Haunted Childhood

For the record: I will start by saying, as far as I know my mother has not been diagnosed with a mental illness. I must say as far as I know, because HIPPA would block me from knowing anything she didn't want known. I can say she has been committed many times. I was responsible for the past two. She has been ill as far back as I can remember; which brings me to my first memory...
I was scared a good part of my childhood. My mom loved to tell us stories about ghosts. She told us many times that the house I grew up in was built on an Indian Burial ground and because of this, the basement was haunted. Since the washer and dryer were kept in the basement she of course, could not do laundry. This is why my two brothers and I had to do the entire family's laundry from the time we were children, until we moved out of the house. The few times that she did go downstairs she would always fall, and then she would tell us it was our fault because we should have done the laundry. She would then claim that "something" had pushed her. I was always so frightened to go in our basement and would always run up and down the stairs before any of these evil spirits could get me. Now why on earth these evil spirits could not go upstairs I am not sure.