Dana's Mom Is Still Onry Even After Death

My best friend's mom passed away in 1992. She was full of spunk and everyone loved being around her. She was onry and outspoken.

I stayed with our friends while my husband came up here to start a new job and find us a house. I had to get stuff packed and ready to go. They offered to let me stay with them and I gladly took them up on it. I love them both to death and at least this way I wouldn't be alone for 3 or more months. Boy, that thought turned out to almost be more than I bargained for.

A few weeks after moving in Dana and I were talking about something we did 20+ years earlier. We were laughing and having a good ol' time at the kitchen table. A penny fell off the countertop and rolled across the kitchen floor. We just kind of looked at eachother and cracked up. We were at least 6' away from the counter and had been sitting there for hours. She picked the penny up and put it in her change jar. Fifteen or twenty minutes passed. We were back to talking and another penny rolls across the kitchen floor, spins for a little bit and only stops when it hits her foot. She picked up the penny and said "Hi mom, you remember Lynn don't you?" I laughed and said, "Hey Betty, how's it going?" The second I said that, a calendar fell off of their wall right behind my head. I was just a little uneasy, to say the least. Dana was thrilled because she knew it was her mom.

She told me about things that had been happening since the death of her mom. One thing was Betty's perfume, TABU. Dana hated it. Everyone did. Anyone that knows TABU knows it's 'unique' scent. (As my mom would say, 'it's enough to gag a magot!') And Betty wore it for years. We would smell that all the time in Dana's house. I was going through my stuff one afternoon while I was home alone. I smelled TABU. It was so strong it almost made me ill. Some perfumes give me a splitting headache and TABU is one of them. Had someone else been home at the time I would've thought someone was messing with me. But I had been alone in the house for almost 8 hours.

A few days later I (home alone again) heard the water running in 'my' bathroom. I went in and sure enough it was running full blast. I cleaned up the mess, turned the water off and made sure it was turned off good and tight. I went back to what I was doing and took a load of laundry into the laundry room. I was loading the washer. There is a full bathroom in the laundry room. All of a sudden the water in the sink started running full blast in there. I FREAKED OUT!!! I left the laundry, turned off the water and closed the door. I guess I thought by closing the door that would keep whoever or whatever in that room. The water running happened all the time. And it wasn't a trickle it was always all the way on or nothing. It was different sinks, different times, etc. Jerry, Dana's husband changed all the faucets thinking something was wrong but it still happened. They even had a plumber come out and check them and he couldn't find anything wrong with them.

Jerry loved Betty like she was his own mother. She loved bingo and played every opportunity. They have her bingo card that she always played. He has a yellow rose (her favorite) laid over a bingo card tattoo on his arm dedicated to her. Not long after he got the tattoo they came home to a tipped china cabinet. Luckily, the dining room table caught it. But not before a few things spilled out on the floor. One being her bingo card and a dried yellow rose from her grave fell on top of it. They never figured out how it tipped.

One thing that REALLY creeped me out (if all the above wasn't enough) was an incident with Betty's wedding ring. Dana was given some of her mom's jewelry when she died. She was so upset because she thought she'd lost the wedding ring. It had been a few years since she had seen it. She said she had searched high and low, asked her sisters and brothers if they took it, and went back through everything several times. Still nothing. I forgot all about the ring. I made my bed one morning and got dressed. Everyone was gone so I was taking my time. Something caught my eye. I looked at my pillow and there laid Dana's mom's wedding ring. Now you can believe this or not but what is weird about this, I was in my own bed, using my own pillows, my own linens, and had all my own stuff in that room. They emptied it out for us when we moved in there. There was nothing in there but our stuff. I have no clue where the ring came from but was there after I made the bed. The pillows had been on a chair and I literally tossed them across the room to the bed before putting them in place. There's no way the ring could've been there before. Any way, Dana was tickled to death and thrilled that her mom gave it to me to give it back to her.

They are always finding pennies (that's what Betty used for bingo chips). They've had them laying everywhere or rolling across the floor. The water is still running once in a while. The perfume is still as strong as ever. And they are thrilled and I'm thrilled for them. I don't know how much more of that I could've handled and told them this is a movie waiting to happen.

Names have been changed to protect my friends and their privacy.