Hello. I'm new. I posted part of this elsewhere, but thought it prudent to post most here. 

I'm here because 2 of my kids have been reporting this to me. One a long time ago and it was quite the "thing"... the other more recently. I wouldn't be here if I didn't think this was real for them. Neither knew the other was having / had these experiences; only I did. Even recently I've been seeing them more prominently than before. For them it's more directly. For me, it's more in the periphery. 

My 2nd born (daughter) was the first to report this to me. A single figure. Knocking on doors, appearing in her room. Usually at night, but it started being all the time; at home and away from home. We had MANY sleepless nights from it. I told her to tell it to go away. That she needed to sleepy etc. It started after her grandmother passed away. I thought it was her. She stopped telling me about it. I thought it stopped. Conversation at the dinner table from my other child enlightened her that he was seeing them too and she told me she's never stopped seeing them. One in her room or around the house, then 2 at school. Always the same ones. She considers them boys. The knocking still continues. She says now she tries to ignore them. But that sometimes they get really close.

My first born (son) is the one who has been telling me about this recently. He has special needs so I have to decipher a bit of what might be true and what might be embellished. In the end, what seems to be true is that he sees them every night. Multiple figures. They try talking to him but it just sounds like random variations of shushing. They won't leave him alone and seem to want him to have bad dreams. He tells them to go away and they "confer" with a "leader" and then they decide that no, they won't go away. He says that they generally stay in the same spots in his room, but that they do float around. The other night he came into our room (something he typically doesn't do) because he was so scared. He slept in our room. He's older and hot, so I slept in his room. I didn't see anything... he said they followed him to our room (my husband was in there with him). He also says that sometimes they want him to tell stories (he's good at that). But he'll only oblige them sometimes. I do hear him talking out loud at night sometimes.

I've always seen the periphery. But recently I saw one that passed by that I truly thought was my daughter walking around in my room. But it wasn't her. I hadn't seen one quite so clearly / purposefully / for as long before.

I've been told I'm an empath. I've been told our family comes from an old history of Spanish witches. I know neither to be true. I do know that this scares my kids. 

I have "devil's shoestring in every corner of every room in our house. I have the evil eye over every "door" into our house (not the windows). I read about cleansing the house (I've had to do that at another house). Is this what I have to do to make this stop? Also, I've read that shadow people come to those who are mentally 'weaker' or troubled. Is this true? I've read that if they know you can see them, it's harder to get rid of them... is this true (if so, I was WAY wrong in telling my daughter to tell them to go away)? I've also read something about "Djin" being what shadow people are? That this is all a negative thing... alternate universes, etc.

Can someone PLEASE point me in the direction of understanding and then ridding?

Thank you in advance!