OK so I have another one. In the house I currently live in I experience paranormal activity quite often. It's nothing malicious, mostly lights and things switching themselves on and off, doors opening by themselves, things disappearing and turning up weeks later in bizarre places, sometimes I hear footsteps when I am in the house alone, and sometimes I hear something go crash in another room and when I investigate there's not a thing out of place. On the upstairs landing the light switch is outside my bedroom. My daughters' room is at the other end of the landing so I put a safety light outside their bedroom so if they get up in the night to use the bathroom which is downstairs they're not fumbling around in the pitch dark. A few weeks ago I had to get up to use the bathroom at around 1.30am. I never switch the landing light on as the safety light is always on. I was about halfway downstairs when I thought I saw someone standing at the bottom of the stairs. It was gone in a split second and I thought that maybe I was still half asleep or dreaming so I thought nothing more of it. A few nights later I had to get up to use the bathroom, again at about 1.30am. I saw the figure again and this time I saw that it was a tall thin man wearing a mac and a trilby hat. At the same time I saw him the safety light which was behind me started to flicker. It freaked me out and for the first time in my life I encountered a spirit that I didn't like. I mentioned it to my eldest daughter and she said that she's also seen the very same apparition recently. Since then, one day last week, I distinctly heard somebody knock on my downstairs window (three loud raps) but there was nobody there. And a few nights ago I was woken up by a loud crash in my bedroom. A trinket box, which has been standing quite securely in the middle of my dressing table for several years, somehow fell off, spilling all the contents onto the floor.