I grew up in Atco, NJ. We were on the edge of the Pine Barrens and the Jersey Devil was a big "If you kids don't behave...". I like to think that Bigfoot/Saskquatch is real and that maybe he/she/it actually accounts for the Jersey Devil. (Ducks as she feels bricks of unbelievability headed her way).
I suspect I lived in a haunted house with my ex-husband. Before I moved in and we married, friends told me not to freak out about things I saw. In a way, what they said set me up but I know what I saw and saw the faces of roommates who were totally freaked out by what happened to them.
I have trouble sleeping at times (especially around the time of a full moon),
and I'd be sitting on the couch watchig tv when I'd see the ex's youngest daughter run to the bathroom. Thinking she was sick, I'd get up to check on her in the bathroom only to find it empty and the suspected daughter in bed, sound asleep. Roommates would go to bed to be woken by kids jumping at the end of their bed. They'd come confront us only to realize that both the girls were in bed, sound asleep.
DH and I are big Ghost Hunter fans as those guys try and find a mundane/everyday reasons for a haunting. Sleep paralysis is a major cause of "I felt pressure/ something held me down".
Occam's Razor: look for natural reasons before you commit it to supernatural reasons.
Dawn