SAY SUMMA NUMMA
The meat of this story took place in the spring and summer of 2021. It was an unusual time, as my family and I had a cluster of odd experiences, although I’ll only describe a couple here. Some of my siblings have had distinctly abnormal experiences as children, and half of my family come from a part of the world where the supernatural is more accepted as a part of life than it is here.
The root of the following sequence of events lies in a memory of the early 1990s, when I was around seven years old. I was in a Mini Cooper with my aunt and two younger siblings, twin brother and sister. On the radio played a song that we three siblings found hilarious, as a man seemed to be singing “Say summa numma”. I’m sure we joked about it a lot after-wards, but it had certainly faded from our memories by the time we reached adolescence, and we had no cause to discuss – or even think about – it in the ensuing years.
Fast forward to the spring of 2021, and our extended family had gathered to celebrate my oldest brother’s 50th birthday. At one point during the gathering, I sat with my two younger siblings, my brother, out of the blue, brought up the
