puca79

I stumbled across this site a week or so ago and have been reading every chance I get. I just love all these stories. I am not a nurse but am very fascinated with the end of life process. I myself am not afraid to die just don't want to go through the process if you know what i mean.....LOL! I have always heard about people seeing loved ones when death is near, had a family friend who's young child talked about seeing his fishing buddy who he later picked out as his father's first cousin who had died tragically 30 years prior, and many other tales my grandmother shared. I will share with you what I have witnessed personally. My parents bought and old home in town and moved it to the family land out in a rural area where we lived. Once demolition was done and construction started it was just a shell that consisted of just the heart of the house. Two bedrooms was added on to the North end and bathrooms, closets, and laundry to the South end. It took a few years to finish the house as my dad worked on it along and along and I always had a weird feeling about it when I was there alone. After moving in I would always sit in the recliner in the living area. From that point I could see down into dining room and down the hall. I would always see things darting about out the corners of my eye. I never could make out any specific shapes but they always seemed shadowy. My mom and sister said they had seen things also. I didn't really think anything about it until one night I realized we were not the only ones living there. I was going through a rough patch of sleeping (sleep apnea) and would often lie awake trying to fall asleep because I would always have to nap when I got home from work. My mom was sleeping in the guest room next door because of my dad's recent surgery. My room was setup that my bed was on the opposite wall facing the door with the door on the right. My door always had a distinct noise on opening like it stuck a bit so I was always aware when it was opened. On this particular night I thought I had heard my mother up stirring about in the room over and down the hall and I thought nothing of it. Next thing I know I felt the bed move as if someone had sit on the side of the bed behind me. I remember saying "oh, I didn't hear you come in. Is something wrong" as I rolled over to talked to my mom. Well to my surprise no one was there. I laid there shocked for a moment then proceeded to quickly get up and go sleep in the floor in the guest room with my mom. It only happened that once but I still continued to see shadowy thing about the house. I was scared for a while to stay in that room but I finally announced one day that I was ok with whoever was there. I did however ask them not to scare me. A year or so later. The house has an open floor plan with living room/kitchen in one long room with a big opening to the dining room and down the hall. I was cooking at the stove facing away from the living room. My sister was standing just inside the kitchen area near the living room and my mom was at the end of the hall where it enters the dining room. My mom and my sister were arguing about something that needed straightening in the dining room. It was a pretty heated argument and all of a sudden my sister screamed and I turned around to look and she was the color of cotton and could not speak a word for a few seconds. Finally she got her wits about her and said that as she turned around to say something else to my mom she saw a man standing behind my mom in the hall. She could not describe his face but said he was wearing brown/khaki pants, blue shirt, and boots. That really freaked us all out. Needless to say the argument quickly ended. Those are the two major things that have happened to me personally. The only thing else I can remember is that my mom got a rescue dog from a friend and after first moving in she would go crazy and barking and chasing things in the hall. The kind of crazy where the hair on her back stands up and she is about to eat something alive...(dead in this case)....LOL She don't do it anymore but it was pretty common for a few months.