I grew-up living next door to a middle-aged Chinese woman who befriended my mother.
My mother would regularly send me next door with freshly baked cookies or to deliver messages to her and she was always friendly and happy to chat.
One year our neighbor returned from China with an elderly friend who we occasionally saw looking out of her upstairs window. I recall seeing this man a few times standing at the top of the staircase when I visited to deliver messages to the woman. I also recall talking to the woman in her kitchen while hearing her elderly friend play billiards upstairs.
It wasn't until I was much older that my mother mentioned that the neighbor lived alone and what I witnessed was a ghost that my neighbor brought back from China and couldn't get ride of. My mother had seen him too, so had my sister... we all had, but my mother kept it secret because she didn't want to disturb us.
It really creeps me out to think about it.
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[–] Dumbtickles 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I don't want to be that guy, but maybe he was just an illegal immigrant living there illegally.
[–] guinness2 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Sure, perhaps most paranormal claims are just illegal immigrants too?
My mother has never told any sort of supernatural stories in her life, yet she told me this one 20 years after we lived at that address. Perhaps you are right... all I know is there was something unusual happening where I used to live.