Grandmamma's Impostor I

I was in my blue gym shorts and going from my house down to 256 and then going down towards Weyers Cave on a bike. Just at the end of the first hill, I passed a very gruff old man and his assistant, and I believe that they were doing some sort of archaeological dig or something. I went past them, and then I turned around and started to come back and on my way through, I almost ran into the old man. I think that I stopped to see what they were doing, and that's when I figured out that they were doing a dig of some sort.

I watched for a moment, and then I think I asked the old man either what they were doing, or if I could help out. Either way, I think he responded to both questions and said "What does it look like we're doing?" and I think he said that he'd have to think about if I could help out. I said okay, and then I went home, but it actually ended up being Pleasant Valley Church.

I was down in the basement, and in one of the rooms (I think it was supposed to be the youth room, or even what is now the nursery school room) there was stuff set up to sleep on, so I went over to that area, and I think I may have been packing it up to go somewhere. I remember hoping that I would be able to help out the old man. I also remember that this bedding stuff that I was packing up was Sarah's (ex-girlfriend), I think. I know it wasn't mine, but it seems that it was hers.

Then after a little bit the old man came down and said that I could join him on his dig, and I was pretty happy about it. Then either him or his assistant told me that I'd have to wear something besides just my blue underwear, and I told him that they weren't underwear, but they were actually gym shorts. The guy just kind of laughed and said, "okay, your gym shorts then." I said okay and I think I put on something a bit better.

Then I went and met the old man, and he said that the first thing we had to do was go and get our food. At first this sounded like a good thing, but then I realized that it was going to be something I didn't like to do to get it, and he ended up telling me that we had to catch it ourselves, and that we were going down to the beach to get it. I knew that if I were going to get anything, I'd have to go and pick up crabs and stuff that I didn't want to touch, but I knew that if he thought I was a sissy, then he wouldn't let me on the dig. So I said okay to going and getting our food, and then we went upstairs through the narthex of the church to get ready to leave. (I think that I must have been out in the parking lot at one point, but I'm not absolutely sure how or when that would've been, but I just have this image of the side of the church and being in that side parking lot)

As we were going through the narthex, I think that I saw a couple of my family members, and I knew that we were at a wedding for someone. The person that was having the wedding was someone that I knew at the time, but I don't' remember who it was now.

Then I looked up at the ceiling of the narthex, and it was open to a second story and had a balcony up there. First there was only one person up there, who I think was mom. Then I was looking around again and then when I looked back up, there were more people. This happened a couple of times, and eventually Aunt Irene was up there, too. Her and mom were crying because of the wedding, and then all of a sudden I remember seeing flashes of lightning or something (yes, inside the church), and for a brief moment, I saw grandmamma to the right of everyone else up on the balcony. [Note: My grandmother passed away on Aug 1, 1997]

She was wearing a lavender dress with white flowers and collar and she may have even been holding a white purse. After another flash or two of lightning, she disappeared. After a moment mom had some how gotten down to where I was, and she said that if Kate (girl from Canada) and I hadn't looked away, we'd have seen grandmamma. I told her that I HAD seen her.

Then suddenly I got a very bad feeling, and I thought that I should ask grandmamma to protect me from some sort of evil energy or lower spirit that I could feel approaching me. By this point, all of the visual to my dream had gone away, and I was quickly waking up. Just as I was getting ready to ask her to protect me, I suddenly felt something squeezing my entire body. I was very close to being awake. I tried to say "protect me!" out loud, but I couldn't. No part of me would move. I was awake at this point, and then as suddenly as the squeezing came, it left and I tried to say it again, and it barely came out. I didn't want to go back to sleep after that because I was very scared of this evil energy coming back. I realized at this point that this thing that appeared to me in my dream wasn't grandmamma, but it was actually something bad disguised as grandmamma, almost so I would let it "in" or invite it to confront me.