When Grandmother Said Goodbye

Our grandmother died at 3am on January 1, 2010. She had just finished celebrating the coming of the New Year, and a few hours later she was gone.

After her funeral we adopted and brought home her favorite dog, "J," a cute brown shih tzu, because everyone thought we could take better care of him.

J was friendly, toilet-trained, and became instantly protective of the kids; he stayed wherever they were, and usually slept in their bedroom.


One night--about a month after grandmother's death--something strange happened.

It was a Saturday night and the kids were allowed to stay up late. They were in the living room watching a movie, and J was on the floor near them, looking like he wanted to go to sleep.

According to the kids, "all of a sudden J's ears perked up, his tail started wagging, and he started bouncing around joyfully, running and barking at an empty wall." 

A few times he even excitedly stood up on his hind legs, like he was reaching up to someone he loved.

The kids were too weirded out to react or move (it was a quiet night; the adults were reading in their rooms). It really seemed to them that J was playing with someone/something they couldn't see.


After five minutes of this strange behavior, J just as suddenly settled down, returned to his spot on the living room floor, turned around a few times, then lay down and curled up to sleep.

To this day we believe it was our grandmother who came to our living room that night. 

The kids couldn't see her, but J could... and she stayed around to play with him, until she had to say goodbye.

After all, J was her favorite dog.

I'm now writing Book 2 of the SPRG series...

...and for some reason we've been having a kind of manifestation in our own house.


It started last December 2012, and it's happening about twice a month.

It's a very simple manifestation, and it's pretty consistent: 

We would hear movement inside empty bedrooms.


Thud Against The Wall
The bedroom belonging to our house keeper L has one wall made entirely of wood; outside her bedroom that same wall lines our hallway, and it's the wall where we hang several pictures.

While I was alone in the house one day (everyone was out) I distinctly heard a thud against the inside of L's bedroom wall, like an adult body had just slammed against it. It was so distinct that some of the pictures hanging on the hallway shook.

But when I opened L's bedroom door, there was no one there; I was still alone.

I didn't tell anyone about this.


Chairs Moving
About a week later, when L was alone in the house, she distinctly heard chairs being moved around inside F & D's bedroom; the chair legs could be heard scraping across the floor, all the way from the kitchen where L was. 

When L went in to check, there was no one there. And she couldn't be sure if the chairs had been moved (F & D don't always leave stuff in their proper place).


More Chairs
Just yesterday, C & I left the house and locked our bedroom door behind us, the way we usually do.

We were gone for about 3 hours, but when we came back D reported that they heard the chairs inside our bedroom moving around in our absence.


It's nothing alarming, just interesting.

And since I'm usually writing about the paranormal at night, I just hope it doesn't turn into more than that.




Read Book 1 of the Student Paranormal Group
(SPRG) Series Here:

Ghost Photo

Tagaytay, Philippines

A friend sent me this photo from when she was in Tagaytay, Philippines.

She and her companions had been taking pictures from themselves in a scenic "vacation community" there.

In this photo she was leaning against a railing, and the friend who shot the image wanted to capture as much of the background as possible.

They didn't see the figure behind her until much later, when they were going through the files in the camera.

It was the figure, apparently, of a little girl, hiding behind her head and pointing at something.

If that little girl had actually been there she should've been floating about a foot above the ground to reach my friend's height and hide directly behind her head.