My mom told me that on several occasions when she would open the door from the kitchen to the hall she would see a person in a nightgown running down the hall towards mine and my sister's bedrooms

At first she thought it was us playing around past our bedtimes but she would check on us and we would be asleep in our beds. Another time, many years later around 2002, one morning my dad was at home alone and asleep in bed

He heard the floorboards creaking from footsteps walking down the hallway

He said the footsteps stopped in his doorway and he could feel someone watching him

It was already daylight outside so he could have seen if someone was standing there, but there wasn't anyone else home. Other occurrences were kitchen cabinets being opened and lights being switched on when no one was in the room. When I was in my teens I was finally told that the previous owners of the house was an elderly man and his wife

The man passed away and the woman got so depressed she shot herself in the house

When my parents bought the house they were lead to believe the woman killed herself in the bathtub

But one summer after living in the house for 15+ years we noticed dark brown spots that seeped through the paint on the kitchen ceiling

We figured out she hadn't done it in the bathtub but rather in the kitchen. My dad sold the house in about 2005

I was sad because that was my childhood home

I was never scared of the ghost

I wish he still lived there so I could try to communicate with her now that I know more about ghost hunting

From what I could tell she was just trying to let us know she was there and never intended to scare or harm us.