A Truly Frightening Story, Or Is It?

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I know technically it’s the day AFTER Halloween, but I think we’ve got room for one more scary story. Don’t you?

I often say I don’t believe in ghosts, and truly I don’t. I don’t believe in the stereotypical, Hollywood created, images of white filmy apparitions floating around the corners of abandoned houses. I also don’t believe in anything frightening, demonic or evil causing terror. Nope I’ve never seen it, never felt it and therefore I don’t believe in it.

What I do have a very strong belief in is an unseen part of our world that truly does exist. This unseen world is inhabited by our departed loved ones and other beings we can’t yet describe. Bud calls them Spirits. I believe this world, and the beings that reside there, are right here with us, just in a form we can’t see with our human eyes. Why do I believe in this? Because this is a realm I’ve “seen”. Not with my eyes but with my soul. In that way that I like to call my knowing.

Recently I had time to give my kitchen a good deep cleaning. As is my habit when doing mindless tasks like housework, I listen to podcasts on my Alexa. I only listen to a few, but my all time favorite is The Best Of Coast to Coast AM. This is a spin off of the original radio program that was, and probably still is, on air in the middle of the night. I became a fan of the radio program years ago when I was working as a Distribution Manager for the Bangor Daily News. Often times my work day started at 1:00 AM if I had to be out there delivering newspapers myself. In those dark and lonely early morning hours I found this radio program that talked about UFOs, Witches, Big Foot and all kinds of magical things to be quite entertaining! I’ve been a fan ever since.

So here I was recently cleaning my kitchen and listening to an episode of Coast To Coast AM on my Alexa. This particular episode was about how our deacesed loved ones sometimes use technology to communicate with us. Let us know that they are still with us. The woman speaking was rattling off all kinds of examples of electronic devices acting strangely or cell phones receiving calls or text messages from departed souls. As I listened to her I thought back to when my step dad Tommy died a couple of years ago. How myself, my mom and my sister all had strange things happen with our cellphones. I thought too about a high school friend who posted on Facebook recently that she received a phone call from her father’s cell phone even though he had passed away a year or so ago and her mother had deactivated the phone. All of these situations certainly fit the profile.

I then remembered my trip to England last year and how I had spent the night in Lumley Castle, reported to be one of the most haunted castles in England. How I had turned on my sound machine that I always travel with and wondered if sound at different frequencies bothered ghosts? Only to have the machine shut off all by itself!!! I’ll never forget that moment, with my toothbrush dangling out of my mouth and toothpaste dripping into the sink. I was not alone in the room of that 13th century castle! In my mind I formed the thought of an apology but that I wasn’t going to sleep without my sound machine on and whoever was with me would just have to live with it. At that moment the sound machine came back on! It was all rather interesting, but not scary.

All of these thoughts were running through my mind as I went about listening to the podcast while wiping down the kitchen counter and then moving on to hand washing a pan in the sink. I had unloaded the dishwasher already and put in the morning’s coffee cups but there was no need to start the dishwasher until after dinner later in the day. I did however need to hand wash the cast iron frying pan. As I turned on the water and began to scrub the pan I thought again about the beings in our unseen world and did they really try to use electronics to communicate with us. I wondered if these beings were always with us? Was someone here with me right now?

I had no sooner had this thought when the dishwasher to my left started beeping like crazy! I turned and could see it cycling through the different washing options very fast. I should tell you this is a brand new dishwasher. It was installed when I moved into this house in March. We’ve never had a single problem with it and it has never acted this way before. I immediately reached for my phone, which was on the island behind me and hit the video record button! I wasn’t going to miss a single minute of this! After recording 10 seconds of video (I’m fully aware of the attention span of social media!) I then tried to press a few buttons to get it to stop it’s mad dash through the cycles, to no avail. Suddenly Lumley Castle popped into my head so I took my hand off from the control panel, took a deep breath and formed the thought “I know you are here, please stop.” You could have knocked me over with a feather when immediately the dishwasher stopped.

Here is the video I took. You can hear the water in the sink still running from where I was scrubbing the cast iron pan. You can also hear the podcast in the background as well.

I’ve had some pretty incredible experiences in the past two years but this was by far the best. I wasn’t scared. It was more of a reassuring. A knowing that the things I have been shown, taught, made to understand over the past two years are real. We are not alone, ever. We are watched over and if we could just slow down and open our minds to the possibilities that are out there, we will see them. And most importantly be blessed by them.

Ghosts, or whatever you want to call them, are the same as everything else in life, it’s all in your perspective. If you perceive this situation with my dishwasher as something scary then that’s what it is for you. If you perceive it as something truly remarkable then it proves there is more to this life than we understand. I prefer the latter!