Have a friend who claims she was visited by her mother within days of the mother’s death. I totally believe spirits can come back and visit for a brief period.
My grandmother said when she was a little girl she woke up one noght and saw a neighbor girl who had fied of flu standing by the bed. Her mother , my grear grandmother told her the little girl wants you to pray for her. This was around 1917.
The night our dog passed, I was awakened in the middle of the night by the familiar ka-cha ka-cha -ka-cha of the paws across the hardwood floor and the lug lug lug noises at the water dish which hadn’t been put away yet.