Not really ghost related, but a haunting episode for some sad reasons:

The ingredients:

- A young woman, "Stephanie", who lost her mother as a child. Her husband is an executive moving up to a more stressful job from Los Angeles to New York, near where Stephanie grew up. Stephanie seems gentle enough, but somewhat tightly wrapped in an excellent vocal portrayal by Mercedes McCambridge (the voice of the demon in "The Exorcist".)

- A middle-aged to mature woman, who with her husband now lives in the house where Stephanie grew up. She's quietly despondant over the fact that she never had a child.

- A house that, while not really haunted, seems to favor certain (former) occupants. When Stephanie is in her room she hears (and often seems to ignore) noises that sound like whispered whistles and feminine "oo-oo" cooing.

The house, in particular Stephanie's room, seems to have the power to make time and people regress in their age. This was a truly fascinating plot.


(And a sad footnote: I was living in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1987 when McCambridge's son, an economic forecaster with a worldwide bond trading firm in that city, broke under the stress of his job and illegal financial deals, put on a hallowe'en mask and shot his wife, two girls and then himself in a murder/suicide. It made listening to the episode quite poignant.) 