In the Kasicki home, old framed photographs move; a foggy haze lingers in the parlor; footsteps pound up staircases; and windows open on their own. Since Linda and Robert moved in, they have experienced what many believe to be paranormal activity on a daily basis.

“Everyone has premonitions, but it goes on all the time here,” says Linda Kasicki, owner of the house. “It's like you're never alone, but it's not a bad feeling. If it were, I wouldn't be here.”

Originally owned by the Neal family in the late 1800s, the house was purchased by the C.D. Woods family. Two other families have resided in the house since, but they left after being frightened by apparitions, Kasicki says. And so came the Kasickis' turn.

Linda had been dreaming about buying a classically designed house a year before she even heard about it. After her husband was offered a job in Gainesville, the couple began their search for a new home. She hoped the home from her dreams would turn up somewhere.

“(The realtor) said, 'Well, I have a house in Archer, but it's haunted,'” Linda says. “He turned the page, and it was my house!”

Without the real-estate agent or knowledge of the address, Robert and Linda decided to explore the town of Archer, and Linda was able to take her husband directly to the house that would become their home.

The Kasickis believe it is the Woods family that is haunting them, and specifically Cora Woods, who lost two children while living in the house. The Kasickis say Cora is the woman who can be seen roaming around and grieving in her white nightgown. Voices of children playing, giggling and even screaming have been heard.

In fact, Leah, the Kasicki's adult daughter, refuses to enter the home after waking up one night to find a strange man's face about four inches away from hers. Linda and paranormal experts agree that Leah's room is still the most active in the house.

“When you look from the side, things appear inside that mirror,” says Linda as she points to an antique mirror hung on the wall near the bed. “This room is now the guest room.”

While most people might be spooked by the house and its inhabitants, the Kasickis enjoy their home and have no plans to move. They welcome their ghosts and all who want to investigate them. The Kasickis even hold a haunted house event for all the local children on Halloween night, and they are dedicated to providing a spook-filled experience.

“If they are stupid enough to come in the yard, they know what they're in for,” Linda says. “We have a quota: two pees and a poop.”

Although many are skeptical about the paranormal activities that go on at the Kasicki house, Dr. Andrew Nichols, founding President of the Florida Society for Parapsychological Research and Director of the American Institute of Parapsychology, agrees that these events are significant.

“The houses aren't haunted. It's the people that have the experiences that are haunted,” Nichols says. “These are not crazy people. They are normal people having extraordinary experiences.”

Nichols, now a psychology professor at City College in Gainesville, has investigated more than 680 paranormal activity cases in the past 30 years. Nichols believes memory fragments of people in certain places become encoded in those locations and are then experienced by others.

“I think that's why so many cemeteries are 'haunted,'” says Nichols. “If you were a spirit, why would you hang out in a cemetery? What's the fun in that?”

He believes mourners build up emotionally charged memories and imprint a residue of the ones who have passed. When others visit that location, the ones who are especially sensitive can pick up on those memories and even experience apparitions. However, Nichols feels this theory only applies to rare situations and most paranormal cases are psychological.

“We have a predisposition of believing in ghosts,” says Nichols. “It's like hearing the phone ring while you're in the shower because you're expecting the call.”