Dead Aunt Visits

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Story type: Ghost
Location: Nova Scotia
Source: Form Submission

I hesitate to call this a "Ghost Story" because I believe that it is the story of a positive visitation by a living spirit. When my husband was a teenager, his aunt died. She was a reserved woman- not very loving or demonstrative, and somewhat critical. He went with his parents to his aunts house shortly after the death. They spent the day cleaning out the furniture and going through paperwork. That night, my husband was asleep in his aunt's room, in her bed, when a strange, bright blue light woke him up. It was coming from the direction of the window, and he assumed it was from a street light outside- however, there are no street lights on that street in that small town. Then his aunt appeared, as if coming from the blue light itself. She looked quite different. She wore a long white robe and had a beautiful smile on her face. She rarely smiled in this life. She also looked younger, fresher. My husband sat up in bed and asked the first question that came to mind- "is there a heaven?" She smiled back and gently said- "Oh yes!" Then she disappeared.