01-02-2024, 08:38 PM
Here's my story written around when this occurred... LOL, I sent the story to In the Fray... and gave some input on this angle
Again not big on the ghost paranormal stuff, though I've always had an open mind.
Throughout my Dad's chemo treatment, I essentially moved in with him and Mom, as his condition worsened the last 6 months I stayed with them constantly. So once he passed I stayed with Mom so she wouldn't be alone, just till she figured out what she wanted to do.
So it's a big house, even though they have a couple of spare bedrooms I sleep on the living room sofa downstairs. The sofa is situated where I can lie down and see out the front window off the front porch, the cars have been broken into, and once even the garage
So when I hear something I go investigate. My sofa is on the wall next to the garage where all of Dad's tools and stuff are. A couple of times early in the morning I'll hear what sounds like the rattling of the sockets in his tool chest, I'll go out and check, and nothing. Like I said I've been living here essential for 2 years and never heard noises in the garage. Again it could be a mouse or something, but I used to work for Terminex and I don't see any signs, as well his sockets are in the drawers of his tool chest closed tight. Just weird.
Then last week I got up to use the bathroom again early in the morning around 3:30. Dad's office is right across from the bathroom, and as I was walking down the hall to the bathroom I could clearly smell cigarette smoke, heavy in the air, like it used to smell when he would be on the phone talking to someone puffing on his Parliament 100s. Dad hadn't been in the house since late March months earlier, and even then he wasn't smoking. The office has been cleaned numerous times and there hasn't been anybody smoking in there. I don't smoke and neither does my Mom. I walked passed the bathroom into the office to see what the hell was going on. Out of all the happenings this one has fewer options for a rational explanation. I mean if it is residual why is it gone the next day? Yet so heavy at 3:30 in the morning. LOL are there paranormal smells, I don't know but I'm going to look it up. If you have any input it would be greatly appreciated, We always thought if anybody could bridge that gap it would be Dad.
Thanks for listening, I know it sounds nuts, but there it is....
Again not big on the ghost paranormal stuff, though I've always had an open mind.
Throughout my Dad's chemo treatment, I essentially moved in with him and Mom, as his condition worsened the last 6 months I stayed with them constantly. So once he passed I stayed with Mom so she wouldn't be alone, just till she figured out what she wanted to do.
So it's a big house, even though they have a couple of spare bedrooms I sleep on the living room sofa downstairs. The sofa is situated where I can lie down and see out the front window off the front porch, the cars have been broken into, and once even the garage
So when I hear something I go investigate. My sofa is on the wall next to the garage where all of Dad's tools and stuff are. A couple of times early in the morning I'll hear what sounds like the rattling of the sockets in his tool chest, I'll go out and check, and nothing. Like I said I've been living here essential for 2 years and never heard noises in the garage. Again it could be a mouse or something, but I used to work for Terminex and I don't see any signs, as well his sockets are in the drawers of his tool chest closed tight. Just weird.
Then last week I got up to use the bathroom again early in the morning around 3:30. Dad's office is right across from the bathroom, and as I was walking down the hall to the bathroom I could clearly smell cigarette smoke, heavy in the air, like it used to smell when he would be on the phone talking to someone puffing on his Parliament 100s. Dad hadn't been in the house since late March months earlier, and even then he wasn't smoking. The office has been cleaned numerous times and there hasn't been anybody smoking in there. I don't smoke and neither does my Mom. I walked passed the bathroom into the office to see what the hell was going on. Out of all the happenings this one has fewer options for a rational explanation. I mean if it is residual why is it gone the next day? Yet so heavy at 3:30 in the morning. LOL are there paranormal smells, I don't know but I'm going to look it up. If you have any input it would be greatly appreciated, We always thought if anybody could bridge that gap it would be Dad.
Thanks for listening, I know it sounds nuts, but there it is....
His mind was not for rent to any god or government, always hopeful yet discontent. Knows changes aren't permanent, but change is ....
Professor Neil Ellwood Peart
Professor Neil Ellwood Peart
