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Post by Todd on Oct 4, 2017 8:49:17 GMT -5
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Post by lucasscooter on Oct 4, 2017 14:47:30 GMT -5
On the superstitious side, this is quite creepy. But, on the logical side (which I'm normally more inclined to believe in), this is also quite creepy because it implies that someone decided to pretend to be his wife for reasons unknown. Either way, thank you for sharing!
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Post by karangela on Oct 7, 2017 14:47:19 GMT -5
Interesting! I wonder if she wrote the letters and arranged to having them posted after her death.
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Post by lucasscooter on Oct 9, 2017 0:47:53 GMT -5
Interesting! I wonder if she wrote the letters and arranged to having them posted after her death. I hadn't thought of that possibility! The only problems are that 1) the first letter contained the suspicious sentence "You all thought I died, but I did not, and am much better than when I saw you last", 2) they were all postmarked in different places, which seems an awful lot of work for no apparent purpose other than to send letters beyond the grave, and 3) somebody signed the hotel registry with his dead wife's name in his dead wife's handwriting about three years after she'd died. We can chalk up the guests seeing a woman matching her general description to human error (this was 1887 around Christmastime in an extremely small town of approx. 580 people, so that's a little unlikely, though) or the fact that somebody was actually posing as her, the first of which is easier to believe. But why she would decide to send a letter from that town and/or (presumably) pay somebody to impersonate her makes no sense, except for the fact that Mr. Aimison had previously lived there, implying that she was never sending the letters after all. I'm talking in circles. It's certainly an intriguing mystery.
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Post by karangela on Oct 9, 2017 14:48:39 GMT -5
While I can't explain everything, Receiving mail from someone who can't possibly have posted it is more common than you might think.
I belonged to the nuclear powered submarine community for 10 years. Once the boat left the dock it was radio silent for the months it was at sea. Creative husbands would arrange for letters to be mailed or forwarded to their wives and sweethearts during the deployment.
If your husband died during the deployment, you would not be notified until the boat returned to port. In this way, you could literally be receiving letters from your dead husband.
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Post by alyeska on Nov 8, 2017 6:41:49 GMT -5
While I can't explain everything, Receiving mail from someone who can't possibly have posted it is more common than you might think. I belonged to the nuclear powered submarine community for 10 years. Once the boat left the dock it was radio silent for the months it was at sea. Creative husbands would arrange for letters to be mailed or forwarded to their wives and sweethearts during the deployment. If your husband died during the deployment, you would not be notified until the boat returned to port. In this way, you could literally be receiving letters from your dead husband. Eerie after the fact, but strangely sweet, especially if you didn't know your spouse had died. Here's an opposite story. I knew a guy who was moving things for his mother and father into a new house. They had been planning to stay in the house forever and hadn't ever expected to move. While moving their things from the attic, he and his brothers kept finding notes saying, "You had better still be going to church or you will see my ghost!" They all had a good laugh.
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