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Now I know you are going to think me delusional, but a set of wierd things happened to me this weekend and I think I may have a had a visit from the other side. The new Mr. thinks this is all in my hormone-addled head, but he was a bit freaked out at first, that is until his overdeveloped male sense of skepticism for all things usually unseen kicked in and he refused to even further consider the possibility.
We stayed in Saturday night....went to the grocery store, laid around and read and watched tv. It was lovely. At about 10:30 I let Ellie, our maniacal west highland pup, out for the eleventh time that evening. She did one of her disappearing acts where she wanders off into the woods behind our house or follows her nose across the street. I stood at the front door calling and whistling. She didn't come. I went to the deck door and called. Nothing. Finally, I went to the back garage door and called and peered out into the night trying to catch sight of her scraggly hide coming up the driveway. Just as I was pulling my head back in the door, I saw a fast moving flash of leg or pant leg or something khaki colored go past the right side of the big garage door opening. It wasn't her, but it was something. I went back in and checked the front door again, and there she was. I told my husband I had seen someone go whizzing past the front of the garage, and he said to make sure I locked up tight for the night.
Fast forward to 2:30 a.m. I am awakened by Ellie emitting a low growl. She has been curled next to me sleeping, but is now sitting up and staring at the door to our bedroom which is partially open. Please note before I tell you this, I was completely sober and had not taken any of my sleeping pills. So, I open my eyes and I see standing just to the right of the doorway a tall young man. I have a 19-year-old son (Ben) living at home, so immediately I think it must be him, but I am REALLY not sure. I stare at the thing and then squeeze my eyes shut. I open them and it is still there. I sit up and lean forward since I am practically blind without my glasses and it is STILL there. Can I tell you, I feel no fear, only frustrated and curious since I can't see that well. I blink hard and it is gone.
I laid back down and thought a couple of things at once....is Ben okay, what I just saw wasn't Ben because it was taller than Ben, it was a hallucination of some kind, I should go upstairs and make sure Ben is all right....I fell back asleep.
At 6:30 a.m. I let the dogs out and went back to bed for ten minutes. I got up to let them in and as I walk out into the hall they are rounding the corner. What the? I walked out to the foyer and the front door is wide open. I shut the door. It is a heavy wood and glass door.
Later as we laid in bed I told my husband about the apparition and he said you are crazy. True, but...I saw something. He rolled over to go back to sleep and I was laying there looking out our bedroom door into the foyer area thinking about it all and again I see a khaki colored flash go whizzing from the front door area straight toward the living room.
Donna and I are convinced that we know what this is. She had a similar experience many months ago. We are co-authoring a book on a 30-year-old cold case here and have been researching it for the last year. Three kids missing...two of them a young couple whose badly decomposed remains were found in a cornfield a few miles from here. The boy, 19, was thin like Ben....only taller.
This morning in the car on my way to work, I said my usual prayers and then said to whoever might be listening, "Don't worry, we are not giving up, we won't forget."
