Since Suzanne Somers’ death, her husband Alan Hamel says several weird occurrences around his home have convinced him of the existence of an afterlife.
According to Hamel, 87, three “strange” things happened on the same day, starting with a hummingbird gone rogue, he told Page Six in a new interview.
The bird flew into Hamel and Somers’ Palm Springs, California, home — where Somers died last October — making several laps before it “hovered” right in front of a framed photo of the couple, he said.
After hovering, it even “landed on top and stayed there,” Hamel added.
Following the hummingbird visit, the widower said his fireplace not only started “all by itself,” but also music began playing by Suzanne’s favorite composer — an obscure artist, according to Hamel.
“No one’s ever heard of this guy,” he added.
Finally, as Hamel was about to shut his eyes at the end of the day, he said he could “feel her laying beside me.”
Before Somer's died — after her breast cancer spread throughout her body — Hamel said he did not necessarily believe in an afterlife. In fact, the couple even “joked” about it together.
“We joked about when one of us passed, it would likely be me because I’m 10 years older,” he said, recalling that Somers had told him, “Knowing you, you’ll be on your way back before you’ve left.”
Now, Hamel is a staunch “believer” in the afterlife.
“I’m convinced of it,” he affirmed. “I think there’s something we don’t understand. I think there’s a plane somewhere ... after we discard our bodies.”
“We still have our soul. I think our soul is energy," he continued. "The soul must go somewhere and do something.”
Outside of the “strange” experiences, he said his mind was also changed by her constant presence around him.
“The time when I’m with my family ... and I have one of my moments when I have to leave, I go into the bedroom ... I’m alone there. And I feel her presence,” he shared.
“Once I interact with her presence, I go back and interact with the family,” he said, adding that Somers’ “grandkids, one by one, have told me the same thing.”
“I hope it’s all true,” he said of the afterlife, noting that believing in it “certainly makes the grieving process a lot easier.”
And, "if it is, we’ll be reunited,” he added.
Hamel and Somers were married for more than four decades. After her death, Somers’ publicist shared with PEOPLE a love poem that Hamel had given his wife a day before she died.
Penned in all caps, the poem read, in part: “LOVE. THERE IS NO VERSION OF THE WORD THAT IS APPLICABLE TO SUZANNE. THE CLOSEST VERSION IN WORDS ISN’T EVEN CLOSE. IT’S NOT EVEN A FRACTION OF A FRACTION OF A FRACTION."
"55 YEARS TOGETHER, 46 MARRIED AND NOT EVEN ONE HOUR APART FOR 42 OF THOSE YEARS,” he continued. “EVEN THAT DOESN’T DO IT. EVEN GOING TO BED AT 6 O’CLOCK AND HOLDING HANDS WHILE WE SLEEP DOESN’T DO IT. STARING AT YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACE WHILE YOU SLEEP DOESN’T DO IT. THERE ARE NO WORDS. THERE ARE NO ACTIONS. NO PROMISES. NO DECLARATIONS. WE ARE ONE. I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU, MY BEAUTIFUL SUZANNE, FOR ALL OF ETERNITY."