Ghost stories are synonymous with abandoned places, old places and buildings,

sites where tragedy occurred.

Sometimes it's just an iconic or historic place,

and it makes it very easy to believe that after so much time has passed, so much history occurred, that the presence of those who walked there long before us might be lingering.

Sometimes there are legends of paranormal activity at locations that have very little

history. For example, one of the homes in which I lived when I grew up. It was new construction

in a residential neighborhood. No burial grounds, little history about that particular street, and we certainly never experienced anything that came close to a ghost story.

But I learned from an old neighbor, after we moved out, the

family who moved in were constantly experiencing paranormal activity, and they

claim to have frequently seen the ghost of an older woman. My grandmother lived with us for a time.

Sadly, she suffered ill health towards the end of her life and eventually had to move to a 24-hour

care facility. She didn't pass away in our home, but I've often wondered if the

ghost they saw was my Grandma. Had she come back to our house looking for us?

In life she never struck me as the sort of person who would linger.

My grandfather passed when I was seven, then my grandma when I was 14.

I'm pretty sure when she passed away, she would have been much more interested in seeing my grandpop,

and her siblings who had passed on

before her than lingering around a house she lived in for just a short period of

time. It's hard to say why spirits linger. Could it be because it's a place they've lived their entire lives?

There's such a level of comfort and familiarity inside those walls that they just can't bring

themselves to leave.

Or did tragedy befall them and result in their death,

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