Who is the first person? Or are they all gone. I doubt it is a curse. In fact, she should be grateful and if she's not, to heck with her. (This is my PG attempt at being snarkily humorous).

The only remaining people from that family are my sons and my XH's cousin. I can[t even remember her name. I am going to put all the photos back in the box and close it up. Hers is going in the bottom.

Lynn, an angry Indian? Good grief. Did you have an exorcism? A "smudging"?

No, I don't believe in curses. I do believe that the acts of previous generations can have far-reaching effects, however, even into the lives of their descendants decades later.

I think people believe that curses (and the like) are real because they want to believe, and those things have sort of a self-fulfilling manifestation. The mind is an extremely powerful tool.

I don't, but I believe in bad luck and that many life events are random and that life is not a meritocracy. (Using the definition loosely. )

Yes, our "angry Indian" was actually seen very clearly by a number of different people over the years, although never by me. We finally decided to have a threesome of well-respected ghostbusters (my term, not theirs) come out here and try to get him to leave. One gentleman actually talked with him, mentally, and told me that he had been murdered in the area where our guest room is now, hence his anger. This area was never anything but Native American, and later Spanish settlers' hunting grounds, until we built our home here. Thank goodness he finally did leave, as our guest room had become very unpopular. These days, it's also my own personal study, and I've never had any feeling that he's still around.

Pal, our current political situation certainly disproves any meritocracy theory.

I also think luck plays a huge part in how our lives roll out.

Interesting story, Lyn. As much as I want to scoff at the idea of past spirits, I just can't entirely write it off. My house was built on an old apple orchard although I bet their were Indians here before. George Washington supposedly marched down a nearby road on his way to Valley forge, so maybe Revolutionary War soldiers camped here!

No, I don't. Feel better soon!

Even if you think it is a curse, if it continues get tested for strep.

Still coughing my lungs up. If it's not improving tomorrow, I'll go to the Urgent Care. I put the picture of my MIL in the bottom of a container, under the other pictures.