Story Idea The 1st Notes (pt 1):
About a woman and how every man to love her has something tragic occur to them, if they don't outright die.
First her father, he dies when she's either still child or preteen; suicide (?)
Then, her high school sweetheart dies at age 19, their freshman year of college. In cancun/other vacation spot, spring break, alcohol poisoning.
Finally her husband dies on the date of their first (?) anniversary, car accident perhaps. Too on the nose if he's getting her flowers?
Two other men she's dated have had something tragic happen, that helped break them up. Will workshop more later, but possibly have one be dumped after he loses his job and everything else and either becomes a drunk or cheats or something like that. Have other one move home far away to be closer to family after twin sister/mother/someone super close in his family dies.
After death of husband, she starts experiencing signs of a haunting that at first seem to be him, then the other two in reverse order of their deaths. Eventually comes to see there's something else behind it/something making them do it, that thinks it owns her.
All minor things. Wedding song begins to play by itself. Nightmares of father. Broken picture frame. Names written on car windows. Etc.
Seeks consul from a faith leader. Priest maybe? Then voice shifts into husband's/school bf/fathers and says something scary before shifting back to regular voice of priest at her questioning of it.
Begins escalating. Starts hearing them and someone/thing else calling to her. Seeing creepy stuff. becomes terrified and unable to hide it from people who care.
Comes to realize she's the only one hearing/seeing the haunting. Is given reason to believe she's imagining it, sick from grief as she is. As she comes to accept this more and more, she begins to realize she's not actually haunted but actually overwhelmed by grief and needs to seek help.