After his wife leaves for the day, writer Bennett Differing’s house is engulfed in a thick white fog, out of which comes his father who died 27 years before.
Michael Main
Maybe the dead did use mist as a means of getting around—so many movies had already figured that one out. . . and maybe they did travel in time.

Variants

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  1. “Things I Didn’t Know My Father Knew” by Peter Crowther, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Peter Crowther