Supernatural Happenings

 
Picture taken of a picture at the Stanley Hotel. It is rumored that supernatural happenings are going on in the hotel and there is a tour for tourists to explain the stories. A piano that plays when there is no one around, children laughing in the hallways, seeing shadows wandering around, and bags getting unpacked or packed, depending on whether the visitor is liked or not!

Closer to home, a friend of mine passed away and his wife called me up a few days after the funeral. In an excited voice she said, "You will never guess what happened this morning. I heard a noise coming from my prayer room, something like bells, and when I walked in, a small music box that has been silent for years, was playing a tune." She told me she believed her dead husband had something to do with the music box playing. It seems that the music box will begin to play every morning about the same time which is usually around eight. She is convinced it is her deceased husband letting her know he is still with her. Sometimes, she tells me, when she is especially missing him, the music box will play at other times. It gives her peace and makes her feel better.  "I know there is some connection between the music box and my husband!"

Every evening my Aunt and her family prayed the rosary. Mother, Father, and four children would kneel  in the front room to pray. My Uncle passed away and the evening after the funeral as the rosary was being said, there was a knock on the door. My Aunt asked one of the daughters to answer the door as the rest of the family continued with the prayers. My Aunt felt someone come in, heard a noise as someone knelt beside her (where her husband used to kneel) and felt a shoulder brush hers. When the rosary was finished, she looked to see who had come in and knelt beside her, but there was no one there. She asked her daughter, "Who was at the door?" The daughter said, "When I opened the door, no one was there." My Aunt believes it was the spirit of her deceased husband coming to pray one last rosary with his family.

Yesterday, I had lunch with a couple of friends and one had lost her husband about six months ago. She told us that one night she felt miserable, sad and lonely. She went to bed and was lying on her side trying to go to sleep. She was having problems falling asleep, when she felt somebody behind her. An arm slid over her and she felt a body spooning her. She knew it was her husband. He held her and then he kissed her cheek and she felt the bed move as he got up to leave. "It was as if he was telling me a final goodbye that left me feeling peaceful and content, even though I still miss him a lot."

My other lunch friend relayed how she knew her husband, who had passed away, was letting her know he was still around. He had been working remodeling the bathroom, yet it was never finished. When she and her daughter were in front of the bathroom mirror they heard a loud "pop." One of the light bulbs had exploded. "We could have been injured," she said, "but all the glass went directly into the sink. Every bit of the bulb landed in the basin and we did not have to clean up anything."  She and her daughter looked at each other and exclaimed, "He is still around, isn't he?"

A good friend of mine passed away after being in a Hospice for about a month. For years, he and I would chat on the phone every night before we fell asleep. I missed him, and our evening talks, very much. That painful longing of wanting him near and an ache knowing I would never see him again kept me upset and agitated. One night, soon after he passed away, I had a dream. In the dream I had an empty feeling of losing something I loved, when I felt two large wings enfold me from behind. His head was near my neck and I felt a peacefulness come over me. I knew it was my friend, now an angel, who was letting me know he was around and would always protect me with his wings.  I mentioned my dream to my daughter and received a gift from her in the mail.

Some believe in the supernatural and some don't, but each of us, if it ever happens to us,  know how to interpret the visit by a loved one.