The Ghost at the Beach House Never Left

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Hello and welcome to episode 89 of My True Ghost Stories. I was recently on a family vacation and it was in the same house that I talked about in episode 30 of this podcast. That was the episode that featured a ghost that was at the top of the stairs that many people in the family were sensing. And it ended with me trying to send that ghost up, which I thought I had did successfully, but as I will describe to you in this episode, maybe I didn't. It was very early on in my days of helping ghosts to cross over.

And so maybe I didn't do it quite correctly, as you will hear about in this story. Now this ghost that I'm talking about that was at the top of the stairs in the beach house had not been present for 10 years. Nobody had complained about this really, really prominent sensation that they used to feel right at the top of the stairs, including myself. Nobody had talked about it. However, there was a few rooms in the house, really just two rooms in the house that had a strange energy that I personally didn't want to go into those rooms.

Nobody else was having this problem, but I was hesitant to go into two of the rooms in this beach house. So as I said, it's been 10 years since I thought that I helped this ghost to cross over. And I felt no presence of that ghost, but I did feel a lingering energy in two rooms. And that was it. So recently, my whole family came to this house.

And everybody was fine. I still felt the lingering energy in these two rooms, but nobody else was saying anything except for my 11 year old nephew. My 11 year old nephew, who has listened to the occasional episode of this podcast knows that I have this thing with ghosts. And he came up to me and he said, I think there's a ghost in this house. And him being 11 years old, and I didn't know if he was scared or not.

And so I just started to do this thing. Oh, no, no, no. That ghost has been gone for 10 years. You were only one years old when this happened. So don't worry about it.

There's no ghosts. And he sort of listened to me. But then the next day he came back to me and he said, I'm telling you, there's a ghost in this house. And I said, well, what makes you say that? So he gave a few examples, which are a little spooky of doors slamming, which might have been from, you know, an open window in a breeze.

So he talked about a door slamming, but then he, this 11 year old said, besides the slamming doors, he said, it just feels weird. And he mentioned the two rooms that I'm talking about. So now it wasn't just me. Somebody else was feeling a weird sensation in these two rooms. So there was something going on.

And I was probably going to have to deal with it. So a very large portion of my family was at this beach vacation altogether. And I was actually leaving early. Or should I say me and my then fiance were leaving early to go do last minute preparation for our wedding, which was on that weekend. So we were leaving on a weekday and we were packing up the car very slowly, though, you know, let's have one more trip to the beach.

Let's go swimming. Let's, it was not a rushed thing. And during this packing up of the car and getting ready, I suddenly became terribly, terribly tired. Like almost to the point of being dizzy, I was so tired. And what I haven't said yet in this podcast episode is that I wound up sleeping in one of the rooms that I'm talking about that had the weird energy.

I wound up kind of setting up in one of these rooms, despite the fact that I thought it had weird energy. And then my nephew confirmed that it had weird energy. I had wound up sleeping and being in one of these rooms. So as I'm packing up the car, I said, oh my gosh, I'm so tired. I need to lay down.

And so I told my then fiancee, now husband, I told him, okay, listen, I need to take a little break. I'm going upstairs to lay down. So I went up into that room that has the weird energy and I lay down. And I had actually been sleeping fine in there. And so I had my fiancee.

Everything was fine in there. So I went and I lay down and I could barely move. I was so tired. So I'm laying there. And next to the top of the bed, there's a closet.

And there's nothing in that closet. It's a vacation home. So, you know, the closets are empty. So I'm laying there and there's that closet next to my head. And this is the room in which there's weird energy.

And as I'm laying there, right before I have to leave to go home on the last day of my vacation before my wedding, I'm laying there. There's the closet door and from inside of the closet, I started to hear a tapping as if someone was in there. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. And it was repetitive and rhythmic and it sort of stopped and started this tapping sound. Now, if I had not been so exhausted, this would have been terrifying.

But something about the exhaustion overrode any fear that I might have had of this tapping. So I'm laying there and the tapping is going on and I said, okay, who's there? Who's in the closet? What do you need? Because I knew it was a ghost.

The vibration in my chest had started. That means that a ghost is nearby. There's a literal tapping coming from the closet in the room with the weird energy that both me and my 11-year-old nephew had sensed. So I'm laying there and there's tapping and I addressed whoever was tapping. I said, what do you need?

Who is it? And then to make things even more spooky, the closet door actually swung open a little bit. Not a big bang, but just a slow, creaking open. And then the closet door was open, the tapping stopped. And I opened my eyes and I realized that the ghost of the woman that used to be at the top of the stairs that I thought I had sent up 10 years ago was standing at the end of my bed.

So apparently she had not left. No, I don't know where this spirit had been for the last 10 years, but she clearly had not left entirely because of the energy in those two rooms. And now I had wound up sleeping and putting all my stuff into one of these rooms. And now, right on the day that I was supposed to leave, I got an overwhelming urge to go lay down. There's a tapping in the closet, the door opened and I can completely sense it's the same ghost that was there 10 years ago.

I said to her, what's going on? What's wrong? I was still too exhausted to sit up, but I talked to her from a laying down position and I said, what do you need? What's going on? And this ghost, who I from research over the past 10 years since I sent her up, realized that this was a maid who used to work in this house.

And at the top of the stairs was right outside the door of what used to be the maid's room. So I knew that it was this maid and I asked her what she wanted. And so when I started to hear what this ghost wanted, it made total sense. She immediately began expressing her discontent and she was frustrated and she was mad and she was resentful at having to do all this work for this family. So I realized that this spirit was in some sort of a loop where she thought that she had to stay here and help this family.

Now, I don't know why I didn't sense her presence for 10 years. And I had opened a portal when I had crossed her over 10 years ago or so I thought, and maybe she was just coming and going for those 10 years and her coming and going was leaving the energy in these two rooms. So this is when St. Michael stepped in. He said urgently, he said, tell her that the family that she used to work for is not here anymore.

And they don't even own the house and that this is a different family and that she is not obligated to help them at all. And he told me to tell this ghost that she can't resolve any of these resentments here in this house with this family. But he told me to tell her that she can get help for all of it on the other side. Then Michael did something very different. This whole time I had been having the vibration in my chest that comes when a ghost is nearby.

And Michael told me to take my index finger and place it on my sternum and to leave it there. And as soon as I did that, the vibration that tells me that a ghost is nearby or when I'm communicating with a ghost or when I'm about to help a ghost cross over, this vibration stopped. And I was laying there and the ghost of the made woman was still there. And I had my finger on my chest and the dizziness that I had felt from the exhaustion just went away. And I had been following what I thought was my usual protocol of communicating with the ghost and then helping the ghost cross over.

But I could not engage this skill with my finger on my sternum because it had stopped the vibration. So I'm laying there. I had told this ghost everything that Michael told me to tell her. You don't have to stay here. This is a different family.

You're not obligated to help them. And I had done all this with my finger on my sternum. So I didn't feel the vibration. But I still had given her all the communication about how she was free to go. And I was waiting for the vibration to come.

I was expecting to help her cross over. But when I opened my eyes, that ghost was gone. I guess she had crossed over. And for some reason, I was not supposed to help her cross over this time. I don't know what was going on there.

Maybe she had crossed over 10 years ago. But the portal was open and she was coming and going. But I was not supposed to in this instance do an official crossover because I guess she was going back and forth. And that's why Michael had me put my finger on my sternum to stop that crossover vibration. Maybe this ghost needed some extra reassurance that she really, really didn't need to be here anymore.

And it took her 10 years, which is a very short time and ghost time. It took her 10 years to like really, really learn this. And she needed some sort of final statement from me through St. Michael that her responsibilities are done. And she can truly cross over.

Now I went over to the part of the room where she was. And I closed up the portal anyway because I didn't really know. I was like, let me just play it safe and close up this portal. And I asked my nephew if it felt better. I didn't tell him about this whole thing.

I specially did not tell him that there was a tapping in the closet and the door had creaked open. I didn't want to tell him any of that. I don't want him to be scared. But I did ask, he said, it felt better. And I do believe that it feels better there.

So I don't know exactly what was going on with that ghost. I really just have a small part in helping these ghosts to cross over. But I am really glad that the frustrated maid who hung out at the top of the stairs and felt responsible and resentful towards having to take care of this family has moved on and now can deal with all of that on the other side in peace. Thank you for listening to today's episode. If you enjoy my storytelling style, you can subscribe to the Patreon.

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