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FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCES
JUNE 2008
During the writing of this book, the son of a close friend of mine passed away suddenly. It was very traumatic. He died in his sleep from an accidental overdose of a combination of prescription drugs. He left behind a wife, whom he was separated from and a two year old daughter.
When his father found out what happened he was grief stricken. It was very sad and shocking to me, even though, I didn’t know him very well. He was more of an acquaintance but I did talk to him a few times. It was very sad because he was young and finally started getting his life together.
That day, a few hours later after I heard the horrible news, my cell phone rang. The display on the cell said call from UNKNOWN. I answered it after the second ring, thinking maybe it was my friend Jenna, with some information about the sudden death. I thought maybe she used Quinn’s cell phone to call me and his new number wasn’t programmed into my cell. That would explain why the number didn’t come up. However, when I answered the cell I heard static, then silence, then it sounded like someone hung up the receiver. I checked the cell phone’s history of incoming calls but no numbers appeared. I thought this was strange because usually a number will appear, even if the display says UNKNOWN. It just usually means that the number is from an outside phone number and is not programmed into my phone. Then I would be able to click on the number and it would redial the person who called me. In this case, there were only the words UNKNOWN without any number. I thought the incident was strange, but I soon forgot about it.
Hours later my friend Jenna, called me and told me about a weird thing that happened to her and Quinn on the way to the airport. She said they were on their way to pick up Quinn’s daughter, when the car radio blasted on and off really loud. Quinn doesn’t listen to music very loud so he felt like his son was trying to get his attention and perhaps send him a message. I found out later that this happened around the same time that I received the strange phone call.
Four days later, the cell phone rang again, with the display reading the words UNKNOWN. I answered and heard static, then silence, then someone hang up. Once again I checked the history of incoming calls but there was no number.
About a month later, I was getting ready to go to a concert. I couldn’t find my concert tickets anywhere in the house. I spent 2 ½ hours looking for the tickets but I never found them. I knew I put them on the bookshelf on top of my other concert tickets. I only had them for a week. So I knew where I put them. They seemed to vanish into thin air.
Four days later, my friend Val found them. They were sticking slightly out from under my stereo. I felt a slight chill because I knew I did not put them there. The bookshelf is on the other side of my room. There is no way they could have fallen there. Someone would have had to place them over there. Was Quinn’s son, Paul, trying to get my attention? He knew I was interested in the paranormal and would believe that his spirit may still be lingering around trying to make contact. Perhaps he was trying to relay a message.
Another strange thing that happened to me was that I had a dream about Paul, and he was trying to tell me something. When I woke up, I couldn’t remember what the message was. I thought it was odd that I dreamt about him because I didn’t know him very well and I wasn’t thinking about him at the time.
A few days later my friend Jenna said that when Quinn was home alone and thinking about his son Paul, a strange thing happened. He was sad and feeling depressed and then he heard the stereo blast on and off very loud. Then the lights in the garage flickered on and off.
I then asked Jenna when the incident occurred. I figured out it was the same night that I had dreamt about Paul. This was about a day or two before Quinn’s birthday. Was Paul trying to wish his father a happy birthday? Turning on and off the electrical appliances could be a way that he may be able to contact Quinn and get his attention. After all he still may have some unfinished business. He never got to say goodbye to his father or his daughter.
This is not the first time something like this has happened. Quinn’s wife died three years earlier and there were similar occurrences.
One night, about 3:00am the living room stereo blasted on and off very loudly waking up Quinn. He ran into the living room checking to see what was going on and realized the stereo was turned completely off and the room was silent. He went back to bed and didn’t hear another sound the rest of the night.
I used to clean his house and I would go there when no one was home. I would sometimes feel a presence in his bedroom. It seemed the strongest near the left side of the bed near the window and the bookcase. It didn’t feel scary or threatening, just like someone was there watching me. Quinn had a big armchair in that area for awhile. One day I came to clean and the chair was gone. I found out that he had moved it upstairs. The room felt different and I didn’t sense the feeling of being watched anymore.
This made me realize that maybe the chair was associated with the presence. When I inquired about the chair, Quinn said it was his wife’s chair. She was the one that would always use it. Could it be part of her energy was left behind in one of her possessions? This has been known to happen in some cases.
Quinn’s daughter was visiting during the holidays last year. That night, she slept in his bedroom. She woke up in the middle of the night because she heard someone walk into the bedroom, go into the bathroom, and slam the door. She thought it was Quinn, so she just fell back to sleep. The next morning, she asked him if he went into the bathroom during the night. He acted surprised. He said he was sleeping upstairs in the spare bedroom and didn’t wake up at all in the middle of the night. He also said there is a bathroom upstairs so why would he walk downstairs and use that bathroom when there was another one only a few feet from where he was sleeping.
This incident happened around the time Quinn was having a memorial party for his wife.
I have gone to his house when no one was there and have taken many pictures and EVP recordings. I didn’t get any evidence of a haunting, but that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t anything there. It could just mean the spirit isn’t strong enough to appear or that it may choose not to. In both cases, the spirits, if any, could be Quinn’s deceased wife and son.
Sometimes, when the grieving person is under extreme stress or sadness, the spirit may only appear to them or another family member. The purpose is to try to ease their grief and pain and reassure them that they are ok and that everything will be alright. The spirit may also be lingering around and try to make contact so that they can say goodbye. This can be done in a dream, or the spirit may try to move an object to get attention such as controlling electrical devices like cell phones, radios, lights, etc.
During the writing of this book, I was reading a similar story about the dead trying to contact the living through electronic devices. This particular story I happen to be reading, coincidently, a few days after Paul passed away. Then I remembered the cell phone incident that I had. It just made me believe more that Paul was trying to contact me or Quinn to explain about his sudden tragic death.
We still don’t know what exactly happened that night. I also believe that Paul was trying to contact Quinn on his birthday. I think he may still be lingering around. However, I think his wife has moved on and passed over to the other side. His house feels different than it did a year ago. When I walk into the bedroom, I don’t feel that strong presence anymore. I’m sure his wife has watched over him for awhile, but now she sees that he is doing better. He still has people who love and care about him. He is not alone. I think that may have been the reason why she stayed behind, but now she has no need to.
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