As some of you might know, Imus runs the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids With Cancer, in New Mexico, part of each year. 

Kids who have various kinds of cancer come to the ranch where they are given chores to do that are necessary for a working cattle ranch and they compete in various activities geared of course to their abilities and physical condition.

To date over a 1,000 kids have come to the ranch over past 10 years or so.

Because with some kids the cancer is advanced, many of them have died since the ranch was started.

Today on his show, he and his wife told a story that is not in itself unusual but coming from him....a well known cynic & curmudgeon who never has had any use for woo-woo stuff....is worthy of repeating.

Last summer one of the kids at the ranch was a 10 yr old girl from Afghanistan.  He described her appearance and how brave she was dealing with multiple forms of cancer.

Unfortunately shortly after she returned home, she passed away.

During the winter, there was a flood at the ranch requiring the floors in many of the buildings to be replaced.

Many workmen were hired to do the job. 

One day, the workers in one building reported to Imus' wife that they had seen a ghostly figure of a little girl.  They described her to Deirdre.  She said the description matched exactly the little girl. 

And then later, Deirdre herself saw the apparition.  In addition, one of their dogs (a great Pyrenees) kept going down one of the hallways, clearly agitated, totally unlike his usual behavior.

The little girl loved the time she was at the ranch.  She was extremely upset when the 10 days were over and she had to leave.

As I said, the story itself is not unusual.  What struck me, however, was that Imus listened to his wife telling the story and did not make his usual dismissive remarks about things of this nature.  Clearly he accepted it.

So we have the return of the little girl to a place that she loved and felt accepted before she died.  No doubt many other kids who have lost their lives after being at the ranch have done the same thing.

R

I think it is a splinter of herself. I have thought about this alot over the past few years since reading Bruce's books. Is it necessary to retrieve a mere faction of the whole or are they making an experiential headway for the whole probe before it rejoins the disk or whatever metaphor you want to use for that analogy.

I think its a beautiful story made even more beautiful by IMUS holding his tongue.

It amazes me how many people I know who have been blessed with these experiences and still manage to hold on the old world mainstream science view of explanation from within the small picture for something that doesn't emanate from the small picture, but from a much larger picture we are not always privy to with the exception of those brief moments when we actually pay attention.