One night while watching White Noise, a movie about a man who receives spirit communication through his TV, Ginny heard a loud crash in her hallway. When she ran to investigate, she discovered that a painting of herself that had hung for years undisturbed above the staircase had inexplicably fallen and come out of its frame.

Shaken by the experience, Ginny called me- a professional psychic medium- to see if I could provide insight about who in the spirit world was trying to contact her and what message they were trying to communicate.

The next day, when Ginny came for a session with me, her mother – who had been a strong, “no-nonsense” sort of woman – delivered the message that she had moved the painting to make Ginny aware that she was helping her to leave her marriage to an abusive alcoholic whom Ginny had stubbornly refused to leave out of guilt. Because she had often felt her mother’s spiritual presence around her, Ginny was not surprised by this revelation. But she was stunned that a spirit could actually move objects. I told her it was definitely not a coincidence that Ginny had received this message when she was watching a movie about after-death communication; it was the best time for her mother to get her attention.

Perhaps you have had an uncanny, unexplained occurrence such as Ginny’s.

Perhaps you have had an uncanny, unexplained occurrence such as Ginny’s. After years of communicating with the spirit world through thousands of readings, I’ve learned that after-death communications or “calling cards,” as I refer to them, are not only realities, they are intriguing phenomena that often give people in grief peace and healing. Using my case-files with clients who have received these occurrences, I’ve categorized them into five main types: