When I split from the wife (bitch-fuck-bugger-bitch), I had to live back at my dad's house for a while. He owns a 16th century Vicarage (he's not a vicar, by the way ).
The house is DEFINATELY home to a few spirits.
There is a 6yr old girl - I haven't seen her, but my brothers have - she was strangled some time in the past, but she keeps nicking stuff and hiding it about the house...like keys and stuff. One night, she kept playing with the light switches - turning them on and off. that was kinda freaky, but not distressing.

There is also another ghost - an older man who wears a funny hat (my cousin described it as a sombrero(sp?). He was a funny character, mostly harmless, but sometimes got mad...especially if there was a bad vibe in the house, you know?

In the room that I had to stay in, I think there is the most presence.
It is cold all year round, it feels odd, kinda like old.
It could be 100degrees in the rooms around it, but in that room, it was cold as ice.

In the cellar there is a presence also.

I have never knowingly seen a ghost or spirit, but I do feel them - subtle, like.
In the house tha I live in now, I can feel the presence of two spirits - sometimes three.
One is a man - I just sense it as a man - he comes and goes on occasion, and lets his passing be known lol
One is female (I think), and she is here all the time (even as I type this post, I can see flashes of light from the corners of my eyes. I like her, she fills me with comfort - she checks on me frequently lol
The last spirit is very seldom here, but I feel that it is lost - it comes here every couple of months, hangs around for a day or so, then leaves again.

None of them cause me alarm, and (don't laugh) I always say hello when I come into the house (like I would if I had a partner waiting here lol)...

Whenever I 'feel' spirits in my place of living, I always introduce myself, and say something along the lines of "As long as you don't make me jump, then I respect your space - you were here first, but I'd very much like to live here too, in peace and love."

lol...I dunno, it always seems to work for me