My next door neighbor's mother died in my house - she had an aneurysm while pregnant with her 4th daughter - they resuscitated her long enough to deliver her baby but she died immediately after that. Her DH raised those 4 little girls in this house by himself. He later bought an empty lot next to my house and built a new house (the one my neighbor lives in now). Supposedly, he intended to knock down my house and build a garage. The demolition crew showed up and he sat down on the porch of this house and cried my neighbor said he just could not do it...he called of the demolition and then rented this house for years. He passed away about 20 years ago now.
Anyway, when I first moved in, it was just DH and I. I used to think I was hearing footsteps in the attic. Then one day, I was vacuuming the floor and a baseball cap that was on a bookshelf across the room flew across the room and hit me in the head. Totally freaked me out! Then appliances would turn themselves off, turn themselves on, the tv would mute itself, remotes would slide across the living room...all kinds of weird stuff. It didn't seem scary or threatening to me, just freaky. It mostly happened to me, and DH thought I was nuts.
Then I went to visit my parents for a long weekend and left him here alone. All the stuff that had been happening to me? Happened to him, too. Appliance issues, tv volume problems, and the remote slid off one chair across the room to him. Not only that, he went to bed one night, and he saw the figure of an old man sitting on the end of the bed. He turned his head in disbelief, and when he looked back - it was gone.
We've been here for 12 years now, and have always had strange things happen. Now that we have kids, it's stuff with toys. My kids also talk about the ghost that lives in DS's room (the same room that DH saw the figure). I've never wanted to scare them, so we don't talk about ghosts or watch programs about them. They came up with it on their own. When DD was almost 3, she came up to me and told me "an old man lives in Joe's closet." I asked her if he scared her, and she said, "No, he's nice...like Papa."
I did have an issue for a long time. At 3:06 am every night, some electronic toy would go off - loud, and continue to make noise until I found it and popped the batteries out. Always at the exactly the same time. I took every single battery out of toys that make noise because it was nightly for months.
Then it turned into other noises being made. I took the advice of a dear friend and sat down at my kitchen table one morning after kids went to school and asked the "ghost" if he would please stop with the noise in the night. That it scared me, occasionally woke up the kids, and I couldn't get back to sleep afterward. It stopped for the most part - now happens about twice a month rather than nightly.
The only thing that still remains? My doorbell rings all the time by itself. When I started responding to this post it rang twice in a row. We've done everything except remove the darned thing and still have problems with it. It's one of the things that occasionally rings at 3:06am. I felt really dumb one morning. DH had one other Cub-scout dad drop something off early after he had gone to work. I was running around in my tee shirt and underwear trying to get kid's fed and dressed. Well, the doorbell rang and I ignored it. Walked by the door (only have a tiny window at head level and didn't notice anyone out there) at least 3 times before he knocked on the door. Then I had to go tearing up the stairs and throw some sweats on before answering the door. I know he saw me in my underroos, all because I don't respond to the stupid doorbell anymore.
I still can't look the guy in the face.
