British family shocked at text from dead grandmother

British family shocked at text from dead grandmother

Mangalore Today News Network

London, Oct 18, 2014:  A British family was shocked to receive a text message apparently from their dead grandmother, who had been buried with her phone three years earlier.

 

Lesley Emerson was buried with her mobile phone when she died so her family could text her as a way of dealing with their grief. But Sheri Emerson (pictured with her uncle Graham Emerson) received a reply which said: I’m watching over you.’

The mysterious reply came more than three years after Mrs Emerson’s death, despite O2 promising to put the phone number out of service

Graham rang his mother’s phone and spoke to a man who had been using the number for the last few weeks

Mrs Emerson was buried in Harton Cemetery, South Shields, alongside her favourite possessions

Lesley Emerson died aged 59 in 2011, and was buried with some of her favourite things including her mobile phone.

Her granddaughter Sheri, 22, found comfort in continuing to sending text messages to her grandmother’s phone.

Sheri was stunned last week to get a reply reading "I’m watching over you."

"I felt sick when I read it," Sheri told the Shields Gazette. "I was in shock and didn’t know what to think."

Her uncle rang the number and it emerged it was being used by a man, who believed the texts from Sheri were joke messages from friends.

The new user, and the phone company O2 which passed the number on to be re-assigned, have apologised.