I SAW SOMETHING AT A FUNERAL THAT I CANT STILL EXPLAIN.. Ever since I was little, I've been more open to the paranormal. I've had premonition-like dreams, talked to things when I was a child that apparently weren't there, and I've been able to see auras for as long as I can remember. I can still see them if I really concentrate. That being said, I'm still a very skeptical person. I don't know how auras work or why I seem to be able to see them. I don't automatically assume every strange experience is paranormal. I just know what I've experienced, and a few months ago something happened that I genuinely still can't explain. I was attending a family friend's funeral (my neighbors relative.) I had only met the person who passed away maybe five or six times, and I didn't know him particularly well. I was mainly there because I'm much closer with the rest of his family. The initial service was held in a huge Catholic church. I'm not religious at all, so forgive me if I use the wrong terminology, but the priest gave his speech and they went through the usual parts of a Catholic funeral—the bells, incense, prayers, and everything else. At one point, my neighbor, got up to give the eulogy. While he was speaking, I suddenly got this overwhelming feeling that someone was standing near him. I saw what I can only describe as a shadow standing beside him, somewhat behind him. I've seen auras before. I've experienced strange feelings and intuitions before. But I had NEVER seen anything like this. It wasn't a person-shaped shadow exactly. It was more like a large, vaguely defined orb or aura. It was gray rather than black, and it didn't feel dark or threatening at all. But for some reason, I immediately knew it was the person who had passed away. I can't really explain why I knew. I just did. And then I suddenly had this overwhelming urge to cry. I'm not a particularly emotional person, and I absolutely hate crying in front of other people; especially strangers. But I started silently sobbing. My mom was sitting beside me, and she looked at me like I was not of this Earth because she had never seen me cry like that in front of other people. As the service was ending, the shadow moved. It went from standing near my neighbor to the far wall of the church, where it seemed to just... observe. Almost like it was watching its own funeral. Afterward, my mom and I drove to the lunch gathering. She asked me what had happened because obviously she had noticed how upset I was. I couldn't really explain it. I knew what I had seen, but I had no idea how to put it into words without sounding completely insane. At the lunch, everyone was sitting around different tables, looking through pictures of him, remembering him, and talking about him. While I was eating, I got that same feeling again. I looked up. The same shadow was there. This time, it was near a man sitting at a table about three tables away from me. He was heavier-set, wore glasses, and I noticed that when he stood up, he walked with a limp. I didn't know who he was. I barely knew most of the people at the gathering aside from my neighbors and some of their family, so I just assumed he was another relative or family friend. Throughout the gathering, I kept seeing the shadow appear in different parts of the room. It would seem to move around, but it kept coming back to that man and to my neighbor/the person who had given the eulogy.