Signs at the exact time someone dies

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During the early hours one morning this week the loft hatch in our bedroom swung down and the PIR sensor light in the loft came on shining a kind of shaft of light into the dark bedroom. DH remained asleep and I got up to push the hatch closed with the pole and it crossed my mind to wonder if someone had died? I don't know why I thought that. In the 10 years we have lived here, the hatch has never done that before.

Later that day I heard that a friend from university 30 years ago had died that morning. We were not close and I had no idea what time he actually died though obviously I was sad to hear it.
It got me wondering if anyone had ever had signs like that when people died? I'm not saying my loft hatch was an actual sign but it got me wondering .

On my Mum's birthday the year after she died, a really heavy sellotape dispenser (the big sand filled ones) randomly fell off our book case. I went rushing into the room to see what the bang was.

That dispenser was my Mum's, and has never fallen off that shelf before or since (4yrs ago). I think it was her way of asking me to wrap her a birthday present

I do think that I sometimes attribute coincidences to "signs" my Mum is still around or thinking of me. Like one day a few months after she died I was really down, and the young lady at the supermarket had the same name and spelling as her (Anne, so not massively common). It made me smile just to see her name on a badge.

Also, there's a MNer with her actual full name ! FirstnameSurname. Always freaks me out a bit whrn I'm scrolling and see it.

I had one.

I was 13 or 14 and at a school. It was first thing and assembly. The bell had just gone for first lesson so I know it was about 9:30am and I suddenly went cold and must have gone white as a sheet because a friend asked if I was okay. I just didn't 'feel well' but had no symptoms. The morning passed in a blur and I couldn't focus at all so at lunchtime I went home and stayed there. At about 2pm my mum and dad came home - dad should have been at work so I knew something was up. Turns out my uncle had died of a massive heart attack - he was only 43 and had 2 young child.

His time of death ..... 9:30am

A friend's mother was very ill in hospital. I was awake reading Pinnochio to DD1, who was a bit poorly. It was almost midnight and we were both in my bed. She fell asleep and I looked at the clock and thought of my friend's mother. I knew that she had just died and next morning, my friend rang me to say that her mother passed just before midnight.

I saw a white dove flying upstairs in my house out the corner of my eye and mentioned to my sister that a member of family was going to die, but it was half joking and didn't mean it. Then later that died a family member aged just 30 died of adult sudden death, completely unexpected. Another family member had a serious illness and wasn't expected to survive so when we had the phone call late at night we expected it to be him that had passed away, not who it was. Reminded me that life is very short and we just never know the second.

• later that night

Never told anyone this!

My grandad came to visit me on the night he died. He had been poorly for a few months and was in a hostel, I'd seen him the day before and he wasn't looking good. Now to save my heartache my Nan didn't tell me we only had hours left (I thought we still had weeks).

But all week I was just set on tidying the bedroom, kept saying we need to clean up the bedroom (complete tip, dumping ground) I just had the urge to keep it nice.

Anyways, woke up around 1:26 in the middle of the night, I'd looked at my phone for the time, he was there with me for all of a minute, I was restless for around an hour afterwards, not fully awake but tossing and turning.

I felt so peaceful with it though. Usually not being able to get back to sleep gets me in a burning rage! But I was just chilled, lying there turning back and forth.

Nan rang me at 7 o clock in the morning to tell me he had passed at 1:27!

I absolutely know in my heart he came to visit me to say goodbye. There is no other explanation for it. Only person I've ever told is my OH who kinda nicely told me I was just overthinking, but it brings me comfort when I need it most.

My best friend died last year after a short battle with cancer. I fell pregnant a few months later with #2. At the 12 wk scan they gave me a due date of the date she died. I immediately knew I was having a girl and she'd be born that day, a year to the day my friend passed.

I posted a picture on FB of the 2 of us on my due date and had a wee cry. Then I went into labour and DD was born a few hours later.

My little black cat didn’t come in last Thursday night, not that unusual for her. I was cuddled up with my DD saying goodnight to her and chatting about our days and I saw a black featherlike thing fall slowly from the ceiling down behind the bed. I was rather puzzled as there was nothing there when I looked.

The next day a neighbour knocked to ask if i’d seen my cat as he found a little black cat that had been hit by a car on his driveway when he arrived home late from work the previous night.

Heartbreakingly it was her and I know that what I saw was her coming to say goodbye to me.

I've had this. Have said about it in MN before.

Years ago when my granddad was poorly I was washing up with my mum at our home before leaving to go and visit him. And I very clearly and loudly heard a clock tune play, a very particular noticeable tune which was the tune the clock on my grandads mantelpiece played. But his house and clock was 40 miles away and we had nothing similar. TV wasn't on, radio wasn't on and my mum didn't hear a thing but was stood next to me.

I was 13 at the time, I turned to my mum and said that granddad had died. We got a phone call from my aunt five mins later saying he'd just passed.

DH's granny died when our DS was 10 days old. The day that she died, he'd had his tongue tie snipped so we had lots of cuddles.
I'd been sending MIL pics of him, and in one pic he looked extremely sad. Shining eyes with tears, bottom lip sticking out. It was a sadness I'd never actually seen in him, my DH said he looked heartbroken.
At this point, we didn't know she'd died. DH got a call on his way to the office the next morning asking to pick up FIL on the way in and MIL told him then as she wanted to tell the grandchildren face to face.
The pic where DS looks so sad was taken at the exact minute GGranny died.

My nan was very ill in hospital in the 80s. My mum had gone to visit her. I was typing up an essay for college and planning to go in later.
Then my typewriter stopped working. I pressed all the keys but nothing happened. It was usually reliable and had never played up before. I had a clock nearby and saw that it was 1pm.
Shortly afterwards my mum phoned. My nan had died at 1pm, the exact time the typewriter had stopped working. I went back to it and it was working fine again.

That meant to say - I was planning to visit my nan in the afternoon and - I went back to the typewriter a lot later. Just read post back and it sounds as if I didn’t care!

I know this thread is over a year old now, but can't find any other links to this topic.

I never wake early, it's always 8.30 - 9.30. Yesterday I woke just after
7 am. Later in the day I discovered that my brother, in Canada, had died at 2.14am. Canada is 5 hours behind UK.

My sister in law in Canada was asked to phone my brother's nurse when she woke (he was in palliative care in hospital). She did this at 2.30, to discover he had died only minutes earlier. Had my brother been busy, visiting us as he was passing?

This nurse is doing some kind of investigation into this phenomena, as in her experience it is very common.

At my grandmothers funeral there was a storm and lightning hit our house and caused a little damage to the aerial socket, nothing my dad couldn't repair himself. My mum always said it was her mom saying goodbye. For the next 30 years my mum always said when she died she would make a storm to say goodbye too - but wouldn't cause damage to the house, fast forward to 28 June 2012 when she died after months of being ill and days of her slipping away, literally 20 mins after she died, a supercell thunderstorm hit the U.K. (she lived in Australia and we couldn't go there) and two of the storms where where my home was and my brothers home. It was such a massive storm thst it's made Wikipedia supercell storms page!

My stepdad had an interesting experience, my mum passed from cancer a few years ago. A week or so before she died he asked her (half jokingly) to send him a sign if she could when she got to Valhalla (she was Scandinavian).

About a week after she passed he was woken in the wee hours by a text message (it's important to note here that my stepdad has a cheap non-smart mobile phone. It doesn't do text message chains, it has a separate inbox and outbox and each text message takes up a separate message slot, like early phones did.) The incoming text was an old one from my mum that she had sent the last time she visited Denmark. Somehow it had re-delivered and was sat at the top of his inbox. It said "Arrived safely, mor and far here to meet me, going for food and a drink, love you lots."

Very probably a complete coincidence, phones so weird things all the time, but, my stepdad and I like to believe that one day we'll get to have that drink with her again.

My nan died a month a little over a month ago from covid... She had this fear of being buried/cremated alive so she made my sister promise to to check that she was actually dead. Because it was Covid and she was in a care home we couldn't be there when she died, so the 3 of us (sister me and mum) went to see her in COR. We were saying how it was impossible to believe it would be that last time we saw her and my mum said she will always be with us, she's probably standing here with us now..... My sister said "Well Nan, I kept my promise to you"..... As she said that the lights in the COR went and came back on again. Mum didn't see it but the second it happen me and my sister looked at each other and said "WTF!!"

Suffice to say I'm now a believer!!!

Suffice to say I'm now a believer l

My mum died 2 years ago this August after a very short battle with leukaemia. There are 2 things about her death are strange the 1st is she died the exact same day and exact same time as my grandma her mum died 32 years before.
The second is I'd been staying overnight with my mum at hospital as we had been told she only had days to live. One of these nights I told my mum how much I adored her she nodded and squeezed my had as her mouth was to sore to speak, that's the last time I saw her awake as my dad took over so I could go home for a sleep and see my baby and older son.
I'd been with my mum the whole day and my dad said to go home and get some rest he would phone With Any update. I went to bed but woke up scratching my bedroom wall and Was pitch black, my husband woke up and I kept saying I can't find my way back to bed I can't see. I eventually found my bed and I said to my husband you'll me to move your legs I can't get into bed. It wasn't his legs as he was still on his side of the bed .
Eventually he put the light on, he said what were you doing I could see you as it's really bright in here with the full moon. This all happened at 0.42 . My dad phoned at 0.50 to say my mum had died at 0.42

The night my db died the lights went out in our house and the TV blew up.db died at home