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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 09:44:16 EDT
From: CDR 
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Subject: Haunted Jewelry
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I've been lurking for a little while now and thought you might be interested
in a odd family experience.


My sister appears to be sensitive to the paranormal.  As is usually the case
I was the one who spent a lot of time reading about these events and seem to
have little if any of this ability.  My mom never expressed any interest nor
belief in this area.  My sister and my mother are the characters in this
occurance...



My grandmother died in the mid 70's.  She had been ill and her death, though
it made us sad, (we loved her dearly) was not entirely unexpected.


Fast forward to the mid 80's.  My grandmother has now been dead for nearly
10 years, yet her home had remained untouched.  (She lived in a home
entirely maintained and paid for by another family member and he effectively
owned everything in it.) Anyway, since we were getting older, my
mom wanted my sister and me to have something to remember my grandmother by,
and she was tired of waiting for these folks to clean out her home.  So she
and another relative went to the house and took several small pieces of
jewelry; nothing of extraordinary value, except sentimentally.  My mother's
intention was to give each of us a piece of jewelry.


When I went home for a visit, I asked my sister whether she would rather
have the bracelet or the earrings.  She said "Take both, I don't want
either." I was shocked and confused!!  "Why?" She then told me that over the
summer, as she was painting the kitchen, she would see a shadow out of the
corner of her eye.  Her first impression was that it was the cat jumping up
on the kitchen counter (something she did not ordinarily do).  When she
would turn to chase her, the cat wouldn't be there.  Now she was alone most
of the time, painting, in a bright, sunny room.  At night she began to hear
what she called deliberate knocks and thumps in the house.  Now we both grew
up in this house and were familiar with all the "normal" noises that it
made.  She never told anyone about what she was experiencing.  She was
frightened.


One day my mother asked my sister to come into the bedroom, she wanted to
talk to her.  My sister went, rolling her eyes, wondering what she had done
now.  Mom said "You are going to think I'm crazy, but I've been seeing
shadows all around the house.  When I turn to face them, there is nothing
there!" My sister said, that she felt all the blood drain from her face.  My
mother, alarmed, asked "What's the matter." When they compared notes it
appeared that they were experiencing the exact same thing!!  They were, to
put it mildly, shaken.


Since these things started to happen after my mom took the jewelry, we all
felt that it was definitely connected.  Even though my sister was
uncomfortable keeping any, I took the bracelet and left the earrings.  Once
we each had something the disturbances stopped for my mother.  (My sister
has had other "interesting" experiences.) We can only surmise that my
grandmother wanted to make certain that she approved of the way her jewelry
was dealt with.  I have never experienced any unusual occurance that I can
connect to the bracelet.


I think she approved.



CDR
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