Ghosts across Kentucky

13. Felt Presences of Ghostly Beings

Chap-rer 13 Fell Presences of GhoStly Beings 1. \.\.Mo-rher~s Presence in Room F el-r by Her Daugh-rersn My grandmother died in February 1988. She and my aunt lived together in a house that was extremely large for two older women. After my grandmother died, my aunt insisted on remaining in the house, even though it meant living alone. In May of that year, my mother moved in with my aunt due to some family problems. When I returned from school at the end of the spring semester, I lived with my mother and aunt for about two weeks, until our family problems were ultimately resolved. Following this, I moved back into my original home. One day late last summer, my mother asked me if anything strange had happened to me in my aunt's house. Naturally, I knew something was going on, so I asked my mother to tell me exactly what had happened. She told me that one night just after she had gone to bed, she was thinking about our family crisis and what she needed to do to help resolve it. About this time, the door to her room, which had previously been my grandmother's room, opened ofits own accord. However, she said that she instinctively felt that it was my grandmother. Every hair on her body stood straight up, but she said that she wasn't at all scared. She kept her eyes closed because she had the sensation that if she opened them, she would see an 216 Ghosts across Kentucky almost blinding light. The felt presence there in the room was comforting, as though her mother had returned to help her through her time oftrouble. After a few minutes, the felt presence ofher motherwas gone; the feeling had passed. My mother never told her sister about this incident, because she was afraid that it would scare the sister. In addition, she didn't tell any of us until some time later for fear that we would not believe her. In late July, my aunt called my mother at work to inform her ofsome strange incidents that had been taking place there in the house. Every night after she went to bed, my aunt heard the "kick up" noise made by the armchair , the chair that my grandmother, her mother, used to sit in at night. My aunt just knew that it was her mother sitting there, reclining in the chair. That was rather strange to her, as she knew that there was no one there to operate the chair. Besides, the chair was no longer there in the room, for after my grandmother's death my aunt had given the armchair to another one ofour relatives. The chair was not even in the house any more. My mother and my aunt both feel that the spirit oftheir mother did indeed come back to visit with them after her death. 2. "Somelhing Sal Down beside MeN I was at my friend Lisa's house a few months back. She had told me on different occasions about ghost-like presences that she had encountered in this house. Needless to say, the house is considered to be haunted. Anyway, when I was there, a tornado watch was announced and was to be in effect for the entire night. Well, about an hour later, all the lights went out. The house was in total darkness, except for the light ofthe moon still shining through the window. I could see Lisa's mother and her friend standing by the window. Lisa had also been there, but she had just left to go to the restroom. I sat down on the couch, still afraid ofwhat might happen that night. While I was sitting there on the couch, I felt the cushion go down as if someone were sitting next to me. But I could see that there was no one on the couch but me. I was all alone. It didn't really scare me, but I truly felt uneasy about the possibility that somethingjust might be there. So I got up offthe couch and walked over and stood by Lisa's mother and friend until the lights came back on a few minutes later. 3. "UnexpLained PresenceN One night my boyfriend and I were out riding around in this rural area Felt Presences of Ghostly Beings 217 with lots of woods...