My dad just saw the place was affordable and decided to move us there. I get the impression things weren't so...haunting, before we moved in.

[There was no way to say that that didn't sound a little shifty.]

That, or not a lot of people saw anything. Even afterwards the amount of people who told me to stop talking about ghosts because it was nonsense was alarmingly high for a place where I couldn't blink without seeing one. But I guess...if you're not looking for that sort of thing you make up all sorts of excuses for the weird stuff you see.