Actually, I am a gigantic fan of applying Occam's Razor in these types of situations. That was kind of my point. As defined on the Wikipedia page on the topic: "The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory."You're assuming that she felt it was important enough to race over to the library and City Hall after dropping her kids off at school and wasting her entire morning...along with driving 60 minutes round-trip to gather some information from the County records office as well, just to impress me/us with her intuitive skills so we might add a 20% tip on top of her $0 commission.
That's a LOT of assumptions!What's so unbelievable about the possibility that she simply went about her normal business that Monday morning, came over after having done exactly ZERO research on the property, and had some genuine experiences? To me, the latter is the solution that "makes as few assumptions as possible." At least acknowledge that what you are suggesting includes a BEVY of assumptions...and we can agree to disagree.
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Believe me, I completely get where you are coming from. I know it all sounds completely crazy. What I am telling you is that I've spent the better part of my 38 years trying to "logic" and "science" all of this stuff away...and I can't. I really wish I could! I've spent hours researching sleep paralysis and watching documentaries online on the subject, I've had inspection after inspection done on the homes I have lived in (had some experiences in our former home as well...though nothing 1/10 as intense as we've had here). Heck, I wondered as a teenager and an early 20-something if I was literally losing my mind with some of this stuff...until others without prior knowledge of my particular experiences began sharing some of the exact same experiences. If multiple people all independently have very similar experiences at different periods of time, unbeknownst to one another, are they ALL crazy?!
if they can't produce the same empirical evidence to you...in the way you wish to receive it...at the time you want to receive it. I obviously understand why! I'm just saying, the world is a lot more complicated than "black" and "white" sometimes...like it or not.
Something happens and the first thing I do is I am mentally running through all the things it can be. I'm not talking a radiator banging in the dark or thinking you see shadows at night. I'm talking sitting at your wife's computer in the hallway before dinner, bored to death while waiting for 1 GB of software to load while thinking "why can't she figure this out herself?!" ...then staring blankly into your daughter's room while you're waiting for the Installer to hit 100% complete...only to see something like a shadow that is an opaque 70-80% gray, with two arms, two legs, and a head...walk from your daughter's closet door through her bed and through the Northern wall of her room into a porch.
Something happens and the first thing I do is I am mentally running through all the things it can be. I'm not talking a radiator banging in the dark or thinking you see shadows at night. I'm talking sitting at your wife's computer in the hallway before dinner, bored to death while waiting for 1 GB of software to load while thinking "why can't she figure this out herself?!" ...then staring blankly into your daughter's room while you're waiting for the Installer to hit 100% complete...only to see something like a shadow that is an opaque 70-80% gray, with two arms, two legs, and a head...walk from your daughter's closet door through her bed and through the Northern wall of her room into a porch.
The whole idea is explaining away the explainable with logical, likely culprits. It's the 10% or less of stuff that cannot be explained away that I am talking about here.
I like knowing there is most-definitely an after-life! I just want it to wait until I'm ready to leave this life is all. 
