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⚰️Sex From Beyond the Grave⚰️ ~ The final tale is here at last! [If you're wondering what on earth... read my recent 👻Glimpses of Ghosts👻 season posts👇on the 'Haunted Lovers' book, including 'Phantom Sweethearts' & 'Sex From Beyond the Grave: John's Widow' first.] 👼Bill, Jr.👼 "Bill came to me in the night no more than four days after we had laid him in the ground," another anonymous widow told 'Haunted Lovers' author, Brad Steiger. She continued: "He was rough in his lovemaking, brutal, like an animal. It was Bill, all right. I was so scared. He was at me all the time when he was alive. I figured he wouldn't ever leave me alone now that he was a ghost..." After two more nonconsensual encounters, Bill appeared no more... but the widow was left with child. Born of flesh and blood, Bill, Jr. grew to resemble his father in more than just name. Aged 12, local mothers complained Bill, Jr. was harassing his female classmates, and the widow began to worry. Aged 15, he was sent to a reform school for stealing cars. On his release, his mother admits that "he tried to kill [her] with a hammer"! Her story ends with her son safely locked away "in an institution for the criminally insane," but she fears that "when he gets out, his daddy's spirit is going to keep that boy after [her] until [she's] in [her] grave." Steiger suggests that the woman's guilt at lacking grief at her abusive husband's passing manifested itself in an imagined haunting, and that her son's aggressive behaviour was the product of her resentful treatment of him, which was in turn due to Bill, Jr. physically resembling his father. 🤔: Guilt-born ghost, or ghost-born aggressor? Either way a tragic tale... 📸: H. Stratton's illustration, appearing in 'Songs for Little People' by Norman Rowland Gale, 1896 via @britishlibrary on @flickr. . #generallygothic #gothic #glimpsesofghosts #ghost #haunting #haunted #spirits #ghostpregnancy #spiritualist #spiritualism #ghoststory #hauntedlovers #britishlibrary #flickr #normanrowlandgale #helenstratton #songsforlittlepeople #books #bookstagram #booknerd #spookynerd #spooky #widow #abuse #spider #spidersweb #ghostmother #ghoststories #trueghoststories #skeptic https://www.instagram.com/p/B2yFSF1Ax_h/?igshid=6202cxwf794h

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👻Sex From Beyond the Grave👻 [If you're wondering what on earth... 👇read my recent previous posts on the 'Haunted Lovers' book & tale of the 'Phantom Sweethearts'.] 👰Part 1: John's Widow👰 An unnamed childless widow speaking directly to the narrator recounts a night of intimate contact from the beyond: "I turned & beheld a very dim, wispy outline of my husband. His eyes were very easy to distinguish, and I identified him by those sparkling, lively green eyes. Later, when we lay down together, I knew without a doubt that it was John who was making love to me in his spirit body." Shortly following this event, John's widow ceased menstruating, and began suffering with morning sickness & a swollen womb. The woman moved in with a group of friends, all spiritualists - as a paying guest. Fearful of judgement, she never ventured out and denied all traditional medical contact. After 9 months, spirit guides brought forth a ghost doctor to assist in the painful delivery of "a tiny, smoky-looking glob" - in the words of the widow. She says she saw John, all smiles, behind the aforementioned 'glob' before both departed for the spirit world. Claiming to have communicated with her husband and son on many occasions, the widow is excited to join her family in the beyond... Pseudo-pregnancies - with physical presentation - are known in the medical world. Including the fact that her friends' support came in exchange for significant sums of her late husband's insurance money, it is hard to ignore the likelihood that a grieving widow was taken advantage of... 🤔: What do you think? Ghost baby or mislead lady? 📸: Reposted from past self. Original post with details of subject in stories. . #generallygothic #gothic #glimpsesofghosts #ghost #haunting #haunted #spirits #ghostpregnancy #spiritualist #spiritualism #ghoststory #hauntedlovers #medicine #medicalphenomenon #pseudopregnancy https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ixd54AYzE/?igshid=1l7elcbz2off7