[header] How to catch ghosts [title] Look for ghosts in old houses. [step] Old houses (like 100 or 200 years old, not from the 1970s , 1980s, or 1990s) are good places to look for ghosts. [substeps] Sometimes when a person dies, their spirit will return to the place where they died or a place they can't bear to leave behind, which is often their family home. 
These spirits are not usually malevolent (unless their death was violent), so household ghosts are a good place to start for the rookie ghost hunter. Just be sure to get permission before you go ghost hunting on private property.