I lived in a house growing up. There were spirits that came and went. I was the only one in the family that saw them. Kept seeing things out of the corner of my eye. Constantly heard foot steps in the hall way when I was alone. Drove me crazy. But they never did anything. Friends saw spirits also.

The only "spirits" in my home are fluids in bottles.....

I do sometimes hear a curious sound I cannot identify, but I do not ascribe supernatural causes to it. It occurs in the morning, in daylight, and may be birds foraging in the roof gutter above my bedroom window.

What interests me is why people believe in the "supernatural", what they experience, and the likely causes for those experiences. Those can range from external oddities not immediately identifiable, like the sound I hear, to internal events like hypnagogic dreams.

Of the latter I have experienced them as both "seeing" ordinary objects in very low light as something bad, even malevolent, and as that peculiar falling sensation. Both such experiences are very common, and crop up in common "ghost stories"; but are really only harmless (but alarming) little "brain-wobbles" as we fall asleep or start to wake.
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As for "spirits" mislaying things... I must be a poltergeist because I do that all the time! Obviously, it's only me not concentrating on where I put them!

I acknowledge them too sometimes and casually talk to them, I say hi, don't mind me guys do your thing but please I want to do this and that ..so let me be like I let you too

Is your friend a Christian?

Pentecostal people can bind the spirits.
I cast out the spirits out of my house.

I did experience paranormal activity on a daily basis until I banished it. Paranormal activity ruined my old favorite shorts, now they have a red tint to them.

Yeah they're all over the place.

People sit by a campfire in the forest, trusting only what the flame reveals.
Yet the unseen trees and watching presences remain, whether believed or not.