If you believe in messages from beyond, read this

[Poohnatic]

Banshee, I'm here crying at your post. If ever there was proof that those we love never leave us, that's it.

Suzanne

 

[UrsulasMyHero]

Just a little message from beyond letting you know that your Mom is thinking about you. *hugs* I love it when they find a way to let us know they're still with us. THere is a called "We do not die" by a group named Dream Trybe, it speaks volumes.

 

[JVL1018]

All of these stories are so cool..I've never seen or felt a presence..but I have had a few signs.

My Grandma's name was Ismene, very very uncommon..and a few days after she died I was sitting down flipping thorugh a Reader's Digest and noticed a woman in an article had the name Ismene. I have never in my life come across anyone else with that name.

When my Mom died, I was in the middle of reading a book by Adriana Trigiani..one of the Big Stone Gap books..anyway I put it down for a few days and the day after her wake I made myself start reading..and the characters in the book took a trip to Italy and went to Sestri Levante, a little coastal town in northern Italy.
Well my Gram(Ismene), my Mom's Mom, was born in Sestri Levante and lived there until she moved to America..again I have never heard of that town except in regard to my Gram.

A few months ago I am reading our little town paper and a blurb about a play catches my eye..the character's name was Ismene..and she was played by someone named Meta..again not a common name, except it is my Mom's name!

I know those last 2 occurances were Mom and Gram telling me they are together and fine.

Oddly enough I was reading another Adriana Trigiana novel (Queen of the Big Time) right after my 33 year old SIL got diagnosed with breast cancer, and in the book she mentions a town called Wind Gap, PA..not a town I had ever heard of...until my brother and SIL moved there a few years ago.
DSIL finished her chemo in Nov., just finished radiation and her 1-7 chance that her cancer was just a fluke and not genetic thankfully came to pass. She is doing wonderfully--I think it was a sign.

Every time I read a Trigiani book I expect something now. LOL

 

[Fan2CSkr]

Vicki, your story made me smile. The signs you received are amazing. Very uncommon names, there is no mistaking that they were sending you a message! Or a hello.

 

[JerseyJanice]

Oh, Michele, I do think that was a subtle message to you.

How are you doing anyway? I know you miss your mom terribly and think about you sometimes when I'm missing mine.

 

[zalansky]

luvwinnie -
I have had this happen a few times myself over the years, moms been gone almost 8 years now sad to say. She and I were very close. I definitely believe in this!!!

 

[Regina]

I had an experience last month. My FIL had been ill and Hospice was called in. DH called him at home on the 12th and they had a nice conversation. He was still able to get around on his own and it didn't seem that he was at the end stage of the process.

After they hung up, I asked DH what his Mom's birthday was. (She passed away 22 years earlier and his Dad remarried.) He said the 17th. I commented that wouldn't it be something if he died on her birthday.

The 17th arrives, and it's a miserable day, windy, rainy, just lousy weather. As I'm carrying a basket of laundry upstairs, I looked outside and thought "this is just like it was the day my Mom died." With that, the phone rings and I knew it was "the call." Sure enough, he had passed away that morning. It was surprising since they only got a hospital bed brought in the day before. He just wasn't that bad yet.

I was literally shaking for awhile after this. I told DH that it was a sign from his Mom that she won't hold him to his promise. You see, when she was dying, she made DH vow that he would bury his Dad with her. It was always hard for him to bring up this subject with his Dad and now that he's gone, it's highly unlikely that his widow will allow it. She had him cremated and hasn't told us what her plans are.

No matter what happens, she can't change the day that he died. It will always be associated with my MIL.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

I love hearing these stories and definitely believe. My GM was big into visiting cemetaries and making sure people knew you had been (flowers, wreaths, etc.). The first christmas after she passed the majority of us had made it to the cemetary. Apparently my Dsis hadn't yet. My GM had this musical bear that we never put away. I was home alone with my little Dsis and the bear started playing. We were watching tv and not near it at all. We just assumed it was a bad battery but the darn thing kept playing at odd times throughout the day. Called DM at work, she asked who hadn't been to the cemetary because Nana was getting angry. The darn bear played off and on until my older Dsis went that weekend. And it wasn't the battery issue because every now and then the bear will play, usually around the holidays. Did I mention that my GM passed away in 1988!

Another quick one, my BIL's dad passed away when my niece was 3. One night she was speaking to someone at the dinner table. My sis asked who she was speaking to: "Grandpa came to visit." "Where's grandpa honey" "Standing behind daddy". My niece talked for a few more minutes then she turned to her parents and said "Grandpa said hi. He's going to visit grandma now" My sis turned to her DH and said "Should we call your mom and warn her?" At times it was a trying marriage, my sis wasn't sure if it was a visit or a haunting.

 

[luvwinnie]

Oh, Michele, I do think that was a subtle message to you.

How are you doing anyway? I know you miss your mom terribly and think about you sometimes when I'm missing mine.

Hi! Well, I've been feeling pretty down this week and I think my mom knew I needed a sign from her. Things like this REALLY comfort me. I think of you and your family often too. You have been through so much.

 

[luvwinnie]

I have goosebumps from all these wonderful stories.

When I got home last night I opened the paper and I stopped to read an obit (weird, I know, but I do it) and the man's wife's name was AUDREY. I never see that name...and then twice in one day. I think that was my mom saying "Just in case you had ANY doubt that was me earlier..." lol

 

[momof2inPA]

My sister, J, almost died during childbirth. It was touch and go for awhile, but her DH, MIL, and my older sis were always by J's side. The next day, J's MIL told her that my mom (who died about 10 years before that) had visited her, about a month before J gave birth. All she said was, "She will be alright." Well, the MIL thought my mom was talking about the baby, but she was really talking about J. The MIL is a completely down to earth person. She said my mom wasn't like a ghost or a spirit, but it was like she was actuallly in the room and real, and MIL hadn't been sleeping.

 

[funhouse8]

When my daughter was just a baby she had a fx skull. The first Dr told me to leave her alone and the neuro-surgen wanted to operate or she might get brain damage, Well I didn't know what to do. My Mom had passed two years earlier and she was the one who always gave me advice. So I prayed to her for some help as to what to do. That next morning my DD came into my room and told me "Mommy, Little Nanny she kissed me like this" and she kissed my head. I said "What?" and she repeated this and pointed to my Moms picture. She was only 6 months when my Mom died. I knew then that my Mom was watching over us and would protect my DD. Well we went for a third opinion, never had the surgery and my DD is 20 years old graduating a year early from college with a 4.0 GPA. Thanks Mom!

15 years after my Moms death, I had a close friend Die in her sleep. Her Mom had told me at her wake that my Mom visted her in her sleep that week and told her "She is going to be alright" This was before her death and it gave her Mom & me comfort to know they were together and Michelle wasn't alone.

All your stories are wonderful reminders that we aren't left alone. I miss my parents so much but know they aren't far away!

 

[Mi3stooges]

I have another one.
When my DD was 5 she fell down the stairs. Took her to the doc and all was fine, just sore. For the next few days she complained of her chest hurting.
My DH and I went to an affair and let our 3 DK sleepover at my MIL just 2 doors away. The next morning, I woke up to the phone ringing and two different towns fire alarms blaring. I jumped and answered if everything was alright. I knew it was my MIL and everyting was and she asked why.
I told her of this dream she woke me from.
I deampt my 5 yr old getting off the school bus and was hit by a flatbed truck. Then she was on the flatbed truck in my mothers driveway upsate NY being put into an ambulance and needed heart surgery.
The next day (Monday) my MIL called to tell me that there was a similar story on the news. I fliped through all the channels and couldn't find it. I called my mother and told her the whole story and she said "Oh, that happened up here!" She sent me the newpaper article of the accident. The real story was that the 5 year girl was let off the bus away from her usual bus stop and a truck struck and killed her. My heart goes out to her parents but I thank God that it wasn't my daughter.

 

[Mickey Fliers]

Here's another:

My grandmother died when I was nine months old, so I obviously never knew her. Well, about 8 months ago (now I am 32) I had a dream. In the dream, I am sleeping in my bed and I hear a noise downstairs. I get up out of bed and I walk to the top of my staircase. At the bottom of my staircase is my grandmother (the way she looked in pics I had seen) and she looks up at me and says "I just wanted to see what you looked like. We should talk sometime" and then she turned the corner and vanished.

When I woke up, I called my mom (her daughter) and described the whole dream. And then my mother said "was she wearing a Pink, polka dot dress?" I said "yes". Then my mom said "that is what she is wearing when she visits me as well."

Too weird. Gives me hope that there is something beyond this whole thing called Earth. Sometimes, I lose my faith and this is what helps restore it.

 

[Jennasmomma]

my mom has ESP...she can see a news story about a crime suspect and know if they are guilty...or know if a missing person will be found safe etc.

This is a story of how I got my name Regina (I go by Gina unless my mom is mad or my sister wants to drive me nuts lol).

My mom was asleep while pregnant with me. She had a dream of a woman standing over a grave saying your unborn child is a girl. Name her Regina. This was in 1973 when ultrasounds werent routine. She woke up the next morning and told my father and grandmother about this. They looked at each other and froze. After hours of searching for a certain picture, they found it and showed my mother. Here the woman was my great grandmother standing over her own grave in the dress she was buried in, talking to my mother. Her name was Regina!! I asked my mom what if I was a boy? she said I would of been named Reginald she wasnt messing around with the great beyond. hahaha My g-grandmother died years before my mom even met my father.

(btw the picture was of her in the dress, her favorite. Not actually of her in the casket.

 

[mylilnikita]

Ok, glad I am not alone. I was starting to think I lost what was left of my mind. My DF passed away in July 2004 of a quick lung cancer. He had smoked since he was 13 and stopped a few months before Hurricane Isabel hit-I wanted to start smoking after that happened, but anyway-the last day he lived, he knew he was dying and we said what we needed to say and I told him to check on DM,DD, and myself just as long as he didn't make himself known to me being scared. I can get into my car, that he bought for me before he passed away and after he stopped smoking and sometimes I swear I smell cigarette smoke, all those years Dad just reaked of smoke even after he stopped. And he had stopped smoking by the time I got the car. Then I have these dreams and I talk to him, it isn't a long dream, but my last dream, he didn't have his oxygen tank on and there was a tree limb that had fallen in the dream and it was like the hurricane happened all over again, but I told him he couldnt' move the limb and he said he could now, he wasn't weak anymore. So I think that is his way of checking on me without me freaking out. My DD dreams about him as well and it was the hardest part for him I think was to leave her.



I was 8 when my grandfather passed and we were really close. He used to use old spice. And he had a brown recliner he used to sit in. Sometimes when I would stay with my grandmother, I would sneak into the living room and watch tv. and I would "feel" like he was there, but never saw anything or was scared. The last time I was in the house, many years ago when my Grandmother had gone into the nursing home and the house had to be sold-the house he built for her-every one was saying how someone was wearing a lot of old spice and I am sure he wasn't pleased with it being sold. I still have his wallet, driver's license, Merchant Marine's paper. He even had a newspaper from 2 years previous to his death about the anniversary of the Titanic-I think that is why I am so into the Titanic.

 

[luvwinnie]

And today I got an email from someone named Audrey!