I have a question if anyone could help.. My mom and I have suffered 5 deaths in the last 2 years. All very very close people.. I lost my 2 grandfathers.. my dad.. my moms cousin and my moms b/f. Could something be wrong in my family like a curse? Or what? Its horrible.

I was sharing in one of my last posts with hallowseve about this.. she suggested that I start a new post.

My mom and I are still very shakin up by all of these deaths.. the last death was just a few weeks ago.. it was my step pap. he died suddenly and no one could tell us why...

I just really need help figuring out if there is something wrong with my family. Im not familier with wicca or other such practices. I just really could use someones help on figuring out whats wrong.. or is this just what God wants.

And not to get off this subject but just yesterday I got photos back.. I looked through them 3 or 4 times not really thinking about anything.. and then in this one picture of me and my friend I noticed a face right behind my friend like staring out our door. (my friend and I were standing on the porch with the door directly behind us) As I looked closer I could see eyes.. a nose. a mouth.. beard. mustache.. long hair.. it looks exactly like my dad!! It just jumped out at me. I was excited.. I showed my b/f.. he saw it too.. and then I showed my mom and she saw it and began to cry.. we all could see the face of my dad looking out the window.. he always looked out the windows when he was alive.. and it was the same expression on his face just like when he was here. The only thing that I noticed that was weird was that he was black.. I thought all ghosts or spirits showed up as white. I dunno? But then my mom and I talked more about it.. and my dad always wore dark clothing.. he gave the appearance of a tall dark biker. And thats what he always dressed like. Im still excited. I have no way to post the picture either. Im upset about that.. but if my b/f could help maybe I can get it up and show everyone. One other thing about seeing my dad in the photo.. I thought to myself that my dad hated getting his picture taken when he was alive. I think I got lucky and im pretty sure hes watching over me!

My husband's family has been plagued with really odd, unexplained deaths for several years. It is a really long story, but for a shortened version, he had an uncle who experienced some emotional problems before passing away unexpectedly several years ago. I had never met the man, but years later, after James' grandparents had passed away, I went into the house. The energy was incredibly thick there. I believe if I had stayed much longer, I would have definitely made contact with his spirit. James later told me of a few paranormal events that reportedly took place in the home while his grandmother was living there. It really was not a pleasant experience and I haven't stepped foot in the house since.
There have been several other instances in his family. I don't know if I believe in any "curses", but it does seem as if some families are just plagued with losing loved ones through bizarre and horrible circumstances. Look at the Kennedy family; those people have suffered so much through the years with the tragic deaths of so many of their loved ones.
As for your Dad's picture coming out, I am sure he is watching over you. Spirits don't just appear as the stereotypical white ghosts you see in movies. They can be shadowy, as it sounds like in your Dad's instance, or they can even appear in color, transparent or solid. That sounds like a picture you can treasure! =)

Hi everyone,
I was listening to Coast 2 Coast last night, or should I say this morning and George Noory had a Shaman on.
He was speaking about demonic posession, etc. He does exorcisms also.
And he told about a story of a family. A man had been in a really bad car accident, he had like 60+ broken bones. While he was in the hospital he said he would sell his soul to the devil if he could just be out of the hospital in a month. And this guy said he, by the offering, was taken up on that.
His family suffered many deaths, natural, unatural, suicides? It was amazing to hear this story. He was sucessful in saving this family by one family memebers stupid mistake or "deal".
Not that I am saying that is what is happening to you, I just found it interesting.
My family also is plauged, all the generations just seem to not have much good luck, but we kinda laugh it off to the "Family Curse" someone put on us probably 200 years ago? Somehow we have no explanation?
Anyways, it was a pretty good show!
Hugs!
Piggster

When I read your post I kept hearing (in my head) what many highly spiritual people have said. That there are no such things as curses. Just cause and effect. What you do leads up to who you are. You are influenced by genetics and environment also.
How many people do you have in your family including cousins?
I could look at all the bad things in my family and see it as a curse (I'm often suspicious of it) but generally I see the cause and effect of those in my family, how they think, what they do and see the relationship to what happens.
It's most unfortunate that so many people so close to you died within the past 2 years but a curse is probably not the cause. If many of the highly spiritual people are right. And I agree with them. But then that's also just our opinion/belief.

I just want to thank those of you that commented to me on this touchy subject. It means a lot of me that you all care.

I myself just feel that my family is just going through a hard time.. and I also believe that God only makes us go through stuff that we can handle. I know its hard.. but someway or another I know everything will be ok.

Thank you all! *hugggs*

P.S. Carrie I am def. going to treasure that pic forever!

While I don't think your family is under a curse, I don't think you are alone either. I work for an optometrist, normally once a year we go through and inactivate people who have died. For the past couple of years we have had monthly lists of people to delete due to death. It seems like every patient who comes in has lost a family member or close friend.

I lost my father in 2001, he was just 65. In fact my brother was at his father-in-law's funeral when he got the word that our father had passed.

One of our patients who happened to be a close friend of the doctor caught bronchitis one winter and developed blood clots in his lungs. They did surgery to remove the clots and he had a stroke in the OR. He had a recurrance of what appeared to be bronchitis, it turned out to be lung cancer. Three days after being diagnosed, he died. Four months later his sister-in-law died of a sudden heart attack. Since then, his mother-in-law has been diagnosed with cancer and his father-in-law's Parkinson's has gotten worse. His widow is battling Bell's palsy, undoubtedly brought on by the stress.

Our practice is also seeing what seems to be a breast cancer outbreak. We are a small practice and off the top of my head, I can name at least six patients who are undergoing chemo right now.

I'm not saying all this to belittle what you are going through. What you are going through is terrible beyond belief. I just think Death is out stalking the land in general. Maybe we are all going through a spate of bad luck. I know you can cleanse a house. How do you go about cleansing the whole world?

[ November 05, 2003, 08:30 PM: Message edited by: grumpieone ]

Lil Spookie,

I'm sorry for your losses. ::hugs:: However, I too, do not believe it a curse. As I explained to Grumpieone in another post, here are my thoughts on negative & positive experiences and how we may think we're cursed:

It's my belief that all of us have bad experiences throughout our lives and sometimes they seem to happen so close together, we'd swear we're cursed. But the reality is, bad things happen - there's no avoiding it. Negative experiences make a greater impact on us than do positive ones. That's not to say we don't appreciate the good times, but we also tend to lose sight of them more quickly. In that, we keep a running tally on the bad things that happen, but not necessarily the good things. It's just human nature. There isn't much we have to 'do' to deal with positive moments - except be happy, whereas, with negative moments, it drains us emotionally and sometimes physically. That in itself will bring the negative experiences to the forefront of our minds.
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