One of the hardest parts of losing a loved one is the break in contact. Missing their voice, or words of comfort. So when Sheri Emerson sent a text message to her late grandmother Lesley, who was buried with her phone because of her love of texting, she wasn’t expecting the chain of events that later unfolded. Sheri, who had sent on a message updating her grandmother on family life and her daily news was surprised when she received a reply the next day reading: “I’m watching over you, you’ll get through this. You’ll be all right’. Sheri from South Shields said: “I felt sick when I read it, I was in shock, I didn’t know what to think. I’d sent a message on Wednesday night telling her about family life and then I got the reply on Thursday. “Obviously we know that nan wasn’t going to ever reply, it was just something we did as a comfort for ourselves, because she loved to text. So you can imagine what I was thinking seeing a message flash up from her.” Confused by the reply, and questioning how her grandmother could possibly reply from her grave, Sheri rang the phone number to have her call picked up by another person. The person who answered confessed she had sent the replies. After contacting O2, Sheri was told that the number had since been given to another customer after it wasn’t used for three years. Images via Metro UK