No matter your beliefs in the subject, your ancestors - and folks even down to now - were concerned with and usually believed in ghosts, haunting, spirits, apparitions, etc. None less than Cotton Mather, who wrote that the native New England Indians "...consorted with demons..." 

This site is interesting in that regard. Paul
http://theshadowlands.net/places/

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