Reply #14: My mom and my aunt were asked to house-sit for a friend and her family

[Fenris]

This must have been back in the early eighties. Anyway, this friend left to go on vacation and needed someone to house-sit and feed their dog. The first time they went over to check on the place, when they got there, every goddamn light in the house was blazing, and the door was locked from the inside. The dog, outside, was absolutely hysterical, barking madly at the house. My mom and my aunt were not completely freaked out, so they simply turned all the lights up, locked the house, fed the dog, and left. The next day they came back to the house and found it brilliantly illuminated by every electric light in the house and the dog once again barking. This happened the entire time they were house-sitting.

Well, when they got back, they asked their friend if they knew anything weird about the house. She said that the house was previously owned by a doctor who had hung himself in the stairwell. The light problem was one of many strange occurrences they observed. Doors would often be locked when no one had locked them, footsteps would be heard, the lantern over the staircase would swing on its own. The strangest experience was when they woke up one winter morning to find all the ornaments lying on the floor around the Christmas tree. This happened every night. After a while, they just stopped bothering.

Then the ornaments mysteriously were rehung on the tree.

Strange stuff.