Mystery Emails Sent By Jack Froese After His Death Have Loved Ones Overjoyed, Mystified (VIDEO)

Jack Froese's sudden death last year at the age of 32 shocked his friends and family in Dunmore, Penn., but not as much as the emails mysteriously sent from his account since then.

Froese died of a heart arrhythmia in June 2011, but nearly six months later in November, some of his closest pals like childhood friend Tim Hart and cousin Jimmy McGraw received mysterious emails from his account, according to the BBC.

Even stranger: The messages were about things Froese discussed with his friends in their last conversations, such as the message Hart received with the subject heading "I'm watching."

The text of the message itself read, "Did you hear me? I'm at your house. Clean your f--ing attic!!!" YahooNews reported.

"I turned ghost white when I read it. It was very quick and short but to a point that only Jack and I could relate on," Hart told the BBC, adding that shortly before Froese's death, he privately teased Hart about the attic's messy state.

Hart later sent a reply to the account, but has yet to get a response.

McGraw also received a posthumous email from Froese, warning him about an ankle injury that occurred after his cousin's death.

"I'd like to say Jack sent it, just because I look at it as he's gone, but he's still trying to connect with me. Trying to tell me to move along, to feel better," McGraw told the BBC.

Froese's mother, Patty, told the men just to accept the mysterious emails as a gift, the New York Daily News reported.

"I saw they made people happy, they upset some people," she said. "But I see it as people were still talking about him."

Although the source of the emails is unknown, Hart doesn't mind, even if it turns out he was the victim of a cruel prank.

"If somebody's joking around, I don't care because I take it whatever way I want," he said.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story featured a photo that incorrectly identified the subject as Jack Froese.

Comments

[Jenn2]

06:43 PM on 03/18/2012

Ghost in the machine.

[Mitchell Goth]

12:08 AM on 03/18/2012

It seems so easy to call it a spirit or ghost, because it makes people feel good to know something like that. But, it could just as easily be a delayed send, or a hack for that matter. As a paranormal researcher myself, i try to look at things from every logical perspective first, and i see a hack or delay as the logical answer. If, somehow, those can be 100% ruled out, you've got something interesting, but the outlooks is doubtful. Like i said, people find comfort in the false positives of a dead family member trying to talk to them. But if you stop believeing the lies, and choose to find something real, you'll find it to be much more spectacular.

[Noble9]

12:24 AM on 03/17/2012

I flag emails from all my dead friends as spam. If they want to tell me something they can make the effort to call or drop by.

[mclkarim]

01:07 PM on 03/16/2012

I believe in the power of the human spirit to reach loved ones after death, but this is a little hard to believe.

[Rexter]

08:42 AM on 03/16/2012

Maybe he wrote a VB script that launched by date.

[dbrockskk]

08:02 AM on 03/16/2012

I dont get what the big deal is. Someone hacked his account.

[Ray Russelburg]

11:42 AM on 03/16/2012

That is EXACTLY what I was about to say.

[FantasticFourFan]

12:08 AM on 03/16/2012

I'm guessing mother. Anyone else?

[mclkarim]

01:08 PM on 03/16/2012

Actually, yes I do.

[Dan Crabtree]

10:59 PM on 03/15/2012

Well after death you have approx two weeks to get any remaining affairs in order..and this is the period loved ones usually see a departed family member or friend for after a short period of time the light comes for you and if you do not go you are doomed to stay on earth forever..or so my late dear friend once told me.who always commented on her abilitys to speak with the dead.

[AcesHighSays]

09:23 PM on 03/15/2012

Obviously the account got hacked.

I thought accounts got deleted after someone passes away.... I guess someone had to request it.

[Megamel99]

11:41 AM on 03/16/2012

Yeah someone would have to request it. I don't know what the process is. It's not like your facebook and email accounts know you died. Also, I lost my best friend to a violent homicide in August of 2011 and I go to his facebook page regularly. It's the only way I have to 'communicate' with him, even if he can't really see it or respond. If someone deleted his account, I would be devastated.
And if I were to receive an email from his account, I would do whatever I could to find out how it was happening. Most likely a hacker, but why? It seems cruel, even if it did give the people in this story a sense of relief.

[mclkarim]

01:09 PM on 03/16/2012

Yes, someone has to request it.

[arianaart]

08:18 PM on 03/15/2012

People who experience the same or similar phenomenon believe events such as this take place. However, simply because one has not experienced the same or a similar event~~does not signify that events as this don't occur.

[rocknhula]

04:45 PM on 03/15/2012

Wow! Computers go to heaven too!

[lightkeeper49]

04:39 PM on 03/15/2012

A few years ago a guy I worked with died of a heart attack very unexpectadly on a Saturday, the following Monday at work a few of us had emails from his account that were sent out Sunday night. We never figured out how or why it happened, but it was nice to think that maybe he was getting in one last word with us. My email simply said "Thank you" and that was all.

[Swimdude]

04:38 PM on 03/15/2012

As an IT Security Specialist, I would love to see the e-mail headers from the e-mails these people received. This would be very easy to trace back to the source.

[Allieshamallie]

05:14 PM on 03/15/2012

I received an email from Jack the same night. All it said was "hey", but I think he knew thats all I would need. I would forward it to you, however I do not think making his email address public would be good. Thanks for the idea though, I will have the IT guy at my job check it out.

[Rua Francis]

02:09 AM on 03/16/2012

Hi, I'm so happy for all of you, I wish my sister could do the same, but she for sure didn't have an email address when she passed. One thing I want to say, is that I don't understand why everyone is looking at this from a selfish angle, particularly for the reason of helping them grieve and move on, whenever someone talks about the dead connecting with the living, people conclude that they're trying to help us move on, WELL how about simply trying to connect back with them and continue to communicate. Having said that, did you get back to him yet? please do reply

[Phythia]

04:33 PM on 03/15/2012

wow, I would think there would be better things to do in the afterlife than be online, sending emails.

[Bioniclepluslotr]

12:44 PM on 03/16/2012

if you just appear at someone's house as a ghost, you'd probably scare them.

[sksmore]

04:10 PM on 03/15/2012

smore my father was born in russia.lived there untill his 20s.only spoke english & a little yiddish in our home.i never learned russian.my wife worked with this russian woman.the womans young daughter passed & my wife went to the funeral.a few days later my wife told me i was talking in my sleep in the same language she heard in the funeral parlor.reincarnation anybody?