My gran's house in Yorkshire is properly haunted and I've finally got proof (maybe)

My gran's farmhouse is about three miles outside Hebden Bridge on the moors, and it's been in our family for nearly 150 years. Weird stuff has always happened there - doors opening on their own, cold spots in specific rooms, the occasional sound of footsteps when nobody's walked anywhere. My gran's always said the house is haunted but not malevolent, which is... not reassuring, but not terrifying either.

Last weekend I was visiting and brought my digital thermometer and my mate's old camera to actually investigate properly. And I think I caught something. In the study (where the door always opens on its own), I got three photos in succession where there's a kind of shape near the window. It's not clear - definitely could be pareidolia or shadows - but it's consistent across all three images and doesn't match anything in the room.

Temperature readings were normal though, which is weird because that's supposed to be one of the main signs, right?

I'm trying not to get too excited because I know how these things look on forums ("Look at my ghost photo!" *it's obviously a smudge*), but I genuinely thought this community might take it seriously or offer advice on how to investigate properly.

Can you upload the photos? That's literally the first thing everyone will ask anyway. Camera model, lighting conditions, time of day, ISO settings - all that matters. And be prepared for the answer to be "that's a shadow," because it probably is. But maybe not, so let's see.

The temperature thing isn't necessarily a negative. Cold spots are a theory, but they're not universal to hauntings. Some supposedly haunted locations are completely normal on thermometers.

Three generations living in the same house means three generations of people expecting it to be haunted, which is actually quite powerful from a psychological perspective. Not trying to be dismissive - I'm serious - but confirmation bias is real. You see a shadow and interpret it as a ghost because you've been primed to expect ghosts. Your gran hears the wind in the walls and calls it footsteps. After 150 years, the stories are part of the house's identity.

That doesn't mean nothing's happening, just that you need to be rigorous about ruling out mundane causes.

Yorkshire moorland properties are genuinely interesting from a paranormal perspective though. There's something about the landscape - the age of it, the isolation - that seems to correlate with reported activity. Not trying to get ahead of ourselves, but the Hebden Bridge area does have a history.

I'd suggest: set up a camera overnight (if your gran's okay with it) and compare hours of footage to find when activity actually occurs. Is it random, or does it happen at specific times? That'll tell you more than individual photos.

The temperature readings were normal though, which is weird because that's supposed to be one of the main signs, right?

Temperature anomalies are overstated as indicators anyway. There's a hundred reasons for cold spots in old houses - drafts, plumbing, poor insulation, variations in sunlight throughout the day. Not seeing them doesn't mean there's no activity, it just means activity (if it exists) isn't causing temperature changes in that particular room.