Ancient Wisdom and Pagan Spirituality

I work in nursing, mainly in nursing homes and back in '93 I was starting a new job in a new city and state. It was on the night shift and I was working with an old grandma nurse's aide. Sometime around three a.m. I was charting with the hall quite silent. Charting I find quite boring and I began to nod off at times and would jerk myself awake after a few moments. The grandma aide was sitting next to me doing her needlepoint which she would bring to work with her for those quiet times. One of the moments when I jerked myself awake I saw an elderly man wearing a red checkered flannel robe with a full white beard walking across the hallway. His feet weren't touching the floor. Being a witch most of my life, I've seen a lot and this wasn't the first time I've seen a ghost. I asked the old aide working with me if she had ever seen a man with the above description. "Oh yes", she answered, "That sounds like Mr. so and so. He just passed away last year. Why do you ask this?" I simply told her "Never-mind", I mean how was I going to scare her by saying that he was standing right behind her!