Getting phone calls from the dead is a phenomena as old as the phone itself. But in a modern twist, a British man, whose dead wife was buried with her beloved cell phone in hand, claims his family has been receiving strange SMS messages they believe to be from her:

“Just after Sadie died I came home and I felt like I didn’t want to go in the house. I got a missed call on my mobile, but it didn’t ring. The call was from my own home number, but there was nobody in the house. Then when I went inside there was a smell like cigarettes which Sadie used to smoke and the smell of her perfume.” Jones says his family has since received strange SMS messages which they believe to be from Sadie. He concluded: “She always had a mobile with her. We buried her with her phone. There have been messages with words Sadie would say but there’s no number.”

Wonder what the roaming charges are when you’re kicking it in the afterlife. Shit has gots to be ’spensive!

The people over at New Scientist, who are always on some other shit anyway, are now officially on some OTHER other shit. They are currently featuring on their website a DEATH SPECIAL, which includes a litany of amazingly interesting articles on the one thing people rarely ever want to talk about. Among these are: “How Does it Feel To Die” a look into, literally, how it feels to die, and “What Happens After You Die” a somewhat comedic look at some of the past experiments into the possibilities of an afterlife. Anyways, check it out. Then die. Eventually.