[Topher Cooper]

I've just never heard of a stop [ clock? ] going backwards out of malfunction before.

Neither have I, and it would be a very odd mechanical clock mechanism that would allow it. But electronic circuits are different -- there is no mechanical spring or whatever pushing it in one direction.

So odd, but not uncanny.

Also, this family had their family clock (mechanical) stop two times around the time of death when family members died.

Couldn't say that I would blame them, then. And of course, its impossible to say that something paranormal isn't happening, only that we don't have any reason based on the phenomenon itself to say that it is -- this could happen non-paranormally.