That My Deceased Father Sent Me a Message

[Idealist3]

Hi All. Ok, a brief background. My father passed away in Feb 2024. It was quite sudden but peaceful. He was a farmer, very philosophical and a wonderful dad - me and my 6 siblings loved him very much

Anyway, this weekend I went down to see my mother (we live in the city and we went down to the farm and my home place). Is this a miracle or what. Or a spiritual event from Daddy. Explain this to me like I am 5.

We arrived down at 1pm and I helped mammy cook dinner. I noticed my DH had left this phone when we arrived on the kitchen counter away from the table. My 2 kids (now teens) and us all had eaten and the kids left the table so it was just myself, Mammy and DH. Mammy was asking DH about a 110km cycle race he did last weeknd and I was showing her pics on my phone. “What’s that behind you “asked my mother, and DH said “it’s the mountains” and then I heard what I thought was music of a phone ringing. I stood up to look for a phone as I thought it was Mammy’s phone, but it was DH’s. On the counter.

I looked down and one of daddy’s favourite Foster and Allen songs called the Mountains of Morne was playing on DH’s Spotify!!!

I was floored.

And then I wondered did it find the song because we said the word mountain but Spotify does not play a song based on one word. And why this song?? My DH hates that particular music (lol)

Daddy played this song on a loop on the telly on YouTube when his health was failing and before he passed away…

He chose DH’s phone I think to show it was definitely him as no way he would have this song on!

Please explain this to me like I am 5. I genuinely feel I experienced a miracle. I am quite spiritual and I know (sounds a but batshit) it was a message from Daddy. AIBU?

It is very strange indeed. It's as though he still is about. Too coincidental. We live in a physical realm but can not see the spiritual realm. Very comforting to know that they're still there just somewhere else that we are eventually going to.

I've had some strange experiences very recently at the point of waking up but not being fully awake or conscious yet and feeling a soul nearby. The strange thing is that this close relative is still alive but I have been praying for their healing (they dont know this) and I believe on a subconscious level, their soul is visiting me as i sleep. I dont think about this person at all before i sleep. Its strange but also comforting.

Idealist3 if I were you I’d stop looking for an explanation and just enjoy.

Funny I’d not heard that song in years, mammy used to sing it to us when we were very young. I’d got it into my head to go searching for it on YouTube yesterday

This.

Sorry you lost your dad, OP.

(Though if one of my deceased parents made my phone play Foster and Allen songs, I’d regard it as an act of war…)

When we got home from our first scan of our first baby my other half had a bit of a teary moment and said he wished his mum was here. We made some food and then he decided to fix something on his PC, I can’t remember what it was exactly, but something was affecting his work files or something.

An hour or so goes by and he shouts to me to come and take a look at something that he found on his PC. It was an old file that his dad had once uploaded on there that had several clips of video footage of my other half’s mum, he had bought a new camera and couldn’t work out that he was already recording 🤣 and she was sort of jokingly around
. Ofcourse his dad was swearing like a trouper, it made my other half happy as it was footage he’d never seen before and his mum looked so happy in it. He said that’s just how she was. I don’t believe in ghosts, but I do sometimes doubt myself…

Erm Spotify does work with voice all linked to Google or other platforms it will pick a song.

That's if you command it, like AI or chat gpt. It doesn't just randomly start play obscure Irish songs out of nowhere that no one knows anymore.

1 million % it was a message from your dad. He knew you needed him and he came to say hello.

Exactly. Please no one give me another message saying “it was wifi, Spotify, siri” because the point is why did it RANDOMLY CHOOSE THAT PARTICULAR SONG 😂I was there. We only said “mountain” in hushed tones!

I wouldn’t post about it if I thought there was a reasonable explanation…

I would agree with this.

I went with my mother to collect my grandmother’s ashes and, as we were leaving, the song we’d had played at the funeral came on the radio. I know logically my grandmother isn’t communicating with me via the radio, but it was a nice thought to think there could have been more to it than coincidence.

Of course it was your dad. We live in such a rationalist (egocentric) world that we feel we must not consider that these sorts of experiences are somehow ‘real’.
My mum (also Irish!) used to say ‘the spirits want you to be happy.’ And I suspect it’s no coincidence your dad popped in when you were all having a nice time.
Or he just didn’t want to be left out!