A single slipper near mom's hospital bed felt odd until a childhood drawing proved how he'd predicted her exact final moments

Many people experience moments that make them believe that a person's death is predictable. Adam Mawson (@adammawson1), a director, writer, and producer, shared a similar experience that dates back to 1986, when he was just a little boy. Well, in 2014, he visited his mother, a lung cancer patient, at the hospital for the last time before she passed away. Mawson vividly remembered the hospital surroundings and his mother's room, only to realize that he had drawn the same scene years back for her on a Mother's Day card. He shared the video on May 3, 2026, and to date, over 49,000 people have watched it on his TikTok. 

The last meeting

Mawson recalled that it was a Sunday afternoon when he went to see his mother for the last time in the hospital. It was the Tour de Yorkshire weekend, and she was in the BRI under Ward 14 in Bradford. He knew she loved sweets, so he brought his mom a box of chocolates. Mawson remembered that right before he entered the ward, there was a big tree on the wall where they hung photos of the staff who helped cancer patients. Moreover, when he entered his mom's room, he saw a single slipper on the floor, but he did not think much of it. After he left, his mother passed away at 11:00 p.m. on the same night.

The eerie prediction

A week after his mother's passing, when Mawson and his father were cleaning up the house, they stumbled upon a Mother's Day card he had made as a child.  Mawson often made his own cards and drew pictures on them. This specific Mother's Day card, however, was a bit special. It had a drawing of Mawson entering the room with a box of chocolates, while his mother lay on a bed, with a single purple slipper on the floor. What made it more eerie was the photo he drew on the door; it looked like a tree, similar to the one he had seen at his mom's hospital years later. That was not it; his message on the card read, "Don't smoke and you won't choke, don't drink and you won't blink." Mawson was not sure what that message meant, but he did reveal that his mother had passed away due to lung cancer.  

Psychic abilities

In his video, Mawson said that he does not know whether people actually believe in the supernatural or psychic interventions or if they are just people who can predict the future. Surprisingly, a survey from Study.org found that one in five American adults believes they have psychic abilities. This is backed by another statistic that revealed Gen X (21%) members were the most likely to say that they can predict the future. Whereas millennials (21%) were most likely to say their dreams give them intuitive insights. Another Gallup survey from 2025 found that despite the skepticism towards supernatural things, 26% of Americans believe in 'clairvoyance' or the power to know the past and predict the future. 

Kids sense it first

Meanwhile, people in the comments were shocked by the drawing's accuracy. For instance, @meadbhk wrote, "You were very intuitive, and you had a premonition. It was your way of delivering a message from the divine to your mum." @persephone1970 shared a similar incident and wrote, "I was 7 and the phone rang; I yelled that Grandma had died. Mum had just gotten back from visiting her in the hospital for a routine operation; we didn't know this as we thought she was visiting family. I got a clip round the ear, but it was the hospital calling to let Mum know her mum had just died."

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