# What are ways to get rid of ghosts?

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**Created:** [January 7, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-ways-to-get-rid-of-ghosts/223166 "2004-01-07T06:20:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-ways-to-get-rid-of-ghosts/223166/21 "2004-01-07T11:43:54Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mephisto \*  
> \*\ ***GIGObuster** –I _thought_, in the Roman Catholic tradition anyway, that exorcisms could also be performed on physical structures. \*\*

In the church of England exorcisms are also carried out on buildings. Each diocese in England apparantly has a priest with responsibility for exorcisms, although they are given minimal publicity. The best known is the Rev Tom Willis, exorcism advisor to the Archbishop of York, who was featured on a fly-on-the-wall documentary a year or two back (hence I know he exorcises buildings!)

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