How To Catch A Ghost Or Spirit In Your House Catching ghosts is a tricky business -- you need to know where to look for them, how to confirm their presence and the best ways to capture them. You also need a strong tolerance for fear! If this sounds like fun to you, keep reading after the jump. Locating Ghosts Before you can catch a ghost, you first need to know where to find one. Luckily, most places will have an abundance of haunted spots -- from ancient cemeteries and abandoned schools, to old battlefields and former insane asylums 1 Look for ghosts in old houses. Old houses (like 100 or 200 years old, not from the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s) are good places to look for ghosts. Sometimes when a person dies, their spirit will return to the place where they died or a place they can't bear to leave behind, which is often their family home. These spirits are not usually malevolent (unless their death was violent), so household ghosts are a good place to start f...