Day of Souls

 


     Today is All Souls’ Day, and a lot of people believe that during this day, ghosts and other spirits, good and evil, roam the earth. I am still skeptical when it comes to ghosts, but I had some experiences that may be called ghostly.

     Many years ago, while my mother, bless her soul, was still alive, I was watching TV in the living room at 1 AM, the light was off, when I heard the door of my mother’s room opening. I heard what I assumed was my mother’s footsteps going out of the room and heard the door closing behind her.

     I immediately turned the TV off, she hated whenever we slept late, especially if we were only watching TV.

     Her footsteps went to the bathroom a few feet away, and then, I heard the bathroom’s door closing, heard the switch being turned on and saw the light coming out.

     I stayed in the couch in the living room, making sure my mother wouldn’t see me when she came back to her room and also making sure that I’d see her when she marched out of the bathroom so I could continue watching, never taking my eyes off the direction of the bathroom—and waited.

     Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes passed, and she wasn’t coming out of the bathroom.

     I finally stood up, quietly went to the bathroom, the door was wide open, the light was on, but there was no one there—my mother was soundly asleep in the room.

     The next morning, I asked my mom if she got out of the room to go to the bathroom at 1 AM in the morning, and she said no, she did not.

     And like Jim Halpert in The Office, immediately after she said that, I glanced at the (invisible) camera, looking bemused.

     A similar incident, I was watching TV late again in the living room upstairs, around 1 AM again. There was a stair that led to the living room. And while watching, I clearly heard footsteps (the TV's volume was really low) going up the stairs and someone (who owned the footsteps) clearing his throat twice, and it sort of perplexed me because I knew no one was downstairs, and the front door was already locked. I waited to see who was coming up—and no one came.

    I went to the stair, no one was there. I went downstairs and confirmed that there was no one there.

     I quickly turned the TV off and rushed to my room.

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