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Dan M - 17 Aug 2005 21:38 GMT

But this time it wasn't me.

You might recall that I posted a couple years ago about my brother's cat
Samantha, a beautiful Siamese, passing away. Samanatha's passing also
marked the end of Pat's regular visits from an invisible ghost cat.

This morning Pat was in his bedroom starting to get dressed. As he was
looking towards the door into the hallway he saw Samantha walk into the
room! She walked toward him, looking as if she intended to rub up against
his legs like she always used to do. When she was just a foot or so from
him, she just vanished.

He says that the expression on her face and the feeling he got from the
visit was positive and encouraging. It sounds like she just decided to
come back and visit and see how he was geting on.

Dan

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jmcquown - 17 Aug 2005 22:47 GMT

> But this time it wasn't me.
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> Dan

I firmly believe in this. After my little dog Sampson (RB) died he was on
my bed one night during a bad storm. As the storm subsided, he moved away
from me. I awakened and realized I should NOT have been able to feel his
fur under my hand. I can't describe the feeling but he whooshed away from
me and I had a feeling of ultimate peace.. he came to make sure I was okay.
I've no doubt about that.

I never saw or felt him again after Persia showed up on my doorstep. I
think Persia was his way of sending me someone else to care for me. She
follows me around like a dog; licks me like a dog; chases tossed toys like a
dog; sleeps in the same spots he did. He's probably horrified to find
himself reincarnated in a cat-suit! :D

Jill

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Enfilade - 18 Aug 2005 01:03 GMT

I don't think the departed ought to hang around with the living--they
have their own existences to progrses with--but I do believe they can
come back just to check up on us, just to tell us they're okay.

--Fil

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jmcquown - 18 Aug 2005 04:17 GMT

> I don't think the departed ought to hang around with the living--they
> have their own existences to progrses with--but I do believe they can
> come back just to check up on us, just to tell us they're okay.
>
> --Fil

I was totally devastated when Sampson died. Aside from parakeets, he was
the only pet I'd ever had and he'd been with me 18 years - my entire adult
life up to that point, from age 21 to 39. He probably felt he *had* to stay
with me until he knew I was okay, you know what I mean? I lost my mind when
he died. Took a week off work (I was already scheduled for vacation the
week after, so I just changed it) and wandered around the apartment, not
knowing what to do. I was crying, always crying. Some caring co-workers
sent me flowers and when the delivery guy showed up I busted out in tears.
Poor guy must have thought I was nuts.

I was just getting over losing Sampson in 2001 when Persia showed up at my
back door, *demanding* to be let inside :) The rest, as they say, is
history. I don't even want to think about what will happen when I lose her.
She's about 6 years old now.

Jill

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Jane - 18 Aug 2005 18:07 GMT

>week after, so I just changed it) and wandered around the apartment, not
>knowing what to do. I was crying, always crying. Some caring co-workers
>sent me flowers and when the delivery guy showed up I busted out in tears.
>Poor guy must have thought I was nuts.

When my darling Fin died, my *boss* came to visit me at work to tell
me how sorry he was to hear that....he's a *great* boss. I'm a
contractor and don't work on the same site as the company.
I was so touched.

Jane

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Adrian - 18 Aug 2005 18:43 GMT

>> week after, so I just changed it) and wandered around the apartment,
>> not knowing what to do. I was crying, always crying. Some caring
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> Jane

When my cat, Bod, died in 1985, my boss could see how upset I was, he
sent me home but still paid me. He understood how much an animal could
be loved.

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Kate - 18 Aug 2005 10:13 GMT

I believe that loved ones, both people and animals do come back to
check on those of us who remain.

When I got married a few years ago, when the photos came back from the
photographer in one photo of the empty reception room there is a ghost
image of a couple sitting at one of the tables.

The room was definitely empty when the photographer took the photo.
Although the picture is not clear, it looks remarkably like my father's
parents.

Independently one of our guests told us that they had seen a ghost on
the stage, a lady dressed in blue looking over the shoulders of the
string quartet. His description of her described my mother's mother
exactly.

My parents and I do believe that it was the 3 grandparents who had
passed away, as we know they would have done anything to be at my
wedding.

Kate.

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jmcquown - 18 Aug 2005 17:01 GMT

> I believe that loved ones, both people and animals do come back to
> check on those of us who remain.
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> Kate.

My mom is not one to believe in anything "psychic" nor to share her dreams
with me, but after her mother died in 1976 she told me about a dream she
had. It was so vivid she felt it necessary to talk to someone (me). She
had been considering divorcing my father for a years. Her mother came to
her right after she died, in a dream, and told Mom everything would be okay.
It wasn't two weeks later Dad went to her and said he needed help, admitted
he had a drinking problem and he said he didn't want to lose her or his
family. Maybe Dad had a dream, too, I don't know. He's never told us why
he finally admitted he had a problem.

I firmly believe Grandma came back and told mom to hang in there. She did.
My parents have been married 54 years now.

Jill

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Hailey - 20 Aug 2005 09:28 GMT

>>I believe that loved ones, both people and animals do come back to
>>check on those of us who remain.
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> Jill

extremely cool :) thank you for sharing that

Hailey

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Kitkat - 20 Aug 2005 18:38 GMT

> I believe that loved ones, both people and animals do come back to
> check on those of us who remain.
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> Kate.

I just got married in December. My grandma (called Bubbie...a jewish
term) passed away in November of 2001. Strangely, the day she died, I
was supposed to have my first date with my now DH. Anyway, during the
dinner, we toasted to her. And then, there was a quiet moment and
suddenly we heard a loud crash from the corner of the room near one of
the bars. My mom just leaned over and said "It's Bubbie. She wants us to
know she is here...and of course she has to make a big ruckus!"

Also, I had surgery on May 12th and Mother's Day was a few days before.
My mom and I went to visit Bubbie at the cemetery and I asked her to
please watch over me during my surgery, but to not make such a ruckus so
that the surgeon could do his job! ;) After surgery, when I was moved to
my room upstairs, the anesthesia was starting to wear off and apparently
I was rambling in rare form, swearing (in a joking kind of manner),
giving family the middle finger while laughing, and making crass jokes.
Honestly, my whole family thought I was Bubbie reincarnate. I was
behaving JUST like her!!!

I *know* she is watching over me and she defintely has her ways of
letting us all know she is still around! :)

I miss her!
Pam

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