A WORD FROM BEYOND
Sunday, 20. July 2008, 14:09:59
Compelling anecdotal evidence of life after death comes in the form of messages from deceased loved ones, feels Stephen Wagner
Messages from the “other side” are most often words of comfort for the living, that they are okay and are still watching out for us. In the most interesting cases, however, those who have passed on communicate messages that are not only highly personal, but are of particular significance, important – even life saving. Here are some of those stories:
Mom’s voice
It was an otherwise ordinary night in August of 1975 when 18-year-old Kris was taking her clothes to the laundromat behind the restaurant where she worked. She put the clothes in the washer and headed back to the restaurant to help her boyfriend, who was a cook there, close up the place. While walking to the back entrance, Kris’s attention was grabbed be a nondescript goldcoloured car, although she didn’t know why. She started to walk to the front of the kitchen area, then decided against it and simply leaned against a door area where she could not be seen from the front. Suddenly, it became quiet. “I started to take a step when I heard my mom’s voice, as though she were standing there say, ‘Kris, don’t move!’” Fortunately, Kris listened. Then one of the waitresses came screaming to the back and grabbed the phone to call the police. The restaurant had just been robbed at gunpoint! “Had I walked into view of the doorway,” Kris says, “I would have seen my boyfriend lying face down on the floor, the waitress and the few customers on their knees – and I would have been directly behind the gunman, who was so nervous I probably would have been shot when I startled him.”
Grandfather’s gift
April had always been very close to her great-grandfather, who was a highly-respected baker and decorator of wedding cakes. When he died, April was heartbroken. A few weeks later, she was awakened from a sound sleep. She noticed something out of the corner of her eye. “I turned to look at the hall leading to my room. There was my great-grandfather standing there with another being. He just looked at me, raised his hand and lowered it back to his side slowly while saying, ‘Everything will be okay. I’ll always be with you’.” April was told to lie down and go back to sleep. “Ever since, I have been able to decorate and make any type of dessert – exactly the way he did. Before that, I had never even tried to ice a cake.”
Brotherly ties
One night in June, 1942, George D had a conversation with his brother that he could not explain. His brother, you see, was not there. He was flying bombers out of Trinidad, on a mission to destroy German submarines. “He told me he was going on a long trip and would not return,” George says. “I asked if I could go with him and he said not for a long time.” When George told his mother and sister about this impossible conversation, they dismissed it as a dream. Several days later, George’s family received the official notification that his brother died in a plane crash on 7 June, 1942. “Many years later, I was wounded and delirious during WW2,” George says. “When admitted for medical care, I could only remember my brother's name, serial number and military organisation identification. I am still waiting for my brother's permission to go on his long trip.”
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. “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 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. She was only three days pregnant then!
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. It said, “Rise and shine, Claire.” She swears the note was in her father’s handwriting who 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 also 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 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 message from her grandma. It was a Friday and 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 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.” “I had been watching TV, and all of a sudden I heard The Third Man Theme coming up from the basement. I was scared to death. I will never forget it!”
(Stephen Wagner is a paranormal researcher and author)
This is taken from Sunday Times Hyderabad 20.07.2008 Edition.
Messages from the “other side” are most often words of comfort for the living, that they are okay and are still watching out for us. In the most interesting cases, however, those who have passed on communicate messages that are not only highly personal, but are of particular significance, important – even life saving. Here are some of those stories:
Mom’s voice
It was an otherwise ordinary night in August of 1975 when 18-year-old Kris was taking her clothes to the laundromat behind the restaurant where she worked. She put the clothes in the washer and headed back to the restaurant to help her boyfriend, who was a cook there, close up the place. While walking to the back entrance, Kris’s attention was grabbed be a nondescript goldcoloured car, although she didn’t know why. She started to walk to the front of the kitchen area, then decided against it and simply leaned against a door area where she could not be seen from the front. Suddenly, it became quiet. “I started to take a step when I heard my mom’s voice, as though she were standing there say, ‘Kris, don’t move!’” Fortunately, Kris listened. Then one of the waitresses came screaming to the back and grabbed the phone to call the police. The restaurant had just been robbed at gunpoint! “Had I walked into view of the doorway,” Kris says, “I would have seen my boyfriend lying face down on the floor, the waitress and the few customers on their knees – and I would have been directly behind the gunman, who was so nervous I probably would have been shot when I startled him.”
Grandfather’s gift
April had always been very close to her great-grandfather, who was a highly-respected baker and decorator of wedding cakes. When he died, April was heartbroken. A few weeks later, she was awakened from a sound sleep. She noticed something out of the corner of her eye. “I turned to look at the hall leading to my room. There was my great-grandfather standing there with another being. He just looked at me, raised his hand and lowered it back to his side slowly while saying, ‘Everything will be okay. I’ll always be with you’.” April was told to lie down and go back to sleep. “Ever since, I have been able to decorate and make any type of dessert – exactly the way he did. Before that, I had never even tried to ice a cake.”
Brotherly ties
One night in June, 1942, George D had a conversation with his brother that he could not explain. His brother, you see, was not there. He was flying bombers out of Trinidad, on a mission to destroy German submarines. “He told me he was going on a long trip and would not return,” George says. “I asked if I could go with him and he said not for a long time.” When George told his mother and sister about this impossible conversation, they dismissed it as a dream. Several days later, George’s family received the official notification that his brother died in a plane crash on 7 June, 1942. “Many years later, I was wounded and delirious during WW2,” George says. “When admitted for medical care, I could only remember my brother's name, serial number and military organisation identification. I am still waiting for my brother's permission to go on his long trip.”
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. “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 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. She was only three days pregnant then!
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. It said, “Rise and shine, Claire.” She swears the note was in her father’s handwriting who 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 also 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 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 message from her grandma. It was a Friday and 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 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.” “I had been watching TV, and all of a sudden I heard The Third Man Theme coming up from the basement. I was scared to death. I will never forget it!”
(Stephen Wagner is a paranormal researcher and author)
This is taken from Sunday Times Hyderabad 20.07.2008 Edition.
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