Amanda Kloots is opening up about a strange experience she had with her husband's ghost. Well, maybe. You be the judge.
Amanda shared what happened during the spooky incident, which she called a "ghost" moment, on a recent episode of the podcast Dear Gabby. The 39-year-old revealed that she was going about her business when suddenly she felt as if Nick was with her.
"I was in a parking lot getting Elvis in his car seat and I just felt his energy shift," she explained. "It was the weirdest, but yet not weird at all, thing. This energy whooshed in. All of the sudden, Elvis is staring at me,” Amanda told host Gabrielle Bernstein.
From there it just got weirder. Amanda became even more convinced that Nick was there, looking at her through her son's eyes. She said that 2-year-old Elvis leaned in to give her a hug, and he wouldn't let go.
“I finally pull away and I’ve locked eyes with him and he starts touching my face, like holding my face in his hands, going over my eyes and then opening my eye and doing that over and over again and he’s staring at me while he’s doing it,” she said. In the moment, it felt clear to her that Nick was there.
She said Elvis was looking closely at her wedding ring, then moved his face closer to hers. “Then he takes his little hands and puts them on my face and pulls me into his and kisses me and holds it there for what felt like five minutes,” she said. While perhaps it doesn't seem that strange for a 2-year-old to have a moment of connection with their mother like she describes, Amanda truly felt like it was something different.
As quickly as the moment came, it passed. She said she could feel Elvis return to himself. “I feel another energy shift and he goes back to Elvis,” she said.
Some people may chalk up the experience to being one of the tricks grief can play on the mind of a grieving wife. But who is really to say? Regardless of whether what Amanda felt was real or not, it was certainly brave of her to share an experience that is not unlike what so many grieving people have with their deceased loved ones. Real or imagined, it sheds light on an important part of the journey through grief — the shifting connections that still exist with the person who has died.
In the time since Amanda's husband died, she has been an inspiration to so many people. She became a published author and snagged a cohost spot on The Talk, and now she's a contestant on ABC's Dancing With the Stars. She has a lot to be proud of. But that doesn't mean she's not still deeply in her grief and learning how to navigate it a little better each day.
Amanda's "ghost" experience is just one more example of her never failing to be transparent about what she goes through. While she's accomplished so much and refused to be kept from living her life, even through her pain, it's her honesty that people appreciate more than anything else.
