Back in the mid seventies...
my family lived in a house close to where my Dad lives now. My Mum told us they would often hear nosies coming from upstairs. One evening when my Dad & my brothers and sister (not sure if I was born at this point?) were out, my Mum was sitting in the living room when she heard what sounded like someone moving around in the room above. Being the level headed sort, she decided she would go check it out.
Now at the bottom of the stairs we had one of those old storage type heaters, which had been on & was warm & giving that heat rises this meant that it was always warm as you climbed the stairs. However, as my mum got closer to the top, the air was getting colder & colder. At this point she bottled it, fled downstairs and had to wait out in the porch until my Dad came home before she would go back in the house.

Also, about 10 years ago when my neice was very young, she told my sister that she'd seen an old man sitting on the end of her bed, but that she wasn't scared as it was a friendly old man. Kids are always coming out with that sort of thing, but my sister was convinced it was our Grampa. (Mind you, she would, she loves this sort of thing?!)
(Pedro-a-Go-Go, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 18:48, Reply)