Anything unusual happen when a relative died?

Doom

When I was about 14, my cousin drown in England, the evening he drown I had awful breathing problems and pains in my lungs, thing is we didn't know he drowned till the following day.

Misty Chaos

When one of my cousins died suddenly in 2000, I felt an overwhelming sense of uneasiness when I woke up on the morning before she died and the morning when she died.... then I got the news and thought these 2 events were connected in a way, kind of eerie.

MadMardegan

My grandad died in the house almost 15 years ago. He was sick from lung cancer for a long time so when they knew the time was coming my two older brothers and I were taken to stay in an aunts house.
Here's a bit of background first. My grandad's name was Jim. He had a paddy-cap that he used to wear all the time (country fella). My older brother is named James. We used to keep a picture of my brother wearing my grandad's cap ontop of the tv that was downstairs at the time.
When he finally passed (upstairs in on the bedrooms with most of the family there) everyone left the room so the nurse could do what she needed to do.
Everyone has told me that when they came downstairs they saw that picture of my brother half in the frame, half out of the frame.
I can't say whether it is true or not but I know they wouldn't make something like that up.
That picture is still around somewhere, kinda eerie looking at it heh.

johndaman66

The following happened in my family in 1991 and my account of the story is as factually correct as I recall it. My aunts husband (not a direct blood relative) took ill and his health deteriorated very rapidly. The man was an absolute pure gentleman, pretty much a dying breed of person in this day and age (if thats of any relevance). He was in hospital and we pretty much knew he hadn't too much time left. The evening he died a picture fell from the wall onto the ground in my sisters bedroom (this would have being my parents bedroom before my sister was born). It would seem that the picture fell for absolutely no apparent reason. It wasn't as if it had being taken down recently for painting the room or cleaning the picture etc., no drilling or vibration or anything like that had being ongoing at the time or even for many weeks beforehand. Nail holding the picture was and still is to this day rock solid in the wall and not facing downwards or anything like that. The picture stayed upright against the wall when it fell which was a wee bit unusual also...One might have expected it to fall over flat when it hit the floor. Chord on picture was perfectly intact...we found it very surprising at the time but just hung it up on wall again. Later that night we got word that the man had passed on. We didn't have the phone in at the time...got word through another relative who lived nearer to us. Also if it is off any real relevance the picture was a tappestry sort picture of a castle in our local town. Which is a town 40 odd miles away from the residence of the man that died and he would have no real connection to this town apart from the fact that it would have being wifes (my aunts) local town in her younger days.

The two families of us have always being pretty close down through the years. Ive heard of knocks on a door or a banshee crying outside on the occurance of a death but doing a quick google search a picture falling from the wall seems to be a less regular occurance.

I actually started a thread on here before on the above and ended up getting a severe amount of ridicule and even abuse levelled at me from certain quarters, only the moderators done some editing and deleting to such posts after. Im actually more in the skeptic corner myself but the above is pretty much the factual detail of what happened.

GodlessM

johndaman66 wrote: »

The following happened in my family in 1991 and my account of the story is as factually correct as I recall it. My aunts husband (not a direct blood relative) took ill and his health deteriorated very rapidly. The man was an absolute pure gentleman, pretty much a dying breed of person in this day and age (if thats of any relevance). He was in hospital and we pretty much knew he hadn't too much time left. The evening he died a picture fell from the wall onto the ground in my sisters bedroom (this would have being my parents bedroom before my sister was born). It would seem that the picture fell for absolutely no apparent reason. It wasn't as if it had being taken down recently for painting the room or cleaning the picture etc., no drilling or vibration or anything like that had being ongoing at the time or even for many weeks beforehand. Nail holding the picture was and still is to this day rock solid in the wall and not facing downwards or anything like that. The picture stayed upright against the wall when it fell which was a wee bit unusual also...One might have expected it to fall over flat when it hit the floor. Chord on picture was perfectly intact...we found it very surprising at the time but just hung it up on wall again. Later that night we got word that the man had passed on. We didn't have the phone in at the time...got word through another relative who lived nearer to us. Also if it is off any real relevance the picture was a tappestry sort picture of a castle in our local town. Which is a town 40 odd miles away from the residence of the man that died and he would have no real connection to this town apart from the fact that it would have being wifes (my aunts) local town in her younger days.

The two families of us have always being pretty close down through the years. Ive heard of knocks on a door or a banshee crying outside on the occurance of a death but doing a quick google search a picture falling from the wall seems to be a less regular occurance.

I actually started a thread on here before on the above and ended up getting a severe amount of ridicule and even abuse levelled at me from certain quarters, only the moderators done some editing and deleting to such posts after. Im actually more in the skeptic corner myself but the above is pretty much the factual detail of what happened.

I remember reading that thread. Though I can think of a tonne of reasons for such a thing to happen, it must be said that the timing was quite peculiar, and I'm not a big believer in coincidence.

MrMojoRisin

A friend of mine said that, one night, himself and two of his siblings were in their living room watching TV and started chatting about their nan. Then a picture of her that was perched on the mantelpiece suddenly leapt about half a foot off and away from it onto the ground. He said it didn't fall, but that it 'directed' itself off the mantelpiece. They found it really strange.

The following morning, they got a call saying that their nan had died on the previous night at around 9:30pm. When he thought back to when the picture of her flew off the mantelpiece, he realised that it was at about 9:30pm because he remembered that the RTE Nine O' Clock News weather (usually on at around that time) had been on the TV when it happened.

My father said that, when he was 9-years-old, himself and his mother (my grandmother) were walking up the laneway to their house one afternoon after visiting his seriously ill uncle - who had lived with them in the same house - in hospital that day. As my father and his mother were making their way up the lane, they saw my father's grandmother (my great-grandmother) sitting on a rock adjacent to the gate at the top of the lane. Now, my great-grandmother was already dead at that time. My father said she looked like a living person - no faded image of her, or whatever. What's more, she had always sat on that rock when she had been alive. This was in the middle of the day.

My father said he was shocked to see her and looked up to his mother, who had the same shocked look on her face. My father started pointing and tried to talk, but his mother shut him up and told him to stop annoying her. She had seen my great-grandmother as well but she wasn't willing to speak about it to my father. In fact, they never discussed what they had both obviously seen from that day forward. My grandmother was a frosty, no-nonsense woman. He said that his grandmother then sort of just 'disappeared' or evaporated into thin air.

But my father swore he saw my great-grandmother and is certain my grandmother saw her too. He believes she appeared because of his uncle being gravely ill and so close to death at that time.

Rubberlegs

Not as strange as some of the above (:eek:) but here are a few stories of mine.

My mother had a dream in which her Dad, sister and brother in law (all passed on), and her mother (still alive), were all in a room together. She was surprised to see her mother there, and asked her why she was there with those that had passed on. She just smiled. The next day she got a phone call to say her mother had died.

My sister's ex boyfriends mother died a few years ago. The evening of the day she died, my sister went back home, and all the lightbulbs blew as she turned on the lights.
Not a long time after this, my sister was in the kitchen doing the washing up. She had to go out, and it started to lash rain. Next she hears a thud in the hall. She goes out and her good coat with a hood is on the floor at the end of the stairs. This coat had been up in the wardrobe, on a hanger, under another coat:eek:. She reckoned it was her ex's mother telling her to wrap up to go out, as she would have done when alive:)

My Dad passed away 10 weeks ago from lung cancer. We were with him at the hospital for hours before he passed. Myself and my sister were shattered, and took a stroll outside for some fresh air, as we knew by Dad's breathing that he wasn't leaving us just yet. When we came back in my sister looked down to see a beautiful white feather on her top. It definitley hadn't been there before, and I don't know how we missed it, it was in such a noticeable place. Anyway, maybe this story doesn't count as strange as such, but I like to think it was a sign that someone was watching over us at such a hard time:)

philstar

My Dad woke up one night with the sound of a phone ringing, but when he rose he soon realised it was just a dream.

Exactly a week later nearly to the very hour he woke again to a phone ringing but this time it was for real, and it was a call from overseas to tell him that his mother died.

a coincidence maybe but strange all the same

mud

In my friend's family there is a weird thing that happens with electricity when a member of their family dies. Bulbs bursting at the time of death. Has happened several times now and I was there for one of those times. Her Dad turned on a lamp which burst, then the main light which burst. The phone then rang and he went seriously pale as did other members of the family. The phone call on that particular instance was the news that his sister had died suddenly.

When I was 15 a school-mate died. On the night she died, all the dogs in the area began to howl one by one across the hill. It was one of the eeriest things I've ever heard, then word came that she had died. Brrrr.

Also in my family there is a weird thing with snow. As in there have been flakes of snow everytime one of my family died. Very strange stuff altogether.

Scody94

i remember when i was twelve (5 years ago) its was about 4 or 5 days after my grandmother had passed away on my mothers side, the phone rang in my house and i answered it. there was no one on the other end so i handed it to my Mam. she looked at the and saw a number and she looked it up in the phonebook. its was my grandmothers house number. she had lived alone . the strange thing was that when my grandmother would ring, the number never came up and i mean never. No one had been in my grandmothers house and it was very strange that the number came up. my mother has always taken it as a sign from her to say she was alright

busymum1

not a death but odd all the same. My Mum always has vivid dreams/nightmares we all do in our family.. But one morning she said she'd had an awful night she had the same recurrent dream all night that her younger brother was lost and she was trying to find him. She could hear him calling her but she couldn't find him. Mum often had recurrent nightmares but never one like this and she never had it afterwards.
Later that day we had a phone call to say that her brother had had a motorbike accident and spent the night in the ditch with two broken wrists and a a few broken ribs ( he wasn't able to get himself up)..
I know it might be coincidence but I like to think that in some way she knew he was in trouble. He was fine afterwards thankfully..

Pumpkinseeds

I had a vivid dream that I was at my fathers funeral. I saw myself sitting in the church watching the funeral taking place. At the time my husband and I were living across the street from my parents house, so I knew that if anything had happened to my dad I would have been told immediately.

It was so vivid that when I woke up I told my husband that I had to go and check on my dad, as it had unnerved me so much. My dad was fine but my mum and brother went quiet when I told them about the dream. My mum then went on to tell me that my best friend had choked to death that night. He only lived a few streets away from me.

lisatiffany

It's pretty much a constant in my family. Anything from loud knocks on doors both for family members here and abroad to certain people appearing to others without even knowing that they passed. It's all harmless but for myself its just been so personal that I wouldn't talk about it. The last thing that came close was when I was doing a reading for some friends and halfway through I got dizzy and felt like I couldn't breath, I was using tarot too and the card that came up was the 2 of swords - basically a lady with her arms crossed and 2 swords in each hand, the moment I drew that card one of my friends screamed. I was reading a person who wasn't there at the time for someone, I got confused and my exact words were "I don't understand ..he wants to kill himself?" Across the road someone went into the river in the same pose minus the swords, he lived but it wasn't a comfortable experience feeling all of that. The crazy thing is that guy will never know what was happening across the road and that I saw it coming before anyone else did, I'm just glad he was okay - if anything it was a call to say look what's happening so close to you and do something about it if you can. A passing car saw him going in and rescued him, an ambulance was there a few minutes later.

Skuxx

An animal instead of a person but I remember clearly a good few years back, I was maybe 13, I was in Irish college for the summer, and one morning about 5 days before I was due to go home I woke up and felt very home sick and was almost crying, for no apparent reason as I was having the time of my life!
When I went home a few days later I discovered my dog had died that day and my parents decided not to tell me till I got home! The dog had been in the house since I was 2 and was my best friend growing up!!
I remember that so clearly!!

lisatiffany

That happens alan, my moms cat passed a few years ago and the next night everyone in house kept feeling the cat walking around their bed, it was really odd but it makes sense. My dad had a dog when he was growing up and when they both passed away any time he appeared the dog was always with him. I knew nothing about the dog but when I saw it I mentioned it to my mom and she confirmed it and then showed me pictures. It's a comforting thing really to know that pets can pass over. = )

Mam of 4

Hi. certain members of our family hear the knocks before someone dies and others don't,even if we've all been in the one room together. I think it's because some of us are more open to this and the others don't believe?? Also,throughout the years we've experienced the pictures falling from the walls,without the string snapping or the nail coming out of the wall. Personally I don't find it frightening,I just think we're being prepared for the loss of someone..

supershy

A bit of backround; my brother died 4 years ago of cancer at the age of 31. He had been diagnosed at Xmas time and died a few weeks later. Although we had been told by the docs that they had only given him 3 to 6 months. I was in work on the morning of his death and the one thing that always stuck with me was that he died alone with none of his family around him.

Anyhoo, i thought about him being alone when he died and that i never got to say goodbye to him, it ate away at me.

One night a week or two after he died, i woke up in the middle of the night feeling really hot and i tried to get kick the duvet off and i couldn't. I felt as if the duvet was being held around me and i couldn't move. the next day i thought that i had been having a dream and never thought any more about it.

2 years later i went to see a medium and she relayed that night i couldn't move back to me and said it was my brother giving me the hug he never got to give me before he went!!!!

I know this is a bit long but one more thing i must tell you. My mother was never very good with phones and she was messing with the voice recorder on her phone and was literally recording nothing. On one particular occasion, she played back what she had recorded and heard my brother's voice telling her he was ok. When i heard it i nearly got sick - it was as clear as day. in another recording, he said "don't worry" and we could hear him calling his dog (i know it sounds crazy but his dog had to be put down about 2 months after he died and my parents felt unbelievale guilt about putting the dog down because my brother adored the dog)

nikkibikki

This isn't as good as the rest of the stories here but it's my experience. My uncle took his own life a few years ago, I was in Oz at the time and didn't make it home for the funeral. I never knew or asked how he did it, it wasn't important to me, was devastated. When I got home, I was living in my parents house that they had just newly bought so my uncle had never been in it. I was pregnant so was up and down to the loo every night and when walking to the bathroom, I remember getting a "feeling" of someone hanging from the attic at the top of the stairs, not a vision but a feeling, can't explain it better than that. Took me a while to come around to the idea that it might be him trying to tell me. And it turned out that it was what happened, someone said it around the time of his inquest. I often feel his presence but would freak out if I saw him. When my son was born, I gave him my uncle's name as his middle name and he has asked on occasion while pointing out the window of the car while it's moving "Who's that man Mammy?" which is a bit strange also, there's no-body there but I think that it's my uncle! Sounds crazy, I know!! Have told no-body about this only my husband one night when I was drunk! Once I figured it out, the feelings stopped.

Another one that isn't my experience but that of a relative. My cousin died last year from cancer. Her and her younger sister are very close and Irish twins, only about 10 months between them. After she died, her sister said that she used to see her logged on to facebook and things like that.

boost creep

my brother died in a car accident 15 years ago, but he had another car that i had been driving up to the time of his accident. he was mad about this particular car actually, so anyway the morning after his accident i drove this car to town to do some things.

i parked up in a supermarket car park which had really old stone walls, and hanging from this wall were several metal rings which people used to tether their horses to in the past.

i was sitting there for ages just thinking about what had happened and wondering how we would cope without him, just then i noticed a set of rosary beads hanging from one of the metal rings directly in front of the car, without thinking twice i hopped out a grabbed the beads.

i don't know if this was a sign from him or just a coincidence but i know which reason i believe, the beads are in his car to this day and finding them that day gave me a definite feeling of comfort.

Corkgirl210

where do i start?? hmmmm

wat about the time my mother passed away and did transfiguration (her face appeared) on a neighbour at her own funeral right in front of me - frightened the beeejaysus out of me.. (she did it too to another cousin)...

i felt my brother passing.. i literally had to run out of work, felt like i was dying.. pulled over in the car and was about to ring for an ambulance and say i need help i was dying.. but tot ive just lost my mind and said id visit the doctor the following day.. went home told my family i wasnt feeling the best and a knock came couple of hours later to say my brother had passed at the exact time this all happened to me..

im a natural medium so im now used to this stuff and nothing really frightens me now.. but back then it was ...

oh yes and other peoples relatives try and channel me at their very own funeral.. but i have drawn the line at that... there is a time and place for everything! ;o)

Cunning Stunt

supershy wrote: »

A bit of backround; my brother died 4 years ago of cancer at the age of 31. He had been diagnosed at Xmas time and died a few weeks later. Although we had been told by the docs that they had only given him 3 to 6 months. I was in work on the morning of his death and the one thing that always stuck with me was that he died alone with none of his family around him.

Anyhoo, i thought about him being alone when he died and that i never got to say goodbye to him, it ate away at me.

One night a week or two after he died, i woke up in the middle of the night feeling really hot and i tried to get kick the duvet off and i couldn't. I felt as if the duvet was being held around me and i couldn't move. the next day i thought that i had been having a dream and never thought any more about it.

2 years later i went to see a medium and she relayed that night i couldn't move back to me and said it was my brother giving me the hug he never got to give me before he went!!!!

I know this is a bit long but one more thing i must tell you. My mother was never very good with phones and she was messing with the voice recorder on her phone and was literally recording nothing. On one particular occasion, she played back what she had recorded and heard my brother's voice telling her he was ok. When i heard it i nearly got sick - it was as clear as day. in another recording, he said "don't worry" and we could hear him calling his dog (i know it sounds crazy but his dog had to be put down about 2 months after he died and my parents felt unbelievale guilt about putting the dog down because my brother adored the dog)

Thanks for this story Supershy. It must be so comforting to get solid confirmation that your brother is OK.
I have also experienced loss and am always hoping that I will get a sign. Maybe some day..

picturehangup

Hello,

Yes, my mother in law was taken into hospital, a year after her hub deceased.
She had suffered a stroke, and a night later we heard a crash downstairs. It woke us both and our kids, and we discovered that a picture had fallen off the wall, which was a gift to us from my Hubbie's grandfather, and had knocked down and shattered a very expensive vase given to us by a departed TD for our wedding. Mother in law recovered sufficiently to tell us she missed her husband who died a year before. The next week she was dead. I believe, very firmly that this was a warning from Grandad. No doubt in my mind whatsoever. A picture falling off a wall is, IMHO a warning from a family member. Comforting in a way, to let us know they are going to greet the new arrival. Obviously waiting.

Kdylass

Just 2 small incidents...
my sister in law died unexpectedly after an operation - she was just 36... that night I was in bed sobbing away and I heard her voice...it was in my head but it was clearly her voice, if you understand what I mean.. she said she was OK and a feeling of comfort came over me and I knew she really was OK.
My father died when I was pregnant with my son.. he never got to see him. One day while I was looking at my son sitting in his high chair, his face seemed to turn into my fathers face... just for a second but I have no doubt that it was my father

Karona

johndaman66 wrote: »

The evening he died a picture fell from the wall onto the ground in my sisters bedroom (this would have being my parents bedroom before my sister was born). It would seem that the picture fell for absolutely no apparent reason. It wasn't as if it had being taken down recently for painting the room or cleaning the picture etc., no drilling or vibration or anything like that had being ongoing at the time or even for many weeks beforehand. Nail holding the picture was and still is to this day rock solid in the wall and not facing downwards or anything like that. The picture stayed upright against the wall when it fell which was a wee bit unusual also...One might have expected it to fall over flat when it hit the floor. Chord on picture was perfectly intact...we found it very surprising at the time but just hung it up on wall again.

I had something similar happen to me. I had friends over for a coffee and we were sitting around drinking it when the picture which my mam inherited from her uncle fell off the wall knocked over an ornament on the mantlepiece and landed down onto the fireplace still upright.
The chord was still intact too. There had been no drilling or vibrations in the house for a good few months and as you said the nail in our wall is still there with another picture on it.

One of my friends recounted the day a while after it happened and she said that it was almost as if the picture jumped off the wall. We didn't have anyone die on us straight away although my nana did pass a few months after it happened.

Karona

My Nana died 2 years ago and to help cope my mother went into hyper cleaning mode. The house was spotless. When we left that day the windows and every door was locked as there had been a few burgalieries in the area.
After the burial and wake we arrived home and there in the middle of the kitchen was a little white feather. It wasn't there before hand as my mother had hoovered before we left, we took it as a little sign that my nana paid a little visit to tell us she was ok.

Another time, myself, my mam and my sister walked into my Mams house and as soon as we opened the front door there was a wonderful smell of roses. We never have flowers in the house and we cannot keep air freshners as I am allergic. Again we took it as a sign that my nana was ok.

dagaz11

The night after my grand-father died, my mother and one of my aunts (his 2 daughters) both woke up in the middle of the night at practically the same time.

edit: I've just seen supershy mentioned her experience with a medium so I may as well share mine. I bumped into one online 2 years after my grand-father died. I didn't even know she was one. We were talking in a chatroom and dropped the conversation out of the blue to ask if I knew an old man who had passed away. She began describing what my grand-father looked like and the dog she saw with him. She dumped more spot on info about him without possibility of cold reading. One of the things that struck me is she said he was very supportive of an artsy project I was working on at the time, which I hadn't told about anyone in my family. What brought me comfort back then is my grand-father and I weren't talking to each other anymore when he died, following some dumb argument. For the record, the medium didn't charge me anything.

Rubberlegs

A couple of times after my Dad died, I caught sight of myself in the mirror, or a reflection, and it was his face looking back at me. It gave me some shock. I do look a lot like him, but am female !!

triona1

When my dad was dying in hospital i had to stay in my parents house as we had got a call to say he could pass anytime now and i live a good distance away,He died at 9.07 in the morning i woke to him calling my name at about 8am and i answered him saying im awake dad thinking he was calling me to get me up for work(in my sleep state of mind) i then remembered he was in hospital dying my husband was with me we drove like nutters to get to the hospital we got there for 9.03 and just got to say were back and ask how was he then he passed.

A few weeks before that i had a very vivid dream my aunt was standing at his bedroom crying and saying she didn't want to go into his room she wanted to remembered him the last time she seen him alive and well,There was a calendar on the wall behind him and it had the date that he passed clearly marked on it.

Isolt

The last couple of times a relative has died, I have dreamt about it beforehand. For example, in one dream I was standing outside my cousin's house crying and I got into my uncle's car to go home. In the dream as we got near my house I wiped my eyes and looked into the front mirror of the car and saw it was my Godmother (who passed away a few years earlier which devastated us) who was driving me home. I tried to scream in the dream because I knew something was wrong and she told me to try take it easy. Then I woke up. A few days later my 21 year old cousin fell asleep and never woke up. I knew something was going to happen.

Another time I dreamt that my great uncle was being bothered in his house by a banshee type figure playing music to him and in the dream he said she only comes when it's time to go. The next morning his sister passed away.

Another time I got really awful pains and vomiting, it came on very suddenly and lasted a few hours. It felt like awful period pain but it wasn't. My heart was pounding and I got the shakes and became light headed. The same day we found out that the baby my mother was pregnant with had died. Perhaps it was coincidence but I felt at the time that something wasn't right.

aoife1991

mud wrote: »

In my friend's family there is a weird thing that happens with electricity when a member of their family dies. Bulbs bursting at the time of death. Has happened several times now and I was there for one of those times. Her Dad turned on a lamp which burst, then the main light which burst. The phone then rang and he went seriously pale as did other members of the family. The phone call on that particular instance was the news that his sister had died suddenly.

We experienced this in our house too after my granda died.
I spoke about it in another thread, so excuse the copy & paste job.

A bit of context first; my grandfather, who I was close to and extremely fond of, died in December 2011, the start of Christmas week and just before my birthday. My relations say they feel his presence a lot but my family haven't felt him much in my house. One night I was reading a national geographic magazine, my granda was a subscriber and used to pass them to me when he read them. I hadn't read any since he died and I was upset reading it, thinking of him, etc. The electricity in my house goes off, I don't think anything of it all, my dog is asleep at the end of the bed and isn't freaking like animals are supposed to I go out into the hall and look outside and see my house is the only one affected? Fair enough says I, it must be the fuse gone. Then I hear an noise in my room, like a stack of books or a pile of papers falling. The lights come back on. I'm starting to feel a bit funny. I go back into my room, where the pooch is still asleep on the bed and in the middle of the floor, all of the national geographic magazines have fallen. They had been in the middle of my desk, with the window closed and no draft was in the room. I think my granda came by to visit Apparently after loved ones pass, they try to communicate through electricity, or so my research tells me. We couldn't keep the house in light bulbs, over the space of six size weeks, 14 lightbulbs blew, 3 lamps, the outside security light and the cordless phone! The phone would also ring randomly at all hours of the day and night, just a few rings, then it would cut off. If you managed to pick it up when it was ringing, all there was at the other end of the line was just static-y type white noise like a fax coming through. Has anyone else experienced this, or something like this?

Additional info: My dad got a lecky to come in and look at the wiring afterwards. It was fine, nothing wrong with it.