OK, your story gave me goosebumps. I remember as a 6 year old going into the old family house we were buying from an aunt, looking at all the rooms to choose my new one, going into 3rd floor rooms and seeing disarray and cats. My aunt looked at me funny when I cames back down and told her I never knew she had cats!!! She took me back and it was just a plain old bedroom. I seldom allow that memory to surface. When we moved to new house (100 year old farmhouse) and we all slept on Living room floor floor (furniture being driven from Jersey the next day and arriving early in a moving van) I got an unreasonable inner fear of ghosts appearing. 9 years later, never a one and I am NEVER open to it!!! I just don't think about it