Across the Great Divide

“Paranormal Healing”

I’d like to tell a story that happened many, many moons ago when I was a wee little wolf cub.

When I was a child we went to Italy to visit family and we were staying in a house at the top of a mountain. A relative happened to be very ill for several days at the time with high fever to the point of delusions and was passed out from sheer exhaustion and medication.

It was a quiet night with only a few of us sleeping in the house when we heard voices and saw small lights coming from a very…very…old cemetery down the way from the house. As one would expect, the adults were a bit concerned with this and wondered who was down there and what was going on but no one would even entertain the idea of venturing out there to investigate- and I wouldn’t blame them!

The incident didn’t last long and we inferred that it was just my father and his brothers, as they had gone outside to talk some time earlier. With many a raised eyebrow everyone went to bed.

The next morning my father was asked what they were doing in the cemetery with flashlights. He had no idea what we were talking about and informed us that he and his brothers actually went into town and so they weren’t even there at the time! Let me make it clear that our family was the only one staying in the house and there were no other houses in the area because it was a brand new building development.

Here’s where it gets really interesting. Remember that sick relative?

He awoke in completely perfect health. No fever. No cough. Nothing. Over breakfast he asked who was singing last night.

Um…“What singing?!” we all asked.

He said that he woke up at one point during the night because he heard what sounded like angels singing.

So, my dear readers, what do you think happened here? A simple case of fever-induced delusion? Mind over matter? Spirits unsettled by the new construction in a centuries-old location? Or did angels really sing a song of health and wellbeing?

© 2013 R. Wolf Baldassarro/Deep Forest Productions