My Daughter's Ghosts

My daughter is 17 now, wish I could get her to join this site, it's something she'd probably enjoy, she's being shy. I asked her permission to share her ghost story and she said ok, but she thinks it's a silly story to share, but I think it's pretty interesting and others may find it interesting also.

When she was a baby I always sensed she had a really strong sense of her surroundings, if she was napping for example and I shut my finger in a drawer, before I could even make a sound she'd start crying. My Mom babysat her while I worked until she was 3 years old. They were very close. She was a very happy child, singing all the way home from church on Sundays, loved watering my Mom's gardens. She was a very delicate child when it came to loud noises and loud voices, she'd grab her hair in her high chair for example if someone rang Mom's doorbell.

My Mom passed away in the hospital at 4:15am a month and a half after our daughter turned 3. Mom was smiling and whispered to my sister she was playing ball. My brother-in-law was babysitting our daughter for us, and he was a little creeped put when I called to tell him my Mom was gone, he said at 4:15, my daughter woke him up, she was happy and full of energy and said she had been playing with Grandma. I came home later that day, a total mess, crying, and sat her in my lap, she sang me a song that told me Grandma was with the angels and everything would be ok, I didn't know what to think, the song was beyond her years. I called all my siblings and told them, some believe my Mom visited her on her way out.

After that, my daughter began seeing 'people' in her room at night. She was scared of the dark, and grew to fear her room. Eventually, for us to get some sleep, my husband and I started letting her sleep with us in our room. She started kindergarten, and her senses were so heightened she couldn't handle the noise of all the kids around her and the bright school lights were causing her bad headaches. School fast became a nightmare for her and she'd escape into another world to cope. Her 2nd grade teacher recommended we get her tested for black out seizures. We had an EEG done, it came back abnormal, so we had a 24 hour video EEG done in the hospital, it too came back with abnormal brain waves, but they didn't diagnose her with anything. The doc said in the middle of the night, for 5 minutes, something happened with the EEG, but he was baffled, said to watch her for possible seizures in her future.

So we decided it was time to return her to her own room. She started seeing people again, in the dark, she said the people glowed, she was very scared. I put a night lite in her room. By 3rd grade we got her a therapist that came to her aftercare at school. The therapist helped her finally sleep through the night, she asked her 'these glowing people in your room at night. Have they ever tried to hurt you?' My daughter replied 'no', and the therapist said 'so why are you afraid of them?' That night she slept through the night for the first time.

Her third grade class went on a trip to St.Augustine Florida, where they went on a ghost tour, my daughter was the only one who saw a ghost on that tour, a woman walking along a building. She kept it to herself, only told her closest friend, and came home and told us what she saw.

After we moved to Arizona, she stopped seeing the people at night. She still had super heightened senses though that kept her from being able to learn well in school. We pulled her out in 9th grade to homeschool her with an online program.

I don't know if what she was seeing were actual ghosts, my husband doesn't know what to think and my siblings all have their own theories, my brother mentioned maybe schizophrenia. That would surprise me though because she's always been very mature for her age and very strong willed and has lots of interests. She is extremely sensitive to her surroundings and other's feelings and energy in the air. Sometimes she dreams things that come true. She had a dream of what her name should be and wants to change it legally eventually. She struggles to make friends because many of her peers find her 'weird' so over the years she has gotten lonely and depressed sometimes. She is a very delicate and unique soul and we love her dearly and want her to find her calling and have a happy future.

Thank you for reading, HazelEyesDreams

I now believe in ghosts and that some people that walk this Earth have a sixth sense and can sense things some of us can't.