What’s a local urban legend in your area?

Before it was torn down in the late 1980s for being unsafe, there was a large old farmhouse dating back to the 1700s at least, which my great-grandfather bought in 1928 after getting married to my great-grandmother. All their children were born and lived there. My great-grandparents moved in 1961 after my great-grandfather retired from farming and sold the farm. As a child, my grandfather told me stories of when he was a child, going into their orchard and seeing an apple float in the air by itself. As a child, I never really paid much attention to his stories of when he was a child, and wish now that I had.

One of my great-aunts even mentioned to me that she heard what sounded like footsteps on the upper floor of the house but no one was there except her. A few years ago I got a book detailing the history of the area and the people who lived there and it mentioned these strange goings on at the farm house, including a supposed ghost in the orchard, footsteps being heard in the upper floor of the house when no one was there except one person and also on some dark nights, people had heard what sounded like a carriage and horses hooves coming up the driveway into the farm courtyard. That made me think that what they told me was true.

One day I was contacted by the son of a man who bought the farm from my great-grandparents. He said he grew up there and heard the footsteps and saw a grate in the fireplace move by itself on more than one occasion.