The Spirit of the Wake

From: Teresa Keith (southerntk@aol.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: residence in northville, mi.
Source: Form Submission

This strange occurance began one day in the fall of 1993 in a town called Northville in Mich. The first occurance happened in the funeral home located in the middle of town. MY husband's aunt had passed away and it was sort of unnerving how she had died. She seemed okay the evening of her death and her husband had went on to bed. when he awoke the next morning she was lying on the couch in a pool of blood. The bathroom was blood covered as well. We assumed she had died from a bowel problem that had began hemmoraging. We don't understand why she didn't get her husband to help her.

While at the wake I began looking around and something grabbed my attention out of the corner of my eye. I looked back up to the coffin and over it was a black misty apparation. It was just hanging over the body. I told everyone near me to look at it and suddenly it just disappeared.

Later that evening at my home just a few blocks from the funeral parlor, I was sitting watching t.v. and suddenly the washer in the basement began to move about frantically as if it were unbalanced terribly. The thing is I knew there was no clothes in the washer and that it was not on.

I sent my husband into the basement who was sure it actually had a load of clothes in it. He was shocked to find that it wasn't on and pushed it back into place. Before he could reach the top of the stairs it began doing it again. He ran down and unplugged the washer and pushed it back against the wall.

As soon as he got upstairs he called his mother who lived down the street. She is a prayer warrior and she immediately came to us. She brought her sister with her who was visiting from ky. for the funeral. It was their sister lying in wake at the funeral home. When they began to pray with us and over the house, blood began to form on my forhead. I hadn't noticed it until they said something.

About an hour after they left, my husband and I began arguing and I went out to get in my car. As soon as I opened the car door the smell of the perfume from the dead aunts body engulfed me. The dead aunts daughter had went up to the casket and sprayed her mothers favorite cologne on her. I was totally shocked. I ran back in the house.

The next few days were strange and full of noises and odd happenings. I sort of feel like the aunt may have been trying to tell us something. Maybe that she was upset about something to do with her death. Some believe she had a witchcraft spirit.. She had a satanic bible at her home. Some think that it was the witchcraft spirit that was trying to communicate. I don't know but I know what I saw and what I heard that weekend. It was strange and supernatural.