Message
from Mom
I am
blown away. I, and my family, have been tormented
by something that happened after my mother's death, and it happened to
me. I never looked into it further, because I probably didn't
want to
know. But it has stayed with me and I can't get it out of my
mind. In
July of 1997 my mother died. She had been ill for a while and was
frequently irritable and angry. She particularly didn't like
answering
phone devices, nor did she like to leave messages. My mom used to
say,
whether you answered the phone or not, "It's me!" At the time, and
after her death, I did not have the usual answering machine.
Rather, I
received my messages through U.S. West Telemessaging, where you pick up
the receiver
and you hear a pulsing sound telling you that you have a message.
You
then call a service and retrieve your calls, whereupon you get a
recording that
tells you the date and time the call was "received." After
my mother's death, I had a surgery (one
she probably wouldn't have approved of). Anyway, when I was in
the hospital, I received a call--and when I got home, the
telemessaging
recording told me the call took place (don't have date in front of me
at present),
which was
over a month after her death. The message was simply, in an
irritated voice,
"IT'S ME!"
I was so shocked, I dropped the phone. Still not well from the
surgery, I
immediately called my sister, brother and father. My brother
signed up for the same
service, so
that I could "transfer" the message directly into his message bank for
his calls. I did
so.
My brother lives in another city from me. My brother was very
close to my mother and was
living with
her and my dad prior to her death. My brother, my sister and my
father, all
said there was absolutely no question that this was Mom's voice.
While I
am neither a believer nor a nonbeliever of such things, the rest of my
family
would be far closer to nonbelievers. We were, to say the least,
dumbfounded. It didn't make sense to me that she would leave such a
message---it didn't say anything, and yet, it clearly said it was
"her" because only she would have left such a message. Take
that together with the fact that her voice is unmistakable, it is
really
shocking. Both my brother and I used a phone recording device and tape
recorded
this message onto a microcassette for prosperity.
Looking back on
it now
though, I wish I would have delved into the matter right at that time,
because
it would have been simple to prove that this message did come in AFTER
HER
death, and maybe even a voice match could have been done (if there is
such a
thing). By the way, I don't know if I told you this or not, but
when
this phone message came through, I was in the hospital having a
surgical procedure
I am quite sure my Mother would disapprove of. My brother doesn't
know
about this...but my sister does. So the impression both of us got
was it
was her saying "IT'S ME!" Kind of like, don't for one minute
think I don't know what you are up to!