Guardian Angels Everywhere

Alicia tells us about her son and as many experiences with those who have passed guardian angels, her family calls him showing themselves in very particular ways that are far too specific to be mere coincidences, proving that perhaps there is life after death. My name is Edwin, and here is Alicia's true scary story. My son Rayden was born in January twenty eighteen. He's been seeing things ever since he was a newborn, in the corner of his nursery or something smiling, laughing, cooing, everything that a baby does. It's never been something that I feel is an evil entity. Whenever she would take care of him, whenever he was first born, she would always think it was his guardian angel. My mom was very religious. She was like, I met somebody's watching over him. Fast forward to June of twenty eighteen. This is when my husband's grandmother, Ampado, she unfortunately passed away. She was from the valley area of La Fatia along the Gulf coast of Texas. She was in hospice care for a little bit. She was very sick. She had always wanted to meet my son Rayden. Unfortunately, at the time that he was born, his pediatrician was like, he can't travel anywhere because it could make him really sick. We were waiting it out till he was a little bit older and never came to fruition for him to meet her. We went down to the Valley area. Her service was on a Monday, her barrel was on a Tuesday. Ask my parents, Hey, do you mind taking care of raiding for us so we can go down there. They were more than happy to do so. They were both very religious. They were like, hey, do you mind if we take him to church on Sunday while y'all are in the valley. I was like, no problem. Sunday afternoon, we'd check into our hotel. We're getting ready for the next day. We're going to go meet up with his family members or they were having some dinner at his grandmother's house or at a restaurant. I can't exactly remember. It was so long ago. I know we were supposed to meet up with them that night. I had checked in with my parents to see how he was doing, how he was at church. They said he was great, and she was like, I need to tell you something funny that happened me and your dad. We took Raydon in and sat in one of the furthest pews to the back because in the church that I grew up and they had a crying room for the baby. So my mom was like, I'm gonna sit way back in the back of the church. If he starts crying, I can just take him out, so we're not disturbing anybody else. They sat in the back. He was five and a half months at the time. She noticed he was smiling at somebody in the back of her as she figured there's either another baby or somebody that was entertaining him. She never looked at the back of her who it was. They go through the whole service. She's gathering the diaper bag. My dad's helping her. She fills a tap on her shoulder. It's this elderly lady. She has glasses on. There's another lady next to her that's pulling her up or assisting her. They both smiled at my son, and both of them. The other lady nodded politely, but she never said a word. My mom was like, HI, how are you doing. She was like, I just wanted to say that your grand baby Rayden was so well behaved. He's she was just little thing I've ever seen. She talked to my mom for a little bit and she goes, do you mind if I give you something. My mom was like, oh, no, no, no, you don't have to do that. She was like, no, I insist, I really want to give him something. She said, okay, no problem. The lady handed her a two dollar bill. In the back of my mom's mind, she was like, that was a little weird. Nobody carries those anymore. She was like, I thought it was very kind. She touched my son's head and said, I hope you'll have a good day. She saw them walk out of the church doors. That was it. My husband who was beside me, who's like, hey, how's raided? I told him the whole story. He goes, wait, she gave him a two dollar bill? Yeah, a two dollar bill? Why, he goes my grandma she used to give us two dollars and twenty dollar bills every single Christmas out to all of her grandchildren. And I was like, are you serious, and like I didn't know that at the time, and he was like, yeah, yeah she did. Did your mom say what that lady looked like. I was like, yeah, she just said that she had glasses. His grandmother used to wear glasses. I could tell in the back of his mind those wheels were just going. He was like, I need to know more about this. We we went to the service that night and terror burial. We came all the way back to Victoria. He immediately asked my mom as soon as we walked in the door, can you tell me what happened? She tells him the whole story. He tells her, Yeah, my grandma used to give us twenty dollars and two dollar bills every single Christmas without fail. It just so happened that he had the obituary card in his wallet. He pulls it out and shows a turt My mom gets her glasses on and everything. She looked at the card. Her face went pale. It just went pale. That was her. She was like, no, that was her. I don't know who the other lady was. She never said a word, but that was her. I looked at my husband. I could tell he was just like, oh my god. He couldn't believe it either. We still have that two dollar bill framed in my son's room. I believe Mama. I know she was telling the truth. She knew who she saw It was very symbolic because she never got to meet Raydon. I think that was her way of finally getting to meet him and being able to say goodbye. At the same time, it's comforting, I think. I mean, it is a little creepy in a sense, but at the same time, it's very comforting because we know she's still around protecting Raiden in our family. She's one of his guardian angels now. But it is a little creepy to some people. Some people might doubt that, like, oh, it's just a coincidence. It was just a lady that was wearing glasses just like her, that had the hairstyle just like her. But no, like I truly think that that was her. I still can't believe it to this day. My mom, she strongly believes in that, she's very religious, believes in the afterlife, and that there's guardian angels everywhere. They'll pop up whenever you least expect it or when you meet them the most. It definitely scared her. She never met her, but for her to say, yeah, that's her from a card, that was something Maybe they come at our time of need or when they feel like they need to protect us. For some reason, they see something that could happen and we don't, and they're just there anyway, you know, So that could have very well been it. Fast forward a couple of years to twenty twenty, my son turns to and in January that year, Ramone's grandfather, Oscar passes away. He was a really, really sweet man. He was a lawyer down in Raymondville. He was known for his work. There were a lot of poor people down there. He was well known for the fact that if they couldn't afford his services, he'd say, okay, you can pay me with some are your corn or some are your crop for that year. So he was known for being generous and having empathy for other people that weren't as fortunate as him. He passes away and in January at the time, I'm working a corporate job. I wasn't able to take off to go with my husband to the funeral and the services. He's like, hey, no problem, so you can stay here with Braydon. I'll be back in a couple of days. He takes off. I don't remember exactly what day the service was. They were holding a rosarie. The next day was going to be the burial. That night that he first left. It was just me and ray We were doing our usual bedtime routine as we started seven pm, and by eight pm he was in bed. I was reading to him. He has this little toddler bed that faces our hallway. I was reading to him. We just finished a book. I was walking to his little bookcase to put everything up. I noticed out of the corner of my eye that he was smiling at something. I didn't think too much of it. Normally, our dog Emmy will come down the hallway and spend the time with us in there until I'm leaving. I was just thinking, okay, she's just coming down the hallway. I'm putting up all the books. He's still smiling at something. He let out a little giggle. I was waiting for Emmy to come in. She never came in. I looked down the hallway. It's dark, completely dark. I'm looking at Rayd and he's smiling away. Something is entertaining him. I asked him, okay, buddy, what are you looking at. He just goes the light. Light, light, the light. I'm thinking I'm losing my mind. And I left a light on in one of the rooms and he's seeing it under the doorway. We don't have a night light down that hallway or anything. Even with the entryway to our house, there was no light on. I dreaded to ask him this question, but I was like, is it a good light? And he goes, yes, it's very good. He's two and so he can only speak so many words, but he knew to say it's good. All of a sudden, he just starts laughing, and then he hides behind me peeks out again. I guess whoever it was was playing peekapoo with him. I had this feeling that it was Ramon's grandfather. So he just continues steering down the hallway. He's in this trance that I can't break him out of. All of a sudden, he lets out one more laugh. He gives me a hug. He lays down immediately to sleep. That's not like him. He's a taller, he doesn't want to go to sleep. It takes me a few minutes just to get him down, but he was immediately asleep. It looked like the most peaceful sleep that he's ever been in. I was just frozen there. I wasn't afraid. I was like, I bet that was his grandfather. I said a little prayer. I said, please watch over rating while he sleeps. I put at the back of my mind, I'll tell my husband about this tomorrow. I went to sleep. The next day, they're holding the rosary. My husband calls me before he's just wanting to check in on us. I tell him what happened. He's like, man, that's really weird. Did anything else happen after that? I was like, no, nothing else happened. It was just that one time. We talked a little bit more. I hang up. They're holding the rosary. At seven pm that night, I start the whole bedtime routine again, reading to him. He's laying in bed looking at the ceiling. There's a spot on the ceiling that he's so fixing. I'm thinking that he's looking at these little planet decals that we have on his wall. He just starts smiling again, and I'm like, okay, here we go. I'm dreading it. Also, this is not what I want to be encountering when I'm by myself at night with my dollar. So I'm like, raydon are you okay? He asked, where's my dad? He's with his grandfather right now. He's okay, when's he coming? Back. We'll be coming back tomorrow. He's like, where's Grandpa. I thought he was talking about my dad, and I was like, well, they're at home, we'll see them soon. He's like, no, Daddy's grandpa. I was like, well, he's with Daddy right now. He looks me done the eye and he goes, no, he died. I felt like my soul left my body. We never told him the meaning of death or dying. For him to say that and use it correctly, it froze me, give me chills. I looked at him, Yeah, you're right, he's in heaven now. And Daddy went to go see him. How did you know? He goes? He told me. Then he started staring at the ceiling again. All of a sudden, this little chance was broken. He looks at me, He's like, I'm tired. I honestly think that he just appeared to him. All this happened while the rosary was going on. His soul came to visit Raydon and was giving his final goodbyes to He knew that we couldn't be there. He came to see Raydon and tell him maybe what happened, and Raydan understood that the rosary as a service that they hold in a Catholic funeral, where you recite all the beads of the rosary, you say a prayer for the deceased. After all that, friends and family can get up and just talk about the memories they had with that deceased person to help their souls get to heaven, at least in the Catholic belief, that service, that's why we have that for the burial, the final goodbyes that the family can give, friends can give, and they go to the cemetery to bury them. It wasn't just raid in. Now another member of Alicia's family begins to experience strange things at her home, and we'll get to hear them up next. They waits my husband's aunt, Terry. She was staying with Ramone's grandmother at her house shortly after his burial. She was hearing a lot of noises in the house. The door to their master bedroom with slam shut. They thought maybe for some reason, he was still attached to something in that house that he could not leave behind. Maybe he didn't want to leave his wife yet, or if he was looking for something. They weren't sure, but my husband was given some suits and ties and an old college jacket. He went to the University of Texas before he became a lawyer and received a jacket from there. My husband was given that jacket. I remember he told me that there was a few occasions where he was having a hard time sleeping. He would be up doing something on his phone or computer. Now at the corner of his eye, he would see a shadow pass in our living room, like go back and forth. Maybe he was looking for that stuff. Maybe it still means a lot to him, even in the afterlife. I don't know how long they waited to give it to us until after he was he was buried, but he was probably still very attached to everything. Even though his soul left this world, all of his materialistic things still meant something to him. He only saw it maybe once or twice. All these things happened two or three weeks after he was buried, and then it just stopped all of a sudden. I never experienced anything else after that, neither did my husband. All the activity in his grandmother's house stopped as well. We're not sure what he was looking for or if he was just wanting to stay until his wife passed on with him. I don't know, but it was definitely quite the experience, not just from my side, but from his aunt's side as well. My son, Rayden, he's definitely a special little boy. Ever since the beginning. He's very sensitive, not only emotionally, but he's sensitive to what's going on around him at all times, how people are feeling in the atmosphere. I really think that he's had that ability ever since he was born. Now he's going to be six. I haven't heard from him if he's seen anything, but it really amped up a lot. Whenever he was little, a baby, all the way to almost three years old is when everything happened to him. It can get emotional talking about them. In the back of my mind, I still can't believe that they happen, but I know they did. Even to this day, I still wonder why it only happened to Raydin and I not to my husband in Raydon, considering they're his family. I still don't understand that he's had one minor experience, but it wasn't as extensive as it was with all of his grandparents since twenty eighteen. This last one takes place in May of one Ramon's grandmother, who was the wife of Oscar. She just gets very sick and she passes away. At that time, I'm probably about in my late second trimester with our second son. I was having a hard time sleeping. I couldn't get comfortable for the life of me. I was always up late, just randomly cleaning and doing things around the house. I remember Raydon got up and they came to get me. He couldn't go back to sleep. He was wondering where I was that I took him back to his bed. He wanted me to lay down with him until he fell asleep again. I was sitting there with him. I couldn't go to sleep, so I was like, I'll just do some light reading. I looked at my phone. It changed from eleven fifty nine to twelve am. I started reading, and I barely got through the first paragraph before I heard three knocks on a window. Those three knocks were on that window that was closest to his bed. After those three knocks stopped, I started hearing a bird sing. I hadn't heard a bird sing it that hour before. I went to the window and looked out. Maybe the bird threw something at the window. As soon as I opened the blinds, the singing stopped, brushed it off. I went back to bed or I was sitting there and I get this thought in my head that she's gone. For some reason, I just automatically came to my mind that his grandmother had passed. Less than a minute later, my husband comes into the room. I already knew what he was going to say. He goes, my mom called, my grandmother just passed away. I just told him, I know, I told him everything that happened been. He goes, it just happened. I was like, yeah, what time does she pass away? Twelve am? That's when I heard the knocks and the bird sing right at twelve am. Maybe she was rejoicing that she passed from this life and is happy now that rest and isn't hurting anymore. She's finally with her husband again. Why else would a bird be singing at twelve am. It sounded like a cardinal. Those are very symbolic. They only appear if somebody you love has past. I couldn't see anything when I went to the window. It was really dark outside, but I really do think it was a cardinal. No bird has ever sounded that pretty before. My dad. I was talking to him yesterday evening. He reminded me of one more instance. My son Raydon, had seen somebody that passed away. My uncle John had gotten COVID, but March of twenty twenty he unfortunately passed away from it. I wasn't able to attend the funeral. They weren't having a service. They didn't really know what COVID was at the time. It was just something scary that was killing everybody. Instead of a burial, everybody from their cars was only able to view it. You couldn't go outside or anything. People weren't has matt suits burying my uncle. A few months after that, Raydon, I want to say, he was gonbe three. He was playing baseball with one of the neighborhood kids. He was just laughing, having a great time, and I saw him run into the house. He came out with one of his dinosaurs. He was a big dinosaur collector, and he just looks over there in that little area because they're playing baseball in between our houses. He has this confused look on his face. Then he comes running up to me. He goes, Mom, he goes, where's uncle John. What do you mean, where's uncle John? He goes, he was here. He was standing behind my friend's dad. He was playing baseball with us. He told me to go show him one of my dinosaurs. I couldn't talk. I could not talk for like a good minute. I was like, Uncle John, he passed away. He passed away a few months ago. He was like, oh, and then he just runs back. He saw my Uncle's still an emotional thing to talk about. I didn't get to say goodbye to him. It was so sudden. But for him to see him and have that full on interaction with him, I don't know what it is about Rydomo. He's just seeing all these people there's coming to say goodbye to him. It's comforting but weird at the same time. He's such a good kid. He's got a good heart, and he's loving, and every good thing that you could think about in the child, he's just that. And there's just something about him that I guess attracts all that energy. My grandmother, she passed away, probably when I was thirteen or fourteen. My mom has a picture of her in this big old curial cabinet in her house. It has all the religious relics, family pictures and whatnot. I was pregnant with our second son, Raydon and I were traveling down to Victoria by ourselves. I was going to stay the weekend with my parents. My husband was working and he wasn't able to come. We got to the house, I see Raydon go over to that big old curial cabinet and he just kneels in front of it and starts staring at a picture. My mom was like, what are you looking at? She thought he was looking at all these little objects on the bottom. He was like, who's that, pointing to my grandma. My mom was like, well, that's my mom, your mom's grandmother. Because she was following us on the whole ride to Victoria. Grandma she was by the car the entire time. She was protecting us. My Mom, She's looking at me like with these wide eyes. She couldn't believe it. She was like, she was riding with y'all. He was like, she was beside the car. I'm like still getting goosebooks from it. To this day. I cannot explain it. But he knew he was one hundred percent positive. My mom was like, she was probably protecting y'all on the road. She knew you were pregnant. It made my mom cry. My mom hasn't seen my grandma as an adult. You really don't see those kinds of things anymore. Raid's definitely seen a lot of our family members more than any of us. I don't know how to explain it. My family always has strongly believed in an afterlife and in God, and that if you do great things, you're kind to people, you help people, that you can go to heaven. All of his grandparents were wonderful people. They were very warm and welcoming. Whenever I first started dating my husband, they treated me like family right away. They didn't even know who I was, they didn't know my background, they knew nothing about me, but they still treated me as their family. That just speaks volumes about them as to who they were as a person. I truly believe that all of them went to heaven. 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