Some of you may remember me stating before that my family and I feel no fear of the presence(s) in our home, so for the time being at least we have chosen to observe, rather that attempt to get rid of it. Well....after a period of relative quiet (still small instances of activity), things have picked up a bit again.
It really picked up toward the end of February, I suppose, when my Dad was diagnosed with cancer. As you can imagine, my family and I were devastated. My father is important to all of us and a very special man. Late one night I was sitting in my favourite chair in our family room, by the window, looking out at the moon. I was miserable and crying quietly, while everyone else was sleeping. After a good cry I decided to go online and as always I checked my email first. I have a very close internet friend. We have never met in person but we have known each other via the internet for almost 10 years. We speak often on the phone as well, but I had not, as yet, told her about my father. This friend also has certain abilities of "sight", as it were. There was an email waiting for me from her. Before she emailed me that night, she had been praying, as she does every night, when a vision of me suddenly popped into her mind. In this vision she saw me sitting in a green chair (my chair is green, but I'd never told her that, not that I can remember), looking out the window, crying......but she saw something else too: She saw a tiny, white-haired elderly lady standing just behind me. This lady had her hand on my shoulder and she was smiling down at me in a reassuring manner. My internet friend told me that the message she got from this vision was that although I was very upset about something, I didn't need to be worried, as everything would be OK in the end. Oddly, the tiny lady she described sounds exactly like my grandmother, who passed away in 1998. I'm not sure if that means my grandmother's spirit had actually come to me to try to tell me something and I was so upset that I ignored her, or if my grandmother simply got the message to me via my friend. After a few rough months, especially for my Dad, things will be OK now. My father had his surgery and the cancer was completely removed. It hasn't spread anywhere else. He won't even need chemo or radiation. We are all breathing a huge sigh of relief!!! I realize all this may not even have the slightest thing to do with all the other activity, but I thought I would share it anyway, because right after this happened other things started happening.
Only a few days after the above, I was home alone. I was in my bedroom watching TV. I wasn't in bed for the night. I was just lying on the bed in the early evening. Hubby was away on business and my daughter was out with her boyfriend. My bedroom was dark, save for the light from the TV, but the hall light was on and shining in the doorway a bit. From my vantage point on the bed I could see a part of the hall (wall, ceiling, & floor). I started getting a funny feeling and I looked out to the hall. As I watched, the hall light went out and the hall was then completely dark. My first thought was 'power went out', but then I realized the TV was still on. So then I thought the light bulb must have burned out. I went back to watching the program, but I still felt "antsy", for want of a better word. Suddenly the hall light came back on. I thought that was odd, but I ignored it. A few minutes later the whole thing repeated itself...light out, light on.....and it did so a few more times, then finally just stayed on. My husband is an electronics tech, and electrician, so when he got back from his business trip I had him check the wiring, in case of a possible fire hazard, but he could find nothing wrong.
The most recent activity was yesterday afternoon, but in between the hall light problem and yesterday there were a lot of little things happening. Some examples: One day my husband reached in his coat pocket for his key chain, but instead pulled out my keys. He and I searched high and low for his keys, while puzzling over why my keys would be in his coat pocket. It wasn't intil I went to put my keys back in the little pouch in my purse, where I normally keep them, that I found my husband's key chain was in my purse. An amusing little switcheroo. On another occasion every framed photo (about 15 or 16 of 'em) that I have arranged on a table in the family room was lying flat, turned face down one morning. These all seem to be attention-getting tactics. Everyone is this house has been hearing low murmurs or whispers and "phantom" music, as well, which isn't new, but it had stopped for awhile.
On to what happened yesterday:
I have the house to myself again for awhile. I don't really mind being alone here. In fact I rather enjoy the occasional peace and quiet of a few days alone. My husband is off on business again, my youngest daughter is away on a school trip to Europe (France & Spain), and of course my older daughter is still in university until the end of this month. Yesterday afternoon, around 3:30 p.m. I came online to see if there were any emails from my daughter (from Europe). While I was sitting here at my desk, the room turned very cold suddenly. I must point out that yesterday was a warm day and the furnace didn't even need to kick in all day. Then I heard a sound that seemed to move past me toward the kitchen ( I can see into my kitchen from this desk). The sound was very like a woman moaning in pain, but not loudly. I turned and looked out into the kitchen, as that seemed to be where the sound had gone to, and as I watched, a stainless steel turkey roaster that I keep on top of my refridgerator was thrown onto the floor. I mean literally thrown. It didn't just slip off. It flew and landed on the floor about 12 feet or so from the 'fridge. The pan and its lid were luckily not dented, as they landed flat on their bottoms.......almost as though whoever/whatever did it didn't really want to harm or destroy them, but simply get attention. Oh....forgot to mention....my dog also heard the moaning sound, as he jumped up and barked at it.
Nothing....at least nothing that I've noticed yet.....has happened so far today. My hubby gets home late tonight and I will have to fill him in on what happened yesterday.
I realize I'm leaving myself open to ridicule here, but any rude comments will simply be ignored. I don't, by the way, consider helpful suggestions, even from non-believers, to be rude. I welcome pretty much any comments, but, as some people here can attest to, I hate being called a liar....that I do consider rude. I have a cold and I'm cranky. (I think I just asked for it. LOL)
I believe our loved ones can look in on us anytime be it from afar or in visitation.