Back when we were 9 years old ,my older brother Sam has started sleepwalking. It was usually around three or four o’clock in the morning . He rarely has any recollections of the incidents and it usually involves him getting out of bed and went down to the dark room in the house and started talking jebrish and some times he said “where are you”, “what you want”. I used to follow him and see what he was up to, but most of the time he slept somewhere downstairs.
My mother put our beds downstairs so my brother Sam can sleep downstairs, and if he started sleep walking he will not injured himself falling from the stairs. I was by myself in the bedroom ready to sleep, I switched off the light and settled down and just before I closed my eyes I heard a voice say”goodnight” very close to my face. sounded like an old lady and she spoke Arabic. I immediately sat up and put the light on, there wasn’t anyone there. I felt a bit sick but concluded that may be my mother said it from the top of the stairs , but it was so close !
I told my mom and she said may be I was dreaming. She told me later on ,that a mid age lady died in this house 10 years prior, and passed away in her sleep .
I had uncomfortable feelings, feelings like I have being watched etc. Some one like watching me, my brother Sam told me that he had the same feeling, but nothing really nasty, and our mother assured us that she did cleansed the house, and did some prayers and we have nothing to worry about.
Sam was sick with the flu , and my mother slept downstairs watching him and care for him . While Sam and I were sleeping my mother put her small mattress on the corner beside Sam bed and she had an ice jar , water container and a towel to make sure that Sam did not get too much fever. After few minutes I opened my eyes and turned my head, I thought I saw My mother facing the other side of the wall, staring at the wall in a tense position , at the foot of the my bed.
I said, “Mom, come on now, Is everything OK? as I tried to pull myself up into a sitting position and turned my head to see my brother Sam . I saw my Mother was sleeping on her mattress beside Sam! I turned my face to the foot of my bed and I can not see that lady again. A feeling of dread washed over me, if my mother was in her bed what was watching me from the foot of the bed?
I started to scream and whimper,My mother woke up and hold me and told me that I was dreaming . I was scared when the lady vanished it was like a shadow or clear smoke went throw the wall. I asked my mother to sleep upstairs , and She said it was nice and cooler downstairs in the summer, we didn’t have an air con at that time, we had a small fan.
My brother Sam told me that he had overwhelming sick feeling that someone was watching him, crouched in the corner of the room. As he couldn’t see anything for sure, he just told himself he was just being silly and rolled over, a couple of minutes later I woke up and saw what I saw in the foot of my bed.
We didn’t know what to do about it, we are both dreading trying to sleep. We’ve both singled out how strange this old lady was. Was it the dead lady? I asked my mother .She told us that dead people dont come back ,she was trying to not scare us.
After few years I asked those who knew that old ladies who passed away in that house ,they told me that she was very nice and pious woman, she had her son who fell ill and she used to take care of him until he was admitted to the hospital and passed away from pneumonia complications.
The woman cried allot for her son as she was a widow. When we left the house and moved , my mother prayed allot in the house for her soul, and cleaned the house before we moved to another house.
Thank you for reading.
Steve Ramsey, PhD.
Calgary, Alberta- Canada.