Hi! What a fright that must have been. Sounds to me like some depressed man who did not feel like eating or did not have enough money to eat and hung himself for example or what ever it was that caused that kind of gasping for air. Sorry to be this frank. I might have a wild imagination. Have you check previous owners? Nearby? Maybe it doesn't matter.

Anyhow, Spirits seem drawn to children because they have one foot in that world and one in ours. "Good" and "bad" ones seem to be drawn to them.

Your ghost may not have it all together due to trauma or mental illness or both in previous life. Try to do the salt thing, salt away, and pray and like One Light told me to be positive, surround one self with that etc.

I've been around my family when they all went down-down and easily ****ed off with their tempers for no reason while I could tell that these feelings did not come from them, it did not come from me, there was something outside. Which is why too important to keep chins up :) If one is sensitive one can get effected.

I remember being a spirit and wanting to somehow get into a man's head during sleep. yes, I know. I am super duper strange. But not crazy. Could be he is trying to get into her sleep, dreams.

One time a child got afraid of a ghost who was just there when the child called for help and was crying (That hateful wait one minute, 5 minute rule before coming into the child's room. I was this close to killing the daddy, panicking on the outside. His darn idea. After that ordeal - never again. We both said. Never again. I don't judge people who do it, but i felt like the worst. Anyhow. The child would tell me when that went on and we would not go into the child room - the ghost appeared instead. And did not look happy. Guess even the ghost could tell something was wrong. The child later said it was too young to tell us but never forgot about it. But the ghost never touch the child. Never threaten. But the child got even more afraid as the ghost just looked so serious. When the child told me this story several years later I again felt like one big failure. Last time I ever listen to some darn child expert. it is only I guess recent generations where babies, children have the "luxury" to have their own bedrooms. Usually before they would sleep with others, the family being close. Also those new equipment we have these days where we put something in the baby's room, baby monitor I think it's called, and we go outside...heard and seen of cases where spirit then visit. Some "good" ones must think there is something wrong with the grown ups for leaving them like that. These days we do exactly like you do - have a light on in the child's bedroom, then we have one in the hallway, and the door open to the child's room and to ours. We're close by. Some sort of diplomatic solution :) But one time when the child was a baby and in a crib in our bedroom I saw a mist take shape by it and sort of lean down as if to look at the baby. I felt something just before so I sat right up and stared at it, frozen at first, because first I thought there is something wrong with my eyes. It was as if it became aware of me, I felt like get away from my baby or I'll "kill" you-that type of feeling, and it just dissolve in thin air. The baby slept through it all. Could have been someone friendly or something else but my mother instinct took charge without caring which it was.

So is hard to say what this spirit or ghost wants with your child. To protect it from something. Get into it's sleep. Or be seen, heard - is trapped. If trapped there are procedure to how to see if others who knew, loved this spirit is on the spirit side and you can co-operate how to make it move on, you could try contact a medium who could help you with this if you like.Also you might have more than one there, in the home, I mean. I have a friend who sees ghosts and she has seen more than one but say they don't see each other and she has seen, children too, those dark shadow people. Thing is she gets afraid when she sees ghosts and would act uncomfortable in our home and then tell me she had to go outside, and then told me there. She would say they were "station" in certain areas of the home, like 2 of them, and then there were the shadow and she felt very much this was a male who had his target on me for some reason. She could pick out those she thought were most sensitive in the home and say it, they were moving more with them, us. I don't know if us sensitive ones use up more energy to the other side or what the deal is. If your child is sensitive or maybe I should use another word, one I get like all the time with mine - delicate - I guess the emotions she is wearing off is of extra interest?

I hope I have not frighten you with any of this. I hope it works out :) ours did. There is nothing bad here now. Took a while but we got there.