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Today on Real Go Stories Online, was it her imagination or was there really something
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I'm Carol Hughes and Harper is with me today.
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Now we're recording this show towards the middle of May, I guess, and you are almost done
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It's always such a good feeling.
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I just remember being done with school and it was just this freedom.
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It's a very good feeling.
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It's a really good feeling, isn't it?
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And then what are you going to do all summer?
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I'm probably going to figure something out.
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I do know there's a vacation in your future.
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Where are you going?
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No, I would love to go.
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I'm going to Nashville about the same time that you're going there.
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And he says, get married.
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So I'm very excited about that.
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Guess who is officiating at their wedding?
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If I know you didn't know that I'm a reverend, did you?
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I did not know that you were a repit.
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I then did I know that you were a bartender or a playwriter.
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But hey, Carol's got all this stuff in store.
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There's so many things you don't know about me.
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Did I figure it out?
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No, you figured out my secret.
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So you want to hear a ghost story?
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I wouldn't call myself a ghost whisperer.
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That's hard to say, whisperer, or whatever you call someone, deeply sensitive to the paranormal.
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But I've had many occasions of weird things happening in my house.
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I am turning 17 soon, and I've lived in this house my entire life.
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Throughout the years, I've experienced weird little things that could be passed off as
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just my imagination, or the fact that this house is very old, things like door swinging
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open or hearing voices, like once when I was trying to get to sleep.
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I just really felt uneasy, and I whispered, I'm not alone, am I?
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And I thought someone whispered back, yes.
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OK, that to me is not just an old house.
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That to me is a little bit something more.
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Now that's probably like a squatter or something, but that's pretty creepy.
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That's how I imagine ghosts sometimes, like squatters.
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Because you know, they say they can move from place to place.
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You know, some people are attached to that place.
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But why are they, but why don't they just go somewhere else?
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If you think it'd be like vacation, maybe.
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You know, I've been here for a long time.
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I think I'd like to go to Disney World and hunt that, see what it's all about.
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If I were ghost, I'd go to why?
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Well, how, why couldn't you do that?
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I'd like to know the answers.
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I would be a ghost on a plane,
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on taking people on the plane.
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Ooh, I'd make that a plane ride, that absolute terror.
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I'd be a ghost on a cruise ship, until I got tired of it.
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That would just be kind of fun.
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So back to the story, when I was in the eighth grade,
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my grandmother, who suffered from dementia, was getting worse and worse.
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My mother and I were the only relatives that could actively help her,
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seeing how my aunt lived in New Mexico,
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and both of my uncles were born deaf and wouldn't be able to help her
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besides they also lived far away.
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The staff at the nursing home weren't taking proper care of her,
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and she'd taken a fall and broken her hip.
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This was not the first time this has happened.
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My grandmother had fallen and broken her hip in her home,
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in Rhode Island, which was a 45 minute drive from us.
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So my mother moved her to an assisted living place,
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closer to us, before she fell again and broke her arm,
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before she was moved to the place
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where she had more recently fallen.
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My mother knew it was almost time
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and she was frustrated with everything going on.
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So my mother decided to take my grandmother off her medications
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and keep her at home for however long she had.
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I was around 13 or 14 when this happened,
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so I was still young enough to be oblivious to most of it,
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but was old enough to understand when things got serious.
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I just remember the day before my grandmother came to stay.
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I came home from school and my mother was on the phone.
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I remember seeing her crying.
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That's how I knew it was serious
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because my mother never cries.
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This was all just the background for this story.
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Sorry, that took so long.
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My grandmother, my grandmother spent the better part
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of a week with us and it was near the end of April
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in beginning of May.
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My grandmother got more and more delirious
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as the days went on without her medicine.
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After a while, she had trouble forming sentences
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and she'd wake up in the middle of the night
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babbling nonsense and I'd have to go across the hall
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and wake up my mother.
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One of the days, one of the days, while she was still lucid,
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I stayed in the room watching her
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while my mom cooked dinner and my father was still at work.
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My grandmother always loved to sing
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and she was snarky and sarcastic.
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I think I get most of my personality from her.
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I remember her being fully lucid for a while
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and she was singing to me along with the old songs
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my mom had Pandora playing for her.
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All of a sudden, she looked off into the corner of the room
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She grabbed my hand and sort of tugged me
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farther away from the corner yelling,
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go away, you aren't welcome here.
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What's the matter, grandma?
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I asked, thinking that she wasn't lucid anymore.
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I went to get my mother.
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The door to the room is in the same corner
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and my grandmother was looking in
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and she grabbed my hand and said, page,
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don't go over there, it's not safe.
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Now I was kind of freaking out
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wondering if there really was something there.
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I'd had experiences in the house before
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and I knew my grandmother was lucid
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because she used my name.
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She'd forgotten my name a long time ago I'd thought.
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I'd asked her what she was looking at
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and she told me there was a dark man
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sitting in the corner of the room staring at her
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and that he'd been showing up a lot.
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I asked her if he was still there and she nodded yes.
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Still have believing it was just her delirium.
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I spoke towards the corner and said,
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can you please leave your scaring my grandmother
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and according to her, he left.
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A couple days later, after she passed,
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I was in a state of depression for a long time after that
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but around my freshman year of high school
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everything went back to normal.
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And as soon as I thought I could put everything behind me,
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I was 15 and deemed old enough
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to spend time at home alone
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and during those periods of time
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I started feeling uneasy as if I was being watched.
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It didn't feel evil but it also didn't feel nice.
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It got to the point where I would not take showers
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when I was home alone for fear of actually being watched.
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That's how real it felt.
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It was as if they were right behind me
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looking at what I was doing over my shoulder
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but as soon as I turned around nothing was there
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and the feeling would dissipate for a bit
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but then it would come back again
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anywhere from immediately to 20 or 30 minutes later.
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This still happens every now and again
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and I'm so relieved that next fall
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I'll be leaving this house for good to go to college.
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I say for good because I'm my father's last child
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and my mother's only child
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so they don't need such a big house.
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They'll be moving to something smaller
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when I leave for college.
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If I'm lucky, I won't have those instances
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feeling watched after I leave
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but I can't help wondering from time to time
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if that the man my grandmother saw
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is the one that I've had interactions with all of my life
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or if it's my grandmother herself watching over me
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seeing as she died in the house
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and her ashes are spread in my mother's yard gardens.
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Though that seems less likely because like I said
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it didn't feel evil but it also didn't feel nice
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and I'd always been my grandmother's favorite
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seeing I was the one that lived close by
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and would visit often.
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If it was her, I feel it would be a more pleasant feeling
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Either way, I never told anyone about these stories
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because my father is always so black and white would say
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it's just your imagination or stop with a bullshit page
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and my mother is an atheist
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and she doesn't believe in the spiritual world at all.
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I am one as well but it's hard for me
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not to be spiritual after everything I grew up with in that house.
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I'm just really relieved to be getting this off my chest finally.
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I have a great day, I'm sorry, my story is so long.
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What are your thoughts about that one?
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The figure in the corner is just, is very gary
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and the fact that she didn't think it was like positive
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or negative clearly says something.
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Do you think her grandmother is in the house with her?
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I kind of think it was something else.
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Dimension is a very, very strange thing
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and I'll tell you a story of once when I was,
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oh gosh, like 19, I was working in a nursing home
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and there was a woman who had dimension
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she would frequently see things all the time
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and taking the grandmother off of her medication suddenly
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could or would cause some hallucinations, definitely.
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But this woman, she would see things frequently
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and one day she was just beside herself
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and I could hear all the way down the hall.
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She was just yelling and yelling and yelling
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and so I went into her room and I said, are you okay?
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And she grabs my hand and she's pointing outside
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and she's just crying and she goes, the donkey,
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they're not feeding the donkey, they haven't fed it
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and it's starving, you need to call the Humane Society.
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I said, who's not feeding it?
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The people that own it, they're not feeding it
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and it's starving, you have to call someone,
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you have to feed it.
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And so I said, okay, let me see what I can do.
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So I walked out in the hall room and I just,
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in the hallway and I just did there for a few minutes
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and I came back in and I took her hand and I said,
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I just want you to know that I went out to see
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how the donkey's doing and she looks at me
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and she was so at peace and she said, I saw you feed it.
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And obviously I didn't feed the donkey
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but that's how real the hallucination was.
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I didn't tell her I'd fed it but I just said,
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you know, I'm gonna go out and see what I can do.
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Came back in, I just want you to know
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I went and saw the donkey and she thought I had fed it
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and that's all she needed to be calmed down
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was just acknowledged and I had it.
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She was great for the rest of the day
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and that's how real those hallucinations
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So the guy, to me, the guy in the corner of the room
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could have been a hallucination
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because she had been taken off her medications
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but maybe she was also seen something I don't know.
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That's the thing about dementia
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because if you really are hallucinating
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or if you really are seeing something
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that's dark in the corner,
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you don't know because it could be attributed to dementia
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I think that if your grandmother was watching over you
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and you felt that behind you all the time
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that might feel a little spooky
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but I kinda think there are two separate things going on there.
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I really do think there are two separate things.
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