hadduni:
"Akudaya" is known in yoruba socio-linguistic hypothesis as returning, transformation or transmigration of a dead person into a living being post untimely death. The belief in Akudaya is one of the metaphysical psychologies in Africa, most especially Nigeria and Yoruba culture as a case study. The op could ask any elderly Yoruba person I believe they are in a better position to explain Better.

Thanks for your contribution. There are no elderly Yoruba people where I live.

Could this be necromancy at work?

Have heard similar stories before but I usually find it hard to believe but with the rate at which it's becoming a widespread occurrence, I will continue to sit on the fence and listen to people's opinion.

respect80:
Could this be necromancy at work?

Have heard similar stories before but I usually find it hard to believe but with the rate at which it's becoming a widespread occurrence, I will continue to sit on the fence and listen to people's opinion.

I used to sit on the fence, too. Before this happened. I just hope church folks, and spiritualists don't milk them for all their cash.

If you can post picture of the father, why not post your conversation with the friend especially the one where he sent you his dad's picture

Guy go beg your ghost daddy mk he give you 10 correct score mk we flex this Christmas. No time

tianshie:


I used to sit on the fence, too. Before this happened. I just hope church folks, and spiritualists don't milk them for all their cash.

@tianshie, you said the man retired to his home from the war because he was injured.

My question now is that, how come the person who called the man's wife that her husband actually died during the war never told the family about his death until his return from Gabon?

Pls I want to understand better cos this story doesn't seem to add up.

respect80:


@tianshie, you said the man retired to his home from the war because he was injured.

My question now is that, how come the person who called the man's wife that her husband actually died during the never told the family about his death until his return from Gabon?

Pls I want to understand better cos this story doesn't seem to add up.

Because he's lived in Gabon all this time. I don't know why he didn't contact the family. Only God knows.

joshboss:
Guy go beg your ghost daddy mk he give you 10 correct score mk we flex this Christmas. No time

I don't understand what this means. Correct score? Daddy mk?

tianshie:


Because he's lived in Gabon all this time. I don't know why he didn't contact the family. Only God knows.

Does that mean that his family believed all this while that he was living in Gabon?


How come the person who exposed him to his family never told them all this while?

When (what time of the year) exactly did this happen?

joshboss:
Guy go beg your ghost daddy mk he give you 10 correct score mk we flex this Christmas. No time

Honestly, e go make sense die...

Imagine say u combine Liverpool vs Napoli, Barcelona vs Borrussia Dortmund correct score play am together come stake am 20k.

respect80:


Does that mean that his family believed all this while that he was living in Gabon?


How come the person who exposed him to his family never told them all this while?

When (what time of the year) exactly did this happen?

Oh, you've got it twisted. Pa Thaddeus's friend lived in Gabon. Not Pa Thaddeus. This friend returned to Nigeria recently and I guess started reconnecting with friends. Then I guess heard about this person he knew who died in the war.

tianshie:


Oh, you've got it twisted. Pa Thaddeus's friend lived in Gabon. Not Pa Thaddeus. This friend returned to Nigeria recently and I guess started reconnecting with friends. Then I guess heard about this person he knew who died in the war.

OKkkkkk.
You mean it was pa Thaddeus' friend who actually returned from Gabon and exposed him while pa Thaddeus was living with his family ever since the war right?

respect80:


OKkkkkk.
You mean it was pa Thaddeus' friend who actually returned from Gabon and exposed him while pa Thaddeus was living with his family ever since the war right?

Yes.

tianshie:



Yes.

Now I get the gist.

But that his friend no try na. He could've left him alone with his family.

But is it this year that his friend returned to Nigeria?

Its true o.....Even from the pics u will know .....He looks like someone that will not want another man to enjoy his wife for whatever reason...dats why he came back to continue to Tanana him wife....

respect80:


Now I get the gist.

But that his friend no try na. He could've left him alone with his family.

But is it this year that his friend returned to Nigeria?

Yes this year. I can't say his friend did the right thing. At least, now we know. That's a small consolation.

tianshie:


You've got me mixed up with them Nairaland-clout-chasing teens. I'm not the one. I run a music promotion company in Atlanta. I'm busy enough.

Did this really happen? How did this bearer of unpleasant news know Thaddeus died? Did he see the burial spot? Did he see the corpse? Didn't Mrs Thaddeus visit his family home before marrying him? This harbinger of abominable information should have concrete proof before we assume things. Are you saying your 39 year old friend has not visited his ancestral home since he was born?

Too many holes in your story.

Ishilove:

Did this really happen? How did this bearer of unpleasant news know Thaddeus died? Did he see the burial spot? Did he see the corpse? Didn't Mrs Thaddeus visit his family home before marrying him? This harbinger of abominable information should have concrete proof before we assume things. Are you saying your 39 year old friend has not visited his ancestral home since he was born?

Too many holes in your story.

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Ishilove:

Did this really happen? How did this bearer of unpleasant news know Thaddeus died? Did he see the burial spot? Did he see the corpse? Didn't Mrs Thaddeus visit his family home before marrying him? This harbinger of abominable information should have concrete proof before we assume things. Are you saying your 39 year old friend has not visited his ancestral home since he was born?

Too many holes in your story.

They both fought in the war, and he saw Pa Thaddeus shot dead by sniper fire. In Onitsha. For the other intimate details, I'd have to ask my friend as I do not know.

ornicus:


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You're stalking a thread I created in 2010, 9 years ago? That's weird, bro.

ornicus:


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Ah ha!!

tianshie:


You're stalking a thread I created in 2010, 9 years ago? That's weird, bro.

It means you're very creative and this thread may well be a creation of your fertile imagination

tianshie:



They both fought in the war, and he saw Pa Thaddeus shot dead by sniper fire. In Onitsha. For the other intimate details, I'd have to ask my friend as I do not know.

There's more than meets the eyes

tianshie:


Oh, you've got it twisted. Pa Thaddeus's friend lived in Gabon. Not Pa Thaddeus. This friend returned to Nigeria recently and I guess started reconnecting with friends. Then I guess heard about this person he knew who died in the war.

And Pa Thaddeus didn't have extended family?

Ishilove:

And Pa Thaddeus didn't have extended family?

He does. They had no clue. He came back from the war. They received him. Only now do some of them recall peculiarities. How there was always a strong smell of ginger around him. How he would always visit them at 2 or 3 in the morning. And you wouldn't hear the sound of a retreating okada or taxi.

tianshie:



He does. They had no clue. He came back from the war. They received him. Only now do some of them recall peculiarities. How there was always a strong smell of ginger around him. How he would always visit them at 2 or 3 in the morning. And you wouldn't hear the sound of a retreating okada or taxi.

This is surreal... So what's happening now on the home front?

Things like this happen. Op might be telling the truth.

Op things likes this do happen... There was a situation few years back when my mum friend called scolding my mum on how her junior sister was. She met her at oshodi and she didn't like how she looked pale and so on. Whereas the said junior sister has died a year before.

Very scary.

Things like this happens o, I have a friend whose elder sister died like 2 years back only to be seen by a childhood friend who dint know she was dead at Okoko market.
They greeted and all.

After like sometime the childhood friend was talking to my friend whose sister died 2years ago about how he saw his sister last month at the market, that was when they told him she died long ago.



I guess they only appear to those who don't know they are dead.

What if death is a transition from one form of consciousness to another?

I had imagined some time ago that dead people could be all around but exist in a spiritual universe within our universe where matter, space and time becomes completely irrelevant to them.

This means that they (dead people) don't drag space with us, they also don't need time to do what they want to do or to be where they want to be, and material things e.g clothes, shoes, wall, cars etc are completely immaterial to them.

Oh no! What am I even saying...
Death remains a mystery!

Legits:
Op things likes this do happen... There was a situation few years back when my mum friend called scolding my mum on how her junior sister was. She met her at oshodi and she didn't like how she looked pale and so on. Whereas the said junior sister has died a year before.

In 2016, around 8.30am I greeted my neighbour but she looked straight ahead and ignored my greetings. By 5pm same day someone came knocking on our door to inform my folks that the same lady died in accident that morning on Benin-Ore road.

Till date I'm still asking myself if I really saw the lady or someone who looks like her. The former is unthinkable...