Father's Important Advice
“I was in a car accident in December, 1985,” says L. Young, and although she was taken to the emergency room, she was not seriously hurt. Because the ER was so overcrowded, L. was not able to get X-rays taken that day, but promised the doctor she would return the following day to have some tests done. That night, however, she received an important message from beyond. “My father had passed away the previous January,” L. says, “but he visited me that night. He stood at the end of my bed, dressed in his work clothes and work boots. He asked me to come downstairs so we could talk and not disturb my husband. I went.” L. to this day is still not sure if this was a dream, but what her father told her convinced her it was real, dream or not. “We hugged, and he told me to forego the X-rays the following day because I was pregnant, and that he was so happy that I would be giving him his first grandson. He told me to make sure that I told ‘Kitten’ that he loved her. I wasn't sure what he meant, but I agreed. Our conversation finally ended when my husband came to the top of the stairs and asked me who I was talking to. My father disappeared.” L. went back to bed. The next day, she told her mother about this remarkable experience. “She admitted that my father called her ‘Kitten’ when they made love – something that I could not have known.” The next day, L. went to the hospital for X-rays, but first asked to be tested to see if she was pregnant. Although she had been completely unaware of it, the doctors confirmed that she was. In fact, she was only three days pregnant when her father gave her the news.
Dad Leaves a Note
One September morning in 1999, Clair was surprised to find a message written on a little notepad stuck on her refrigerator with a magnet. The note said, "Rise and shine, Claire." She swears the note was in her father's handwriting. The thing is, her father had died two years earlier, and she knows the notepad was blank when she went to bed the night before. “I know it wasn't faked,” Clair says, “because he had something called benign familial tremor, so his writing was really shaky.” Clair’s two daughters, neither of whom lived with her anyway, denied any joke on their part. What’s more, the message was personal. “It was something he always said to me when it was time for me to get up to go to high school some 30 years ago. I can't explain it, but I think it really is great that my father hasn't forgotten me!”
Play It Again, Grandma
Diane was of high school age when she received a remarkable little message from her grandmother. It was a Friday night and her whole family was at the high school game, as her brother was playing in it. “I had been grounded for some reasons I can't remember now,” Diane says. Her grandmother, who had lived with the family, had passed away about two years earlier. And she was the only one in the family who could play the piano, which was kept in the basement. “I only ever heard her play two songs,” says Diane. “One was The Third Man Theme.” Diane was alone in the house. “I had been watching TV, and all of a sudden I heard The Third Man Theme coming up from the basement. I got shivers and was scared to death. I think my grandmother was trying to get ahold of me by doing this. I will never forget it!”
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