Don't be scared I am sure nobody is trying to hurt you. I have found that when this sort of thing happens they are trying to tell you something!

Do you know of any mediums that can put this to rest for you ?

Thanks for your response. My husband wasn't home the day I smelled to odor of a cigar or pipe. As a matter of fact, he doesn't smoke either. I do agree with what you are saying about the other things. Just with the other things going on... especially with the door, there was no wind storm and that is the only time it opened on its own. All could be coincidence I imagine

No I don't know any mediums but I know I am not in any danger. Actually, its kind of entertaining to what may happen next... if anything. Not sure what, if anything, something or someone is trying to tell me as we have only live here in the house and this state for less than four years. I don't know a lot of people here as I don't work outside the home anymore but either way... I do not have a fear of what does happen here. Thanks for your response also Louie

Ok those other experiences are very convincing. Yes you definitely have a ghost in your premises and it sounds like it wants to share your home. Maybe there will be a day when you can speak personally with the ghost, may it be a séance, Ouija board, anything.

Yes that would be interesting to say the least. Have not had any experience visually either... just what we have picked up on recordings and the strange happenings around here. Hopefully, he/she will show itself soon.

Hi,
I start with the orbs showing up on the photos. This has been shown, on numerous occasions, to be a giltch that is peculiar to digital cameras and does not tend to show up on optical camera photos taken at the same time.
As for the rest of the things that are happening, one or two of them could be explained mundanely (the TV for one) and have only taken a greater significance when looked at in conjunction with the other things that are happening.
No as for these other things. It does sound as if you have something going on there, but working from a distance it's hard to say what. The figures in the hallway and at the foot of the bed do sound like you have something visiting you, but whether they are one and the same thing, I'm not sure. The woman in the house robe sounds like (and from what I can tell from here) some kind of ghost and if she has made no overtly hostile moves towards any of you it might be beset to leave her be for the timebeing (if it helps, think of her and treat her like a lodger), as I get the feeling that if you leave her alone she'll leave you alone. The other things sound like you have at least on prankster in the house, and I do not mean a physical one. Many things that get taken for ghosts are actually nature and elemental spirits, some of which have a wicked, and annoying, sense of humour.
Most of these spirits don't mean any harm but are just playful (especially if they are not being taken notice of). Once they are known some will just leave on their own accord (the fun has gone out of it for them), but others might stay. These ones quite often will let you know something they like, so if you get the strange impulse to leave something (a drink, sweets/candies, tobacco etc.) in a strange place, like under a piece of furniture, in the bottom of a cupboard or under a stone in the garden for instance, this may be them giving you hints. If this happens it can be a good idea to do it as the ones who do this, and stay, will put off many of the more malign of their kind from coming to the house. Note that if you do this it is best to leave them some of whatever they have indicated on a reasonably regular basis (it doesn't have to be large amounts).
If you are not comfortable with this you may need to get someone in, who knows what they are doing, to get rid of them (be advised, most of these entities, nowadays, take little notice of the clergy of most of the major religions). Though this will get rid of the ones that are there now, it doesn't mean that others won't come in to fill the gap (unless the person you get to do it is very good at their job).
I'm sorry if I can't give you any names of anyone who can do this, if you deicide to do it that way, as I don't personally know anyone I can recommend in your area (I'm on a different continent).
Hope this is of some help
Bye for now.

Thank you very much for your time and interest. Yes... we don't feel like what or whoever this is, means us any harm. We have since my first posting, have talked with our landlord and just can't connect anything that's going on to his family. His family has owned this property from the beginning and has only had like 3 renters with one of them being a family member. We realized, and not sure why sooner, that we live about 4 miles from the Aversboro Battle Ground during the Civil War in North Carolina. We are thinking now that possible our "ghost" may be related to that. The entity my son saw in the hallway on two different occasions, could not be determined to be a man or a women. But... given the Civil War time-frame, it could be a man, as during that time, they did where "nightshirts" and wigs. This may explain the sweet cigar odor in my bedroom... thinking a man would be smoking a pipe or cigar rather that a women. I have heard many people say now that the Touch Lights do have a glitch... coming on by theirself or having shorts. So I will concede on that but the TV only has me concerned for one reason. Both times it changed channels, I was in the shower and the TV had changed to channel 50 both times. You'd think if it were a glitch, it would be random channels not the same channel. Also, I'm not sure if I posted the audio of our ghost on here or not I will check but it says or what I think it says is... "give up". Since then, we have not gotten any "word" audios just some bumping, clanging... that sort of thing. Again thanks for your help and I will post the audio on here if its not already.

Hi me again,
Your mentioning Aversboro Battle Ground got me thinking that, depending on the direction, four miles might be a reasonable, for that time, distance form the battle for a field hospital (possibly).
If your visitor is from the battle the most likely transport mediums for it moving with you to your present house are either in a piece of memorabelia from the battle (or associated camps), any other piece of militaria or in an item of the time (these are not the only things it could just the most likely).
One of the other people who answered your question mentioned poltergeists. I don't think you have one of these ans most seem to be associated with addolescents (mostly girls) and, in genreal, only last for a relatively short period and are far mor violent in nature than whoever/whatever is in your house.
A similar situation to yours happened to some friends some years ago. Many of the things that you are experiencing happened to them (things moving, waffy electrics etc.0, but their ghost had the habit of hiding things, many of which were in use at the time and had only just been put down.
They asked me and my then partner to go round and see if we could do anything. After half an hour , or so, I picked up on the presence of a man who told me he had been a courier in our Civil War and he had been killed by the enemy (Cromwell's troops) in such a way that no one knew who had been killed. This left him in the position where the Royalist troops who were waiting for his message thought he had deserted. Once he told me/us this he left as all he wanted was for someone to know what had happened.
It may be the same for your visitor or it could be that it was his/her will to stay around and may have become lonely over the yeaes and just wants company (it happens).
As for any other spirits that may be there my past advice stands.
Concerning the sweet smelling smoke, in past times a greater percentage of women cmoked pipes or cigars than do now (that percentage is possibly for the camp followers of an army) so your visitor could still be a woman, although the smell still favours a man (say 70/30).
For your light bulb, think yourself lucky, when certain things happen around me they tend to explode after they flicker. On this topic (the electrics) think on the old addage "Once is an occurance. Twice is coincidence and thrice is a pattern." (paraphrased a little from various versions). If the things happened in a short time frame then this works, but if there is quite a gap between each occurrence then start counting from one again. Your TV may have a faulty circuit that is triggered by certain power surges (uncommon but not impossible), so that every time you get that kind of surge it changes to a specific channel (a rare, but mundane explanation). The way you described the candle light behaving I can't think of a mundane explanation for that scenario.
On the whole it does sound like you have a benign ghost or spirit in your house (possibly both). If you feel comfortable with it then leave things as they stand (barring any changes).

Do you believe in ghosts then my nan has the same problems she came to our house and when she had got back their was a candle lit on the table

We don't have any memoriablia from the battle ground but just out of curiosity, we looked up the history of the battle. I have named my ghost Robert, just a the first name that came to me after the cigar/pipe incident. There was only one Robert in the battle that we found, not to say there was more. It was General Robert Hoke. I'm sure its just a coincidence but had to chuckle a bit. Things have been really quiet lately so as you suggested, if anything happens, will consider it "incident one". What usually happens is that things will be quiet for awhile... then bam things start happening again. It has been too windy here to get any EVP's so when things calm down I may do some recording again. We don't plan to do anything at this time to rid ourselves of our ghost until as you say, barring any changes. Right now its just little stuff that happens basically to let us know he/she is still around. If anything new happens, I will post again. Thanks for you time and interest.

Its been a while since I have posted because our ghost, who we named Robert, has not show himself in any way. When I first named our ghost "Robert", I had no reason at all. That was just the first name that came into my mind. The paranormal activity that has happened in our home is posted here under "Do we have a ghost visiting us?" ( I think) Because of this activity. Candles relighting themselves, strong odor of cigar or pipe, the ghost my son saw twice in our hallway dressed in nightclothes of the era, etc... I decided to get some history on our home. Only to find out that one family has owned this property since 1948. In no way could we make a connection to Robert and the property owners. I decided to get history on the ground we live on and found some interesting facts. This is why we think our ghost "attached" himself to us. We live about 4 mi or so from the Averasboro battleground in NC. The battle moved through our property in 1865. Major Gen. Robert F Hoke was held in high regard and moved quickly up the ranks in the confederant army. Sometime later, Hoke asked to be released from his position to help rebuild the south and died in NC in 1912 which was unrelated to the battle. In April 1865, in a farmhouse located in Orange county NC, Confederate Gen. Johnston and Union Gen. Sherman, met to discuss the surrender of the Confederate Army. All the "politics" of the surrender was decided in this farmhouse. The owners of the 325 acre farm was James and Nancy Bennett (spelled Bennitt back then). So, I am sure you are asking yourselves what this has to do with us\? This is why we think our ghost showed himself the us. Especially with the EVP that I recorded says... "Give Up". The reason is this... our last name is Bennett. Since we found out this information, "Robert" has not shown himself in any way. Was Robert just a lost soul? What was he wanting? We can only assume it was a little of both. Most likely confused by our name being the same and maybe looking for some kind of acknowledment. To read more about this story click on this link:

Bennett Place

hi I don't know if you willl see this but I would like to share some of the ocurrences that I have been through and as you seem like an intelligent, reasonable person so I thought that I would prefer to bring it up here then somewhere else, but anyway as of a few months months ago I started getting a lot of strange things happening in my house such as doors slaming and opening, tvs turning on and of on random occasions ( normaly on channel 21) ,microwave turning on with the timer on 47 seconds footsteps altrough the night as well as on a few rare occasions things like the pantry and fridge opening, these things made me curous and a bit worried but not intimdated so I ignored them as a whole. Until I was in bed one night about to fall asleep when there was the sound of a lot of heavy items hitting the ground right next to my bed and as you could imagine this was terrifying so I turned my light on and my wardrob had opened and all the boxes that stored my possesions had fallen onto the floor at this time I wanted to leave the house but made myself stay and just go to sleep but the next morning I woke up to find all of my things back in the wardrob with the door closed. I know no one else did this while I was asleep as I was onlyone home due to my parents being overseas .and I don't know how to really explain this but ever since I was young I've felt like something peacefull has been watching ever me but now there's another dominating presence around which is quite intimadating. I don't know if this helps but some people say that ghost focus on adalecent teens so I'm a 16 year old male. Thank you for reading this