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Seeing signs from deceased loved ones

Hi everyone. I'm sure that there have already been many forum threads on this topic, but I'm really curious to hear about your experiences.

When you lost someone close to you, did you see signs? I've heard of feathers, electronic disturbances etc. but I've never had a conversation in the real world with anyone about it.

I'm not exactly an atheist - my boyfriend says I'm an agnostic atheist or something...in other words, I don't subscribe to any organized religion, but can accept that we just don't have very many answers to a lot of things, so I'm open.

I just find this all very interesting! I'm really not the kind of person to believe in any of this kind of stuff, but I will share the things that I have experienced (and a few things my sister has mentioned)

The last day my mother was alive, my sister went to say good bye with her children. She said that when she left the hospital, across the street there was loud jazz music playing from someones house. It startled her, because jazz was my mothers favourite. Throughout her illness I would play her jazz music on my phone. In her last couple of days I asked her for special requests and she said "Charlie Bird" (a jazz musician).

The day after she passed my sister noticed a white feather in her jacket. I had heard about the feather phenomenon, but didn't say anything to her. She wasn't aware of any kind of meaning. It was just funny to me, she offhandedly said "where did this feather come from?" or something like that...I just shrugged. But I never forgot it.

At my mothers funeral and visitation, I played music by Charlie Bird on my bluetooth speaker. A week later I popped into a second hand store, and right above the cash was a Charlie Bird record. 

I have witnessed some weird bird activity outside my condo townhouse. There aren't many birds in the area, a few crows, robins and various small birds here and there. But mostly squirrels. A few times since she has passed I have heard a loud gathering of birds right by my house. Hundreds of them in a tree, or on the ground right by my deck, making quite the racket. One time my boyfriend noticed and he said "wow, that's weird...we don't normally see birds here". I teared up and said "it's my mother". 

I've had weird experiences suddenly smelling things that aren't there, one time it was peaches and another time strawberries. The best way I can describe it is like a halucination only with smelling not visual. I've never had that before she passed. She used to make peach pies when they were in season, and she was obsessed with buying strawberries every week.

Sorry if this is a bit long. I hope some of you will share some of your experiences.

Sarah

  • Hi there my sister died a few years ago and 2 days later when I was in bed trying to sleep..(my arm was out of the bed) a shadow figure was trying to reach out to hold my hand..I couldn't speak and shout out for my mam....I still say to this day it was my sister...sorry to hear for your loss xxxxx

  • Hi Andrea I feel your loss, my partner of 35 years only passed away 6 weeks ago. Valentines day was a tough one, then yesterday I spent the morning talking to him begging him to give me a sign that he was ok asking him to blow out the candle I light everyday for him or move his Christmas card that still stands on the window sill..... but nothing happened. I walked into my kitchen and just fell to the floor sobbing. My grief in that moment then changed to total anger I could feel the anger rising in me like a volcano, I started to shout at him....Why wont you give me a sign, show me something anything. I was now in a cleaning frenzy red faced and tears streaming down my face after cleaning the work tops I kneeled to empty the washing machine, I was looking into the drum when I seen something small and shiny fall from the top to the bottom making a ting as it fell. When I picked it out to my amazement it was a small silver love heart, only the size of half a finger nail. I have no idea were this could have come from. I beleive it was a gift from my love, he had answered me. When I told my son he started to laugh and said well mam that was my Dad he was always a day late for your Birthdays etc so this was my Valentine gift 15th February one day late. I hope this gives you some comfort your husband will answer you and give you a sign he is still there watching over you.

    I need to add this, as around 20minutes after I had wrote this post yesterday 2 robins landed on my side fence, the fence is very close to my window so they were almost in my living room, one robin kept flying away and landing on next doors roof whilst the other waited for its partner on the fence in clear view, they were beautiful. I really cant see all this as only coincidence.

  • Hello I'm Demi,
    I'm not sure you'll ever read this because this was over  3 years ago but I was really moved by this. I've lost my grandad and some brothers and sisters due to miscarriage sadly and I've had some weird experiences and I just keep shaking them off and shaking them off because no one really believes me and even if you don't see this it's just nice to get it out. I deeply I'm sorry for your mother's loss and I'm almost positively sure that she's with you guiding you through. You are so strong and amazing and she wants you to be so happy okay? She loves you even though she's somewhere else. So please always remember you were put on this earth for a reason. So go out there live your life you got this okay? You got this. I'd really love it if you would reply because if love to here more and maybe share our experiences

    Sincerely Demi.

  • Hi DemiRox1! Thanks so much for your response! I really appreciate your kind words. Three years after losing my mum I still think about her all the time and still see signs.

    A few weeks ago I woke up and my bedroom smelled super strong of cigarette smoke. I thought maybe a neighbour was smoking so I went to the window to see if that is where the smell was coming from. It wasn't. No one smokes in our house. My mum was a heavy smoker until three years before she passed. I also still smell her, sometimes. Last autumn there was some specacular bird activity right outside my house again. I think they were migrating birds, very small ones. There were hundreds of them. I thought, out of all the townhouses in this entire neighbourhood to stop in, you picked my house! 

    Sometimes it really just is a feeling I'll get, that she's here. It's so interesting, because prior to losing her I had never had these kinds of thoughts or experiences before. But it does comfort me, knowing that even after such a horrendous loss, to know that there's always a part of her that never left at all. 

    Take care

  • Hi, probably a late reply but i just searched up the same thing. A couple months after my grandad died i was walking through his house (which he sadly died in) and i could see him sitting in his chair wearing his iconic hat. I obviously was spooked and ran out of the house but that's my experience.

  • We lost my gran on 3rd June. My mum, me and my sister were by her side when she died. We chose her outfit for her to wear for her funeral to be reunited with my granda and put it in the washing machine then the tumble dryer. 
    When I took it out of the tumble dryer I noticed there was a tissue that must have been in her pocket. Now we all know a tissue through the washing machine becomes soggy and makes a mess. But not on this occasion. And not only was there just one perfectly formed tissue but as I pulled the washing out there was actually 3!! I believe it was one for me my sister and My mum for her funeral from her (it was her outfit for her funeral we were washing after all). I wish I could attach the photo because I was gobsmacked. I have never known a tissue survive the wash before never mind break perfectly into 3 tissues. 
     

    They are always with us and I believe if you open your eyes and your heart to them we will see the signs ️

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  • My mum passed away 6 months ago. I've seen lots of robins, butterflies and feathers in the time since. And I've 'felt' things too. But the strangest things I've encountered are: a photo falling off the wall the evening of her funeral. The whole house heating system malfunctioning that same evening (never happened before) and the house heated up really hot and the radiators wouldn't switch off. When we went out for dinner to remember her on her birthday recently we went to the till to pay and Abba was on the radio (her all time favourite band). On her birthday a rose my auntie planted in her memory (it's a type of flower named after her) chose that particular day to bloom. Our perfectly fine dishwasher broke, the shower broke... Things have started to go odd in the house that were fine before. I really believe she is finding ways of communicating with us, I would be skeptical of this sort of thing usually but every time I encounter what I believe to be a  sign it brings me great comfort. We all miss her so much. 

  • Hi my sister passed eon mother's day 14th of March this year! It has affected me in many ways ! I e tried to contact tact her through the qeja board ! I must be dreaming sometimes thinking that she has answered me it must be in my head ! Am I unconsciously moving it myself to say yes I'm listening? I don't know but I know she is waiting on me ! My sister was a big part of my life ! She adored my present partner whom I've wronged intensional! But at the end of the day I miss her wisdom !

  • I know this is an old thread but I want to put my story here... 

    6 months ago I lost my dad to a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Fine in January and dead in March. It was a shock.

    I would take care of him and sit with him and I remember hugging him one night and saying "think you could have a word up there and send me the man of my dreams?" He said "I'll try..." a few days ago I met a man, he is the most amazing person I have ever met and the feeling is mutual. Yesterday we had a bump in the road and I was worried things would be done. 
    every night I let the dogs out into the garden one last time before bed and I talk to him in that moment while I look at the stars. I had also just finished laughing with my mum at a funny memory of him. In my head I said "Dad please let things be ok with him" at that moment a barn owl shrieked in such a piercing noise and got my attention. I looked up at the telegraph pole where it turned to face me dead on. It kept shrieking and shrieking and shrieking until I said "ok ok I get the message!!" It then flew away. I looked at my mum and she looked at me and she said "your dad would have loved that..." and it made me think... I don't think he can shapeshift but perhaps communicate through other beings..? The weird thing? Ten minutes later I crawl into bed and I get a text saying "I miss you, goodnight my beautiful woman" from the man I was so worried about...