Let me preface my questions with some background.

My wife, my 1 year old son, and I live in a 5 year old home. We had it custom-built and no other structure has ever sat on the property. The land itself was heavily forested and our property is on a prominant hilltop. There is an old settler graveyard about 200 yards up the road and we surrounded by other homes in our new subdivision. Our home has been blessed by two Catholic Priests on seperate occasions. There is a framed sweater , picture, and letter of my wife's decease grandmother hanging on the living room wall. The sweater was worn by my wife's grandmother when she was a toddler.

After moving into our home, while alone for a week, the hardwood flooring began to creak and pop like a fourth oof July fireworks show. Knowing that wood expands and contracts, I thought nothing was unusual excpet that this was a new floor that had equalized to the moisture content in the air, my curousity was aroused. As the nights passed, the noises continued to the point where I could not sleep. Desperate for sleep I went out into the foyer and told whoever was making the noise, that they were to stop immediately and leave the house. The noises and the popping stopped that instant and did not ever happen again.

A few months later, my wife and I would hear moving type sounds in a closet in the bedroom above us. The sounds were muffled banging sounds like something had shifted against the walls. I told my wife we may have a "little friend" upstairs. The room incidently was painted up as a baby nursery and the closet was filled with childrens books and toys. The noises did stop shortly after and we have never heard them again.

In the meantime our gdog , who slept in the bed with us, would sit up and gaze into the dark as if she saw someone in the room with us. It was really spooky to see her stare at "nothing" as you tried to sleep. It was unnerving to say the least. That ended aftefr about a month.

Three years have gone by without any disturbances until recently. We moved our one year old baby soon to the nursery. He sleeps in a crib in that room. He has been waking up screaming several times - often multiple times in one night. When we bring him down stairs into our bed, he continues screamin and will not lay down. One of us has to take him to another room and lay down on the couch with him. I have felt tickling sensations on the back of my calves and on my shoulders as I lay in bed and have fellt the same sensations as I walk down the hall upstairs.

3 0r 4 times in the past month our television screen on our TV in our bedroom has had a slight blue glow to it despite being turned off and unplugged. I have to plug the TV in and turn it on then turn it off to get the screen to eventually stop glowing.

I may be reading way too much into this as I have never seen or heard directly from "our little friend". I have suspicions because of the floor popping episode and the tickling sensations. I often wonder if it is a littel girl-I have told my wife of my susipicions. I think it may be a little girl, because the events have been child-like and inncoent-things a little girl would do.

My questions are:

* "If this is a ghost, can it harm a 1 year old baby?"

* "If this is a friendly ghost, how do I ensure that it stays friendly?"

* "How do I keep unfriendly visitors from visiting my home?"

* " How would anyone else handle this situation?"

Your opinions are welcomed and appreciated.

Hmm interesting goings on you have had. Our loved ones that have passed do come to visit with us and are often around, especially when there are little ones in the house. Some of what you have explained sounds like loved ones visiting.

However those visits are not usualy upsetting, unless your baby is upset because he/she can see who it is and is afraid of strangers? I'm thinking if it is a loved one that has upset the baby (not intentionaly) they may also be trying to calm the baby which in turns makes the baby more upset. The same way that can happen with family/friends that come to visit that our kids do not know well or have not met yet (you know the aunt that loves to pinch cheeks).

Then again if you do have another spirit/ghost there he/she could disrupt your babies sleep.

I have never heard of a ghost harming someone. Most info that I have read from well known experts & psychics claim that ghosts do not harm us, they can be bothersome and pestering or annoying but not harmful. We have lived with ghosts for a number of years now (this home and our previous) and no harm has come to any of us. We have been frightened at times, uneasy at times, annoyed at times and even humored. You may want to nicely state out loud that this is your home and that you do not want the children to be bothered and you want whoever is there to leave. There are a number of prayers (good posts with them on this board) you can do as well that may help if you feel strongly this is a ghost and not a spirit visit.

One thing that maybe someone else can comment on is that with ghosts they don't tend to roam they usualy stay in the same area, location or walking the same stretch of road etc. So seeing that a long period of time went by I'm not sure that one just dropped in on you. I'm not sure if they will stay quiet for that stretch of time as well. That leads me back to thinking your spirit visitor(s) is loved ones. Do you have a relative/friend that passed that liked to tease/bug others (especialy kids)?

I'm sure others will have more advice and thoughts to share with you. Let us know if more happens.

Tuxedo, you may want to check out my post in the Psychic section about sleepwalking/talking. I'm having a similar situation with my baby. It is not unusual for children at that age to have night terrors. Now, whether or not they are linked to "visits", who knows. I know it has made my husband and I feel pretty helpless when our daughter has these episodes.

My question is, what prompted you to have the house blessed on two occasions? Was it because of the paranormal activity you were experiencing at the time? You may want to consider having it done again and asking the priest to spend a little more time in the nursery.

In the house we lived in before this one, we had some really weird things happen that included family members and guests seeing apparitions. I never really saw it myself, but several others did. Anyway, it got to the point that it was really disturbing my young nephew. I took about 10 minutes one day, while I was alone in the house, sitting on the edge of the bed in the room the activity seemed strongest in, and had a real "heart to heart" talk with our spirit. I basically told it that it was welcomed to stay, but that this was MY house now. I also told it that it was fine to occasionally let us know she was there, but to under no circumstances to frighten my nephew again.

It did seem to work. My nephew became much more comfortable in the house, and the activity lessened. Please keep us updated! I don't think your guest is harmful, but they seem to be making both you and your little one uncomfortable. Even if you feel like a nut doing it, sit down a few minutes while you are alone in the house and have a kind but firm conversation and see if it doesn't slack up.

I tend to agree with Carrie. Most ghosts aren't harmful, though a person who was mean spirited in life will probably be mean spirited after death.

More likely your child is just frightened by what he is seeing. Carrie's suggestion of having a heart to heart with the ghost is a good one. It may seem odd to be talking to a blank wall, but if you think of the ghost as an invisible person, it'll be easier to talk to him or her. After all, that's all a ghost is, a person's spirit without a body.