Man from the Moon

My girlfriend and I rented a house in southwestern Oregon a couple months ago, it’s beautiful and we loved it immediately. We have such a beautiful view of everything. But here’s where I’m starting the story. So we were moving stuff out and we found a framed newspaper article of an old couple that had their 60th anniversary we also found a picture of the man’s wife in the obituary section, we looked at each other in sad expressions and you know girls, she started crying. So I just held her until she stopped, after she stopped we set up our bed in the master bedroom and went to bed. When I woke up my girlfriend wasn’t in bed and I heard noises from downstairs so I figured it was her but then I realized she was at her sisters today helping her with her baby. So I crept downstairs and I heard a moaning like sound and when I looked from the stairs I think I saw something move and the moaning stopped but when I looked at what was sprawled on the room floor I was shocked. It was those old newspaper articles that my girlfriend and I found but there were different papers there and they were yellowed with age. I started to read the ones I haven’t seen yet and I found hospital bills with a females name by the patient name the paper said that the patient was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s  I sat there for a second and got really upset all of a sudden I almost cried. A half hour later my girlfriend came home, I didn’t tell her what I found or what I read I already picked it up and put it away, it was about 2:30pm so we just went into town. When we got home that night and we got settled into bed my girlfriend kept stalling to go to sleep but we eventually we went to bed. When I woke up it was around 4:30am and heard a moaning noise and walked downstairs I got that really weird feeling where I was really upset and felt like crying and then I heard the moaning again and I saw a man white as paper and translucent I looked at him and he looked right back, he was crying and I could tell he was in pain, after that I didn’t hear any noises the old papers weren’t out except one day after work I found one by the window in our room. I thank god that my girlfriend wasn’t home or she would’ve flipped. A couple days I awoke to my girlfriend yelling my name and when I asked her what’s wrong she said she heard someone and I knew what she was talking about but I didn’t tell her so I acted oblivious and went downstairs half checked and went back upstairs and I told her I didn’t know. She heard it the next night and when I woke up she told me she was staying at her sisters until I found out what that noise was. I missed her so much, I was so sad that I put a chair by the window to look at the stars and the moon. I went to bed after I had a lonely dinner. I woke up at 11pm and heard the crying but it was closer. I looked up and saw the man sitting in the chair with the moonlight gleaming on his already paper white face and he was sobbing I got out of bed and walked over to him and put my hand on his shoulder and cried with him for about 10 minutes and all of a sudden he looks up at me, Smiled, and said “thank you”, then he was gone forever. The next day I told my girlfriend that I found a cat in the attic and I had set it free, she believed me and after that we never heard anything ever again.