Spirits or Mental Illness?

If you are not a believer in spirits, here's some food for thought.

This morning Chris woke for an early bike ride. Like normal he went into M’s room to give her a kiss before leaving. After leaving her room, he said that he turned to walk towards the stairs (which are only a few feet from M’s room) and was startled by hearing loud stomps going DOWN the stairs. He immediately ran into our room where I was sleeping, woke me and told me the story. Okay, I have watched too many Freddy and Jason movies in my time so I’m thinking DON’T GO DOWNSTAIRS!!! That’s what the dumb people always do in the movies. Then I pulled myself together realizing that I'm not in a movie and we searched the entire house with a flimsy handle from our upstairs vacuum cleaner in hand….we looked in closets, behind doors, under the stairs, etc. All of the deadbolts were still locked so no one could have entered the house and locked the door behind him. We returned upstairs to check on M once again and then Chris left for his ride. A little weird, right!



Well, it gets weirder (is that a word?). When Chris went back downstairs to leave he found a butterfly fluttering around on the floor in the kitchen. We didn’t see the butterfly when we were down there only minutes before! He said that it seemed hurt and it didn’t fly away from Chris. He captured it for M to see when she woke up. We then released it and it flew away as if nothing was wrong with it.




Another twist....when I was putting M to sleep last night she asked me not to let the monsters in her room when I left. She didn't seem scared, but rather more of a matter of fact type of statement. She’s never talked about monsters like that before and I thought absolutely nothing of it….chalked it up to her imagination….then this morning’s events happened. I’m not sure what all of this means, but it’s pretty interesting and creepy at the same time. Needless to say, I didn’t go back to sleep this morning (and I still don’t sleep with my limbs off of the bed because of the crazy scary movies I used to LOVE)!!!