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Central Central National Bank Member FDIC. Ghost Werewolves, Witches and Vampires written by
Joanne Kristensen, published by Loan Pine Publishing. Mary in the Mirror, Joyce
Duran of Fort Worth, Texas will always remember that on one night in nineteen
ninety eight, she met one of her fiance's relatives in a most unusual fashion.
It was Friday, December eleventh, and Joyce had gone to bed early.
She slept soundly until two am, then awoke for no apparent reason.
I rarely do this, Joyce would later write in a letter to Fate Magazine.
So I already had an odd feeling. I got a drink of water
and decided to read until I fell asleep again. When Joyce went to the
dresser to get a book, so movement in the mirror grabbed her attention.
She looked into the glass and was shocked to see that the image staring back
at her was not her own. Joyce would later write of the woman she
saw, I could only see her silhouette, but her hair was nicely styled,
and she was wearing long sleeves. The vision remained for several minutes,
long enough for Joyce to discern that the spectral woman was approximately the same height
as Joyce, but a little larger, and that she had her hair pulled
up with a few loose curls framing her face. After Joyce and the spirit
in the mirror had regarded each other for quite some time, Joyce decided to
wake her fiancee, Dowayne Dayne. There's someone in the mirror, and it's
not me, she told him. Dowayne mumbled a response, but was soon
asleep again. Joyce decided that there was no point in staying awake, so
she said good night to the apparition in the mirror. On the following Monday,
Dwayne received some sad news. His aunt Mary had died the previous Friday.
As he talked about it to Joyce, he remembered her odd middle of
the night declaration. He asked Joyce if she could describe the woman whom she
had seen in the mirror. Joyce proceeded to do so. Dowayne was silent
for a moment, then told Joyce that she had just described his aunt.
In her letter to the magazine, Joyce revealed what she thought to be the
reason for the spirit's late night visit. She wrote, I believe Dowayne's aunt
wanted to see the woman he had decided to marry. Since he is the
baby of the family. Aunt Mary must have been satisfied that she saw a
happy match for she and never again bothered to peek out of Joyce and Dowayne's
bedroom mirror.