In 1994, my family, fiance, and I took a three days/two nights weekend vacation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. We rented a very cozy chalet.
It had one bedroom downstairs, and two upstairs. It also had a nice stone fireplace. On the mantel was an old black and white picture
of a woman that grabbed our attention soon after arriving.
The first night there something really strange happened. To set things up, my parents slept in the downstairs bedroom. I took the
upstairs bedroom that was on the front of the house and my fiance took the bedroom on the back of the house. My fiance and I kept
our bedroom doors open, so we had a clear view into each other's rooms.
I had a difficult time getting to sleep because the light from the moon was shining brightly through the window, but I finally did
fall asleep. But while sleeping I kept having scary dreams that I was in this room and there were ghosts standing all around.
After waking from a series of these dreams, I nervously glanced around the room I was in. Everything seemed okay in my area, but
something looked strange in my fiance's room. There was a reddish glow hovering over the foot of his bed.
I rubbed my eyes thinking it was just my sleepy eyes not focusing. After rubbing and blinking my eyes a few times, it was gone.
So I dismissed it as nothing. After a while I fell asleep again, but woke up soon afterwards. This time when I woke up, I was
facing the window and I felt like someone was standing behind my back. This feeling terrified me. I slowly turned around and a
movement in the corner of the room caught my eye. I looked to that point and I saw a woman standing there! I can only remember
seeing her from the waist up and she was transparent. She came toward the bed. She then repeated about three times while shaking
her head, "I can't fix it". At least I think that's what she was saying. It was something to that extent anyway (sorry, bad memory).
All I knew is that I wanted out of the room and wanted some human company! I started to panic and she floated back to the dark
corner and disappeared. I lay there afraid to move for a few seconds or minutes. I'm not sure how long I actually stayed put, but I
finally got up and went into my fiance's room. I woke him up and told him that I had been having nightmares all night and I wanted
him to go downstairs with me and sleep on the couch. We did.
About an hour later I heard the door to my parents room open and my mom came out. She didn't see us and went into the kitchen.
I went in there to see why in the world she was up so early. She said she couldn't sleep. I told her that I couldn't either and had
been having dreams about ghosts all night long. Excuse the pun, but she turned white as a ghost when I said that. It seems that she
was visited by the same ghostly woman that I was. Her story is that she awoke to see a woman float through the bedroom door.
The ghost came around to mom's side of the bed, and placed her hand on mom's right side!! Mom said she was so scared she froze.
The ghost held on to her for a few seconds, then let go, and floated back out of the door! Scary!!
Anyway, we both remembered the lady was wearing a white flowing dress or gown. Sounds typical, but that is what we both saw.
Also, I do not think it was the lady in the picture above the fireplace that I mentioned at the beginning. We studied that picture
hard the next day and I just don't think it was her.
Nothing happened the last night we stayed, but we had an extra guest. My younger sister had joined us and we shared the room that
last night. I always regret not stopping by the chalet office and asking about that place before leaving. And I DEFINITELY regret
not trying to ask the ghost what it was that she couldn't fix! I want to kick myself every time I think about how I panicked
instead of trying to "make contact". And yes, I do worry that she was trying to say that there is something wrong with my mom
that she couldn't fix...
