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Top of the stairs...
Many years ago mum Wenzel was very ill with cancer, shortly before she passed away, she repeatedly saw her Aunt Mary stood at the top of our stairs. Nothing wrong with that you say, except Aunt Mary had been dead for 30 odd years...

The day mum died, I did the horrible task of ringing all relatives to let them know... when it came to ringing relatives in the US, my aunt there answered the phone and new straight away what had happened (to be fair it was expected) but she said she know she died as the rocking chair mum sat in when she was over there started rocking like mad, and she had the exact time of death. My aunt was a very superstitious type and said it was mums spirit visiting all her friends.

Move on a few years and we had moved my grandad (mums dad) in with us as he was 90 odd and needed the care. One day he was really ill and we had to phone for an ambulance. When the ambulance crew arrived they got him stable, and as they were taking him out of the front door in the chair he looked straight up the stairs and said "don't worry daughter, I'll be back soon"

The ambulance crew were looking upstairs and seeing my reaction to this comment one asked:
paramedic: "who was he talking to?"
me: "my mum, his daughter..."
paramedic: "oh, where is she?"
me: "been dead 3 years"

Both went white and left quickly and quietly, given the things paramedics see on a daily basis, I wouldn't have expected them to be struck by the fear so much.

Length? like i said, top of the stairs...
(Tue 8th Jul 2008, 17:53, More)