The Misplaced Walking Cane

I did yard work for an incredibly lovely old couple as a kid. When they originally moved into their house they had to empty out several of the rooms and closets containing some of the previous owner’s stuff.

Soon after the clean up, they heard strange bumping sounds, almost like someone wandering around the house in the dark. Concerned about this strange occurrence, they decided to call the previous owners to ask if the sounds were a normal thing. “Oh, did you by any chance empty out the upstairs closet, ? They asked. We confirmed that we had indeed done so. "Just put the cane back in the closet so "he" can see where he is going. Without it he just stumbles around bumping into things and making noise.”
Not believing a single word of it, we said good bye and hung up. The noises just kept on, night after night, until we retrieved the old cane from the garage and put it back inside the cupboard and the noise simply stopped, never to return again.