June 6, 2007

• Haunted Bed Update.....

  My daughter, Jessica,  in North Carolina, after reading my Xanga entry, called me to let me know that I had not imagined feeling someone sit down on the bed.  When we moved into this house, that bedroom or even that whole half of the house did not exist.  We built it ourselves from celler to the roof of the second floor.  It truly was a family affair where everyone did what they could even if that meant babysitting the younger children so the more dangerous work could safely be done.  Sometime in 1991 or 1992, that side of the house was opened and two of the bedrooms were made habitable.  My two youngest daughters went into one and my stepdaughter got the other one.  Shortly after moving into the room, Jessica woke up one evening to see a lady sitting at the end of her bed.  At that time, she would have been either 3 or 4 yrs old and had lived her entire life in the country and was very much a Mama's girl.  She was small and petite for her age and after having big healthy-looking children, if she did not have the family look, I would have wondered if the fairies had switched babies with me.  So it was a big surprise to me when she told me that seeing the lady at the end of her bed did not frighten her and that she had never mentioned it to me.  She told me that looking through our family album as a young child,  she found a picture of the lady in our album.  It was a picture of my Husband's Aunt Virginia.  Jessica was named Jessica Virginia in her honor since Aunt Virginia had died the day after my birthday.  Aunt Virginia knew death was just hours away and she was upset that she was going to miss the birth of my youngest child since she had been looking forward to her birth.  Even though everyone thought for sure that I would go into labor early ....including my OB doctor, Jessica did not make her appearance until her exact due date.  The family has always joked about Aunt Virginia delaying my labor so she could play with my baby just a bit longer before letting her be born.  Aunt Virginia would have thought it was a good prank too since she knew we all were just waiting to get our hands on a baby again.  Jessica had never met her Aunt Virginia, and while I have the picture albums in the bookcase, we are not ones to go looking through them unless we have a reason or purpose.  Furthermore, over the years, she has every now and then dropped in to sit on the bed though Jessica never mentioned seeing her again just felt her sit on the bed.  When James and Jessica got married, they shared that twin bed since I felt it was James' responsibility to provide a larger bed.  With the door locked, James felt someone sit on the bed when he had Jessica in his arms.  Needless to say, Jessica got to be the one to explain.  Jessica told me that she never felt afraid and only felt friendly feelings about her and that she actually felt comforted sometimes when her sister moved out of her room and Aunt Virginia came to visit.   Jessica said Aunt Virginia did not feel like a ghost but more like a guardian angel. 

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