Paranormal Events: Martha on the Church Steps
- February 27th, 2010
- By Seline
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Some of the earliest memories I have of seeing paranormal beings are hard to understand simply because I didn’t know what I was seeing at the time. To a small child it may not be uncommon to see spirits or the ghosts of those who perhaps knew the child at one time. There exists a wealth of information showing that throughout history it is believed that younger human beings are for some reason able to tap into the existence of things we understand less and less as adults.
This post is not however for theories, this is about the experiences themselves and so I will try to explain what I believe is the earliest one in my memory.
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Though in time the majority of what I would see as a child would have largely to do with animal spirits, my first experience was with that of what I have come to believe now was a ghost.
Every day, at about the age of 5, my mother walked me to school and I have fond memories of those solitary mornings where it seemed that she and I were practically the only people in the world. Please understand that nothing about these mornings seemed frightening, or even out of the ordinary at the time.
Each memory is similar in that we walked the same way each day, passing landmarks which at that age would be the only way for me to know where we were. Over time I believe I have clumped most of these into one type of day, in that I have great difficulty trying to separate a sunny day from a rainy one and all days seem to be of a muddled gray to me now.
The clearest part of these days is how happy my mother seemed to me and how much I looked forward to these walks. The second clearest part would be that of the older woman we passed each day near the church that was on our route. Each time we walked by I would wave to her, and she to me. Sometimes she would be standing, other times sitting on the cement steps leading to the entrance.
This minute exchange probably went on for months and the woman quickly became a normal part of the usual walk-to-school scenery.
On one particular day I remember I wanted to stop and give the woman a Valentine’s Day card of which I had many in my bag for school. I remember thinking about this, though naturally my exact thoughts have become muddled over time as I would hope my vocabulary has expanded somewhat. I do specifically remember the excitement. It was as if I had an excuse to now do more than just wave at this figure who I had come to expect and enjoy seeing each day.
As my mother and I approached the woman I remember her face was not the usual bright smile I was accustoms to, but a serious and even foreboding look. I began to pull away from my mother and simultaneously explain about giving the woman the card when the woman suddenly moved to the door of the church. It was too fast. This is when I believe I knew that what I had thought to be just a friendly old woman who happened to hang out in front of the church everyday was something else.
I know I asked my mother about her, because I remember that she did not understand. Realizations of this nature are difficult to process when you’re young, however I believe that age also allows for a certain kind of acceptance that later years will not provide and we walked on with my pressing the issue.
The only other part of this memory that I believe bears mentioning is that as we passed the church doors, which I would have sworn were closed, slammed shut. I know that mother heard this as well because we both turned and because I remember looking to her for confirmation, perhaps to understand whether or not the doors closing has been another part of that not quite there section of life.
I can honesty tell you I don’t know if I ever saw the woman again. Whether some of those memories I have that are now all jumbled together came after this event or all before I do not know for certain. What I do know is that the true realization that I was seeing and hearing things other did not would come much later in life. The other thing I know is that I kept that card for a very long time and found it many years later stashed amongst some early school papers. I had addressed it to Martha.
Goodbye for now, another end.
Until a time we meet again.
-Seline







