Haunted Houses are perhaps one of the oldest and most well-recognized archetypes in fiction and folklore as well as the psuedo-scientific study of parapsychology - although not always viewed as a particularly villainous realm in and of itself humanity has, for many generations, had a fear of |ghosts and the supernatural: as a result haunted houses have become a staple of horror and fantasy, where they often shelter spirits that either wish to frighten humans for their own enjoyment or may pose actual danger (common in horror).