Not sure if this was posted here yet - a story in the Boston Globe today.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/05/17/strength_in_numbers/
Snip:
"JOHNSTON, R.I. -- Joanne O'Neill called her son Nick on his cellphone. Nick's band, Shryne, was to open for the heavy metal group Great White at The Station nightclub the next night, and he was there checking things out. A few hours later, Great White's tour manager ignited pyrotechnics during the concert at the West Warwick club, and it burned to the ground, killing 100 people. Nick O'Neill, 18, was the youngest.
But according to Nick's loved ones, the teenager with the long blond hair and the ready joke has not left them. He sends signals, many of them having to do with the number 41, which for reasons unknown he was obsessed with. The number 41, sometimes preceded or followed by other numerals, seemed to shadow Nick wherever he went. He'd point it out constantly -- on license plates, sales receipts, clocks, football jerseys. Now, so convinced are his parents that Nick is communicating with them from beyond that his father, Dave Kane, has written a book about the incidents.
''Consider this," Kane writes in ''41 Signs of Hope," which is published by the small Rhode Island press New River. ''Nick lived to the age of 18 years and 23 days. Those two numbers add up to 41. The Station nightclub was located at latitude 41.41. The number of the fire call box at The Station site was 4414." Then there are the windshield wipers and the alarm clocks that go off by themselves -- always at 41 minutes past the hour -- and all the times family members have been seated at table 41 in various restaurants. The song Nick wrote and recorded for his girlfriend, discovered after his death, runs 5 minutes, 41 seconds. His brother David's new phone number ends in 41..."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/05/17/strength_in_numbers/
Snip:
"JOHNSTON, R.I. -- Joanne O'Neill called her son Nick on his cellphone. Nick's band, Shryne, was to open for the heavy metal group Great White at The Station nightclub the next night, and he was there checking things out. A few hours later, Great White's tour manager ignited pyrotechnics during the concert at the West Warwick club, and it burned to the ground, killing 100 people. Nick O'Neill, 18, was the youngest.
But according to Nick's loved ones, the teenager with the long blond hair and the ready joke has not left them. He sends signals, many of them having to do with the number 41, which for reasons unknown he was obsessed with. The number 41, sometimes preceded or followed by other numerals, seemed to shadow Nick wherever he went. He'd point it out constantly -- on license plates, sales receipts, clocks, football jerseys. Now, so convinced are his parents that Nick is communicating with them from beyond that his father, Dave Kane, has written a book about the incidents.
''Consider this," Kane writes in ''41 Signs of Hope," which is published by the small Rhode Island press New River. ''Nick lived to the age of 18 years and 23 days. Those two numbers add up to 41. The Station nightclub was located at latitude 41.41. The number of the fire call box at The Station site was 4414." Then there are the windshield wipers and the alarm clocks that go off by themselves -- always at 41 minutes past the hour -- and all the times family members have been seated at table 41 in various restaurants. The song Nick wrote and recorded for his girlfriend, discovered after his death, runs 5 minutes, 41 seconds. His brother David's new phone number ends in 41..."
