One night last December I was awoken one night by a shuffling sound in the bedroom which indicated that someone was progressing from the door over to my wife's side of the bed. I briefly thought that I would feign sleep (I wouldn't be the first person to do something like this!!) and let my wife deal with whichever one of our girls had come in looking for attention but guilt got the better of me so I decided that I would deal with it.
I sat up in the bed and focussed on where the noise was coming from. There is always low level light in the room from a combination of a bedside clock and a hallway light as we always leave the door slightly ajar. I could see what was probably either our middle (age 9) or youngest daughter (age 7) at the foot of the bed and that this figure had now stopped and was looking straight at me, really intently.
I didn't want to wake my wife so gestured with my hand and jerked my head to indicate that they should come over to my side of the bed. The figure turned hurriedly to start coming around to my side..... and then vanished!! :eek:
I decided to go and check on all the girls just to make sure they were all ok and, sure enough, all were sound asleep in their own rooms.
I got back into bed and started trying to figure it out. Two days previously I had attended a small gathering to commemorate a grand aunt that was killed during the War of Independence 100 years previously, an entirely innocent victim of the conflict. I lay there thinking that the next day was going to be exactly 100 years since the day she died but that didn't quite explain the young girl that I saw.
However, my grand aunt had a 4 year old daughter at the time of her death and this made the situation all the more poignant. Her father married again but the girl herself died almost exactly 2 years (just one day shy of 2 years) after her mother. As I lay there I realised that it was the 98th anniversary of my young cousin's death ..........
I had been in her house as part of the commemoration for her mother two days previously. While the day was all about her mother she hadn't been forgotten as she was mentioned a number of times that day. Sadly, though, while we know where her mother is buried, we haven't been able to locate the girl's burial place.
So, did her spirit come back with me from her old house? Her mother was cruelly taken from her so was she searching out a mother figure in the person of my wife?
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