ghosts exist ?

I lived in a farmhouse with a whole bunch of people and the stables were converted to flats.

I lived on a corridor that had outside iron steps up to it and that was the way in and out.
The corridor had a dead end .

Every night at the same time you'd here footsteps and little knocks at the door

I opened the door .. Nobody there .
If they had of turned round and run down the stairs again I would of heard them.

The first few times I'd look out to see nothing .
It was fast little steps like a child.

I used to acknowledge him /her every night .
Nothing more happened.

However the stable people kept moving out quickly .
And builders downed tools and left after being bothered by a big black shape. They were really upset.

The only horrible experience I had wAs in the stable .
Terrible sobbing .
A child crying..
When I asked the family moving out why move out in such a hurry.
They said the sobbing child and footsteps on gravel then nobody there. They had enough of it all.

Next couple lasted a week ..

I never felt anything bad I used to just say hello as he knocked and ran .. Or open the door and say hello.

Years later it was on one of the paranormal programs and the spirit is of a boy how died in an accident there .
I was stunned to see the place .
I was skeptical until I lived there .