I’ve had the blog and almost all social media on the back burner for the past few months. My little family is the most important thing in the world to me, and spending the extra time together always fills my cup and gives me that much more to love about our life. I’m incredibly thankful and am looking forward to this new year!
However…
The holidays didn’t slip by without some insanely cool things happening.
On Halloween, my family and I took a trip to one of our most cherished vacation towns, and during that stay, I encountered what I felt was an unexpected yet welcome guest. We were not staying in a secluded cabin or in a haunted hotel, mind you. It was a short yet fun-filled trip full of mountain coasters and lots of pancakes and trips to McDonald’s… this was a family event, and I was not expecting to have an experience here.
But when I got out of the bed in the middle of the night to go into the bathroom, one of the strangest occurrences of my paranormal-loving life happened.
I sat down on the toilet to pee without the lights on, so as not to wake up my daughter who was sleeping close by, when I felt more than seen a dark figure inside the shower tub. Physically, it was a shadow of sorts… a darker-than-the-rest-of-the-room figure that I felt wanted to be seen. I felt dead eyes staring at me. I felt sadness. I felt an entire range of emotion that swept over me within a matter of seconds, and most of all, I felt gratitude.
You see, some years ago, in what feels like an alternate reality now, my mental health was in the trenches. As I had that experience in that bathroom, I knew exactly what was trying to be conveyed to me — even if I can’t conclusively say who or what could be behind such a powerful message. Somehow, I knew the entity in the tub had taken their own life, and somehow, I knew… they wanted me to live.
I haven’t spoken to anyone, not even my husband, about that experience. Maybe it all felt too personal at the time. I have dealt with stomach issues for most of my life, and that can limit my ability to even leave home and run to the store, much less go explore the world in the way that I want. But I knew that something was changing for me, because on that trip, I had one of the best experiences I have ever had, including concerning my stomach issues, which were mostly absent for the entirety of the vacation.
So, what made me want to share today? I didn’t have an answer, even as I was typing this blog post, until my husband called me from work. What made this lunchtime conversation different? Well, he said that he wanted to go back off the mountain tonight in the dark and take a look at something…
“What? What did you see?” I asked.
There was hesitation in his voice, then I felt the conviction as he said, “…Hell, I think it might have been a spaceship.”
OBVIOUSLY, I’m going to check that out tonight after dark.
We have been driving up and down this mountain for our entire lives. Most of the terrain, we know by heart. Could it be that as he was driving off the mountain and looking out over into the valley, there has been construction going on or structures built that he hadn’t noticed until today? Maybe the foliage is thinner this time of year, so he caught a glimpse of something that he normally wouldn’t see when it’s lush and green?
Another fun thing about this — it’s only a few miles from where I had the strange car trouble at night and my less-than-one-year-old car decided to leave me stranded on the side of the road. The official report for that was that a sensor went out in my car and needed to be replaced.
I’m thrilled to check it out, and I’m even more excited that I’ll be with my favorite people while I do… hopefully, we won’t have any car troubles along the way…
Stranger Than Fiction 