I live in a 2-story apartment with my wife and two little kids. One of the kids (now 5 years old), for the past 3 years has been waking up around 11pm almost every night crying, and can never explain why. He is distressed and won't go back to sleep unless somebody stays with him or if he's moved to our bed. I always thought it was something weird with his sleeping cycles, as otherwise he's a perfectly normal and happy boy. Then I noticed that when we travel, this never happens. Usually for the summer holidays mom and kids go to another place for a month or more, and also there it never happens. So it's linked to this place.

During those periods when I'm home alone (even before the kids were born), I usually feel uneasy physically going to bed and I can even pinpoint the area in the hallway out of my door that bothers me... a few times it happened that I was so distressed that I went sleeping in front of the TV in the living room downstairs, even if I truly hate that.

Then the other night the little one (3 years old) suddenly woke up screaming at around 2am, which never happens (he's a fantastic sleeper). When I asked him what was going on he told me "there is somebody in the room bothering me". Holy cow... it can well be a coincidence and maybe it was just an insect or something, but still...

So I'm wondering what I can do to deal with this "presence". I considered making contact a couple of times but I'm scared to death of getting in touch with something that emanates such a bad vibe... yes, I'm probably an immature chicken but among the other things I'm too afraid of making things worse in the place we live.

I also considered getting a Feng Shui master or similar, but here is full of crooks asking tons of money, and you never know if they do anything at all. Even worse, sometimes they invent stories and want even more money to send whatever problem away. So I don't know what to do...

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot