Actively trying to "become" a ghost/entity upon death?

With so much debate about ghosts, spirits entities etc, and millions of people trying to both prove and disprove the existence, has anyone actively tried to return as a ghost?

The idea may sound strange; and hard to choose due to the fact that if one is religious they would most likely want to rest in peace, and if they dont believe in general why would they want to try and be something they dont believe in, but could someone actually try to leave their mark, so to speak, on the physical world by trying to become a ghost?

Most accounts and reasons given about ghosts are that they are either stuck on this plane of existence, dont know their dead, are a "engrained loop" or image stuck on this plane due to environmental memory, died a violence death or an injustified one, and so on and so forth.

So if someone decided to kill themselves in the direct hope of keeping their "spirit" on this plane, or used determination, meditation, stubborness or what have you to remain here once you naturally died, will you return as a ghost? Its not that difficult a concept to think that if a person died without accomplishing something and therefore returned as a ghost in a vain attempt to do so (as some explanations say), that someone can't actively try to keep their spirit bound to the earth.

Its an interesting concept to think of, as I have several times, not that I want to become a ghost, but some people might. It could also be done in a "pseudo scientific" matter, with several people who are close to the "test subject" in question are supposed to remain aware and look for ghost activity, monitor the location of death to see if paranormal activity appears, and so on. If there is a file so to speak on a person who passed while attempting to become a ghost, it would help explain such paranormal activity. Most entities now are just assumed to be ghosts of someone who may have died in the location, or given a name based upon absolutely nothing. But if you had actual data saying that there was no activity in a location, then Jon Doe died at said time and date in attempt to remain here on this plane, and suddenly you get activity in that location, you know all the information on the actual ghost.

Anyone else think this idea might not be so far fetched?

*Please dont kill yourself in attempt to remain on earth in the name of a experiment/board post*

Harry Houdini promised his wife he would contact her if it was at all possible:

Houdini promised a few special people in his life that he would make contact from the other side after his death if there was an afterlife. His wife would see a number of people who claimed to receive word from him, but none were able to give her the code they decided on before he died.

Following Houdini's death his wife Bess continued to live there for a number of years before selling the Laurel Canyon house to a female writer. She would later leave the house and it sat empty for several years before it was destroyed by a fire that ravaged the area in 1959.

Though the house is long gone, some still believe that Houdini walks the ruins that remain. Many people have seen a dark shadow in the area, but only on Halloween night. Though no one was ever able to successfully contact him in the afterlife, many believe that his spirit still lives on, in the house that he once called home.

Houdini died on Halloween 75 years ago, from a complication of an appendicitis. I have read elsewhere, that someone did eventually give his wife the "code", but she refused to disclose any information about it.

Source: Associated Content.com

This is a very interesting topic to me , and yours is a very interesting twist on it. Ive kinda wondered what it would be like to be a ghost myself and Im quite sure that I have had a ghost here in my home for quite while. Mostly due to small things like feeling a familiar presence and once even being gently urged down the hall to the other bedroom by gentle `hand` on my back .

I do recall watching something on houdini where they did say he would try to contact people, and that there were several seances and hoaxes of people claiming to say theyve talked to him. I was unaware of his possible ghost, as this would bridge two interesting questions as to if he was a ghost or did he "move on" to some other realm. So clearly the idea of trying to actively come back has been played with.

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I too am very interested in ghosts and the paranormal and have had several experiences with ghosts from the ever so dissmissable orbs, to EVPs, audible sounds, and even physical markings. Actual evidence and the direct ability to link a ghost to a real person would, in my opinion, create undeniable evidence.