Mrs Mihai believes she was contacted from the ‘other side’ (Picture: CEN)

A Romanian woman has claimed her dead grandmother has contacted her from beyond the grave – by sending her a selfie.

Gina Mihai, 34, said she found a picture of her deceased grandmother on her phone and believes her spirit is reaching out for help after a fortune teller said her grandmother was being punished ‘in the other life’.

Churches in Scurtesti in the south-eastern part of the country have been packed with locals praying on Mrs Mihai’s behalf.

‘When I switched the phone on I was horrified to see my dead grandmother’s face,’ she said.


Superstitious locals have packed churches to pray for the spirit of Mrs Mihai’s grandmother (Picture: CEN)

‘She had what looked like a snake around her neck, and the whole image looked as if it had been taken through a hole, like it was shot through a tear in the fabric that separates the living from the dead.



She continued: ‘I took it to a fortune teller who told me that my grandmother was sending me a message from the other side, the snake around her neck was a symbol of the fact that she was being punished in the other life for some sin.

Mrs Mihai believes that she may be partly to blame for her grandmother’s punishment by not taking food to her grave – a traditional tribute paid during the Romanian feast of the service of alms.