A Hairless Haunting
My mom is an extremely rational person, but this event caused her to have such severe panic attacks that she had to move back in with her parents for six months. When I heard what happened, I nearly cried. My mom’s first husband was a Navy pilot during the Persian Gulf conflict.
His aircraft carrier was about 10 days into its cruise when the following events happened. My mom hadn’t heard anything from the ship since it left, but that was to be expected because it was operating with complete radio silence. On that night, my mom woke up suddenly in the middle of the night.
She saw her husband standing in the room. It wasn’t an ethereal form either, he appeared solid and almost the same as in real life. The only thing that was different about him was that his head was shaved. He only had one eerie thing to say to her. “Goodbye.”
This whole experience shook her up and she wasn’t able to get back to sleep. She decided to go to the kitchen for some water when the doorbell rang. All military wives know what a late-night doorbell means.
The uniformed men at the door told her that her husband had suffered a massive heart attack and perished aboard the carrier. She was grief-stricken but reasoned that the apparition had been a hallucination caused by the stress of having a spouse deployed.
Also, because his head was shaved, he didn’t even look that familiar. Her mother and mother-in-law flew in immediately to help plan for the funeral and receive the body. My mom stayed strong, but then she saw something that made her believe in ghosts.
The first time she saw his body, she saw that her lifeless husband was bald. In a letter to my mom, his flight officer explained that the shaved head was the result of a lost bet. There was no way my mom could have known that his head had been shaved. Story credit: Reddit / (raider02)