Strange Experiences

The following accounts are just a few of the strange experiences that have been sent to me by respondents to my website. The editor is grateful to all those who've taken the time to share their experiences and welcomes further true accounts.

A friend's goodbye?
This may be something of nothing but anyway last week my wife went out shopping. I was in the toilet and I could have sworn I heard someone call my name. I thought my wife had come back so I called out. I heard a voice but couldn't make out the words so I called out again, from a strong feeling that I was not alone in the flat.

When I came out of the toilet I found that my wife wasn't there. She returned a few moments later and thinking she'd gone back downstairs to collect something I asked if she'd got back while I was in the toilet. She hadn't.

A day or two after this I was doing something on the balcony and on glancing back into the flat had the distinct impression of a light being turned on. It was so strong I went back inside to check, indeed finding a light on, though I probably left it on myself - however the impression of going from dark to light was very real.

Around the same time while walking along the street I thought I heard my name being called, the impression being so strong that I looked around, no one had in fact called me. I might add that I am not usually prone to hearing voices or to flights of imagination.

I'm currently living overseas and a week or so later I called my family, only to be given the sad news that our pet dog had died. I'd had her since she was a puppy and she'd been more of a best friend than a mere pet. Were the voices and feelings of a presence her way of saying goodbye?
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Out-of-body experience
About ten years ago I experienced a strange happening. After I went to sleep, suddenly I found I couldn't move. Then I rose up in the position I was lying. I reached the ceiling, and then turned right around 90 degrees. And I turned left around 90 degrees. Finally I fell down (came back) to my own body.
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Spider in the kitchen
A few weeks ago I had a dream about finding a spider above my kitchen sink, I meant to kill it but didn't get around to it. I can't remember dreaming about spiders before. A few days after my wife called me to tell me there was in fact a spider in almost the same place I'd dreamed it. We rarely get spiders in our apartment.
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Lights, Kanashibari and a UFO
I work as an English teacher in Japan. The other day I taught a lesson on mysteries. Two students in the class told me about their strange experiences. One student told me how on the night her grandmother died the lights and tv in her house were flickering. Another told two stories. The first of a Japanese kanashibari, he had gone to bed but hadn't fallen asleep when he heard the sound of someone breathing. He'd been unable to move even though he could see the light outside his room. The same gentleman told of how he'd seen a UFO with friends one afternoon. It was an orange light that had moved woth a strange trajectory. He was convinced that it could not have been a plane or other known object.
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A Message from Spirit
In April 1999 while on a visit home after working overseas for just over a year I attended my local Christian Spiritualist Church on the Kent coast. I'd been to the church around twenty or so times previously and one of the regulars recognised me and we chatted for a while. The service proceeded just as I remembered then near the end of the clairvoyance bit the medium came to me and this is what she said as best I can remember it.

She said spirit were waiting to grab me to use me for their work and told me to make time to study spiritual things but that I also had a material life to lead. She said that things were going well for me at the moment (that's true) and she said her guide mentioned a "good woman". She asked if I was married, in fact I had recently married (2 months before).

The medium also mentioned a baby girl (cos she saw pink ribbons) first of all she said maybe not this year, but then I told her my wife and I were expecting a baby in September. Five months later my wife gave birth to a lovely baby girl. She also said she saw someone folding origami, I was living and working in Japan and my wife is Japanese!!

In all the previous times I'd been to that church I'd had messages on about 40% of my visits but none have been as accurate as that.

She finished by giving me the dates of two significant anniversaries - October and December (about a week before Christmas) but I didn't recognise them - I asked my parents and all they could think of was that my cousin got married last Oct. I also believe my great grandmother died in December. She also mentioned the name Dotty, which I didn't recognise.
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Grandfather's visit
In August 1995 I was out with my friends until midnight. When I was on my way home I felt very nervous of being scolded by my father. When I was in sight of my doorway I saw a man enter my house in the distance. I thought the man was my father.

When I entered the house I was wondering what excuse I should make to him, but when I got inside I found that nobody was in the living room. Just then my mother came downstairs and said "do you know what time it is?, it's twelve o'clock". I apologized and asked if my father had come home, but he hadn't come home yet! Who had I seen? I told my mother about the man going into the house. She said the man I saw was my late grandfather, because it was during the Japanese celebration of OBON.
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Telepathy and Healing
When I was a kid, about 7-8 years old, what I used to dream used to happen. Also while asleep, my sister and I used to hold coherent conversations, even though in different rooms. A few months ago, I had this 'inner urge' to go visit a friend of mine. The urge persisted until he died two weeks later of a heart attack at the age of 50. I also seem to have the occasional ability to take other people's illnesses onto myself, curing them but myself being afflicted, which usually clears up in two or three days but really floors me. In showing continued interest in spiritual growth, I seem to have altered my character considerably. I have become more helpful, caring and basically self-sacrificing for others for the simple reason that there's need for it. And to think, I was one hell of a spoilt brat and a real jerk up to the age of 23 or so. I am now 31.
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Prophetic dreams
First story
It happened when I was a student of a prep-school 20 years ago. There was a small mountain in front of the dormitory where I lived and one day there was a small fire on the mountain. It wasn't big, but a few fire engines came and extinguished it. I and a few friends who lived in the same dormitory were looking at it. After a few minutes, I felt a strange feeling. It seemed I had seen the same scene somewhere before. Then I remembered that I had seen it in my dream a few months previously. That dream came true.

Second story
I don't remember when it happened exactly, but it was probably a few years ago. One night, I dreamed that my co-worker was in a taxi wearing mourning clothes. I don't remember it exactly, but she was in the taxi and crying. I looked at her from upper side of the taxi like a spirit. After getting up, I didn't understand why I dreamed such a strange kind of dream. I didn't know the meaning of the dream afterwards. When I went to my office, I was informed that my co-worker's mother had been killed in a traffic accident and she was absent that day. I was surprised to hear that and was even more astonished to learn that her mother had died at the same time I had my dream.
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Coins
When I was 5 or 6 years old I was walking along a path about 20m from my home when I found a row of coins half buried in the ground. There were 1 Yen, 5 Yen, 10 Yen, 50 Yen (old type), 50 Yen (new type) and 100 Yen coins; one of each denomination. Strangely all the coins were standing at the same angle (about 60 degrees) and with the same spacing between them. I picked up two or three coins and went back home to tell my mother about this. One or two minutes later I took my mother to the place where the coins had been, but there was nothing; no coins and no marks in the ground where they'd been.
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Angry energy
One day my mother and I had a fight a big one that produced a lot of anger and pressure in me. Plus of some anger that was already bottle up My sister was in the room with me I was in my room and then suddenly my stereo speaker flew off of my bed and into my sister arms.

Another one is that one morning before my alarm clock went off. . . I heard it go off before it was supposed to. . . I then got up becuase I thought it went on. . . then it went off the suddenly it went on at the time it was supposed to go on. The strange part is. . . when it went on the first time supposingly it had a specific song on. . . then when it when off and then came on and the song was at the point where I just left off from.
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Baby dreams
One year during the night before Thanksgiving I dreamed that my sister-in-law was pregnant. I told my husband about it the next day and when he talked to her on the phone Thanksgiving Day he asked her if she was pregnant. When she said no he told her to expect it because I d dreamed that she was. I had had several dreams concerning other women I knew who 'd turned out to be pregnant after I dreamed about them being so. I had the same dream the following Saturday night and reported it to my husband the next morning. When he spoke to his sister on Christmas that same year she said "I wasn t going to tell anybody yet but yes. I m one month pregnant." That spring her doctor told her it was going to be a boy but I dreamed it was a girl. My husband told my mother-in-law who in turn told my sister-in-law. The baby was born--a girl.
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Knowledge of a date
My mother was dying of lung cancer and I was as you can imagine totally devastated. I cried buckets of tear and prayed for a miracle cure but when things got so bad I gave up and asked God to please let me know the date that she would die so that I may be prepared. Silently in my mind I went through the days of the month and it seemed different when I reached the number 28. At that moment I said out loud to my husband mom will die on the 28th. He didn t answer me and I just let it go. She went into a coma on the 27th and died at 4am on August 28th 1997.
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Electrickery
When my dad died after a chronic illness in the hospital as the family gathered at our parents house the television suddenly didn t work my sister s new cadillac s electrical system went on the fritz requiring towing and the oven and toaster would not work as well as several light bulbs blowing out at once. That was in 1979. He was very fun-loving & boistrous. My mom died in 1996 and I have been having a deep delayed depression recently. Last night I saw her for about 2 seconds standing in my hallway. No details to her face but she wore a pinafore that she used to wear in the early 50 s while working in the kitchen the times I recall our family being the most cohesive in my normally dysfunctional family. I could also see the outline of her pageboy hairstyle but still no facial features were there except in peripheral vision. There were no words or strong feelings attached to this encounter.
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Reassurance
My Mother died in 1989. She appeared to me in 1991 whilst I was in hospital following a car accident. I was about to go into theatre to have my ankles reset. I had had the premed injection but I am sure she came to me. She sat by me bed and held my hand. She assured me that everything would be alright and that they wouldn't cut me open. I could smell her perfume and to this day I can remeber what she was wearing.
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Cuckoo clock
As you can see from my responses - I am a beleiver. The most dramatic experience that I had was when one evening some friends dropped in and invited me to accompany them to the house of a common acquaintance whom I disliked. After much persuasion I went with them and when I got there my friend and our host disappeared to fiddle with the music system in another room whilst our hostess and my friend's wife and I were in the drawing room. I was not only bored but very angry. A cuckoo clock kept going off at quarter hours intervals after the second time I suddenly burst out and said "If that bloody clock does that again I shall have to do something drastic". The clock stopped It scared me and of course all in the room. Unfortunately in spite of the fact that I am quite gentle and non-aggressive by nature I have had more than one experience subsequently all connected with anger and all of them destructive in a minor way. Sad. But now I watch my temper.
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Knowledge of things to come
I often know what a person is going to say before they say it. I sometimes know when the phone will ring. sometimes I know what someone wants before they ask. I have known the outcome of many situations A death of a family member, an illness undiagnosed, a divorce, job losses and positive events as well- the day a child would be born, the sex, how it would be born, presents that people have bought etc. All of these without prior 'hints' or 'predictable nature' Several things I just 'know' -that are unstated or even 'secrets'
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Icecubes
This may be a bit long... About 6 years ago a very close friend of mine passed away and about 6 weeks later I was feeling very angry about his death. He d been on my mind all day at work. I lived in an apartment and in my apartment was a refrigerator with an icemaker...BUT it broke the week after I moved in. I requested repairs which they attempted but the thing never worked right so I just flipped the switch to the off position and left it that way. My friend who died always loved LOTS of ice in his drinks and he would make fun of me because I never had enough ice for his liking...*I m very lazy about filling the trays*. This particular day I come home irritable and rather depressed and missing him and I was on the phone talking to another friend when I decided I was thirsty. I got up fixed myself a coke with my requisite one or two icecubes and got back on the phone... As I'm talking to her about my deceased friend I was playing with the icecubes--dunking them in the glass--when I suddenly noticed that these were round icecube maker icecubes... I asked her to hold on and I went to open the freezer... **here s the cool part** The icecube bin was FILLED with icecube maker icecubes...We re talking FILLED to the brim I looked--the switch was in the off position. To me this was a sign communication from my deceased friend that he was okay and that I would be okay too... Oh and the icecube maker never worked again in the two more years I lived in that apartment... That one day though my friend Stephen sent me a sign...I m convinced of it.
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Forewarned
Several Ouija board experiences whin I was about 7 years old. On at least two occassions I saw someone in a car before that car and person arrived. Saw a person in a room 'bound and gagged'. Same individual was later killed bound gagged strangled . Saw 'ghost of living person' walk into a storage room and disappear. Person was elsewhere in building. Event also wittnessed by a second party.
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deja vu
I have had several instances where I have dreamed of a certain place and several weeks or even a year later I came to that exact place. I have heard someone say that it was some sort of misfire of a brain synapse or something to that effect but I remember waking from the dream and how vivid it was. I know that it wasn t just a glitch in my brain.
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warning
When I was very young my parents had won a boat through a mail-in offer. All they had to do was go the 60 miles to pick it up. They planned on getting it the next day but both of my parents woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible notion that they should not go. They didn t know why but the feeling was mutual. The following day as the news came on my dad saw something that shocked him. There were multiple deaths in a car pile up on the route they were to take. The boat was never thought about again.
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Out-of-body experience 2
When I was 10 years old I was running home because I was late for my curfew. As I ran up a hill I began to get side-stich- that sharp pain in your side. I kept running because I was afraid of being late. I began to feel as though my running was meeting a mushy resistance. I looked about myself and I was high in the air. There was a cord connecting me to the little mechanical body that was running up the hill. My initial thought was to wonder how the little mechanical body was managing without me. I anticipated that soon the body would reach a street where neighbors would say hello and expect a response. I immediately became aware that if there was a need occurring to the body that I would instantly be rejoined with it. This insight freed me to travel home. I instantly arrived and found myself bodiless in the corner on the ceiling of our family kitchen. I heard my father say 'Give her a few minutes. She probably just lost track of the time.' With that I was reassured that I was not in trouble for missing my curfew and I was instantly without any thought or effort rejoined with the little mechanical body that was my body . My body was several hundred yards further along the path to my home. Apparently it had continued on just fine without me.
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A win and a ghost
I've only had two experiences that could be called remotely paranormal, both happened around the age of 11 or 12. My father always let me pick a line on the football pools, and this particular Saturday was the start of our family holiday - all day long I kept saying "I'm going to win the pools" with a great sense of belief. On checking the results I found I'd won a minor dividend. I've never before or since felt or expressed such confidence in the outcome of a game of chance, and the odds of winning even a minor dividend are relatively small - in doing the pools now for over 20 years I have averaged something less than one win a year.

The second followed the death of a certain tv personality, one of my first experiences of the death of someone I was familiar with (albeit via the media). I felt both sad and confused - anyway at some point in the night I woke up and saw this face looking down at me - I can't say I recognised it as the person in question, but it was there for long enough for me to be sure that I was awake.
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Ball of light
One night several years ago I awoke to find my room completely bathed in a white light similar to a camera flash but constant. I turned over to see a small ball of light perhaps the size of a marble in the center of the room. At first I thought I was dreaming but I continued to stare at the light for some time perhaps ten minutes or more. The light would slowly move about and I could see the shadows shifting in the room as it moved. I could also see the ghost images left on my eyes that happens when you stare at a bright light . The light eventually faded and disappeared. I was never able to understand what this light was. I am certain it was not ball lightning because it was so small and at times remained perfectly still and was a perfect sphere. Also it never touched the ground or moved vertically. Only horizontally and even that was only a few feet back and forth.
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Mother's ghost
One night getting ready to go out with my friends I was drying my hair. I could hear what sounded like someone throwing things around in the cellar. I went down to investigate the noises. There was nothing out of place. I went back upstairs to finish drying my hair. I agin heard noises from the cellar. Only this time it sounded as if someone was throwing the jars of home canned goods agaist the cellar wall smashing the jars to pieces. I again went down to the cellar to investigate the noise. Again nothing out of place or broken. There had been other events that have happened before this night but this one sticks clearly in my mind. After finding nothing in the cellar I am now getting scared. I sat on the edge of my bed about to call my mother who was away visiting my grandmother. As I started to reach for the phone there were loud thumping as if someone was slapping the back of my headboard of my bed. I could feel the vibrations through my bed as the thumping slapped along my bed. I quickly grabbed the phone and called my mother. I told her to tell her ghost to leave me alone. That night as my mother lay in bed she could feel someone put an arm around her. She was alone in bed. She could feel the bed move as if someone had layed beside her.
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The Gentle Goodbye
About 8 years ago, I guess, my father passed away... Ill make it short...He died of emphysima... I had gone home to visit him in the hospital, doctors we're saying he was doing better so I had to come back home to work.. Its a 12 hours drive .... so anyway I left for home after about 5 days with him.

home. I had a really bad cold and had gotten home very later so I took the next day off work to rest and try to treat my cold... I got up late around noon... I remember I was in the kitchen, I looked at the clock and it said 3:30pm, I decided to go take a nice hot bath to relax.... I walked in the washroom, sat on the edge of the bathtub, I put my hands of the faucets to run the water.... thats when someting took control of my body.... my hands turned the faucets but its like somedody had taken over my body and was doing it for me,,, and even my eye sight was different... this is very hard to explain, but its like I was't seeing with my eyes, but with somebody elses eyes... Very hard to understand and explain... it didn't last long, only seconds... then I entered the bath and wondered what had just happened...

And the only thing I could make out of it, was that my father had passed away and this was his way of saying goodbye... So I took my bath and stepped out of the washroom and the phone rang,,, it was my sister, telling me Dad had passed away, the first thing I asked was "AT WHAT TIME ?", she said 3:30m!!!! This, I am convinced that it was my Dad, saying bye to me....
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Undying Love
I was previously engaged to someone not too long ago, yet I guess it seems like forever. We've been together since I was in grade school. when I entered my 2nd year of college, he asked me to marry him. He would always tell me that if anything were to happen, he would always be with me...

Last halloween, my fiance was shot in the head by 2 men trying to steal his car. After the funeral, I gave away everything that reminded me of him, except the last picture we ever took together, which I placed on our dresser.

One day I was sitting on the couch watching tv with our dog when he suddenly put his head up and started to sniff around. he jumped off the couch and ran to my room, barking loudly. I ran in there to see what was wrong. I stopped suddenly when I saw a transperant figure standing in front of my dresser caressing the picture. I couldn't see a definite face or any other physical aspects of this figure, but it did have a definite shape. I started to walk back slowly but the figure turned to face me and disappeared.

And one day, while cleaning for some visitors that were coming later on in the day, I was in our room dusting off the picture of us. suddenly, I felt a large breeze past me, and the smell of Polo cologne started to fill up the room. I started to cry because that was what my fiance would always wear. (he never wore anything but polo cologne. and it was odd because I gave away his cologne bottles with the rest of his items.) while I was crying, I could feel someone gently caress my hair and wipe my tears, so I put my head up but I couldn't see anyone.

To this day, there are still times where I will wake up in the middle of the night. I look around and I swear I could see him standing at the foot of the bed looking at me, but when I open my mouth to say something, it disappears again...
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Telepathic Love
Years ago,I was deeply inlove with a woman,12 years younger than I,who was also in love with me. But both decided, with inimaginable grief, that our love was quite impossible, and so we said "adieu for evermore" one to another. I have no words to explain how much painful was such a decision for both. We felt that to live separated was worse than dead, but we said goodbye.

At that time,I was working every morning,as a part-time Associated Profesor,at the University,located in another city,30 kms.away.So,at 7 a m. every morning,I entered with my car the motorway by the SOUTH bypass,and then,at 2 p.m.,I went back to my home by the same motorway,leaving it by the SOUTH bypass.I was doing the same route,every day,for 3 years,with no variation in this routine,NEVER.

One morning,2 weeks after our painful goodbye,I was chatting with another profesor,feeling myself absolutely heartobroken and desperate.I drank my coffee,and left the glass on the table.A minute later,as I was paying attention to my collegue's words,I heard a clear sound,turned my head and saw the glass broken.I can not explain why,but I thought-indeed,I felt myself totally sure!-it was a signal.I took my car,I entered the motorway-and I do not remember anything more until I was leaving the motorway via the NORTH bypass,for the very first time in 3 years,after driving 30 kms.in hypnotic state.

When I woke up,the STOP signal at the end of the bypass was 10 meters away.So,it was neccesary to brake suddenly.If not,I would crashed with my beloved's car,that was coming to that exact meeting point,at th at exact time. She explained to me:"I knew you was in the University,I knew it was imposible to meet you,but it was imposible for me not to look for you.About 11 a.m.,I was already sure we will not meet.I went back home,desperate,sat down in the kitchen and drank any coffee.I leave the cup on the table,and,as I was there thinking of you,I heard a sound and it was the cup-broken.Then,I said:"Now!".I took the car,and I am here-and you are here!"
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A Presence in the Night
I had a bad or strange experience while I was there. I do not know if that was something connected with spiritual matter or not. Before I settled in the apartment in Hampstead, I rent a room of a large Victorian house in Golders Green. It was a big house and I was in the top room of that house. One night, maybe almost midnight, I woke up feeling something on my body. It was very heavy so I could not move. I could not say anything and could neither lift my arms nor legs. I could not remember how long it lasted, but suddenly I felt light, and I became able to move my body.

I was cared, and next day, I talked about it to my friend who lived my house. Actually she was the one who introduced me to the landlord of that house. She hesitated for a moment, but finally said that the person who rented the room before me sometimes did black magic in that room. I was horrified.
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Knowledge of a Death
I had another strange experience. My skydiving intructor in Cambridge died by accident. And at that time I was in Japan. But I had a bad dream that something white was falling down from the sky. I wrote about it to one of other instructors that I had a bad dream. When I posted the letter, I received a letter telling about the death of my instructor. I was really shocked as you probably can imagine. Strange, strange.
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A Ghostly Guide
When I was a college student I have heard a Ghost story from my English teacher. When she stayed in London she visited a catacomb with her friend. There are lot of people and she got separated from her friend in the crowd. When she looked for her friend, she was spoken to by a stranger and then he show her around the catacomb........ She was called to her friend at the way out and her friend asked her "What happened? Why were you talking alone?" She was very surprised and she said " I was talking with him." Her friend said" Who are you talking with? You was talking alone." She looked back at him but he has not been there.
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Reincarnated
I believe my friend is a reincarnate of her grandmother. She was born a week after her grandma died. Her grandma had a spot on her scalp about the size of a silver dollar and it was bald too. Before she died she assured her grieving relatives that she will be back so they should be happy.All through her illness she keptt elling her daughter my friends mother that she will one day be her mother. My friends mom thought she was saying that because she was pregnant at the time and was taking care of her sick mom. Anyway after a week of the old woman's death my friend was born and she had the same bald patch same size and position.

The family was shocked and they took my friend to see a doctor who could not explain the bald spot.He just called it a birth mark. My friend on the other hand looks at old family pictures of relatives she has never met or people that died years ago and can identify them by name. She is a very unique person and though she does not entirely believe in reincarnation she is aware of some paranormal at play in her life.
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The hopes and fears of all the years are met in Thee tonight - trad. Carol

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