Not a ghost story but my mum died August 5th this year. We knew it was coming and she had a horrible build up to her finally passing. She'd have long periods when she was sedated or dozing but I would chatter away to her about anything and everything, having heard many times that the dying can still 'hear' you. She knew she was dying, was scared, and I would try to reassure her, but one day I blurted out, 'Hey, mama. When you have gone to the other side you'd better not come back and haunt me or I'll bloody kill you! A sign you're ok would be nice, though!'
Cue back a few years before- mum loved growing things and used to grow sunflowers, which are my favourite bloom. When I moved out of home, I could never grow them and gave up (hopeless at gardening). Anyway, I don't live with my partner but his home is close by and currently surrounded by a building site, full of concrete and bricks, etc. The same week mum passed, a solitary beautiful sunflower bloomed just outside his house and just behind the fencing separating his home from the building site, on a relatively barren piece of land, just out of reach. There was nothing else growing and no other sunflowers in the vicinity. Wishful thinking, perhaps (and, yes, it was sunflower season), but the timing was so odd (she'd died 2 days before). I took that as my 'sign', like she was saying, 'I'm just behind the fence but I'm ok!'. How a sole sunflower managed to grow in that barren space and appear just when it did was pretty remarkable.