If someone tells me they don't have any experiences
with ghosts I would think they are lying. For some
the whole religious experience makes them feel ghosts
do not exist no matter what the experience. For others
they feel people will brand them as crazy to speak of
ghosts.
Everyone has a ghost story. Some just won't admit it
or they live in denial.
Yes I have ghost stories.
From the age of six until the age of about 12 I lived in
a huge old farmhouse. The upstairs was haunted. While
my own family never talked about it, I had friends that
went in to the house later after we had moved out, and
as adults they would tell me their stories and tell me
they were certain it was haunted. I had my own stories:
Things clanging, banging, the house shaking, animal noises
from a room (farm animals), stuff like that. Later on
the house was bought by the small town and torn down to
make way for a park.
As an adult I've had several encounters with ghosts -
people and animals who passed on and were trying to
connect one last time to me.....
*In 1988 my husband passed away. That night the dome
light to my car came on, and nothing could get it to
go off, until the electrical wires were disconnected.
A few months later on our wedding anniversary, the
wall clock suddenly stopped chiming, for 24 hours.
*In 2005 my young son and I were here in Missouri all
by ourselves, when my mother in law passed away (in
NM). At night I had a visitor - someone would make
animal noises by the one side of the bed, the only
side where a dog wasn't sleeping. Mind you I was in
the bed with my child, and no one else was in the house.
There was a vacuum sealed jar of pistacchios that was
taken off of the fireplace mantle and opened, the
nuts scattered all over the dining room floor. And
someone took my son's favorite cup and drank water
out of it, leaving the cup by the sink. Explain
away, naysayers, but I was there and you weren't.
This was all before mother in law's funeral. Scared
the crap out of me and I slept with the light on for
days!! And my young son was mad as a hornet that I
had drank out of his cup..'No son, that was Grandma,
coming to say good-bye.' (Wouldn't cut it, would it?).
*I had lost a dog and the days that followed, everytime
I'd go to the peppermint bed (very large and normally
all it ever smells like is peppermint) I would smell
her, very strongly. I cannot explain how one can
smell a dog, but I did.
*Crying over the loss of a couple of dogs one night
there were lights, bright lights, suddenly shining in
the living room. Only problem with that is we lived
on 12 acres, had a long driveway, and no matter how
you sliced it there was no way lights could ever be
shining in that window, which faced out to a pasture.
*Last year one of our dogs passed away and a day or
two later, upon entering a room, a music box suddenly
started playing. Coins would mysteriously show up
on the floor as well.
There are instances where people and animals pass away
and I get no signs of anything in the days after.
Some will try to come up with an explanation for every
event mentioned. But I'm a believer after the
mother in law incidents, a believer for sure. While
the thought of ghosts does scare the pants off of me,
I do think they are in their own way trying to say
good bye, and I do appreciate the fact that I was
thought of so to speak. I don't dwell or delve into
the supernatural, I don't go out seeking signs. And
I'm usually the last person on earth who notices
something peculiar!
