My paranormal experience...seriously explain this one away

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The wife and I moved into our house about 8 years ago. A 1930's style semi.

Every time we do a major piece of work on the house there are strange feelings and shadows in the house. Like you're being watched. I'd never mentioned anything to the wife but I woke up one night and literally followed a dark shadow downstairs as it disappeared into the kitchen....very strange. Put the willies up me.

Anyway, I hadnt told the wife cos I knew we'd be moving house within 5 minutes of it leaving my mouth.

One night I was drunk and accidentally in a conversation mentioned to someone I thought our house had a ghost. They went trotting off to the wife and mentioned it, the wifes response was 'oh yes I know, Ive seen it loads of times'.

We got talking about our respective secret and discovered we've both seen the same thing although the wife seems to have seen a more defined male ghost whereas mine is simply an undefined shadow, theres definately something strange going on.

Ive seen it on approximately 6 occasions the wife seems to have seen it more often and isnt bothered in the slightest now !!

I don't believe in ghosts but reading this post has sent me thinking
Me and the wife moved into our house about 9 years ago and it was in a bad sate so over the years we have done a lot of work to it.When we started the work we found traces off a house fire and thought nothing more of it.But i began to notice a shadow at the top of the stairs were the fire was just think it was the light playing trick and said nothing to the wife.Also the dog was not to keen on going upstairs.Then we had fitted wardrobes built and i never saw the shadows again and the dog would go upstairs so i forgot about it.
Then this Christmas i have paid for a conservatory for her for her present..And guess What the shadow has started to appear again and we have herd a few noises in the the night coming from downstairs.So when i go to investigate i ll take the dog with me as he is a big staffy but he wont go down stair, he is normally not scared of anything man or beast. So i was talking to the wife about this joking that we have a ghost(The wife is from Traveling stock).To this she answered its the old man who used to live here coming back to have a look at what we are doing and he will do you no harm.
I still dont belive in all that crap but this has made me think twice