But according to the villagers, the spirits of the previous owner, his son and his trusted aide still haunt the house.

She then became convinced that he was haunting her house.

His ghost haunted my house.

A local urban legend has it that she haunts the house.

Now her vengeful ghost haunts the house, sparing only her twin sister for having experience the same suffering as her.

Anybody who has been in that pitiless landscape will have wondered about the ghosts that haunt the present.

As an example of a novel in which the past returns to haunt the present, this scores very high marks.

Sinister events of 60 years ago emerge to haunt the present.

They are also partners, working together as midwives, and are similarly immured in nostalgia for a vanished past that haunts their present.

Few will forget the haunting images of the flooded city.

His haunting images of houses left to rot by their owners have been used to attract a 50,000 grant from a charitable foundation.

Haunting images of the smoking wreckage were released by emergency services.

Haunting images implant themselves in the mind.

The haunting images never cease to amaze and intrigue, both as records of an extraordinary discovery and as masterpieces of the photographer's art.

It's an old haunt, this.

He broke into a summer camp, an old haunt, and disturbed the military-grade motion detector that had been installed to catch him.

Twenty years ago their numbers were in serious decline, but more recently many have reappeared in their old haunts.

But days later he was back at his old haunts.

He has also been banned from his old haunts pending a hearing next month.

This hotel was a popular haunt for highway robbers and smugglers.

It soon became a popular haunt for ship owners, merchants, and ships' captains, and thereby a reliable source of the latest shipping news.

The hotel grew to become a popular haunt by locals for alfresco dining and dancing.

A popular haunt of culture vultures in the city, the auditoriums are the venues for various cultural meets and programs.

It's a regular haunt for them.

My regular haunt supplies honest food in quantity and quality with tea (second cup free) for 4.75.

Some of the devices contained data linked to global positioning satellites, making it possible to discover the former owners' regular haunts.

It was known as a trade goods port and fishing community, and was a regular haunt of pirates seeking refuge in its salt water marshes and estuaries off the ocean.

Most of the nightingale contingent will appear in their regular haunts towards the end of the month.

Keep away from your usual haunts and avoid being on the streets alone.

Keep avoiding her usual haunts and stay sober to have your wits about you when out.

It will also be crucial to establish if suspects may have travelled by keeping a close check on their usual haunts and movements.

Anything or anyone different will be very attractive to you, so avoid your usual haunts and branch out into pastures new.

The friend phoned 999 and gave officers a description of his pal's usual haunts after getting the worrying call.