We have an "old man" up here on our property. It's not a scary or intimidating spirit, my husband and I had both experienced seeing him. He'll stand just out of the corner of your vision, in your peripheral. Old man, with a shovel, resting his hands on the top of the handle. Just watching.
We've also seen a little girl in a blue dress. They're always outside, never in our home. I've been working up in the garden, and heard a little girl singing. When I looked to see where the kids were, they were down on the trampoline.
We have no close neighbors, so it couldn't have been a radio or something.
I've done a bit of research and found that the first record of folks on our land was 1823. They had a log cabin, up towards where our garden is. They lost 4 children, 3 boys and 1 girl in some sort of pandemic.
We had an old house taken down that had a foundation mark of 1864. One of the remaining sons built his house on the land. The property overlapped the road back then, the barn is no longer part of the property, but still stands in the woods. The story is he hung himself in that barn. We decided to go across and check the old barn out one evening, and I can tell you, it was one of the most malignant-feeling places I've ever been. The dogs wouldn't go inside.
All in all, it doesn't bother me. I stay away from the old barn, LOL.
Even my little boy, who is 5, has come in the house and said, "Momma, I see your man with the shovel."
Very cool stuff.
Blessings-
Em