Ghost Story? Somewhere early in the thread I think there was a comment about Canada being "haunted as f**k". I know I've heard and read a lot of stories about hauntings in Ontario, and especially Toronto, but I'm sure it's the same everywhere.
Our house was built in the housing boom following WWII - a solid block 3 bedroom bungalow. There were a several owners before us of course, and it seems each owner left their own "mark" on the house. Some in the form of minor renovations, repairs or updates. Some in the form of messages scrawled on the walls that were subsequently covered with mirrors (yep, that was in the '80s). I even found a couple of really bad paperback porn novels hidden in a suspended ceiling. It seems nobody stayed there for more than a few years. We later found out that one of the previous owners had the same surname as us! Turns out he was a bit of a deadbeat so I hope we aren't related.
Anyway, with so many previous owners and tenants making mechanical changes to the house, you have to expect that not everything is going to work all of the time - or at least work as well as it may have before anyone tampered with it. Occasionally we would find a faucet partially on, or a light switch part way between on/off. It's easy when there's more than one person in the house to simply assume somebody left it that way - especially with a couple of young kids. It was a little tougher to believe that it was somebody else when it happened in the night - in a small house, you usually hear people getting up and moving around.
In any house, the kitchen is often the heart of the home. In a small house, it's often the busiest room simply by design. We had to go through the kitchen to get anywhere else in the house. While we had simply decided that it had something to do with the efficiency of the HVAC system, there were always pockets of cold air in the kitchen, and oddly enough, not always in the same place.
In 2008, we did a major renovation - gutted the whole house and added a second floor for all the bedrooms and a couple of new bathrooms. On the main floor, the kitchen was relocated to the back of the house. Or course, with all new supply ducts and air returns, better windows and insulated walls, the cold spots aren't there in the kitchen anymore. The small office where the kitchen used to be is sometimes chilly though.
The renovation lasted about 4 months and it drew a lot of attention from the neighbours. We spent a lot of time talking about the changes, and they told us a lot about the history of the house. We met the previous owners when we bought the house from them, and we knew they had been separated and he was living in the apartment downstairs. Prior to that, one of our neighbour's sons had owned the house and fixed it up to be a rental. It was in pretty bad shape before the last owners fixed it up again. We learned there were basement tenants at one point, and the couple living downstairs actually had their wedding ceremony in the basement in front of the stone fireplace. They had since moved out of the city to a much bigger property. Sadly, he was killed in a helicopter accident last year.
I also heard, but have been unable to confirm by any real source, that the original owners of the house lived their until their deaths. As usual the husband died first. The wife? She died alone years later, in the kitchen.
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from a ghost? hahaha 
so one time i was running and saw a ball up on a roof of a weird house. I was a young little lad and i Went up and got it but curiousity kicked in and i went into the house. there when i walked in was a ghost platypus and it smaked me in the face and took the ball and two other balls of mine... ever since i have not felt the same i have no idea why but i mean yea.... then i finally saw him again and he had kids i was like what and then he raped me that is the end thanks..,.
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