One thing guaranteed to piss off a non-smoker like myself is being subjected to cigarette smoke. I hardly go out to live gigs because of the assault of smoke while I’m out and the horrible stench of stale smoke impregnating my skin, clothes and hair when I get home. So the one thing you can be guaranteed that my place won’t smell of is cigarette smoke. The fucking pope can come for a visit and I won’t let him smoke.
But I can’t stop the ghost from smoking.
I’m not a superstitious person but the only explanation I can come up with for the recurring cigarette smoke smell in my place is a wandering smoking ghost. It isn’t my imagination because my girlfriend has confirmed that she smells it as well. It tends to be strongest in the kitchen and I’ve been working on a theory that might explain it.
Before anyone gets worried and thinks I’ve left my stove on or my wiring is shorting out – this a very specific cigarette smell, not a generalised burning or smoke smell. I’ve ruled out someone standing outside my kitchen window and smoking there just to piss me off – that would be paranoid. But I’m pretty sure the ghost is a sound theory.
If it isn’t a ghost I think it may be something to do with the plumbing. I learned the hard way that all the plumbing in this building is interconnected when my bathroom flooded after someone upstairs emptied their bathtub. So I’m working on an elaborate theory that involves smoke from someone else’s apartment being sucked down the pipes and coming up my kitchen sink.
If anyone has a better theory, I’d love to hear it.
13 Comments
October 14, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Na I think the smoking ghost is a cool one. Try to get a photo of it if possible:) While smoking of course.
October 14, 2006 at 10:44 pm
I need to set up a webcam or something to watch the house while I’m out and see if I can catch it.
October 15, 2006 at 1:09 am
U wont be able to catch the ghost on camera. Try ghostbusting it.
October 15, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Or maybe I’ll just burn incense.
October 16, 2006 at 12:25 pm
ghostbusting it! bwahahahahaha!!
October 17, 2006 at 6:11 am
Definitely a ghost!
Also, thanks for helping me out with YouTube info. the other day.
October 17, 2006 at 9:33 am
No problem alison, I’m looking forward to seeing your stuff on YT!
October 28, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I work in a thrift store and weird things always happen there. we always smell weird spots in the store that smell like something electrical is burning and then its gone and nothing will be plugged in or running. the strange thing is it will get very strong and then NOTHING. I was sitting in the office filling out paperwork once and it smelled like HEAVY cigarette smoke out of nowhere. I thought that I was finally going to catch one of the employees smoking in the bathroom or the hall but when I went out not only was there no one around at all, but it didnt smell like smoke outside of the office. I went back in and sat down and it was getting stronger and stronger until it was like someone was blowing smoke in your face. but again nothing outside of the office…
Then just tonight we were closing and earlier today on my break i had looked up ”burning ghost smells” and read that spirits can give of smells because i was curious as to what was going on with odd smells in that place. Shortly after reading about how the burning smell could be a spirit we were closing and one of the employees boyfriends was helping us clean and he came running in the office and said that we needed to come out quick because he smelled something heavily burning. (this was from a guy who had no idea of any odd things that have been happening)
The only explanation that i can think of would be all of the donations that we receive were from people who are deceased and they are somehow attatched to the item (ie:chairs, matresses, etc……)
Has anyone been able to explain any encounters like this one before?
I mean besides an olfactory nerve malfunction.
October 28, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I had always figured maybe I was just crazy.
April 1, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Just this morning, I was driving to drop my daughter off at school, and I was surprised to smell cigarette smoke!! I am a smoker, yet I drove her to school every morning , And Yes I know what it smells like.. I never smoke in the morning, actually I only smoke every other day.. Well, after I dropped her off , I smelled it again, like someone was sitting right next to me smoking, yet their was no one their…
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April 28, 2009 at 12:26 pm
i just came across your post in a search because im wondering about the same thing in my house. we are in single family house so i can probably rule out plumbing. I also know none of our adjacent neighbors smoke. it’s very bizarre.
June 5, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I was just doing a search for smoking ghosts. I quit smoking 3 weeks ago and now I am very sensitive to cigarette smoke. Today I have smelled cigarette smoke like its being blown in my face 4 times and my husband smelled it once. It’s very bizarre. I thought it was a with drawl symptom, but that sounded too crazy. I think it’s a evil spirit teasing and tempting me. I will probably call my pastor and ask her to bless my house.
October 13, 2009 at 4:51 am
I am also searching for ghost odors. My teenager awakens smelling smoke in her room regularly. We live in a single family home. There are no smokers in the house. I smelled the smoke in her room yesterday morning. No odor in her hair, nor her clothes nor her bed linens. Just a cigarette smoke odor in the air. My daughter has been having visions of the departed for a few years. I’m wondering if she is being visited. Both of my daughters have seen a little girl ghost in our home. I doubt she is the smoker. Nevertheless, my daughters gave me identical descriptions of the little girl ghost on separate occasions. So, yes, I’m thinking that we have a cigarette smoke ghost. Now…how to get rid of it?