MERCY ADELAIDE GRANT
I have known about Mercy since I purchased the home she once resided in. She was Captain Grant’s wife. Together they had three children, two boys and a girl.
I decided to name the guest bedrooms after women and chose Mercy to be the first room that I opened with. Now, this is not quite the way it went. I tossed around the idea of naming rooms after virtues but decided it just wasn’t sellable enough. Prudence, Mercy, and Faith, plus other virtues, might actually turn some guests off. So I went with Adelaide, Mercy’s middle name. It wasn’t until several years later that I learned that she liked the name Mercy and not the name Adelaide for the bedroom named after her. Kim, the psychic who accompanied the children from Psychic Kids, actually told me that Mercy did not like the name Adelaide. I later found this to be true once I started using the L-rods.
Mercy is a powerful spirit. If she needs more energy to talk with you, she can take it at her will. Once I was giving guests a ghost communication lesson in the east parlor. There were about ten of us in the room. I was standing in front of a love seat and speaking to Mercy. Guests were all around me. Then I collapsed onto the loveseat with no warning. I was totally exhausted. I don’t know if the other spirits at Captain Grant’s can do this. She is the only one who has actually done it.
Mercy doesn’t play tricks on anyone. She likes the male guests and is one of only two spirits in the home that will talk to men. If a guest looks like her husband, she may become quite enamored with him. She especially likes bearded men. If I am giving a ghost communication lesson and there is a man at the table with a beard and the spirit I am talking to is Mercy, she will want the rods to stay focused on that person. If I ask her to point the rods toward someone she likes, it is always a man with a beard if one is present. The men usually blush but not their wives.
Mercy has materialized in front of guests more than any spirit that is at the home. One guest actually drew a picture of her. We also had a maid who saw Mercy on the grand staircase and drew us a picture of her as well. Both drawings are very similar. (There are no pictures of any of the Grant family.) Mercy has been seen in the Adelaide room on several occasions, sometimes holding a child’s hand in each of her hands. All of the sightings of Mercy have her in a blue dress.
During my conversations with Mercy, I became confused about something that she had said several times. When I asked her if she saw the light, she said she did but chose to stay in the house. I then asked her if she was waiting for Captain Grant. To this she answered yes. Now for the confusing part. I have talked to Captain Grant during a couple of conversations. So if Mercy is waiting for him, he’s here. Why is she still waiting?
Then I learned, just this year, that the Captain Grant at Captain Grant’s is her son and not her husband. Her husband died at sea when he was thirty-two years old. It was in a violent storm off Cape Hatteras, probably a hurricane. Their gravestones are in the new cemetery across the street. So I asked Mercy what I thought was a logical question: “Is your husband buried across the street in the town cemetery?” She said no. He was buried at sea, befitting a sea captain. It is sad to think of how lonely she must have been. I asked her to go to the light several times, but she wouldn’t. Eventually she became annoyed with me for asking, so I stopped. Then I found out why.
Synopsis of My Interview with Mercy Adelaide Grant
“Mercy, I am writing a book and I want to have a chapter dedicated to you. Is this okay with you?”
“Yes.”
“I have a quick question for you and then I have to tend to the B&B business. Can you come to my office next door for the interview?”
This interview in my office became somewhat bizarre. While interviewing Adelaide, she told me her husband had already been reincarnated—in the form of my husband Tadashi! None of this made sense to me, and I began to think that I was not interviewing Mercy but a spirit that was pretending to be Mercy. The reason for my suspicion was that I had been told earlier by a spirit that when we die, our spirit remains who we were in life until we are reincarnated into a new person. If this is the case, Mercy’s husband is gone, and when my husband dies, his spirit will be him, Tadashi, and not Captain Grant.
I reread the interview many times and knew something was wrong but did not have the time to interview Mercy again. Then a twist of fate occurred. Living descendants of Captain Grant visited the bed and breakfast. I asked them some of the same questions that I had asked Mercy in our interview, but got different answers. They stated that Captain Grant never lived in Colchester. I was concerned about this because other relatives of Captain Grant had stayed with me in 1995 and what they told me jibed with what Mercy had said. Memory can easily be faulty and I set out to see if I could get more history of the Grants, but to no avail. I did find out that members of the Grant family lived in the home until the 1860s.
It was sometime later that I took the time to interview Mercy at the bed and breakfast. This was a very different interview. It cleared up many of the questions that I had about the first interview. It had not been Mercy that I had interviewed in my office that first time, but another entity. I don’t trust the spirits in the home where I live and have since stopped communicating with them.
As it turns out, it was Mercy’s family who lived in Colchester, although I don’t know when that was.
In this second interview with the real Mercy, I got a bit carried away with my curiosity about the afterlife. I asked many questions that include God as the subject. I study Bible prophesy and wanted to ask her questions about what I have read about the end times. I also wanted to know about heaven and hell. It turns out that there is no hell as we have gotten to know it. There is no burning up in a sea of fire, but instead a dark, cold, isolated place with no love, no God, and no human contact. Reincarnation is a chance to redeem our misdeeds or lack of accomplishment and not end up there for eternity.
I asked questions about several subjects. One of them had to do with manifestation. I asked Mercy about spirits appearing during the day. As it turns out, they appear during the day as well as at night. We can see them more easily at night. So it is we who make the difference between seeing them at night or seeing them during the day. As energy, they don’t have enough of a profile with their background and we see right through them, not seeing them at all.
I could have conversed with Mercy for hours. I believe that I can trust what she tells me. She has yet to falter, to tell me something that makes no sense or tell me something and then reverse her story later on. It is one of the cues that I look for in my interviews.
Now comes a question that I don’t wish to ask Mercy. I ask her, “Who comes back?” It is between you, the reader, and me. Given all the information that I have gotten from Mercy, it appears that a soul may have lived many times, occupying several different people. In that case, when God returns as Christ, are we reborn or are the souls reborn? If there is one soul for three people, who is reborn?
Both interviews with Mercy and my thoughts are included in the Appendix