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She knew we were coming. But passed the day before we arrived. My daughter, husband and I stayed in her home while visiting and making arrangements. My daughter slept in mom's bedroom where she died. One night my daughter was in bed with only the light of a night light glowing in the kitchen in front of her door. She said she was not asleep. Then she sees a woman standing near her door. Just the dark outline of her and her hair which was like mom's. When she cried out the woman turns and went into the living room. My daughter got up and checked but no one was there. She came to my room terrified. My daughter is 29, is an ICU nurse and not prone to believing in ghosts. We are mystified at this. It could be a nightmare but seems to not be.

Previous to this, I spent a month with mom and the bumping and knocking was so bad in her house, I teased that daddy was checking on her. It was creepy.

A strange mystery.

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Sounds like your mom was just letting you know she was alright. My father passed and I did not get a chance to say goodbye. Several weeks later I was sitting in his favorite rocking chair and smelled a strong aftershave smell. I believe it was just Dads way of letting me know he was ok.
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My mother told me a similar story when her cousin was killed in WWII. Each one of us have our own sense of the supernatural and an afterlife. I for one believe that some of us are more tuned into that type of occurance than others. Are spirits on earth in Purgatory? Was that a story made up by nuns to scare us into submission? :) Maybe your daughter should take it as a positive message from Gma that all is well and that that WAS a way of saying goodbye.
But...these old walls in old houses do creep us all out on occasion. Sorry about her passing.
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A few months after my father died, my mother woke up in the middle of the night and saw him standing by her bed. She said he looked like he did in his prime. There was nothing scary about it. She told him she loved him and he faded away. I don't find these things scary. After my youngest son died I had so many signs from him and so did his dad. I think they are not that far away but usually we cannot see them. I never saw my dad or my son but have had a strong feeling of their presence as well as signs that they are close.
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I personally don't think that these kinds of events can be explained, scientifically or rationally. Nor do I think they need to be.

If they're interpreted as contact or reassurance from a loved one, or self assurance, and if they make the surviving relative feel comforted, that's all that matters in my book.

On several occasions after my sister died, I would suddenly smell her perfume. I never wear perfume, so it wasn't from me. The perfume bottle was nowhere near me when it happened, nor was it in area where a draft could carry it close to me.

After my mother died, I kept hearing the phone ring either in the middle of the night, or early morning when I was still asleep. I could hear her voice as I answered the phone, apparently in my imagination. I fully expected to see her phone number (which my father still has), I checked caller ID but there were no calls.

I think there can be unspoken and unresolved issues after someone dies, and sometimes these events speak to those lingering concerns. And sometimes the events may be our way of comforting ourselves about the loss of our loved ones.

I also know that intense situations such as the loss of a loved one heighten our awareness and senses, and sometimes that can cause us to believe that something is happening that really isn't.

This is an interesting question; I'm glad to be able to read about other's experiences.
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Sounds like you should have gone around the house praying to have those spirits leave. Unless you felt that they were good spirits. Sorry that happened to you. The first night my partner said there were three people standing or sitting there. He said they were bad people. You would have committed me if you saw what I did. I walked over to where he said they were, and I told them to GET OUT and GET OUT NOW in the Name of Jesus. I opened the front door and slammed it so he could hear that I threw them out When I got back to his bed, he looked at me and said WOW, "You are tough". They never came back.
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No, I have not had this happen to me.
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I did not get back in time to see my dad one last time, but I knew he had good care and we had said all the important stuff...still I wish I could have been there. I did get to be there for my mom. It's hard. Actually, its been harder for me with my mom because of the unresolved issues even though I got to be there. She only haunts my dreams more than my dad though :-) Being Catholic, we pray for the "poor souls" who we believe are in Purgatory, on their way to Heaven, and don't believe they are left on Earth to be ghosts...I suppose that makes it a little easier!
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I think people are entitled to believe or think what comforts them.

I don't believe in a here-after or supernatural things, or that anyone is driving from the great beyond. What I have experienced is my mind's way of processing information and feelings. We can have memories that trigger a sense. Sometimes I can smell the starch in my dad's shirts even though he's been gone nearly 30 years. I could hear the change in his pocket rustle like it did when he walked down the hall. To me, these are just sense memories but I don't believe he's there in any way. These memories are so ingrained that my brain can call them up all these years later. Sometimes these sense memories come to me in dreams.
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Never had a problem sleeping where someone had died. When my husband died, my daughter talked me into going to her house. The next morning I said goodbye and went back home where he passed. Same now with my partner. I want no one around now and I sleep in the bed. I slept in his hospital bed with him every night I could. If he were comfortable, which he loved.
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Gospelgirl, how are you holding up, really? This is a very difficult time for you, so sorry, again, for your loss. We are still listening.
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