Sometime before the housewife's experience, she and her husband watched a stray dog carry a bone from a pile of dirt near their home. Later, two human skulls were found. The two human remains unearthed in this particular spot were approximately two hundred years old and were identified as a man of about 36 and a boy of 5 or 6. Apparently, they had found the long sought after graveyard.

It was after this unearthing that the eerie events started in several homes of Amelung Estates.

One resident of the development was repeatedly awakened by the screams of a child in the night. Each time she went to her daughter's room she found the child sleeping soundly. Later. after falling asleep on the sofa, she was awakened by what sounded like children's blocks being dropped into a box. Again she checked her child's room. As before, she found nothing but a sleeping child.

Another resident had a similar experience, but each time she checked on her children, she found that the night light in the bathroom had been turned off. At the time that the incidents occurred, she believed that her children were responsible. Finally, she entered her oldest child's room and demanded that the tricks be stopped. The child awoke, protesting her innocence, and then asked if she could please sleep somewhere else, because someone kept pushing her out of bed.

Several other families in the development have also experienced this "Child Ghost of Amelung" - possibly the ghost of the child whose bones were unearthed and examined at site of the New Bremen cemetery.