Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

It is the season of Samhain, “summers end” to the Celts, All Hallows, All Souls, Day of the Dead. How interesting that there is awareness at this time that is in many cultures that it is the time when the veil between this world and the next is thin. Interesting things always happen to me at this time.

Several years ago a very dear friend of mine passed away. She passed away in August, but she didn’t want to be memorialized until that Samhain (technically it’s 15 degrees into Scorpio, sometime in early November, although usually celebrated Oct 31). Alicia had a very serious illness, but she loved life and especially enjoyed going out to eat for Chinese, Thai or Indian food.

So it was during the season of Samhain after Alicia’s death that me and a friend of mine went out together for lunch. We went to a local Chinese restaurant and sat at a booth for four, even though there was only two of us. We sat on the end of the booth facing each other, so there were actually two empty seats between ourselves and the window. We were chatting as the waitress brought some bowls of food. She sat a bowl of vegetables down and walked away. My friend and I continued to chat when we both noticed the bowl moved. We both watched it in interest as the bowl of vegetables slowly moved across the table, passed in between us and worked it’s way over to the spot where someone would have been eating if there was someone next to me. The bowl settled into place, right in the center of the placemat, and turned back and forth a few times. My friend and I had not touched it because we wanted to see just how far the bowl would travel. We were certain that the bowl was wet and that is why it moved. The bowl sat for a moment, and then twisted back and forth again.

When I picked the bowl up, fully expecting to see water or something sticky on it, there was nothing there. The bowl and the table were completely dry. We tried experimenting, we thought maybe the table was on an angle, we set the bowl where the waitress had originally set it down but it did not budge. We gave the bowl a little push, trying to slide it. Nothing. We tilted the table. Nothing. We tried all sorts of ways to try to get the bowl to move but it didn’t budge.

When the waitress returned we asked her if she had ever seen that happen and she just looked at us like we were crazy. The only thing we could figure was that our friend Alicia had decided to join us for a Samhain lunch.

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