Do Dead People Walk Their Dogs? by Concetta Bertoldi Read Free Book Online Page A

lives, for instance, and they’re very tuned in to spirit. They know a lot more than they are given credit for about who means well and who doesn’t—generally speaking they have good ESP because they were only a short while ago on the Other Side and have not had enough time here to be tarnished. They still have their good listening ears on.
    When I was just a very young girl, one night my parents were to go to a wedding. Our regular babysitter was not available and there was a young local man who offered to babysit us. I knew there was something “off” about this young man, and I told my father I didn’t want him to be our babysitter. My father knew enough to trust that I had good reasons and declined the young man’s offer. Later we did find out some pretty unsavory things about this young man.
    When I was around eleven, my father owned three or four cleaning stores, where I’d go to visit him at different times. At one of them he had a nineteen-year-old girl, Nancy, who I really liked and loved to just hang out with. There was a guy named Ted who lived on the second floor of the building and I’d often see him when I was hanging with Nancy. One day I went to see Nancy and she wasn’t at the store. But Ted was there and he invited me to come upstairs to wait for Nancy at his place. I got an uneasy vibe—my ESP kicking in—and I said no, thanks. Ted tried to persuade me, saying he had things upstairs he wanted to show me, but I still said no. A short time later, my father showed up and said that Nancy wasn’t coming in that day, and he took me away with him. Some time after that, I’d been in that store a few times and noticed that I never saw Ted anymore. I asked my father, “Where’s Ted?” My earlier vibe not to go alone with him to his apartment had been correct. There was something terribly wrong with Ted. He was tormented. My father told me he’d been found in his apartment, dead. He’d hung himself.
    The children of these new generations are waking up to the universe. They’re using their love and kindness, and to a greater degree than generations before they are remembering where they came from. Children have always had the ability to see the Dead, but now as their parents are beginning to be more open about it, they ask more questions. They sense more acceptance of their curiosity on the subject, and they approach it as they would any other normal part of their world and their experience. Kids generally have a more highly developed sixth sense than adults. Isn’t that strange? Actually, all of kids’ senses are more sharply tuned than ours are, but we don’t think of it that way because what we older people have that they lack is the means to communicate what we see, hear, feel, etc. So basically as we get older, our communication skills improve while everything else declines. What a system! But back to what I was saying, take the example of a child being involved in an accident where both his parents are killed. Only a five-year-old boy survives the crash. A crowd gathers around the wreck. Out of all the people present, that child will always gravitate to the individual who will keep him safe. It’s built in. Even in a situation where some bad person wants the child to go with them, the child knows this person is not right. But generally, kids are taught by their parents that adults are authority figures, so they don’t feel right saying no. They’ll go against their own ESP unless parents teach their children to listen to those feelings and obey them.

Can children also actually communicate with spirits?
     
    I do try hard not to overgeneralize, but I believe that most if not all children have this ability. But again, it has to do with how much support the child receives when they mention their experiences to parents or older siblings—others they see as role models. Some kids may get teased about their “secret” or “invisible” friends and so will keep quiet about who they see or