Can a house retain memories?

Another example. My brother-in-law moved his family into his parents old farmhouse. His wife said she kept catches glimpses of an old lady when she looked out the kitchen window. She described this white haired Sicilian woman all dressed in black with a white apron. My late wife and her brother both said "that sounds like grandma" and they dug up an old family album and showed it to her. She said "That's her!" The woman had been long dead before they even started dating, and she had never seen any of the photos because she was not a favorite relative and had never lived in that particular house; only visited.