[SteamWolf]

When my brother and I were very very young and living in Brisbane, my brother told mum that "Granddad came and said goodbye last night" (he would have been 2 or 3 years old I guess). Mum reassured him that it wasn't possible as Granddad lives in Sydney (some 1100km back on the old roads).

10pm that day she got a phone call from Sydney to say that Granddad had passed away peacefully during the night.

More recently, my remaining grandfather (turned 90 last year) had heart failure and was rushed off for bypass surgery. He was crash carted about four times on the table. When he eventually pulled through and was wheeled into recovery, he was lucid enough to speak (even though he was only vaguely aware of what was going on). He told me that he had some weird dreams and that in one of them he was pushing through a dense jungle, and came across a regular house, with a regular door, and he really wanted to go through it. When he did, he was inside his old house from years ago. Then another dream where he came across a huge stone wall like a European castle, but in the side was a regular house door. He went through it, and it led to the recovery ward of the hospital.

It freaked the heck out of me! He fought in WWII in Borneo as a tank commander, and used to tell us war stories about the jungles there, so I do wonder if it was a combination of many old memories. But still... very creepy.