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your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. Hi.
I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
Episode will discuss the reasons we now know that our
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loved ones have survived physical doubt and so will we.
Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife, my friends. I have
been on a journey lately. I decided to do something
I haven't done in a very long time, if I've
even ever done it. I went back to the very beginning,
back to the first forty episodes of this podcast. I
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wanted to see if the Sandra of today still felt
the same way I did way over five years ago
when this podcast began. And as I sat here in
my home in Rhode Island listening to these voices from
years ago, I found myself really moved. And I wasn't
moved because I was sad. I was just reminded of
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some conversations, really important ones that hit home. Every episode.
Of course, we talk about the afterlife, and we treat
the word evidence like a court case or a math problem,
always looking for the best for you. But when I
went through the episodes, I realized that within every story
is a gift, and I don't want them to get
lost because maybe you just started listening and you didn't
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start from the beginning. So today I want to take
you into three different rooms. There are all places where
by every law of science, we know the stories that
happened should not have been possible. And if you're listening
right now, because your heart is heavy with grief and
sometimes the world seems so dark when we are sitting
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in that, just listen in try to put yourself in
the shoes of the people in these stories, because as humans,
their truth is our truth too. So my first story
is called The Man and the Blue Dentures. It takes
place in a hospital room in the Netherlands. It's a cold,
sterile place. Imagine you can hear the beeping of monitors
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and you know that smell that's in the air. In
a hospital, A man is rushed in by an ambulance.
He is what the doctor's called ionautic, which means his
skin has turned blue because he isn't breathing, he has
no pulse, and for all intents and purposes, he is dead.
The medical team moves fast. They are doing everything they
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can to bring him back. There's a nurse there and
she's working to clear his throat so they can get
a tube in him to help him breathe. She notices
he's wearing dentures, and in the middle of all that chaos,
she reaches in, pulls out the dentures and looks for
a safe spot for them. She pulls out the bottom
drawer of a rolling cart nearby they call it a
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crash cart, and sets the dentures inside on top of
some gauze then she shuts the drawer and gets back
to work. Eventually they got his heart started again, but
he is now in a deep coma and moved to
a different part of the hospital, and that nurse doesn't
see him for over a week. So a week later,
that same nurse is walking down the hall of the
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heartward she sees this man awake and sitting up in bed.
The second he sees her, his whole face lights up.
He points at her and says to the people in
the room, oh, that's the nurse. She knows exactly where
my dentures are. This nurse freezes, She can't believe it.
The man was clinically dead when she saw him. His
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eyes were closed, and he was in a coma for
days afterwards. But he looked at her and said, you
pulled them out of my mouth. You put them in
that cart, in the bottom drawer, right on top of
the gauze. So think about that. His heart wasn't beating,
his brain wasn't getting any oxygen, his eyes were physically shut,
yet he was watching. He wasn't in his body, he
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was hovering above it. He saw the color of the drawer,
he saw the gauze. He even saw the serial number
on the cart, and he came back with proof that
he had never left. This isn't a trick of the mind.
It's an observation made by a soul that doesn't need
eyes to see. So if you're worried about your loved
one being gone, remember this man. He was right there
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seeing everything, even when the world thought he was gone.
Who we really are is not in our bodies. The
next story is called the Shoe on the Ledge. Let's
go to another hospital, this time in Seattle. This is
a story of a woman named Maria. Maria had a
massive heart attack, and while the doctors were working on her,
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she had an out of body experience. She described herself
rising up through the ceiling and eventually landing on the
roof of the hospital. Now Maria did not live in Seattle.
She had never been to this hospital before, but she
told a social worker there, a woman named Kimberly, something
so strange that Kimberly almost didn't believe her. Maria said,
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while I was up there on the roof, I saw
a shoe. It's on the ledge of the third floor,
on the north side of the building. It's a man's shoe,
A dark blue tennis shoe. It's worn out by the
little toe, and the lace is tucked under the heel.
That's pretty specific. Kimberly was a skeptic. She thought Maria
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was just confused, but that detail about the lace being
tucked under the heel stuck in her mind. So Kimberly
went to the north wing. She went to the third floor.
She pressed her face against the windows, but she couldn't
see a thing. Finally, she actually went outside and crawled
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along the ledge to check, and there it was a
dark blue tennis shoe, worn out at the toe, lace
tucked under the heel. Kimberly later said that holding that
shoe in her hand changed her life forever. She realized
that Maria, whose body was on a table with a
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heart that had stopped, was actually more awake than the doctor's.
She had seen something that was it's physically impossible to
see from inside that room. If we are just our bodies,
Maria could have never seen that shoe, but she did.
And that tells us that the you that is listening
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to my voice right now is not trapped in your skull.
You are the observer in the body, but you are
not the body. You my friend are eternal. The next
true story is called the surgical Chicken. The third room
is an operating room. A man is having very serious
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heart surgery. His head is covered, his eyes are taped shut,
and he is under the deepest anesthesia that medicine can provide.
When he finally wakes up, he asks to see his surgeon.
He tells the doctor, I saw what you did. I
saw you standing there right before you started, and you
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were flapping your elbows like a chicken. The surgeon went pale.
You see, this surgeon had a very private habit. After
he scrubbed his hands and put on his sterile gown,
he didn't want to touch anything. To settle the gown
on his shoulders without using his hands, he would tuck
his hands into his armpits and flap his elbows to
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get the gown to sit right. He did it every
single time, but he only did it after the patient
was completely under. The patient also described instruments on the tray.
He described the exact words the nurses said to each other.
He even described a tiny mark on the back of
the surgeon's neck that was usually hidden by a collar.
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So these stories are what I call the hidden gems.
They are the proof who we are. Our consciousness is
what's called non local. It's a fancy way of saying
that your soul isn't like a bird in a cage.
It's more like a radio signal might break, the body
might stop working, but the music, the voice, the essence
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of who you are is still being broadcast and it
never stops. The next story is called the Surprise. Welcome,
And for anyone who's listening right now who feels they
are walking through a long, dark journey of grief, this
is for you. Maybe you feel like you're all alone,
maybe you're worried that when your time comes, you'll be
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lost in the dark. I want to tell you about
a woman named Anne. Anne was very sick and close
to the end of her life. Her family was gathered
around her bed. Now. Anne had a sister named Mary.
Mary lived far away, and she had actually died just
two days before, so the family decided not to tell Anne.
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They didn't want to upset her or make her last
hours any harder. They wanted her to be at peace.
Anne was drifting in and out of sleep. Suddenly she
opened her eyes wide. She had a huge smile on
her face. The kind of smile her family hadn't seen
in years. She looked into the corner of the room,
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reaching out her hand and said, Oh, there's Mary. She's
here to help me. I didn't know she was coming.
The family in the room went completely silent. They looked
at each other with chills running down their arms. Anne
had no way of knowing that Mary was gone. Nobody
had told her. But she didn't just see a ghost.
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She saw the person who was actually there waiting for her.
If you're hurting right now, hear me on this. Anne
wasn't confused. She wasn't seeing a visitor that the rest
of the people couldn't see. Ye. It tells us that
death isn't a wall, it's a door. And on the
other side of that door, for each of us, there
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is a welcoming committee. When our loved ones pass and
step through that door, they are never alone. We are
all met with that same joy. Each one of us
is scooped up and welcomed into the arms of love.
As I listened back to these stories, what stayed with
me is that it's not just we survive death, it's
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that we're loved through it. Whether it's a nurse moving
your dentures or a sister waiting in the corner of
the room. We are always being looked after. So the
evidence isn't just about facts. It's about love. It's about
the fact that our bonds made here on earth are
too strong for death to ever break. So let out
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a sigh of relief. Let your heart rest for just
a moment, because, based on everything I have learned in
two hundred and eighty episodes, the goodbye you said isn't forever.
It's just a see you later. One more quick story
before the break. We've talked about eyes being taped shut,
but what if the eyes didn't work at all? Let
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me tell you about Vicky. She was born blind. Her
optic nerve was completely destroyed. At birth. She had never
seen a face, a sunset, or even a shadow. To her,
the world was just a sound in touch. But years ago,
Vicki was in a severe car accident. She was rushed
to surgery, and in that operating room, something miraculous happened.
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She popped out of her body and for the first
time in twenty two years, she could see. She floated
up to the ceiling. She looked down and saw a
body on the table. She didn't recognize it at first,
but then she zoomed in she saw a ring on
her finger. She recognized it by its shape. It was
her own wedding ring. She watched the doctors working. She
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even described the specific intricate tools they were using. When
she woke up and told the medical team what she saw,
they were stunned. Science says vision comes from the brain
processing signals from the eyes, but Vicky's eyes didn't work.
Her brain had never processed an image yet she saw.
It's the ultimate proof that you're consciousness. The real you
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does not need eyes to see. We'll be right back.
You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back
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to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. In our
last segment, we looked at several stories that proves our consciousness,
the part of us that sees doesn't need a brain
to work. So now I want to take us down
a different path. I want to talk about who we
really are when we lose someone we love, When a
mother loses a son, or a husband loses his wife.
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One of the biggest fears is where are they? But
another their big fear is are they still them? We
worry that the person we knew, with their funny jokes,
their specific habits and memories, their unique personality, has just
turned into a vague cloud of energy. We worry that
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the thumbprint of who they were has been wiped away.
But going back in those past episodes, I found some
beautiful stories that tell us that you are still you
and I'll be still me. Our memories, passions, and love
for specific people are like a permanent record on our soul.
Here's the story of James, the toddler who Remembered. Now
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this got a lot of publicity in the media years ago.
It's a story of a little boy named James Lininger.
Now imagine you are James's parents, Bruce and Andrea, were
just regular, hardworking people. They didn't know anything about the afterlife.
They weren't looking for a miracle. They were just trying
to raise their little book, who was two years old
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at the time. But then something weird started to happen.
This little boy started having nightmares. Not just crying in
his sleep, he was screaming, kicking his legs up in
the air, fighting off an invisible enemy, and he kept
yelling the same thing over and over. Airplane crash, airplane, crash,
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plane on fire. Little man can't get out. As a parent,
your heart would break for him. You'd think he probably
saw something scary on TV. But James started giving his
parents details that a two year old couldn't possibly know.
He didn't just play with toy planes, he was obsessed
with them. One day, his mom pointed to a tank
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at the bottom of a toy plane and called it
a bomb. James looked at her, totally serious and said,
that's not a bomb, mommy, that's a drop tank. Where
does a two year old learn the words drop tank?
He told them that he used to be a pilot.
He said his plane was hit in the engine and
crashed into the water. He told them he flew a
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coarse air, a very specific type of World War two
plane with bent wings. Now, Bruce James's father was a
real skeptic. He was actually getting a bit annoyed by
all of this because he knew there had to be
a logical reason for it. He thought we must have
gone to a museum. Maybe he saw all this stuff
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in a book. But they hadn't so Bruce started asking
James questions, almost like a detective trying to catch a
witness in a lie. He asked, James, do you remember
the name of the boat your plane took off from.
James didn't even hesitate, He said the Natoma. His dad
went to the computer and looked it up, expecting to
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find nothing, but there it was the USS Natoma Bay,
a real aircraft carrier from the Second World War. Bruce's
hands started to shake. He asked James if he had
any friends on the ship. James said yes, Jack Larson.
Bruce did more research. He found out that Jack Larson
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was a real pilot and he was actually still alive.
When Bruce eventually tracked down the old veterans from the Natoma,
he found out there was only one pilot from the
ship who died in the Battle of Ewo Jima. His
name was James Houston. This little boy, who was barely
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out of diapers, was describing the exact way James Houston died.
He even had three Gi Joe dolls that he called Billy, Leon,
and Walter. When his dad asked why he picked those names,
James said, because those were the guys who met me
when I went to heaven. Bruce did the research again.
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He went through the records of the men who served
on that ship, and sure enough, those were the names
of three other pilots from the Natoma Bay who had
died just before James Houston. They were his welcoming committee.
They were the friends who stood at the door to
the afterlife and said, come on in, James, you're safe now.
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So James Houston actually remained James in this life, same
first name. Little James remembered his friends, he remembered his plane.
He even remembered the specific people who met him when
he crossed over. Our children, our spouses, they don't lose
their identity. They aren't recycled into something else. They are
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souls having a human experience, and they carry the love
and the memories of that experience with them forever. There's
a lot more details that Little James had, and I've
talked about that fully on a past episode. But he
is living proof that you are eternal, so you don't
have to worry that your loved one has forgotten you
or they've moved on. If James could remember a ship
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and a friend from sixty years ago, imagine how clearly
your loved one remembers your face and the sound of
your voice. Our next true story is called the Huckleberry Password.
Now let's talk about people who have already crossed over
and are trying to reach us. I remember a story
from those earliest episodes about a woman who had lost
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her husband. She was in that deep fog of grief
where you can't even get out of bed in the morning.
Everything is so heavy. You wake up and for just
a split second, you forget your loved one is gone.
Then it hits you all over again. So this lady
went to see a medium, but she was very smart
about it. She didn't give her her name, she didn't
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tell the medium who had passed. She even took off
her wedding ring so there would be no clues. She said, there,
guarded and quiet, just waiting for a sign. The medium
almost immediately started to smile. She didn't look sad. She
looked like she was listening to somebody tell her a
very funny story. The medium said, there is a man here.
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He is tall, he has a very funny sense of humor,
and he says that he's your husband, but he knows
you're a skeptic. He says, he knows you're sitting there
thinking this is all made up, So he wants me
to give you the password. Now, this woman and her
husband had been lifetime best friends. They used to joke
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about the afterlife. They had made a deal if I
go first, I'll give you a code word so you
know it's really me. They picked a word that was
so silly, so random, that no one else would even
think of it. The medium looked this woman right in
the eye and said, he's telling me to tell you
the word huckleberry. The woman burst into tears. That was
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the word. It was their secret. But the medium wasn't done.
She leaned in and said, he's laughing. Now. He says
to tell you that he sees you every night. He
sees you when you go into the closet and put
on his old blue flannel shirt to go to sleep
in because it still smells like him. He wants you
to know that he's standing right there by the bed
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when you do that. He says, you aren't alone in
that room. So this medium knew nothing about this lady,
but she described her husband clearly the code word and
that he sees her alone at night putting on his shirt.
So if you're feeling a bit alone, imagine that your
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loved one is in that invisible space around you with
that same kind of love for you. They see the
little things you do, they see you looking at their pictures,
and they are trying with everything they have to give
you your own Huckleberry moment. They want you to know they
haven't changed. They are still the person who loved you,
with the same jokes, they have the same memories. They're
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just missing the heavy suit of the body that they
were wearing, and they're still by your side. Next story
is the laboratory proof. I know that for some of you,
your brain says Sandra, that's a one in a million story.
Maybe the medium got lucky. But I went back to
an early episode doing the research from the Windbridge Institute. Now,
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they just don't tell stories there. They do experiments. They
take mediums and put them through what they call the
quintuple blind test. It means everyone is kept in the
dark on the experiment, so there's no way to cheat.
The medium doesn't know the person they are doing the
reading for. The person asking the questions doesn't know who
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the dead person is. Even the people running the computer
don't know the names, and they do this oh and
over and over again, hundreds of times in fact, and
yet even in these cold scientific rooms, the truth starts
screaming through the Mediums often get the specific cause of death.
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They get the names of the family dogs, and not
just names like Buster or Daisy. They get the weird
ones too. They get the specific hobbies, like he loved
to fix old clocks, or she had a collection of
glass birds. What this tells me, and I hope it
tells you, is that the information, the data of who
we are, is floating in the universe, ready to be
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picked up by someone who knows how to listen. It's
like your soul is a radio station. Even when the
radio tower on Earth falls down, the music is still
playing on a different frequency. You just need the right
receiver to hear the song. So your loved one is
not just a memory in your mind. They are still living,
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maybe not breathing the air here on Earth, but they're alive,
and they remember every trip you took, every glance you made,
every I love you said, and every secret you shared.
They are whole and intact. They are safe. They are
watching us grow and will be reunited one day. Where
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you can hear them, see them, and hug them again.
We're going to head off to the break, but just
a reminder that you, my friend, are an eternal, divine soul.
Your life matters, and you are never ever truly alone.
In fact, if they could speak to you right now,
I believe this is what they would say. I am
with you in the moment you open your eyes, doing
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my best to help you start your day with light.
With every step you take. I am walking right beside you.
I am the quiet voice whispering in your ear. You
can do it, reminding you how important your mission on
earth is. I try to place sudden images and happy
thoughts into your mind, just to let you know I
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am still here, And when you finally drift off to sleep,
I do my best to help you rest peacefully. I
try to sneak into your dreams just to tell you
I love you. I am your biggest cheerleader. I am patient.
I want you to live a full, beautiful life, and
I will be right here waiting for the moment when
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I can finally wrap my arms around you again. We'll
be right back. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife
on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain,
and as I've been reviewing some of the information and
stories from the earliest episodes, I want to talk about
the times where our loved ones don't communicate with a medium,
but they talk to us using technology like our phones,
our computers, and digital recorders. You may remember me talking
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about evp's electronic voice phenomena. This is when a voice
isn't from a person in the room, but yet it
shows up on a recording. And if you're listening right
now thinking you'll never hear your loved one's voice again,
you're wrong. Not only will you hear it in the afterlife,
but you might catch one through technology. Here is the
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I Am here recording. This is the story of a
man named George. George was sitting in a quiet living
room after he lost his son, and of course he
was heartbroken. George wasn't a spiritual guy. He was a
skeptic and he liked facts. But he heard about EVP,
so he bought a simple digital tape recorder, the kind
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you might use for voice memos. He sat in his
chair and hit the record button. He sat there in
total silence. There was no one else in the house,
no TV was on, no wind was blowing, no rain outside.
The house was so quiet you could only hear the
clock ticking on the wall. He looked at the recorder
with tears in his eyes and said, son, if you
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can hear me, please tell me you're okay, give me anything.
He waited for thirty seconds, just breathing, and then he
hit the stop button. When George played it back, he
heard his own shaky voice asking the question. But then
in the silence that followed, he heard something that made
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his heart stop. It was a voice. It was a
gravelly young man's voice, and it didn't just say a
random word. It said, I am here Dad. Now George
didn't believe it right away. He was a skeptic, after all.
He thought that maybe he picked up a neighbor or
a passing car. Even took the recording to a professional
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sound engineer and he asked, is this from a radio station?
Is this a glitch? Am I hearing things? And the
expert looked at the waveforms, you know those little lines
on the computer screen that shows how a voice looks,
and he told George something that changed everything. He said, George,
this voice didn't come through the microphone. Usually when a
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person speaks, you see the air vibrating. But this voice
was imprinted directly onto the digital chip inside the machine.
And here's the most wonderful part. That voice print. The
way the words were shaped matched the son's voice exactly.
It had that same little raspy sound. It had the
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same way of stretching out the word here. It was
a thumb print made by sound. If you're someone who's
missing your person's voice, remember George, his son didn't need
a body or lungs to say I am here, use
the energy in the room to send a message. He
wanted his dad to know that the dead aren't silent.
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They're just speaking on a different frequency. They're trying to
find the buttons in our world to let us know
they are still watching. I have my own stories about
EVPs and recording the sound of raindrops only to hear
good night, Sandra, good night, good night, good night. Our
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next story is called the phone Call from the Empty Room.
It's about a family who had lost their father, their grandpa.
It had passed away in a hospital room, at two
o'clock in the morning after a long battle, the family
had gone home to get some sleep, feeling that heavy,
hollow weight that through grief. The next evening was about
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twenty four hours after he died, and the phone in
the kitchen rang. The daughter, let's call her. Sarah was
standing by the counter making tea. She picked up the phone,
looked at the caller ID and her hand started to shake.
The screen said the name of the hospital. It even
gave the specific room where the father had passed away
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just the night before. So she answered the phone, her
voice barely a whisper. She said hello. On the other end,
she heard a sound like static, like a radio that
isn't quite tuned in. But through the static she heard
her father's voice. He sounded like he was calling from
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a long way away, but it was him. He said,
I'm fine, Sarah, I'm just fine. Tell your mother not
to worry. I'm okay, and then the line just went.
So Sarah was a practical woman. She called the hospital
back right away. She talked to the head nurse on
the floor. She said, who is in room four twelve?
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Someone just called me from that phone. The nurse was
quiet for a moment, she said, Honey, that's impossible. The
room has been empty all day. We haven't even assigned
a new patient to it yet because we're short staffed.
The bed is stripped, and besides, the phone lines and
that whole wing were disconnected this morning by the phone
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company for maintenance. There is no dial tone in that room.
Think about the logic of that. The room was empty,
the bed was bare, the phone line was physically disconnected
from the wall, but the hospital's computer system, the caller
ID still registered a call from the father's room at
that specific time. Her father didn't need a wire or
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a dial tone to make that call. He used the
system to send a message of comfort to the people
he loved the most. He knew his wife was worrying,
and he used the closest tool he could find to
tell her that he was safe. So if you're missing
someone right now, know that our loved ones are incredibly smart,
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and I think they have people on the other side
helping them with this because they know how much we
love our phones and gadgets. So many of them are
trying to use those methods to reach us. They're not
trying to be scary, they're just trying to find a
way to say I'm still here, I'm with you, and
I love you. Next the Buttercup Miracle. Here's another story
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about technology from the early days. It involves something called
a spirit box. This is a radio that scans through
all the stations very fast. It goes shh, so you
can hear a bunch of white noise. The idea is
that spirits can grab the bits of audio from those
different stations to form words. I remember a woman who
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was using one of these. She was very sad, and
she was asking for her mother. She said, Mom, if
you can hear me, please tell me something only you
would know. Tell me what you called me when I
was a little girl. She sat there for a long time,
just listening to the static. Then suddenly three different stations
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clipped together in a split second to say one clear word, Buttercup.
You see, Buttercup was her secret nickname. It wasn't a
common name you'd hear on a radio station or news report.
It was her mother's voice, using the bits and pieces
of our world to build a bridge. When I look
back on my original episodes of Shades of the Afterlife,
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I do see a pattern. Our loved ones are like pioneers.
They are on the other side of a great ocean,
and they are trying to build a telegraph system. They
use the electricity in our homes, they use the batteries
and our recorders, use the noise in our radios. They
do this because they want to take away our fear.
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They know that when you hear their voice, even if
it's just for a second, even if it's through static,
our grief changes. It doesn't go away, of course, but
it changes. And even though it's a heavy weight, it
changes into a weight of knowing. It becomes something we
can carry because we know they aren't gone. They've just
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moved to a different neighborhood. I don't think everyone can
work technology. My grandmother was just short of ninety one
years old when she passed, so she may not be
doing EVPs, but she's come to me through my dreams.
Some people can definitely manipulate technology, though. Okay, next story,
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the energy of love. Have you ever had a weird
picture just show up on your phone, something from the
past just pops up, or maybe a song played out
of nowhere, your loved one's favorite song, maybe a picture
of them popped up on your screen. Out of nowhere.
Maybe you saw their name on a license plate or
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a sign. It's easy to think we're imagining things, but
we aren't crazy or desperate. We are experiencing what I
call a digital hello. The people we love are made
of energy, so are we, and our world is full
of energy. They are learning how to manipulate the frequencies
of our world to reach us. They do this because
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they know we're sad. They do this because they see
us struggling to live one day to the next when
we're in deep grief, and they want us to know
that the death we saw was just an exit from
one room and an entrance into another. I do these
recordings from my bedroom here in Rhode Island. Listening to
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these past recordings from years ago, I realize that we
are truly living in a time of miracles. We have
the recorders, we have the phone logs, we have the Internet,
we have AI, we have the Buttercup moments, and at
all points to one amazing fact. The people we love
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are just a frequency away. They are safe, they are well,
and they're going to use every tool we've got on
this earth to let us know that. And I know
it's easy for us to think it's just our imagination,
but they work through our imagination. Remember, when we get
to the other side, we communicate through our thoughts. So
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if a thought pops into your mind out of nowhere,
you may not be making it up. It may be them.
So tonight, maybe stay open to the idea that those
interesting things that happen, those signs, they're just little messages
from your loved ones saying hey, I'm still here, I'm okay,
I'm with you, and most importantly I love you. Before
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we go to the break, I want to leave you
with the thought from inventor Thomas Edison. He was one
of the greatest inventors of all time, and did you
know that near the end of his life he was
actually trying to build a spirit phone. He said, if
our personality survives, then it is strictly logical and scientific
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that it retains memory, intellect, and other faculties and knowledge.
If we can't evolve, an instrument so delicate as to
be affected by our personality as it survives in the
next life, such as an instrument ought to record something,
and Edison knew it was possible and was trying to
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build that. And today we are seeing that he was right.
Coming up in our next segment, we're going to talk
about some very interesting evidence. It's called the shared Journey.
We'll talk about what happens when the living and the
dying travel to get part of the way. We'll be
right back. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on
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the iHeartRadio and costacoast am Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back
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to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sanders Champlain and for myself,
i was reviewing some of the earliest episodes of this
podcast and it really lit me up. So if you
haven't heard them in a long time, go back and
listen on whatever podcast app you're using. You can click
a button to listen from the beginning. I have so
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many incredible stories that I don't want you to miss
any of them. So today I'm spending my time. I'm
just on some of the stories that I have totally
forgotten about. But in this next segment, I want to
share something that is truly fascinating. It's when someone passes
and the veil isn't just thin for them, but it's
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thin for the person who's sitting next to them. It's
a loved one when we lose someone we love, the
hardest part is that feeling of being left behind. You
feel that they've gone somewhere you can't follow, and you're
worried about what that journey must be like for them.
Of course, we wonder if they feel pain, if they
were scared, or if they were alone in those final moments.
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But there's a phenomena called a shared death experience that
proves that no one, and I mean absolutely no one,
ever makes the journey to the other side alone. It
shows us that the dying person is actually being greeted
with a celebration, and sometimes, if we are lucky, we
get to see a glimpse of the party. This true
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story I call the Nurse and the Light want to
take you back into a quiet hospice room. There was
a nurse there, a woman named Joy. Now Joy had
seen death hundreds of times. She was the kind of
person who didn't get carried away by the stories of
loved ones showing up in the room. She was practical.
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She was sitting with an elderly man who was very
close to the end of his life. He had no
family left, so Joy pulled her chair up close and
held his hand so he wouldn't be alone. The room
was very still, just the sound of his breathing. Suddenly,
Joy said, the entire room began to change. She said,
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the walls seemed to fade away, and the air felt
like it was thick with a kind of peace she
had never felt on earth. Then she felt herself being
lifted out of her chair. She wasn't just watching him,
she was traveling with him. She described leaving the hospital
room and entering a place of light that was so
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bright and so full of love that she didn't have
words for it. And she saw people standing there, people
she didn't know, but she could tell they were his family.
They looked young, radiant, and full of life. They were
waiting for him with open arms, and the joy in
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the air was overwhelming. Joy said she felt the most
incredible happiness that she's ever felt in her life. And
then she felt a gentle push back. She found herself
back in the chair, still holding the man's hand. He
had just taken his last breath. She wasn't dying, of course,
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she was perfectly healthy, but she was allowed to go
halfway to the door so that she could see that
he was safe. If you are someone who couldn't be
there at the very last moment with your loved one,
or even if you were there and it felt scary,
I want you to remember joy. Your loved one didn't
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walk into a dark hole. They didn't disappear into nothingness
when their body passed. They walked into a room filled
with people who have been waiting to see them for
a very long time. Our next story is called the
Peak in dary Anne Mystery, and I've been talking about
peak and dry Anne cases quite recently. Well, here's the
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story and you'll understand what it means. This happened to
a man named Eddie. Eddie was very sick in the
hospital and he was struggling. His best friend, Andy had
died in a car accident the day before, but like
our earlier story, the family decided not to tell Eddie.
They were afraid the shock of losing his best friend
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would be too much for his weak heart. Eddie was
drifting in and out of sleep. Suddenly he opened his
eyes and looked at his mother. He had a look
of total shock on his face, but he wasn't scared.
He was just confused. He said, Mom, I just saw
Andy and he's right there in the corner. But why
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is Andy here? Isn't he supposed to be at work today.
Eddie had no way of knowing his friend was dead.
In his mind, Andy was perfectly fine and was sitting
at his desk at work that day, but Eddie saw
him standing in the room, healthy and waiting for him.
Eddie died a few hours later with a huge smile
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on his face because he knew his best friend was
there to lead the way. This isn't a hallucination. Your
brain doesn't hallucinate that someone is dead when you one
hundred percent believe they are alive. This is a real meeting,
and it's real proof that people who love us are
standing by ready to catch us at the moment we
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let go of this world. So these experiences are called
peak in dairy m cases. Now I'll tell you the
red velvet dress story. It's about a nine year old
girl who was very sick. One morning, she woke up
and told her father, Aunt Martha is here. She's wearing
a beautiful red velvet dress with gold buttons, and she
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says she's going to take me to see some flowers.
The father was confused. Aunt Martha was his sister and
she lived hundreds of miles away. As far as he knew,
she was healthy. He thought his daughter must have just
been having a dream. But less than an hour later
he got the news Aunt Martha had died in a
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car accident that very morning, at the exact time the
little girl saw her in the room. Later, when the
father went to the funeral, he saw Martha in her casket.
She was wearing the exact red velvet d rests with
the gold buttons that the little girl had described. Again,
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anyone that you know who has passed, they were met,
They were guided, They were loved before they even left
their body. They weren't confused. They didn't wonder where to
go next. They were picked up by the people who
knew them the best. Next. The Father and the Impossible Sunrise.
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This is a story about a man who lost his father.
His father was a very practical man, a carpenter who
didn't believe in spiritual or heavenly things. On his deathbed,
the son said, Dad, if you find out there's something
on the other side, give me a sign and make
it big. The father died at four in the morning
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on a very cloudy, rainy Tuesday. The sun was sitting
on the porch, crying, feeling that deep dark grief that
we all know. He looked at the sky and said, okay, Dad,
where are you at That exact second, the thick gray
clouds over his house parted in a perfect circle. A
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beam of bright, golden sunlight hit him right in the face.
It was so bright he had to close his eyes.
It lasted for exactly one minute, and then the clouds
closed back up and it started to rain again. He
called the weather station later and they told him that
in his town there was no sun recorded at all
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that morning. It had been a total cloud cover for
fifty miles in every direction. So this wasn't an event
caused by weather. That was a father using the energy
of the universe to say, I found the light sun,
and it's brighter than you can imagine. There's one more
story I have to tell you. It's about a woman
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named Janine. She was at home sleeping while her mother
was in a nursing home fifty miles away. The Janine
bolted straight up in her bed. The room was filled
with a golden light that didn't come from any lamp.
She saw her mother standing at the foot of her bed,
looking young and healthy. Her mother wasn't in the hospital gown,
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she was in her favorite Sunday dress. She whispered, I'm free, Janine,
I'm finally free. I love you. Janine looked at her clock.
It was exactly three two am. Five minutes later, the
nursing home called her mother had passed away at exactly
three am. These stories prove that our souls are connected
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by invisible wires of love. Distance doesn't matter, walls don't matter.
When the soul leaves the body, the very first thing
it does is go to the people it loves most
to say I'm okay. Don't be afraid. If you haven't
had one of these outstanding signs, your loved one might
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be trying to communicate in a different way. Please be
aware of thoughts that just seem to come out of
nowhere or remembory you had with them, just little calling
cards that say I'm right here. When I think of
Shades of the Afterlife and now some two hundred and
eighty episodes, oh my gosh. If we put these stories
all together, they form like a necklace of truth. And
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the truth is this, Love is the only thing that
is real. Love is the only thing that survives. I
know it's hard. I know what grief feels like, and
sometimes it feels like it's just too much to handle.
But remember, if the mind says that they are truly gone,
that's just an illusion. They are very much alive. They
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are healthy, they are well, they're busy, they are learning,
they're growing, and they do their very best to find
ways to let us know that. And again, you are
a divine soul having a human experience. We communicate tellopathically
when we pass, so they can communicate telepathically with us
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right now, and of course, if they can, they'll do
something to affect our technology. You may have heard me
mention that I am rewriting my book We Don't Die,
so I'm going through all my episodes very slowly looking
for the best stories. If you have some favorite stories
from Shades of the Afterlife, send me an email let
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me know which ones they are. Sandra Champlain at gmail
dot com. As a reminder, come visit me at Weedo'tdie
dot com. Join my mailing list and get a free
PDF copy of my book, And while you're there, you
can watch one of our two films. One is on
instrumental transcommunication like EVPs and pictures from Beyond and the
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other one's called Evidence of the Afterlife, saving evidential mediumship.
Come join me at one of our free Sunday gatherings.
Their inspirational services held on Zoom and a medium demonstration
is included in Everyone, I'm Sanders Champlain. Remember you are
a divine soul having a human experience. You are one
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of a kind. You are precious. Your loved ones are
around you, and believe me, they continue to love you.
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I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
Episode will discuss the reasons we now know that our
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loved ones have survived physical doubt and so will we.
Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife, my friends. I have
been on a journey lately. I decided to do something
I haven't done in a very long time, if I've
even ever done it. I went back to the very beginning,
back to the first forty episodes of this podcast. I
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wanted to see if the Sandra of today still felt
the same way I did way over five years ago
when this podcast began. And as I sat here in
my home in Rhode Island listening to these voices from
years ago, I found myself really moved. And I wasn't
moved because I was sad. I was just reminded of
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some conversations, really important ones that hit home. Every episode.
Of course, we talk about the afterlife, and we treat
the word evidence like a court case or a math problem,
always looking for the best for you. But when I
went through the episodes, I realized that within every story
is a gift, and I don't want them to get
lost because maybe you just started listening and you didn't
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start from the beginning. So today I want to take
you into three different rooms. There are all places where
by every law of science, we know the stories that
happened should not have been possible. And if you're listening
right now, because your heart is heavy with grief and
sometimes the world seems so dark when we are sitting
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in that, just listen in try to put yourself in
the shoes of the people in these stories, because as humans,
their truth is our truth too. So my first story
is called The Man and the Blue Dentures. It takes
place in a hospital room in the Netherlands. It's a cold,
sterile place. Imagine you can hear the beeping of monitors
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and you know that smell that's in the air. In
a hospital, A man is rushed in by an ambulance.
He is what the doctor's called ionautic, which means his
skin has turned blue because he isn't breathing, he has
no pulse, and for all intents and purposes, he is dead.
The medical team moves fast. They are doing everything they
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can to bring him back. There's a nurse there and
she's working to clear his throat so they can get
a tube in him to help him breathe. She notices
he's wearing dentures, and in the middle of all that chaos,
she reaches in, pulls out the dentures and looks for
a safe spot for them. She pulls out the bottom
drawer of a rolling cart nearby they call it a
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crash cart, and sets the dentures inside on top of
some gauze then she shuts the drawer and gets back
to work. Eventually they got his heart started again, but
he is now in a deep coma and moved to
a different part of the hospital, and that nurse doesn't
see him for over a week. So a week later,
that same nurse is walking down the hall of the
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heartward she sees this man awake and sitting up in bed.
The second he sees her, his whole face lights up.
He points at her and says to the people in
the room, oh, that's the nurse. She knows exactly where
my dentures are. This nurse freezes, She can't believe it.
The man was clinically dead when she saw him. His
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eyes were closed, and he was in a coma for
days afterwards. But he looked at her and said, you
pulled them out of my mouth. You put them in
that cart, in the bottom drawer, right on top of
the gauze. So think about that. His heart wasn't beating,
his brain wasn't getting any oxygen, his eyes were physically shut,
yet he was watching. He wasn't in his body, he
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was hovering above it. He saw the color of the drawer,
he saw the gauze. He even saw the serial number
on the cart, and he came back with proof that
he had never left. This isn't a trick of the mind.
It's an observation made by a soul that doesn't need
eyes to see. So if you're worried about your loved
one being gone, remember this man. He was right there
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seeing everything, even when the world thought he was gone.
Who we really are is not in our bodies. The
next story is called the Shoe on the Ledge. Let's
go to another hospital, this time in Seattle. This is
a story of a woman named Maria. Maria had a
massive heart attack, and while the doctors were working on her,
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she had an out of body experience. She described herself
rising up through the ceiling and eventually landing on the
roof of the hospital. Now Maria did not live in Seattle.
She had never been to this hospital before, but she
told a social worker there, a woman named Kimberly, something
so strange that Kimberly almost didn't believe her. Maria said,
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while I was up there on the roof, I saw
a shoe. It's on the ledge of the third floor,
on the north side of the building. It's a man's shoe,
A dark blue tennis shoe. It's worn out by the
little toe, and the lace is tucked under the heel.
That's pretty specific. Kimberly was a skeptic. She thought Maria
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was just confused, but that detail about the lace being
tucked under the heel stuck in her mind. So Kimberly
went to the north wing. She went to the third floor.
She pressed her face against the windows, but she couldn't
see a thing. Finally, she actually went outside and crawled
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along the ledge to check, and there it was a
dark blue tennis shoe, worn out at the toe, lace
tucked under the heel. Kimberly later said that holding that
shoe in her hand changed her life forever. She realized
that Maria, whose body was on a table with a
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heart that had stopped, was actually more awake than the doctor's.
She had seen something that was it's physically impossible to
see from inside that room. If we are just our bodies,
Maria could have never seen that shoe, but she did.
And that tells us that the you that is listening
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to my voice right now is not trapped in your skull.
You are the observer in the body, but you are
not the body. You my friend are eternal. The next
true story is called the surgical Chicken. The third room
is an operating room. A man is having very serious
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heart surgery. His head is covered, his eyes are taped shut,
and he is under the deepest anesthesia that medicine can provide.
When he finally wakes up, he asks to see his surgeon.
He tells the doctor, I saw what you did. I
saw you standing there right before you started, and you
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were flapping your elbows like a chicken. The surgeon went pale.
You see, this surgeon had a very private habit. After
he scrubbed his hands and put on his sterile gown,
he didn't want to touch anything. To settle the gown
on his shoulders without using his hands, he would tuck
his hands into his armpits and flap his elbows to
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get the gown to sit right. He did it every
single time, but he only did it after the patient
was completely under. The patient also described instruments on the tray.
He described the exact words the nurses said to each other.
He even described a tiny mark on the back of
the surgeon's neck that was usually hidden by a collar.
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So these stories are what I call the hidden gems.
They are the proof who we are. Our consciousness is
what's called non local. It's a fancy way of saying
that your soul isn't like a bird in a cage.
It's more like a radio signal might break, the body
might stop working, but the music, the voice, the essence
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of who you are is still being broadcast and it
never stops. The next story is called the Surprise. Welcome,
And for anyone who's listening right now who feels they
are walking through a long, dark journey of grief, this
is for you. Maybe you feel like you're all alone,
maybe you're worried that when your time comes, you'll be
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lost in the dark. I want to tell you about
a woman named Anne. Anne was very sick and close
to the end of her life. Her family was gathered
around her bed. Now. Anne had a sister named Mary.
Mary lived far away, and she had actually died just
two days before, so the family decided not to tell Anne.
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They didn't want to upset her or make her last
hours any harder. They wanted her to be at peace.
Anne was drifting in and out of sleep. Suddenly she
opened her eyes wide. She had a huge smile on
her face. The kind of smile her family hadn't seen
in years. She looked into the corner of the room,
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reaching out her hand and said, Oh, there's Mary. She's
here to help me. I didn't know she was coming.
The family in the room went completely silent. They looked
at each other with chills running down their arms. Anne
had no way of knowing that Mary was gone. Nobody
had told her. But she didn't just see a ghost.
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She saw the person who was actually there waiting for her.
If you're hurting right now, hear me on this. Anne
wasn't confused. She wasn't seeing a visitor that the rest
of the people couldn't see. Ye. It tells us that
death isn't a wall, it's a door. And on the
other side of that door, for each of us, there
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is a welcoming committee. When our loved ones pass and
step through that door, they are never alone. We are
all met with that same joy. Each one of us
is scooped up and welcomed into the arms of love.
As I listened back to these stories, what stayed with
me is that it's not just we survive death, it's
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that we're loved through it. Whether it's a nurse moving
your dentures or a sister waiting in the corner of
the room. We are always being looked after. So the
evidence isn't just about facts. It's about love. It's about
the fact that our bonds made here on earth are
too strong for death to ever break. So let out
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a sigh of relief. Let your heart rest for just
a moment, because, based on everything I have learned in
two hundred and eighty episodes, the goodbye you said isn't forever.
It's just a see you later. One more quick story
before the break. We've talked about eyes being taped shut,
but what if the eyes didn't work at all? Let
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me tell you about Vicky. She was born blind. Her
optic nerve was completely destroyed. At birth. She had never
seen a face, a sunset, or even a shadow. To her,
the world was just a sound in touch. But years ago,
Vicki was in a severe car accident. She was rushed
to surgery, and in that operating room, something miraculous happened.
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She popped out of her body and for the first
time in twenty two years, she could see. She floated
up to the ceiling. She looked down and saw a
body on the table. She didn't recognize it at first,
but then she zoomed in she saw a ring on
her finger. She recognized it by its shape. It was
her own wedding ring. She watched the doctors working. She
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even described the specific intricate tools they were using. When
she woke up and told the medical team what she saw,
they were stunned. Science says vision comes from the brain
processing signals from the eyes, but Vicky's eyes didn't work.
Her brain had never processed an image yet she saw.
It's the ultimate proof that you're consciousness. The real you
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does not need eyes to see. We'll be right back.
You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back
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to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. In our
last segment, we looked at several stories that proves our consciousness,
the part of us that sees doesn't need a brain
to work. So now I want to take us down
a different path. I want to talk about who we
really are when we lose someone we love, When a
mother loses a son, or a husband loses his wife.
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One of the biggest fears is where are they? But
another their big fear is are they still them? We
worry that the person we knew, with their funny jokes,
their specific habits and memories, their unique personality, has just
turned into a vague cloud of energy. We worry that
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the thumbprint of who they were has been wiped away.
But going back in those past episodes, I found some
beautiful stories that tell us that you are still you
and I'll be still me. Our memories, passions, and love
for specific people are like a permanent record on our soul.
Here's the story of James, the toddler who Remembered. Now
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this got a lot of publicity in the media years ago.
It's a story of a little boy named James Lininger.
Now imagine you are James's parents, Bruce and Andrea, were
just regular, hardworking people. They didn't know anything about the afterlife.
They weren't looking for a miracle. They were just trying
to raise their little book, who was two years old
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at the time. But then something weird started to happen.
This little boy started having nightmares. Not just crying in
his sleep, he was screaming, kicking his legs up in
the air, fighting off an invisible enemy, and he kept
yelling the same thing over and over. Airplane crash, airplane, crash,
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plane on fire. Little man can't get out. As a parent,
your heart would break for him. You'd think he probably
saw something scary on TV. But James started giving his
parents details that a two year old couldn't possibly know.
He didn't just play with toy planes, he was obsessed
with them. One day, his mom pointed to a tank
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at the bottom of a toy plane and called it
a bomb. James looked at her, totally serious and said,
that's not a bomb, mommy, that's a drop tank. Where
does a two year old learn the words drop tank?
He told them that he used to be a pilot.
He said his plane was hit in the engine and
crashed into the water. He told them he flew a
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coarse air, a very specific type of World War two
plane with bent wings. Now, Bruce James's father was a
real skeptic. He was actually getting a bit annoyed by
all of this because he knew there had to be
a logical reason for it. He thought we must have
gone to a museum. Maybe he saw all this stuff
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in a book. But they hadn't so Bruce started asking
James questions, almost like a detective trying to catch a
witness in a lie. He asked, James, do you remember
the name of the boat your plane took off from.
James didn't even hesitate, He said the Natoma. His dad
went to the computer and looked it up, expecting to
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find nothing, but there it was the USS Natoma Bay,
a real aircraft carrier from the Second World War. Bruce's
hands started to shake. He asked James if he had
any friends on the ship. James said yes, Jack Larson.
Bruce did more research. He found out that Jack Larson
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was a real pilot and he was actually still alive.
When Bruce eventually tracked down the old veterans from the Natoma,
he found out there was only one pilot from the
ship who died in the Battle of Ewo Jima. His
name was James Houston. This little boy, who was barely
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out of diapers, was describing the exact way James Houston died.
He even had three Gi Joe dolls that he called Billy, Leon,
and Walter. When his dad asked why he picked those names,
James said, because those were the guys who met me
when I went to heaven. Bruce did the research again.
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He went through the records of the men who served
on that ship, and sure enough, those were the names
of three other pilots from the Natoma Bay who had
died just before James Houston. They were his welcoming committee.
They were the friends who stood at the door to
the afterlife and said, come on in, James, you're safe now.
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So James Houston actually remained James in this life, same
first name. Little James remembered his friends, he remembered his plane.
He even remembered the specific people who met him when
he crossed over. Our children, our spouses, they don't lose
their identity. They aren't recycled into something else. They are
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souls having a human experience, and they carry the love
and the memories of that experience with them forever. There's
a lot more details that Little James had, and I've
talked about that fully on a past episode. But he
is living proof that you are eternal, so you don't
have to worry that your loved one has forgotten you
or they've moved on. If James could remember a ship
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and a friend from sixty years ago, imagine how clearly
your loved one remembers your face and the sound of
your voice. Our next true story is called the Huckleberry Password.
Now let's talk about people who have already crossed over
and are trying to reach us. I remember a story
from those earliest episodes about a woman who had lost
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her husband. She was in that deep fog of grief
where you can't even get out of bed in the morning.
Everything is so heavy. You wake up and for just
a split second, you forget your loved one is gone.
Then it hits you all over again. So this lady
went to see a medium, but she was very smart
about it. She didn't give her her name, she didn't
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tell the medium who had passed. She even took off
her wedding ring so there would be no clues. She said, there,
guarded and quiet, just waiting for a sign. The medium
almost immediately started to smile. She didn't look sad. She
looked like she was listening to somebody tell her a
very funny story. The medium said, there is a man here.
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He is tall, he has a very funny sense of humor,
and he says that he's your husband, but he knows
you're a skeptic. He says, he knows you're sitting there
thinking this is all made up, So he wants me
to give you the password. Now, this woman and her
husband had been lifetime best friends. They used to joke
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about the afterlife. They had made a deal if I
go first, I'll give you a code word so you
know it's really me. They picked a word that was
so silly, so random, that no one else would even
think of it. The medium looked this woman right in
the eye and said, he's telling me to tell you
the word huckleberry. The woman burst into tears. That was
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the word. It was their secret. But the medium wasn't done.
She leaned in and said, he's laughing. Now. He says
to tell you that he sees you every night. He
sees you when you go into the closet and put
on his old blue flannel shirt to go to sleep
in because it still smells like him. He wants you
to know that he's standing right there by the bed
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when you do that. He says, you aren't alone in
that room. So this medium knew nothing about this lady,
but she described her husband clearly the code word and
that he sees her alone at night putting on his shirt.
So if you're feeling a bit alone, imagine that your
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loved one is in that invisible space around you with
that same kind of love for you. They see the
little things you do, they see you looking at their pictures,
and they are trying with everything they have to give
you your own Huckleberry moment. They want you to know they
haven't changed. They are still the person who loved you,
with the same jokes, they have the same memories. They're
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just missing the heavy suit of the body that they
were wearing, and they're still by your side. Next story
is the laboratory proof. I know that for some of you,
your brain says Sandra, that's a one in a million story.
Maybe the medium got lucky. But I went back to
an early episode doing the research from the Windbridge Institute. Now,
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they just don't tell stories there. They do experiments. They
take mediums and put them through what they call the
quintuple blind test. It means everyone is kept in the
dark on the experiment, so there's no way to cheat.
The medium doesn't know the person they are doing the
reading for. The person asking the questions doesn't know who
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the dead person is. Even the people running the computer
don't know the names, and they do this oh and
over and over again, hundreds of times in fact, and
yet even in these cold scientific rooms, the truth starts
screaming through the Mediums often get the specific cause of death.
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They get the names of the family dogs, and not
just names like Buster or Daisy. They get the weird
ones too. They get the specific hobbies, like he loved
to fix old clocks, or she had a collection of
glass birds. What this tells me, and I hope it
tells you, is that the information, the data of who
we are, is floating in the universe, ready to be
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picked up by someone who knows how to listen. It's
like your soul is a radio station. Even when the
radio tower on Earth falls down, the music is still
playing on a different frequency. You just need the right
receiver to hear the song. So your loved one is
not just a memory in your mind. They are still living,
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maybe not breathing the air here on Earth, but they're alive,
and they remember every trip you took, every glance you made,
every I love you said, and every secret you shared.
They are whole and intact. They are safe. They are
watching us grow and will be reunited one day. Where
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you can hear them, see them, and hug them again.
We're going to head off to the break, but just
a reminder that you, my friend, are an eternal, divine soul.
Your life matters, and you are never ever truly alone.
In fact, if they could speak to you right now,
I believe this is what they would say. I am
with you in the moment you open your eyes, doing
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my best to help you start your day with light.
With every step you take. I am walking right beside you.
I am the quiet voice whispering in your ear. You
can do it, reminding you how important your mission on
earth is. I try to place sudden images and happy
thoughts into your mind, just to let you know I
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am still here, And when you finally drift off to sleep,
I do my best to help you rest peacefully. I
try to sneak into your dreams just to tell you
I love you. I am your biggest cheerleader. I am patient.
I want you to live a full, beautiful life, and
I will be right here waiting for the moment when
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I can finally wrap my arms around you again. We'll
be right back. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife
on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain,
and as I've been reviewing some of the information and
stories from the earliest episodes, I want to talk about
the times where our loved ones don't communicate with a medium,
but they talk to us using technology like our phones,
our computers, and digital recorders. You may remember me talking
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about evp's electronic voice phenomena. This is when a voice
isn't from a person in the room, but yet it
shows up on a recording. And if you're listening right
now thinking you'll never hear your loved one's voice again,
you're wrong. Not only will you hear it in the afterlife,
but you might catch one through technology. Here is the
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I Am here recording. This is the story of a
man named George. George was sitting in a quiet living
room after he lost his son, and of course he
was heartbroken. George wasn't a spiritual guy. He was a
skeptic and he liked facts. But he heard about EVP,
so he bought a simple digital tape recorder, the kind
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you might use for voice memos. He sat in his
chair and hit the record button. He sat there in
total silence. There was no one else in the house,
no TV was on, no wind was blowing, no rain outside.
The house was so quiet you could only hear the
clock ticking on the wall. He looked at the recorder
with tears in his eyes and said, son, if you
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can hear me, please tell me you're okay, give me anything.
He waited for thirty seconds, just breathing, and then he
hit the stop button. When George played it back, he
heard his own shaky voice asking the question. But then
in the silence that followed, he heard something that made
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his heart stop. It was a voice. It was a
gravelly young man's voice, and it didn't just say a
random word. It said, I am here Dad. Now George
didn't believe it right away. He was a skeptic, after all.
He thought that maybe he picked up a neighbor or
a passing car. Even took the recording to a professional
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sound engineer and he asked, is this from a radio station?
Is this a glitch? Am I hearing things? And the
expert looked at the waveforms, you know those little lines
on the computer screen that shows how a voice looks,
and he told George something that changed everything. He said, George,
this voice didn't come through the microphone. Usually when a
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person speaks, you see the air vibrating. But this voice
was imprinted directly onto the digital chip inside the machine.
And here's the most wonderful part. That voice print. The
way the words were shaped matched the son's voice exactly.
It had that same little raspy sound. It had the
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same way of stretching out the word here. It was
a thumb print made by sound. If you're someone who's
missing your person's voice, remember George, his son didn't need
a body or lungs to say I am here, use
the energy in the room to send a message. He
wanted his dad to know that the dead aren't silent.
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They're just speaking on a different frequency. They're trying to
find the buttons in our world to let us know
they are still watching. I have my own stories about
EVPs and recording the sound of raindrops only to hear
good night, Sandra, good night, good night, good night. Our
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next story is called the phone Call from the Empty Room.
It's about a family who had lost their father, their grandpa.
It had passed away in a hospital room, at two
o'clock in the morning after a long battle, the family
had gone home to get some sleep, feeling that heavy,
hollow weight that through grief. The next evening was about
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twenty four hours after he died, and the phone in
the kitchen rang. The daughter, let's call her. Sarah was
standing by the counter making tea. She picked up the phone,
looked at the caller ID and her hand started to shake.
The screen said the name of the hospital. It even
gave the specific room where the father had passed away
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just the night before. So she answered the phone, her
voice barely a whisper. She said hello. On the other end,
she heard a sound like static, like a radio that
isn't quite tuned in. But through the static she heard
her father's voice. He sounded like he was calling from
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a long way away, but it was him. He said,
I'm fine, Sarah, I'm just fine. Tell your mother not
to worry. I'm okay, and then the line just went.
So Sarah was a practical woman. She called the hospital
back right away. She talked to the head nurse on
the floor. She said, who is in room four twelve?
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Someone just called me from that phone. The nurse was
quiet for a moment, she said, Honey, that's impossible. The
room has been empty all day. We haven't even assigned
a new patient to it yet because we're short staffed.
The bed is stripped, and besides, the phone lines and
that whole wing were disconnected this morning by the phone
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company for maintenance. There is no dial tone in that room.
Think about the logic of that. The room was empty,
the bed was bare, the phone line was physically disconnected
from the wall, but the hospital's computer system, the caller
ID still registered a call from the father's room at
that specific time. Her father didn't need a wire or
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a dial tone to make that call. He used the
system to send a message of comfort to the people
he loved the most. He knew his wife was worrying,
and he used the closest tool he could find to
tell her that he was safe. So if you're missing
someone right now, know that our loved ones are incredibly smart,
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and I think they have people on the other side
helping them with this because they know how much we
love our phones and gadgets. So many of them are
trying to use those methods to reach us. They're not
trying to be scary, they're just trying to find a
way to say I'm still here, I'm with you, and
I love you. Next the Buttercup Miracle. Here's another story
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about technology from the early days. It involves something called
a spirit box. This is a radio that scans through
all the stations very fast. It goes shh, so you
can hear a bunch of white noise. The idea is
that spirits can grab the bits of audio from those
different stations to form words. I remember a woman who
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was using one of these. She was very sad, and
she was asking for her mother. She said, Mom, if
you can hear me, please tell me something only you
would know. Tell me what you called me when I
was a little girl. She sat there for a long time,
just listening to the static. Then suddenly three different stations
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clipped together in a split second to say one clear word, Buttercup.
You see, Buttercup was her secret nickname. It wasn't a
common name you'd hear on a radio station or news report.
It was her mother's voice, using the bits and pieces
of our world to build a bridge. When I look
back on my original episodes of Shades of the Afterlife,
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I do see a pattern. Our loved ones are like pioneers.
They are on the other side of a great ocean,
and they are trying to build a telegraph system. They
use the electricity in our homes, they use the batteries
and our recorders, use the noise in our radios. They
do this because they want to take away our fear.
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They know that when you hear their voice, even if
it's just for a second, even if it's through static,
our grief changes. It doesn't go away, of course, but
it changes. And even though it's a heavy weight, it
changes into a weight of knowing. It becomes something we
can carry because we know they aren't gone. They've just
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moved to a different neighborhood. I don't think everyone can
work technology. My grandmother was just short of ninety one
years old when she passed, so she may not be
doing EVPs, but she's come to me through my dreams.
Some people can definitely manipulate technology, though. Okay, next story,
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the energy of love. Have you ever had a weird
picture just show up on your phone, something from the
past just pops up, or maybe a song played out
of nowhere, your loved one's favorite song, maybe a picture
of them popped up on your screen. Out of nowhere.
Maybe you saw their name on a license plate or
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a sign. It's easy to think we're imagining things, but
we aren't crazy or desperate. We are experiencing what I
call a digital hello. The people we love are made
of energy, so are we, and our world is full
of energy. They are learning how to manipulate the frequencies
of our world to reach us. They do this because
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they know we're sad. They do this because they see
us struggling to live one day to the next when
we're in deep grief, and they want us to know
that the death we saw was just an exit from
one room and an entrance into another. I do these
recordings from my bedroom here in Rhode Island. Listening to
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these past recordings from years ago, I realize that we
are truly living in a time of miracles. We have
the recorders, we have the phone logs, we have the Internet,
we have AI, we have the Buttercup moments, and at
all points to one amazing fact. The people we love
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are just a frequency away. They are safe, they are well,
and they're going to use every tool we've got on
this earth to let us know that. And I know
it's easy for us to think it's just our imagination,
but they work through our imagination. Remember, when we get
to the other side, we communicate through our thoughts. So
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if a thought pops into your mind out of nowhere,
you may not be making it up. It may be them.
So tonight, maybe stay open to the idea that those
interesting things that happen, those signs, they're just little messages
from your loved ones saying hey, I'm still here, I'm okay,
I'm with you, and most importantly I love you. Before
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we go to the break, I want to leave you
with the thought from inventor Thomas Edison. He was one
of the greatest inventors of all time, and did you
know that near the end of his life he was
actually trying to build a spirit phone. He said, if
our personality survives, then it is strictly logical and scientific
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that it retains memory, intellect, and other faculties and knowledge.
If we can't evolve, an instrument so delicate as to
be affected by our personality as it survives in the
next life, such as an instrument ought to record something,
and Edison knew it was possible and was trying to
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build that. And today we are seeing that he was right.
Coming up in our next segment, we're going to talk
about some very interesting evidence. It's called the shared Journey.
We'll talk about what happens when the living and the
dying travel to get part of the way. We'll be
right back. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on
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the iHeartRadio and costacoast am Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back
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to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sanders Champlain and for myself,
i was reviewing some of the earliest episodes of this
podcast and it really lit me up. So if you
haven't heard them in a long time, go back and
listen on whatever podcast app you're using. You can click
a button to listen from the beginning. I have so
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many incredible stories that I don't want you to miss
any of them. So today I'm spending my time. I'm
just on some of the stories that I have totally
forgotten about. But in this next segment, I want to
share something that is truly fascinating. It's when someone passes
and the veil isn't just thin for them, but it's
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thin for the person who's sitting next to them. It's
a loved one when we lose someone we love, the
hardest part is that feeling of being left behind. You
feel that they've gone somewhere you can't follow, and you're
worried about what that journey must be like for them.
Of course, we wonder if they feel pain, if they
were scared, or if they were alone in those final moments.
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But there's a phenomena called a shared death experience that
proves that no one, and I mean absolutely no one,
ever makes the journey to the other side alone. It
shows us that the dying person is actually being greeted
with a celebration, and sometimes, if we are lucky, we
get to see a glimpse of the party. This true
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story I call the Nurse and the Light want to
take you back into a quiet hospice room. There was
a nurse there, a woman named Joy. Now Joy had
seen death hundreds of times. She was the kind of
person who didn't get carried away by the stories of
loved ones showing up in the room. She was practical.
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She was sitting with an elderly man who was very
close to the end of his life. He had no
family left, so Joy pulled her chair up close and
held his hand so he wouldn't be alone. The room
was very still, just the sound of his breathing. Suddenly,
Joy said, the entire room began to change. She said,
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the walls seemed to fade away, and the air felt
like it was thick with a kind of peace she
had never felt on earth. Then she felt herself being
lifted out of her chair. She wasn't just watching him,
she was traveling with him. She described leaving the hospital
room and entering a place of light that was so
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bright and so full of love that she didn't have
words for it. And she saw people standing there, people
she didn't know, but she could tell they were his family.
They looked young, radiant, and full of life. They were
waiting for him with open arms, and the joy in
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the air was overwhelming. Joy said she felt the most
incredible happiness that she's ever felt in her life. And
then she felt a gentle push back. She found herself
back in the chair, still holding the man's hand. He
had just taken his last breath. She wasn't dying, of course,
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she was perfectly healthy, but she was allowed to go
halfway to the door so that she could see that
he was safe. If you are someone who couldn't be
there at the very last moment with your loved one,
or even if you were there and it felt scary,
I want you to remember joy. Your loved one didn't
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walk into a dark hole. They didn't disappear into nothingness
when their body passed. They walked into a room filled
with people who have been waiting to see them for
a very long time. Our next story is called the
Peak in dary Anne Mystery, and I've been talking about
peak and dry Anne cases quite recently. Well, here's the
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story and you'll understand what it means. This happened to
a man named Eddie. Eddie was very sick in the
hospital and he was struggling. His best friend, Andy had
died in a car accident the day before, but like
our earlier story, the family decided not to tell Eddie.
They were afraid the shock of losing his best friend
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would be too much for his weak heart. Eddie was
drifting in and out of sleep. Suddenly he opened his
eyes and looked at his mother. He had a look
of total shock on his face, but he wasn't scared.
He was just confused. He said, Mom, I just saw
Andy and he's right there in the corner. But why
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is Andy here? Isn't he supposed to be at work today.
Eddie had no way of knowing his friend was dead.
In his mind, Andy was perfectly fine and was sitting
at his desk at work that day, but Eddie saw
him standing in the room, healthy and waiting for him.
Eddie died a few hours later with a huge smile
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on his face because he knew his best friend was
there to lead the way. This isn't a hallucination. Your
brain doesn't hallucinate that someone is dead when you one
hundred percent believe they are alive. This is a real meeting,
and it's real proof that people who love us are
standing by ready to catch us at the moment we
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let go of this world. So these experiences are called
peak in dairy m cases. Now I'll tell you the
red velvet dress story. It's about a nine year old
girl who was very sick. One morning, she woke up
and told her father, Aunt Martha is here. She's wearing
a beautiful red velvet dress with gold buttons, and she
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says she's going to take me to see some flowers.
The father was confused. Aunt Martha was his sister and
she lived hundreds of miles away. As far as he knew,
she was healthy. He thought his daughter must have just
been having a dream. But less than an hour later
he got the news Aunt Martha had died in a
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car accident that very morning, at the exact time the
little girl saw her in the room. Later, when the
father went to the funeral, he saw Martha in her casket.
She was wearing the exact red velvet d rests with
the gold buttons that the little girl had described. Again,
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anyone that you know who has passed, they were met,
They were guided, They were loved before they even left
their body. They weren't confused. They didn't wonder where to
go next. They were picked up by the people who
knew them the best. Next. The Father and the Impossible Sunrise.
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This is a story about a man who lost his father.
His father was a very practical man, a carpenter who
didn't believe in spiritual or heavenly things. On his deathbed,
the son said, Dad, if you find out there's something
on the other side, give me a sign and make
it big. The father died at four in the morning
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on a very cloudy, rainy Tuesday. The sun was sitting
on the porch, crying, feeling that deep dark grief that
we all know. He looked at the sky and said, okay, Dad,
where are you at That exact second, the thick gray
clouds over his house parted in a perfect circle. A
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beam of bright, golden sunlight hit him right in the face.
It was so bright he had to close his eyes.
It lasted for exactly one minute, and then the clouds
closed back up and it started to rain again. He
called the weather station later and they told him that
in his town there was no sun recorded at all
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that morning. It had been a total cloud cover for
fifty miles in every direction. So this wasn't an event
caused by weather. That was a father using the energy
of the universe to say, I found the light sun,
and it's brighter than you can imagine. There's one more
story I have to tell you. It's about a woman
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named Janine. She was at home sleeping while her mother
was in a nursing home fifty miles away. The Janine
bolted straight up in her bed. The room was filled
with a golden light that didn't come from any lamp.
She saw her mother standing at the foot of her bed,
looking young and healthy. Her mother wasn't in the hospital gown,
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she was in her favorite Sunday dress. She whispered, I'm free, Janine,
I'm finally free. I love you. Janine looked at her clock.
It was exactly three two am. Five minutes later, the
nursing home called her mother had passed away at exactly
three am. These stories prove that our souls are connected
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by invisible wires of love. Distance doesn't matter, walls don't matter.
When the soul leaves the body, the very first thing
it does is go to the people it loves most
to say I'm okay. Don't be afraid. If you haven't
had one of these outstanding signs, your loved one might
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be trying to communicate in a different way. Please be
aware of thoughts that just seem to come out of
nowhere or remembory you had with them, just little calling
cards that say I'm right here. When I think of
Shades of the Afterlife and now some two hundred and
eighty episodes, oh my gosh. If we put these stories
all together, they form like a necklace of truth. And
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the truth is this, Love is the only thing that
is real. Love is the only thing that survives. I
know it's hard. I know what grief feels like, and
sometimes it feels like it's just too much to handle.
But remember, if the mind says that they are truly gone,
that's just an illusion. They are very much alive. They
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are healthy, they are well, they're busy, they are learning,
they're growing, and they do their very best to find
ways to let us know that. And again, you are
a divine soul having a human experience. We communicate tellopathically
when we pass, so they can communicate telepathically with us
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right now, and of course, if they can, they'll do
something to affect our technology. You may have heard me
mention that I am rewriting my book We Don't Die,
so I'm going through all my episodes very slowly looking
for the best stories. If you have some favorite stories
from Shades of the Afterlife, send me an email let
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me know which ones they are. Sandra Champlain at gmail
dot com. As a reminder, come visit me at Weedo'tdie
dot com. Join my mailing list and get a free
PDF copy of my book, And while you're there, you
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instrumental transcommunication like EVPs and pictures from Beyond and the
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other one's called Evidence of the Afterlife, saving evidential mediumship.
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of a kind. You are precious. Your loved ones are
around you, and believe me, they continue to love you.
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