switching on and off (of a light); flashing; blinking; flickering
arrival (of post, news, correspondence, etc.); receiving (a phone call, email, etc.)
conflict; complication; troubles; discord
circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
bedside; near one's pillow
to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)
to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
rattling and trembling of a house (traditionally believed to be caused by oni or the deceased); creaking of a building (and its furniture)
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
systematic; regular; routine
contortion; distortion; warp; kink (in one's character); twist
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
mystery; curiosity; strangeness; ghost; monster; apparition
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing; one's work
rapping sound (and other sounds when associated with poltergeists)
weird; eerie; ominous; creepy; uncanny; unearthly
creak; squeak; creaking; discord; strife; friction
usual; ordinary; normal; ordinarily; normally; usually
rising (from one's bed); getting up; getting out of bed
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
balcony; veranda; verandah; porch
to be transparent; to show through
sleepy; drowsy; somnolent
getting up early; early rising; early riser; early bird
advance; moving forward; progress
if (it) doesn't exist; if there is no ...; if not ...; unless ...; have to ...; must ...
engineer; technical officer
with a creak; with a squeak; (packing) tightly; with a squeeze; relentlessly (criticize, complain, etc.); severely
transforming oneself; taking on another form; disguising oneself; artificial fly (for fishing)
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
private; confidential; informal; secret; (within the) family circle; (on the) inside
old-fashioned; behind the times; out-of-date; antiquated
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie