My Dad Died

[TheWizardOfMudd]

Back in 1975. I'm way over it.

The weird thing is that he appeared before me, full physical apparition, two years later, in broad daylight on Sunset Boulevard.

I kid you not.

[galadrium]

1. wow... what did he say to you? if anything?

[tigereye]

3. I have always liked the possibility that people who have died

are still present in some fashion. It makes sense to me. If they were important to you in life, why shouldn't some aspect of them be present in death as well? I think that is kind of neat.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

10. I was in denial about it for years

The other weird thing is that me and my friend were walking along and suddenly I got a strong emotional feeling in my solar plexus. The feeling was like a cross between excitement and anxiety.

I instinctively looked around and almost immediately focused on the figure in black walking toward me about thirty or forty yards away.

I knew that figure was the source of the feelings that had just "grabbed a piece of my soul."

[andino]

14. I have always liked the possibility that people who have died

"I have always liked the possibility that people who have died are still present in some fashion"

Thanks, you have now changed my masturbation habits.

:P

[TheWizardOfMudd]

5. He came down the busy sidewalk . . .

. . . walking toward me while looking down at the ground . . . when he came to me, he raised his head, looked me in the eyes, and nodded once. Then he put his head back down and walked past me.

[galadrium]

8. Sounds like you have made him proud

If I was your dad I would be... you are a democrat right?

[TheWizardOfMudd]

9. I'm definitely a Democrat

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. 1977... Sunset Blvd? I think I took the same acid.

Man, we are trip brothers.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

6. No acid

[Jack_Dawson]

4. Were you on drugs?

I don't mean to minimize your experience...I'm just asking if you were of sound mind when your Dad came back to you.

Something similar happened to my Dad, who doesn't do drugs, in that he heard HIS Dad call out to him very clearly after his death.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

7. I was straight

[Spiffarino]

11. Hasn't happened to me but...

I never discount such experiences. I know people who swear it has happened to them. My mother-in-law may hold the record...she's sure she has seen many dead friends and relations, including her husband and daughters.

My father-in-law died several years ago. She says she saw him sitting in his chair about a week after he passed. She said he turned to her and told her, "Happy where I am." She felt extreme joy upon hearing this. Her mourning ended on that day.

My sister-in-law died a few months ago and mom had been grieving almost non-stop. We took her on a long trip which didn't seem to be helping. However, the second night of vacation we noticed a big difference in her attitude. She was eating, laughing, and generally having fun. I asked her what happened. She said, "Oh, (my daughter) came and talked to me a little while ago. She told me to stop crying right now and just have a good time."

Are such experiences real in a scientific sense? Who knows? But perhaps that's less important than the benefit they provide a grieving soul. Maybe someday just when I need it, it could happen to me, too. I hope I'm so lucky.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

12. Wow

I have a similar, related story. My Dad's sister swore that she saw, and followed, my Dad in a grocery store several years after he died.

I haven't heard many stories like these. Most of them are like, "I saw a white mist."

[Lorien]

13. When my grandfather was about ten

his father passed away. A few months later, his mom put a sign out in front of their home advertising a room for rent. My grandfather and his younger brother were sitting on the front steps one day when a man came by to inquire about the room. He stopped to introduce himself to the boys, and when he looked up, my great grandfather was standing beside him. He looked at the potential renter and said "take care of my sons", then walked away. When he passed behind a tree, he disappeared. The man asked the boys (who were white and open mouthed) if that was their dad, and they just nodded.

When the potential renter went inside, he noticed a photo of the man he had just seen on the mantel. He said to my great grandmother "I just met your husband outside...."but she interrupted "I'm sorry sir, but you couldn't have seen my husband. He passed away only a few months ago."

The renter and my great grandmother were married less than two years later.

[SuffragetteSal]

15. whoah Jen

that is an amazing story. Thank you for sharing it. After my father passed away for months I would get a phone call in the night and would have have a 'chat' with dad on the phone. It was a dream but it felt real and comforted me.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. My Dad died, as well

It was in November. His birthday was January 22nd and on that night the horn on my car just started, for no good reason, and I couldn't seem to stop it. And, on the same day, my grandmother, his mother, told me that she kept hearing music, but couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Finally, she realized that it was coming from a music box that she kept in her dresser. My Dad had given her that music box.:shrug: