Here's a strange instance for all of you.
After my mother died last January, I kept her little Walmart alarm clock I'd bought her for Christmas, a year before. It runs on one AA battery, and I don't know when she changed the battery, last, but it's been running on the same battery since last January.
Howie's alarm clock stopped being dependable, so I asked him if he wanted Mom's clock by his bedside, because he had an early morning appointment the other day, and didn't dare be late getting up. He said yes, so I brought her clock out to the dining room table to change out the older batter and put in a new one, "just in case..." When I took the battery out the clock was facing Howie on the table, and it freaked him out that when I took out the OLD battery (and the clock
should have stopped running until the new one was secured in place) the clock's second hand kept clicking away... and continued right on when the new battery was inserted.
I told him, "Don't be freaked... it was just Mom's way of letting her agnostic son-in-law know that there really IS life after death." For some reason, I don't think that made him feel any better.

So now the clock is back on my computer desk... after the one morning he needed it, he said it creeps him out and he doesn't want it by his bedside, now.
