If pieces of a haunted house are all replaced ship of Theseus style, would the ghosts go away?

In the immortal words of Stan Lee. "It's a story, it depends on what the writer decides."

What if they're haunting the physical location and not just the building? I'll have to check the ghost handbook.

It depends on how quickly each piece is replaced. It takes some time for the ghost to attach to new boatds and beams. And thats of course not considering haunted indian burial grounds, creepy mirrors or goth chicks moving in, that yhrows the calculations way off.

New ghost busting method: just keep replacing floorboards one at a time until you find the one that the ghost is attached to, then send it to landfill.

I heard a ghost story about a college dorm that caught on fire and burned to the ground. The school rebuilt it but the floors were spaced differently so the ghost would appear at the old floor's level. So half a ghost popping up through the floor or little ghost legs popping down for the ceiling.

It seems to me that ghost location is relative to sea level. Maybe they attach to the closest neat rock in the case of a fire. Anyway, tumbling them for several weeks seems to detach the ghosts because my rock collection shows no signs of apparitions.

ghosts are like fungus in the timber, sure you can replace every part one-by-one and they go away, but miss one and the smell won't go out and re-infect the whole house. so it's not really worth it.

If you give the new pieces enough marinating time for the ghosts to penetrate them, then no. Of course marination time depends on the density of the material you are replacing and potency of the ghost.

For example, a hardwood floor with a benign Casper like presence probably will need a few centuries, whereas insulation foam with something more akin to the demon from the exorcist needs a few weeks. Times and temperatures will also vary by altitude and local climate and alignment to laylines.

Are they attached to the physical house or to the idea of the house?

No. Ghosts are bound by contract to the screening shooting location, not the props.

It depends on the type of haunting, and also what's keeping them there. In my experience they could be attached to anything from an entire room to a single item, like a matchbook. In any case usually a good fire and total demolition of said location would be best.

Depends. Did you replace the hidden summoning place or the Indian burial ground, too?

Ghost stories are about haunted and damaged people. Not actual ghosts. So no, the individual/s being haunted would still be haunted.

According to the (more sciencey) haunt investigation shows, most haunty effects are from old plumbing, inappropriately shielded magnetic fields, air pressure, and so on.

So if you fix all the problems in the process of replacing the house, such as modernizing the electrical wiring, then yeah, the venue will become less haunted.

If, however, you fail to remove the bodies, proverbially or otherwise, you'll just piss off the ghosts.

According to the documentary "Ghosts", the inhabitants of Button House are unable to leave the area. Despite some of tfem predating the house.

No, they are haunting the location, not just the house.

Sissyphus's boulder rolled down and demolished that house, is Sissyphus happy?

There are no ghosts.

Maybe... Depends on how you believe in ghosts. Some beliefs say wood can hold the spirits, so if that's what you think I imagine replacing the ghost filled wood would remove the ghosts.

If you don't believe in ghosts at all, well, then this is kind of a weird thing to ask. 🤷‍♂️

I had an interesting experience in an abandoned residential school I broke into with my friends when I was a teenager. The first time I went, we broke down the barricades nailed over the windows, and once inside found it to be full of old classroom stuff. There were tons of spooky moments we all collectively shared from that night (feeling like someone was watching us from different class rooms, a dense and fearful energy in the cages found in the basement, a super ominous feeling in the small crawlspace, and voices heard in hallways etc) I decided to return with my friends after about 6 times, but the second time around it would seem far more people broke in, a lot more barriers were torn down, a lot of classroom items taken. that second time none of the intense energies seemed to be there,.almost like the place hollowed out I'm not sure obviously if it was just Me less scared of the place coming back the second time, but I do feel like I have some extra sensory perception, and it was honestly really interesting to feel the difference in vibes, almost like when more people entered and took more stuff, the energies left through the open windows and broken down doors along with them.

Since ghosts aren't real and were never there to begin with, they can't really "go away", so I'm going to say no.

You'd probaly have to ask a ghost for that.

No, they get stronger as they modernize.

Just wait until they figure out how to get on the wifi.

It depends on what you do with the replaced pieces. If you rebuild the house somewhere else the ghost might go there. Or maybe the ghost gets split between the two houses. Or it goes back and forth. Or... I don't know, which one is the old house?

I own the axe that George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree. Of course I’ve had to replace the handle. And the head. But it occupies the same space.

Ghosts have to go somewhere, so you have to rebuild the original house to lure them away

Probably not, because when one piece gets replaced the ghosts in the surrounding pieces inhabit the new piece before another piece can be replaced.

They will haunt whoever replaces the parts

If there were a phone in the house, who ya gonna call?

Would a court order for the ghost to vacate a property work? Assuming there not a libertarian.

depends the type of haunting if its tied to the place, then replacing it wont matter, if its a poltergeist that also wont do anything. unless its specific to the house materials then yes.

No, they’d throw a huge as party happy to have new digs.

Unfortunately as long as the idea of the haunted house persists, you'll have to keep dealing with the nonsense.

no but the elves and fairies would get banished back to their lands.

Merasmus is that you?

Yes.

With the caveat that this is all make-believe, it seems like your typical ghost is anchored to a location, not some specific piece of wood or plaster within that location that could be replaced thus "removing" the ghost. They are well known for passing through physical matter as if it weren't there, so the idea that they would be somehow pegged to a specific piece of physical matter doesn't seem right. Ghosts are also known for haunting things are newly built on the site of old haunted houses or graveyards, which also points to not being able to dissolve ghosts simply by destroying or altering the physical area around the site of the haunting. Thanks for coming to my lecture lol.