A Haunted Diary by Amanda Springer

It was the sight of a horrible tragedy, which may be why the Claires got it so cheap. And they all know about the Vayle place, which has just been purchased by a young married couple: George Claire (James Norton), a recent addition to the local private liberal-arts college, and his wife, Catherine ( Amanda Seyfried). The residents of the region, at least in the early 1980s, seem to accept this as a fact of life some even view it as a perk.

There are ghosts that haunt the houses of New York’s Hudson Valley, we’re told early on in Things Heard & Seen (now streaming on Netflix) - the spirits of former owners who may have unfinished business in this realm, or who may be protecting new occupants from possible danger, or who may be right evil bastards waiting to inspire the living to embrace their own inner darkness.