My ex and I purchased a beautiful home when our family started growing and while the kids were still very young, so young that my daughter who will be 28 this year, was an infant and still in a crib. I would wake very early then as I still do now and while sitting alone in the quiet family room with my coffee I would see things out of the corner of my eye that at first I thought was just my sleepy eyes playing tricks on me but other times when I was fully awake these things still happened. I once turned to see a shadow standing in the dining room that just faded away as I watched it. That was the only time that I saw anything with form.

Most every night after going to bed my wife and I heard the very distinct sound of bare feet on nylon carpeting walking the full length of the hallway and always the walking sound would stop just before it reached the line of sight of my bedroom door. I had a perfect view from my bed through the hallway to the bathroom since we left the bathroom light on for our young sons in case they had to get up during the night. I jumped up many times only to find nothing there and of course my tiny daughter couldn't even walk so it couldn't have been her. My children never seemed to experience anything out of the ordinary, only my ex and I.

We had a storm door on the back of the house that I never trusted for security and I would tie the door closed at night so it could not be opened without first untying it from the inside yet one saturday night while in bed my wife and I heard the storm door open and those of you who know what a storm door is know that it makes a very distinctive sound when it opens and closes because of the glass and safety chain. I have never seen another storm door in California. I don't have to tell you that I jumped out of bed and locked and loaded and checked every foot of the way between my room and the back of the house and when I pulled aside the drapery that covered the door it was still tied as tight as I had left it earlier. We had the only storm door in the area so there isn't a chance that I heard another.

Many other small things occured that could have been normal or could have been abnormal but the very idea that the house wasn't completely normal sent me to the previous owner to inquire about what he knew about these happenings. Had someone died in the house? Had he experienced anything out of the ordinary? He told me two things, first, that on the record he didn't have any idea what I was talking about and second, off the record, that I had better not mention any of these things if I hoped to sell the house without any complications which told me volumes.

In any case we never had anything bad happen while we lived in the house because of this and we got used to living with all the strange happenings and when it was time to sell the house and move out of state we did, without a word about the strange things that we had learned to live with.

Chris.