Hello and welcome to many episode 124 of Real Life Gold Stories.

My granddad, known as Jim, didn't fight in the second world war because he was a shipbuilder on the docks in Liverpool.

And that was too valuable a job for him to be sent away.

He had a friend that was enlisted and right before he was deployed, him and my granddad had the same heated discussion they always did about life after death.

Granddad said there was life after death, his friend said there wasn't, and neither would budge in their view.

His friend got deployed and was based on a ship.

Sometime after this, my granddad's sister, my great aunt, was just chilling in her room one evening.

When suddenly, my granddad's friend comes into the room.

My aunt was shocked of course, and not too happy that he just walled Stin. Before she could say anything, my granddad's friend simply said,

tell Jim he was right, and then left.

My aunt immediately told her father that this man had just been in her room, and of course he kicked off but there was no sign of him anywhere.

A few days later, they learned that his ship had gone down the same night he had appeared in my aunt's bedroom.

My granddad passed away at the grand age of 95 in October 2019.

He had lived independently up until he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on his face and neck that eventually led him to receiving end of life care in a nursing home.

I should note as well that my granddad was still sharp at 95 and had no memory problems.

One night, the nurse had walked past my granddad's room on his rounds and glimpsed the figure of a woman in the chair next to granddad's bed.

Backtracking and thinking it was one of the dementia patients wandering, the nurse went into the room to check.

Nobody was there.

My granddad was awake so the nurse said,

Jim was there someone in the year second ago?

Yes, said granddad.

It was just my wife popping into see me.

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