both are true (phantom cigarette smoke and paranormal activity). Examples given on this thread contain both phantom (somewhere in the building but where and from whom?) and paranormal.

[sheena12]

Originally Posted by VTsnowbird

I moved in early September, since then -
--Small personal MP3 player went missing, when I remember putting it in a certain place so I could find it. I've looked everywhere, several times. Plus, I thought I had hundreds of songs backed up in a folder on the laptop, just looked, there are 55.

--Quite often get a smell of cigarette smoke, when the entire complex is smoke-free.


--Four electric outlets stopped working yesterday, checked the circuit breakers, they are fine.


I am in an end unit, the one next to me is empty, the owner having died last year. Not sure if he died at home.


I moved from an 1850's apt where there was NO paranormal activity at all, before that I was in a house I built in the 1990's, TONS of activity.

This really sounds like classic poltergeist activity. I have had all of these things happen to me. When they happen all at once, It's very creepy.

Cigarette smoke is more often caused by a human spirit who smoked in their lifetime.

Have you been under strass? When people are stressed, they become a magnet poltergeist activity. I'd have the place blessed. That's my advice. Whatever, you do, don't do nothing at all. They seldom just "go away".

[PilgrimsProgress]

Often you can command a spirit to leave in the name of Jesus Christ. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I should probably sage my apartment again

[pathrunner]

Originally Posted by PilgrimsProgress

Often you can command a spirit to leave in the name of Jesus Christ. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I should probably sage my apartment again.

Correct. Thanks for posting that.