In addition to being a country music legend, Loretta Lynn has another skill beyond the physical world.
Through the years, Loretta has discussed her encounters with the supernatural, claiming that her mother, Clara, was psychic, which she links to her grandfather’s Cherokee Indian heritage.
Clara seemingly passed this ability on to her daughter. Loretta recalls in an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories how one night while living in Washington state with her husband, Oliver, she had a frightening dream of her father, Melvin, lying dead in a coffin.
Loretta woke up at 4 a.m. in tears over the nightmare, only to receive a call one hour later from her sister-in-law sharing that her father had just passed away.
“Spirits don’t scare me. What scares me is my dreams. When I dream a bad dream, it scares me to death sometimes because I just sit and wait for something to happen,” the singer shares. “Ninety-nine percent of the time, something bad will happen if I dream, and that’s hard.”
The country star endured another tragedy when her mother visited her home in Hurricane Mills, TN and issued a disturbing warning that one of her children was going to drown in the river on the property.
That prophecy sadly became reality when Loretta and Oliver’s son, Jack, died in 1984 at the age of 34 after he was thrown from his horse and drowned in the river, leaving the singer heartbroken to this day.
“That was such a shock…I didn’t want to believe it. It was awful,” Loretta recalls of her reaction when her husband told her the tragic news. “Mommy pretty much told me what was going to happen, and I think you have to listen to people like that that are really connected.”
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