Shortly after my grandmother died, we were going through her belongings. Since I'm the family genealogist, when mother pulled granny's briefcase out of the closet she handed it to me. Neither of us opened it because we already knew it just contained some newspaper articles on cousin Jesse James.
A couple months later, I decided it was time to file the Jesse James stuff and toss the briefcase. I opened it and there was an envelope laying face down. As I reached to pick it up, I started laughing. I was laughing so hard, Mr. M heard me in the other room and asked what was so funny. I told him it was granny's letter. I'd never seen it before but somehow I knew what it said. When I turned it over, I saw it was addressed to granny's sister and had a cancelled post mark dated back when I was little. Since the sisters only saw each other once a decade, I have no idea how granny got the letter back or why she kept it all these years. It was just a nothing little short note about me getting into trouble and mother grounding me over a joke grandpa had played.
When granny died, none of the family felt like she'd gone, if you know what I mean. It still seemed like she was around and was waiting for grandpa. A few months later, she and grandpa left together. I think she was just sending me the letter for a good chuckle and to let me know everything would be alright.
Going *bump* in the night again - good stories!
While this isn't exactly a Halloween story, it's a little freaky. Nice, but freaky. And it's another story about my grandmother. Ha, and she used to complain she didn't understand why I did genealogy because all those folks were dead and gone, but then she sure got around after she died.
We have the most amazing, sweet, smart, perfect adopted daughter. All the family, even the once skeptics, think granny came back with her. She wasn't born until after granny died, but when she was little she had granny's little habits and would hum the same made up songs that granny did. Granny's presence was so around her that it was difficult to ever punish her because one just doesn't send their grandmother to the corner! We like to think her guardian angel was new on the job and delivered her to the wrong place so granny had to bring her to us where she belonged.