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Bob_Crowley
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This is a bit of a peculiar one, but here goes.
I’ve often written that my father appeared in my room the night he died, we argued and talked and then he disappeared with one almighty scream.
However there’s a couple of links between that and my mother’s brother’s (uncle’s) family, which I thought I’d mention, and get some opinions.
The uncle’s wife died quite suddenly when she was still young. As I heard the story she was combing her daughter’s hair (cousin) on a small set of back steps, when she just dropped dead from a heart attack. She’d had glandular fever when she was younger, and apparently it weakened her heart.
Our family, when we heard the news, went to their place in a suburb called Brighton. Unknown to me my deceased aunt was still lying on the bed in the main bedroom, waiting for the ambulance I assume. I happened to blunder in, which embarassed my parents.
However as we left something strange happened. My father’s face went quite demonic, and he snarled, “Get in the car!” But at the same time, my aunt “walked” out on the patio of their small cottage, and looked at him. He didn’t seem to be able to look at her, but then she looked at me. I’m not sure which was worse - his demonic countenance, or her haunting look of warning / judgment. Then she “walked” back inside. Bear in mind she’d been dead for a few hours. Obviously it was an apparition, as nobody else saw her.
Needless to say I went home in a blue funk, being only six or seven or so at the time.
I found out years later she was a very strong Catholic.
Now I suppose that was around the very early 1960’s.
Now to get back to my father, it was the same uncle who lost the above wife years earlier who came to tell me my father had died (4 days after the apparition, as he wasn’t found for 4 days), in January 1979.
As it turned out, he died himself later than same year, from unsuspected liver cancer at the time he came to tell me about my father. I remember visiting him in hospital, and even then he once said, half out of it due to painkilling drugs, “Robert! Grandma’s over there!” and pointed up towards the wall-ceiling junction. I thought he was hallucinating, but with hindsight I’m not so sure. So there was another possible spiritual event involving this particular family. When he sensed I didn’t believe him, he affirmed, “Oh, she is! I can see her!”
Anyway flash forward to around 2007, and I was debating NDE"s (Near Death Experiences) with atheists on a Google Group, and getting nowhere of course. So I prayed I’d meet someone who’d had an NDE, and a couple of days later I picked up a maxi taxi fare at a nursing home called Eventide, who’d had an NDE. He’d been technically dead for about ten minutes. But what got me was that he went to the same high school class as the eldest son of the above uncle and aunt, who had lived in Brighton.
So once again there was some sort of connection. That’s four - the aunt’s apparition, my father’s apparition and the fact her widower (my uncle) came to tell me he’d died, the uncle’s own seeming visitation by his grandmother in hospital as he neared death, and finally the NDE case (in response to prayer), who also had a connection with that family.
Now I’m not particularly close with any of the surviving family members (cousins), and as far as I know none of them are practising Christians, but I just wondered if anybody had any ideas why there should be such a run of coinciding spiritual events in relation to this particular uncle and aunt?
Any suggestions?
I’ve often written that my father appeared in my room the night he died, we argued and talked and then he disappeared with one almighty scream.
However there’s a couple of links between that and my mother’s brother’s (uncle’s) family, which I thought I’d mention, and get some opinions.
The uncle’s wife died quite suddenly when she was still young. As I heard the story she was combing her daughter’s hair (cousin) on a small set of back steps, when she just dropped dead from a heart attack. She’d had glandular fever when she was younger, and apparently it weakened her heart.
Our family, when we heard the news, went to their place in a suburb called Brighton. Unknown to me my deceased aunt was still lying on the bed in the main bedroom, waiting for the ambulance I assume. I happened to blunder in, which embarassed my parents.
However as we left something strange happened. My father’s face went quite demonic, and he snarled, “Get in the car!” But at the same time, my aunt “walked” out on the patio of their small cottage, and looked at him. He didn’t seem to be able to look at her, but then she looked at me. I’m not sure which was worse - his demonic countenance, or her haunting look of warning / judgment. Then she “walked” back inside. Bear in mind she’d been dead for a few hours. Obviously it was an apparition, as nobody else saw her.
Needless to say I went home in a blue funk, being only six or seven or so at the time.
I found out years later she was a very strong Catholic.
Now I suppose that was around the very early 1960’s.
Now to get back to my father, it was the same uncle who lost the above wife years earlier who came to tell me my father had died (4 days after the apparition, as he wasn’t found for 4 days), in January 1979.
As it turned out, he died himself later than same year, from unsuspected liver cancer at the time he came to tell me about my father. I remember visiting him in hospital, and even then he once said, half out of it due to painkilling drugs, “Robert! Grandma’s over there!” and pointed up towards the wall-ceiling junction. I thought he was hallucinating, but with hindsight I’m not so sure. So there was another possible spiritual event involving this particular family. When he sensed I didn’t believe him, he affirmed, “Oh, she is! I can see her!”
Anyway flash forward to around 2007, and I was debating NDE"s (Near Death Experiences) with atheists on a Google Group, and getting nowhere of course. So I prayed I’d meet someone who’d had an NDE, and a couple of days later I picked up a maxi taxi fare at a nursing home called Eventide, who’d had an NDE. He’d been technically dead for about ten minutes. But what got me was that he went to the same high school class as the eldest son of the above uncle and aunt, who had lived in Brighton.
So once again there was some sort of connection. That’s four - the aunt’s apparition, my father’s apparition and the fact her widower (my uncle) came to tell me he’d died, the uncle’s own seeming visitation by his grandmother in hospital as he neared death, and finally the NDE case (in response to prayer), who also had a connection with that family.
Now I’m not particularly close with any of the surviving family members (cousins), and as far as I know none of them are practising Christians, but I just wondered if anybody had any ideas why there should be such a run of coinciding spiritual events in relation to this particular uncle and aunt?
Any suggestions?