Joined: Apr 07, 2007 Posts: 54 Location: South Coast, UK
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject: Married Bliss
Hi guys, I have many stories for this section of the boards but I felt like writing this one today. The story is quite tragic but the ending is a happy one so bear with me.
Many years ago the man who is now my step-grandfather found a lady about to throw herself off a bridge. She'd had bad luck with relationships and wanted to end it all. In an effort to talk her down he ended up agreeing to marry the lady, I'll call her J. Not wanting to go back on a promise and worried that J would try another suicide attempt he married her. He soon found out why she was unsuccessful in relationships, she made his life miserable. Later on she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and he nursed her until she had to be hospitalised. She finally died in hospital but he kept the house the same as it had been for years, until he met my grandmother.
I was a child at the time but gran had raised me and we were very close. I stayed in the spare room every other weekend but always suffered nightmares when I was there and gran had to come and stop me throwing myself out of bed in the night. I would always settle when she came in the room.
One day gran asked if I could help her strip the wallpaper off the spare room walls. I asked what they were going to do to the room. Peeling off a strip of paper she said "I dunno!" So we just took all the paper off and left the room bare. Grandad got a shock when he came home that night! It was decorated later and my nightmares stopped.
Over the years all the nick nacks around the house were replaced with ones my gran liked - not unusual so I never thought anything of it. All the rooms got re-decorated one by one when gran had the money. She insisted that SHE pay for all the paint - not grandad so that was a little odd but we all went along with it.
Eventually gran confided in me what had been happening over the last 5 years or so. Every time she was left alone in the house a presence had frightened her. She knew it was grandad's first wife so she had stripped "my room" first, as it was where she was nursed during her last days. As I had always had nightmares in there it seemed the logical place to start. But the presence continued to haunt her when she was alone.
She then threw out the nick nacks that had been J's but the presence was still there. She had taken up all the carpet except the master bedroom's in order to get rid of everything that J had touched. When she had decorated the master bedroom and the presence was still with her she had resorted to removing the carpet - the last remaining thing that J had touched. Gran got such a violent static shock from the carpet that it threw her across the room! More determined than ever she got back up and kept pulling at the carpet - which gran said felt like it was pulling back as it would not come up as easily as the carpet in the other rooms. It was the largest carpet in the house and it would be very expensive to replace but gran was at her wits end. Fighting hard she removed the carpet and got a neighbour to take it down the tip.
Night after night she heard a tapping at the cupboard door, next to where the carpet had shocked her. Each night she woke to see what was causing it and saw a woman at the door scowling at her. Not knowing what grandad's first wife looked like she assumed it was probably J, angry that my grandad had a new woman that he was happy with.
Later my grandad told her that the mirror in the hall had been J's favourite thing but my gran loved that mirror and couldn't bear to part with it. So she went up to her room and stood near the spot where J had been seen so many times. She spoke softly and calmly to J, saying that she would keep the mirror and treat it with respect as long as J treated her the same way. After all my gran was there to stay and nothing this woman could do would change that. If J did anything to break this pact she would break the mirror - no matter how much she loved it.
That night there was no noise but gran woke up out of habit. The woman was by the cupboard as usual but this time she was smiling at gran. She nodded then disappeared and gran has never seen her again.
When gran and grandad moved to a much smaller house recently the mirror was too big to take with them. Knowing that I was the only one who knew the story gran asked me to take it so as not to break the pact. The mirror hangs in my house and I treat it with great respect. _________________ "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes
Joined: Feb 24, 2007 Posts: 151 Location: Near London UK
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject:
Hi GD.
I loved that story.
It is well known that spirirts can be and remain attatched to objects. mebe they act like powerful magnets that tie them to the earth plane?
In this case however I think J was unable to let go of your granddad and the mirror acted as a portal so she could come and make her displeasure known.
Interesting that you could not sleep in that room..as a child you were sensitive to her and I expect she projected her anger and fear onto you hence your nightmares, only you could not understand what she wanted..
Jwas a very troubled soul in life by the sound of it and your grandad was a saint for taking her on and loving her. Sometimes people dont realize they are loved until its too late.
I'm glad shes found peace and kudos to your nanna for standing up to her and making her point known .I sense your nana is very strong willed but intuitive lady who has the gift but doest not like to use it unless its in the form of good old common sense! .
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