community lots' characters in sims' home I made this nice haunted house and moved in a family of eight creepy ghosts and right after that a family of five living happy sims. with eight ghosts around the house most nights were spooky, with cold wind blowing and one more plate (or two or three) on the dinner table. but then the house somehow became haunted by the game itself. one night, bigfoot appeared from nowhere, came into the house and went everywhere downstairs, trying not to make noise (walking like sims walk when they're holding the bear). he was there almost until 2 a.m., said "look at the time!" and left. one of my other sims, in another family, had given bigfoot a cell phone (they are friends and when she asked him "what do you want" he answered "invite someone over", so I guessed it would be nice if she gave him a cell phone), so I thought that this could be related to that. but then that crazy old lady with flowers in her hat, which shows up near restaurants and that, also appeared. she came to lecture one of my sims after he broke the shower. seconds before I realized she was in the lot she appeared in my sim actions' list and really scared me, I thought "I don't remember this ghost". well, she entered the house, went to the bathroom and started hitting him. and she wouldn't let him go. she hit him for a long time, all his motives decaying, and I couldn't cancel the action – I had to use moveobjects on to delete her and stop the action. and save my poor sim. the tropical island secret lot character and the one from extreme orient secret lot also appeared. these two stayed outside. and after 2 a.m. they wouldn't leave… as I tried to go to them and "say goodbye" they would move a little further and no sim could catch them. not even running. had to use moveobjects on to delete them. then I realized that when building the house I had deleted the sidewalk and that could be the reason for the appearance of all these strange visitors (no borders, no private space or something like that). I made a new sidewalk, won a second computer (mr. humble appeared after the sidewalk was made, around 4 a.m., and woke up everybody) and now I hope I solved the problem (but I haven't played enought to be sure).
