@Merrick:
So far, from what I read, it was ignorance of the fact that played a role. Once you know, you can decide whether to try and get rid of the spirit, or work on educating your children. One way could be to turn a funny edge on it, like saying "that's old gramps housekeeper doing his nighttime cleaning" or whatever.
Things are usually only scary as long as they are unknown to us, or hard to understand.
In the end, she could even take her kids up there, light a candle for the dead and have all of them ask the spirit to move on in a nice way, sending it along with their best wishes.
As a kid, I was afraid of the dark. You can't simply eradicate darkness from your life (you can't put up artificial lighting everywhere you go), so you have to eventually deal with your fear. If that spirit isn't malignant, it also is nothing that needs to be feared. Scary, yes. But only because it is something "out of the ordinary" for us.
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