Do you believe in ghosts? Before you answer, read these two stories.

In both stories, the previous inhabitants never really want to leave.

Janie Gabbett grew up in a farmhouse in Delavan, Ill. built by her great grandfather in the late 1800s. As the youngest in the family, she was sent to be the earliest, at 8:30 p.m. In Boo! a work of nonfiction, she writes:

It didn’t happen often, but enough times for me to remember clearly. I would catch of glimpse of some movement down the dark, empty h…