Quote Originally Posted by CFH View Post
It's probably trivial and nothing more than my imagination, but sometimes when I am out walking in the woods I hear footsteps that sound as if they are walking right beside me or just behind me. I always turn to look and see no one there. Everytime it happens I always remember how my mom and I used to take her dogs on these long walks through the woods; I always wonder if it's somehow her way of letting me know she is still with me in some capacity and that she still remembers the time we spent together. I hope it is, but it's probably just my imagination. The funny thing is, my Grandma, who also used to go for these walks with my mom on an almost daily basis, experiences exactly the same thing when she is out walking. When my Grandma and I are out walking together, which we do several times a week, we've both turned around at almost precisely the same time because we're hearing those same footsteps.
We had something like that several years back. When one of our neighbor died (poor guy was killed by the ex-boyfriend of a girl he was wooing), we heard footsteps outside our house several times for few nights. Our surroundings had just been laden with small gravels from nearby shores so the footsteps sounded very clear - you know what it sounds like when you walk on gravels, it sounded just like that.

Another one. When my dad died and everything was done with, me and my mom was staying at one of our rooms upstairs where we had a wide sliding-door window and behind it was branches and leaves of a tree planted outside. It was raining almost everyday and strangely there were bunch of hummingbirds visiting us, fluttering and chirping right there between the branches for several days. Their soothing chirps sort of cheered us up during those gloomy rainy days. What was strange was we'd never seen a hummingbird before and didn't even know there was hummingbirds here in the Philippines. It was as if my dad was comforting us, especially my mom, and telling us everything was all right.