ghostly encounters
Mark and I are now settled into Grandmama's house. By settled in, I mean of course that all our stuff is here and so are we, not that we are organised in any way. All the same...
So far, we've had 3 encounters. The first day we were moving in, I saw Grandmama sitting in the swing by the lake. I saw her. Full bodied, no mist or anything weird like that, she was there! Then she wasn't. A couple days later, Mark was by himself and heard her call his name. He thought it was my mom and looked all over for her, but mom was over at her house. A couple days after that, I was painting by the light switch in the bedroom, and looked over the see a man standing next to me in the doorway. The man in the damn doorway! I've seen him before! Jaime and I met him when we were probably 15ish. The first time it was just a dark figure looming in the doorway, this time it was flesh, like I could have touched him, and it was right next to me. I fell backward and he disappeared. I've NEVER seen full bodied apparitions before. This house is nuts.
Grandmama said the man in the doorway was comforting, that when she was sad she could feel him touch her back, or lay next to her, and she was comforted by him. She thought it was Mike Smith, the man who lived (and died) in this house before she came to live to with us. She didn't know him during his life. After seeing him, I don't think that was him...I think it was Grandmama's second husband Danny. It would make a lot more sense.
I hadn't had any experiences like this for years. When Grandmama was dying, I was having some really troubling dreams about all these energies that were trying to invade my space. I can't explain it much better than that, they were just pulling at me and getting too close. They felt very familiar, like energies I'd encountered when I was younger. I had thought that maybe Grandmama's spirit clingers were looking for her through me, or were latching onto me as she wasn't exactly available any more. I don't know why they would do that, but it made sense at the time. Now I'm here and having these experiences, and I don't feel worried about it, but there is a thought in the back of my head that maybe they were pulling me back here for something.
So far, we've had 3 encounters. The first day we were moving in, I saw Grandmama sitting in the swing by the lake. I saw her. Full bodied, no mist or anything weird like that, she was there! Then she wasn't. A couple days later, Mark was by himself and heard her call his name. He thought it was my mom and looked all over for her, but mom was over at her house. A couple days after that, I was painting by the light switch in the bedroom, and looked over the see a man standing next to me in the doorway. The man in the damn doorway! I've seen him before! Jaime and I met him when we were probably 15ish. The first time it was just a dark figure looming in the doorway, this time it was flesh, like I could have touched him, and it was right next to me. I fell backward and he disappeared. I've NEVER seen full bodied apparitions before. This house is nuts.
Grandmama said the man in the doorway was comforting, that when she was sad she could feel him touch her back, or lay next to her, and she was comforted by him. She thought it was Mike Smith, the man who lived (and died) in this house before she came to live to with us. She didn't know him during his life. After seeing him, I don't think that was him...I think it was Grandmama's second husband Danny. It would make a lot more sense.
I hadn't had any experiences like this for years. When Grandmama was dying, I was having some really troubling dreams about all these energies that were trying to invade my space. I can't explain it much better than that, they were just pulling at me and getting too close. They felt very familiar, like energies I'd encountered when I was younger. I had thought that maybe Grandmama's spirit clingers were looking for her through me, or were latching onto me as she wasn't exactly available any more. I don't know why they would do that, but it made sense at the time. Now I'm here and having these experiences, and I don't feel worried about it, but there is a thought in the back of my head that maybe they were pulling me back here for something.