A mystery has been brewing in New York. A resident of the sleepy town of Hornell has received letters from her deceased parents dating back decades. Her mother’s handwriting is unmistakable, detailed Carol Hover to our sister network. NBC 4but the old missive seems to be from a ghost, he thought.
Hover said his mother died eight years ago, so it was unexpected to receive a postcard from her dated August 30, 1960, when his parents were honeymooning in Canada. She was addressed to her grandparents, whose house she bought 21 years ago.
However, it is not known how the letter came into the hands of Hover, 57, who received three more postcards spanning three decades from senders in three countries. Among the missives is a postcard sent from New York City by his father in 1969.
USPS told NBC 4 that in situations like these, cards can usually be found by someone or bought at a thrift or antique store. In an effort to ensure that letters reach the loved ones for whom they were written, many people deposit them in a USPS collection box.
Hover said the first postcard was delivered on April 19. When he took it to the local post office to show it to acquaintances of his who worked there, he was informed that a substitute mail carrier was on duty that day. But when Hover explained that it was related to both sender and receiver, the clerk said there were two more cards on the back. One was sent from New York City by his father in 1969. The second was from Hover’s aunt and uncle from a trip they took to England in 1974.
Another postcard arrived about a week and a half later. They were also from her aunt and her uncle, who were visiting France in 1980.
But, as reported The Washington Post, the situation got even weirder when her cousin, Karen Kohnke, called in early May to tell Hover she’d also received a postcard. He was sent by a family friend who visited Ireland in 1983 to his childhood home in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
In the months that followed, Kohnke, now living in Normal, Illinois, would learn of two more postcards: one sent by a family visiting Scotland in 1984, and the other from her parents while vacationing in Fiji in 1981.
Hover prefers to keep the mystery and prefers to believe that it is “something special”, saying that he deeply misses his parents.
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