Spirits Show Up When You Need Them!

My mom in April 2013, she passed 8 months later

It's Saturday, April 28, and I wasn't going to post a blog today, but my mom's spirit wanted me to know she's been around as I've had a stressful week. 

My mom passed in Dec. 2013, just 8 months after this picture was taken of her in front of her house. This picture came up today in my personal Facebook page, dated April 2013. It was no surprise, really, because she and my dad (who also passed) are often around me.

Yesterday, she was there when I heard Dolly Parton's "Here you Come Again," - a song that holds a special memory as mom and I loved singing it together. 

She knows I've been stressed about work lately and needed some comfort. Spirits always come around when you need them.

LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW SPIRITS GIVE SIGNS - In Rob Gutro's books "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" and "Ghosts and Spirits." 

Rob Gutro  -  Inspired Ghost Tracking of Maryland :   Rob is an author, paranormal investigator and medium Since he was a child he could receive messages from ghosts or spirits (who have crossed over).
ROB"S BOOKS: He wrote the books "Pets and the Afterlife," "Pets and the Afterlife 2," "Ghosts and Spirits" and "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" to teach others how ghosts and Spirits communicate with the living and to give proof of the afterlife. As a scientist, he also provides some scientific explanations about how energy is the baseline for the afterlife and the medium that entities use to communicate. Rob will be selling books  at his table. www.robgutro.com 

How 1 Sign Confirms a Spirit's Presence: Checkered Pattern

Mediumship is a puzzle that we have to solve, and as a medium whenever I get messages from people
or pets in spirit, they're snippets, that turn our to have intensely personal meaning. That meaning helps confirm the spirit's identity. Recently, I was able to connect to the spirit of a young man who passed almost 20 years ago through a "checkered pattern."

I received an email from a woman I'll call  "M," who wrote me about one of her pets in spirit. She also mentioned a friend who passed in 1998 at the end of her email, and that friend came through to me loud and clear with a sign to let M know he's still very much around her.

M said: Thank you for your books and all the stories you tell via FB and your website, indeed I look forward to reading the “Old Souls” book you recommended. But I have to admit to shying away from thinking about human spirits – though Monty’s shockingly sudden demise makes me think often of a close friend, Steve, who was struck down in a similar shockingly fast way in the late 90’s at the age of 34. He tragically contracted AIDS, which gave him 3 different kinds of cancer to contend with, which proves, I guess, how unfair life can be as he was the most beautiful person you could ever wish to meet…Many, many thanks again. 

After reading M's email, Steve came through to me and I had to write back: 
I'm so sorry to learn about your friend  Steve. Yes, the 1990s were a tragic and difficult time with AIDS. As a married, gay man, myself, I remember those times clearly and heard of many people passing from the horrors of the disease.  Steve is healed, happy and smiling in spirit and I literally just saw him walk over to Monty, crouch down and rub his hand over Monty's head, causing Monty's ears to go sideways as he purred. Steve is showing me something with a checkered pattern on it, like a checkerboard or table cloth. He said that when you see something with that pattern, you'll know he's around you. He has never forgotten the tenderness and compassion you showed for him as he faced his last time in the physical world.  

M wrote me back: That is absolutely amazing, I knew immediately when you said checkered pattern, that was the shirt Steve was wearing the last time I saw him, when I took him home for the weekend from the hospital.

M sent me a photo of Steve in that checkered shirt on the last day she saw him and it literally made me tear up. Almost 20 years later, spirits prove to us that they're still around us, still caring for us from the other side, and will all be waiting for us. - Rob 

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To recognize signs from spirits or ghosts check out my books on Amazon.com: Ghosts and Spirits, Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead, Pets and the Afterlife, Pets and the Afterlife 2.

 

My Mom gives me 2 Signs Today!

Tropical Storm Norma Formed today in the Eastern Pacific

 For those of you who don't know I'm a meteorologist and I work on hurricanes/tropical cyclones on
my day job. Today, I got a nice big "Hello" from my mother, Norma (who passed in Dec. 2013). Tropical Storm Norma just formed quickly today off the coast of western Mexico, and she's going to have a VERY strong personality (will become a hurricane), like my mom. You never know when you'll get a sign!  
     AND I got a second sign JUST as I was sitting down to write about it. I'm listening to Pandora radio, and one of her all time favorite songs just started playing: "It Might Be You" by Stephen Bishop (from the Movie "Tootsie", thus the video below) 
   It brought a happy tear to my eyes, hearing from Mom today. 
  Spirits are all around us. You just need to look for the signs.
Video: https://youtu.be/Y9AVoIROBt0


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To Learn more about how spirits give us signs, check out Rob Gutro's Books "Ghosts and Spirits" and "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" available on Amazon.com in paperback and E-book

Great Audience at Belmont Manor Talk: "Recognizing Signs from Spirits of Loved Ones"

Audience getting ready for the talk

Wow. What an amazing crowd at my talk last night called "Recognizing Signs from Spirits of Loved Ones"  at the Belmont Mansion, Elkridge, Maryland.
   Thanks to Margaret Erhlich of Inspired Ghost Tracking who manages the event with the Belmont Manor and Historic Park (where we held it), and Ronda and Greg from the IGT team there supporting it, too. 
   Each of them shared personal stories about how their loved ones gave them signs from spirit as did so many in the audience. So many in the audience were able to relate to the different signs I talked about, and felt comforted. Even a turkey I mentioned was a personal sign to someone!   

https://www.facebook.com/inspiredghosttrackingbelmontghosts/

It was a very moving and uplifting event for me, the rest of the IGT team and the audience. 
I hope that they tell others, so that more people can find peace knowing their loved ones are around them.  
   For more information about future Inspired Ghost tracking group talks at the Belmont Manor, call 410-313-0200 or register online:
www.howardcountymd.gov/Departments/Recreation-and-Parks 
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To learn about the ways that spirits communicate with us, read "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" or "Ghosts and Spirits" by Rob Gutro, available on Amazon.com in paperback and E-book. 

YouTube: Paranormal Graveyard with Rob Gutro Talking about Hauntings!

If you missed the interview earlier this week, you can catch this almost 2 hour discussion on YouTube: Paranormal Graveyard with Rob Gutro Talking about Hauntings, and Signs from loved ones in Spirit.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq0DE9fO43g&feature=youtu.be

Ghosts and Spirits AND Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead

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To read about the stories Rob discussed, check out his books on Amazon.com:

Special Sign: Max the German Shepherd Sends Special Flowers from Spirit

Max the German Shepherd

Spirits of people and pets can send messages in many ways. Flowers are one sign that spirits can give us to let us know they're still around us or that they're okay in the afterlife. The following story is from an email I received from a woman named Ann who still misses her German Shepherd Max more than two decades later.  

Max knew that Ann would understand his floral message as a way to confirm he's okay in spirit, and wants to be remembered. I told Ann that Max also wants her to know that she's still being guarded and protected by him, because that's what German Shepherds do. They protect. 

Ann wrote "My German Shepherd, Max, died from being hit by a car and then another one trying to get around the first car. He was only 5 years old. 

I used to take him everywhere with me. That day, it was just too hot so I left him home with my daughter and specifically told her not to let him out as I feared he would track me. Well, her boyfriend showed up, threw the door open without knocking and Max bolted. My daughter was in the other room and didn't realize he had let Max out, and he had no idea he shouldn't have as we live on 30 acres and Max used to be free to go out whenever he wanted to normally. When I came back and got the news, I was devastated and felt so guilty to not have been there for him. He died in my daughters lap after he had managed to get through a swampy area by the road to reach the driveway. 

 

Forget me Not flowers

We dug a grave in an area not too far from the driveway on a little knoll so I could visit him. To mourn, I put up a rectangular white fence around his grave, wood-burned a plaque with his name on it and set it at the head of the grave along with a bouquet of silk flowers. 

Every day, I walked down the long driveway to his grave. 

After a few days I saw something start growing inside the fencing, but I didn't recognize what it was. That eventually grew into tall spikes and flowered. I didn't have anything like that on the property so I searched to see what kind of blue flowers they were. 

I broke into tears when I discovered they were "Forget Me Not" and were covering the entire grave inside the fencing, but not one flower on the outside of it. There's no way I could have missed that sign. Strangely, they only grew there that one year. 

Only grass has grown there since. I sure was thankful I didn't pull those up as they sprouted thinking they were weeds. 

This was in 1995 and I still miss that dog."

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To understand more ways that pets communicate from spirit, read Rob Gutro's books "Pets and the Afterlife" and "Pets and the Afterlife 2" available on Amazon.com.

Spirits will influence things in nature to give Signs (Sprite's Butterfly Returns on Anniversary)

     Spirits will influence things in nature to give us signs. They'll make things like birds, butterflies, dragonflies, squirrels behave oddly or appear on an anniversary related to them (either their birthday, holidays, anniversary of their wedding or their passing, etc).
  Such was the case this July 8, 2016 when a yellow and black butterfly appeared (after not seeing one all summer) on the anniversary of our dog Sprite's passing (3 years before). The butterfly behaved oddly and lingered a good 10 minutes around me and our three dogs. I recorded the last couple of minutes of the butterfly's weird visit - that told us Sprite is still around us.
VIDEO LINK https://youtu.be/slTriH59_w4
  Not every butterfly, etc. is a sign. - But it likely is, if it's behaving oddly, or if the sign happened before.
  In 2013, three days after Sprite passed we got a sign from him in the form of a yellow and black butterfly that flew right near all three dogs.
    First, it's unusual for a butterfly to fly near dogs. Secondly, the dogs didn't go after it. They just watched it. It was as if they heard Sprite telling them "I'm here." Our three dogs and we just watched that butterfly and I took several pictures of it. The butterfly just stayed there on the grass. It was a message from Sprite that he is fine and regained 100% health as a spirit. We were all happy to see this wonderful sign from Sprite.
  For a related story: http://ghostsandspiritsinsights.blogspot.com/2013/07/signs-from-loved-ones-butterflies.html
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For more information about how spirits communicate with the living, either Pets or People, check out Rob Gutro's 4 books:  Ghosts and Spirits, Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead, Pets and the Afterlife, Pets and the Afterlife 2 - all available on Amazon.com in Paperback and E-Book.

Spirits Give Signs in Times of Stress

 Spirits have a way of giving us signs to let us know they're around in times of stress or uncertainty. Just look for the signs. Here's an example of a sign I got from my dog Sprite who passed, and how it alleviated my fear of heights at the perfect time. 

Sprite's butterfly

On July 8, 2013 we said a sad goodbye to our 16 1/2 year old dachshund Sprite. The week that Sprite passed, a yellow and black butterfly followed us around daily. Friends who read about Sprite's butterfly encountered the same kind of butterfly right after reading about it.

Two years later, when my husband and I were on vacation we went to a park with zip lines (because he's always wanted to do that).  I'm afraid of heights, (so I was stressed!)  but didn't mind trying it (that's what you do when you care with someone). There were 2 Zip Line routes, each with 7 zip lines. I think they were both about 150 feet off the ground.  

As we were going up the first Zip Line tower, I  was dealing with anxiety from my fear of heights. As we got to the top of the (open faced stairs) and to the tower platform, suddenly a yellow and black butterfly flew around my feet and lingered for a short time. I KNEW it was Sprite and I heard "don't worry daddy, I'm here to protect you." That gave me the courage to do all of the zip lining.

 What's odd is that it was the ONLY yellow and black butterfly we saw the entire day. All of the other butterflies were blue with black outlines on the wings, and one orange butterfly. There is no such thing as a coincidence.  This was a message from Sprite when I needed to hear it.

That's what spirits do. They send us signs to comfort us when we need it. We just need to be aware of what they are. (That's why I wrote the books "Ghosts and Spirits," "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead," and the 2 Pets and the Afterlife books. )

A Teeshirt Sign from Our Dog Sprite's Spirit!

My favorite photo of Sprite

Spirits can leave subtle reminders that they're still with us. It happened today and it was with the
simple sign of a tee shirt.
  Sprite was our Dachshund who passed in July 2013 at the age of 16 1/2 years old. A couple of months after he passed I had 2 tee shirts made with our favorite photo of him and the dates of his time on Earth. I have about 100 tee shirts (too many, I know, but they have my favorite things on them like dogs, superheroes and coffee). I rotate the shirts after I wear them and launder them, so they go on the bottom of each stack (there are 4 stacks). That way wear them equally. - I know, it's OCD, but it's also sensible in terms of wearing them out.
   Today as I reached for the "dog" pile of tee shirts, the Sprite tee shirt (and ONLY Sprite tee shirt) was on the top. That was NO coincidence. Today is the anniversary of the date that we picked up Sprite as a foster dog in Frederick, Maryland in 2012.
  So, our pets, like people, acknowledge anniversaries.
Sprite was letting us know that he's still here.
When it comes to spirits, there are no such things as coincidences.

Lessons Learned, Ghosts and Spirits

  To learn more about how pets communicate from the other side, check out Rob Gutro's books: Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead, Ghosts and Spirits, Pets and the Afterlife" and the new book Pets and the Afterlife 2-  visit Amazon.com   (or click this link) 

Pets and the Afterlife 2, Pets and the Afterlife

Dragonflies Can be a sign from spirit - Story #4: Her Husband's Dragonfly

Spirits (those who have crossed into the light) have the ability to manipulate things in nature to give us signs. Things like dragonflies, birds, butterflies, feathers, flowers, and other things that would help identify them. 
That doesn't mean every time you see a dragonfly someone in spirit is there. The dragonfly or whatever it is would have to have special significance, or behave oddly in a way that it usually would not. Below is Story #1 of 4 about dragonflies and spirit.   


STORY #4 - HER HUSBAND'S DRAGONFLY

  July 12, 2016 at 7:59 AM

     My husband's birthday would have been July 8, but he passed on April 4, 2016. I wanted to visit the cemetery that Sunday after his birthday, feeling drawn to do it with my recent loss. My sister-in-law accompanied me. 

   We sat on the bench in front of the family plot and started speaking about our losses, life and suddenly a dragonfly passed by. In a little while more showed up and then there was a swarm of them just flying around us but concentrating on my husband's and mother-in-law's graves (she passed 2 years ago). They didn't fly around any other graves, just those two and around us. 

   We sat and talked for more than 1/2 hour and the dragonflies never left us. There is no body of water in the cemetery that they would have been drawn to, just us. 

   I don't believe it was a coincidence. I believe it was a communication. The funny thing is that my husband never believed in such things.

 MY REPLY:   Whenever insects like dragonflies behave oddly, they're likely being influenced by spirit as the ones you encountered were. I believe that your husband was telling you he's a believer now!

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For more information about different signs that spirits send, check out my books "Ghosts and Spirits" or "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead," available on Amazon.com in paperback or Kindle/e-book.

 

Dragonflies Can be a sign from spirit - Story #3: A Son's Dragonfly

A green dragonfly with black spots - Libellula quadrimaculata

Spirits (those who have crossed into the light) have the ability to manipulate things in nature to give us signs. Things like dragonflies, birds, butterflies, feathers, flowers, and other things that would help identify them.

  That doesn't mean every time you see a dragonfly someone in spirit is there. The dragonfly or whatever it is would have to have special significance, or behave oddly in a way that it usually would not.
Below is Story # 3 of 4 from readers about dragonflies and spirit.  

MY SON'S DRAGONFLY

November 12, 2013 

    I have had a Beautiful Green Dragonfly with black dots on its body around me since my 26 year old son died by his own hand. I know it was him because I first started seeing them the same color in Pennsylvania the day after he died and it was very cold there.

   

   Now I saw one here in Missouri while my friends and I were looking at my son's year book outside of Barnes & Noble. The dragonfly sat on the outside table the entire 3 hours we were there and then followed me into my truck! 

  It is very cold here now in Missouri and the dragonfly is outside my back door. 

I am a Believer!
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 For more information about different signs that spirits send, check out my books "Ghosts and Spirits" or "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead," available on Amazon.com in paperback or Kindle/e-book.