Strange happenings after people have died (nice thread)

[lurchermummy]

Hi, I'm interested in your stories of things that have happened after people have passed away, odd things, coincidences, etc.

I'll tell you mine. A few months after my Dad died a few years ago, DH and I moved house. Our new house was on three floors, the top floor was a lovely loft bedroom. This was designated as being a guest room but when we moved in had nothing up there apart from an air bed and some things being stored (one of which, for reasons too complicated to go into, was a wooden urn containing my Dad's ashes).

Anyway, we had DH's parents as guests one weekend so DH and I gave them our room and said we would sleep in the loft room.

After dinner, I was tired so went to bed before DH. I took my mobile with me to use as an alarm (this was pre smart phone so think basic old Nokia type phone).

As I walked up the stairs, my phone went beep beep (text message). I looked to see who the message was from and it said "Dad - mobile". I opened the message but there was no content, it was blank.

I was a bit wierded out, but put it down to an accident, and went to bed. About an hour after I got into bed, the same thing happened. Beep beep. "Dad, mobile" - no message.

Now I was really getting wierded out, but managed to go back to sleep.

Three o clock in the morning, exact same thing.

This time I actually sat up in bed, put the light on and said "Dad, what are you trying to tell me?!"

After that it all went quiet.

Next day I rang my Mum and asked her if she had been using my Dad's phone for anything. She said no, she hadn't, in fact it was in a drawer and not even charged.

I am convinced it was my Dad sending me a message - I think he was just saying hi. It has never happened again.

OP I've had very similar experience;

DM passed leaving me(23) DB (4) DS (2)
DB & DS father was and still is a waste of space, any way he came up from south to see them first time after DM had passed roughly about 9 months after she passed!
Anyways he took them out with his DM and his DS (older different mum)
It came to him leaving and going back down south, I was just about to rip into him and tell him he has to make more of an effort with my siblings, But then my phone started ringing (iPhone) it said (his name) siblings dad so I told him (name) your ringing my phone, he states "impossible my phone is dead!"
Me; (name) look (showed him phone screen) told you !
Him; pulls his dead phone out of pocket, "it's dead it won't switch on"
His DM takes phone off him trying to turn it on?!
So I answered my phone!...as I was at GM house and her telly was always loud cause she was deaf, we should of heard the telly coming through and our voices right?!

*Nothing! Like seriously NOTHING!
*
Well everyone went white! Ghostly white!... apart from my GM, (who was chronically ill) leapt in the air!...literally punching the air, shouting at the top of her lungs "I knew it! I knew she was here!"

That was the strangest thing ever!

At the time that my partner became ill with terminal cancer we had a few horses that we kept on a farm in the next town, the farm was really high up. He made clear to me he wanted to be cremated and wanted his ashes scattering on the moor above the farm so that he could watch over us. However after he died his family weren't happy with that as they wanted a headstone to be able to visit and feel that part of him was there, so we agreed to split the ashes and scatter half where he wanted and half to go into an ashes plot at the cemetery. When the day came to bury the ashes we met up and had a little gathering, as we turned around from the ashes plot we could not believe that it looked directly in the distance towards the farm and the moors above, you could see it so clearly it was unbelievable, this was his families cemetery two towns away from the farm. He got his own way in the end anyway!

My mum was horse mad, especially black beauty. I was driving past an empty field close to my house last week and on the top of the hillside was a beautiful, sleek, powerful black horse. I looked about 10 times and definitely wasn't imagining it. I haven't seen it since, or any other horses in that field

I have two.

My DGF had dementia and was in a nursing home. I was studying for my A Levels in my room, and not aware that he was dying as it happened quite suddenly. I went downstairs to get something to eat and when I came back upstairs, at around 7pm instead of going into my bedroom for some reason I went into the spare bedroom. On the floor in the middle of the room was a picture of my DGF when he was younger. Written on the back of the photo was "Dear Mum, Love (DGFs name)." I started crying and said to myself "he just wants to be with his mum." I went back into my room and continued studying. About an hour later, my mum came home and told us he had died. He died at around 7pm and his last word was "Mum."

The second one was when my DGM was dying, I was sitting in the bedroom with her and holding her hand. I was crying and quietly said to my DGD, her husband who I had never met before: "Grandad if you're here with Nan please make a sound so I know." As soon as I finished my sentence the doorbell rang. No one was there. I like to think he wanted me to open the door to let him in so he could take her with him. She died a few days later, and I truly believe she's with him now.

Since my grandparents have passed away I always smell their perfume or the cigarettes they smoked, or find little white feathers.

My mum passed away a few months ago, a week or two after her funeral my stepdad had a text notification from her phone, it was an old message that had jumped up to the top of his list that just said "see you in a bit, love you" (for ref he has an ancient non-smart phone so messages are separate, not in a chain).

This message is stuck at the top of his message list now, it's from April, but it stays firmly at the top of his messages and keeps "unreading" itself and coming up as brand new.