Episode 203: Deathbed Confessions & Deathbed Visitors!

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at home, and a lot more on this edition of
the show. Deathbed Confessions and Deathbed Visitors. I know it
sucks to talk about death sometimes, but this is the
Paranormal Podcast Network, and of course death is one of

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the biggest mysteries. Really, the big mystery is life. What
is life and therefore, what is afterlife? How do we
put life into context and what happens when it doesn't
matter how rich you are, how powerful you are, how
famous you are. What happens when you know you're about

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to die. What do you say or do that you
might not otherwise say, or do that last little thing
you want to get out there before you expire. Well,
you know, over the years, I have produced a lot
of movie and TV content. Nowadays, I'm not really interested

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in doing that anymore. I did it for a long
time and now you know, I'm just I'm happy doing
what I'm doing here with the podcast. But you know,
I produced a lot of indie stuff back in the day.
Even if you go to YouTube, you can watch some
of the stuff for free, like a loan in all
Haunted House or this comedy that I may call The Commodore.
You know, I've done much bigger things. I worked as

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a consultant on the Warner Brothers horror movie The Apparition,
and I also, I believe, have a producer credit for
the Blu Ray edition of that for some of the
behind the scenes stuff. I mean. Another example, like one
time I was at a conference and I met Jeff Mudget,
who is a direct descendant of H. H. Holmes. The

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infamous American serial killer. And even though H. H. Holmes
was an American, Jeff Mudget believes that Holmes went over
to England and committed to jack the Ripper murders. And
he wrote a book about this, and he'd been trying
to get it sold and had nothing but dead ends.
And I said, let me give it a shot. So
I wrote a proposal and pitched it, and sure enough

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it got picked up by the History Channel, became a
whole series, and Jeff Mudget got to star in it.
It was called American Ripper. They did a very good
job in my opinion. So anyway, I've pitched a lot
of different stuff. I produced a lot of stuff, but
most of the stuff that I have pitched over the
years has not been picked up. That's just how it goes, understandably.

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And what's kind of odd, however, is that sometimes I
back in the day, I had contact a production company
and they'd say, Okay, let's see your idea, and I'd
send them the idea and they'd say, oh, we're kind
of interested or we're not interested, and they will kind
of like fizzle out, and then a couple of years
later I would see something very much like it on TV. Now,

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does that mean I have been shafted? Possibly? This is
why most people who work in the creative fields, like writers, musicians, filmmakers, etc.
They don't want to see your submissions or get your
ideas under most circumstances, because what if they just happen

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to be working on something like it already and then
you say I have an idea and they say okay,
and you share the idea and they're like no thanks.
Then they continue working on what they were working on,
which happens to be very similar, and then when it
comes out, you say, oh, they have stolen this from me.

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So it's very complicated the protocol about like pitching things
and sharing ideas. And also there's this thing that you
can't help but maybe be a little bit haunted by
if you do this kind of stuff. It's called the
hundredth monkey effect. Have you ever heard of that? And look,
I don't know if this is true or not, but
it's it's natural to be a little bit paranoid when

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you're pitching stuff in the creative field. But the hundredth
monkey effect, I think that that was kind of coined
in the nineteen seventies by the author Lyle Watson, and
he was talking about how these scientists were observing this
group of Japanese Macoque monkeys on this island and apparently,

(05:43):
somehow other I don't know if the crew was leaving
them or whatever, but these monkeys got a hold of
some sweet potatoes and one day one of the monkeys
went to a stream and started washing the sweet potato.
They'd never seen a monkey do that before. Well, then
another monkey saw that monkey doing it, and then it

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started washing the sweet it's sweet potatoes, and this behavior
spread across the whole island until around you know, a
hundred monkeys were all doing this. And then the stunning
thing is they claimed it. All of a sudden boom,
they saw that exact same behavior appear among monkeys on

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another island that was nearby but completely disconnected. So it's
kind of like a group consciousness theory that once a
certain number of people get an idea or in this case, monkeys,
that it carries some kind of weight and it can
just suddenly jump into other heads. And so sometimes you know,

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if you have an idea, you want to act on
it quickly. And I don't know, you know, how old
you are but I mean, you do see stuff that's
kind of weird that might lend some credence to this
when you look back at the history of saying like Hollywood,
I remember in nineteen ninety eight there was a movie
Armageddon that came out and it was about you know,

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some asteroid or whatever coming in. And then and then
that same year, another movie called Deep Impact came out.
Now these are supposedly unconnected projects, but it was also
a similar type of like asteroid disaster movie. And it
just makes you wonder, is that a coincidence or do
ideas appear to different people at the same time. So

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it can kind of make you paranoid because if you're
a creator and you have a good idea, you can
suddenly get into a rush to bring it to market
because you're afraid someone else might beat you to it
using this same idea. You know that maybe that it
simultaneously occurred to them. It's a valid concern. One of

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my favorite authors, Joe Vitally, says money loves speed, So
I don't know. Sometimes you do need to kind of
rush out of product, but you don't want it to
be underdeveloped and come out too soon. So it's tricky
being a creative type. But anyway, just thought you would
enjoy the hundredth monkey thing if you haven't heard about that.

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One of my proposals, written many years ago was for
a possible TV series called Deathbed Confessions. It was never
picked up, and so the show only exists now in
my imagination. But I've decided to share this vision with you,

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and I think you will agree that even today, this
would still make a fascinating TV show. It'd be perfect
for the History Channel. And I say this kind of
thing because it's like, look, I'm giving this away. I'm
giving this information away to you freely, just because that
this is something that I would like to see. I
would watch this show, and I think that's what you know,

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your judgment should always be based upon. Is this something
that I would actually enjoy myself. So this is a
proposal that I sent to some production companies called Deathbed Confessions,
Final Revelations on Murder, UFOs, Hoaxes and more. And at
the top of the proposal I have a quote. The

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quote is oh the creatures exclamation point. Those were the
last words of Major Edwin Easley, who was the Provost
Marshall at the Roswell Base in nineteen forty seven. Mm hmm,

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all right, So here's the concept for this hypothetical TV show.
When one senses impending demise, what power on earth can
control that person? A clear unscience or final relinquishing of
knowledge is often foremost in the dying person's mind. History

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is replete with brief moments, last glances into our most
outstanding phenomenon, sometimes past, and fleeting words before a person's
eyes closed forever. This show is an amazing exploration of
those moments, what we have learned, and what we perhaps

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can learn from them. In some cases, the deathbed is
meant literally. In other cases it refers to the period
of time in the months, weeks, or days leading up
to death. All right, do I have your attention? Is
this a pretty good hook? So? Segment one is about murder,

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Segment two is about UFOs, Segment three is hoaxes, Segment
four is revenge, Segment five is treasure. Segment six is taboo. Okay,
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you it's gonna be like
you're watching this TV show in your mind's eye. It's
theater of the mind. We're gonna go through each of

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these stories starting with murder when we come back and
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I am pitching you this TV show, and you know
this is like a pilot. So see what you think
about this. Deathbed Confessions, Final Revelations on murder, UFOs, hoaxes,
and more. Segment one Murder. Ironically, killers are often mortified

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to face their maker. They frequently confess to either gain
favor with God or delay their executions. Ted Bundy, who
murdered dozens of young women, tried to buy time with
confessions leading right up to his electrocution in nineteen eighty nine,
he promised to reveal even more details and the location

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of corpses if he were only given quote more time. Well,
when his day of execution came, guards had to physically
drag him from his cell. Here's something else that could
go into that segment. Brian Jones, a found member of
the Rolling Stones rock group, died at the age of

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twenty seven. He was found floating in a swimming pool.
Officially ruled quote death by misadventure end quote. But the
last person to see Jones alive, a builder named Frank Thurregood,
renovating Jones's house at the time, later confessed on his
deathbed to having murdered the rock star. Stories like these

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are numerous, and this segment would recount some of the
most outstanding interesting Huh, all right, Segment two uf o's
you know I mentioned a provost. Marshall. Provost is a
senior administrative officer. All right, So segment two UFOs, It's

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now been decades since a mysterious object crashed in the
desert near Roswell, New Mexico. And by the way, you know,
let me just pause because I pitched this a long
time ago for the first time, but I think the
last time I pitched it was in twenty nineteen, So
just interesting, all right, all right, let's get back to this.

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So it's been a long time since a mysterious object
crashed at the desert near Roswell, New Mexico. Even the
government admits there was a cover up. Since then, numerous
figures have died and seemed to confirm what many suspect
the object was extra terrestrial. Major Edwin Easley, Provost Marshall

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at the Roswell base in nineteen forty seven, revealed the
secret to his family as he lay dying. After decades
of a tight lip, he apparently relayed participation in the
recovery of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and crew. Just before his death,
Cordell Hle, Secretary of State under Franklin rose Velt, revealed

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he had been shown alien bodies storede and upright containers
below Washington, d c. And shortly preceding his death in
nineteen ninety eight, Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso published The
Day After Roswell, in which he contended he was given
the job of disseminating back engineered alien technology from the
Roswell crash to various US corporations. There are many accounts

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like these, and we are just now receiving some of
the most significant reports as those involved in such incidents
are dying of old age. And of course I did
a podcast not too long ago Strange Things, where I
talked about Philip J. Corso and the day after Roswell.
And if you haven't listened to that one, go back

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and listen and you'll understand why that may be the
ultimate deathbed confession. Even though he wasn't literally on his deathbed,
it was like you a year before he died, all right.
Segment three Hoaxes. The most famous deathbed confession of a
hoax regards the lock Ness Monster. A photo published in

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nineteen thirty four of an enigmatic silhouette solidified the creature's
existence for the public for many years. It was known
as the Surgeon's Photo, based on the supposed photographer's occupation
as a revenge ploy for a prank at his expense,

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Big game hunter Marmaduke Weatherall orchestrated the hoax. Christopher Sperling,
Wetherell's son in law, told the entire story on his deathbed.
He claimed the popular image was actually a staged photograph
of the Clay Forum attached to a toy submarine, and
the surgeon who was credited for taking the photo never

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said he had not taken it. Similar revelations have recently
occurred regarding the Patterson Bigfoot footage of No. Nineteen sixty seven.
So what do hoaxters gain from keeping their secrets so long?
I'm still kind of torn, honestly over the Patterson Bigfoot film.

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I know that there are people who claim that, you know,
they participated to hoaxing it, But you know, when you
watch good analysis of the footage, I mean, it really
does kind of look like you can see the muscles
and the flesh moving underneath the hair. So I still

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am not sure what to think about that one. So
all right, next we have segment four, which is revenge.
The Cambridge Five were a group of British spies who
passed classified information to the Soviet Union during World War
Two and into the early nineteen fifties. They may have

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also passed Soviet disinformation to the Nazis. Each man was
a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret elite debate society.
On his deathbed, a man named gorony Weeze actually Goronny Rees,
a Welsh journalist, confessed to not only being one of

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the spies himself, but also implicated a colleague named Guy
Laddell Well. The accusation of Laddell turned out to be false,
but it permanently harmed Lddell's career. Was this done as
an act of revenge? And how powerful are such accusations?
Willed it at the last minute when the accuser no

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longer has to defend himself. That's interesting, isn't it. What
if you are so mean spirited that as your last
wish you say something bad about somebody, You accuse somebody
of doing something that they didn't do, and then you know,
then you expire? Segment five. Treasure Captain Kidd is one

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of history's most famous pirates. He was a privateer who
turned to piracy during hard times. Shortly thereafter, his reputation
as a bloodthirsty villain quickly spread throughout the Atlantic, and
after his sixteen ninety nine arrest in New York, Kid
was sent to England for trial. Facing execution by hanging,

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Kid wrote some desperate letters begging for clemency. One was
written to the speaker of the House of Commons offering
him one hundred thousand dollars worth of gold buried away
on an unknown island in the West Indies. Though the
House ignored the letter and Kidd did indeed hang, it
appears in retrospect to have been possibly valid. Some of

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Kidd's treasure chests were found by explorer Hubert Palmer in
the nineteen twenties. It appears there is much more to
be found, worth far more now than in sixteen ninety nine.
The notorious Pirates deathbed confession has inspired wondrous legends and myth,
including Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and there are still

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plenty of seekers scouring maps and Kid's confession to this day.
You know, by the way, I recently watched something on
TV about Captain Kidd. It might have been History's Greatest Mysteries,
or you know, one of those I like, I watched
the History Channel a lot, and you know, he was

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I think he was pretty late in life, like in
his fifties, Captain Kidd when he decided to go back
out there and start you know, privateering slash pirrating, and
you know, it's just hard to believe like how hardcore
some of these these people were back then. But you know,

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think about treasure stories is that you always think, well,
if there's a treasure out there and somebody found it,
are they going to tell everybody about it? Probably not.
They're probably gonna keep that a secret. So I think
a lot of these treasures have been found and we
just don't know about it. That would be the smart
thing to do. I guess if you find a treasure,
not to tell everybody you found it. Well, anyway, we're
gonna take a break. When we come back, we're gonna

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get into this last segment, which is scientific taboo, and
then we will switch into my second topic for this show,
deathbed Visitors. Now this is some supernatural stuff. Okay, deathbed confessions.
We're talking about people who are you literally talking about

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something practical that's happened that they want to get off
their chest or whatever. Deathbed Visitors, now we're talking about
not just beings that might come into your room right
before you die, but also your ability to project yourself
spiritually to other people right before you die. I'm Joshua

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Pete Warren, and you are listening to strange things on
the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network,
And I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back

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to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua pe Warren,
and this is the show where the unusual becomes Usual.
Segment six. Scientific Taboo. In the fifteen hundreds, Europeans could

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be imprisoned, imprisoned, or executed for suggesting the Earth is
not the center of the universe. The concept was considered
a heresy by the church, questioning the value of mankind
and our creation in the eyes of God. Nonetheless, in
the scientific underground, dangerous conversations circulated about contrary evidence. One

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of the most intelligent scientists secretly studying the possibilities was
oppression named Nicholas Copernicus. By examining bodies in space, he
was able to secretly conclude Earth's relationship with the other
planets and stars, accurately predicting our seasons. Knowing the penalties

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for authoring such material, Copernicus made arrangements for its publication,
called on the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Just before
his death in fifteen forty three. It is said that
he woke from a coma just long enough to see
the first copy before closing his eyes and dying peacefully.

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For the next century, mere ownership of the book was
a huge risk. Galileo's findings finally proved Copernicus was correct,
and of course Galileo spent nearly a decade imprisoned for heresy.
It might be said that Copernicus's deathbed confession was the
biggest of all, changing our entire understanding of how the

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universe functions. So in conclusion, you know, in many Christian denominations,
confined is seen as an integral part of being forgiven
for sins and attaining salvation. What is the therapeutic value
of speaking secrets? And what can we learn about the
world from secrets kept almost till the very end of life?

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They are reflections of not only one's personal conscience, but
also the society in which one lives. Why are the
secrets kept? And how do these deathbed confessions exemplify why
humans find most important about life and the perception of
peers or family. And then I have a few, well,

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a couple quotes that I've always thought were kind of
interesting about well last words. Really, the last thing that
Thomas Edison supposedly said was, quote, it's very beautiful over there.
And the last thing that Emily Dickinson said was I
must go in. The fog is rising. So what do

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you think would that be a good TV show? I
think it would be to this very day. But even
if it's not a TV show, it is in your head.
Now you've seen kind of you kind of seen the
TV show to some degree in your head. And that's
the great thing about having a podcast like this. But

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I told you the topic number two was deathbed visitors. Now,
this is something that has interested me for a long
time because of some things that I have personally been told.
First off, there are different types, at least two different
types of what we might think of is deathbed visitations.

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I watched a video on YouTube recently where this neuropsychiatrist
was talking about this phenomen in which it seems like
that right before someone dies, then often the person has
this sort of psychic link with somebody else somewhere out

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there who's living. He said, this is almost a quote
here paraphrasing a little bit. Dying people often have a
last wish, usually to say goodbye to a loved one
who isn't there. Sometimes they appear near the moment of
death as an apparition and say goodbye, or the person

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gets a push or a touch. Okay, so let's say that, like,
for example, you have a friend or a loved one
out there that's dying right now, and you don't know
about it, but all of a sudden, the person might
appear to you or certainly flash in your mind in
some way, or might push you or touch you or

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something like that. And so you you may not understand
what's happening at the time, but in retrospect then you
find out the person has died at that moment, and
you go, oh my gosh, so there's some kind of
a link at that moment. And again, often the living
person doesn't even know the dying person is dying at
the time, so it becomes an even more extraordinary experience

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in retrospect. And this so this would be almost, I guess,
kind of astral projection in a way. And uh, you know,
I did a show one time. Uh I wish I've
done I've done over two hundred shows now, so I
can't go back and just whip out the name of
every show and what I talked about. But you know,

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I did a show where I talked about different types
of apparitions, and you know, you have ghosts of the
present as they are called, where sometimes the apparition of
a person appears even when the person is still alive.
So you might have the apparition of a friend who's
on the other side of the world pop up in
front of you and give you a warning or something

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like that. But then, of course it becomes even more
magnified if the person the other person is dying. But
you know, then you have, of course, I think even
the more prominent one, which is when the person who

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is dying actually experiences being visited by some kind of
spiritual guide that seems to be there to help usher
them into the next stage. Okay, so we're talking about beings,
supernatural beings that visit the dying person, often ancestors, perhaps

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ancestors or relatives who have died, and a lot of
times the dying person will will be almost practically unconscious
and then all of a sudden they have this moment
of clarity and energy. I think the British say it's
something like lighting up before death or something like that,

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and all of a sudden they have this moment of
energy and they sit up and they say something to everybody,
they say goodbye or whatever, and then they lay down
and die. And sometimes at this moment a light appears
in the room. Some people see a weird shape of

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some kind leaving the body, maybe something that looks like
smoke that leaves the body. Sometimes there are these things
called deathbed coincidences, where something will happen, like a bird
will fly into the room, etc. A lot of times
owls seem to be nearby when people die. I remember,

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you know, growing up in western North Carolina, there was
this great story about this property in Kashier's North care
It called the High Hampton Inn. And if I remember
this correctly, back in I guess the eighteen hundreds, there
was this relatively you know, wealthy man who had a
beautiful home there right next to this lake. I mean,

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I've been there many times and it's breathtaking and it
was like a dream home. But they fell upon he
and his wife fell upon hard times, and so he
told her he was going to go into town and
talk to this guy who was interested in buying the property.
And she said no, don't sell it. Don't sell it,
don't sell it, and begged him not to sell it.

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So he goes into town and sure enough, the guy
talked him into selling it, so he sold the property.
He came back home, he told her he'd sold it,
and then shortly thereafter he walked outside and found her
hanging from a tree. And the story goes that he

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was it was so shocking to him that his hair
turned white overnight. But one of the oddest things is
that as she was hanging there from that tree, there
was this white owl that was also perched on the branch.
Of course, the man moved away, but to this day,

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people still see this white owl flying around the property,
and everybody realizes that it's that woman's spirit, and she
wasn't leaving, even if that meant she had to be
around as an owl. But you know, I have a
good friend who's a famous author. I won't use his name,

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and he told me that he was in the room
when his mother was dying, and he said that it
was just the two of them there at the hospital,
and at one point she said, who is that beautiful
woman over there? And he said what, And she goes
that woman and he says, I don't see anybody. She says,
look at her, Look how pretty she is. I look
at her long silver hair, and he says, I'm sorry,

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I don't see anything. And of course she died. I
believe that Lauren's grandfather said that he saw some figure
like that in his room before he died. And you
might say, well, these people are just exaggerating, but or
I guess more like hallucinating. That's what that's the word
I'm looking. I guess you could say they're hallucinating. But

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what if they're not. You know, I had an aunt
who worked for many, many years at a nursing home,
and she looked me right in the eye one time,
and she said that often she would see these dark
figures float down the hallway towards someone's room, just minutes

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before the person died. A lot of times the figure
would look like it had wings. Now I don't know,
I mean, I presume that not everybody can see that,
because you'd probably hear about it more often. But she
was dead serious. Hey, when we come back, I'm gonna
tell you another story that I think is just It's
one of those that kind of gives you goosebumps about

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people coming back from the other side, and then how
about how about we wrap up with a creepy story
or two. Does that sound good? I'm Joshua wa Pee Warren.
You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast AM Parinormal Podcast Network, and I will be

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right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this

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edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio AM Coast to
Coast AM Paradormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.
And growing up in western North Carolina, of course I
watched wrestling as a kid, wrestling and just recently I
was watching a documentary about the wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper,

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and later on in life he and Hulk Hogan became
really close friends. They would text each other, I think
Hulk Hogan said, just about every day they'd at least
text each other. And two days after Rowdy Roddy Piper
died unexpectedly at age sixty one of sudden cardiac arrest,

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Hulk Hogan got a voicemail from Rowdy Roddy now again.
Rowdy Roddy Piper had been dead for two days, and
on this show, Hulk Hogan plays this voicemail he got
and you can hear the voice of Rowdy Roddy say,
I'm just loving you, my brother. I'm just walking with

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Jesus and loving you my brother. Now, I wish I
could play you the actual audio, but I don't have
rights to it. And that's all he says. Why would
he say that? And Hulk Hogan in the video says
he would have never said that when he was here,
and then Hulk Hogan starts crying and that's all the messages.

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I'm just loving you, my brother. I'm just walking with
Jesus and loving you my brother. Two days after he died.
Just go online and search for a Hulk Hogan Rowdy
Roddy death and you'll probably find this snippet somewhere of
Hulk Hogan telling the story on camera and playing the
actual audio. So you know, what does all this mean?

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I think it means that there is there is a spirit,
there is an afterlife, and you know, you hear that, hey,
when it's your time to go, it's your time to go,
and that sort of thing. But there are warnings. I
think you know, there are times when you're told you
need to you need to get out of harm's way.

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I mean I just recently. You may have seen what
they call the the doomsday fish, was found floating in
California just days before this earthquake struck Los Angeles. Looking
at an article on Fox News right now, it says,
while kayaking and storkling in La Jolla, California, a group
spotted a very rare deep sea fish that had died.

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By the way, you may, I was just in La
Joya a few months ago. Anyway, It's called the oar fish,
also known as the doomsday fish. Twelve feet in length.
Only twenty have been reported in California since nineteen oh one,
and that's according to the Script's Institution of Oceanography in

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San Diego. It says doomsday fish have long, slender bodies
that can reach links of up to thirty six feet,
about the size of a school bus. The oor fish
is commonly referred to as the doomsday fish, as some
believe that foreshadows natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
According to the Ocean Conservancy, the fish has been observed

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around Japan during major earthquakes, but scientists report they have
yet to establish a link between its appearance and events
such as quakes and subsequent tsunamis. Two days after the
fish was discovered, La was struck by a four point
six magnitude earthquake, according to the USGS. So apparently these fish,
they live very deep under the ocean, and so maybe

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they are the first organisms to sense some kind of
a disturbance. You know, you've heard that before, that animals
a lot of times they start freaking out in the wilderness.
It's almost like, I don't know if it's infra sound
or what they just picked. They can pick up vibrations
or some kind of a shift. Because there's so much
more in tune with nature than we are, whether head's

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stuck in our phones and computers and being brainwashed by
the news all the time and all that kind of stuff.
It's interesting, isn't it. Oh, Well, let's go to our email.
I think I have one I've been meaning to read
for a while. That's kind of creepy, might fit the motif.

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This is from Michael Gomez who he was a federal
security officer. Spokane, Washington. Is it Spokane or Spokane I've
never been there. We'll call it Spokane. He says. It
was the winter of two thousand and ten, and I

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was in my bedroom sleeping. It was the middle of
the night, and the only light in the room was
the moonlight shining through the bedroom window. I was lying
in bed asleep with my cat beside me when it
started hissing. I instantly woke up and saw the cat's
hiss was directed at the air above us. My gaze

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followed the cats to a point where I observed a
form roughly shaped like the upper torso and head of
a man. I had the vague impression that this entity's
head was hooded. The entire entity was darker than the
surrounding darkness in the room, yet the thing was still
somehow translucent. The most notable feet of this entity were

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the bright, glowing red eyes. The cat continued to hiss
while this thing was hovering above my waistline, looking down
at me. The instant that my eyes met the glowing
red eyes of this entity above me, I sensed pure
hatred directed at me emanating from it. There was an

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instantaneous sensation of one hundred percent pure malevolence. The entity
hated me with all of its might and wanted nothing
less than everything bad in the world upon me. It
was at this point that I lost my temper, and
I in turn felt burning, seething hatred for this entity

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with every facet of my being. The rage had taken
control of me and was overpowering the sensation of hatred
and malevolence, malevolence that this thing was directing at me.
All I wanted to do was attack and smash and
rip and tear and bite into whatever flesh this thing
may have had. I wanted to see and sense the

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pain and the fear that I inflicted before I finally
killed it. I sat up in my bed so that
my face was no more than a couple of inches
away from the thing's face. I was staring directly into
the red void of this entity's eyes. There was no
humanity there. There was nothing that resembled empathy or pity,

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only what I can begin to describe as a feeling
of ancient, eternal enmity. It was at this point that
the entity began hovering backward and away from my face.
And as this thing was moving away from me, I
reached out and attempted to grab it with my left hand.
A couple of times in rapid succession, followed by my

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throwing multiple left hooks. There was no physical contact whatsoever.
Each and every time that I attempted to physically assault
this thing, my hand and my fist passed directly through
the entity's head, face, and eyes without any resistance. The
entity continued to hover away from me and toward the
far upper corner of the room. I remember seeing in

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the moonlight cast on the right side of this thing's
head and torso as it passed through the bedroom, and
I won't ever forget the moonlight reflecting off of this
thing's translucent form. As soon as this thing was out
of my reach, the rage subsided and human rationalization began
to return to me. It was then that this entity

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began to slowly phase out of sight, and for the
first time during the encounter, I began to feel fear.
It became apparent that this this entity somehow sensed the
growing fear within me when I saw it look down
and smile at me. The moment the entity reached the

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upper corner of the bedroom, it disappeared from sight, and
although I could no longer see this thing, I still
sensed its presence in the room, and without a definite
target to channel, my anger on I began to fill
a level of fear I'd never experience before, and after
looking around the bedroom trying to locate the thing to
focus my hatred on it, I gave up and I

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started praying. It was after praying for a while that
I could no longer sense this entity's presence. And after
this encounter, I spent more than two years obsessed, to
the point where I would search while on duty during
my usual night shift patrol, I was constantly looking through
dark windows and in darkened areas of trees and courtyards

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and search of two glowing eyes to lash out against
one more time. I've never seen this entity again. I've
been lift, I've been left with many unanswered questions. The
only certainty that I have is how this entity regards me.
This thing sees me as prey, considers me as cattle.

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This entity thinks of me as an enemy, and now
it will have me as an enemy until the end
of time. Dude, Well, thank you, Michael. I don't know
how to feel about that, but all I know is, Oh,

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we're out of time, so I think we need to
end this show on a positive note. How about you
take a deep breath, if you can close your eyes,
here is the good Fortune tone. That's it for this

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