This peculiar tale harks back to a time when I was merely a year old, living in my grandmother’s house in Gurabo, PR. The location, the characters, and the era may differ, but the eerie events of that night remain etched in my family’s memory.
Our home stood atop a sprawling sugar cane field, a place with a history that stretched far beyond our time. In bygone days, it had served as an old Spanish cemetery, a fact that cast an eerie shadow over the land.
One fateful night, as illness had gripped me with a fever, my mother, with maternal concern, ventured into the kitchen. The backdoor of the kitchen boasted protective rails, serving as a barrier between the interior and the outside world. Little did she know that this ordinary night would soon take an extraordinary turn.
As my mother busied herself preparing warm milk to soothe my feverish state, an inexplicable presence manifested itself. A woman, clad in the fashion of the Victorian era, emerged from beyond the kitchen’s metal door. Her attire, reminiscent of the 1800s, featured a grandiose, puffy dress, characteristic of that period. She donned a large hat that cast her face into shadow, obscuring her features from view.
The mysterious visitor wasted no time, moving with urgency, as if driven by a purpose only she understood. Remarkably, she bypassed the formidable rails and the metal door, seemingly unencumbered by such physical barriers. In her haste, she passed right through my mother’s very form, an unsettling experience my mother acknowledged but paid little heed to, continuing with her task of warming my milk.
However, the unexplainable was not yet done unfolding. A sudden exclamation pierced the air as my mother cried out, “Oh my God, that lady just went into my daughter’s room!” Panic seized her as she rushed to my room, only to find that the enigmatic woman had vanished, leaving no trace of her presence. Instead, I sat on my bed, giggling to myself, the high fever that had plagued me now conspicuously absent.
The inexplicable events of that night left a lingering sense of wonder and unease in our hearts, a testament to the unexplained mysteries that continue to weave their way into the tapestry of our lives.