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Speaker 1: Ready to be amazed by the wizards Weird Strange with
Speaker 1: Joshua Warren. I am Joshua B. Warren, and each week
Speaker 1: on this show, I'll be bringing you brand new mind
Speaker 1: blowing content, news, exercises, and weird experiments you can do
Speaker 1: at home, and a lot more on this edition of
Speaker 1: the show. Deathbed Confessions and Deathbed Visitors. I know it
Speaker 1: sucks to talk about death sometimes, but this is the
Speaker 1: Paranormal Podcast Network, and of course death is one of
Speaker 1: the biggest mysteries. Really, the big mystery is life. What
Speaker 1: is life and therefore, what is afterlife? How do we
Speaker 1: put life into context and what happens when it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how rich you are, how powerful you are, how
Speaker 1: famous you are. What happens when you know you're about
Speaker 1: to die. What do you say or do that you
Speaker 1: might not otherwise say, or do that last little thing
Speaker 1: you want to get out there before you expire. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, over the years, I have produced a lot
Speaker 1: of movie and TV content. Nowadays, I'm not really interested
Speaker 1: in doing that anymore. I did it for a long
Speaker 1: time and now you know, I'm just I'm happy doing
Speaker 1: what I'm doing here with the podcast. But you know,
Speaker 1: I produced a lot of indie stuff back in the day.
Speaker 1: Even if you go to YouTube, you can watch some
Speaker 1: of the stuff for free, like a loan in all
Speaker 1: Haunted House or this comedy that I may call The Commodore.
Speaker 1: You know, I've done much bigger things. I worked as
Speaker 1: a consultant on the Warner Brothers horror movie The Apparition,
Speaker 1: and I also, I believe, have a producer credit for
Speaker 1: the Blu Ray edition of that for some of the
Speaker 1: behind the scenes stuff. I mean. Another example, like one
Speaker 1: time I was at a conference and I met Jeff Mudget,
Speaker 1: who is a direct descendant of H. H. Holmes. The
Speaker 1: infamous American serial killer. And even though H. H. Holmes
Speaker 1: was an American, Jeff Mudget believes that Holmes went over
Speaker 1: to England and committed to jack the Ripper murders. And
Speaker 1: he wrote a book about this, and he'd been trying
Speaker 1: to get it sold and had nothing but dead ends.
Speaker 1: And I said, let me give it a shot. So
Speaker 1: I wrote a proposal and pitched it, and sure enough
Speaker 1: it got picked up by the History Channel, became a
Speaker 1: whole series, and Jeff Mudget got to star in it.
Speaker 1: It was called American Ripper. They did a very good
Speaker 1: job in my opinion. So anyway, I've pitched a lot
Speaker 1: of different stuff. I produced a lot of stuff, but
Speaker 1: most of the stuff that I have pitched over the
Speaker 1: years has not been picked up. That's just how it goes, understandably.
Speaker 1: And what's kind of odd, however, is that sometimes I
Speaker 1: back in the day, I had contact a production company
Speaker 1: and they'd say, Okay, let's see your idea, and I'd
Speaker 1: send them the idea and they'd say, oh, we're kind
Speaker 1: of interested or we're not interested, and they will kind
Speaker 1: of like fizzle out, and then a couple of years
Speaker 1: later I would see something very much like it on TV. Now,
Speaker 1: does that mean I have been shafted? Possibly? This is
Speaker 1: why most people who work in the creative fields, like writers, musicians, filmmakers, etc.
Speaker 1: They don't want to see your submissions or get your
Speaker 1: ideas under most circumstances, because what if they just happen
Speaker 1: to be working on something like it already and then
Speaker 1: you say I have an idea and they say okay,
Speaker 1: and you share the idea and they're like no thanks.
Speaker 1: Then they continue working on what they were working on,
Speaker 1: which happens to be very similar, and then when it
Speaker 1: comes out, you say, oh, they have stolen this from me.
Speaker 1: So it's very complicated the protocol about like pitching things
Speaker 1: and sharing ideas. And also there's this thing that you
Speaker 1: can't help but maybe be a little bit haunted by
Speaker 1: if you do this kind of stuff. It's called the
Speaker 1: hundredth monkey effect. Have you ever heard of that? And look,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is true or not, but
Speaker 1: it's it's natural to be a little bit paranoid when
Speaker 1: you're pitching stuff in the creative field. But the hundredth
Speaker 1: monkey effect, I think that that was kind of coined
Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventies by the author Lyle Watson, and
Speaker 1: he was talking about how these scientists were observing this
Speaker 1: group of Japanese Macoque monkeys on this island and apparently,
Speaker 1: somehow other I don't know if the crew was leaving
Speaker 1: them or whatever, but these monkeys got a hold of
Speaker 1: some sweet potatoes and one day one of the monkeys
Speaker 1: went to a stream and started washing the sweet potato.
Speaker 1: They'd never seen a monkey do that before. Well, then
Speaker 1: another monkey saw that monkey doing it, and then it
Speaker 1: started washing the sweet it's sweet potatoes, and this behavior
Speaker 1: spread across the whole island until around you know, a
Speaker 1: hundred monkeys were all doing this. And then the stunning
Speaker 1: thing is they claimed it. All of a sudden boom,
Speaker 1: they saw that exact same behavior appear among monkeys on
Speaker 1: another island that was nearby but completely disconnected. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a group consciousness theory that once a
Speaker 1: certain number of people get an idea or in this case, monkeys,
Speaker 1: that it carries some kind of weight and it can
Speaker 1: just suddenly jump into other heads. And so sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: if you have an idea, you want to act on
Speaker 1: it quickly. And I don't know, you know, how old
Speaker 1: you are but I mean, you do see stuff that's
Speaker 1: kind of weird that might lend some credence to this
Speaker 1: when you look back at the history of saying like Hollywood,
Speaker 1: I remember in nineteen ninety eight there was a movie
Speaker 1: Armageddon that came out and it was about you know,
Speaker 1: some asteroid or whatever coming in. And then and then
Speaker 1: that same year, another movie called Deep Impact came out.
Speaker 1: Now these are supposedly unconnected projects, but it was also
Speaker 1: a similar type of like asteroid disaster movie. And it
Speaker 1: just makes you wonder, is that a coincidence or do
Speaker 1: ideas appear to different people at the same time. So
Speaker 1: it can kind of make you paranoid because if you're
Speaker 1: a creator and you have a good idea, you can
Speaker 1: suddenly get into a rush to bring it to market
Speaker 1: because you're afraid someone else might beat you to it
Speaker 1: using this same idea. You know that maybe that it
Speaker 1: simultaneously occurred to them. It's a valid concern. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite authors, Joe Vitally, says money loves speed, So
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes you do need to kind of
Speaker 1: rush out of product, but you don't want it to
Speaker 1: be underdeveloped and come out too soon. So it's tricky
Speaker 1: being a creative type. But anyway, just thought you would
Speaker 1: enjoy the hundredth monkey thing if you haven't heard about that.
Speaker 1: One of my proposals, written many years ago was for
Speaker 1: a possible TV series called Deathbed Confessions. It was never
Speaker 1: picked up, and so the show only exists now in
Speaker 1: my imagination. But I've decided to share this vision with you,
Speaker 1: and I think you will agree that even today, this
Speaker 1: would still make a fascinating TV show. It'd be perfect
Speaker 1: for the History Channel. And I say this kind of
Speaker 1: thing because it's like, look, I'm giving this away. I'm
Speaker 1: giving this information away to you freely, just because that
Speaker 1: this is something that I would like to see. I
Speaker 1: would watch this show, and I think that's what you know,
Speaker 1: your judgment should always be based upon. Is this something
Speaker 1: that I would actually enjoy myself. So this is a
Speaker 1: proposal that I sent to some production companies called Deathbed Confessions,
Speaker 1: Final Revelations on Murder, UFOs, Hoaxes and more. And at
Speaker 1: the top of the proposal I have a quote. The
Speaker 1: quote is oh the creatures exclamation point. Those were the
Speaker 1: last words of Major Edwin Easley, who was the Provost
Speaker 1: Marshall at the Roswell Base in nineteen forty seven. Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: all right, So here's the concept for this hypothetical TV show.
Speaker 1: When one senses impending demise, what power on earth can
Speaker 1: control that person? A clear unscience or final relinquishing of
Speaker 1: knowledge is often foremost in the dying person's mind. History
Speaker 1: is replete with brief moments, last glances into our most
Speaker 1: outstanding phenomenon, sometimes past, and fleeting words before a person's
Speaker 1: eyes closed forever. This show is an amazing exploration of
Speaker 1: those moments, what we have learned, and what we perhaps
Speaker 1: can learn from them. In some cases, the deathbed is
Speaker 1: meant literally. In other cases it refers to the period
Speaker 1: of time in the months, weeks, or days leading up
Speaker 1: to death. All right, do I have your attention? Is
Speaker 1: this a pretty good hook? So? Segment one is about murder,
Speaker 1: Segment two is about UFOs, Segment three is hoaxes, Segment
Speaker 1: four is revenge, Segment five is treasure. Segment six is taboo. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you it's gonna be like
Speaker 1: you're watching this TV show in your mind's eye. It's
Speaker 1: theater of the mind. We're gonna go through each of
Speaker 1: these stories starting with murder when we come back and
Speaker 1: you know, let's see, I had something interesting I was
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Speaker 1: I am pitching you this TV show, and you know
Speaker 1: this is like a pilot. So see what you think
Speaker 1: about this. Deathbed Confessions, Final Revelations on murder, UFOs, hoaxes,
Speaker 1: and more. Segment one Murder. Ironically, killers are often mortified
Speaker 1: to face their maker. They frequently confess to either gain
Speaker 1: favor with God or delay their executions. Ted Bundy, who
Speaker 1: murdered dozens of young women, tried to buy time with
Speaker 1: confessions leading right up to his electrocution in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 1: he promised to reveal even more details and the location
Speaker 1: of corpses if he were only given quote more time. Well,
Speaker 1: when his day of execution came, guards had to physically
Speaker 1: drag him from his cell. Here's something else that could
Speaker 1: go into that segment. Brian Jones, a found member of
Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones rock group, died at the age of
Speaker 1: twenty seven. He was found floating in a swimming pool.
Speaker 1: Officially ruled quote death by misadventure end quote. But the
Speaker 1: last person to see Jones alive, a builder named Frank Thurregood,
Speaker 1: renovating Jones's house at the time, later confessed on his
Speaker 1: deathbed to having murdered the rock star. Stories like these
Speaker 1: are numerous, and this segment would recount some of the
Speaker 1: most outstanding interesting Huh, all right, Segment two uf o's
Speaker 1: you know I mentioned a provost. Marshall. Provost is a
Speaker 1: senior administrative officer. All right, So segment two UFOs, It's
Speaker 1: now been decades since a mysterious object crashed in the
Speaker 1: desert near Roswell, New Mexico. And by the way, you know,
Speaker 1: let me just pause because I pitched this a long
Speaker 1: time ago for the first time, but I think the
Speaker 1: last time I pitched it was in twenty nineteen, So
Speaker 1: just interesting, all right, all right, let's get back to this.
Speaker 1: So it's been a long time since a mysterious object
Speaker 1: crashed at the desert near Roswell, New Mexico. Even the
Speaker 1: government admits there was a cover up. Since then, numerous
Speaker 1: figures have died and seemed to confirm what many suspect
Speaker 1: the object was extra terrestrial. Major Edwin Easley, Provost Marshall
Speaker 1: at the Roswell base in nineteen forty seven, revealed the
Speaker 1: secret to his family as he lay dying. After decades
Speaker 1: of a tight lip, he apparently relayed participation in the
Speaker 1: recovery of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and crew. Just before his death,
Speaker 1: Cordell Hle, Secretary of State under Franklin rose Velt, revealed
Speaker 1: he had been shown alien bodies storede and upright containers
Speaker 1: below Washington, d c. And shortly preceding his death in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso published The
Speaker 1: Day After Roswell, in which he contended he was given
Speaker 1: the job of disseminating back engineered alien technology from the
Speaker 1: Roswell crash to various US corporations. There are many accounts
Speaker 1: like these, and we are just now receiving some of
Speaker 1: the most significant reports as those involved in such incidents
Speaker 1: are dying of old age. And of course I did
Speaker 1: a podcast not too long ago Strange Things, where I
Speaker 1: talked about Philip J. Corso and the day after Roswell.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't listened to that one, go back
Speaker 1: and listen and you'll understand why that may be the
Speaker 1: ultimate deathbed confession. Even though he wasn't literally on his deathbed,
Speaker 1: it was like you a year before he died, all right.
Speaker 1: Segment three Hoaxes. The most famous deathbed confession of a
Speaker 1: hoax regards the lock Ness Monster. A photo published in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four of an enigmatic silhouette solidified the creature's
Speaker 1: existence for the public for many years. It was known
Speaker 1: as the Surgeon's Photo, based on the supposed photographer's occupation
Speaker 1: as a revenge ploy for a prank at his expense,
Speaker 1: Big game hunter Marmaduke Weatherall orchestrated the hoax. Christopher Sperling,
Speaker 1: Wetherell's son in law, told the entire story on his deathbed.
Speaker 1: He claimed the popular image was actually a staged photograph
Speaker 1: of the Clay Forum attached to a toy submarine, and
Speaker 1: the surgeon who was credited for taking the photo never
Speaker 1: said he had not taken it. Similar revelations have recently
Speaker 1: occurred regarding the Patterson Bigfoot footage of No. Nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 1: So what do hoaxters gain from keeping their secrets so long?
Speaker 1: I'm still kind of torn, honestly over the Patterson Bigfoot film.
Speaker 1: I know that there are people who claim that, you know,
Speaker 1: they participated to hoaxing it, But you know, when you
Speaker 1: watch good analysis of the footage, I mean, it really
Speaker 1: does kind of look like you can see the muscles
Speaker 1: and the flesh moving underneath the hair. So I still
Speaker 1: am not sure what to think about that one. So
Speaker 1: all right, next we have segment four, which is revenge.
Speaker 1: The Cambridge Five were a group of British spies who
Speaker 1: passed classified information to the Soviet Union during World War
Speaker 1: Two and into the early nineteen fifties. They may have
Speaker 1: also passed Soviet disinformation to the Nazis. Each man was
Speaker 1: a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret elite debate society.
Speaker 1: On his deathbed, a man named gorony Weeze actually Goronny Rees,
Speaker 1: a Welsh journalist, confessed to not only being one of
Speaker 1: the spies himself, but also implicated a colleague named Guy
Speaker 1: Laddell Well. The accusation of Laddell turned out to be false,
Speaker 1: but it permanently harmed Lddell's career. Was this done as
Speaker 1: an act of revenge? And how powerful are such accusations?
Speaker 1: Willed it at the last minute when the accuser no
Speaker 1: longer has to defend himself. That's interesting, isn't it. What
Speaker 1: if you are so mean spirited that as your last
Speaker 1: wish you say something bad about somebody, You accuse somebody
Speaker 1: of doing something that they didn't do, and then you know,
Speaker 1: then you expire? Segment five. Treasure Captain Kidd is one
Speaker 1: of history's most famous pirates. He was a privateer who
Speaker 1: turned to piracy during hard times. Shortly thereafter, his reputation
Speaker 1: as a bloodthirsty villain quickly spread throughout the Atlantic, and
Speaker 1: after his sixteen ninety nine arrest in New York, Kid
Speaker 1: was sent to England for trial. Facing execution by hanging,
Speaker 1: Kid wrote some desperate letters begging for clemency. One was
Speaker 1: written to the speaker of the House of Commons offering
Speaker 1: him one hundred thousand dollars worth of gold buried away
Speaker 1: on an unknown island in the West Indies. Though the
Speaker 1: House ignored the letter and Kidd did indeed hang, it
Speaker 1: appears in retrospect to have been possibly valid. Some of
Speaker 1: Kidd's treasure chests were found by explorer Hubert Palmer in
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties. It appears there is much more to
Speaker 1: be found, worth far more now than in sixteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: The notorious Pirates deathbed confession has inspired wondrous legends and myth,
Speaker 1: including Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and there are still
Speaker 1: plenty of seekers scouring maps and Kid's confession to this day.
Speaker 1: You know, by the way, I recently watched something on
Speaker 1: TV about Captain Kidd. It might have been History's Greatest Mysteries,
Speaker 1: or you know, one of those I like, I watched
Speaker 1: the History Channel a lot, and you know, he was
Speaker 1: I think he was pretty late in life, like in
Speaker 1: his fifties, Captain Kidd when he decided to go back
Speaker 1: out there and start you know, privateering slash pirrating, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's just hard to believe like how hardcore
Speaker 1: some of these these people were back then. But you know,
Speaker 1: think about treasure stories is that you always think, well,
Speaker 1: if there's a treasure out there and somebody found it,
Speaker 1: are they going to tell everybody about it? Probably not.
Speaker 1: They're probably gonna keep that a secret. So I think
Speaker 1: a lot of these treasures have been found and we
Speaker 1: just don't know about it. That would be the smart
Speaker 1: thing to do. I guess if you find a treasure,
Speaker 1: not to tell everybody you found it. Well, anyway, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a break. When we come back, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into this last segment, which is scientific taboo, and
Speaker 1: then we will switch into my second topic for this show,
Speaker 1: deathbed Visitors. Now this is some supernatural stuff. Okay, deathbed confessions.
Speaker 1: We're talking about people who are you literally talking about
Speaker 1: something practical that's happened that they want to get off
Speaker 1: their chest or whatever. Deathbed Visitors, now we're talking about
Speaker 1: not just beings that might come into your room right
Speaker 1: before you die, but also your ability to project yourself
Speaker 1: spiritually to other people right before you die. I'm Joshua
Speaker 1: Pete Warren, and you are listening to strange things on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network,
Speaker 1: And I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua pe Warren,
Speaker 1: and this is the show where the unusual becomes Usual.
Speaker 1: Segment six. Scientific Taboo. In the fifteen hundreds, Europeans could
Speaker 1: be imprisoned, imprisoned, or executed for suggesting the Earth is
Speaker 1: not the center of the universe. The concept was considered
Speaker 1: a heresy by the church, questioning the value of mankind
Speaker 1: and our creation in the eyes of God. Nonetheless, in
Speaker 1: the scientific underground, dangerous conversations circulated about contrary evidence. One
Speaker 1: of the most intelligent scientists secretly studying the possibilities was
Speaker 1: oppression named Nicholas Copernicus. By examining bodies in space, he
Speaker 1: was able to secretly conclude Earth's relationship with the other
Speaker 1: planets and stars, accurately predicting our seasons. Knowing the penalties
Speaker 1: for authoring such material, Copernicus made arrangements for its publication,
Speaker 1: called on the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Just before
Speaker 1: his death in fifteen forty three. It is said that
Speaker 1: he woke from a coma just long enough to see
Speaker 1: the first copy before closing his eyes and dying peacefully.
Speaker 1: For the next century, mere ownership of the book was
Speaker 1: a huge risk. Galileo's findings finally proved Copernicus was correct,
Speaker 1: and of course Galileo spent nearly a decade imprisoned for heresy.
Speaker 1: It might be said that Copernicus's deathbed confession was the
Speaker 1: biggest of all, changing our entire understanding of how the
Speaker 1: universe functions. So in conclusion, you know, in many Christian denominations,
Speaker 1: confined is seen as an integral part of being forgiven
Speaker 1: for sins and attaining salvation. What is the therapeutic value
Speaker 1: of speaking secrets? And what can we learn about the
Speaker 1: world from secrets kept almost till the very end of life?
Speaker 1: They are reflections of not only one's personal conscience, but
Speaker 1: also the society in which one lives. Why are the
Speaker 1: secrets kept? And how do these deathbed confessions exemplify why
Speaker 1: humans find most important about life and the perception of
Speaker 1: peers or family. And then I have a few, well,
Speaker 1: a couple quotes that I've always thought were kind of
Speaker 1: interesting about well last words. Really, the last thing that
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison supposedly said was, quote, it's very beautiful over there.
Speaker 1: And the last thing that Emily Dickinson said was I
Speaker 1: must go in. The fog is rising. So what do
Speaker 1: you think would that be a good TV show? I
Speaker 1: think it would be to this very day. But even
Speaker 1: if it's not a TV show, it is in your head.
Speaker 1: Now you've seen kind of you kind of seen the
Speaker 1: TV show to some degree in your head. And that's
Speaker 1: the great thing about having a podcast like this. But
Speaker 1: I told you the topic number two was deathbed visitors. Now,
Speaker 1: this is something that has interested me for a long
Speaker 1: time because of some things that I have personally been told.
Speaker 1: First off, there are different types, at least two different
Speaker 1: types of what we might think of is deathbed visitations.
Speaker 1: I watched a video on YouTube recently where this neuropsychiatrist
Speaker 1: was talking about this phenomen in which it seems like
Speaker 1: that right before someone dies, then often the person has
Speaker 1: this sort of psychic link with somebody else somewhere out
Speaker 1: there who's living. He said, this is almost a quote
Speaker 1: here paraphrasing a little bit. Dying people often have a
Speaker 1: last wish, usually to say goodbye to a loved one
Speaker 1: who isn't there. Sometimes they appear near the moment of
Speaker 1: death as an apparition and say goodbye, or the person
Speaker 1: gets a push or a touch. Okay, so let's say that, like,
Speaker 1: for example, you have a friend or a loved one
Speaker 1: out there that's dying right now, and you don't know
Speaker 1: about it, but all of a sudden, the person might
Speaker 1: appear to you or certainly flash in your mind in
Speaker 1: some way, or might push you or touch you or
Speaker 1: something like that. And so you you may not understand
Speaker 1: what's happening at the time, but in retrospect then you
Speaker 1: find out the person has died at that moment, and
Speaker 1: you go, oh my gosh, so there's some kind of
Speaker 1: a link at that moment. And again, often the living
Speaker 1: person doesn't even know the dying person is dying at
Speaker 1: the time, so it becomes an even more extraordinary experience
Speaker 1: in retrospect. And this so this would be almost, I guess,
Speaker 1: kind of astral projection in a way. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I did a show one time. Uh I wish I've
Speaker 1: done I've done over two hundred shows now, so I
Speaker 1: can't go back and just whip out the name of
Speaker 1: every show and what I talked about. But you know,
Speaker 1: I did a show where I talked about different types
Speaker 1: of apparitions, and you know, you have ghosts of the
Speaker 1: present as they are called, where sometimes the apparition of
Speaker 1: a person appears even when the person is still alive.
Speaker 1: So you might have the apparition of a friend who's
Speaker 1: on the other side of the world pop up in
Speaker 1: front of you and give you a warning or something
Speaker 1: like that. But then, of course it becomes even more
Speaker 1: magnified if the person the other person is dying. But
Speaker 1: you know, then you have, of course, I think even
Speaker 1: the more prominent one, which is when the person who
Speaker 1: is dying actually experiences being visited by some kind of
Speaker 1: spiritual guide that seems to be there to help usher
Speaker 1: them into the next stage. Okay, so we're talking about beings,
Speaker 1: supernatural beings that visit the dying person, often ancestors, perhaps
Speaker 1: ancestors or relatives who have died, and a lot of
Speaker 1: times the dying person will will be almost practically unconscious
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they have this moment
Speaker 1: of clarity and energy. I think the British say it's
Speaker 1: something like lighting up before death or something like that,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they have this moment of
Speaker 1: energy and they sit up and they say something to everybody,
Speaker 1: they say goodbye or whatever, and then they lay down
Speaker 1: and die. And sometimes at this moment a light appears
Speaker 1: in the room. Some people see a weird shape of
Speaker 1: some kind leaving the body, maybe something that looks like
Speaker 1: smoke that leaves the body. Sometimes there are these things
Speaker 1: called deathbed coincidences, where something will happen, like a bird
Speaker 1: will fly into the room, etc. A lot of times
Speaker 1: owls seem to be nearby when people die. I remember,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up in western North Carolina, there was
Speaker 1: this great story about this property in Kashier's North care
Speaker 1: It called the High Hampton Inn. And if I remember
Speaker 1: this correctly, back in I guess the eighteen hundreds, there
Speaker 1: was this relatively you know, wealthy man who had a
Speaker 1: beautiful home there right next to this lake. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been there many times and it's breathtaking and it
Speaker 1: was like a dream home. But they fell upon he
Speaker 1: and his wife fell upon hard times, and so he
Speaker 1: told her he was going to go into town and
Speaker 1: talk to this guy who was interested in buying the property.
Speaker 1: And she said no, don't sell it. Don't sell it,
Speaker 1: don't sell it, and begged him not to sell it.
Speaker 1: So he goes into town and sure enough, the guy
Speaker 1: talked him into selling it, so he sold the property.
Speaker 1: He came back home, he told her he'd sold it,
Speaker 1: and then shortly thereafter he walked outside and found her
Speaker 1: hanging from a tree. And the story goes that he
Speaker 1: was it was so shocking to him that his hair
Speaker 1: turned white overnight. But one of the oddest things is
Speaker 1: that as she was hanging there from that tree, there
Speaker 1: was this white owl that was also perched on the branch.
Speaker 1: Of course, the man moved away, but to this day,
Speaker 1: people still see this white owl flying around the property,
Speaker 1: and everybody realizes that it's that woman's spirit, and she
Speaker 1: wasn't leaving, even if that meant she had to be
Speaker 1: around as an owl. But you know, I have a
Speaker 1: good friend who's a famous author. I won't use his name,
Speaker 1: and he told me that he was in the room
Speaker 1: when his mother was dying, and he said that it
Speaker 1: was just the two of them there at the hospital,
Speaker 1: and at one point she said, who is that beautiful
Speaker 1: woman over there? And he said what, And she goes
Speaker 1: that woman and he says, I don't see anybody. She says,
Speaker 1: look at her, Look how pretty she is. I look
Speaker 1: at her long silver hair, and he says, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't see anything. And of course she died. I
Speaker 1: believe that Lauren's grandfather said that he saw some figure
Speaker 1: like that in his room before he died. And you
Speaker 1: might say, well, these people are just exaggerating, but or
Speaker 1: I guess more like hallucinating. That's what that's the word
Speaker 1: I'm looking. I guess you could say they're hallucinating. But
Speaker 1: what if they're not. You know, I had an aunt
Speaker 1: who worked for many, many years at a nursing home,
Speaker 1: and she looked me right in the eye one time,
Speaker 1: and she said that often she would see these dark
Speaker 1: figures float down the hallway towards someone's room, just minutes
Speaker 1: before the person died. A lot of times the figure
Speaker 1: would look like it had wings. Now I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I presume that not everybody can see that,
Speaker 1: because you'd probably hear about it more often. But she
Speaker 1: was dead serious. Hey, when we come back, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you another story that I think is just It's
Speaker 1: one of those that kind of gives you goosebumps about
Speaker 1: people coming back from the other side, and then how
Speaker 1: about how about we wrap up with a creepy story
Speaker 1: or two. Does that sound good? I'm Joshua wa Pee Warren.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast AM Parinormal Podcast Network, and I will be
Speaker 1: right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this
Speaker 1: edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio AM Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast AM Paradormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.
Speaker 1: And growing up in western North Carolina, of course I
Speaker 1: watched wrestling as a kid, wrestling and just recently I
Speaker 1: was watching a documentary about the wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper,
Speaker 1: and later on in life he and Hulk Hogan became
Speaker 1: really close friends. They would text each other, I think
Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan said, just about every day they'd at least
Speaker 1: text each other. And two days after Rowdy Roddy Piper
Speaker 1: died unexpectedly at age sixty one of sudden cardiac arrest,
Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan got a voicemail from Rowdy Roddy now again.
Speaker 1: Rowdy Roddy Piper had been dead for two days, and
Speaker 1: on this show, Hulk Hogan plays this voicemail he got
Speaker 1: and you can hear the voice of Rowdy Roddy say,
Speaker 1: I'm just loving you, my brother. I'm just walking with
Speaker 1: Jesus and loving you my brother. Now, I wish I
Speaker 1: could play you the actual audio, but I don't have
Speaker 1: rights to it. And that's all he says. Why would
Speaker 1: he say that? And Hulk Hogan in the video says
Speaker 1: he would have never said that when he was here,
Speaker 1: and then Hulk Hogan starts crying and that's all the messages.
Speaker 1: I'm just loving you, my brother. I'm just walking with
Speaker 1: Jesus and loving you my brother. Two days after he died.
Speaker 1: Just go online and search for a Hulk Hogan Rowdy
Speaker 1: Roddy death and you'll probably find this snippet somewhere of
Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan telling the story on camera and playing the
Speaker 1: actual audio. So you know, what does all this mean?
Speaker 1: I think it means that there is there is a spirit,
Speaker 1: there is an afterlife, and you know, you hear that, hey,
Speaker 1: when it's your time to go, it's your time to go,
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. But there are warnings. I
Speaker 1: think you know, there are times when you're told you
Speaker 1: need to you need to get out of harm's way.
Speaker 1: I mean I just recently. You may have seen what
Speaker 1: they call the the doomsday fish, was found floating in
Speaker 1: California just days before this earthquake struck Los Angeles. Looking
Speaker 1: at an article on Fox News right now, it says,
Speaker 1: while kayaking and storkling in La Jolla, California, a group
Speaker 1: spotted a very rare deep sea fish that had died.
Speaker 1: By the way, you may, I was just in La
Speaker 1: Joya a few months ago. Anyway, It's called the oar fish,
Speaker 1: also known as the doomsday fish. Twelve feet in length.
Speaker 1: Only twenty have been reported in California since nineteen oh one,
Speaker 1: and that's according to the Script's Institution of Oceanography in
Speaker 1: San Diego. It says doomsday fish have long, slender bodies
Speaker 1: that can reach links of up to thirty six feet,
Speaker 1: about the size of a school bus. The oor fish
Speaker 1: is commonly referred to as the doomsday fish, as some
Speaker 1: believe that foreshadows natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
Speaker 1: According to the Ocean Conservancy, the fish has been observed
Speaker 1: around Japan during major earthquakes, but scientists report they have
Speaker 1: yet to establish a link between its appearance and events
Speaker 1: such as quakes and subsequent tsunamis. Two days after the
Speaker 1: fish was discovered, La was struck by a four point
Speaker 1: six magnitude earthquake, according to the USGS. So apparently these fish,
Speaker 1: they live very deep under the ocean, and so maybe
Speaker 1: they are the first organisms to sense some kind of
Speaker 1: a disturbance. You know, you've heard that before, that animals
Speaker 1: a lot of times they start freaking out in the wilderness.
Speaker 1: It's almost like, I don't know if it's infra sound
Speaker 1: or what they just picked. They can pick up vibrations
Speaker 1: or some kind of a shift. Because there's so much
Speaker 1: more in tune with nature than we are, whether head's
Speaker 1: stuck in our phones and computers and being brainwashed by
Speaker 1: the news all the time and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, isn't it. Oh, Well, let's go to our email.
Speaker 1: I think I have one I've been meaning to read
Speaker 1: for a while. That's kind of creepy, might fit the motif.
Speaker 1: This is from Michael Gomez who he was a federal
Speaker 1: security officer. Spokane, Washington. Is it Spokane or Spokane I've
Speaker 1: never been there. We'll call it Spokane. He says. It
Speaker 1: was the winter of two thousand and ten, and I
Speaker 1: was in my bedroom sleeping. It was the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, and the only light in the room was
Speaker 1: the moonlight shining through the bedroom window. I was lying
Speaker 1: in bed asleep with my cat beside me when it
Speaker 1: started hissing. I instantly woke up and saw the cat's
Speaker 1: hiss was directed at the air above us. My gaze
Speaker 1: followed the cats to a point where I observed a
Speaker 1: form roughly shaped like the upper torso and head of
Speaker 1: a man. I had the vague impression that this entity's
Speaker 1: head was hooded. The entire entity was darker than the
Speaker 1: surrounding darkness in the room, yet the thing was still
Speaker 1: somehow translucent. The most notable feet of this entity were
Speaker 1: the bright, glowing red eyes. The cat continued to hiss
Speaker 1: while this thing was hovering above my waistline, looking down
Speaker 1: at me. The instant that my eyes met the glowing
Speaker 1: red eyes of this entity above me, I sensed pure
Speaker 1: hatred directed at me emanating from it. There was an
Speaker 1: instantaneous sensation of one hundred percent pure malevolence. The entity
Speaker 1: hated me with all of its might and wanted nothing
Speaker 1: less than everything bad in the world upon me. It
Speaker 1: was at this point that I lost my temper, and
Speaker 1: I in turn felt burning, seething hatred for this entity
Speaker 1: with every facet of my being. The rage had taken
Speaker 1: control of me and was overpowering the sensation of hatred
Speaker 1: and malevolence, malevolence that this thing was directing at me.
Speaker 1: All I wanted to do was attack and smash and
Speaker 1: rip and tear and bite into whatever flesh this thing
Speaker 1: may have had. I wanted to see and sense the
Speaker 1: pain and the fear that I inflicted before I finally
Speaker 1: killed it. I sat up in my bed so that
Speaker 1: my face was no more than a couple of inches
Speaker 1: away from the thing's face. I was staring directly into
Speaker 1: the red void of this entity's eyes. There was no
Speaker 1: humanity there. There was nothing that resembled empathy or pity,
Speaker 1: only what I can begin to describe as a feeling
Speaker 1: of ancient, eternal enmity. It was at this point that
Speaker 1: the entity began hovering backward and away from my face.
Speaker 1: And as this thing was moving away from me, I
Speaker 1: reached out and attempted to grab it with my left hand.
Speaker 1: A couple of times in rapid succession, followed by my
Speaker 1: throwing multiple left hooks. There was no physical contact whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Each and every time that I attempted to physically assault
Speaker 1: this thing, my hand and my fist passed directly through
Speaker 1: the entity's head, face, and eyes without any resistance. The
Speaker 1: entity continued to hover away from me and toward the
Speaker 1: far upper corner of the room. I remember seeing in
Speaker 1: the moonlight cast on the right side of this thing's
Speaker 1: head and torso as it passed through the bedroom, and
Speaker 1: I won't ever forget the moonlight reflecting off of this
Speaker 1: thing's translucent form. As soon as this thing was out
Speaker 1: of my reach, the rage subsided and human rationalization began
Speaker 1: to return to me. It was then that this entity
Speaker 1: began to slowly phase out of sight, and for the
Speaker 1: first time during the encounter, I began to feel fear.
Speaker 1: It became apparent that this this entity somehow sensed the
Speaker 1: growing fear within me when I saw it look down
Speaker 1: and smile at me. The moment the entity reached the
Speaker 1: upper corner of the bedroom, it disappeared from sight, and
Speaker 1: although I could no longer see this thing, I still
Speaker 1: sensed its presence in the room, and without a definite
Speaker 1: target to channel, my anger on I began to fill
Speaker 1: a level of fear I'd never experience before, and after
Speaker 1: looking around the bedroom trying to locate the thing to
Speaker 1: focus my hatred on it, I gave up and I
Speaker 1: started praying. It was after praying for a while that
Speaker 1: I could no longer sense this entity's presence. And after
Speaker 1: this encounter, I spent more than two years obsessed, to
Speaker 1: the point where I would search while on duty during
Speaker 1: my usual night shift patrol, I was constantly looking through
Speaker 1: dark windows and in darkened areas of trees and courtyards
Speaker 1: and search of two glowing eyes to lash out against
Speaker 1: one more time. I've never seen this entity again. I've
Speaker 1: been lift, I've been left with many unanswered questions. The
Speaker 1: only certainty that I have is how this entity regards me.
Speaker 1: This thing sees me as prey, considers me as cattle.
Speaker 1: This entity thinks of me as an enemy, and now
Speaker 1: it will have me as an enemy until the end
Speaker 1: of time. Dude, Well, thank you, Michael. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to feel about that, but all I know is, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're out of time, so I think we need to
Speaker 1: end this show on a positive note. How about you
Speaker 1: take a deep breath, if you can close your eyes,
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