Reply #1: Before I answer, I have to tell you that I'm not much of a believer in things like this. [View All]

But I did have an experience that truly made me wonder. My father died, obviously a pretty awful thing, and it was extremely hard on everybody. He really was the heart of the family and I was the eldest and always close to him. He died on November 30th and his birthday was January 22nd.

On the night of his birthday, in the middle of the night, the smoke alarm in the house went off. Nobody was cooking anything and there wasn't a fire, but it went off all on its own. And then the horn on my car, which had belonged to him, started honking, as well, and I couldn't make it stop. It had never done that before and it never happened again.

Now it was very cold that night, so that could have been an explanation, but then something also happened to my grandmother, his mother. She kept hearing music, and it was driving her crazy, since it was faint and she couldn't figure out where it was coming from. She finally discovered that it was a music box that she had kept in her dresser, and it was a music box that my Dad had given her. That also happened on what would have been my father's birthday. And I was in NY, while my grandmother was in North Carolina.

I don't know what caused all that, never will, and nothing like that has ever happened again, and it's been 20 years. Like I said, I am a skeptic, but I like to think that my Dad was somehow communicating with us, on what would have been his birthday. :)