Visits from the OTHER SIDE

Karina Machado, 48, Sydney, NSW

Standing in the doorway was a man in military regalia, his medals gleaming on his broad chest.

I was eight and it was my first experience with the ‘other side’. Four decades later, if I close my eyes, I can still see him.

When I told my family, they didn’t doubt me, and he came to be known buy all of us as ‘the Colonel’.

My mum Sylvia had a sixth sense too, and I grew