Uncle Gene and Clairvoyance!

On Thursday we went to Parkersburg and visited some of Judy’s special relatives. Judy and I had a great visit with cousin Sherel, Marshall, and Uncle George. Yesterday we visited Uncle Gene and Aunt Ethel Poole. Aunt Ethel is Judy’s only surviving aunt on her Dad’s side of the family. The Musgrave family had ten children and Ethel is the youngest of the flock.



Here is a photo of Uncle Gene and Aunt Ethel that was taken yesterday in front of their pyracantha.

Uncle Gene, who has a plethora of interests, is doing well at age 81. We were looking at his Indian artifact collection when we got onto the subject of reading books. He has been reading about the famous clairvoyant, Edgar Cayce. The spiritual author was born on the 18th of March,1877, and died on the 3rd of January, 1945. If you have not heard of this individual, you may want to click on this link.
http://www.crystalinks.com/edgar_cayce.html

As we were talking, Uncle Gene said that his mother was a clairvoyant. His mother would not talk about the “gift”, but it all started when his Mom was ten years old. His Mom awoke from sleep that night sobbing and was hysterical with the vision she had seen. She had images of her brother dying that very day at work. She predicted he would be beheaded. This experience was so real to Gene’s Mom and it tremendously upset the entire family.

Her brother worked in a local plant that dealt with making glass for buildings. He confided that morning to his Dad that the grinding machine he was operating has a small crack in the five foot diameter disk. Her brother paced in the front yard trying to decide if he should go to work that day. They talked about it and his Dad said that if he decided to go to the plant that he should report the crack to his supervisor. Her brother agreed and went to work that day.

The supervisor, after hearing about the crack, said to him that it was fine, but he was to work until noon and they would pull the disk and make certain that it was safe. At 11:05 AM the disk he was operating exploded and beheaded him!

Other stories of Uncle Gene’s mom surfaced. Just before World War II, one of Gene’s brothers was in the Navy. One day she became hysterical and the family wanted to know the reason. She said that her son is in extreme danger. Sure enough, that very day, her son was on a ship that was carrying ammunition when the vessel was caught in a huge storm. It was so bad that the ship was being tossed at 45 degree angles and the ship was designed to only endure a 40 degree roll. It was so bad that the ammunition and bombs tore from their storage units and were rolling loose in the ship’s belly. The sailors stuffed mattresses between the bombs to keep them from exploding. The ship’s captain wrote in the log that he believed that they were doomed. He was certain that the ship would roll over or they would be killed by the explosions. The storm subsided and all survived. Uncle Gene’s Mom knew what was happening thousands of miles away on the stormy ocean!

Here is another fascinating story. Uncle Gene said that they were at a family gathering, when during supper, his Mom became visibly disturbed. She went to the porch. While it was not noticed by the other family members, Uncle Gene went to the porch and asked why she was upset? His Mom pointed over the mountain and said that many people are dying in a storm at this moment. She said she did not know where, but it was in the direction she was pointing. She told Uncle Gene that they would just have to listen to the news in the morning.

Yes, she had seen the Xenia, Ohio, tornado of 1974. On April 3, 1974, an F5 category tornado struck Xenia, Ohio. The tornado that struck Xenia was just one of at least 148 tornados that occurred in the South and Midwest in a twenty-four period. This was the worst outbreak of tornados recorded in the twentieth century.



The tornado that struck Xenia had maximum winds of three hundred miles per hour. It destroyed more than one thousand homes and businesses. Hardly any buildings remained standing in Xenia's downtown. Thirty-three people died in the storm, with approximately another 1,150 people injured. President Richard Nixon visited Xenia a week following the tornado. He stated, "It's the worst disaster I've ever seen."