The Ghost Who Rang My Doorbell:

         On Friday March 14th, 2025 two lovely clients, Nancy and Ronda came to my home to be given readings around 11am.

 As they both sat down at my kitchen table I began telling Nancy about a spirit who was talking to me on her behalf. As I conveyed to Nancy what her deceased loved one was saying to her, a motion sensor ball I had on top of the kitchen table turned on. I explained to my client that the ball was lighting up to show her the spirit was there as they spoke their message to her. Near the end of Nancy’s reading, nearly an hour later, my client asked about her niece who has passed on. Not telling me any details at all about her niece or how she died, I suddenly heard a female voice say: “MURDER” to me in my mind. The female voice was very direct and clear.

 “I just heard a young female voice say, “Murder.”  I informed Nancy who sat directly across from me in my kitchen. Nancy brought her hand to her mouth in surprise and her eyes opened wide.

 “She really was murdered!”  Exclaimed Nancy out loud, then she turned to look at her best friend, Ronda who sat next to her listening intently.

 “Her name was Melanie,” Nancy informed me as she turned back towards me again, looking me straight in the eyes with emotions welling up for her lost loved one.

  I suddenly had a vision of a short woman in her early 30’s, possibly around 32-34 years of age. She had brown straight-hair about mid-length, just shy of hitting her petite shoulders. The woman looked very sad, depressed, and very beaten down. In this vision, it seemed like Melanie, Nancy’s niece, had experienced a lot of physical and emotional abuse.

 The vision that I was seeing was from the past, Melanie was alive and in her car. In fact she had just pulled up a driveway to a house and was getting out of her newly parked car after a long trip home. I could feel she was tired and weary from driving for several hours and she looked plain exhausted.

 I saw Nancy’s niece, Melanie, walk inside the house stopping short just as she walked in the garage door, and lean with fatigue against a wall. I could see that she was struggling to stand up and could tell that she was having a hard time breathing. Melanie lifted her hand to her neck trying to breathe in and out slowly, but struggled more and more. Deciding she didn’t feel well and she needed to lay down, Melanie struggled to get herself to her bed where she laid down and sadly died within a few minutes.

 I told Nancy what I saw and experienced during my vision regarding her niece. I described what the spirit had shown me and had me feel during the vision of her death.

 “That’s exactly how it all happened!” Nancy exclaimed with wonder. As she sat back in her chair the motion sensor ball lit up with glee and soon my chandelier followed suit; it began blinking in unison with the ball.

 “Melanie is telling me that she was beaten by a man, who was a boyfriend or lover, over and over again for a year’s time.” I expressed to my client hearing the spirit talk to me, “She is showing him hitting her again and again. She says this caused her death.”  

 Melanie then told me she had a son and that she knew she would eventually die from this man’s abuse. She felt she couldn’t stop it. Melanie accepted her fate that she was to die, but worried after her death that this man would kill her son. So Melanie drove her son from Kentucky to Ohio to some loving relatives of hers, an older couple, and asked them to raise her son after telling them about her situation. Unfortunately, when Melanie arrived home she died in her bed 5 minutes later. Just like Nancy’s niece had showed me in my vision.

 You could tell Nancy felt relieved to hear from her lost relative she clearly loved and missed, but also felt closure in knowing the truth about Melanie’s unfortunate fate and death.

 “I was only told bits of what happened regarding Melanie’s death and then I began to put together the rest myself,” Nancy explained to us. “What you are telling me about her death makes complete sense!” As my client spoke about Melanie the ball lit up with bright enthusiasm.    

“Melanie is very happy that you now know what truly happened to her regarding her death,” I told Nancy as the ball and now chandelier lights started to blink together in unison. This went on for minutes as Nancy asked more questions about her deceased niece. “The spirit then showed me that she was always with her little boy, and told me that she was his spirit guide. Melanie said that she never left his side. I then saw her sitting by her son’s side inside his room at the relative’s house, playing on the floor with his toys, as she sat invisibly right next to him on the floor. In this vision, she glowed with love as she looked at her little boy in delight; stroking his hair. Passing this vision and message onto my client and her friend, I also said, “Melanie will always be his spirit guide for his whole life. It’s her mission to protect and watch over him until he meets her in Heaven on the other side.”

           This message touched Nancy's heart and she began to tear up with happiness and comfort regarding her niece's son. You could see she was so happy that Melanie was protecting him. “That is so lovely,” she replied. “Please tell her we all miss her and love her.” I said I would and soon we moved onto her friend Ronda’s reading.

 As I began Ronda’s reading and pulled her cards, I sat back with puzzlement. I suddenly felt something coming through but it was dark, as in evil. I could see an image of a shadow; a slender tall shadow man in the night.

I told both clients what I was seeing and they both looked at me oddly. Then Nancy turned to look at Ronda and said, “OH…” she paused and stopped as we both looked at her and waited for her to go on. “Should we tell her about the time we…”

        Getting a clear vision now, I couldn’t help but interrupt the two asking: “Are you talking about the time when you both rented a cabin for vacation and in the middle of the night a dark shadow hovered over Nancy while she slept, waking her up and scaring her?”

            My two clients sat agog across from me, their jaws hanging down in shock as they looked at me bewildered. Seeing more in the vision I exclaimed in surprise, “Oh my God! You saw Hat Man!”

         “Yes, I think I did,” Nancy eagerly expressed. “The shadow looked like a tall man with a hat on. We also saw that THING go up the stairs!” Nancy said as she turned to her friend Ronda, who seemed perplexed about how much I seemed to know without them saying anything to me regarding their trip or this event.

         “How did you know that?” Ronda asked me quickly with a stunned expression.

         “I am seeing a vision of the cabin and what you both experienced while staying in this rental,” I said answering Ronda’s question.  

I could tell that Ronda was sensitive to spirits. So I asked her if this was correct, to which she replied, “Oh Yes, I am. I felt a man had killed a woman in the garage of the cabin and I hated the bathroom in the cabin. During our entire stay, I feared going into the bathroom to use it.  I also saw an orb in my bedroom and going up the stairs,” Ronda stated. 

 After hearing what Ronda saw, I felt a female spirit quickly drop into the room with us, right beside me, as I often see happen. The spirit began to light up the motion sensor ball and slightly began moving it as well on the kitchen table in front of us.

         “The victim of the murder that took place in the cabin is her, and she is the one lighting up the ball,” I informed the two women.

 Ronda and Nancy both sat up in alarm as they watched the ball move back and forth while lighting up near them. I told Ronda more about what I saw and what the spirit was saying to me about the cabin and what took place there, as well as during their vacation stay. “The victim is telling me that she was kidnapped by a man during the 1950’s and put into a old beat up trunk of a car. She was driven to that cabin where she was raped and killed in the garage. That is why there was a huge lock on the garage door.” I repeated from what the sprit was telling me. “The spirit also shows me that Ronda did not like the bathroom because the killer was often in it, and hung out against the wall inside the small room.” Both clients gasped at hearing this information from the victim.

 “I also have an angel here that works with me daily, named Raphael. He is telling me that Ronda is an empath and that you, Ronda are sensitive to certain energies,” I said as I looked at Ronda and saw her nod at me, like I was correct.

 “This means you tend to feel others feelings and what they are going through in their daily lives. In addition you sometimes see or feel spirits in many forms, which is why you saw the orb go up the stairs in the cabin you rented. That was the victim who was murdered,” I informed my client.  I then went on to describe other occurrences in which the same kinds of events have happened to her that are similar to what she experienced on vacation with Nancy, which only Ronda would know about. 

“Due to your sensitivities,’ I explained, “these people and spirits are attracted to you.  Therefore, you really must set firm boundaries in your life regarding the living as well as spirits. It is very important! You also need to trust your intuition. It will guide you,” I explained to Ronda telling her that it was her protection and a gift from God.

         Ronda’s family members then began showing up in spirit form to give her several messages and she was asked some questions. We were halfway through her reading when I heard my Angel and guide, Raphael loudly interrupt my thoughts, “Look at your cell phone,” he told me in a very serious tone.

         Looking down at my cell, I saw that it had lit up with a notification. Then I saw an image of person at my front door, from my outdoor camera. The person seemed to be standing outside my house on my porch and was looking at my front door. Then we heard my doorbell ring. Knowing I wasn’t expecting anyone else today, we all stopped and looked at each other in surprise. Looking down at my phone again, I was stunned as I realized I was looking at a GHOST!

 “Oh my God!” I cried out in utter shock as I tried to speak. “Does this woman look familiar to you?” I asked Nancy and Ronda as I began turning my phone around to them to show them who was on the camera outside.  I just knew they would recognize the person.

         “There’s nothing there,” Nancy informed me as both my clients exchanged odd looks, clearly wondering what was going on and what I had seen.

         “Huh, I said in confusion as I swiftly looked at my device again and could not believe my eyes. Nancy was right! The image outside my front door had completely vanished from sight and my phone had returned to my home screen. As if the entire event didn’t happen. But I knew it had. I knew I had seen a woman outside of my front door on camera, just a second ago. I just knew it! But I didn’t understand how it had vanished.

 “I saw Melanie outside!” I exclaimed to the two women across the way. “I saw her ghost at my front door.  She was standing outside! It was the young woman from the vision I had earlier, Nancy’s niece who was killed by her boyfriend. 

         Just as the words left my lips, my chandelier began to flicker like crazy! We all looked up to see the light bulbs blinking so fast it looked like the bulbs might burst. Then it happened, a huge spark like a strike of lightning, burst from one of the fixtures lights, right over Nancy and Ronda’s heads. It looked like a bolt of lightning you would see during a thunderstorm.

 We sat still watching and observing the sight, as the motion sensor ball lit up along with the chandelier as they both blinked like crazy. Simply astonished at what we were witnessing. But as fast as it all had begun, both objects abruptly stopped blinking. We then saw the light bulb, which had just sparked, dim and slowly come back to life. It was incredible!

         The two women looked back at me, still taken aback at from what they had just seen.  I told them that I was told very sternly by Raphael to look at my cell phone where I saw a short woman who was in her early 30’s with straight brown hair to her shoulders, just like I had seen in my vision of Melanie earlier during Nancy’s reading.

It was Melanie on my camera, oddly rocking back and forth as she shifted her weight from one foot to another on my front porch. She had on a white shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes, but oddly had on a large purple winter coat even though it was 75 degrees and sunny outside. It was strange!” I told both clients. “I had tried to show you my phone so you could see the woman (Melanie) via my front door camera, but the camera live view somehow vanished.”

 I then opened my camera app to my front door and tried to show them, but there was no recording! In fact, the last recording from the camera was the two clients when they had arrived at my house. Something like this has never happened. My camera always records!.

 All three of us sat perplexed for a bit after I had explained what had happened. Then I heard a voice say, “It was me!” Then I saw my chandelier blink as it had just done a few minutes before. “It was Melanie!” I yelled out, “See! I just heard her voice!”  The light fixture and the ball once again blinked in unison showing the spirit was communicating with me. Melanie sounded very proud to show and prove her presence to us.

“Wow!” Nancy shouted out with a big smile. “It makes total sense! She loved the color purple!” Nancy explained with excitement and looking at Rhonda, “I remember everything she wore was PURPLE!” She then clapped her two hands together with delight.

 “Hi, Melanie! We love and miss you!” Nancy expressed to her very beloved niece aloud as she looked up at the flashing chandelier.

 You could see the love radiating from her eyes that her deceased loved one had not only come for a visit, but shown herself on camera dressed in her favorite color, purple. She had also ringed the doorbell for us all to experience the presence of her wonderful spirit there, among us.

            Funny, I have always wondered if a spirit would ever show up on our front door camera! I thought perhaps I might see a spirit or orb float by like one of those spooky paranormal videos you often see in the media.  However in all these years, I never would have imagined that a real ghost would ACTUALLY ring my doorbell!       

 -Rosella C. Rowe