LaToya Jackson Says Michael's Ghost Haunts Family's Encino Home

La Toya Jackson appreared on Good Day New York recently and said that she can hear her late brother Michael Jackson's ghost tap dancing at their childhood home.

La Toya said that she can "feel a presence" at the Encino home, which is where the entire Jackson clan moved to in 1969 after the Jackson 5 signed with Motown. The family still owns the home, where his mother Katherine now lives with his three children Paris, Blanket and Prince. Michael Jackson also lived in the family home until he bought Neverland Ranch in the early 1980s.

"It's the strangest thing because you feel something like thick around you or behind you and you're wondering—you don't see anything, but you feel a presence," LaToya said. 

She also claimed that a security guard had heard tap dancing coming from Michael's old room.

"When he told me I said, 'You're kidding!'" La Toya said. "That made me want to know even more about hearing someone tap dance over a certain part of the house and I go, 'Well, Michael used to do that every Sunday for two hours.' We go up there and no one's up there—just tap dancing. And the dog barks at his room, the window, every single night at the same time. The dog doesn't even know that that's Michael's room, and the security guard didn't know."

In other Jackson family news, Katherine Jackson's negligence suit against AEG Live continued in court Tuesday.

Michael Jackson looked "chronically ill" and appeared to be a "hospice patient" on his bed at the Holmby Hills mansion the singer was renting when he died, a Los Angeles firefighter/paramedic who responded to the home told a jury today.

Richard Senneff was the first witness in the trial of Katherine Jackson's negligence suit, the promoters of the pop superstar's planned London concert tour, for which the singer was rehearsing before he died June 25, 2009, at age 50.

Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication at the Holmby Hills home, where he was staying while rehearsing for the series of 50 performances dubbed "This Is It." Jackson's personal physician, Conrad Murray, was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter for giving the singer the powerful anesthetic as a sleep aid.

Senneff said he and other paramedics went to the rented home in response to a 911 call about a patient suffering from cardiac arrest.

"The patient appeared to be chronically ill to me," Senneff said, adding that he could see Jackson's ribs. "He was very pale and underweight. I thought perhaps this was a hospice patient."

Senneff told the six-man, six-woman Los Angeles Superior Court jury he initially was unaware who the pajama-clad patient was until someone mentioned it was the singer.

"I looked and went, 'Yes, it is,"' Senneff testified.

While Jackson appeared severely ill, Murray appeared "frantic" as he was attending to the singer, Senneff said.

"He was pale, he was sweating, he was very busy," Senneff said of Murray.

Senneff said he found it unusual that someone would have their own personal physician at their home and that an IV stand was next to the bed. He said that when he asked Murray if Jackson was taking medication, the doctor replied that Jackson was not and never mentioned propofol—echoing testimony Senneff gave during Murray's criminal trial.

Katherine Jackson, the 82-year-old Jackson family matriarch, filed the lawsuit in September 2010 on behalf of herself and her son's children, Michael Jr., Paris-Michael Katherine and Prince Michael, claiming AEG Live is liable for the singer's death by hiring Murray to be Jackson's personal physician while he was preparing for the London concerts.

Jackson family attorney Brian Panish told the jury during opening statements Monday that AEG Live was liable for $1.5 billion in damages.

Attorneys for AEG Live maintain the singer hired Murray and that Jackson's history of drug abuse helped lead to his death.

"This case is about the choices we make and the personal responsibilities that go with that," AEG Live attorney Marvin Putnam told jurors during his opening statement.