Ghost of a child

As I have mentioned before, my wife uses a different bedroom due to a leg problem that that requires attention at off hours during the night. Last night we turned in about midnight; she to the room we call the Noah room and I and our two schnauzers the master bedroom. This morning my wife told me about an episode she experienced last night in the Noah room. She said her leg was bothering her and she was in the process of getting up to take care of it (she had not as yet turned on the light which is on an end table beside the bed), She caught movement out of the corner of her eye. When she looked toward the movement she said she distinctly saw a child, of 3 or 4 years of age, with long light brown hair, and dressed in a long white gown move across the bedroom and out into the upstairs hall. She did not see the child's face as it was turned from her but she recognized the gown as the type that very young children were often dressed in (both sexes) during the 1800's and early 1900's. She knew she was not having a waking dream as she went about correcting her leg problem and then got up to go to the bathroom. The Noah room is never pitch black with the lights off as there are three windows, one of which fronts main street and its street light. She was uncertain whether the child was male or female because this type of night dress was common for both in that time period. There were young children in the household of the builder and original owner of this 1857 house. Perhaps the spector was one of them. This is not the first time my wife has witnessed a "ghost", so she knew pretty quickly what she had witnessed. People generally do not believe in ghosts until they, themselves, experience it. Knowing you are seeing something extraordinary can have a profound effect on a person. The strange thing is, you are not scared, like the cartoonists imply. Curious, yes, or questioning; but not scared. Interesting.