To linger, like Hill House spirits

verb

1. To visit often frequent

   "spends a lot of time haunting bookstores"

2. To continually seek the company of

   "haunting celebrities"

3. To have a disquieting or harmful effect on trouble

   "problems we ignore now will come back to haunt us"

4. To recur constantly and spontaneously to

   "the tune haunted her"

5. To reappear continually in

   "a sense of tension that haunts his writing"

6. To visit or inhabit as a ghost

   "believed that the house was haunted"

7. To stay around or persist linger

   "a haunting fragrance"

8. To appear habitually as a ghost

   "Not far from Hillside Gate, where she haunted, appeared for a short time a much more remarkable spirit."

noun

1. A place habitually frequented

   "a favorite haunt of college kids"

2. Ghost

idiom

1. To cause problems for (someone) in the future

   "a decision that may come back to haunt us"