A Spooky September Tale!

For those of you who do not believe in any kind of paranormal activity...well, you can skip today's post, because it is all about the paranormal and the activities surrounding ME!!!

I became a believer in the paranormal a long time ago. My grandfather was near death and the family was called to the hospital to say goodbye. Because I was too young to be allowed in the hospital room, I was left at home alone. Fifteen minutes prior to my mother calling to tell me of his passing, I was sitting alone in the den, and the lights went off. They stayed off only in the den where I was, and then a minute or so later they came back on. To my pre-teen mind and even this old middle aged one, that was a goodbye from my PaPa. No one has ever been able to convince me otherwise. My grandmother, his wife, was about the only one to believe my tale, and she continued to feel him around her, even a year later when she could still smell his aftershave in the bathroom, long after the last bottle had been removed.

I have had other experiences such as knowing who was on the other end of the telephone when it rings - long before caller id was invented. There are certain people in my life that I just feel oddly connected to...I can "sense" there is trouble on the horizon or whether or not I will see them on a given day. It is an odd gift, but one I seem to have inherited from my mother, who has done some incredible "sensing" herself.

When we built this house, we discovered that the lot on the end of our road contained a small family graveyard. There are two marked graves of a brother and sister, Nathan and Hailey, who were born and died in the late 1800's at very young ages. There are probably more graves there, but the markers are missing. For the first three years we lived here, we would walk our dog Jake in the evenings and I would pick wildflowers and place on the graves. We were childless at the time and having lost babies myself, I felt a peace about tending to these little graves.

I began to notice that on many evenings, after our walks, Jake would sit in the living room and bark or "grumble" at the corner. There was nothing in the corner, there would be no reflection of anything in that corner...it was just an empty corner...or was it? I would usually just tell him to hush, shout out a hello to "Nathan and Hailey" and tell them to go on, we needed to go to sleep. It would seem to work, Jake would settle down and life would go on. On a few occasions our television would seemingly turn itself "on" in the middle of the night, scaring me silly. I remember one night it happened over and over again until I finally shouted, "Nathan and Hailey, this is crazy - I have to go to sleep - please stop!" And they did!!

Since our Hannah has been in the house, I have not had any more episodes with the "children from up the street" but lately, I have felt like someone has been watching me. It is like seeing something out of the side of my eye and when I turn my head, there is no one there. Every time this happens, I can feel my heart rate increase and adrenaline flow through my veins. I have explained it away for the last few months but this afternoon, something happened that I just can't explain.

I was in the kitchen cooking dinner. Hannah was in the living room watching television and there was no one else in the house with us. It is has been an overcast day, there was no sun streaming through a window to cause a shadow, but as sure as I am typing this, I saw a dark form, a shadowy figure of what appeared to be the side profile of a woman float...yes, I said FLOAT, down my hall way. I looked around to see what explanation I could find for this, I knew my husband would find some logical explanation so I attempted it before I told him. I could find nothing. NOTHING except that a ghost had just floated down the hallway. It was creepy!

I lit a candle, wish the being a good day and although I thought of setting a fourth place at the dinner table for our "guest" I decided against it. I don't really know if ghosts like chicken with rice, gravy and black-eyed peas and besides, it isn't even October yet, so my house is not really all "dolled up" with spooky things to make her feel more "at home!"

What a spooky afternoon!!!

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev