When I lived in a house in Elgin, Illinois near the Trout Park area in a small house my mother already knew our house was "haunted" due to an incident in the kitchen when something went missing, she acknowledged that she knew someone was there and to put the item back when she came back, my father was in the backyard, my brother was napping (he was too young for school)  at that time and I was at school, she went out back waited a couple minutes and went back in and the item had been returned. Now when I got older she told us of the incident and said not to be afraid he liked only to play pranks just acknowledge him and ask him to stop. I took it to heart, my brother....well got scared of everything and screamed in the dark, but always "played" with the "friendly ghost" I always saw little colored lights like spirit lights I guess varying in colors and I played with them (this will be important later). One night something wakened me and I looked up to see a face staring at me at first I got freaked out and hid under my blankets. I then calmed down and realized how cool it was and remembered my moms words about it being harmless of course by the time I looked out from my blankets he was gone or so I thought near the closet was a shrouded or hooded figure laughing at me I told him to go away and pointed at him and the "spirit lights" were all red and went flying from my hand and knocked him through the wall of the closet making him gone from the room. I was shocked and looked at my finger, now something I didn't mention that I never really realized until now since I thought the ghost shape was all I could see, he looked like the darkness and shadows surrounded him and those small dots you see in the dark is all you see in the dark was outlining the shape, no words or sound from him either. Now finding this site I looked back at my memories after reading some of the descriptions of these shadow people...I think that was a shadow person. Oddly there is a second part to