My Grandmother died, it was August 28th 1981. She had just brought my daughter home to me because she was keeping her while I was in the hospital having my son Ian, she had the chicken pox and I could not bring the baby home to be exposed to them. So, Mamie, as I called my grandmother, said that she would watch her. When she was on her way home she had a massive stroke and died before she got there. She was only 58 years old.

I decided to stay at my brothers house with him and his wife Dana. They had a little boy two years old named Brad. We got settled in and I was staying in what was Mamie's room, she had just moved the week before into the new house of my Mother's, so my brother had rented that house from my mom and had just moved in when Mamie died. We went about our business that day and the first thing that happened was that afternoon while I was braiding Dana's hair. She and I and a friend named Ramona were in the master bathroom. Someone came to the door of the bathroom and said Dana? in a questioning tone, I was holding her hair and told her not to move so we said " just a second" Then while I turned her around we all three looked and no one was there, our little dog suzie was barking like crazy at nothing! We were sure that it had been a woman's voice so we walked in the den where my brother and his friend Johnny and Keith were watching TV, we asked them if any one had come in and they said no. We went back to what we were doing and next thing we knew the walk in closet right across from the bathroom started making a noise like someone was standing in the middle of the closet and stirring all the hangers together. We all looked again and it made the noise while we were all looking into an empty closet. Were tore out of there scared to death. We told my brother about it and he checked the whole house, and found nothing. So we were not going back in there, we called my mom and she said we were all just upset about Mamie and it was our nerves. We did not think so. We all moved to the den that seemed like the only place where we would have peace.

In a little while Brad came out with half a banana in his hand and we asked him where he got it he said "Mamie gave it to me". Then he took my brother by the hand and led him to the door of Mamie's old room and said "Mamie hurts daddy" and pointed to the bed. There was nothing there. We all got the creeps again and decided to have dinner and look through our family albums. We were all keyed up and around three am we decided we were being silly and went to bed, I put my children down on the floor on a pallet and I got into the bed. I could not sleep. I lay there and looked out into the darkness which was the hallway. This house was built in a circle and you could walk all the way around the inside of the house without having to come back the way you came. There were no windows that looked into the hallway. After I heard my brother and sister in law get in bed all was quiet for about 10 minutes, then the hallway lit up like there was a big bright light in the hall between our rooms. There was no light. We met in the hall at the same time both looking up at a white swirling ball of light. It lit up the hall like nothing I ever saw before. It was right against the ceiling and I looked at my brother and Dana was right behind him. We looked at each other and at the light and I said "What is that?" as soon as he said "I don't know" the light went into itself like turning off a TV set and it was gone. I had no feelings while the light was there except amazement, but as soon as it was gone we grabbed our kids and went to mom's house and when we told her what had just happened she said " Well if it was Mamie, she loves you she would not hurt you." We knew that too, but I think that it was just a thing that I will never know why it happened. My brother will still to this day not go into that house. The people that rent it from my mom now have never said anything about weird events so maybe we were just keyed up. I would like your opinion.

Submitted from: Celeste Bynum, Florida, USA