The Honeymoon Ghost

My husband's first ghost experience.

My husband and I were married late in life. Since we both had previous marriages, we were both accepting of each other’s beliefs as we had both lived full lives up to that point. So when I asked in depth about his mother’s illness that he hadn’t spoken of, he knew I had the psychic abilities I had explained to him. So by the time we were married, he was not alarmed or surprised when I explained there were ghosts around, or predicted an upcoming news event. He seemed to take it in stride and just accepted that is part of who I am. But he himself had not experienced anything of that sort. At least not that he had told me about. So that is the backdrop of our honeymoon night.

We were completely broke when we got married. The result of two ex’s and lawyers who drained us both. So there was no honeymoon to be had. We were married in our backyard and everything was handmade and simple. It was even pot luck. But the sweetest gift we received was a night away at an old refurbished mansion not too far from us. This mansion was an estate house set around a beautiful pond and gardens out in the middle of the country. Every room was designed in a different theme…romantic, African, tropical. The kitchen and dining room was huge, and it graced a fireplace and private staff. This room cost more than I could imagine and it was such a lovely gift for a night from our friends.

So after a lovely dinner we decided to walk around the gardens. The whole estate was centered around a pond with a fountain and a ton of little lights that led you around a path through trees. They held outdoor weddings there as well so you can imagine the flowers and landscaping surrounding us. At that time my husband and I had dabbled a bit with pot. We had both smoked in our teens and we just enjoyed the occasional joint especially on a night like this. So we smoked a bit and wandered through the forest on the path laid out before us.

Suddenly a dark figure passed in front of me. I knew from previous experience that it was an apparition as it was hovering over the ground around three feet high. I said to my husband, “Oh we have company”. But then the strangest thing happened. I could not move forward. Imagine a wall in front of you made of plexiglass. You could see through it, but it wasn’t clear vision. More like you would expect looking through a dirty window. You definitely couldn’t move forward and both my hubby and I stopped abruptly almost bumping into it. And then it moved, like a rippling wave that started from the left and moved right. The wave went through the wall like a crowd doing the wave at a sport’s event. It rippled and in that moment I knew I was seeing an alternate universe embedded in my normal one. The dark made it difficult to see but it was the same for both of us. And then like that, it was gone. We could move forward and the apparition was gone. My husband was like…”did that just happen”.

We both figured/felt that maybe our ghost wasn’t that happy about the smoke on his property and was just checking on us. It unnerved us, but it didn’t scare us. We continued on our walk and chit chatted and returned to the mansion. Although my husband was a believer, this was his very first ghost experience.

The next morning we met the owner of the mansion. A lovely old lady who had to be ninety if she was a day. This was her home we learned from our waitress, and her husband and her had converted it over the years to this bed and breakfast. He had passed away only a few years back. I have always been very forward and frank with people so it was normal for me to tell the waitress that we had seen something on our walk the previous evening. She asked me…”Oh, did you meet her husband?” and she laughed. She said that every guest has an encounter with him while they spend time at the mansion. She took it in stride. She said they didn’t need to worry about security because he still kept an eye on the place and the actions of the guests.

Seeing the apparition was not new to me. My husband actually never saw the ghost. But the experience of both of us walking into the “alternate universe/glimpse of beyond” wall was shared and incredible. It is so difficult to explain but it was an experience I will never forget. I had always read that spirits appear at three feet above ground and that was the height this started from. It was an amazing, life altering experience for both of us that just happened to happen on our honeymoon night. Jennifer Harris.