Cousins receive mystery postcards sent decades ago: ‘I was stunned’

Carol Hover was sifting through her mail at home during a lunch break in April when she saw a postcard written in eerily familiar handwriting. The message seemed to be from a ghost, she thought.

“My mother always had very distinctive writing — the swirls and curves,” said Hover, 57, who lives in Hornell, N.Y. “It made me stop in my tracks.”