FISHERS, Ind. -- When a 7-year-old Fishers boy told his mother he'd seen a ghost in his room she didn't believe him until, weeks later, she found man inside the family's home.

Crystal Headley's son had told her he'd seen a ghost standing over his bed at night and going into his younger sister's room, she told 6News' Jennifer Carmack.

"This was disturbing, but I just couldn't imagine there was really someone coming in our house at night," she said.

Headley said that she chalked it up to a childhood nightmare until she literally stumbled upon the man just after 2 a.m. Monday.

"He was laying right there next to our bed, trying not to be caught," Headley said.

She said the man, dressed all in black, ran out of the home without saying a word. Investigators said the man, who didn't take anything, likely entered the home through an unlocked door.

Over the past two months, Fishers police have investigated nine reports of a man looking into windows in six neighborhoods near 126th Street and Hoosier Road.

Residents said they've taken extra steps to close their binds and lock their doors.

"You know, we live in a nice area and you don't expect people to be doing stuff like this," said Pat Streeter, who leads an area crime watch program.

As for Headley, she had her family have installed extra locks. She said she's angry they've been put in this position.

"I'm not a person that likes to live in fear and I feel like I haven't been given the choice now because this person has been in our house, in my children's rooms and in our room at night and now I have to be afraid," she said.

Fishers police said they have increased patrols in the area. Anyone with information is asked to call police.