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Join a New York City native and professional spiritual medium as she shares authentic paranormal encounters from her life and work. From childhood experiences to present-day revelations, these stories aim to normalize the supernatural and encourage listeners to trust their intuition.
What happens when a daughter's search for advice from her late father is met with a message she did not expect? The question is will she follow his counsel? Welcome to episode 20 of my true ghost stories. Many years ago, I was contacted by a woman who I had met just a few times, who we will call Paula because I always change the names. Her child was in my dance class, and I had seen her at pickup and drop off and parents' observation day.
Jennifer:But we had not had much conversation except for one time when we had run into each other on the street and had a brief and pleasant conversation. So on this day that she called me, I don't remember how she had my number. I mean, that was fine. I just don't remember why she had it. She said to me in this phone call, she said that she had been talking to her friend, Joni.
Jennifer:Again, names are changed. Joni was a professional massage therapist. And Paula said that Joni had been telling her a story, that during a massage, a client of hers had started telling her that there was a ghost in the room with a message for her to deliver. And Paula said that when Joni was finished telling the story, Paula had asked her, was this client's name Jennifer? Does she have curly blonde hair?
Jennifer:And although Joanie was not sure if it was the same Jennifer with the blonde curly hair, as Paula was talking about, she thought maybe it was. So Paula called me to ask if it was definitely me that gave this message to her friend Joni. And amazingly, it was me. And I tell that story, the story of the message during the massage in episode 7. So it seems some intuitive action was going on there for Paula to guess that it was me.
Jennifer:She said that she just had a feeling. So back to my conversation with Paula. She said, since you have this skill, I was wondering if you can tell me about my dad. And when she said that, I got an instant picture in my head of a man with a guitar in his hand, just standing there holding the guitar at his side, looking at something in the distance. And I asked her, is your dad a musician?
Jennifer:Yes, she said. And she said that he had passed away about 10 years earlier. And I didn't get in my vision any details about his state, just the picture of him holding a guitar and looking at something in the distance. And that's all I could give her then. I wasn't getting any messages or information besides the picture.
Jennifer:So I told her I I would keep her posted if I get anything, which I didn't. I didn't get anything. But I realize now that Paula was waiting to hear from me, and this meant a lot to her. So, eventually, she contacted me again and asked asked if we could get coffee. She had some questions.
Jennifer:I agreed. I wanted to help. Plus, she was really cool, and I was happy to get the chance to hang out with her. And we met at a coffee shop, and she had lots of questions about mediumship, how do I get messages, what do I see? And at the time, I was relatively new to this whole thing.
Jennifer:In episode 7, where I tell the story of the message during the massage, I talk about how that was the first time I had ever delivered a message. So I was still relatively green here in this coffee date with Paula, and I didn't have any processes for preparing or contacting or anything. When we met, probably the next day, she told me that she was going through some serious upheaval in her personal life and maybe needed some guidance. And I could tell from our conversation that she was hoping to get some guidance from me, but more so, she wanted guidance from her dad. I asked her about some things regarding this personal upheaval and her plans, and she started to lay out an idea that she had of something she wanted to maybe do.
Jennifer:And I will give no details about it, except to say that it involved some action she was going to take during this major upheaval she was going through, and she wasn't sure if she should do it, but she really wanted to. And at that moment, as she was telling me about this plan, this thing she really wanted to do, her father appeared behind her, right there in the coffee shop, and he had no words. He was just nodding his head, no. He was moving his hands slightly, you know, from side to side, like someone who's trying to say no. And he was grimacing, and he was making a noise that a good dad would make when he thinks something is a bad idea.
Jennifer:So I had been looking at her while she was describing her plan, but when he appeared, I started looking over her shoulder at him while she went on describing her plan, And her dad was continuing on with this head shaking, no, the grimacing and making this noise. And I don't know how this is going to sound on a podcast, but the noise sounded like this. And she was continuing on describing her not so great plan when I interrupted her. I said, Paula, when you started describing this plan of yours, I want you to know that your dad appeared behind you. And I pointed in his direction.
Jennifer:He was still there while I was telling her this. And I told her, he's there now, and he's not saying anything, but he's going like this. And I did the face, the hand motions, the head nodding, and the noise. And she gave a little gasp. She was startled.
Jennifer:And she said, after a long pause, sort of staring at me, she said, Jennifer, this gift you have is scary. And she went on to say that I had, like, become her father for those few seconds that I had shown her what he was doing, that it was a perfect impression. And she knew that I had never met him. Is he still there? She asked after a minute.
Jennifer:No. He's gone now. He had really just popped in for this one piece of unspoken fatherly advice, and that advice had been, don't do it. In his own mild mannered way, a facial grimace, a head shake, some hand motions, and something like this groan. So as far as her plan, she took note of her dad's reaction, and I kind of backed him up saying that I maybe agreed with him.
Jennifer:Because to be honest, it was not a good idea, in my opinion. But I left that lunch date with the impression that she really wanted to do this plan of hers, and had been hoping for a green light, not a grimace and a no. And I can relate. Sometimes, I really want to do what I want to do, no matter what anybody says. We said goodbye.
Jennifer:I hoped for another coffee date someday, as she was very cool, like I mentioned before, and I started my walk home. It was the beginning of autumn, and the leaves had turned colors and had just started falling from the trees. And I was looking down at my mid afternoon shadow, which was out in front of me, and I saw something else in my shadow, a leaf spinning about 3 feet over my head, hovering and literally moving with me as I walked. And I watched this for a bit as I kept walking, and the leaf kept spinning and staying over my head as I walked. Well, I knew, because I'm a medium, that this floating leaf was the spirit of Paula's dad's way of trying to get my attention.
Jennifer:So I stopped. The leaf stopped. I'm not lying here. The leaf stopped, still hovering over my head. I looked away from the shadow and up at the leaf, and I said, what's the message?
Jennifer:After I said that, the leaf floated down to the ground on top of a small piece of paper that was lying there in front of me on the sidewalk. So the message is on that paper? I asked. Not that Alif could talk to me, but I felt the need to say it out loud because it was really Paula's dad that was communicating with me, not Alif. So I reached down, and I picked up the paper, and it had the number 55 written on it in ballpoint pen.
Jennifer:And I can't imagine what this could have originally been, like some sort of call number at a store, a restaurant, a dry cleaner. It was a reminder to someone. There was no telling what it was, except I knew that it was a message for me from Paula's dad regarding his daughter's plan that she had laid out for me and him in that coffee shop and that he had obviously disapproved of. As I stood there looking at the number, an image of this big red Bible that I have in my house came instantly into my mind. Page 55, I asked the dad, because I was talking to him now and not the leaf.
Jennifer:Yes, page 55 was the answer I got, and it was urgent. So I took the little piece of paper and the leaf, and I headed home. Now, this particular big, red Bible had come to me quite cosmically. I had walked out onto my front stoop many years before this, and there, on the sidewalk in front of my house, was a big, red, very old and tattered, deluxe edition, Catholic Bible, printed in 1958. No idea why it was there.
Jennifer:Now I do know that down the block, the day I found the Bible on my sidewalk, they had been cleaning out the attic of a good Catholic grandma who had recently passed away. So it may have come from there, but why someone would have carried it all the way up the block and left it on the sidewalk in front of my house, I do not know. I will never know. But that day, the day I found the Bible on my sidewalk, I took it as a clear sign that I was meant to have this Bible. So after my leaf communication, after the coffee date, When I got home, I took that big red Bible off the shelf.
Jennifer:I opened it up to look for page 55, and I saw that the first pages in this Catholic Bible were about Rome, the Pope, the Vatican, lots of Catholic history, and then the table of contents, and then page 1 was the first page of the book of Genesis. So the message had been page 55, not chapter 55 or Psalm 55. So I flipped through into Exodus to page 55, and it was the 8th plague, the locusts. Link is in the show notes. So I'm not a Bible scholar or anything, so forgive my interpretation of this if it's not quite right, but I had heard a sermon once, many years before this, about the 8th plague, the plague of the locusts.
Jennifer:And this sermon talked about how we can liken the story of the locusts, the 8th plague, to bad things happening after we go against God's will for us. I've also read that it can represent the wrath of God against sins committed by humans, and also, that locusts were a sign of judgment meant to humble. So whatever it meant in this situation, it was serious. It was no joke. And, obviously, Paula's dad really did not want her to follow through with her plan.
Jennifer:And I think I'm just guessing, but I think that he knew her well, and he knew that she was gonna do what she wanted to do. And I know he was trying to send the most dramatic version of what the consequences would be if she did it. He was trying to tell her that the consequences of her plan would be like a plague of locusts in her life. He was trying to stop her. So I called her.
Jennifer:It had been a little over an hour since we had left the coffee shop, and I told her, okay. On my way home, there was a leaf following me over my head, and I know it was your dad trying to further his message. It landed on a little piece of paper with the number 55 on it. And so I went to page 55 in this Bible because I knew that that was the page 55 he was talking about, and it's the plague of the locusts. I said, Paula, your dad thinks that if you follow through with your plan, it's going to be a disaster like a plague.
Jennifer:He really doesn't want you to do it, and he's on the other side. He knows something. I think you should listen. Well, she listened to me, but I got the idea that she was very skeptical of this page 55 message. And she even came up with some possible other meetings, ones that did not prohibit her from going through with her plan.
Jennifer:Again, I can relate. And she thanked me, sounding not so happy, and I saw my hopes of a second coffee date with her fading. But I knew it had been very important to convey this message to her, so I knew I had made the right move. About 3 months later, I saw that I had a voice mail on my phone. When I listened to it, it was Paula, who I had not heard from since the coffee date.
Jennifer:And she said, hi, Jennifer. I just wanted you to know that it happened. I went through with my plan despite the warnings from my dad, and it happened. Just like you said, it was a disaster. It was a plague.
Jennifer:No need to call me back. I just wanted you to know that you were right. And that was the end of the message. I felt so bad for her that she had gone through this plague in her personal life. And I was also so grateful to her for calling to let me know that the messages, or the warnings, sent from her dad through me were right, and it gave me some confidence.
Jennifer:And it seems that this dad, being on the other side, might have had some information about the future, or it could be that he was just coming through with some common sense feedback for his daughter because he knew her well, and he knew what she might be getting herself into. Some messages from the other side are subtle. A whiff of perfume, the letters on a license plate, a random thought. I've included a link to an article about these subtle messages. And some messages are very obvious, like this dad giving a direct no with his head shaking and grimacing, and then the follow-up hit you over the head no by predicting the 8th plague, the locusts, if she did this thing.
Jennifer:I think the follow-up was an attempt to emphasize what a bad idea he thought this was and a plea to me to try to let her know to maybe stop her. So I don't know anything really about the relationship between Paula and her dad, but they were obviously very close and knew each other well. And I have not seen her since. This was many years ago, but I bet she is still asking her dad for guidance and hopefully following it. Have you ever received a direct warning from the other side?
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