I see ghosts, what do you see?

By Calvin Tiu & Rick Kumar

It’s 3 a.m. and your bedroom is silent; slowly you hear a whisper come from the corner, and a second later another from underneath the bed. There are three now and the third is beside you. They aren’t friends or family, they’re people who’ve passed on. This may not be your typical night, but it is for Carol-Ann Matthews.

On the outside, Matthews seems like a typical housewife and kind-hearted grandmother of two. But what we don’t see are the things that she does. Matthews possesses the ability to see the deceased. “I believe that I see them at the age they passed,” she says.

She doesn’t see them as gruesomely over-exaggerated monsters that mainstream media has made them. Instead they are just the free forms of themselves; some stuck in repetition, and some gaining love and warmth. Matthews shares her belief that “the ones on the other side are living the life,” calling the ghosts she sees “visitors” because those on the other side are capable of visiting us. According to Matthews, the “visitors” aren’t here to scare us.

“They don’t have anger or jealousy, they just have love.” She does mention that some have a hard time accepting what happened to them, and although she hasn’t seen a bad spirit, just like in life, there are bad people in death as well.

Having been a member of a Psychic Society, Matthews brings up the question of fakes by boldly stating, “it infuriates me that they prey upon weak, saddened hearts.”

“I think the bad ones, the fakes, have ruined it up for the better ones,” Matthews says,  believing that objects such as Ouija boards can act as an easy portal for bad energies.

One can see that there are no real distinctions except for her open explanations which leads one to ask ‘why?’ “I used to be afraid of being judged,” she says. Nowadays Matthews is open with her gift with those who have faith in her abilities.

“This is what I believe. It may not always be true, but it’s what I think,” she says. Matthews explains that there is no exact science to her talent. As with all things we don’t understand, we might see Matthews and other psychics as shams and fakes, but she doesn’t waste time trying to argue against the grain; instead she embraces her gift and lives her life.

Matthews ends with a chilling quote, verbalizing her belief that there are visitors anywhere and everywhere: “something will follow you home, I can guarantee that.”