The really scary and creepy true stories I could relate all pertain to my first (and X) wife, but being the gentleman that I am I alone will live with the horror of a knife wielding angry sprit................







For reasons not pertinent to this story, I was raised by my maternal grandparents. My parents lived in the same town but I seldom saw them. My grandmother was the adult female figure in my life.
In 1963 I was working as a civilian contractor in Germany. One day my father called me. My grandmother had had a heart attack and wasn't expected to live. I got back home as quickly as I could, but she died about a day before I arrived. I was there for the funeral, but I felt really sad that I hadn't been able to see her one last time before she died.
About a month later I was back in Germany, where I had a small apartment. I woke up one night, sometime in the wee hours of the morning, and felt the urge to look out the window next to my bed. There was a heavy fog, and as I watched, a figure emerged from the fog.
I instantly recognized the figure as my grandmother. I recall distinctly that I felt no surprise that I had seen her buried a month before. I was only surprised to see her in Germany, halfway around the world from where she had spent her life.
She came into the apartment and we talked for what seemed a long time. She told me she understood why I hadn't been there to say goodbye to her, so she had come to visit me one last time so we could say goodbye.
After a while we hugged and kissed, and she left. I sat on my bed and watched her walk down the sidewalk, into the fog. I went back to sleep, at peace for the first time since her death.
Years later I told this story to a golfing buddy, who was a psychologist. He said I had obviously had a dream in which my psyche made my feelings of guilt and regret bearable. I told him yeah, he was probably right.
What I didn't tell him was about the wet, snowy footprints I found on my carpet when I awoke tha next morning.
Does a bad divorce count under scary?
Does a bad divorce count under scary?