When i was a kid i saw my grandad who had died 2 yrs before i was born at the top of my stairs looking down at me in full WW1 flying uniform, described him in perfect detail to both my parents and they nearly broke down over it. At that age i had never been allowed to see a picture of him in uniform as i was too young ( strange family rule, god only knows why) and described details about him which even my dad( my grandads son) had forgotten about for decades, even down to the .22 spanish pearl handled 2 shot pistol he kept tucked down his flying boot which apparently my nan( his wife) had handed into the police when he died and no photos had ever existed of.
A few months after my nan(his wife) died when i was 7 I was walking through a newly built housing estate (my parents told me we were going there with the intention of buying one of the newly finished houses) an suddenly it wasnt a housing estate but i was standing in the middle of a WW1 airfield watching aeroplanes taxi and take off/land. ground crews working etc etc. In my mind I was there for hours watching things going on, saw the shifts change in the afternoon, planes leave an return shot to shit hours later etc.
Suddenly i was aware of a very distant voice shouting my name and I realised it was my dad shaking me awake, he had found me sleeping peacefully on the top of the bomb blast hills old airfields had to protect the buildings( big hills of mud around all the buildings as extra protection) even though according to him I had only been out of his sight for about 2mins and covered a few hundred metres as well even though it felt like the best part of a day there.
Obviously worried id fell over n bumped my head or something dad asked me why I had gone to sleep and when I explained to him what I had seen n as far as i was aware i hadnt been sleeping he again broke down in tears as it turns out his the housing estate used to be an RAF base and my grandad had served there during the war and that was the real reason he had wanted to go there that day, over 10 years later I worked as a roofer and had to go repair a roof there due to storm damage an whilst working less than 100m from where i had fallen asleep as a child a part of the scaffolding collapsed throwing me an 2 other roofers 20ft down to the ground where i sustained a massive cut from my elbow to my wrist, after it had healed it formed an identical scar, in the exact same location on the arm to a scar my grandad had from being machine gunned over occupied France 70 odd years before, I later found out the name of the house i was working when the scaffolding collapsed was also the name of the base hospital ward where he was treated for his injuries when his plane landed
Also im actually named after my grandad and share mannerisms/looks etc with him but absolutely no-one else in the family on either side and all through my life ive smelt/heard/seen things that somehow link to him that myself and 99% of the family have absolutely no way of explaining as there is no way on earth it could be coincidence or even something learned as no-one in my family knows it either