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This intriguing spirit contact story comes from a long-time blogging friend, Judi Hertling. I think she was one of the first people who commented on our blog on synchronicity when it began in February 2009. She had worked with Robert Moss in his dreaming studies and has used synchronicity in her life for years.

A couple weeks into the new year, I received this email from her:

Hi Trish,

Hope you’re well and happy, and surviving these crazy times.

I’m sad to write that my sister, Jean, whom I was very close to, passed away in August. The reason I tell you this is a week after her funeral, her husband had a visitation from my sister – he said he saw her very clearly standing in their bedroom next to the bed and she was dressed all in red. Weeks later, he saw her again and this time she was dressed all in white.

His daughter-in-law, who knew nothing of this, told him a few weeks before Christmas that after my sister died she had seen her. My brother-in-law asked what she had been wearing and was told that she saw Jean dressed all in red.

I’ve researched and can find nothing in regard to seeing a spirit dressed in red and then appearing later in white. Have you come across this at all? On a synchro level Jean was taken into hospital unexpectedly on our Mom’s birthday, and passed on our Dad’s birthday a few weeks later at home. As an aside, red was one of my sisters least favorite colours.

Hugs,
Judi

I told her that I didn’t know of any spirit contact where the spirit was dressed in red. In fact, in most the experiences we’ve researched, mention of clothing and its color is rare. ,Even if red wasn’t Jean’s favorite color, maybe she used that color to attract the attention of the people to whom she was appearing. It’s hard to ignore a red.

I also said that the synchronicities involved in her sister’s death are stunning: she was taken unexpectedly to the hospital on their mother’s birthday and passed on their dad’s birthday. The odds?

The tragic and all too common element in her sister’s death during this pandemic, was that she Judi lives in Canada and her sister lived in the UK and Judi couldn’t travel there. As Judi said, “…not seeing my sister was awful and left me feeling helpless and emotionally raw. But then so many people have lost loved ones to Covid without getting to see their loved ones, so I have compassion and understanding for those families. My sister had cancer, it was very aggressive and very fast from diagnosis to her passing was only a few weeks. So unexpected.

“But in regard to the visitation and the color red. Have you read the book Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson? She is a Theologian and has a Master of Divinity from Harvard and Columbia. Is it possible do you think that with my sisters deep religious faith that the two could be connected?

“Okay, I’m probably grasping here right? What do you think? And yes you can post – it may bring comfort to others who may have lost a family member.”

When we attempt to decipher the meaning of a synchronicity or spirit contact experience, we look into and consider every possibility. It’s all fair game.

Your sister in red? Sure, why not? The last time I “saw” my parents, my mother was laughing and directing people into a local theater. There was no sign of the Alzheimer’s that she’d had the last 8-10 years of her life. She’d died at 83 of pneumonia, a complication from the disintegration of her left hip and her dementia.  In my vision was looked to be in her late 30s or early 40s, in the full beauty of her life. At one point in that vision, she waved at someone and my dad joined her. He had Parkinson’s in the last years of his life, was in a wheelchair, and died about a month short of his 92 birthday. But in this vision, he was young and vibrant – no walker or wheelchair this  time – and looked happy.

When they realized I could see them, they faded away.

A skeptic would tell me I imagined it. A skeptic would tell Judi and her relatives that it was all imagined. But I’ve come to realize that skeptics are telling us to deny the reality of our own experiences, to deny that emotional gut punch you feel when this happens. And  so often, that gut feeling is what we know to be true.