My Mother Saw Ghosts

I wonder if she is now a ghost herself.

In August 2019, my mother passed away suddenly. I want to tell you something about my mother that few people have known until now. My mother believed in and saw ghosts. No one else around her ever saw any of these ghosts (except maybe our pets: that’s another story). But those close to her never doubted her: she saw ghosts.

When I was growing up we moved around a lot and lived in a lot of old houses. The ghosts that showed themselves to her were in these old houses. For instance, in one ancient house, an old woman rocked in a chair, wandered halls, and glided around the kitchen. In another, she saw a girl about the same age as I was at the time. The first time she saw the girl was at night. My mom thought I had gotten out of bed and wandered into the kitchen. She got up to follow “me” and see what I needed, only to find an empty kitchen and that I was still in bed. After that, she stayed in bed and let the girl wander.

My mother only told a few people about the ghosts she saw: it was a little bit of a secret. After all, most people do not believe in ghosts or spirits. Many people will profess to believe in God, Heaven, and Hell but call a seer a witch, a psychotic, or insane. In this world, if you see people or things that others do not see: you need to be medicated, hospitalized, ostracized. I do not believe my mother’s ghost-seeing warranted antipsychotic medication. I believe she saw ghosts.

What I wonder today is might my mother have become a ghost? Since she died suddenly, and without being ready to go, does she haunt the halls of the house in which she died? Or possibly does she linger in the place where she was the most comfortable and loved while living? Maybe she moves around, from house to house, person to person?

It seems that even if I cannot see her, I can feel her. I especially feel her presence at my son’s house when I visit. I am positive she looks over him and his family. She loved him and his children so much that I know if she could choose a place to live eternally, that is the place she would go.

I know she haunts my dreams. Every night she is in my dreams. Is it just random firings of neurons as science says? Are the hauntings of my mother in my dreams my memories coming to life? Is it my mother’s ghost reaching out? I don’t have the answers. I only have questions, questions, and more questions. But I do know that if, after death, a person could stay in this realm, close by her loved ones, my mother would do it. As a seer of ghosts, I am confident my mother would become a ghost if she could. She would stay here with her family forever in whatever form she could.

~~ Rhonda Marrone 8/2021

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