Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Hi my name is Jessica I’m now 22 years old but I have had a couple of weird things happen to me. This story is about my grandmother. It was December 16, 1997 I believe I was in the 5th grade so that made me 12 years old at the time.

Me my mom and my brother were supposed to travel out of the country to visit my grandma in Colombia. So we arrive at the capital at 3 pm and we had to wait till 6 pm to take our connection flight. They told us to be at the terminal no later than 5 pm so we could start boarding. So come 4:45 pm we are at the terminal and the plane left without us for whatever reason, leaving behind 11 passengers.

A lady working for the airline came out and apologized and told us the next flight left the next day at 7:30 am and she said not to worry that the airline was gonna pay for our stay at a hotel and a shuttle bus would drop us off at the hotel and pick us up at 6:30. So when we got in our room my mom kept trying to call and let the family know that we would be there tomorrow but no-one would answer and we didn’t get in touch until the next morning.

My mom got some bad news that my grandma had a stroke but the doctors assured the family that she would be getting better soon. But things don’t always turn out as one might hope. We leave the hotel, board the plane, got there in 45 minutes and head for the hospital. We arrive at the hospital and my grandmother automatically recognizes my mom but she had no recollection that my mom had children. We stayed a couple of hours and then we told my grandma that we would be back tomorrow because we had to get some rest.

Later on that night I think it was around 6:30 my mom received a phone call and she already knew it was from the hospital and I saw her eyes get all teary. She spoke to the person and then hung up. Then she went to the room spoke to my uncle and my uncles wife and they came to where we were sitting, closed the front door and told us.  I was the only one freaking out. I guess my brother and my little cousins were too little to understand. This is where the weird things begin.

My mom told us to pack everything because we were going to get the body and take it to my grandmas birth town to bury her. We went and got the body and my mom took the outfit for grandma that she wanted her buried in.  Well we arrived at the hospital and the body was still in the room. She was laying there so me and my mom walked up to her and she looked like she was asleep, she was so beautiful. But I started to get a strange feeling like I was being watched so I left the room and waited in the hallway.

This nurse came and she asked me if I wanted water and I said, no thank you. She went in the room and wheeled the body into a huge elevator and then asked us if we were ready. My mom said yes so we got on the elevator too and as we got to the bottom floor the doors open and I see it was the morgue so I told my mom, I’ll wait here, you go. She goes and a couple of minutes later she comes back. We go up to the lobby and see all our family there so we sit and wait. They loaded her casket in a car and we were on our way. They buried her on a couple of days later.

We were going through her belongings looking for her house keys and nothing. We couldn’t find them. Then a couple of days later, I believe it was on my grandmothers birthday, my mom and uncle woke up and they both had a dream the night before. My uncle starts telling my mom that he was sitting in his living room drinking coffee and my grandmother was telling him I know you guys are looking for my house keys, look on that jewelry box on the top of the TV in Eliana’s (my cousin) room. My mom turned pale and starts laughing but she sounded nervous and then she said that she had the exact same dream!

So they go look for the jewelry box and there are the keys! A couple of days later I left that town with my father who had flown in to be there because him and my grandmother were really close. Well we visited his family, I think It was only 4 days then we came back. On the night that we returned I was trying to go to sleep and then I opened my eyes and my grandma was standing there wearing a white dress but it was weird cuz she was glowing white and she looked like she was saying something but I couldn’t hear her. I was so scared I got under the blanket and then when I looked back up she was gone. So I told my mom the next morning and she was shocked. She told me that my little brother saw the same thing and woke her up at 5 am which was the same exact time I saw her!

The next time we went back to Colombia for the summer was when I was 14. It was me, my mom, my dad and brother. So we went and while we were staying at my grandmothers old house (which was now my moms) everyday at 5 am we could hear someone put a key in the door, open the door, come in, close the door and then we could hear like heals and a cane walk up the stairs and when we would check there would be no one. My aunt who sleeps downstairs said that only happens when we go. My mom tells me she just wants to say hi but I don’t think so. Why isn’t she resting in peace? Is this her way of saying hi? Or is she trying to let us know something?

Sent in by Jessica Herrera Marin, Copyright 2009

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