The room was in the darkness when he woke up and saw his friend at the end of his bed. They attended grade 2 together and they were best friends. His friend had been absent from school the last whole week. He only knew his friend was very ill and had to stay at the hospital. Now he was there smiling at him. He smiled back and then his friend walked out of the room. He didn't follow him. He knew.1
Tales of widows seeing
their late husband sitting on the foot of their bed or children encountering
the manifestation of their dead sibling in their bedroom are legion, and even
recently departed family pets have even been occasionally reported. Many had
been written about spirits and ghosts, but this particular phenomena is usually
the shortest in duration of all encounters where the spirit simply stays behind
to give to a loved one, the last farewell.
