This article will focus on a phenomenon that goes beyond intuition or premonition: people reported seeing their relatives and thus learned of their death. They did not know in advance about the death of their loved ones.
The following is a compilation of dozens of cases compiled by Dr. Bruce Grayson of the University of Virginia in his 2010 report, Visions of Dead People Without Knowing Their Death, which was published by the American Anthropology Association.
Dr. Grayson writes, "Cases like these are the most compelling evidence that consciousness continues after death."
A boy in a fever sees his sister with deceased relatives
9-year-old Eddie Kumo suffered from a fever for almost two days. He woke up at 3:00 am when the temperature subsided and told his parents and Dr. C. M. Dale that he had seen family members who had died, including his grandfather. The boy also saw his 19-year-old sister Teresa, who was in college.
Eddie's dad spoke to her a few days ago and she was fine. But later that day, the family learned that Teresa had died in a car crash at midnight - a few hours before Eddie slept.
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This case was recorded by the doctor K. M. Dale and is mentioned in the 1995 book Children of the Light: The Surprising Truth About NDEs by Brad and Sherri Hansen Steiger.
A woman in a car accident saw her father, who died an hour before
A woman of Indian descent was in a car accident and was dying. She told a stranger who stopped to help her, “If you are near the Indian reservation, please tell my mother that I am okay. Not only is I okay, but I am very happy because I am already next to my dad."
A stranger found her mother and relayed a message. It turned out that the woman's father died unexpectedly of a heart attack an hour before his daughter had an accident.
The incident is described in the book "On Children and Death" by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 1983.
A dying woman sees her healthy son sick and then dead
In the XIX century. Mrs. Hicks, who lived in England, was on her deathbed. Her son Eddie lived in Australia, and all his relatives in England thought he was okay. Ms. Hicks said, "Poor Eddie, he looks very sick, he fell."
She continued to talk about "poor Eddie" until her death that day. It was later revealed that Eddie did indeed get sick, he had a fever, while being ill, he fell off his horse and died on the same day his mother had a vision.
The story is described in the book Notes of the Society of the Paranormal in 1899.
The boy saw his mother's school love
A 7-year-old boy was dying of leukemia and told his mom that he was in heaven. In heaven, he saw a man who introduced himself as a school friend of his mother who died in a car accident. The woman is sure that she never told her son about her former lover. She later learned that he died on the same day her son had a vision.
The case is described by pediatricians Melvin Morse and Paul Perry in their book Closer to the Light: Lessons from NDEs in Children, 1990.
Will, are you here too?
An elderly woman was dying in the United States surrounded by her grandchildren. Just before she died, she said, "Oh, Will, are you here too?" The only relative named Will was her great-uncle who lived in England. Her family later learned that Will had died two days earlier.
“The incident is described in the book by Ian Stevenson in The Inconvenient Facts About Supernatural Perception, 1959.