So because I have calls for the next 1.5 hours and feel brave, back to stories. I'm sure I've told this here before.
We have a very old family farm, like Civil War old. The current barns/main house were built around turn of the century. It's been passed down father to son. A couple generations ago, my dad's grandpa - who loved the farm - was born on it - told my dad he wasn't feeling well and went to lay down in a room in the barn. And then - IDK the details, he had a stroke or heart attack and passed, in the barn. This was before my mom (and kids obviously) entered the picture.
Flash forward about 25 years and my family was now moving to the farm. As there often is, there was a LOT of family feuding as one generation moved in and the older moved out. It was deeply acrimonious and most of those relationships have never recovered. Essentially, my grandparents are ********. Anyway, high stress times on the farm. Lots of verbal fights. At this point, my mom usually went out in the mornings to start farm chores. She'd bring the cows into the barn (stanchion barn), and start prepping. Over the first year - more common in the winter when the cows were already in the barn - she later commented to me and my cousin - that she'd sometimes see an older man in the barn. Walking down the front alley in front of the cows and disappear into a feed room. She kind of figured it was a ghost of the grandpa because that was the room he died in. She said it never happened once she let the dogs out which sometimes she did right away, sometimes a bit later. And - being a stanchion barn - she could see the cows sort of step back a bit. You don't get this unless you're familiar with these kind of barns but the animals will sort of move back down the line as a person walks by. So it seemed like the cows saw this... apparition as well.
So anyway. That happens on and off, she doesn't really say much about it. In the barn, we have a bunch of old coats hanging up in one spot, only which 1-2 ever get used. But one time, we had to pull them all down to do whitewashing. They were all laid out somewhere and my mom asked about one particular old coat buried amongst the others. My dad said that was his grandpa's coat he used to wear to do barn chores.
The sightings stopped about a year after we moved in and she hasn't mentioned seeing anything since.
We have a very old family farm, like Civil War old. The current barns/main house were built around turn of the century. It's been passed down father to son. A couple generations ago, my dad's grandpa - who loved the farm - was born on it - told my dad he wasn't feeling well and went to lay down in a room in the barn. And then - IDK the details, he had a stroke or heart attack and passed, in the barn. This was before my mom (and kids obviously) entered the picture.
Flash forward about 25 years and my family was now moving to the farm. As there often is, there was a LOT of family feuding as one generation moved in and the older moved out. It was deeply acrimonious and most of those relationships have never recovered. Essentially, my grandparents are ********. Anyway, high stress times on the farm. Lots of verbal fights. At this point, my mom usually went out in the mornings to start farm chores. She'd bring the cows into the barn (stanchion barn), and start prepping. Over the first year - more common in the winter when the cows were already in the barn - she later commented to me and my cousin - that she'd sometimes see an older man in the barn. Walking down the front alley in front of the cows and disappear into a feed room. She kind of figured it was a ghost of the grandpa because that was the room he died in. She said it never happened once she let the dogs out which sometimes she did right away, sometimes a bit later. And - being a stanchion barn - she could see the cows sort of step back a bit. You don't get this unless you're familiar with these kind of barns but the animals will sort of move back down the line as a person walks by. So it seemed like the cows saw this... apparition as well.
So anyway. That happens on and off, she doesn't really say much about it. In the barn, we have a bunch of old coats hanging up in one spot, only which 1-2 ever get used. But one time, we had to pull them all down to do whitewashing. They were all laid out somewhere and my mom asked about one particular old coat buried amongst the others. My dad said that was his grandpa's coat he used to wear to do barn chores.
The sightings stopped about a year after we moved in and she hasn't mentioned seeing anything since.
