I posted this story in a Halloween thread about ghosts some years ago. My grandfather died of liver cancer in the early 60’s. He’d worked for AT&T & always wore a Fedora. He was a Francophile, loving everything French & would only let us call him Grandpere.
My father was in the Air Force & a couple of years after Grandpere’s death we were transferred to Hawaii. One night my parents were at a party, leaving my oldest sister Laurie in charge. We had speakers (KLH9’s) that were about 6 feet tall. My sister saw a shadow moving back & forth across the wall where the speakers were, but oddly the shadow didn’t fall ON the speakers, but walked (human form) back & forth behind them. The form also had a hat like a fedora. Laurie new it was my grandfather. Another sister also saw an odd shadow & had the same sense that it was my grandfather. Both sisters told my mother separately what they’d seen the next morning. My mother thought they were pulling a prank on her. When my father finally woke up later my mother told him what the girls had said. My father responded, “I wasn’t going to tell you this, but I woke up last night & saw Grandpere at the foot of my bed.”
My mother had been mourning Grandpere’s death, particularly as he’d always wanted to visit Hawaii. She thinks it was his way of telling her, “Don’t mourn, I’m with you.”
Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing it.
Seems like it would be a very bad thing if the soul of the deceased was still "with you".