I understand some folks don't believe in ghosts/spirits/ephemera.

All I can tell you for certain is this -

We built a house in 2020 on the oldest road in Georgia, the old Federal Road that dates to 1803. It is also part of the Trail of Tears. No house prior to ours has been on this property.

When we started building, stuff would move. Never far, never while someone was watching. A framing square left in a particular place would be moved to a different scaffold, or to a table. Happened often enough in the first week that we actually discussed where certain things were stored, so we know they moved. Behind a LOCKED door, and locked windows.

Fast forward to when we moved in. A book, dropped from waist height, makes a distinctive noise. Nothing else sounds quite the same. So when someone is alone in the house, and a book drops upstairs (hardwood floors), it's obvious what the sound is. Until you walk upstairs, and all the books are on the shelf, exactly where you left them. Then, while you are sitting downstairs, alone in the house, and all 16 stairs make the same noise that they do when someone walks down, what should you think?

Zero malicious or negative behavior. We have come to refer to the entity as George. He's not here every day, but almost every week we hear him/her/it move and make their presence known. As I have said before, we think the grandbaby can see him/her/it. She will be running down the sidewalk to the driveway, suddenly stop and point, then speak to whatever she saw, then walk back to the porch where I am. Again, no damage or apparent danger, but she obviously saw something.