Hi everyone! I am from upstate New York and one day hope to have a Homestead in the country.

My supernatural experience. When I was in college friends of my older cousin had moved back into the area and needed a babysitter for their two young children. It was fifty bucks for a few hours so I took it.

They had rented one of those old colonial houses. With a grand staircase from the front door, but a small and winding staircase from the kitchen to the second floor used by the servants back in the day.

I was sitting in the living room doing my homework when it sounded like someone was coming down the main staircase. Their cat was on the floor near the door and I saw him look as if he were following someone come down the staircase. I stood up and went to the doorway - no one was there.

Then I heard laughter and I thought it was the children I was babysitting. So I thought I would catch them by sneaking up the small staircase. I heard the laughter all the way to the top and then it stopped! When I checked on them, they were fast asleep!