Betty Ward of Alexandria will tell you “Paranormal Activity” is much more than the name of this year’s sleeper hit movie.

Ward has lived in a haunted house near the George Washington National Masonic Memorial since 1954, and the ghost that inhabits it has become almost part of the family.

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