The Ghost of a Murdered Child Saves a Lost Child
Targ shares three compelling afterlife stories. One tale involves an Icelandic sailor who drowned decades previously. His body washed ashore and was badly mutilated by birds and dogs. Although he was buried in the local cemetery, his thigh bone was discovered later built into the wall of a home. When the owner of the home was present at a seance, the ghost appeared and indicated that he wanted his thigh bone back. He revealed its location, and sure enough, it was there.
One must ask, what did he think he was going to do with it? It was claimed from previous seances that he still had a craving for alcohol, tobacco, and colorful speech. If there is a happy place called heaven, this guy did not go there. Nor is he locked up in a fiery hell as we Christians would think, but neither is he having much fun in the afterlife. He is hanging around Earth, craving things he can no longer access.
By the way, I do NOT recommend attending seances or believing everything some disincarnate entity communicates. Some are demons pretending to be the ghosts of the deceased, and demons lie.
Another story involved a medium who was asked to locate a Grand Master chess player. Iceland is particularly fond of chess. An experimental match was called for between a deceased Master and a living one. The living person won, but other Masters verified that the game was played at a Master's level. I wonder if the deceased chess whiz hangs around chess competitions wishing he could play, or if he just couldn't resist an unusual opportunity to demonstrate his prowess.
The most compelling story was the one where Targ's little granddaughter was lost in the wilderness for 3 days. A psychic declared that she was OK and was being taken care of by a nice lady. When Haley was found, she said a little girl stayed with her and guided her to her present position. After a historical investigation by the Targ family, the ghost girl turned out to be a child who was murdered by a cult many years previously. The mother was, in fact, still alive and in prison.
This would be another of numerous cases in which the spirit of a child still manifests as a child, as if the souls of children never grow up in the afterlife. Modern tales of NDE’s would indicate otherwise. For example, a woman who had a miscarriage 12 years previously might meet a 12-year-old child in her NDE who would identify as her son or daughter. A deceased teenager 12 years later would appear as an adult.
I am happy to read that Haley was found, especially since Russell Targ lost his lovely and brilliant daughter to cancer when she was only 40-years-old.
It would not be surprising that children manifest in the spirit world the same age they were when they died. The question it raises for me, however, is in the case of reincarnation, all souls seem to be adult, even if they are in a living child's body. They are not just temporarily adult, but they have been adults for eons. They even have a spirit name that follows them from lifetime to lifetime.
Children who remember past lives struggle to express the images they see with their current, infantile vocabulary. They are also unable to replicate the language of their former lives, although the memories and names are still available to them.
The case of the murdered child had a double happy ending. The mother in prison was informed of the rescue and was beside herself with relief and happiness. The odds are great that she had been blinded and controlled by the cult leader and was manipulated into killing the child, perhaps by claiming that the girl was demon-possessed.
The blessing of the fruit of that whole rescue encounter suggests to me that the “nice lady” indicated by the former psychic was either manifesting as her young self to accomplish this task or that she was allowed by benevolent forces to aid in the rescue and manifested as a child for the comfort of Haley. Hopefully, her afterlife is a little more positive than that of the sailor.
My studies in the paranormal have altered my thinking a bit. Below are some newish ponderings:
The invisible world is far more complex than my Catholic and Evangelical training led me to understand. I think that when Jesus said, "In my Father's house there are many mansions," (John 14:2), He may have meant various levels of afterlife existence. I find it unlikely, and frankly repugnant, that a fiery hell is the fate of all unbelievers. On the other hand, Jesus did say in Matthew 7:13-14,
13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
I take the biblical warnings of hell seriously. There is an abundance of NDE narratives online where people describe horrific, hellish scenes. Still, perhaps for most deceased persons, the metaphor of worms that don’t die indicates the regret that souls feel when they find themselves powerlessly floating about with no purpose, no joy, and no presence of God.
The metaphor of “fire that is not quenched” (Isaiah 66:24 and Mark 9:42-48) could refer to the cravings that cannot be satisfied. A ticket to this sphere of eternal regret would be the recompense of selfish, damaging, unethical behavior. God is merciful, but heaven is not meant to be a replica of earth with all the evil and deception we see down here.
I also believe that Jesus Christ is truly the Door to the Holy City. No one will get in without Him. He may allow souls in who had no chance of knowing him on earth. There are billions upon billions of such humans, going back tens of thousands of years, and perhaps way longer than that, but ultimately, Jesus is the Doorway. He walked on Earth with us to assure us that His followers needn’t fear death or ruin. He is the part of the Trinity that rules the domain of judgment.
Mankind has crossed and conquered many frontiers since the day our species stood upright and began to function on a higher intellectual level---agriculture, wheel and axle, architecture, writing, global navigation, atomic bombs, disease, outer space---we’ve made such great strides in the material world. We’ve had to be open to change, to new ideas, new paradigms. The invisible world is, in a way, a new frontier, one we have only begun to explore in depth since the end of World War II.
I believe it is important to dedicate our children and ourselves as parents to God's kingdom. In fact, I think dedicating them in the womb is not too soon. The universe is a complex and not always benign place, but God offers us the promise of protection and favor.
This story was originally published in 2010 at Little Girl Ghost Saves Lost Child (janetkatherinesmith.blogspot.com). It can also be seen at https://medium.com/@janetkatherineapplebysmith/little-girl-ghost-saves-lost-child-e3e936746b02.
For another ghost story, see https://janetkatherinesmith.blogspot.com/2023/04/flight-610-june-1951-ghosts-claim.html and check out my website www.janetksmithpersonal.com where you can read for free The Legacy: A Memoir of Personal Guidance and Korean War Sabotage.
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