Just for the record- and for the facilitation of communication, Little Hawk - unless I'm greatly mistaken, Mrrzy is not a him but a young woman who grew up in Africa; she has twin boys and lives in a southern state.

This statement of mine doesn't belong in this subject, I suppose, but whenever people heatedly claim certain things it pushes buttons of mine. So, here goes:

Mrrzy, it's kind of a long story but while I was 'living in' as an aide to a stroke-handicapped widower I slept in the bedroom that he and his wife had shared before her death 12 years before. Because of his crippled condition his family had built him a bedroom out of the attached garage.

One night in the king-size bed I was reading late when I became aware that a 'form' was across the room on the other side of the bed. "She", because it was unmistakably female, moved silently around the bed and then stopped at the foot of the bed, looking at me.

Knowing that they'd had a happy marriage I just smiled at her then turned off the light and went to sleep.

I did NOT tell either the widower or his girlfriend what I had "seen".

Time went on, the patient became better and I moved out but continued to return three times a week. In the meantime, his girlfriend's 16-year-old son moved in and he took the bedroom I had had.

One Monday morning when I rang the doorbell there was no answer. I knew that the patient and his girlfriend had gone to the Oregon coast for the weekend but they were supposed to return on Sunday evening. Rather miffed I took my leave.

That evening the girlfriend called me. She said that they were late in returning and her son was supposed to have let me in so I could wait for them.

The reason, she said, that the son was not in the house was because the previous night a woman had appeared to him in his bedroom and stared at him. It freaked him out so bad that he grabbed his clothes and left the house. He spent the rent of the night sleeping in his VW bug.

These experiences are most definitely not repeatable - but they are also most definitely true.

Ebbie/Elva Bontrager