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Got three text messages from my Dad. He died in May!

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teenyweenytadpole · 27/09/2011 22:03

Thought I would share a wierd happening.

Going up to bed on Saturday I took my mobile phone with me to use as a clock, we had visitors so were sleeping in our spare room on an airbed. The room is a loft conversion and currently not being used except as a spare room. I should also add that for reasons too complicated to go into, my Dad's ashes are currently being kept up there. They are in a nice wooden urn and I am quite happy about having them there and I say hello to him whenever I go up there.

Anyway as I was going up the stairs to bed I got a text message which was unusual as I rarely use my phone to be honest. I checked to see who the sender was and it said "Dad - Mobile". Now bearing in mind he died in May and my Mum never uses his phone that struck me as a bit odd. Anyway, I went to bed - and at 2.30 in the morning the same thing happened again. Also at about 3.00 am. There has been nothing since. None of the messages had any text in them.

I have asked my Dad if he is trying to tell me something but so far I am none the wiser!

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SpideySenseTingling · 27/09/2011 22:05

How lovely!

MogandMe · 27/09/2011 22:07

Gosh - how surreal.

How did you feel when you saw his name come up? when you read the empty texts?

I often hope that it will be my Dad on the phone/texting me despite him passing several years ago.

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teenyweenytadpole · 27/09/2011 22:18

It was kind of wierd. But if there has been actual text in there, that would have been even wierder!!

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hiddenhome · 27/09/2011 22:50

If the messages came from his phone then presumably his phone must still be charged up somehow. Who has been charging it up?

ChippingIn · 27/09/2011 22:55

On the surface it's lovely :) (or would be to me)

However, my sensible rational side would need to find out where the phone is and if your Mum has been charging it etc.

Sorry about your Dad :(
x

amistillsexy · 27/09/2011 22:59

Can you ask your mum if his phone has been charged up? Where is it kept? Would she let you see it? Just to check if there's a more 'rational' explaination?
I'm sure that people can and do communicate with us once they've died, and I hope you feel comforted by this.

Quintessentialist · 27/09/2011 23:02

Sorry about your dad.

Dont worry about his phone or whether it is charged or not. It wont matter. He would not need his handset to message yours.

Once I woke up by my phone ringing. It was my sister. At least, her number came up on the display, but there was nobody on the line. So I figured I just missed her. So I phoned her landline, as it is cheaper than phoning a mobile.

Her daughther answered. Turns out my sister was in her room, in her bed, really very ill, and had been in bed and unable to move, and kept thinking about calling me for help. Although, she had not been able to get up from her bed to get her phone....

A good thing I rang, so her daughter went in to her....

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teenyweenytadpole · 28/09/2011 07:59

The phone is with my Mum who lives in France. Apparently she did use it last week to find a phone number. She doesn't know how to send text messages, but of course it's entirely possible she did by accident and then they were sitting in the network somewhere for a while. Or maybe it was my Dad saying hello. Who knows...!

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Aislingorla · 28/09/2011 11:24

Think it was your Dad. How lovely of him.

MissM · 28/09/2011 11:49

A few days after my brother died almost three years ago now, I had my phone by my bed. Very late at night it beeped a message and his name come up. I've never been entirely sure if it was a dream or real, but the feeling of comfort it gave me was huge. Whether it's your mum accidently sending these messages or not, it sounds lovely.

Aislingorla · 28/09/2011 12:17

Very comforting. I believe when people die they like to reassure us and let us know they are still 'around' (for) us.

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teenyweenytadpole · 28/09/2011 13:32

It would be lovely to think so. Dad was only 68 and I was expecting him to live to a ripe old age. I do miss him so much. I hope he is somehow still with us. Mum has also experienced some odd things since he died like lights switching themselves on and candles flickering when there is no wind. Perhaps it's his way of saying hello.

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teenyweenytadpole · 30/09/2011 23:26

Spoke to Mum about it and she said that the same night she was awoken by the sound of someone in the kitchen. she said it sounded just like someone unloading the dishwasher/ She got out out of bed and went downstairs - no one there. Said she wasn't scared, just said hello and went back to bed.

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sh77 · 04/10/2011 12:54

How lovely! How did it make you feel - do you feel it was your dad? I really hope DD tries to contact me some time. I love reading about experiences like yours.

chipmonkey · 18/10/2011 13:21

Since dd died, we have had a few odd little things. Ds1 was listening to his radio late at night when it switched itself off. He hadn't touched it but found that the on/off switch had been flicked. Also we have a kitchen radio which has always switched itself on at midnight, some alarm we have accidentally set it to but can't figure out how to switch it off. However twice since she died it went off at 11.45. I thought someone had changed the time on it except that it still went off at midnight as usual. Whether this is dd or not is another thing, she was only 7 weeks old so certainly couldn't work a radio when she was alive!

After my Dad died our house alarm kept going off for no reason. We never found a cause and it had been fine before and has been fine since.

sittinginthesun · 01/11/2011 19:14

After my Dad died, I had a really vivid dream that he called on the mobile, and said he was so pleased that he managed to get some signal from where he was! When I woke up, I wasn't sure whether to be really happy or really sad. It was such a vivid dream, part of me is convinced he was trying to get in touch.

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