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jewel64 · 03-29-2010, 07:17 AM

I've discovered a strange ability--I think I can sense a spirit's presence through scent. The odors are associated with their last time on earth when I saw them or perhaps something they liked.

My father-in-law: I smell his spirit at a shoe cabinet that contained his shoes. The odor smells like the hospital. I was with him at the hospital when he died. I could sense his presence until my husband donated his father's shoes to charity. I smelled it strongly when I came upon a record collection in the house--I thought maybe it was my mother-in-law, since those were her records, but I realize that he must have liked & listened to them as well.

My mother-in law: her spirit smells like incense. I could smell it near the phone, where we kept a couple of her address books that contained phone numbers of her friends and relatives that she'd written down in them. I still can smell her spirit, although it is fainter. In the first year after her death, I could smell incense quite strongly near those address books and in other areas of the house. Ever so often I smell a whiff from the butsudan, as if she is reminding me to burn some incense as an offering. (She was Buddhist, I am Christian (Unity), but I maintain her altar in honor of her and my father-in-law.)

My mother: she passed away this past December. I was unable to attend her first funeral due to bad flying weather but will attend a second service in the summer. I had given her a shell necklace which was cremated with her; my brother sent me a few shells before her remains were pulverized. Since I received those shells, I have smelled a natural gas odor near the butsudan where her shells are kept in a small vial and also by our air conditioning unit. I sensed it is the odor of the crematorium as her remains was burned. I wonder if the intense heat bothered her, hence the reason her scent is by the AC unit as well as the butsudan (shrine). She and I had a contentious relationship while growing up, but became much better after I got married and moved away. I've read that unfriendly or unhappy spirits don't have nice scents, but I'm not sure if a natural gas odor would qualify as being unpleasant or not.

Today at church I smelled incense about 3 times. It was a faint odor. I'm not sure who that would be, since my mother-in-law makes her presence only at my home.

03-29-2010, 07:17 AM	#11 (permalink)
jewel64 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1	I may have experienced this I've discovered a strange ability--I think I can sense a spirit's presence through scent. The odors are associated with their last time on earth when I saw them or perhaps something they liked. My father-in-law: I smell his spirit at a shoe cabinet that contained his shoes. The odor smells like the hospital. I was with him at the hospital when he died. I could sense his presence until my husband donated his father's shoes to charity. I smelled it strongly when I came upon a record collection in the house--I thought maybe it was my mother-in-law, since those were her records, but I realize that he must have liked & listened to them as well. My mother-in law: her spirit smells like incense. I could smell it near the phone, where we kept a couple of her address books that contained phone numbers of her friends and relatives that she'd written down in them. I still can smell her spirit, although it is fainter. In the first year after her death, I could smell incense quite strongly near those address books and in other areas of the house. Ever so often I smell a whiff from the butsudan, as if she is reminding me to burn some incense as an offering. (She was Buddhist, I am Christian (Unity), but I maintain her altar in honor of her and my father-in-law.) My mother: she passed away this past December. I was unable to attend her first funeral due to bad flying weather but will attend a second service in the summer. I had given her a shell necklace which was cremated with her; my brother sent me a few shells before her remains were pulverized. Since I received those shells, I have smelled a natural gas odor near the butsudan where her shells are kept in a small vial and also by our air conditioning unit. I sensed it is the odor of the crematorium as her remains was burned. I wonder if the intense heat bothered her, hence the reason her scent is by the AC unit as well as the butsudan (shrine). She and I had a contentious relationship while growing up, but became much better after I got married and moved away. I've read that unfriendly or unhappy spirits don't have nice scents, but I'm not sure if a natural gas odor would qualify as being unpleasant or not. Today at church I smelled incense about 3 times. It was a faint odor. I'm not sure who that would be, since my mother-in-law makes her presence only at my home.