Gramma’s Ghost

Whoa! Have I got a Halloween ghost story for you today! Wish I could say I read it in a book but this is a true story about ghosts. Hope it doesn’t scare your peep too much.

My Pop has a police scanner. He listens before he turns in for the night or when he hears sirens outside. The other night he went to bed and turned on his scanner. Then he called out to TW that a call had come in from their old house.

Someone reported hearing unusual crashing noises coming from the downstairs apartment. When the po po arrived, they found a person unresponsive on the floor with facial trauma. Don’t ax me how, but Pop fell asleep without finding out the deets like if the person fell or was the victim of foul play so TW made up her own ending. Perhaps Gramma’s Ghost pushed someone down a flight of stairs.

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Lemme give you some background on Gramma’s Ghost.

Gramma was healthy all her life which is why it was upsetting when she suddenly took ill. After a couple of late night trips to the ER, she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Looks like Gramma brought Faith with her for her haunting.

The peeps couldn’t stay home from work to care for her cos Family Leave hadn’t been invented yet so they hired a full-time nurse at great expense to care for her. I don’t think Gramma ever forgave them for it. Still, she wanted to stay at home and not some hospital.

Gramma passed somewhat peacefully in her own bed with Autumn laying on the pillow next to her. The peeps had the task of cleaning out her apartment and getting it ready to rent out. That was when Gramma’s Ghost first appeared.

People thought TW was crazy—well, crazier than she is—when she mentioned it. She’d leave something on the table and the next day it would be gone or moved across the room. The next tenants who moved in mentioned similar experiences every once in a while.

The peeps sold the house and moved on. Almost a decade later, they ran into their old neighbor at I-Hop. They got to talking and catching up when the neighbor mentioned a woman who lived in Gramma’s old apartment. She mentioned that the neighbor told her there was a ghost who lived in the apartment with her. The woman told the neighbor detailed stories of the ghost who she described as a nice Italian lady. TW shook her head. Yep, there indeed was a ghost and that would be Gramma.

Do you believe in ghosts and if so are any living with you?