Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

My name is Breanne and my step father died in 2003 almost in my family home. He either had a stroke or heart attack and was taken to the hospital around midnight and died around 7:30 the next morning. I remember waking up around that time feeling strange and I later found out that he had died then.
 
About a month after he died, strange things happened that I have never experienced before. One early morning I was home alone and had been woken up by this noise that I had been hearing through the vent in our home, which all vent sound leads down to the laundry room. The sound sounded like someone dragging the laundry basket across the basement floor.
 
Another time it happened when my brother was home also and he had just awoken like me and it was the same noise, so I went to his room to ask him if he could hear it he replied, “yes I can…” So as I went down the stairs to see, the noise stopped. Everything in the laundry room was in the right places it all should be. This noise stopped after this had happened and I had never heard it again….The noise also frightened me for some reason.
 
I used to read in my bedroom with the door close in my family home with the stereo on by myself. The remote for the stereo at this time was beside me as I was reading on my bed. Again I was home alone. The stereo all of a sudden got louder then it had been and I looked up at the stereo (It’s a sliver one with a sliver dial that you can see a reflection on) and the dial was still spinning. It was turned up to about 20 in volume, when I had had it at 12. I turned it down and stood in front of it in disbelief and shock, but it didn’t move again.
 
There was also another time in the family home when I had been downstair’s sleeping on the couch, again I was home alone. I was awoken to what I believed to be was the TV on. It sounded like one of those old Western videos. Gord had a collection of old Westerns downstair’s that he had loved. As I went up the stairs to see if the TV was on and got closer to the top, the noise stopped and the TV wasn’t on.
 
This all happened within a couple of months after he had died.
 
Since I have moved out of the family home and now am in my own place. The reason why I’m writing this is because a couple of days ago I was here at home playing music on the same stereo that I had at my family home and my stepson was here with me and I was here on the computer with the remote beside me. I had the stereo at a certain volume and it all of a sudden turned up louder and  looked over at it to see that the volume had been turned up. I grabbed the remote and immediately turned it down. Again in shock, but a feeling came over me and all the memories came back of everything else that had happened before.
 
I’m wondering if I’m crazy or if I’m wanting to think that my stepfather is somehow near when he really isn’t or if he’s trying to tell me something or WHAT?
 
If you could help me in anyway, with what you think could be happening I would very much appreciate it.
 
Thanks so much for your time,
 
Sent in by Breanne, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com