Helen's Passing

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Story type: Ghost
Location: Springfield , Oh.
Source: Form Submission

When I was 16 , my mother's friend was dying of cancer . Helen was like a mother to my mother , and a grandmother to me .

My mother sat with Helen in the hospital for many of days watching her slowly die .

One day my father insisted that Mom take a short trip with him out of town to get away from the hospital for awhile . Not realizing that my mother had gone away , I went to her call downstairs . When I went downstairs , I did not see Mom and asked my brother where she was . He told me that she had went away with my our father . Not thinking anything about it , I just went back upstairs to my sister room and asked her what she wanted ( thinking it was her call instead of Mom ) . She said it was not her calling my name , it was our mother . I told her Mom was not home and thought no more about it . That evening Helen died .

Three days later we attended Helen's funeral The evening after Helen's funeral , I went to babysit for my usuals . I was sitting watching TV when the phone rang It was my mother making sure I was there . Which I did not understand when I knew she seen me leave in the car with the people I sat for . My mother started telling me about her confusion of seeing me leave but wondering why she was hearing me yell for her . She had heard me yelling Mom when I was not home . I really don't know if she thought I was into a accident or what .

Now that years have went by ... we can only come to the conclusion that hearing each others voices had to do with Helen's passing and was telling us something . But what , we don't know .