This is called psychometry, and is another effective psychic tool. Every living thing
has energy and we leave behind a type of energy signature on everything we touch. Contained within this "energy signature" can be
traces of our thoughts/experiences/emotions. people who use the
ability of psychometry can tell things about a place or an object by picking up on these energy signatures as they touch items. Sometimes
when we walk into a place that is "haunted" we can touch the walls or railings etc. and feel different feelings, or maybe witness pieces of events
that happened there.
It is my personal belief from some of the haunted places I have visited that usually what I am picking up on is the feelings of the people who have also been there,
and the feelings that were strongest and held within the place. For example there is a ruin near me of an old Civil War prison. Terrible attrocities happened in this place and it is believed that this
small shell of a building is haunted by unresting spirits. When I went to this location I felt a lot of energy around it, and I began to touch various points on this wall.
In some parts I felt deep sadness, particularly in the window area when I sat in it, and in other areas, I felt fear, anger the whole gamut. I believe the stone absorbed the energy
of a couple of hundred years worth of emotions/activities centered around that location, but I don't believe there were any actual disincarnated beings trapped there. I think many times people
pick up on things like this and mistake that experience for being a haunting from a 'ghost" or a lost soul. Of course in many cases hauntings do happen, but in some instances I firmly believe we are haunted
by the energy of the actual location. Particularly in places where people tend to witness the same thing happening over and over again...it's almost like a psychic tape recording.
Psychometry also works for giving psychic impressions for others. You can hold someones piece of jewelry or a belonging and pick up things about that person,
who they are/were, or thoughts/feelings they had that are connected to the item. You can try experiments with psychometry with friends, or even in your own home.