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.

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.

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.

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

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

Merasmus is that you?

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.

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.

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.

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.