Yvonne Mollinga was just 8 years old when her father passed over. (I don’t use the term ‘passed away’ because I don’t believe those who have left us temporarily have gone ‘away.’ They have simply moved ‘over’ to the other side of the veil between a life in physical form and a live in spirit form.)
When her father left his physical life at just 36-years-old, he was taken so swiftly that his spirit remained earthbound.
“As a result,” said the Oakville, Ontario (east of Hamilton) woman, “my first contact with spirit was my dead father, and in 1973 this was not as acceptable as it is today.”
Mollinga said that she did not consider his continued presence to be an actual haunting, but she noted that he did try to talk to her and other members of the family.
“We did not know any better and we were very scared,” she said. “My mom was young and had three young daughters, and we were really ignorant about spirits.”
Upset by the situation, the family decided to stay with a friend and his wife but Mollinga’s father had no intention of being left behind.
“They also heard and felt my father's spirit - all kinds of wierd stuff happening. Finally after awhile (i dont know maybe a month or so), a man appeared on the doorstep at Barry's house. He said he was there to help with the issue with our father.”
The man accompanied Mollinga’s mother to their abandoned house where he found three plush animals that were called Oompicks (now known as Furbies) that her father had given to his three daughters for Christmas. The man said “earthbound spirits have to cling to something and furry animals were something the energy would stick to. He suggested we each take a plush animal - and we were to go for a ride in the car.”
Mollinga recalled that she sat with her mother in the front seat while the man sat in the back between her two sisters. From their small town of Blue River in British Columbia, the man said they needed to drive to a remote location.
“During the drive, I turned around and we stared at each other for maybe three to five minutes.”
Mollinga said she never forgot this “official looking” fellow who wore a three-piece, grey suite, trench coat and matching hat.
“When we stared at each other, he was expressionless.”
When they finally arrived at “the middle of nowhere,” he asked the girls to each say something (“like go with my father”) to their Oompicks. They were then told to throw the furry items out the car window. He then asked her mother to stop the car and he got out.
“I remember we were literally in the middle of nowhere and there was a 100 foot mountain above us and below was a 100 foot drop. My mom told him she would turn the car around and wait for him. He said no that won’t be necessary” and from that day forward, they were never haunted by Mollinga’s father again.
“About three years ago, I began to question who this man was” she said adding that she figured it must have been Archangel Michael. “For many years, I supressed this and many other contacts he tried to make.
Mollinga would definitely see this angel again. See Part 2: Archangel Michael becomes part of Mollinga’s Life
Comments
Ookpik, not Oompicks and they are not Furbies.
The original Ookpik was created in the early 1960s and made from sealskin. The figure was recreated by Jeannie Snowball of Fort Chimo, now Kuujjuaq, for a trade fair in Philadelphia in 1964.[3][4] The Ookpik figures were created at the Ft Chimo Eskimo Co-operative in Quebec in 1963. The Ookpik is a symbol by which Canadian handicrafts are identified internationally. [2]
Many Canadians and Americans remember owning an Ookpik, and remember it as a popular symbol of Canada.[3][4] The figures are still available in several forms at a cost of about $30, though prices have been seen as high as $80 in Inuvik during the tourism season when Ookpiks are scarce.
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