Weird things happening around death

[Whatishappeninginmylife]

New username because this is specific.

my lovely mum died very suddenly this morning. It’s a huge shock. I couldn’t get there in time and am hundreds of miles away.

but. I lost a glove a few weeks ago. I was really annoyed about it and retraced my steps. Today, I took a route I don’t use that often, looked down and saw my glove in the gutter of the road. I’m sure this is coincidence but it’s very strange. What are the odds?!

Regale me with your unexpected tales please.

Since someone closed to me passed I noticed things like the blinds moving gently when there is no breeze to create a draught for about a week after they passed.

I've just thought of another one connected to my dad. We have quite an unusual surname, I don't know anyone else with it apart from family. A few weeks after he died, a brochure came through the door for garden furniture, and it was our family name on the front of the brochure (same as the company). I'd never even heard of that company before, never ever had a brochure from them or seen them advertising anywhere else, and haven't since.

Sometimes I think it's a sign from my dad to tell us to make more of our garden and enjoy it, I don't have much time to keep it nice so it's been a bit neglected the last few years.

I'm so sorry for your loss xx

If it gives her a moment’s comfort hearing about other people’s loved ones and the signs they feel they’ve received then good for her. Your judgement isn’t going to help her.

Thank you ❤️ it's weird I've never associated rainbows to my grief....but I absolutely love nature at it's best....That particular day I chose to visit waterfalls as it's my happy place....yet seeing the beautiful rainbow 🌈 bought me more happiness...

My Grandma always said that butterflies are loved ones watching over you. We held a sort of family get together/memorial in a pub restaurant, and a butterfly flew in and flew all around each of us.

I wouldn't say I believe in that sort of thing, but it did make me stop and think. Of course it's probably just a butterfly minding its own business, but quite unusual.

My sister has a lot more stories of strange things around loved ones who have died, or are in danger (e.g. medical emergencies). Some of them are quite hard to rationalise.

I have always heard that when you find a penny it's a loved one letting you know that they're around. That's a thing here in the US, "pennies from heaven."

It was my dad's birthday, he had passed away quite a few years before. I was working in my office - this was a proper office, not a cubicle. My earrings were making my ear sore so I took them off and laid them on my computer. A while later I got to up to go to the ladies' room, and when I came back, there was a penny laying on top of my earrings. I hadn't put it there. It's possible someone came into my office in the couple of minutes that I was gone, but unlikely that they would have walked all the way around my desk and put it on top of the earrings when they could have just laid it on the desk and walked away. Also there was no reason for someone to leave a penny in my office.

Derek Acorah was a charlatan. However there's more out there than we know.

Oh my god! You’ve just reminded me that I saw this too after my Dad died. He also had an unusual 3 letter name. Haven’t seen a reg with it in years, but immediately after he died I saw them everywhere.

They don't stop sending you messages IMO. When my dad passed, that was when the orbs started, usually around my eldest.
Since my mum passed it's been feathers. Only this week, a helium balloon floated to me and my children in the park and landed right by us. It had "Happy birthday from us all" on it and was filled with.....feathers. It was my eldests birthday a couple of days before. As soon as I spotted it coming towards us (before I saw what was written or the feathers) I thought of my mum 🥰

I’m sorry for your loss, OP.

Last month I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night and thought, ‘I should pray for my dad’ even though we had been estranged for a decade. I am not religious and had never prayed before.

He died the next day. I only found out by checking his Wikipedia page.

My friend had orbs appear after her mum died.

After my old cat died I heard her jump off the dresser and I also heard her meowing.

@VoltaireMittyDream your dad had his own wikipedia page?

So very sorry for your loss OP, my heart goes out to you.
After the loss of both of my parents, there were so many signs, I don't want to go into detail as too 'outing' but I firmly believe in them.
I also think you have to be open to the signs but if you are, they will come to you xx

Yeah, he wasn’t famous or anything, just in the type of profession where you’d have a Wikipedia page.

There seemed to be some weird coincidence going back generations that when members of my family passed away there was always a magpie in the garden.
Irish family and they call magpies Willy Wagtails…..( if anyones Irish on here I’d love to know if that’s normal throughout Ireland or just our part of Westmeath )

In my lifetime I was with two uncles when they passed away and there was one Willywagtail outside each time.

When my grandad was dying my aunt refused to walk to the doctors because there was a willwagtail in the road. I walked the four miles on my own down tiny lanes for his medicine only to get back to grandads to find my aunt sat in the middle of the field with a shot gun waiting for the willywagtail to ( apparently) stop grandad dying.
It’s very sad really
He of course passed away. No sign of the bird but he was there at the wake.

I’m so sorry about your little sister

The only other weird thing that happened with my grandad was his house almost entirely burnt down. Even the poker I made in metalwork melted and yet the Garda gave us back the Holy Water Statue of the Virgin Mary that had always sat in the window.
The only thing that survived apart from the stone walls. It was made of plastic

Not really weird, I suppose.

When my husband died, I was searching for my birth certificate and our marriage certificate. I came across a lined sheet of paper - a love letter he'd written to me before we were an item. I'd completely forgotten about it.

The one real mystery is the following.

My mum died. She'd lived with us, in a granny annexe. We didn't use her part of the house after she died.

DH and I had both been down for various reasons. I went into Mum's bedroom for something and found an envelope on the floor. I picked it up, assuming it was Mum's.

In actual fact, it was a letter to my MIL from Clarence House, written by the Queen Mother's equerry: a letter of condolence on the death of my FIL. (He'd worked at Balmoral.)

My husband had no idea that the letter existed. There's no way that my mother could have got hold of any of MIL's things. It wasn't there when my mum was alive and simply appeared on the floor of the bedroom. I can't explain it.

You read a bereavement post and your first thought was to be a twat!

A psychologist friend told me that when you suffer a significant bereavement, your brain protects itself.

When my husband died, I interspersed screaming at 4 walls with phoning people, taking care of admin and trying to distract myself to keep my sanity.

My lovely mum had Alzheimer's but occasionally towards the end seemed to be more present and aware. My DSIS and I were with her just as she passed, we had fallen out previously but we had made up and were both their for mum, she opened her eyes and looked at us both the said "everybody's different" then she passed. As my sister and I were driving home from the Hospice later that morning, the radio was on and the same phrase "everybody's different" was said on and off throughout the show we were listening too. My sister and I took this as a sign it was a message from mum saying to forget our differences and get on again. My sister said she told mum the day before that she would always look out for me and that she could rest and let herself go and not worry about us. We have been so close ever since, I really believe it was mum looking out for us.

So very sorry to hear about your mum op.

My dad was a grumpy old bugger, as tight as they come, but he also had a wicked sense of humour that he used as a defence.

When dying, my mum was crying and asking him to send signs: feathers, robins, butterflies the lot! Jokingly for his benefit I said: “Sod that dad, send me money and frogs!”

He died later that night holding my hand. My mum went home with my brother and I stayed with his body a little longer.

The way to the car was a lonely and dark February night. There was a single gust of warm wind, and then a trail of 5 5ps which stopped just outside the drivers door to my car. I couldn’t help but laugh.

When I got home a frog hopped up my driveway to my front door and sat on the mat. I have never seen a frog in February before or since!

i still find the odd 5p in strange places.

My grandparent used to give all the grandchildren money. As they got older they were worried I wouldn't manage when they passed. After they died, there was large amounts of change on my regular evening walk. It stopped after a while and never happened since. I struggled a lot with their passing and the money stopped when I started feeling a bit better and more able to function. It felt like they knew I was coping better so they left. I'm crying again just typing this.

So sorry for your loss, it’s so hard when it’s unexpected.

I am not very woo or wasn’t until I lost my dbro but I am more so now and do believe our loved ones find little ways of communicating with us♥️

Whilst my dbro was in life support in hospital after a horrific accident, I was staying with my parents and trying to sleep when the TV standby light suddenly started flashing. Never done it before or since and I had to unplug it to make it stop. This was around the time of another tragic event that occurred linked to my dbro so really very odd.

TBH anything in the natural world that I see now that is unusual or mesmerising, I consider it to be my dbro. If nothing else it brings me comfort. I saw dolphins whilst in a cruise last year, we were so close to the water and it was a perfect sunset backdrop, hardly anyone around, it was like nothing I’ve seen before. Been on quite a few cruises, only seen dolphins once before and half the ship seemed to be there! That was just a fleeting view by comparison too.

Had a magical rainbow in Tenerife too on the beach. Beautiful moment and I attribute that to my dbro too.