A haunting after a funeral near Ambositra, Madagascar

"The funeral was that of the mother of someone i know in Ambositra who died from unknown illness. The mother started having intense shoulder pain then ended up in the hospital. There the doctors could not find anything wrong with her and the pain continued. Few days later the she was taken back home where she died. The family was made up of two daughters and two sons. The mother was very attached to the youngest girl."

"As i arrived there with friends and payed my respect to the family. We stayed a bit inside the house where the family was sitting then got out after and waited for the body to be taken away for burial. As i passed by the entrance and was walking away i picked up the presence of someone invisible standing on the balcony. It was a female presence and she was very happy. I kept feeling her presence for some time. Then i told my friends what i was picking up and pointed to them where this presence was standing and they were intrigued. A bit later the oldest daughter came by to check on us and to see if we needed anything. I told my friends to tell her about that presence on the balcony. The daughter became very happy and told my friends in Malagasy that her mother loved to sit on that part of the balcony when she was alive. The daughter stayed a bit more then went back inside the house to prepare her mother for burial. About 10 minutes later the presence faded away. Then about an hour after they brought out the mother wrapped in a white cloth then was layed in her wooden coffin and away to her tomb."

"Few days had passed then we went to visit the oldest daughter in her shop in Ambositra to see how she was doing. We were surprised by what she told us. Her dead mother have been coming every night for the last three nights into her youngest sister's room. The ghost would come and sit on the bed of her youngest daughter and the daughter would freak out. The ghost was opaque and very real and has no facial expression. Every night for three nights the same thing gets repeated. The family then called in on a local shaman/psychic and helped the ghost to move on and go where it suppose to go. After that the ghost's visit to the youngest daughter ceased."

Patrick Zakhm