The American Idol Top Seven live in luxury — but they tend to be too exhausted to enjoy it.

Life at the mansion also brings one unexpected element – much debated is the existence of the house ghost, dubbed Phyllis by departed contestant Alexis Grace. “She lives in my room,” said Allison Iraheta. “If you spent one night in my room, you’d see…. I’ve heard growls. I’m not lying.”

Danny Gokey recounted the experience of watching a movie and the lights suddenly going on and off at random intervals. “Megan told me she saw someone walk across a room,” said Allen of another departed singer, Megan Joy. Others, including Lambert, still seemed skeptical of the apparition’s existence. Lil Rounds calls urgently for a change of topic, the creeps clearly hitting her.

One big concern — not supernatural, but nearly superhuman — is the struggle to maintain a positive outlook in the face of all the adversity that comes with Idoldom. It is hard to comprehend, even talking with them, the pressure that these young people are under. Each week in a very short period of time they are expected to create and flawlessly execute a performance that takes into account the often dizzingly contradictory advice of the judges under Ironman triathalon like schedules and then stand alone on a cold empty stage while potentially every piece of it is analyzed and torn to pieces before and by an audience of tens of millions. Whatever the potential prize, most of us would find it difficult ever to leave the house again after such an experience, but these seven subject themselves to it week after week.

Source: Fox 13 News