Knowing death was coming

by Mary Smith
(Ireland)

When I was 14 my grandfather was dying from Cancer. He had lived with my family most of my life and we were very close. We knew he was getting worse but thought he had at least weeks left to live. There were things that of course were known traditionally as signs of death such as robins and birds. For a week before my grandfather died a bird kept on banging into and pecking at our living room window. It was the same bird all the time and it was that bad that the window was all marked from where he was hitting it.

On the morning he died I got up as usual at 8 and got ready for school. At about 25 past 8 when I was supposed to get the bus, I got this feeling that something was going to happen that my grandad would die while I was at school and I was that certain that I started arguing with my mum that I wasn’t going to school that grandad wouldn’t be there when I got back that something was going to happen. She told me he was fine that he would be ok and she told me to go in and say goodbye to him and to go to school. I hadn’t seen him at all that morning and my mother went in to check on him at the same time I went to say goodbye. As soon as we walked in my mother could tell he had taken a turn, he was dying and within 5 mins of going into the room he died. I never understood how I knew he was going to die. I have never had any psychic experiences before. I am 18 now and I always wonder how I knew that morning. Can anyone shed some light on my story or has anyone any similar stories.