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Jack Froese suddenly died in June 2011 aged just 32
from a heart arrhythmia, leaving behind a number of grieving friends and
family.
But five months after his death, some of those who were closest to him
started receiving mysterious emails from his account mentioning private
conversations they had had with him just before his death.
The family of the Pennsylvania man say no one had his account password
and they don't believe it was hacked.
One of the recipients is his childhood friend Tim Hart of Dunbar who
said the men had been 'inseparable' for 17 years and right up until his
death.
'He was my right-hand man and best friend,' Mr Hart told the BBC.
Mr Hart was stunned to receive a message from his old friend months
after his tragic death. |
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'One night in November, I was sitting on my couch, going through my
emails on my phone and it popped up, "sender: Jack Froese".
'I turned ghost white when I read it,' he told the BBC.
'It was very quick and short but to a point that only Jack and I could
relate on.'
In the subject heading of the message read the words
'I'm Watching', and the email then went onto say: 'Did you hear me? I'm
at your house. Clean your f***ing attic!!!'
Mr Hart said that shortly before Mr Froese's death, the two had a
conversation in his attic, during which his friend teased him over the
mess and dust in it.
'Just he and I up there. That's it,' Mr Hart said. |
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Mr Froese's cousin Jimmy McGraw also said he received a posthumous email
from him about an ankle injury that happened after his death.
The email read: 'Hey Jim, How ya doing? I knew you were gonna break your
ankle, tried to warn you. Gotta be careful.'
Mr McGraw says he had broken his ankle a week before he received the
email on the night of November 21.
'I'd like to say Jack sent it, just because I look at
it as he's gone, but he's still trying to connect with me,' he said.
'Trying to tell me to move along, to feel better.'
The email also included another message for a friend, whom 'Jack' said
he 'couldn't get through to' because the 'email didn't work'.
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The source of the emails remains a mystery for Mr Froese's family and
friends who say they have 'accepted them as a gift'.
Mr Hart says: 'If somebody's joking around, I don't care because I take
it whatever way I want.'
Mr Hart replied to the email but has not received a reply.
The friends say they do not plan to investigate the source of the emails
too closely, as they prefer to see the messages as blessings from Mr
Froese than as part of some sort of prank.
Mr Froese's mother Patty told the BBC: 'I thought they were fantastic,
they were great.
'They made some people happy, they upset some people - but to me, that's
keeping people talking about him.'
There are services which promise to send emails to one's friends and
relatives in the event of one's death, which could explain the strange
phenomenon.
However, the apparent specificity of the message received by Mr McGraw
may rule out this explanation.
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