ABSTRACT
This chapter describes two contrasting responses: a household where the person of the ghost is taken for granted, and one where personhood is denied. It how the uncanny has been situated in a common definition as something 'not quite but nearly normal', but found that nearly-normal events do not necessarily create unease. Anthropomorphising a ghost is perhaps easier for the fact that it was once human. One assumption running throughout participants' responses is that ghosts maintain their previous humanlike qualities after death, despite the complex time-spaces they are also perceived to occupy. But uncanny events differ, and people's responses to the ghosts require adjustments. For some, ghosts are automatically conferred supernatural, or 'spiritual' powers. These can be protective, or threatening. The use of conventional gender categories is another way in which the experience of being haunted is contained, another way ghosts are rendered ordinary, familiar and unthreatening.
