My uncle passes away in August. He was my mom's youngest brother and was only 47. My sister and I were extremely close with him. When he passed my mother offered to take his ashes home to keep safe until we can all get together and spread his ashes on the beach like he wanted. My mom placed his ashes in our living room which is directly across from the staircase. Last night i was home by myself, my parents were out at a party, my sister was at work and since coming back home from college i enjoyed a night to myself. Around 10pm i was getting ready for bed, i turned off most of the lights down stairs and started heading up the stairs. Something made me look into the doorway of the living room and i heard a voice say "Hi, Amy!" it sounded exactly like my uncle. It wasn't a whisper, it was pretty loud. my dog ran into the living room barking and he was rolling around like someone was playing with him. I ran up stairs so fast, it was completely frightened. flash forward to tonight, I was returning home from work to see my sister completely in tears. she was telling me that she went into the living room to plug the christmas tree in and it was already plugged in and the greatful dad ornament that my uncle gave my sister a couple years ago was playing music. its impossible for it to play music, there aren't any batteries in it and my sister says that no one was home at the time and no one had been home since this morning.

my uncle always loved the holidays, christmas was his favorite holiday. i think he might be trying to get our attention, or maybe we're both crazy. i don't know anymore.