My house is around 90 years old, but I've done extensive rebuilding, added rooms, removed rooms, built a basement, etc. It's completely unrecognisable when looking at a pic of it 5 years ago. So it's pretty much a new place. Belonged to an Austrian builder that built it himself circa 1920. What's awesome is that I still have the original plan for the house the way he and his wife designed it. I've framed it and it hangs in my study/library room.
The wife died in the 60's and himself in the 80's. As they had no children the house, uninhabited for 20 odd years, went into a dilapidated state. Luckily a neighbour (a family member) bought it as an investment and sold it to us a few years ago.
Now, ghosts. I don't believe in them. I will never believe in them. I do however believe in energy that cannot be destroyed and energy that can be focussed to 'disturb' the physical world. It's simple science. How it forms and concentrate itself, I don't know.
The first week in the house. Hard to describe, but we felt discomfort for no apparent reason.
I woke up one night and my girlfriend's face was pure fear. Said she felt scared, as if someone is there in the house with us. We went downstairs, lit a candle at the kitchen table and 'spoke' to the 'spirits'.
Thanked them for the house they built and for giving us the opportunity to live in it and create new memories. We promised them they can trust us to look after it as well as they did. I asked them to watch over us, join in celebrations and be with us during sad times.
We laughed about it the next day, but never felt scared again. Coming home now is like being hugged and welcomed. We can feel it, we just can't see it
