I have just moved into my home on Oct 30th 2005 and I am renting it. The night before, I was here painting one of the upstairs bedrooms. Around 10pm I distinctively heard my patio door open in the dining room at the bottom of the steps and foot steps creaking the steps up to where I was painting. No one entered the room I was painting. I thought it was my boyfriend but he didn't answer when I called his name. A minute later my boyfriend called my cell phone from his house and thought I was nuts for even thinking so dumb. Now a month later we have several other occurrences that have been taking place. My daughter felt and heard a whisper in her ear as she bent down to empty the drier in the laundry room. Her bedroom lights go on and off often. Our Weiner dog will not enter the room. If she puts her in there, she scratches to get out after a few seconds. We hear 2 men's voices having a conversation in the living room and there are no other radios or TV's on in the whole house. I like it quiet when I am home. The kids hear bangs in the night in their rooms huge closets. We hear what sounds like heavy items hit the basement floor all the time and there is nothing there when we run to look. There are many cold spots in the house. Just last nite, Dec.7th, at 3:20 am, I got up to go to the bathroom at my usual 3 am waking for no reason at all each nite and the bathroom door was not closed all the way. Since it was 3:20 am I did not fear anyone would be coming in on me. Just then the door started to pull open and I yelled "I'm in here!!!" and the door closed and shut all the way. I looked in my bedroom door just adjacent to my bathroom door and my boyfriend was snoring away peacefully and I awoke him and asked him if he was at the door and he was angry at me for waking him with such a stupid question. I then went up stairs to my children's rooms and found them both sleeping soundly. This afternoon my landlord called me about a cable installation problem and I asked her if my house was haunted. She hesitated for what felt like an eternity and she then finally answered. "Its the man from across the street. He watched over my girls. He hung out in my youngest daughters room. That's why they slept together in my oldest girls room." (her baby is 2 and her oldest is 4) She said they weren't scared of him. He was friendly. She couldn't remember his name but that he killed himself in the house across the street years ago and I should go ask her grandfather in law that works next door what his name was. I asked him and found it to be Russell Lentz and he shot himself in his basement as he was dying from cancer 25 years ago. She said talk to him by name and that they did. She was surprised I hadn't called earlier about it so she figured we weren't bothered by him. She has not woke at 3 am since she moved out of here and the girls have not yet been visited by Russell Lentz yet. We are not afraid of him at all and talk out loud to him all the time. The kids ask him to turn on things and he doesn't. ha. My kids are 14 and 16 and think its awesome we have a haunted house. Tonight my son and I went next door to work on the Xmas tree and wreaths they sell and a path was shoveled from their door to my door with a shovel. It wasn't there when we just drove in the driveway from religion class and stepped in the house to get gloves and stepped back out to walk a 160 feet to their door.