Jack Froese passed away of heart issues in June 2011, five months later, one of his best friends receives a strange email. The email was from Jack Froese, his recently deceased friend. The subject read: “I’m Watching.”

The creeped out friend, more curious than anything, clicked on the new message and was shocked when he read the following text:

“Did you hear me? I’m at your house. Clean your fucking attic!!!”

His friend was shocked. Having had a conversation with Froese about his messy attic, shortly before his death. Now I know such things as “phone calls from the dead” –or in this case, emails– can be easily faked, but why was this message so personal?

I’ve been working in the IT field for more than a decade now. I’ve seen a plethora of technical anomalies, but nothing like this story. I understand the technical side of it well. It would be extremely easy for some lowlife to either hack into Froese’s account and send the emails, or fake the email headers so that it seems like it came from the deceased. There are some services that allow you to send email once you have passed. Like the infamous “Dead man’s switch”. The service works like so:

You write a few e-mails and choose the recipients. These emails are stored securely, so you can be sure that no-one except the intended recipient will ever read them. Your switch will email you every so often, asking you to show that you are fine by clicking a link. If something were to… happen… to you, your switch would then send the emails you wrote to the recipients you specified. Sort of an “electronic will”, one could say
—Dead Man’s switch

The weird part of this story is what the messaged contained. A personal conversation said in passing between friends. Something so random, that one can hardly imagine being left as parting words in some electronic will. I’m also sure that the email service would provide a footer or header explaining the source of the email, as to not freak out the recipient. From the report, this email did not contain any.

I’m not saying that when people die, their spirit can manipulate 21st century electronics. That would be silly for me to say. It is however a strange story. A story that tells of strange things that seem to happen more often in this current century.

When Jack Froese, 32, died of a heart arrhythmia in June 2011, he left behind a number of grieving friends and family members. But the BBC reports that several mysterious posthumous emails from Froese’s account have brought some happiness and closure to those who were closest to him.
Last November, five months after Froese’s death, his childhood best friend Tim Hart received an email from Froese’s account.
“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,” Hart told the BBC. “It was very quick and short but to a point that only Jack and I could relate on.”
The email had the subject heading, “I’m Watching.” While the text of the message itself read, “Did you hear me? I’m at your house. Clean your f***ing attic!!!”
Hart says that shortly before Froese’s death, the two had a private conversation in Hart’s attic, during which Froese teased him over the attic’s messy state. “Just he and I up there. That’s it,” Hart said.
Froese’s cousin Jimmy McGraw also claims to have received a posthumous email from Froese, warning him about an ankle injury that occurred after his cousin’s death.
“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. Trying to tell me to move along, to feel better,” McGraw said.
For now, the source of the emails remains a mystery. But that’s OK with Hart, who says that even if the emails are coming from a cruel prankster who has hacked Froese’s account, he doesn’t mind. “If somebody’s joking around, I don’t care because I take it whatever way I want,” he said.
What’s interesting and unique about this case is that the emails all had a personal touch. There have been several reported cases of emails sent from a deceased person’s account, but those usually can be easily traced back to spam accounts that have accessed the deceased person’s information.

–source: Yahoo News