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Fetching experience
'When my aunt met her father-in-law, he said, "Ah, I thought it was you." According to him, she had appeared round the door of the sitting room about three days before he had met her and smiled at him. This is called a "fetch" or manifestation of a living person.'
Just a coincidence?
'Eight years ago, when the world was still wild - in the days before mobile phones and email - I journeyed with some companions to the northern most tip of Scotland, Cape Wrath. My parents were also staying in Scotland and my sister was at home in Oxford, with the telephone number of their inn. On our way to the cottage we were to stay in there was a violent thunderstorm. The lightening streaked through the sky, illuminating the jagged mountains and bleak moors - and yet we toiled on. As we neared the end of a quest we came upon a stretch of water blocking our pathway. A gaunt ferryman with deep-set eyes set in a gnarled face glared at us as we approached to cross the estuary. He refused to take us across the water whilst the gale raged. Instead he guided us to a small wind-swept croft in the midst of the moors.
So it was by chance that we sat huddled by the fire in this lonesome abode with the wind howling down the chimney and wailing at the windows - we should have been safely tucked up at our destination. Suddenly, an eerie ringing eclipsed the sound of the storm. We discovered an ancient phone in the corner covered in dust and cobwebs and it was there from whence this infernal sound came. Gingerly, my fellow traveller approached the rattling telephone and lifted the receiver. It was my own sister - calling to parlay with my parents. She had got the wrong number, but of all the numbers in all of Scotland she could have rang accidentally, she called the croft where, by chance, we were staying that one night. Weird eh?'
Fetching experience
'When my aunt met her father-in-law, he said, "Ah, I thought it was you." According to him, she had appeared round the door of the sitting room about three days before he had met her and smiled at him. This is called a "fetch" or manifestation of a living person.'
Just a coincidence?
'Eight years ago, when the world was still wild - in the days before mobile phones and email - I journeyed with some companions to the northern most tip of Scotland, Cape Wrath. My parents were also staying in Scotland and my sister was at home in Oxford, with the telephone number of their inn. On our way to the cottage we were to stay in there was a violent thunderstorm. The lightening streaked through the sky, illuminating the jagged mountains and bleak moors - and yet we toiled on. As we neared the end of a quest we came upon a stretch of water blocking our pathway. A gaunt ferryman with deep-set eyes set in a gnarled face glared at us as we approached to cross the estuary. He refused to take us across the water whilst the gale raged. Instead he guided us to a small wind-swept croft in the midst of the moors.
So it was by chance that we sat huddled by the fire in this lonesome abode with the wind howling down the chimney and wailing at the windows - we should have been safely tucked up at our destination. Suddenly, an eerie ringing eclipsed the sound of the storm. We discovered an ancient phone in the corner covered in dust and cobwebs and it was there from whence this infernal sound came. Gingerly, my fellow traveller approached the rattling telephone and lifted the receiver. It was my own sister - calling to parlay with my parents. She had got the wrong number, but of all the numbers in all of Scotland she could have rang accidentally, she called the croft where, by chance, we were staying that one night. Weird eh?'
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