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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:14:35 -0700
From: Jennifer Osiecki (BUArtFreak@aol.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Mother's experiences
Having submitted one other story previous to this (Peabody Stories), I now feel compelled to write some more about the paranormal experieces I have been involved in. This submission focuses on my mother. My mother was always a very rational person and I was always surprised by the fact that she had the slightest belief in the paranormal. She it's only in recent years that she has discussed with me why this is so.
The first strange thing that she related to me was a dream that she had about her father. In this dream, she was driving in a car with her father in the passenger seat. Suddenly, she turned around and saw her uncle (her father's brother), recently deceased, in the back seat. He said to her, "Don't worry, he's going to be okay. I'm going to take care of it." As soon as he said this, she woke up and could not get back to sleep. She told me this the next morning and we were a little disturbed by it, but soon we had forgot about it. About a week or so later, we got a call from my grandmother saying that my grandfather was in the hospital and that several of his arteries were blocked, the same condition that had killed the uncle from the dream. After a very successful surgery, my grandfather was fine and still is to this day.
She also owns a rock and mineral shop that is frequented by a lot of holistic healers and such. A surprising amount of them (probably about half of them) ask if she is psychic. She does not feel as though she is, but both she and I have been told that we have some kind of connection with the desceased. She has done some things that make me believe in this connection. One ocassion that sticks in my head occured when she a very rude woman walked into her shop. She was very standoff-ish and she was just not a very pleasant customer. For some reason, to this day she does not know why, my mother felt compelled to give this woman a certain type of crystal. She really doesn't know what to think of the whole crystal healing thing, but she gave this woman the crystal and said, " I've been told that this is used in communing with angels. I'd like to give this to you." Upon hearing this, the woman broke into tears. She said that her sister had just died that week and she missed her terrible and wished that she could just see her and talk to her one more time. Both she and my mother were amazed by what had happened and neither could come up with an explanation.