haunt(о мыслях и т.п. || example provided by ART Vancouver: The memory of his past failures haunted him. • A mystery that haunted a Long Island man for decades has been solved thanks to a psychic who helped him locate the remains of his missing father buried in the basement of his own home. Mike Carroll was a mere eight months old when his dad vanished under strange circumstances back in 1961.)
haunt one's mind(That name haunted my mind, I knew that I had heard it somewhere. • "I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. That phrase 'the Lion's Mane' haunted my mind." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) – не давала мне покояART Vancouver)