1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:01,280 Speaker 1: And you're here. 2 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 2: Thanks for choosing the iHeartRadio and Coast to Ghost Day 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: and Paranormal Podcast Network. Your quest for podcasts of the paranormal, supernatural, 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 2: and the unexplained ends here. They invite you to enjoy 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 2: all our shows we have on this network, and right now, 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 2: let's start with Chase of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain. 7 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: to Coast, AM employees of Premiere Networks, or their sponsors 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: and associates. We would like to encourage you to do 12 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. Hi. 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: on a journey to prove the existence of life after death. 15 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: Episode will discuss the reasons we now know that our 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 1: loved ones have survived physical doubt and so will we. 17 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife, my friends. I have 18 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: been on a journey lately. I decided to do something 19 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: I haven't done in a very long time, if I've 20 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: even ever done it. I went back to the very beginning, 21 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: back to the first forty episodes of this podcast. I 22 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: wanted to see if the Sandra of today still felt 23 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: the same way I did way over five years ago 24 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: when this podcast began. And as I sat here in 25 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: my home in Rhode Island listening to these voices from 26 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: years ago, I found myself really moved. And I wasn't 27 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: moved because I was sad. I was just reminded of 28 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: some conversations, really important ones that hit home. Every episode. 29 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: Of course, we talk about the afterlife, and we treat 30 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: the word evidence like a court case or a math problem, 31 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: always looking for the best for you. But when I 32 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: went through the episodes, I realized that within every story 33 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: is a gift, and I don't want them to get 34 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: lost because maybe you just started listening and you didn't 35 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: start from the beginning. So today I want to take 36 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: you into three different rooms. There are all places where 37 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 1: by every law of science, we know the stories that 38 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: happened should not have been possible. And if you're listening 39 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 1: right now, because your heart is heavy with grief and 40 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: sometimes the world seems so dark when we are sitting 41 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: in that, just listen in try to put yourself in 42 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: the shoes of the people in these stories, because as humans, 43 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: their truth is our truth too. So my first story 44 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: is called The Man and the Blue Dentures. It takes 45 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: place in a hospital room in the Netherlands. It's a cold, 46 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: sterile place. Imagine you can hear the beeping of monitors 47 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: and you know that smell that's in the air. In 48 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: a hospital, A man is rushed in by an ambulance. 49 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: He is what the doctor's called ionautic, which means his 50 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: skin has turned blue because he isn't breathing, he has 51 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: no pulse, and for all intents and purposes, he is dead. 52 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: The medical team moves fast. They are doing everything they 53 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: can to bring him back. There's a nurse there and 54 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: she's working to clear his throat so they can get 55 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: a tube in him to help him breathe. She notices 56 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: he's wearing dentures, and in the middle of all that chaos, 57 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: she reaches in, pulls out the dentures and looks for 58 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: a safe spot for them. She pulls out the bottom 59 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: drawer of a rolling cart nearby they call it a 60 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: crash cart, and sets the dentures inside on top of 61 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: some gauze then she shuts the drawer and gets back 62 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: to work. Eventually they got his heart started again, but 63 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: he is now in a deep coma and moved to 64 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: a different part of the hospital, and that nurse doesn't 65 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: see him for over a week. So a week later, 66 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: that same nurse is walking down the hall of the 67 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: heartward she sees this man awake and sitting up in bed. 68 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: The second he sees her, his whole face lights up. 69 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: He points at her and says to the people in 70 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: the room, oh, that's the nurse. She knows exactly where 71 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: my dentures are. This nurse freezes, She can't believe it. 72 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: The man was clinically dead when she saw him. His 73 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: eyes were closed, and he was in a coma for 74 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: days afterwards. But he looked at her and said, you 75 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: pulled them out of my mouth. You put them in 76 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: that cart, in the bottom drawer, right on top of 77 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: the gauze. So think about that. His heart wasn't beating, 78 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: his brain wasn't getting any oxygen, his eyes were physically shut, 79 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: yet he was watching. He wasn't in his body, he 80 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 1: was hovering above it. He saw the color of the drawer, 81 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: he saw the gauze. He even saw the serial number 82 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: on the cart, and he came back with proof that 83 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: he had never left. This isn't a trick of the mind. 84 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: It's an observation made by a soul that doesn't need 85 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: eyes to see. So if you're worried about your loved 86 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: one being gone, remember this man. He was right there 87 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: seeing everything, even when the world thought he was gone. 88 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: Who we really are is not in our bodies. The 89 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: next story is called the Shoe on the Ledge. Let's 90 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: go to another hospital, this time in Seattle. This is 91 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: a story of a woman named Maria. Maria had a 92 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: massive heart attack, and while the doctors were working on her, 93 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: she had an out of body experience. She described herself 94 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: rising up through the ceiling and eventually landing on the 95 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: roof of the hospital. Now Maria did not live in Seattle. 96 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: She had never been to this hospital before, but she 97 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: told a social worker there, a woman named Kimberly, something 98 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: so strange that Kimberly almost didn't believe her. Maria said, 99 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: while I was up there on the roof, I saw 100 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,679 Speaker 1: a shoe. It's on the ledge of the third floor, 101 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: on the north side of the building. It's a man's shoe, 102 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: A dark blue tennis shoe. It's worn out by the 103 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: little toe, and the lace is tucked under the heel. 104 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: That's pretty specific. Kimberly was a skeptic. She thought Maria 105 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: was just confused, but that detail about the lace being 106 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: tucked under the heel stuck in her mind. So Kimberly 107 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: went to the north wing. She went to the third floor. 108 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: She pressed her face against the windows, but she couldn't 109 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: see a thing. Finally, she actually went outside and crawled 110 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: along the ledge to check, and there it was a 111 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: dark blue tennis shoe, worn out at the toe, lace 112 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: tucked under the heel. Kimberly later said that holding that 113 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: shoe in her hand changed her life forever. She realized 114 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 1: that Maria, whose body was on a table with a 115 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: heart that had stopped, was actually more awake than the doctor's. 116 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: She had seen something that was it's physically impossible to 117 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: see from inside that room. If we are just our bodies, 118 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: Maria could have never seen that shoe, but she did. 119 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: And that tells us that the you that is listening 120 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: to my voice right now is not trapped in your skull. 121 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: You are the observer in the body, but you are 122 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: not the body. You my friend are eternal. The next 123 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: true story is called the surgical Chicken. The third room 124 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: is an operating room. A man is having very serious 125 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: heart surgery. His head is covered, his eyes are taped shut, 126 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: and he is under the deepest anesthesia that medicine can provide. 127 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: When he finally wakes up, he asks to see his surgeon. 128 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: He tells the doctor, I saw what you did. I 129 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: saw you standing there right before you started, and you 130 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: were flapping your elbows like a chicken. The surgeon went pale. 131 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: You see, this surgeon had a very private habit. After 132 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: he scrubbed his hands and put on his sterile gown, 133 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: he didn't want to touch anything. To settle the gown 134 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: on his shoulders without using his hands, he would tuck 135 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: his hands into his armpits and flap his elbows to 136 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: get the gown to sit right. He did it every 137 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: single time, but he only did it after the patient 138 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: was completely under. The patient also described instruments on the tray. 139 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: He described the exact words the nurses said to each other. 140 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: He even described a tiny mark on the back of 141 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: the surgeon's neck that was usually hidden by a collar. 142 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: So these stories are what I call the hidden gems. 143 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 1: They are the proof who we are. Our consciousness is 144 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: what's called non local. It's a fancy way of saying 145 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: that your soul isn't like a bird in a cage. 146 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 1: It's more like a radio signal might break, the body 147 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: might stop working, but the music, the voice, the essence 148 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: of who you are is still being broadcast and it 149 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: never stops. The next story is called the Surprise. Welcome, 150 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: And for anyone who's listening right now who feels they 151 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: are walking through a long, dark journey of grief, this 152 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: is for you. Maybe you feel like you're all alone, 153 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: maybe you're worried that when your time comes, you'll be 154 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: lost in the dark. I want to tell you about 155 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: a woman named Anne. Anne was very sick and close 156 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: to the end of her life. Her family was gathered 157 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: around her bed. Now. Anne had a sister named Mary. 158 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: Mary lived far away, and she had actually died just 159 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: two days before, so the family decided not to tell Anne. 160 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: They didn't want to upset her or make her last 161 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: hours any harder. They wanted her to be at peace. 162 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: Anne was drifting in and out of sleep. Suddenly she 163 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: opened her eyes wide. She had a huge smile on 164 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 1: her face. The kind of smile her family hadn't seen 165 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: in years. She looked into the corner of the room, 166 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: reaching out her hand and said, Oh, there's Mary. She's 167 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: here to help me. I didn't know she was coming. 168 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: The family in the room went completely silent. They looked 169 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: at each other with chills running down their arms. Anne 170 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: had no way of knowing that Mary was gone. Nobody 171 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: had told her. But she didn't just see a ghost. 172 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: She saw the person who was actually there waiting for her. 173 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: If you're hurting right now, hear me on this. Anne 174 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: wasn't confused. She wasn't seeing a visitor that the rest 175 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: of the people couldn't see. Ye. It tells us that 176 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: death isn't a wall, it's a door. And on the 177 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: other side of that door, for each of us, there 178 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: is a welcoming committee. When our loved ones pass and 179 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: step through that door, they are never alone. We are 180 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: all met with that same joy. Each one of us 181 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: is scooped up and welcomed into the arms of love. 182 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: As I listened back to these stories, what stayed with 183 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 1: me is that it's not just we survive death, it's 184 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: that we're loved through it. Whether it's a nurse moving 185 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: your dentures or a sister waiting in the corner of 186 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: the room. We are always being looked after. So the 187 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: evidence isn't just about facts. It's about love. It's about 188 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: the fact that our bonds made here on earth are 189 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: too strong for death to ever break. So let out 190 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: a sigh of relief. Let your heart rest for just 191 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: a moment, because, based on everything I have learned in 192 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty episodes, the goodbye you said isn't forever. 193 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: It's just a see you later. One more quick story 194 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: before the break. We've talked about eyes being taped shut, 195 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: but what if the eyes didn't work at all? Let 196 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: me tell you about Vicky. She was born blind. Her 197 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: optic nerve was completely destroyed. At birth. She had never 198 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 1: seen a face, a sunset, or even a shadow. To her, 199 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: the world was just a sound in touch. But years ago, 200 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: Vicki was in a severe car accident. She was rushed 201 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: to surgery, and in that operating room, something miraculous happened. 202 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: She popped out of her body and for the first 203 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: time in twenty two years, she could see. She floated 204 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: up to the ceiling. She looked down and saw a 205 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: body on the table. She didn't recognize it at first, 206 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: but then she zoomed in she saw a ring on 207 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: her finger. She recognized it by its shape. It was 208 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: her own wedding ring. She watched the doctors working. She 209 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: even described the specific intricate tools they were using. When 210 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: she woke up and told the medical team what she saw, 211 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: they were stunned. Science says vision comes from the brain 212 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,559 Speaker 1: processing signals from the eyes, but Vicky's eyes didn't work. 213 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: Her brain had never processed an image yet she saw. 214 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: It's the ultimate proof that you're consciousness. The real you 215 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: does not need eyes to see. We'll be right back. 216 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio 217 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back 218 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. In our 219 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: last segment, we looked at several stories that proves our consciousness, 220 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: the part of us that sees doesn't need a brain 221 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: to work. So now I want to take us down 222 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: a different path. I want to talk about who we 223 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: really are when we lose someone we love, When a 224 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: mother loses a son, or a husband loses his wife. 225 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: One of the biggest fears is where are they? But 226 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: another their big fear is are they still them? We 227 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: worry that the person we knew, with their funny jokes, 228 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: their specific habits and memories, their unique personality, has just 229 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: turned into a vague cloud of energy. We worry that 230 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: the thumbprint of who they were has been wiped away. 231 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: But going back in those past episodes, I found some 232 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: beautiful stories that tell us that you are still you 233 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: and I'll be still me. Our memories, passions, and love 234 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: for specific people are like a permanent record on our soul. 235 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: Here's the story of James, the toddler who Remembered. Now 236 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: this got a lot of publicity in the media years ago. 237 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: It's a story of a little boy named James Lininger. 238 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: Now imagine you are James's parents, Bruce and Andrea, were 239 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: just regular, hardworking people. They didn't know anything about the afterlife. 240 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: They weren't looking for a miracle. They were just trying 241 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: to raise their little book, who was two years old 242 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: at the time. But then something weird started to happen. 243 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: This little boy started having nightmares. Not just crying in 244 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: his sleep, he was screaming, kicking his legs up in 245 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: the air, fighting off an invisible enemy, and he kept 246 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: yelling the same thing over and over. Airplane crash, airplane, crash, 247 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: plane on fire. Little man can't get out. As a parent, 248 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: your heart would break for him. You'd think he probably 249 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: saw something scary on TV. But James started giving his 250 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: parents details that a two year old couldn't possibly know. 251 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: He didn't just play with toy planes, he was obsessed 252 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: with them. One day, his mom pointed to a tank 253 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: at the bottom of a toy plane and called it 254 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: a bomb. James looked at her, totally serious and said, 255 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: that's not a bomb, mommy, that's a drop tank. Where 256 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: does a two year old learn the words drop tank? 257 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: He told them that he used to be a pilot. 258 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: He said his plane was hit in the engine and 259 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: crashed into the water. He told them he flew a 260 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: coarse air, a very specific type of World War two 261 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: plane with bent wings. Now, Bruce James's father was a 262 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: real skeptic. He was actually getting a bit annoyed by 263 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: all of this because he knew there had to be 264 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: a logical reason for it. He thought we must have 265 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: gone to a museum. Maybe he saw all this stuff 266 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: in a book. But they hadn't so Bruce started asking 267 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: James questions, almost like a detective trying to catch a 268 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: witness in a lie. He asked, James, do you remember 269 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: the name of the boat your plane took off from. 270 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: James didn't even hesitate, He said the Natoma. His dad 271 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: went to the computer and looked it up, expecting to 272 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: find nothing, but there it was the USS Natoma Bay, 273 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: a real aircraft carrier from the Second World War. Bruce's 274 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 1: hands started to shake. He asked James if he had 275 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: any friends on the ship. James said yes, Jack Larson. 276 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: Bruce did more research. He found out that Jack Larson 277 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: was a real pilot and he was actually still alive. 278 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: When Bruce eventually tracked down the old veterans from the Natoma, 279 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: he found out there was only one pilot from the 280 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: ship who died in the Battle of Ewo Jima. His 281 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 1: name was James Houston. This little boy, who was barely 282 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: out of diapers, was describing the exact way James Houston died. 283 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: He even had three Gi Joe dolls that he called Billy, Leon, 284 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 1: and Walter. When his dad asked why he picked those names, 285 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: James said, because those were the guys who met me 286 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: when I went to heaven. Bruce did the research again. 287 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: He went through the records of the men who served 288 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: on that ship, and sure enough, those were the names 289 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: of three other pilots from the Natoma Bay who had 290 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: died just before James Houston. They were his welcoming committee. 291 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: They were the friends who stood at the door to 292 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 1: the afterlife and said, come on in, James, you're safe now. 293 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: So James Houston actually remained James in this life, same 294 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: first name. Little James remembered his friends, he remembered his plane. 295 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: He even remembered the specific people who met him when 296 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: he crossed over. Our children, our spouses, they don't lose 297 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: their identity. They aren't recycled into something else. They are 298 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: souls having a human experience, and they carry the love 299 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: and the memories of that experience with them forever. There's 300 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: a lot more details that Little James had, and I've 301 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: talked about that fully on a past episode. But he 302 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: is living proof that you are eternal, so you don't 303 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: have to worry that your loved one has forgotten you 304 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: or they've moved on. If James could remember a ship 305 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: and a friend from sixty years ago, imagine how clearly 306 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 1: your loved one remembers your face and the sound of 307 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: your voice. Our next true story is called the Huckleberry Password. 308 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: Now let's talk about people who have already crossed over 309 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: and are trying to reach us. I remember a story 310 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: from those earliest episodes about a woman who had lost 311 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: her husband. She was in that deep fog of grief 312 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: where you can't even get out of bed in the morning. 313 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: Everything is so heavy. You wake up and for just 314 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 1: a split second, you forget your loved one is gone. 315 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: Then it hits you all over again. So this lady 316 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: went to see a medium, but she was very smart 317 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: about it. She didn't give her her name, she didn't 318 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: tell the medium who had passed. She even took off 319 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: her wedding ring so there would be no clues. She said, there, 320 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: guarded and quiet, just waiting for a sign. The medium 321 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: almost immediately started to smile. She didn't look sad. She 322 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,679 Speaker 1: looked like she was listening to somebody tell her a 323 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: very funny story. The medium said, there is a man here. 324 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: He is tall, he has a very funny sense of humor, 325 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: and he says that he's your husband, but he knows 326 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: you're a skeptic. He says, he knows you're sitting there 327 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: thinking this is all made up, So he wants me 328 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 1: to give you the password. Now, this woman and her 329 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: husband had been lifetime best friends. They used to joke 330 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,119 Speaker 1: about the afterlife. They had made a deal if I 331 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: go first, I'll give you a code word so you 332 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: know it's really me. They picked a word that was 333 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 1: so silly, so random, that no one else would even 334 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: think of it. The medium looked this woman right in 335 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: the eye and said, he's telling me to tell you 336 00:20:54,920 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: the word huckleberry. The woman burst into tears. That was 337 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: the word. It was their secret. But the medium wasn't done. 338 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: She leaned in and said, he's laughing. Now. He says 339 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: to tell you that he sees you every night. He 340 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 1: sees you when you go into the closet and put 341 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 1: on his old blue flannel shirt to go to sleep 342 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: in because it still smells like him. He wants you 343 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: to know that he's standing right there by the bed 344 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: when you do that. He says, you aren't alone in 345 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: that room. So this medium knew nothing about this lady, 346 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: but she described her husband clearly the code word and 347 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: that he sees her alone at night putting on his shirt. 348 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: So if you're feeling a bit alone, imagine that your 349 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: loved one is in that invisible space around you with 350 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: that same kind of love for you. They see the 351 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: little things you do, they see you looking at their pictures, 352 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: and they are trying with everything they have to give 353 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: you your own Huckleberry moment. They want you to know they 354 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: haven't changed. They are still the person who loved you, 355 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: with the same jokes, they have the same memories. They're 356 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 1: just missing the heavy suit of the body that they 357 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 1: were wearing, and they're still by your side. Next story 358 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: is the laboratory proof. I know that for some of you, 359 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: your brain says Sandra, that's a one in a million story. 360 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: Maybe the medium got lucky. But I went back to 361 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: an early episode doing the research from the Windbridge Institute. Now, 362 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: they just don't tell stories there. They do experiments. They 363 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: take mediums and put them through what they call the 364 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: quintuple blind test. It means everyone is kept in the 365 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 1: dark on the experiment, so there's no way to cheat. 366 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: The medium doesn't know the person they are doing the 367 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: reading for. The person asking the questions doesn't know who 368 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: the dead person is. Even the people running the computer 369 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: don't know the names, and they do this oh and 370 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: over and over again, hundreds of times in fact, and 371 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: yet even in these cold scientific rooms, the truth starts 372 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 1: screaming through the Mediums often get the specific cause of death. 373 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: They get the names of the family dogs, and not 374 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: just names like Buster or Daisy. They get the weird 375 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: ones too. They get the specific hobbies, like he loved 376 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: to fix old clocks, or she had a collection of 377 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: glass birds. What this tells me, and I hope it 378 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: tells you, is that the information, the data of who 379 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 1: we are, is floating in the universe, ready to be 380 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: picked up by someone who knows how to listen. It's 381 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: like your soul is a radio station. Even when the 382 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 1: radio tower on Earth falls down, the music is still 383 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: playing on a different frequency. You just need the right 384 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,719 Speaker 1: receiver to hear the song. So your loved one is 385 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: not just a memory in your mind. They are still living, 386 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: maybe not breathing the air here on Earth, but they're alive, 387 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: and they remember every trip you took, every glance you made, 388 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 1: every I love you said, and every secret you shared. 389 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: They are whole and intact. They are safe. They are 390 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 1: watching us grow and will be reunited one day. Where 391 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: you can hear them, see them, and hug them again. 392 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: We're going to head off to the break, but just 393 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: a reminder that you, my friend, are an eternal, divine soul. 394 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: Your life matters, and you are never ever truly alone. 395 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: In fact, if they could speak to you right now, 396 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: I believe this is what they would say. I am 397 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: with you in the moment you open your eyes, doing 398 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 1: my best to help you start your day with light. 399 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: With every step you take. I am walking right beside you. 400 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 1: I am the quiet voice whispering in your ear. You 401 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,239 Speaker 1: can do it, reminding you how important your mission on 402 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 1: earth is. I try to place sudden images and happy 403 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: thoughts into your mind, just to let you know I 404 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: am still here, And when you finally drift off to sleep, 405 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: I do my best to help you rest peacefully. I 406 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,679 Speaker 1: try to sneak into your dreams just to tell you 407 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 1: I love you. I am your biggest cheerleader. I am patient. 408 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: I want you to live a full, beautiful life, and 409 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: I will be right here waiting for the moment when 410 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: I can finally wrap my arms around you again. We'll 411 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: be right back. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife 412 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. 413 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain, 414 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,239 Speaker 1: and as I've been reviewing some of the information and 415 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: stories from the earliest episodes, I want to talk about 416 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: the times where our loved ones don't communicate with a medium, 417 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 1: but they talk to us using technology like our phones, 418 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 1: our computers, and digital recorders. You may remember me talking 419 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:29,159 Speaker 1: about evp's electronic voice phenomena. This is when a voice 420 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: isn't from a person in the room, but yet it 421 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: shows up on a recording. And if you're listening right 422 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: now thinking you'll never hear your loved one's voice again, 423 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: you're wrong. Not only will you hear it in the afterlife, 424 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 1: but you might catch one through technology. Here is the 425 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,239 Speaker 1: I Am here recording. This is the story of a 426 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: man named George. George was sitting in a quiet living 427 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: room after he lost his son, and of course he 428 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: was heartbroken. George wasn't a spiritual guy. He was a 429 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: skeptic and he liked facts. But he heard about EVP, 430 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: so he bought a simple digital tape recorder, the kind 431 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: you might use for voice memos. He sat in his 432 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: chair and hit the record button. He sat there in 433 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 1: total silence. There was no one else in the house, 434 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 1: no TV was on, no wind was blowing, no rain outside. 435 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: The house was so quiet you could only hear the 436 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: clock ticking on the wall. He looked at the recorder 437 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 1: with tears in his eyes and said, son, if you 438 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: can hear me, please tell me you're okay, give me anything. 439 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: He waited for thirty seconds, just breathing, and then he 440 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: hit the stop button. When George played it back, he 441 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 1: heard his own shaky voice asking the question. But then 442 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: in the silence that followed, he heard something that made 443 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: his heart stop. It was a voice. It was a 444 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: gravelly young man's voice, and it didn't just say a 445 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: random word. It said, I am here Dad. Now George 446 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,400 Speaker 1: didn't believe it right away. He was a skeptic, after all. 447 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: He thought that maybe he picked up a neighbor or 448 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: a passing car. Even took the recording to a professional 449 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: sound engineer and he asked, is this from a radio station? 450 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 1: Is this a glitch? Am I hearing things? And the 451 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: expert looked at the waveforms, you know those little lines 452 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: on the computer screen that shows how a voice looks, 453 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: and he told George something that changed everything. He said, George, 454 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 1: this voice didn't come through the microphone. Usually when a 455 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: person speaks, you see the air vibrating. But this voice 456 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 1: was imprinted directly onto the digital chip inside the machine. 457 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: And here's the most wonderful part. That voice print. The 458 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: way the words were shaped matched the son's voice exactly. 459 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: It had that same little raspy sound. It had the 460 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: same way of stretching out the word here. It was 461 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: a thumb print made by sound. If you're someone who's 462 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 1: missing your person's voice, remember George, his son didn't need 463 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: a body or lungs to say I am here, use 464 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: the energy in the room to send a message. He 465 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: wanted his dad to know that the dead aren't silent. 466 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: They're just speaking on a different frequency. They're trying to 467 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: find the buttons in our world to let us know 468 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: they are still watching. I have my own stories about 469 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: EVPs and recording the sound of raindrops only to hear 470 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: good night, Sandra, good night, good night, good night. Our 471 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: next story is called the phone Call from the Empty Room. 472 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 1: It's about a family who had lost their father, their grandpa. 473 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: It had passed away in a hospital room, at two 474 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning after a long battle, the family 475 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: had gone home to get some sleep, feeling that heavy, 476 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: hollow weight that through grief. The next evening was about 477 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: twenty four hours after he died, and the phone in 478 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: the kitchen rang. The daughter, let's call her. Sarah was 479 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: standing by the counter making tea. She picked up the phone, 480 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: looked at the caller ID and her hand started to shake. 481 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: The screen said the name of the hospital. It even 482 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: gave the specific room where the father had passed away 483 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: just the night before. So she answered the phone, her 484 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: voice barely a whisper. She said hello. On the other end, 485 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: she heard a sound like static, like a radio that 486 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: isn't quite tuned in. But through the static she heard 487 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: her father's voice. He sounded like he was calling from 488 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: a long way away, but it was him. He said, 489 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: I'm fine, Sarah, I'm just fine. Tell your mother not 490 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: to worry. I'm okay, and then the line just went. 491 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: So Sarah was a practical woman. She called the hospital 492 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: back right away. She talked to the head nurse on 493 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: the floor. She said, who is in room four twelve? 494 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: Someone just called me from that phone. The nurse was 495 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: quiet for a moment, she said, Honey, that's impossible. The 496 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: room has been empty all day. We haven't even assigned 497 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: a new patient to it yet because we're short staffed. 498 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: The bed is stripped, and besides, the phone lines and 499 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: that whole wing were disconnected this morning by the phone 500 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: company for maintenance. There is no dial tone in that room. 501 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: Think about the logic of that. The room was empty, 502 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: the bed was bare, the phone line was physically disconnected 503 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: from the wall, but the hospital's computer system, the caller 504 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: ID still registered a call from the father's room at 505 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: that specific time. Her father didn't need a wire or 506 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: a dial tone to make that call. He used the 507 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: system to send a message of comfort to the people 508 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: he loved the most. He knew his wife was worrying, 509 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: and he used the closest tool he could find to 510 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: tell her that he was safe. So if you're missing 511 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 1: someone right now, know that our loved ones are incredibly smart, 512 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: and I think they have people on the other side 513 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 1: helping them with this because they know how much we 514 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: love our phones and gadgets. So many of them are 515 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: trying to use those methods to reach us. They're not 516 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: trying to be scary, they're just trying to find a 517 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,719 Speaker 1: way to say I'm still here, I'm with you, and 518 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: I love you. Next the Buttercup Miracle. Here's another story 519 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: about technology from the early days. It involves something called 520 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: a spirit box. This is a radio that scans through 521 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 1: all the stations very fast. It goes shh, so you 522 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: can hear a bunch of white noise. The idea is 523 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: that spirits can grab the bits of audio from those 524 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: different stations to form words. I remember a woman who 525 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: was using one of these. She was very sad, and 526 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: she was asking for her mother. She said, Mom, if 527 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: you can hear me, please tell me something only you 528 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 1: would know. Tell me what you called me when I 529 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: was a little girl. She sat there for a long time, 530 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: just listening to the static. Then suddenly three different stations 531 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 1: clipped together in a split second to say one clear word, Buttercup. 532 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: You see, Buttercup was her secret nickname. It wasn't a 533 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 1: common name you'd hear on a radio station or news report. 534 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: It was her mother's voice, using the bits and pieces 535 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,440 Speaker 1: of our world to build a bridge. When I look 536 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: back on my original episodes of Shades of the Afterlife, 537 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: I do see a pattern. Our loved ones are like pioneers. 538 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 1: They are on the other side of a great ocean, 539 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: and they are trying to build a telegraph system. They 540 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,480 Speaker 1: use the electricity in our homes, they use the batteries 541 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: and our recorders, use the noise in our radios. They 542 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: do this because they want to take away our fear. 543 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 1: They know that when you hear their voice, even if 544 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 1: it's just for a second, even if it's through static, 545 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,799 Speaker 1: our grief changes. It doesn't go away, of course, but 546 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: it changes. And even though it's a heavy weight, it 547 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: changes into a weight of knowing. It becomes something we 548 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,840 Speaker 1: can carry because we know they aren't gone. They've just 549 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: moved to a different neighborhood. I don't think everyone can 550 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,359 Speaker 1: work technology. My grandmother was just short of ninety one 551 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: years old when she passed, so she may not be 552 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,800 Speaker 1: doing EVPs, but she's come to me through my dreams. 553 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:48,240 Speaker 1: Some people can definitely manipulate technology, though. Okay, next story, 554 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 1: the energy of love. Have you ever had a weird 555 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,400 Speaker 1: picture just show up on your phone, something from the 556 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: past just pops up, or maybe a song played out 557 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,720 Speaker 1: of nowhere, your loved one's favorite song, maybe a picture 558 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,240 Speaker 1: of them popped up on your screen. Out of nowhere. 559 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: Maybe you saw their name on a license plate or 560 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: a sign. It's easy to think we're imagining things, but 561 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: we aren't crazy or desperate. We are experiencing what I 562 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 1: call a digital hello. The people we love are made 563 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,919 Speaker 1: of energy, so are we, and our world is full 564 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,399 Speaker 1: of energy. They are learning how to manipulate the frequencies 565 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,880 Speaker 1: of our world to reach us. They do this because 566 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,799 Speaker 1: they know we're sad. They do this because they see 567 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 1: us struggling to live one day to the next when 568 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 1: we're in deep grief, and they want us to know 569 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,839 Speaker 1: that the death we saw was just an exit from 570 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 1: one room and an entrance into another. I do these 571 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: recordings from my bedroom here in Rhode Island. Listening to 572 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,399 Speaker 1: these past recordings from years ago, I realize that we 573 00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:00,600 Speaker 1: are truly living in a time of miracles. We have 574 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 1: the recorders, we have the phone logs, we have the Internet, 575 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,680 Speaker 1: we have AI, we have the Buttercup moments, and at 576 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,479 Speaker 1: all points to one amazing fact. The people we love 577 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,240 Speaker 1: are just a frequency away. They are safe, they are well, 578 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,440 Speaker 1: and they're going to use every tool we've got on 579 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,319 Speaker 1: this earth to let us know that. And I know 580 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,359 Speaker 1: it's easy for us to think it's just our imagination, 581 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,839 Speaker 1: but they work through our imagination. Remember, when we get 582 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,719 Speaker 1: to the other side, we communicate through our thoughts. So 583 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,320 Speaker 1: if a thought pops into your mind out of nowhere, 584 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,839 Speaker 1: you may not be making it up. It may be them. 585 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,040 Speaker 1: So tonight, maybe stay open to the idea that those 586 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: interesting things that happen, those signs, they're just little messages 587 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 1: from your loved ones saying hey, I'm still here, I'm okay, 588 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,920 Speaker 1: I'm with you, and most importantly I love you. Before 589 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 1: we go to the break, I want to leave you 590 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 1: with the thought from inventor Thomas Edison. He was one 591 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,239 Speaker 1: of the greatest inventors of all time, and did you 592 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,080 Speaker 1: know that near the end of his life he was 593 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,879 Speaker 1: actually trying to build a spirit phone. He said, if 594 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 1: our personality survives, then it is strictly logical and scientific 595 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:27,719 Speaker 1: that it retains memory, intellect, and other faculties and knowledge. 596 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,920 Speaker 1: If we can't evolve, an instrument so delicate as to 597 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 1: be affected by our personality as it survives in the 598 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: next life, such as an instrument ought to record something, 599 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 1: and Edison knew it was possible and was trying to 600 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,839 Speaker 1: build that. And today we are seeing that he was right. 601 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,439 Speaker 1: Coming up in our next segment, we're going to talk 602 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,240 Speaker 1: about some very interesting evidence. It's called the shared Journey. 603 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,880 Speaker 1: We'll talk about what happens when the living and the 604 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 1: dying travel to get part of the way. We'll be 605 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 1: right back. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on 606 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio and costacoast am Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back 607 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,800 Speaker 1: to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sanders Champlain and for myself, 608 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: i was reviewing some of the earliest episodes of this 609 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 1: podcast and it really lit me up. So if you 610 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 1: haven't heard them in a long time, go back and 611 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,439 Speaker 1: listen on whatever podcast app you're using. You can click 612 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,640 Speaker 1: a button to listen from the beginning. I have so 613 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,680 Speaker 1: many incredible stories that I don't want you to miss 614 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,239 Speaker 1: any of them. So today I'm spending my time. I'm 615 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,280 Speaker 1: just on some of the stories that I have totally 616 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 1: forgotten about. But in this next segment, I want to 617 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:11,400 Speaker 1: share something that is truly fascinating. It's when someone passes 618 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 1: and the veil isn't just thin for them, but it's 619 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,480 Speaker 1: thin for the person who's sitting next to them. It's 620 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,799 Speaker 1: a loved one when we lose someone we love, the 621 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,239 Speaker 1: hardest part is that feeling of being left behind. You 622 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 1: feel that they've gone somewhere you can't follow, and you're 623 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,680 Speaker 1: worried about what that journey must be like for them. 624 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 1: Of course, we wonder if they feel pain, if they 625 00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,239 Speaker 1: were scared, or if they were alone in those final moments. 626 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:43,399 Speaker 1: But there's a phenomena called a shared death experience that 627 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,520 Speaker 1: proves that no one, and I mean absolutely no one, 628 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,920 Speaker 1: ever makes the journey to the other side alone. It 629 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,840 Speaker 1: shows us that the dying person is actually being greeted 630 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 1: with a celebration, and sometimes, if we are lucky, we 631 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,439 Speaker 1: get to see a glimpse of the party. This true 632 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,600 Speaker 1: story I call the Nurse and the Light want to 633 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,880 Speaker 1: take you back into a quiet hospice room. There was 634 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 1: a nurse there, a woman named Joy. Now Joy had 635 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,319 Speaker 1: seen death hundreds of times. She was the kind of 636 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,799 Speaker 1: person who didn't get carried away by the stories of 637 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,319 Speaker 1: loved ones showing up in the room. She was practical. 638 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,759 Speaker 1: She was sitting with an elderly man who was very 639 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 1: close to the end of his life. He had no 640 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,640 Speaker 1: family left, so Joy pulled her chair up close and 641 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,799 Speaker 1: held his hand so he wouldn't be alone. The room 642 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:39,280 Speaker 1: was very still, just the sound of his breathing. Suddenly, 643 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:43,680 Speaker 1: Joy said, the entire room began to change. She said, 644 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,880 Speaker 1: the walls seemed to fade away, and the air felt 645 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,759 Speaker 1: like it was thick with a kind of peace she 646 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,799 Speaker 1: had never felt on earth. Then she felt herself being 647 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,359 Speaker 1: lifted out of her chair. She wasn't just watching him, 648 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:02,520 Speaker 1: she was traveling with him. She described leaving the hospital 649 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:06,080 Speaker 1: room and entering a place of light that was so 650 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,520 Speaker 1: bright and so full of love that she didn't have 651 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:14,920 Speaker 1: words for it. And she saw people standing there, people 652 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,640 Speaker 1: she didn't know, but she could tell they were his family. 653 00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 1: They looked young, radiant, and full of life. They were 654 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,640 Speaker 1: waiting for him with open arms, and the joy in 655 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,640 Speaker 1: the air was overwhelming. Joy said she felt the most 656 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,920 Speaker 1: incredible happiness that she's ever felt in her life. And 657 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:39,920 Speaker 1: then she felt a gentle push back. She found herself 658 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,640 Speaker 1: back in the chair, still holding the man's hand. He 659 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:48,000 Speaker 1: had just taken his last breath. She wasn't dying, of course, 660 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 1: she was perfectly healthy, but she was allowed to go 661 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:55,480 Speaker 1: halfway to the door so that she could see that 662 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 1: he was safe. If you are someone who couldn't be 663 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,359 Speaker 1: there at the very last moment with your loved one, 664 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,560 Speaker 1: or even if you were there and it felt scary, 665 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,560 Speaker 1: I want you to remember joy. Your loved one didn't 666 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,640 Speaker 1: walk into a dark hole. They didn't disappear into nothingness 667 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:18,040 Speaker 1: when their body passed. They walked into a room filled 668 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,000 Speaker 1: with people who have been waiting to see them for 669 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,560 Speaker 1: a very long time. Our next story is called the 670 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,680 Speaker 1: Peak in dary Anne Mystery, and I've been talking about 671 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:33,239 Speaker 1: peak and dry Anne cases quite recently. Well, here's the 672 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,520 Speaker 1: story and you'll understand what it means. This happened to 673 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,160 Speaker 1: a man named Eddie. Eddie was very sick in the 674 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,919 Speaker 1: hospital and he was struggling. His best friend, Andy had 675 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:46,000 Speaker 1: died in a car accident the day before, but like 676 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,640 Speaker 1: our earlier story, the family decided not to tell Eddie. 677 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,320 Speaker 1: They were afraid the shock of losing his best friend 678 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,560 Speaker 1: would be too much for his weak heart. Eddie was 679 00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,400 Speaker 1: drifting in and out of sleep. Suddenly he opened his 680 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,560 Speaker 1: eyes and looked at his mother. He had a look 681 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,200 Speaker 1: of total shock on his face, but he wasn't scared. 682 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:11,879 Speaker 1: He was just confused. He said, Mom, I just saw 683 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,279 Speaker 1: Andy and he's right there in the corner. But why 684 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,200 Speaker 1: is Andy here? Isn't he supposed to be at work today. 685 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,840 Speaker 1: Eddie had no way of knowing his friend was dead. 686 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,319 Speaker 1: In his mind, Andy was perfectly fine and was sitting 687 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,080 Speaker 1: at his desk at work that day, but Eddie saw 688 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,759 Speaker 1: him standing in the room, healthy and waiting for him. 689 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,440 Speaker 1: Eddie died a few hours later with a huge smile 690 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:40,480 Speaker 1: on his face because he knew his best friend was 691 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,960 Speaker 1: there to lead the way. This isn't a hallucination. Your 692 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,719 Speaker 1: brain doesn't hallucinate that someone is dead when you one 693 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:53,120 Speaker 1: hundred percent believe they are alive. This is a real meeting, 694 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,359 Speaker 1: and it's real proof that people who love us are 695 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,440 Speaker 1: standing by ready to catch us at the moment we 696 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:03,080 Speaker 1: let go of this world. So these experiences are called 697 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,920 Speaker 1: peak in dairy m cases. Now I'll tell you the 698 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,239 Speaker 1: red velvet dress story. It's about a nine year old 699 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,960 Speaker 1: girl who was very sick. One morning, she woke up 700 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:18,280 Speaker 1: and told her father, Aunt Martha is here. She's wearing 701 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,120 Speaker 1: a beautiful red velvet dress with gold buttons, and she 702 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,560 Speaker 1: says she's going to take me to see some flowers. 703 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:29,319 Speaker 1: The father was confused. Aunt Martha was his sister and 704 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:33,440 Speaker 1: she lived hundreds of miles away. As far as he knew, 705 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,759 Speaker 1: she was healthy. He thought his daughter must have just 706 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,080 Speaker 1: been having a dream. But less than an hour later 707 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,799 Speaker 1: he got the news Aunt Martha had died in a 708 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:48,319 Speaker 1: car accident that very morning, at the exact time the 709 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,640 Speaker 1: little girl saw her in the room. Later, when the 710 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 1: father went to the funeral, he saw Martha in her casket. 711 00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,799 Speaker 1: She was wearing the exact red velvet d rests with 712 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:05,280 Speaker 1: the gold buttons that the little girl had described. Again, 713 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,640 Speaker 1: anyone that you know who has passed, they were met, 714 00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,840 Speaker 1: They were guided, They were loved before they even left 715 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,640 Speaker 1: their body. They weren't confused. They didn't wonder where to 716 00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,880 Speaker 1: go next. They were picked up by the people who 717 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:26,000 Speaker 1: knew them the best. Next. The Father and the Impossible Sunrise. 718 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,320 Speaker 1: This is a story about a man who lost his father. 719 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,879 Speaker 1: His father was a very practical man, a carpenter who 720 00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:37,240 Speaker 1: didn't believe in spiritual or heavenly things. On his deathbed, 721 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,240 Speaker 1: the son said, Dad, if you find out there's something 722 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,919 Speaker 1: on the other side, give me a sign and make 723 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,960 Speaker 1: it big. The father died at four in the morning 724 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:52,680 Speaker 1: on a very cloudy, rainy Tuesday. The sun was sitting 725 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,880 Speaker 1: on the porch, crying, feeling that deep dark grief that 726 00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,880 Speaker 1: we all know. He looked at the sky and said, okay, Dad, 727 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:05,320 Speaker 1: where are you at That exact second, the thick gray 728 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:10,040 Speaker 1: clouds over his house parted in a perfect circle. A 729 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:14,320 Speaker 1: beam of bright, golden sunlight hit him right in the face. 730 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,440 Speaker 1: It was so bright he had to close his eyes. 731 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,480 Speaker 1: It lasted for exactly one minute, and then the clouds 732 00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,840 Speaker 1: closed back up and it started to rain again. He 733 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,840 Speaker 1: called the weather station later and they told him that 734 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,839 Speaker 1: in his town there was no sun recorded at all 735 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,600 Speaker 1: that morning. It had been a total cloud cover for 736 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:39,760 Speaker 1: fifty miles in every direction. So this wasn't an event 737 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,600 Speaker 1: caused by weather. That was a father using the energy 738 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,920 Speaker 1: of the universe to say, I found the light sun, 739 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,399 Speaker 1: and it's brighter than you can imagine. There's one more 740 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,440 Speaker 1: story I have to tell you. It's about a woman 741 00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:56,319 Speaker 1: named Janine. She was at home sleeping while her mother 742 00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:00,920 Speaker 1: was in a nursing home fifty miles away. The Janine 743 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,680 Speaker 1: bolted straight up in her bed. The room was filled 744 00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,560 Speaker 1: with a golden light that didn't come from any lamp. 745 00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,120 Speaker 1: She saw her mother standing at the foot of her bed, 746 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,320 Speaker 1: looking young and healthy. Her mother wasn't in the hospital gown, 747 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:20,520 Speaker 1: she was in her favorite Sunday dress. She whispered, I'm free, Janine, 748 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,920 Speaker 1: I'm finally free. I love you. Janine looked at her clock. 749 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:31,120 Speaker 1: It was exactly three two am. Five minutes later, the 750 00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,319 Speaker 1: nursing home called her mother had passed away at exactly 751 00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:40,160 Speaker 1: three am. These stories prove that our souls are connected 752 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:46,080 Speaker 1: by invisible wires of love. Distance doesn't matter, walls don't matter. 753 00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,239 Speaker 1: When the soul leaves the body, the very first thing 754 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,680 Speaker 1: it does is go to the people it loves most 755 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:56,240 Speaker 1: to say I'm okay. Don't be afraid. If you haven't 756 00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,160 Speaker 1: had one of these outstanding signs, your loved one might 757 00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:03,680 Speaker 1: be trying to communicate in a different way. Please be 758 00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,920 Speaker 1: aware of thoughts that just seem to come out of 759 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,480 Speaker 1: nowhere or remembory you had with them, just little calling 760 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,600 Speaker 1: cards that say I'm right here. When I think of 761 00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,480 Speaker 1: Shades of the Afterlife and now some two hundred and 762 00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:19,240 Speaker 1: eighty episodes, oh my gosh. If we put these stories 763 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:23,000 Speaker 1: all together, they form like a necklace of truth. And 764 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:26,480 Speaker 1: the truth is this, Love is the only thing that 765 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:30,759 Speaker 1: is real. Love is the only thing that survives. I 766 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,799 Speaker 1: know it's hard. I know what grief feels like, and 767 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,400 Speaker 1: sometimes it feels like it's just too much to handle. 768 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,480 Speaker 1: But remember, if the mind says that they are truly gone, 769 00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:45,239 Speaker 1: that's just an illusion. They are very much alive. They 770 00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:49,440 Speaker 1: are healthy, they are well, they're busy, they are learning, 771 00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,600 Speaker 1: they're growing, and they do their very best to find 772 00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:56,000 Speaker 1: ways to let us know that. And again, you are 773 00:48:56,080 --> 00:49:00,680 Speaker 1: a divine soul having a human experience. We communicate tellopathically 774 00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:05,640 Speaker 1: when we pass, so they can communicate telepathically with us 775 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,880 Speaker 1: right now, and of course, if they can, they'll do 776 00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:13,040 Speaker 1: something to affect our technology. You may have heard me 777 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:17,040 Speaker 1: mention that I am rewriting my book We Don't Die, 778 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,160 Speaker 1: so I'm going through all my episodes very slowly looking 779 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,800 Speaker 1: for the best stories. If you have some favorite stories 780 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,600 Speaker 1: from Shades of the Afterlife, send me an email let 781 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:31,440 Speaker 1: me know which ones they are. Sandra Champlain at gmail 782 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,120 Speaker 1: dot com. As a reminder, come visit me at Weedo'tdie 783 00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,719 Speaker 1: dot com. Join my mailing list and get a free 784 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,920 Speaker 1: PDF copy of my book, And while you're there, you 785 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,799 Speaker 1: can watch one of our two films. One is on 786 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:50,759 Speaker 1: instrumental transcommunication like EVPs and pictures from Beyond and the 787 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:56,080 Speaker 1: other one's called Evidence of the Afterlife, saving evidential mediumship. 788 00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,400 Speaker 1: Come join me at one of our free Sunday gatherings. 789 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,000 Speaker 1: Their inspirational services held on Zoom and a medium demonstration 790 00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:09,759 Speaker 1: is included in Everyone, I'm Sanders Champlain. Remember you are 791 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,520 Speaker 1: a divine soul having a human experience. You are one 792 00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:17,359 Speaker 1: of a kind. You are precious. Your loved ones are 793 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:21,400 Speaker 1: around you, and believe me, they continue to love you. 794 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,160 Speaker 1: Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening 795 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:29,760 Speaker 1: to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast 796 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,320 Speaker 1: to Coast am Paranormal podcast Network. 797 00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,239 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Ghost 798 00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,279 Speaker 2: Day and Paranormal podcast Network. Make sure and check out 799 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,600 Speaker 2: all our shows on the iHeartRadio app or by going 800 00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:55,840 Speaker 2: to iHeartRadio dot com.