Do bad spirits take the form of your loved ones

This is not a story. It's a real life incident. When i was a child,my family had to move to a small town as my father got transferred over there for his job. We were staying at the Lodge that time. One night when i was on my way to go downstairs from my room to have dinner, i saw my mom sitting on a chair at the terrace of that lodge. I walked towards her and called her 2-3 times but she didn't reply and also didn't look at me, so i came downstairs and got a shock after seeing my mom cooking dinner for us. I was startled. I mean how's that possible? I asked my mom whether she was at the terrace few seconds back. She said she was cooking since 1 hour and didn't go to the terrace. There was only one staircase that leads to downstairs and i had just got down and there's no way i could miss the sight of my mom coming down with me. I was confused. I went upstairs again and when i came close to the terrace, i saw that the chair was there but it was empty. I was a kid that time so couldn't understand whether i saw a ghost. After 1 year my father again got transferred from that place to a big city where we are now currently and where i was born. After we moved in this city, i got so bussy completing my school and college that, that incident got out of my head. Now when i think about it i can actually understand what had happened and get goosebumps thinking about it. What do you say on this? You had any similar experience?

I've heard that it's possible to see apparitions of living people. There are plenty of stories out there of people even seeing themselves. The idea behind this is that living people leave behind energy. In these cases, you would usually see a living person's apparition doing something they do often, since routine would leave behind more energy in certain spaces. Or, if there was a lot of emotion attached to the place or action. I'm not sure how long you were at the lodge, but I suppose even being there for a short period of time could leave behind energy. Did your mother sit in that chair before? If she never sat there, then perhaps you could look into it being a spirit. And yes, it's said that many spirits are able to alter their appearance. Demons and other non-human creatures, as well.

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I've heard that it's possible to see apparitions of living people. There are plenty of stories out there of people even seeing themselves. The idea behind this is that living people leave behind energy. In these cases, you would usually see a living person's apparition doing something they do often, since routine would leave behind more energy in certain spaces. Or, if there was a lot of emotion attached to the place or action. I'm not sure how long you were at the lodge, but I suppose even being there for a short period of time could leave behind energy. Did your mother sit in that chair before? If she never sat there, then perhaps you could look into it being a spirit. And yes, it's said that many spirits are able to alter their appearance. Demons and other non-human creatures, as well.

We stayed in that lodge for 1 and half year. Yes my mother used to sit in that chair sometimes. Maybe it was an apparition. But that area where i stayed that time, lots of crime took place mainly murders. And there was another terrace above the terrace where i saw image of my mother, there as some people used to say that there's this spirit of the previous owner of the lodge that used to roam at night. Many people could hear his footsteps walking at the upper terrace at midnight. I just hope it was an apparition and not a demon or a ghost. Lol. I thought that a bad spirit may have taken the form of my mother to attract me and get me.