We’ve all heard about ghosts trying to send messages to their loved ones, but what about a ghost who emails his friends and family?
On June 10, 2011, Jack Froese died from a heart arrhythmia when he was only 32 years old. A heart arrhythmia occurs when the heart’s electrical impulses don’t function properly. There are often no symptoms, so this was a horribly unexpected blow to his friends and family.
By all accounts, Jack was a beloved son, friend, and family member. Everyone had a difficult time letting go of such a kind man. In 2012, BBC interviewed Tim Hart, Jack’s best friend. He described their friendship as two pals that were “inseparable” and said they’d been friends since they were 17 years old.
Months went by, and just as Jack’s friends and family began to adjust to life without him, a strange thing happened. Tim explained that one night he got a message on his phone.
It was an email from Jack.
The subject said, “I’m watching.” The message read: “Did you hear me? I’m at your house. Clean your f***ing attic!!!”
The two friends had a running joke about how messy Tim’s attic was, and Jack often joked that he was going to clean it. Tim insists that no one knew about that conversation, so who was emailing him pretending to be Jack?
When Jack’s cousin, Jimmy McGraw, broke his ankle, he also received an email from Jack.
It read: “Hey Jim, How ya doing? I knew you were gonna break your ankle, I tried to warn you. Gotta be careful.”
Again, everyone wondered who was really writing them. Had someone hacked into Jack’s old email account? His friends and family claim that none of them had his passwords, and even if they did, they wouldn’t have sent messages pretending to be him.
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In a twist, the emailer asked his cousin to pass along a message to another family member, claiming that the email wasn’t working. He wanted to praise his cousin Rock’s song, which was a tribute song to Jack. Rock claims that he’d been working on the tribute song for Jack but was having trouble completing it. Then, Jack began showing up in his dreams and helped him finish it.
In regards to the emails, Jack’s mother told the BBC: “I thought they were fantastic, they were great.” She told Tim to take them as a gift. Some believe it was his mother who sent the emails, but she claimed not to have his passwords. Though, she has said that the emails are “keeping people talking about him.”
Tim did reply to the emails, hoping to find some answers, but none came. There are services that allow people to set up messages to family members in advance should something happen to them, but due to the nature of Jack’s messages and his untimely death, it’s unlikely a service was used to send them.
All of this could, of course, be a hoax. After the initial email messages, all correspondence ceased from Jack. Could it have been just a note to let them know he cares and is still watching over them? Or is it someone he knew who hoped to ease the pain of his friends and loved ones? Whatever the case may be, it wouldn’t be the first time people received messages from beyond the grave.
