Seeing a Haint

"My sister actually saw a haint when we had spent the weekend with grandma Edna and grandpa EP. There were 12 of those children, that was my mom's family, my mom's siblings. There were 12 of those children and the momma and the daddy. So sleeping was always tight, there was--nobody grew up sleeping in a bed alone, unless you were an only child. You shared a bedroom usually. But my sister and I were in grandma Edna's, in the room where we were sleeping, usually pallets they would put just blankets on the floor and a pillow. And the next morning, my sister woke up and she--I didn't hear this and didn't see this thank God, but she told me, she said, "I saw grandma come in the room in this long robe" and she said, "I said, 'Good morning, grandma!'" and she said, "she didn't say anything so I said, 'Good morning, grandma!'" and she says, "she didn't say anything so she says, "Grandma! Grandma! Good morning!" She says, "And then I realized it was not grandma." They were living in what was called the Old Mary Clark place in Chatham County. Mary Clark had been dead for many, many years. But that had been her old homeplace. And she said then she covered up her head because she realized she had seen a haint. So when we did get up later on she told grandma what had happened. And grandma started laughing right away when she first said, "I said, 'Good morning, grandma' and you didn't say anything." Grandma started laughing and said, "You saw Miss Mary Clark." So, evidently, she had seen her regularly. Haints didn't seem to frighten them, I never heard them call them ghosts, haints didn't seen to frighten them, it was something they had grown accustomed to."