A woman is desperate to give birth but experiences several miscarriages. She encounters an old man at a gas station who prophetically tells her not to worry, that it will happen.
The following account was forwarded to me:
"So, my 23yo (at the time) mom had a very rough time conceiving her first kid (me). She had just had her third miscarriage a couple of months prior and was pretty depressed over things. That day she had attended my cousin’s 1st birthday party and her brother and his girlfriend (the parents of the 1yo) had both shown up high as kites on opioids, so my mom ended up hosting the whole party and making sure the kid was taken care of and having fun. After the party, my mama was thinking about how my cousin’s mom had done drugs, smoked, and drank alcohol during all of her pregnancies but still ended up having three very healthy babies she really couldn’t care less about. Meanwhile, my parents had done everything by the book and sacrificed whatever they needed to still couldn’t conceive. She ended up leaving in tears after she’d cleaned everything up and got my granny to come pick up my cousin while his parents passed out. She started ugly crying in the car.
Then, her car makes a dinging sound to notify her that she’s about to run out of gas, which is weird because she’d had a full tank before the party. Whatever. She pulls up to the corner gas station which also happens to be owned and run by a family friend. She cleans herself up a little, makes sure it doesn’t look like she was just sobbing, and goes to prepay for the gas.
Outside of the gas station door, a man is standing there. She said he looked like the kindly old grandfather character in a lot of Lifetime movies- silver hair, well dressed, deep laugh lines wrinkles, a little sparkle in his eye like St. Nick. She said that as soon as she exited the vehicle this man started smiling wider and was staring at her, almost like he was waiting for her. Before she was even within 10 feet of her, he yelled out, “Please. Don’t worry.”
She stops. Looks around. There’s no one else he’s talking to, she says something like ‘Oh I’m not.’
And he frowns, and goes, “I’m serious. Don’t worry. Everything happens when it’s meant to. It’ll happen to you again.” And as she’s fighting back tears but also confused as hell as to what to say back- just completely flabbergasted, he pulls out a pocket watch on a chain and checks it saying, “In fact, it’s already happening for you. And you don’t have anything to worry about this time. I hope you enjoy it.” He then tapped the face of the watch and said, “Looks like I gotta run.” And walked by her as she entered the store.
The store owner, Brenda (mom’s friend), was immediately like “Who’s that guy!? He’s been standing out there all morning and he didn’t have a car or anything?” And they both turned to see where he was headed off to but he’d disappeared completely. He was gone.
A few weeks later my mom found out she was pregnant with me, and she was convinced she’d already conceived when the man was telling her it was ‘already happening for her.’
Later, once I was born and only a month or two old, my mom took me to show Brenda at the gas station. And, again there were like 4-5 kindly old people exiting the entrance door. They all oooo-ed and ahhhh-ed over the baby as she went to pass, so she stopped for a bit and let them look at me. Then as they held the door open for her to push the stroller through, one of them said casually, “And, you’ve given her such a lovely, fitting name.” Mom just smiled and kept moving. Once inside, she mentioned to Brenda that one of the people leaving had said that and that it was weird because she’d never mentioned my gender, though there may have been some pink blankets in the stroller basket or something, but still, she knew she’d certainly not told them my name. Brenda was just confused and said that she’d not seen ANY customers or had any sales that morning, so she didn’t know who my mom was talking about.
My mom’s convinced they were angels. I like to remind her that similar stuff happens in the movie Rosemary’s Baby. And, good ol’ Brenda would always joke (to my mom’s dismay) that she started keeping a bat behind the counter after “all those old creepers were sooo interested in the baby” just in case. She would always jokingly say that that kind of “hinky stuff” wasn’t welcome in her store. Nothing else like this ever really happened before or after so it’s become a part of our family mythos at this point.
And, just to let you know, I’m a middle-aged woman now and I have yet to become a prophet or a demon or do anything of real importance in life. It was just a weird little one-off occurrence that happened and I think it gave my mom a lot of comfort during a pretty tough and tiring time in her life." R
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