I always thought ghosts were just a product of an over active imagination, until my sister and her husband bought a large 1870s house.
It was a big beautiful house in a small town, on 4 lots, and they paid about half of what it should have been worth.
After selling it, the former owners left the state, and became impossible to contact.
Not long after moving in, my sister was looking for her youngest daughter, age 5, found her in an upstairs bedroom with her hands over her ears crying. She told my sister that a mean man was yelling at her and told her to get out. There was no one else in the house.
There were dozens of incidents with the children, and several with the adults.Mostly minor unexplained incidents.My sister and her husband are educated and found this all hard to believe. Once a picture of the children fell off a shelf and shattered. My sister had glass figurines in front of the picture, and said there was no way that picture could have fallen and not knocked the glass off. She was in the next room, heard the crash, went right in, no one there.
Finally after a year, they brought their preacher to their house to see if he could help.
He had no experience in these matters, but went room to room, not too sure what he did, but that was the end of it.
Sooo...I guess I'm a believer...still skeptical, but my sis does not lie, they kept everything secret and want no notoriety.
It is what it is, whatever it is.