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I lost my mother 10 years ago. I ‘ve never mentioned what follows to anyone. I live by a canal in a semi-rural location. A few days after her death I went out for the evening, walking along the tow-path into my local town to meet friends. I would have left home about 7pm and as I went I remember looking up at the stars and saying out loud ‘Give me a sign, Mum, that you are around and that you’re alright.’ I returned home at about 10:30pm that evening …. to find a mound of fresh grass cuttings - standing about 2 feet high - placed directly outside my front gate. We don’t live near other houses, we have no neighbours, so for years I have asked myself how could these cuttings have got there? The tow-path is cut by a landscape company but a) not in the evening when dark and b) I can’t for a moment imagine they would place a pile of cuttings right outside my gate. I recall that I had grass cuttings in my own garden but these would have inaccessible to anyone. So, was this my mother’s response to my request earlier that evening?
Last year I lost my younger brother. He battled against cancer and at some point in the weeks leading up to his death, I again asked my mother to let me know that she was around and would be waiting for him when he died. Within a couple of hours the kettle in our office kitchen turned itself on and started to boil. This happened a couple more times, both after I had ‘spoken’ to my mum - and to the extent that my colleagues started calling it the ‘ghost kettle.’ I didn’t mention anything to them about my calling out to my mother, and since my brother died it has never again turned itself on. I should add that I examined the kettle after it’s self-starting and could find no obvious or apparent reason for it to do this.
In September last year, three months after my brother’s death, my father and I visited a favourite bed and breakfast house in Somerset that my brother and I had enjoyed going to for many years. Unsurprisingly, it was hard being there without him but, as the few days away had been booked before he died, I had promised him that I make that annual trip down to Somerset and that I’d take our father with me. Whilst reading in bed one night, the television turned itself on. A small thing and one which was not repeated during our stay there. Again, I wonder if this was my brother trying to let me know he was with us, and if those who have passed are able to direct their energy through electrical appliances? I took great comfort from these experiences and wonder if anyone else has experienced anything like this?
Last year I lost my younger brother. He battled against cancer and at some point in the weeks leading up to his death, I again asked my mother to let me know that she was around and would be waiting for him when he died. Within a couple of hours the kettle in our office kitchen turned itself on and started to boil. This happened a couple more times, both after I had ‘spoken’ to my mum - and to the extent that my colleagues started calling it the ‘ghost kettle.’ I didn’t mention anything to them about my calling out to my mother, and since my brother died it has never again turned itself on. I should add that I examined the kettle after it’s self-starting and could find no obvious or apparent reason for it to do this.
In September last year, three months after my brother’s death, my father and I visited a favourite bed and breakfast house in Somerset that my brother and I had enjoyed going to for many years. Unsurprisingly, it was hard being there without him but, as the few days away had been booked before he died, I had promised him that I make that annual trip down to Somerset and that I’d take our father with me. Whilst reading in bed one night, the television turned itself on. A small thing and one which was not repeated during our stay there. Again, I wonder if this was my brother trying to let me know he was with us, and if those who have passed are able to direct their energy through electrical appliances? I took great comfort from these experiences and wonder if anyone else has experienced anything like this?