My dad was always a skeptic about things, but after he died
my mum told me a weird story about something he once saw.
One night we were staying at our old beach house. My Nana
was there and I remember her teaching us that old
prayer "If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to
take" or however it goes. That was strange in itself
because she was more of a spiritualist and I had never
heard her pray like that before. Anyway me and my younger
brother (we were about 7 and 5) were staying down in the
old basement room. We were scared about sleeping down
there, so we made a 'fort' using foam mattresses and
blankets and lay down inside it. My brother always fell
asleep straight away and I always lay awake being scared.
So I left the little lamp on in the fort and fell asleep
eventually.
The next thing I knew my mum was yelling at us and was
pulling or fort apart. The lamp had fallen and the bare hot
bulb was resting and starting to burn into the foam
mattress. She screamed at us for being so stupid and was
really shaken up, saying that five minutes later the whole
mattress (and maybe the basement) would have gone up in
flames.
That was about 18 years ago but I still remember it. The
strange part of the story I thought was that my Nana for no
good reason had made us recite that spooky prayer before we
went to bed. But the REALLY odd thing is what my mum told
me once after my Dad died when I was 17. I was talking to
her about some spiritual stuff (I was a bit reluctant
because she is not the type to encourage me to get into
that area) and to my surprise rather than telling me I was
talking rubbish, she said that I was similar to Dad, and
that he had experienced something that made him a believer
in spiritual signs.
She recalled that night at the beach house (which I would
have sworn she had forgotten by now) and said that some
time in the middle of the night my Dad had woken her up
shaking and said he had seen something. At the base of the
bed he had looked down and seen a blue face floating in
thin air. He didn't say what it looked like, except I think
she said he described it as 'square' face whatever that
means. Anyway, he was so adamant he had seen it he had
jumped out of bed and paced around trying to work out what
it was. That was when my mum had an urge to get up and turn
on some lights.
While he was 'pacing around' as she put it, she went
downstairs for "no real reason" to check on me and my
brother. When she entered the room she smelled burning and
was surprised to find the mattresses and blankets in the
middle of the room. When she pulled the top blanket off our
fort, she saw that the light was about to set the exposed
foam mattress on fire and me and my brother were fast
asleep.
It seems kind of inevitable to me to reason that the blue
face that my 'non-believing' dad saw was a warning that
something bad was about to happen to us downstairs. After
all, if he hadn't waked my Mum up she would never have
found us when she did.
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