Thank you, Ebbie. I ask because it is always interesting to hear details.

"(I could add here a thought that is rather disturbing to me: If I were to try to explain the presence and behavior of the 'ghostly being' I'd say that she was wondering where her husband was and who it was in her bed, that she was not aware that he was downstairs in the old garage. That implies a lack of knowledge of those 'on the other side' that is not how I prefer to think of them.)" - Ebbie

I have a vague (very vague!) theory that ghost phenomena are not in any way sentient or aware, or even there. Many ghost stories seem to be old events replayed, as if recorded, and I suspect that is what they are, a kind of natural but rare 'recording' or perhaps a quick glimpse through time. Most of the time, people who see ghosts have no communication with them, which makes sense if there's no conscious creature present.

So perhaps what you 'saw' was an impression/recording of an event that happened many times over - a woman walking around the bed to join her husband -so there was no personality to wonder why things had changed. This image might continue to play in that spot long after the house is gone and trees have grown where the bed stood.

Obviously, I'm pretty convinced that there is no 'other side', but that doesn't mean I don't think there's a lot about the nature of time and matter and energy that we don't yet know.