Footsteps are apt to approach the doors of these rooms in mirk midnight, the door handle turns, and that is all.
So much for supposed hauntings by spirits of the dead.
At the opposite pole are hauntings by agencies whom nobody supposes to be ghosts of inmates of the house.

The following is an extreme example, as the haunter proceeded to arson.

This is not so very unusual, and, if managed by an impostor, shows insane malevolence.
{202} THE DANCING DEVIL On 16th November, 1870, Mr.Shchapoff, a Russian squire, the narrator, came home from a visit to a country town, Iletski, and found his family in some disarray.

There lived with him his mother and his wife's mother, ladies of about sixty-nine, his wife, aged twenty, and his baby daughter.

The ladies had been a good deal disturbed.