Super cool story! Have you considered metal detecting around your property? Might dig up more than buttons—could find other artifacts that explain the activity! And keep a journal, man, legit firsthand accounts of hauntings are golden.
Seizing the cookie market during WWII was a legit opportunistic play. Internment camps tragically displaced Japanese Americans, and Chinese entrepreneurs spotted the gap in a flash and filled it. The irony that an icon of Japanese cuisine would become a symbol of Chinese-American gastronomy is not lost on history buffs. …