Her appearance was terrible - fierce and otherwordly. Definitely not a family member that I know of. The house was just a few years old when I bought it.
My family has a history of dabbling in such things though. Not me - ever! In fact, about 15 years ago, a neighbor I was friends with had a son about 5 yrs old at the time. He kept seeing an apparition and was scared half to death. She asked me to come over and do an amateur exorcism. The spirit my friend's son saw was one my aunts and uncles used to see at my childhood house where they also grew up - which was "haunted." It was a man in an Abe Lincoln top hat. I went room to room in prayer and cast it out. No holy water - just faith.
Your experience is nasty! I hate tickling anyway. That was just evil!
I've had experiences of being pressed down into the bed until I almost couldn't breathe. Once I learned the power of faith and prayer, those things mostly stopped. Like
@classwife said, those things just aren't welcome around me!
Just the other day though, we heard white noise static coming from our TV, which was turned off at the time.
Yes, verbal threat. She stared hard into my eyes for a while, which turned my blood to ice water. Then she said, "I. Am. Going. To. Destroy. Your. Family." That was all she said. She kept staring at me while she faded away.
Within a year or so, my ex had a psychotic break. Everything went downhill from there. I don't give "credit" to the apparition. But the negativity she represented did infect my family. We always have a choice and our choices are our own responsibility. In the presence of darkness, we can choose the Light. Maybe she was just the embodiment of highly negative choices that were being made at that time that I didn't realize was happening. So she was a kind of warning I guess.