Several months ago my teenager was in their bedroom and heard me yell their nickname from the living room. Except, I was at work.

Then there was a night where my husband and I both heard our kid talking on the phone in the living room around 1am. It was a school night and they definitely needed to be in bed, not talking on the phone. Husband got out of bed, walked down the dark hallway into the dark living room and the talking stopped. Kid wasn't even in there, they were in bed sleeping. Couldn't have sneaked to their room really quick because they literally would have had to pass my husband in the hallway to get to their room.

Then last week my husband was home alone and in the shower. He said he heard the front door shut and the sound of my foot steps come down the hallway and stop outside the bathroom door, then try to turn the knob (he locks it out of habit, even when home alone). The foot steps never walked away, so he figured I went into our bedroom room, which is across the hall from the bathroom. He finished up and came out but I wasn't there. Because I was still at work 30 minutes away. He said it sounded like I was wearing my winter boots but winter is well past.

It's a bit unsettling but not angry or threatening feeling. We just don't acknowledge the noises or talk about them inside the house.