But I Am!!!!!
My mother recently passed away in my home. My sister stays in the room in which she passed and regularly complains that she is nervous that our mother is haunting my house. I continually tell her, our mother was in a hurry to leave this plane so there is no way she is still here. But the discussion continues every time she stays.
Recently, I have noticed that odd things have been occurring. My sister's slippers (which she keeps under the guest room bed) were found out by the side door. There had been no one in the house that day - everyone was at work. It was odd. The slippers were aligned just like someone had stepped out of them to put their boots on.
The alarms on our doors are tending to go off in the middle of the night. They should only ring if the door opens. The alarm has also set itself at night a couple of times. Just little odd things.
I have caught movement out of the corner of my eye when there is no one there. Strange shadows in my room at night. Just bizarre things that my sister says is my mother. I keep saying that she is not here. I can see no reason for her to be here. She hated it when she was at my house. I am not sure why, but she didn't want to visit or stay. She was resentful when we brought her from the hospital to my house. She only wanted to be with my sister. (I know I sound resentful - maybe I am a little - OK a lot).
The noises started about 2 months after my mother passed. Whispers, knocking, grinding and dragging noises. They usually happen when I am alone in the late night when I cannot sleep. I usually go into the living room, so my husband won't get disturbed by my restlessness. I sit there in the dark reading my Kindle. I hear the knocks and then a soft whisper I cannot quite make out. My cats jump into my lap and snuggle down deep, although their ears are perked. They seem nervous. I see a quick movement and the sound of footsteps down the hall. I think it's my husband going to the bathroom, but the light doesn't come on nor does the door close. I put the cats to the side and creep down the hall. I walk through a wall of cold. I am chilled to the bone. I peek into my bedroom and I see the shape of my husband under the covers. I then catch the sight of a shadow leaning over him. I shake my head and again heard the whispers.
I keep telling myself, my mother is not here. Lately it has become my nighttime litany. "My mother is not here, my mother is not here, my mother is not here".
One night last week as I was saying my litany, I heard in my ear "BUT I AM"!!!!
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Just something I had to put down.
... yikes.
Yea, I am in a dark place right now.
Afternoon Veronica..
Remember life is full of shadows, but it's the sunshine that makes them all..
The dark times will pass, peace will be restored...things will return to normal...
Next time you hear, but I am..I would be saying well it's bloody time you go...
Thanks for the hug....
A beautiful rose. It brightens my day.
I am hoping for just a little bit of light.
Till the last sentence I was blaming the cats
They are mischievous.
Be ware! She is there!
I know I said on one of your previous articles that I, too, have sometimes noticed a movement, a shadow movement, out of the corner of my eye, but when I turn my head nothing unusual is there. I have also experienced premonitions sometimes, although unfortunately not when it comes to lottery numbers.
Quite a few years ago, I awakened from a dream with a vivid memory of a set of numbers and they were the same amount that would be in a lottery including the power ball. So later in the day I played those numbers and I was handed the ticket with those numbers on it.
Did you win? Only twice have I won - once I won $5,000 in a lottery, and once I won a vacation for 2 in Rio de Janiero, where my then wife did not want to go so all I could do was negotiate with the travel company and ended up with a week in Miami Beach, where the weather was so cold there were only 3 days during which we could lie on the beach, in SWEATERS. Although that wasn't the reason for the divorce it may have been taken into considertion by me when I eventually DID divorce her, because I STILL resent having to give up Rio de Janiero.
I cannot imagine why someone would not want to spend a week or two on a free vacation in Rio. That's like a dream come true for me
I can't recall her reason, but I think she was scared - being in a land where she didn't know the language and it was a society that was strange to her.
Thanks, Veronica, for tolerating our off topic dialogue.
No, the premonition was that I would see those numbers on a lottery ticket. As for winning the lottery, the odds are astronomical.
I have won the lottery several times and made $4 each time.
I do not mind off course discussion - just as long as it doesn't become a slap fight or has to do with that awful "P" word.
I'm the same on my articles. I think it's healthy for the site and good for those who carry on friendly conversations.
I have had a few experiences that are beyond the norm, but at this time in my life I am putting it all down to age.
If ''age'' explains it, then for sure that applies to me.
A Medium once told me that if spirits you don't want are contacting you, t apparently the thing to do is to very firmly tell them to go away...and if you do this apparently they will!
I tend to use sage to banish negative or unwanted spirits or energy.
Mr Giggles experienced strange things after my mother passed. She passed in the hospital not in the house. They were very close
I know for a fact she is not in my house because she literally told me she couldn't wait to leave.
Nice short story. I'm in the process of writing a romance novel. I don't expect anyone to ever read it. I'm on draft 3 of the first third of the story. Writing sex scenes are more difficult than I expected.
My issue is & has always been dialogue. It flows great in my head, but when I read what I wrote it is one massive mess. Thus why I stick to shrt short stories with very little to no dialogue.
I'd love to read your novel.
Dr. Stephenie Lucas Oney is 75, but she still turns to her father for advice. How did he deal with racism, she wonders. How did he succeed when the odds were stacked against him?
The answers are rooted in William Lucas’s experience as a Black man from Harlem who made his living as a police officer, F.B.I. agent and judge. But Dr. Oney doesn’t receive the guidance in person. Her father has been dead for more than a year.
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