-1

My cousin swore she saw our old dog in a park 300 miles away

We were on the phone yesterday and she told me she was walking in a park in Seattle, a place she just moved to. She said she saw a dog that looked exactly like our family dog, Buddy, who passed away five years ago. Same markings, same weird way of holding one ear up, even the same red collar he always wore. She said it made her stop cold and just stare. The thing is, Buddy was a mutt from a local shelter, not a common breed mix at all. What are the odds of that exact dog existing, in that city, with that collar? It's not like it was a common lab or something. It got me thinking about all the times I've had that feeling of seeing something impossible, you know? Has anyone else had a moment like this where the details were just too specific to be a simple coincidence?

2 comments

2 Comments

dakotab132d ago

Happened to a friend of mine last year. She was in a coffee shop in a city she never visits and saw a man who looked exactly like her late father, down to the specific plaid shirt he always wore and the way he tapped his fingers on the counter. She was so sure she almost walked over. The man turned around and it wasn't him, of course, but the shock of it stayed with her for weeks. It makes you wonder how our minds can put together such perfect, impossible pictures from memory. Your cousin's story gives me that same chill.

lindahunt2d ago

Maybe our brains just want to give us one more chance to say goodbye.