To be really freaked out about seeing someone that wasn’t there??

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My partners mum, step-dad, brother and 2 nieces are on holiday at the seaside so to we took our little one for the a day trip to have a beach day with his cousins today.

As we were driving into where they are staying and my partner was packing I said to him ‘I didn’t know your whole family was here’ when I saw his grandma standing next to his mum. He must have assumed that I was talking about his stepdad as he didn’t respond to it in a weird way/ask what I meant.

Then when we were inside I asked where his grandma had gone and where she was sleeping as they only have 2 bedrooms. Well it turns out that she isn’t there and is at home and I couldn’t have seen her because she’s not there??

What on earth happened?? What/who did I see?? Am I crazy now? 🙈

That’s unfortunately true.

but it is most likely simply a case of the brain playing tricks on OP. So let’s not alarm OP by talking about dead relatives or psychosis.

Maybe it was some other random old lady who was walking by? Looked a bit the same?

Threads like this maje the back of my neck tingle and tears stream down my face for some reason. 6th sense I reckon.

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Or you just glanced and saw an old dear standing nearby who looked a bit like her and your brain filled in the gaps?

Here for updates on granny

What time does Granny usually get up?

I hope granny is ok. Could there also be another granny who was part of the family, now deceased?

After a big evening service at our church (before my time there), several people asked "whose was that extra face in the choir?".

This absolutely creased me 😂

You would only know when or if the wrongness was pointed out. It may have happened several times, but you weren’t aware you were wrong and just accepted what you saw.

People often ‘see’ their dead pet. That little shadow at your heels, or the curled lump on the bed. It’s very persistent when the pet has gone.

Is it possible you thought you saw her because it made sense for her to be there.?

Any news on granny? Hope she's OK

Did Granny get an Airbnb close by?

Definitely. It is a known phenomenon that our brains fill in the gaps. Brains are amazing!

Gosh op, hope all is ok

I saw someone who looked just like my granny, it really shook me up as my gran was dead. Turned out the woman I saw was my aunty, I never knew she existed as we didn't see that side of the family much. She was the spitting image of her mother.

Don't be silly, paradolia is perfectly natural.

We look for patterns and sometimes unconsciously fill in the gap if the pattern we're expecting isn't quite complete. That's what brains do.

But she didn't expect to see 'granny', that's why she was surprised to have seen her as she didn't think she would be there.

Exactly. Plus what are the chances that in her dying moments Granny decided to make herself visible to grandchild's girlfriend rather than her own family?

Why assume she didn't expect to see her, given that she was seeing other family members? Even if she hadn't been specifically told that granny was coming, it's perfectly reasonable for the brain to think "apparent elderly female figure next to partner's mother, probably her mother".

I had the same once
We didn't have anything to do with my father's side of the family
My grandad (their father) brought me up and we where very close
Grandad died,and a few years later we where invited to uncles house to admire his garden for charity (I didn't know this was a thing)
I'm stood there,baby in one arm (he would have been about 5/6 months) and pouring juice for the other two children and I suddenly hear 'hello sharon'
My grandad was standing there! (he'd been dead for 9 years at this point)
I screamed and dropped the baby (thankfully my mother caught him just in time but the juice wasnt so lucky)
It was my uncle-image of grandad
We both saw the funny side once we both calmed down and checked baby over

I hope that granny is OK and it was just your brain playing tricks

Are you in Clacton? Because there’s a fuckload of weird shit going on there at the minute. Their MP has vanished. Maybe it wasn’t so much a mirage as a farage.