REAL PEOPLE, REAL ANGELS: True Encounters of Heavenly Guardians Saving Lives

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
A woman wrote when I was eight months pregnant with
my daughter, I was so tired and disappointed in my
two year old son. His behavior was different than other kids.
Later on, at four years, he was diagnosed with ADHD,
with neurological impairedness and defiant behavior. But back then I
did not know what was wrong with him. I was

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so scared that my other child will be the same way.
I was so tired because my son hardly ever slept
at night, and I had a husband I could not
count on. I felt like a failure. At around seven am,
I heard a knocking at the door, too early for
anybody to visit. I got up, but my door was

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opening already. I got scared because the only two people
with keys were my then husband and the landlord. My
husband was working and my landlord would not dare do that.
But who did I see my grandfather walking up the
stairs smiling. I screamed in happiness. How did you make
the trip? I asked, who brought you here? Why didn't

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you call me? The last I knew my grandfather was
sick in bed, and that was some days before. He
then told me that he came to visit me for
a moment. I was upset at that. He then asked,
where is your son. I told him he was finally asleep.
I told him how I felt so alone and disappointed

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at motherhood and scared. He stopped me with a hug
and told me to make some coffee. He told me,
now it's time for me to leave. I came to
bless your son, and it's done. When I went to bed,
he tucked me in and looked at me with so
much love, and then he said, you'll have a girl
and she'll be fine, and you'll be fine. I smiled,

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and then he said, come and give me a hug.
I love you so much. I did, But then I
noticed I was hugging the air. Nobody was with me.
My first thought was that my grandpa passed away, and
I called my grandma crying. I told Grandma what had happened,
but she kept insisting Grandpa was alive and fine. I

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asked her to check in on him. She even put
him on the phone. So who came to visit me
that morning? And why did he look like Grandpa? Numerous
books and various websites on the subject of angels are
all full of anecdotes like this. And many even more incredible.

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Do angels exist? Do they sometimes come to the aid
and comfort of humans and need? Why do they appear
to and help some people and not others? Do you
have a guardian angel of your own? A recent poll
published in Time magazine revealed that sixty nine percent of
Americans believe in angels, and forty six percent of that

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group believe they have a personal guardian angel. There's no
scientific evidence for angels, of course. The only evidence we
have for their existence is the long religious tradition, stories
from the Bible, and the many anecdotes like the one
I just shared from people who believe these spiritual beings
have affected their lives ultimately. Just like ghosts, aliens, and

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even bigfoot, angels are a matter of faith, and many
believers have offered their opinions on what an angel's role
can be in a person's life, and even how you
can enlist their help. I'm Darren Marler and this is
Weird Darkness. Welcome weirdos. I'm Darren Marler and this is

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Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre,
unsolved and Unexplained coming up in this episode of Weird Darkness.
If you ever missed death by an inch and you

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believe you had a little help, you may be one
of many people with guardian angel stories. Even for non believers,
a brush with real guardian angels is an encounter with
the uncanny proof of entities in the world beyond your
line of sight. That's why real guardian angel stories, such
as the Wanes I'll share in this episode are so creepy.

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Even if it ends as a positive experience, it leaves
you with a lot of lingering questions. Many people believe
real guardian angels protect people from harm, but that doesn't
make them less unnerving. After all, if angels truly are real,
then so are the demonic forces they seek to protect

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people from. Now bult your doors, lock your windows, turn
off your lights, and come with me into the Weird Darkness.

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People from all over the world have reported encounters with
mysterious beings. They appear to bring important messages or lend
much needed assistance, then vanish without a trace. Could they
be angels or even guardian angels. Some of the most
fascinating and uplifting stories of the Unexplained are those that

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people perceive as being miraculous in nature. Sometimes they take
the form of answered prayers or are interpreted as the
actions of guardian angels. These remarkable events and encounters lend comfort,
strength and faith, and even save lives. They almost always
seem to happen when they are needed most Are they

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literally from heaven or are they the result of the
interaction of our consciousness with a profoundly mysterious universe. Even
those who believe in the existence of angels concede that
they rarely make a physical appearance. However, there are other
ways guardian angels can make their presence known, they say.

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Some people say that they hear angelic sounds totally beyond
human description, according to the article Angels at Future three
sixty five. Others have a feeling of sudden warmth or comfort, or,
in times of sadness or grief, a gentle cloak of
feathered wings wrapping softly around them. Sometimes angel energy may

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feel entirely different, like a sudden rush of air created
by the passing of an angel on a mission at
the speed of light. This is often noticed at times
of impending disaster, at other times simply an inexplicable presence
is felt. Often the angel encounter comes with just a voice.
As this man's story indicates. We were moving from southern

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Washington to northern Washington, me and my old pickup and
my wife and son in our other car. Following. The
fuel pump on the pickup gives out and I pull
over just past an on ramp off the highway, send
my wife and son to buy a new fuel pump
and start to remove the old pump. I'm standing on
the traffic side at the truck at least ten feet
off the highway, not really concerned that I'd get hit.

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When a voice sounds close to my ear, you're going
to get hit. I've heard that voice often enough to
know not to disregard it, and moved to the other
side of the truck at least fifty feet away. Sure enough,
not more than two minutes later, another pickup comes down
the on ramp at fifty plus miles per hour, broadside
my truck from the back bumper to the front. If

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I had stayed working on the pump, I'd have been
turned into a jelly smear on the side of my truck.
Reddator Light Energy wrote when I was in my twenties,
I spent four years traveling the world. I was in
South Africa, just outside Durban, and a friend had taken
me on his motorbike to his favorite waterfall. We'd both

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been swimming, but I got cold and went to sit
on a patch of green grass. To get there, I
had to step from the sand I was on over
a log, then across a bit to the grass. I
was walking medium speed and lifted one foot to step
over the log when a very loud, booming, masculine voice
shouted stop. Except a shout wasn't heard with my ears,

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it was inside my head, hard to explain. Also, there
was nobody else around except Tim and I, and he
was still happily swimming. I stopped, wondering what had just happened.
I still had my foot in the ear above the log.
I looked around and spotted what I thought was a
leaf waving about six inches from my big toe. It

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took me a few seconds to realize that it wasn't
a leaf but a snake, a black mamba. He had
his head raised and was licking the air right near
my toe. He was waiting to see what my next
move was to be, and he had seen me long
before I saw him. I slowly backed up and walked
very carefully backwards to where Tim was. I have no

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explanation for the voice that I heard, except that it
was so loud and was inside my head rather than
heard with my ears, and it came at a time
when I didn't feel in any danger at all. In fact,
I was very calm and happy. I feel that it
was my guardian angel who shouted at me to stop,
as I would have stepped right on the snake. My

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guardian angel saved my life. A man named Rob Jacobs
tells this story. One day toward the end of nineteen
ninety nine, I asked my father if he'd like one
of my angel art pieces to hang on the wall
above his bed in his retirement home. He enthusiastically said
yes and chose Angel number five, and then the following

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words came out of my mouth, this angel will protect you.
I believe this was truly a spiritually evoked statement, because
about six months later, this angelic premonition came to pass,
which literally saved my father's life. When I visited my father,
who resided at a retirement home in Westwood, California, the

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ritual was to call him first, planning our visit together,
which I did every time without exception. Heading home from
my studio one day, the thought see your father flashed
in my head. It was so strongly pronounced that I immediately
turned around and headed for Westwood. I'd not called him
or planned to see him that day, but see your

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father kept pounding in my head. His heart was racing
by the time I got to his room on the
seventh floor. I banged on the door, but all I
could hear was the television blaring. I ran down to
the office, got the staff to open the door, and
found him lying on the floor unconscious. It took the
paramedics only a few minutes to reach us, and they
were able to revive him from insolent shock. Without the

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paramedics help, he would have been gone. I knew then,
without a doubt, that the angel hanging over his bed
had protected him by acting as a messenger to me.
Another redditor chalks up hearing a voice in his head
to the help of an angel. Once I was with
a small group of four stuck in very very difficult

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circumstances without food, we would no doubt be rescued within
twenty four hours, but a lot could happen before that.
One guy pulled out a box of six beautiful Belgian
chocolate truffles from his jacket and offered them around chocolate.
I almost was reaching for one when I heard this
voice screaming inside me. Don't touch that, so I didn't.

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They were laced with LSD, and we were trapped in
a Central American conflict zone in the middle of the night.
Nothing in my consciousness could have ever suggested to me
that someone would do something so stupid under such circumstances.
Tricia writes, when I was a child, I used to
have a lot of nightmares. My mother told me to

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pray to God when I had these nightmares, and he
would take them away. But sometimes these dreams were so
frightening that I couldn't go back to sleep because I
was afraid I would have it again. One day, my
mom put a picture of Jesus up on my bedroom wall,
and she said that he would protect me. I was
comforted by that picture and my mom's gesture. When I

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would have a bad dream, I would pray to God,
and when I fell asleep, the dream would be gone.
One night, I was awoke to a breeze in my room,
and when I opened my eyes, there was a beautiful
war standing next to me. She wore a white gown
and had a beautiful light to her. She never spoke,
but I could feel that she was there to protect me,
and after that night, I had no more nightmares thanks

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to my guardian angel. Reddator Aeriel one twenty five shared
this story about twenty years ago. My family was getting
ready to move across the country for my dad's job,
and my grandmother was worried sick. She was not elderly
back then and in perfect health. She was in church,

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worried and praying we would be safe, being so far away. Suddenly,
a booming voice echoed through the whole church. I will
take care of your family, echoing. She shot up, looked around.
No one else had heard it, No one she knows
it was God or her guardian angel, telling her we

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would be okay. TL shares his story in March of
nineteen ninety five. The angels told me that I was
going to be involved in a serious head on car
accident and that they would protect me and I would
be all right. This was the first time I had
direct experience of the angels they assured me I would

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not be hurt and told me not to worry. Despite
their loving presence and assurance, I deliberately pulled over to
delay my travel for twenty minutes, thinking that if I
did this, I could change my fate and avoid the accident.
As I was driving along at fifty five miles per
hour on the freeway, a man came across the divider
and hit my car, crashing into the driver's side door.

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As my car slid across the freeway. The accident continued
to worsen and caused a five car pile up. Some
of the cars flipped over and several people died due
to the severity of impacts. However, all the while, I
was not afraid. I knew the angels were taking care
of everything, and I felt completely at peace. There were

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a few military Reserve people involved in the accident, and
they helped me out of the wreckage of my car
as the three ambulances and highway patrol officers were arriving
on the scene. Later, as I was standing next to
my car, an officer said, how terrible the driver of
this car must have been killed, and I replied, oh, no,
I was the driver. He shook his head no, looked

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at the car again to inspect the damage on the
driver's side, and insisted that the driver would have definitely
been killed. Even the tow truck driver, when we were
arranging to remove the vehicle, offered the consoling words, I'm
so sorry for the loss in your family. He'd never
seen a wreck like that where the driver had survived.
Despite the obvious conclusion that I should be dead from

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such a horrible accident, I came through the accident without
even a single cut. I felt a few slivers of
glass in my hair later when I washed it, and
glass was embedded in the car seat when I returned
to look at it, but I was completely unscathed. I
would never have reacted in the peaceful way I did

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without that guidance. I believe in angels and know without
a doubt that they are watching over me. It appears
angels and automobiles go hand in hand quite often. As
this man explains, my friend and I were sitting in
a traffic light very late one night when his car

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just stalled. He tried and tried to get it to restart,
but we couldn't get it going. We jumped out to
push it into the parking lot of a gas station
that was next to where the car died. We were
having trouble getting it up an incline, when out of nowhere,
this guy came jogging up from the direction of the
gas station. He got on the other side of the
car and helped me push it up the incline, out

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of the street and into the lot. We thanked him
for his help and he took off. Just then, a
car came speeding around a curve and blew through the
intersection where the car was just a minute before. My
butt and I were shocked because if that guy didn't
show up when he did, we would have been hit
by that car. We turned back around to thank the

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guy again, but he was gone, just disappeared into a
thin air. I truly believe he was an angel sent
to protect us that night. This encounter might be an
urban legend, as I've heard many versions of it, or
it could very well be that angels just seemed to
work this way more often than we realized. Here's the

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story from redditor Light step. A friend of mine told
me about and experiences grandmother had when she was home alone.
Once in the middle of the day, someone knocked on
her door. When she went to answer it, she was
greeted by a man with a knife, ready to kill
her and loot the place, but when he saw her,
he went pale and ran. He was later caught and

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questioned about why he ran, and his response was, when
the door opened, I saw two large and strong men
standing behind her, and to this day, my friend swears
that it must have been two angels sent to protect her.
Another miraculous say from an angel comes from this redditor.
My aunt had an experience when she rolled her jeep

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as a teenager. Mid roll, she was taken out of
the jeep and sort of floated or hovered over the
road until she was placed feet first on the ground.
She later noticed that she had bruises resembling handprints on
both of her biceps, no other bruises or scars from
the incident. A redditor told this story told to her

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by her mother a few months back at a family
gathering after a few glasses of wine. My mom shared
this story from when she was a kid. She and
a childhood friend were walking home from school one day
and about to cross a country road that was normally deserted.
They had been warned to be careful around that road before,
but being kids, never thought much about it. On one occasion,

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she said, they got to the road and she was
overcome with a sense of du read She felt rooted
to the spot, as if something was literally holding her
in place. Her friend started crossing without her, and a
guy in a truck happened to be speeding along, not
paying attention, and ran over her friend. The girl later
died in the hospital. My mom sincerely believes that her

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guardian angel saved her life that day, but that makes
me wonder about the other little girl. Her angel was
taking a smoke break or something. A man who gave
his name as Whodot wrote, I've never seen an angel,
but I've always had a feeling of being watched over
or protected. I've been incredibly lucky in my life. For instance,

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I'm epileptic, and the first time I had a grandma
seizure as opposed to a petit mal seizure was when
I was fifteen. I had it in the shower one
morning while getting ready for school. I hit my head
on the faucet so hard that I knocked it loose,
but came away from it with a mild concussion. That's
happened so several times, and each time I just barely

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missed serious injury. When my insurance company and pharmacy gave
me a generic medication instead of the name brand that
I needed, I had a seizure. This time I was
driving in front of the big box retailer that I
worked for. This place is always busy, not Walmart, and
somehow I managed to not hit anyone and only hit

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a small tree. Someone dropped the ball in the er
and didn't report the accident to the DMV, and I
didn't lose my license. Years later, I made the mistake
of driving after a few beers, and when a car
stopped in the middle of making a turn, I lightly
tapped them and went to jail. I learned my lesson

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and would never do it again, But that lesson could
have been so much worse. There are other things, mostly
small but meaningful events that could have and should have
been so much worse than they were, but things seemed
to work out for the best, and lessons are learned.
I'm not sure I believe in a god, but I
do believe that there is something that, for some reason,

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has protected me and now my family. This person story
has a nice little twist in the end. I was
traveling west on a divided four lane highway. There were
openings for turns about every quarter mile. It was six
thirty am and raining just enough to tick you off
missing spitting. I will then tea bones me on the

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back driver's side fender. I spin and come to rest
in the median all grass and mud from the rain.
Out of nowhere, a guy shows up to my driver's
side window. He has a large cowboy hat on and
he says, you're gonna be okay, and he holds my hand.
I asked him his name, and he looks away like
he doesn't want to tell me, and then he says

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Bill Hill. I smiled and said thank you. Another motorist
who stopped calls nine to one one and ambulance is dispatched.
When they arrive, he moves out of the way for
the EMTs to get me out of the car. Car
is totaled, no glass left, get checked out, and I
get to go home with broken ribs and a shattered kneecap.

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A few days later, my mom takes me to see
the car. What a wreck. I told her to help
get some personal items from the car. When I looked
in the back seat, there is the dude's cowboy hat.
I told my mom about him, and we both proceeded
to try and find him to thank him for being
so kind. He never existed, and we lived in a

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small town of only a few thousand at the time.
We checked with police and the churches and everywhere. How
did his hat get in my back seat? He weren't
the whole time. He held my hand and had the
hat on when he got out of the way for
the EMTs. I think he was an angel. Why would
I have his hat? While that story had an angel cowboy.

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Angels come in all shapes and sizes. They can look
like anything or any one. It would seem an angel
might even look exactly like you. As we hear from
this woman, this is my mother's story. When I was little,
we used to live in an old house that was
probably close to one hundred years old. Anyways, I was
around three or four years old at the time and

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very sick. My room and my mother's room were right
next to each other, and my parents had split up
that year, so it was just my mom, my sister,
and I in the house. She said that while everyone
was asleep. She woke up to someone standing right in
front of her, around eye level with her while she
was laying in bed, so around two and a half
feet I suppose. She said it looked like me, exactly

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like me, and I was glowing white but transparent and still.
The someone had long brown hair, which is what I
did have, and was wearing a night gown. The night
that she saw this, I'd been very, very sick and
I wasn't turning around. After she blinked a few times,
the someone dissolved and she got up to check on me.

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I had a fever with shivers and was coughing and
almost choking on my own mucus who She took me
to the hospital right then, and the doctor said that
if she hadn't, I probably would have died from choking
in my sleep or from how close I was to
catching pneumonia. My mom loves telling this story and truly
believes it was my guardian angel telling her it wasn't

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my time yet and that I needed her help. Sometimes
angels have no qualms in letting you know that they
are on God's side, and sometimes they'll give you a
dose of truth, as this redditor tells my dad recently
told me this story, and I was just amazed. When
I was young, about three or so, I was hospitalized

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and near death. I had a fever that just would
not break and was passed out for most of the hospitalization.
My dad, who has always been religious, wanted the hospital's
priest to come say a prayer for me. So the
priest comes to pray for me, but something's not right
about the guy. He never gives his name and has
no Bible. He says the entire prayer in Latin and

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blesses me. And now my parents aren't married yet, and
since the priest is there, they ask why they haven't
been able to have another child yet. They've been trying
for about a year with no luck. The priest tells
them that they won't have another child until they're married.
The priest leaves after that, and an hour later, my
fever breaks. The next day, the hospital's priest comes to

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my room to say a prayer for me. My dad's
confused and tells the man that someone had already come
the day before, to which the man replies that no
priests were on duty the day before. He checked with
all of the hospital staff and their visitation book and
everything nothing turned up. No priest was in the previous day.

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He searched for years to find this priest that prayed
for me, and he never found a single trace of
him anywhere. A month after my mom and dad got married,
my mom got pregnant with my brother. So we'll never
know who the mysterious man was, but I like to
think he's my guardian angel. To this day, my dad
still has found no record of him, not even someone

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who looks like him. Someone was looking out for me
that day, though, just wish I knew who. DL is
convinced of his encounter, I'd just driven hundreds of miles
from New York to a rural part of Vermont, and
it really was a dark and stormy night. The rain
was coming down in sheets, there were no lights to

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be seen anywhere, and suddenly my car engine failed. I
immediately asked for help from the angels, but there didn't
seem to be anyone at hand. But as my car
was coasting to a stop at the side of the road,
I saw headlights coming over a hill. Before I even
came to a complete stop, this car had pulled over
behind me. It was a first responder in his family.

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On their way home, he offered to give me a
ride to where I was staying. The next morning, when
I returned to my vehicle, I discovered that it had
broken down less than a quarter mile from the only
place that could fix the problem, and it was the
only place within one hundred miles. I often call upon
angels for help and immediately appreciated their presence and help

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with what otherwise could have been a difficult and frightening experience.
Redator red Keeper had a harrowing experience while rock climbing.
I was free climbing a thirty foot cliff face once.
The face was mostly shale rock with plenty of hand holds,
and I was young and dumb. Two thirds of the

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way up, my left hand hold broke free as I
was reaching with my right and started to fall. You
know that feeling when you're tilting back in a chair
and you tilt just a little too far. That's exactly
what I felt. I started to fall backwards and everything
got real slow. I knew I was going to die,
or at best be crippled, and gently press against my

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back right between my shoulder blades. It felt like a
perfectly normal right hand, and it pushes me back against
the rock face. I took a moment to steady myself.
I was pretty shaken up, and then I climbed down
to safety. I'm inclined to believe that it was a
guardian angel, but that's solely based on my religious background,

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and I don't know where said guardian angel was when
I got hit by a car. I suppose it could
have been a hallucination, but I don't use drugs and
I wasn't on any medications. I'll probably never know what happened,
but I am very thankful that I didn't fall. When

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Weird Darkness returns, I'll have more true stories of people
experiencing angels. This is a fascinating topic, but there's also
a lot of questions about angels, if they're real, and
especially if we all have a guardian angel, a single
heavenly entity assigned to each one of us to watch
over and protect us. To go deeper into that aspect

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of it, you might want to listen to the Church
of the Undead podcast episode entitled Do I Have a
Guardian Angel? I've placed a link to it in the
show notes. Are angels real? Are they truly around? Us.

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We often don't hear about angels, and when we do,
the stories are often secularized or commercialized. The truth is,
angels still walk among us, and each story of a
true encounter with one is quite unique and amazing. Here
are a few more true stories of real angel encounters.
Lily Leonardi's story may seem unbelievable to some, but the

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former FBI officer, who retired after suffering from post traumatic
stress disorder linked to her role in the aftermath of
the September eleventh terror attacks, is adamant about what she witnessed.
Leonardi said she saw legions of angels guarding the Pennsylvania
site where United Airlines Flight ninety three crashed. When she

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arrived at the site just three hours after the crash,
she was struck by numerous elements. She was so startled
she kept it to herself out of fear that her
coworkers would think she lost her mind. I started seeing
shimmering lights and it was kind of misty, and that's
when I first saw angels there, Leonardi said. And I
didn't say anything to the guys, because you can imagine

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if I would have said, I just saw angels on
the crash site. They'd have called the office and they'd
have said she lost her mind and tell her to
go home. They were dressed as if they were in
warrior garb, like a Roman centurion. She said. They were
so many of them you couldn't see their faces. She
continued to see flickers of light, each angel guarding the

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crash site. Her hope in sharing her story is that
people would know that God was present. On nine to eleven,
Pastor John Boston was driving down the road when another
car crossed the center line and came barreling toward him.
The pastor swerved to miss the vehicle and struck a
utility poll sending a live transformer crashing onto his car. Immediately,

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the metal and glass began to buckle from the intense
heat from thousands of volts of electricity. His four year
old daughter, who was with him, was trapped inside the
burning car. The seat belt was stuck and the door
wouldn't open. That's when a scruffy looking stranger came out
of nowhere and easily opened the smashed door. The man
removed him from the car and walked him twenty feet

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away from the vehicle to safety before the car exploded
in flames. He said, my name is Johnny. The police
are almost here, and I can't be here when they
get here. But you're gonna be okay, said Pastor Boston,
And then the man was gone. He said. The people
who tried to rationalize the situation thought the circuit breaker
simply tripped and Johnny fled because of a sketchy past. However,

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firefighters say there are some aspects of what happened that
defy logic, reason and science. Pastor Boston is convinced he
encountered an angel that day. Margaret Jones from Lancashire, UK
claims she had a very specific experience with angels, one
which purportedly unfolded at her church twenty years ago. While

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she was singing in a choir. She felt the pressure
of what seemed like a human hand touching her own hand.
As she was standing on the edge of the choir.
She assumed that the lady Deborah, who had been playing
the organ, had come over to join them, so she
thought nothing of it. The hand then left hers, and
a few moments later she opened her eyes and was

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surprised to see that Deborah was still sitting at the
organ and wasn't beside her. It was after the service
that a fellow congregant told Jones that an angel was
next to her and touched her hand. He was just
seven years old when his five year old cousin, Cheddy,
was sick with cancer and later passed away. At the time,

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his family didn't want to talk about the death. They
told him to keep quiet, despite the situation devastating him.
Whenever his family went to Cheddy's home for visits, he'd
always asked to play on the swing with him. After
Cheddy died, he went to his house for a visit.
In his loneliness, he decided to go outside and sit
on the swing they had always played on. As he

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sat there, thinking about how things used to be, Cheddy
walked up to him and an angel was holding his hand.
The angel had beautiful blonde hair and was dressed in
a long white gown, never saying a word, just smiling.
They looked at him and said, I'm not in pain
no more, and the angel turned and walked until they

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simply faded away. Annabel Beam was only nine years old
when she miraculously survived a thirty foot fall while she
was playing with her sisters outside their Texas home, she
plummeted inside a hollowed out cottonwood tree. An emergency helicopter
rushed her to a hospital in Fort Worth, where brain

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and spinal injury teams prepped for Annabel's arrival. But astonishingly,
Annabel was unscathed. After the accident, Annabel began describing religious
visions she had while she was unconscious. She says that
she met a guardian angel during the incident. I started
to wake up in the tree, and I could hear
the fireman's voices, and I saw an angel that looked

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very small, like a fairy. The angel then winked, and
he told her I'm going to leave you now and
everything is going to be okay. The angel stayed with
her the entire time, shining light so she could see
until she was rescued. Jackie b believes that her guardian
angel came to her aid on two occasions to help

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her avoid serious injury. According to her testimony, she actually
physically felt and heard his protective force. Both encounters happened
when she was a child of kindergarten age. The first
experience took place at a popular sledding hill where Jackie
was enjoying the day with her family, The young girl
decided to try sledding down the steepest part of the hill.

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She closed her eyes and started down. I apparently hit
someone going down, and I was spinning out of control.
I was heading for the metal guard rail. I didn't
know what to do, says Jackie. I suddenly felt someone
push my chest down. I came within less than a
half inch of the rail, but didn't hit it. It
could have lost my nose. Jackie's second experience occurred during

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her birthday celebration at school. She had run across the
playground to place her crown on a bench. While running
back to her friends, three boys tripped her. The playground
was filled with metal objects and wood chips. Jackie went
flying and something hit her just below the eye. But
I felt something pulled me back when I fell, Jackie says.

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The teachers said that they saw me sort of fly
forward then fly back. At the same time as they
hurried me to the nurse's office, I heard an unfamiliar
voice keep telling me don't worry, I'm here. God doesn't
want anything to happen to his baby. It's remarkable how
many stories of angels come out of hospital experiences. It

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may not be so hard to understand why when we
remind ourselves that they are places of sharply focused emotions, prayers,
and hope. D Baylor entered the hospital in nineteen ninety
four with acute pain from a fibroid tumor the size
of a grapefruit in her uterus. The surgery was successful,
but more complicated than expected, and her troubles weren't over.

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Dee recalls that she was in horrible pain. She had
an allergic reaction to the morphine she was given, and
the doctors tried to counteract it with other medications. This
made a bad experience even worse. She had just had
a major surgery and now she was dealing with the
pain of an acute drug reaction. After receiving more pain medication,

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she was able to sleep for a few hours. I
awoke in the middle of the night. According to the
wall clock, it was two forty five. I heard someone
speaking and realized someone was at my bedside. She says.
It was a young woman with short brown hair and
wearing a white hospital staff uniform. She was sitting and
reading aloud from the Bible. I said to her, am,

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I all right, why are you here with me? The
woman visiting de stopped reading but did not look up.
She simply said, I was sent here to make sure
you'd be all right. You're going to be fine. Now
you should get some rest and go back to sleep.
She began to read again, and I drifted off back
to sleep. The next morning, she explained the experience to

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her doctor, who checked and said that no staff had
visited her overnight. She asked all the nurses, and no
one knew of this visitor. To this day, she says,
I believe that I was visited by my guardian angel
that night. She was sent to comfort me and assure
me that I would be okay. Coincidentally, the time on
that clock that night, two forty five am, is the

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exact time recorded on my birth certificate that I was born.
There are many stories of people receiving much needed money
from mysterious, unknown sources. Ellie has such a story that
she recalls from the summer of January nineteen ninety four,
when she was living in Melbourne, Australia. It was late

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afternoon and Ellie was outside gathering the family laundry from
the clothes line. There was a sudden, small Willy Willie
in Australia for a swirling wind funnel of dust and leaves.
As it raced past me, I saw something blue whirling
in the middle of the dust and leaves and managed
to grab hold of it. She says. I was surprised

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and very pleased to see it was a ten dollar note.
A few days later, Ellie was at the back of
the yard checking on her garden tomatoes, which she spotted
something lying in the grass. She was astonished to find
it was a twenty dollar note. Not long afterward, in
another part of the garden, she found a five dollar
note and yet another twenty dollar note nestled among the

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leaves of the day lilies. By this time I told
my family of the angel money. She tells us none
of them had put money there, not with the possibility
of it blowing away in the often high winds of summer.
All was quiet for a few days. Then one of
my sons came in with an ear to ear grin
and a twenty dollar note that he had just found

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on top of the compost heap. Most of us would
say this was not angel money at all, but money
that some some one had lost and had simply blown
into Ellie's yard. But Ellie's not quite convinced of that explanation.
That's because a week or so later she had another
amazing find, this time in her house. I was cleaning

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out under the bed and pulled out a pair of slippers,
and there nestling in the toe of one, like a
little grace note, was a fifty cent coin. Perhaps more
painful than an injury or illness is the feeling of
utter hopelessness, the despair of the soul that leads one
too thoughts of suicide. Dean ass experienced this pain as

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he was going through a divorce at the age of
twenty six. The thought of being apart from his two
young daughters was almost more than he could bear, But
on one night of stormy darkness, Dean was given renewed hope.
At the time, he was working as a derreck man
on a drill rig. That night, he was having serious
thoughts of taking his life as he looked down from

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the one hundred and twenty eight foot derrick. My family
and I have strong beliefs in Jesus, but it was
hard not to contemplate suicide, recalls Dean. In the worst
thunderstorm I'd ever seen. I climbed the derrick to take
my position to pull pipe out of the hole we
were drilling. His co workers urged him not to climb
the derrick, saying they'd rather have down time than risk

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someone's life. Dean ignored this and began to climb. Lightning
flashed all around me, thunder boomed. I cried to God
to take me if I couldn't have my family. I
didn't want to live, but I couldn't take my own
life in suicide. God spared me. I don't know how
I survived that night, but I did. A couple weeks later,

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I bought a small Bible and traveled to the Peace
River Hills, where my family has lived for so long.
I sat down on top of one of the green
hills and started to read. I had such a warm
feeling enter into me as the sun parted through the
clouds and shone on me. It was raining all around me,
but I was dry and warm in my small spot

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on top of that hill. Dean says that these moments
changed his life for the better. He met his new
wife and fell in love. They started a family together
that includes his two daughters. He says, thank you, Lord Jesus,
and the angels you sent that day to touch my soul.
In nineteen ninety eight, Luke was diagnosed with bone cancer

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at the tender age of eight. As sometimes happens, he
came down with an infection, which meant he had to
go to the hospital. He was there for about two weeks,
and that's when something remarkable happened. One evening, Luke's mother
was sitting in his bedside, quietly praying as he slept.
A nurse came into the room to check Luke's temperature,

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but his mother noted something rather peculiar about her. The
nurse was wearing an old fashioned uniform of the type
that would have been common thirty years earlier in the
nineteen sixties. The nurse noticed that Luke's mother had a
Bible by the side of his bed. She said that
she was a Christian too, and said that she would
pray for Luke's healing. Luke's family had never seen this

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odd nurse before, and they never saw her again in
Luke's remaining time at the hospital. I came out of
the hospital fully healed at my infection, says Luke, who
was nineteen when he told his story. Remarkably, he is
now completely free of cancer. My mom believes this nurse
could have been a guardian angel, coming down to give
my mom some hope. Luke says, if she wasn't an angel,

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why would she be wearing nineteen sixties old fashioned nurse clothing.
Back in nineteen eighty, Deb was a single mother with
two infants living in San Bernardino County, California. She occasionally
needed reliable babysitters. Fortunately, her parents lived only thirty miles
away in Alta Loma. Debb would usually drop off the

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children at her parents' house, go do what she needed
to do, then pick them up in the evening. One night,
Deb had retrieved her babies from her parents' place and
was heading home. It was relatively late, about eleven thirty pm.
Deb was driving her old clunker. Among the car's many deficiencies,
the gas gage was broken, requiring her to guess when
the old thing needed fuel. Occasionally, her guessing was off.

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Pathway home, the car started to putter, Deb remembers, and
I realized I was on empty. I pulled off the
first off ramp I could, and it just happened to
be one that was slightly uphill almost at the top
of the exit, my car died and there was absolutely
nothing around except empty fields and distant lights at a
truck stop about a quarter of a mile down the road,

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with no cars in sight, Deb didn't know what to do.
The kids were asleep, and walking miles while carrying two
kids in the middle of the night was not a
good option. This was before cell phones, so she could
not call for help. I put my head on the
steering wheel while saying a short and panicky prayer, She says,
I hadn't even finished when I I heard a few taps

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on my window. When she looked up, she saw a
clean cut young man standing there, who Deb estimated to
be about twenty one years old. Emotioned for her to
roll down her window. I remember I was surprised, Dev says,
but I wasn't even the slightest bit afraid, even though
I normally would have been terrified. The young man was
dressed well and had a faint smell of soap. He

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didn't ask if she needed help. Instead, he told her
to put her car in neutral and he would help
her over that last small hill toward a place where
she could get gas. I thanked him and followed his instructions.
The car started moving. I steered it toward the lights
at the truck stop and turned around to yell thank
you again to him. DEV says, he was so nice.
My car kept moving, but the young man was nowhere

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in sight. I mean, this area was completely remote. There
was absolutely nowhere he could have gone that quickly. Even
if there was somewhere to go, I don't even know
where he came from to begin with. Dev's car continued
to roll down the hill until it reached the truck stop.
She was able to get the gas she needed, and

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the kids remained sound asleep. I've always trusted in God
to take care of us, but in relating that story
many times to my children, who are now thirty and
thirty two, they know for a fact that angels do
exist and are sent to us if we just believe.
I always thought it was so amazing that we were
sent someone who I would trust instinctively without question. Since

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that incident, I have come to believe that we probably
encounter angels all the time and take for granted who
they really are. I think they come in all shapes
and sizes, young and old, and sometimes when we least
expect them. Do angels warn of future events. One Live
about user, goes by the name of Hefen, believes it

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is possible perhaps you will too. After hearing the story,
one night, at about four in the morning, Hefan's sister
called her. Her voice was trembling and she was nearly crying.
Since her sister lived across the country and it was
so early, Heaven was obviously worried. She told me she
had a vision of me being in a car accident.

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She didn't say whether or not I was killed in it,
but the sound of her voice made me think she
did believe this, but was afraid to tell me. Heaven writes.
She told me to pray, and she said that she
would pray for me too. She told me to be careful,
to take another route to work, anything I could do.
I told her I believed her and would call our
mother and ask her to pray with us. With Heaven

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left for work, she was terrified, but strengthened in the spirit.
She worked at a hospital and had patience to attend to.
As she was leaving a room, she was called over
by a gentleman in a wheelchair. I went to him,
expecting that he had a complaint against the hospital. He
told me God had given him a message that I
would be in a car accident. He said someone not

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paying attention would hit me. I was so shocked I
almost fainted. He said he would pray for me and
that God loved me. I felt week in the knees
As I left the hospital. I drove like a little
old lady as I observed every intersection, stop sign and
stop light. When I got home, I called my mom
and sister and told them I was fine. A saved

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relationship can be just as important as a saved life.
A redditor, calling herself Smidgink relates how a little miracle
might have rescued her troubled marriage. At the time, she
was making every effort to mend her rocky relationship with
her husband. She had planned a long romantic weekend in Bermuda.
When things started to go wrong, it seemed her plans

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were ruined until fate intervened. Smidgenk's husband was reluctant to
go on the trip. When they arrived in Philadelphia, they
were notified that weather was causing planes to back up,
so they were stuck in a holding pattern for some time.
By the time they landed, their flight to Bermuda was boarding.
As many passengers have experienced, it was a mad dash

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to the next gate, devastated to find the gate door
was just closing. When they arrived. The attendant told them
that they could get to Bermuda, but it would require
two or more connection flights and an additional ten hours.
My husband said that's it. I'm not putting up with
this anymore and started to walk out of the area.
And I just knew out of the marriage. I was

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truly devastated, recalls Smidgenk. As my husband was walking away,
the attendant saw on the counter and I swear it
had not been there when we checked in a packet.
She was obviously upset that it was still there. It
turned out to be the landing papers packet that the
pilot must have on board to land in a different country.
She quickly called the plane to return. The plane had

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been on the runway ready to start powering up the engines.
It returned to the gate for the papers and they
allowed us and others to get on. Smidjak says that
the time with her husband in Bermuda was wonderful. They
were able to work out the problems they were having
and stay together. Though they may have been through some
tough times since then, they always remember that moment at

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the airport. I felt as if my world had collapsed
and was given a miracle that helped us keep a
marriage and a family together. Some researchers think there might
be a connection between UFOs and angel sightings. They say
the angels and heavenly figures encountered in the Bible might
actually have been extra terrestrials. After his experience in the

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nineteen eighties with the most beautiful thing he ever saw,
Louis l might agree with that assessment. It was a
Saturday morning in Mariposa, California, and Lewis had to work
that day. The air was fresh from a cool rain
the night before, and the morning sky was bright with
a few scattered clouds. I was heading out to my
car in the back parking lot of the apartment complex

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where I lived. What I noticed someone kneeling next to
my car. Lewis says. This person saw me and quickly
stood up holding a crowbar. The young man was quite
obviously startled by Lewis's interruption, and although Lewis sensed the
boy was up to no good. It hadn't yet hit
him what he was doing. Then Lewis looked through the
passenger window of his car and saw that the steering

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wheel column had been stripped of its cover. He realized
the young man was trying to steal his car. I
asked him what the heck he was doing, Lewis recalls.
He gave me a lame story about his friend's car
being stolen last night, and that my car looked like
his friends and so on. I didn't want to hear it.
I told him I was going to call the police,
which I did on my cell phone. Lewis dialed nine

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one one and gave the dispatcher the address. He told
the would be thief that the police were on their
way and warned him not to leave. The boy said
he would wait for the police, but Lewis could tell
he was just waiting for the right moment to make
a run for it. If he did, I wasn't going
to try to stop him, because his adrenaline was pumping
and he had that crowbar, Lewis says. As Lewis was

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grilling the young man, trying to detain him, he began
to notice three rather large clouds and a single file
formation that were almost overhead. Then I saw it, he says,
a shiny object exiting from the first cloud and entering
the next, and then coming out of that one. It
was shiny, like brightly polished chrome, and moving at a

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good speed. I couldn't make out the shape. By this time,
Lewis was so distracted by the UFO that the punk
saw his chance and took off. That's when the object
entered the last cloud. From there it was nothing but
open sky. When it emerged, my life changed, Lewis says.
There against the richness of the blue sky was a

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silvery shape that seemed to have arms and legs. It
was so beautiful to look at. At the same time,
it had the appearance of metal. It looked like some
kind of ship with a strange design. The best way
I can describe it is it looked like silverware in
the design of the stick Man children draw. It was huge,
moving fast and made no noise. Sailed overhead. Some of

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the limbs would move up and down, giving the impression
of being alive, a living entity. It made a couple
of rolls, reflecting the sun in every direction. Just beautiful.
Oh my god, beautiful. As it started to fade away
from my view, I found myself short of breath and
with tears running down my cheeks. It had that much
of an effect on me, and began thinking, maybe that's

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what an angel looks like. Maybe not. Angels of obviously
have been experienced by thousands of people, perhaps even millions,
in a variety of ways, saving lives in miraculous ways,

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bringing comfort to those who are injured, warning of imminent danger,
even the occasional, unexpected and much needed financial blessing when
all hope seems lost. There is another time and place
people see angels, and that's at a person's deathbed. We'll
look into that a bit more when weird darkness returns.

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Many people worldwide have said shortly before their deaths that
they've experienced visions of angels appearing to help them make
the transition to heaven. Doctors, nurses, and loved ones report
witnessing signs of deathbed visions as well, such as seeing
dying people, talking to and interacting with invisible presences in
the air, heavenly lights, or even visible angels. While some

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people explain the angel deathbed phenomenon away as hallucinations from medications.
The visions still occur when patients are not medicated, and
when the dying talk about meeting angels, they're fully conscious,
so believers say that such meetings are miraculous evidence that
God does send angelic messengers for the souls of dying people.

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It's common for angels to visit people who are preparing
to die. While angels can and do help people when
they die suddenly, such as in a car accident or
from a heart attack, they have more time to comfort
and encourage people whose dying process is more prolonged, such
as terminally ill patients. Angels come to help anyone who

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is dying, men, women, and children alike, to ease their
fear of death and help them work through issues to
find peace. Deathbed visions have been recorded since antiquity and
share common characteristics, regardless of racial, cultural, religious edges, occasional age,
or socioeconomic factors, writes Rosemary Ellen Guiley in her book

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The Encyclopedia of Angels. The primary purpose of these apparitions
is to beckon or command the dying to come with them.
The dying person usually is happy and willing to go,
especially if the individual believes in an afterlife. If the
person has been in great pain or depression, a complete
turnaround of mood is observed and pain vanishes. The dying

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one literally seems to light up with radiance. Retired hospice
nurse Trudy Harris writes in her book Glimpses of Heaven,
True Stories of Hope and Peace at the End of
Life's Journey that angelic visions are frequent experiences for those
who are dying. Renowned Christian leader Billy Graham writes in
his book Angels Ringing Assurance that we are not alone

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that God always sends angels to welcome people who have
relationships with Jesus Christ to Heaven when they die. The
Bible guarantees every believer in as escorted journey into the
presence of Christ by the Holy angels. The angelic emissaries
of the Lord are often sent not only to catch
away the redeemed of the Lord at death, but also
to give hope and joy to those who remain and

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to sustain them in their loss. Says Graham, the visions
of angels that dying people describe are incredibly beautiful. Sometimes
they involve simply seeing angels in a person's environment, such
as at a hospital or in a bedroom at home.
At other times, they involve glimpses of heaven itself with
angels and other heavenly residents, such as the souls of

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the person's loved ones who've already passed away, reaching out
from heavenly dimensions, and too earthly ones. Whenever angels show
up in their heavenly glory as beings of light, they
are radiantly beautiful. Visions of heaven add to that beauty,
describing gorgeous places in addition to magnificent angels. Approximately one

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third of death bad visions involve total visions which the
patient sees another world, heaven, or a heavenly place, Guiley
writes and Encyclopedia of Angels. Sometimes these places are filled
with angels or glowing souls of the undead. Such visions
are resplendent with intense and vivid colors and bright light.

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They either unfold before the patient or the patient feels
transported out of body to them. Perris recalls in Glimpses
of Heaven that many of her former patients told me
about seeing angels in their rooms being visited by loved
ones who had died before them. Or hearing beautiful choirs,
or smelling fragrant flowers when there were none around, She adds,

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when they spoke of angels, which many did, the angels
were always described as more beautiful than they had ever imagined,
eight feet tall, male and wearing a shade of white
for which there is no word. Luminescent is what each
one said, like nothing they'd ever seen before. The music
they spoke of was far more exquisite than any symphony

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they'd ever heard. And over and over again they mentioned
colors that they said were too beautiful to describe. The
Scenes of great beauty that characterize deathbed visions of angels
in heaven also give dying people feelings of comfort and peace,
writes James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver in their
book Angels A to Z. As the death bad vision accelerates,

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many have shared that the light they encounter radiates a
warmth or a security that draws them ever closer to
the original source. With light also comes a vision of
beautiful gardens or open fields that adds to the sense
of beauty and security. Graham writes in Angels that I
believe death can be beautiful. I have stood at the

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side of many people who have died, with expressions of
triumph on their faces. No wonder, the Bible says, precious
in the sign of the Lord is the death of
his saints, Psalm one sixteen, verse fifteen. When death bad
visions of angels are complete, the dying people who see
them are able to die with confidence, having made peace
with God and realizing that the family and friends they

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leave behind will be okay without them. Patients often die
soon after they see angels on their deathbeds. Guy They
writes in the Encyclopedia of Angels, summarizing the results of
several large research studies on such visions. The visions usually
appear just minutes before death. Approximately seventy six percent of
the patients studied died within ten minutes of their vision,

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and nearly all of the rest died within one or
several hours. Paris writes that she has seen many patients
grow confident after experiencing deathbed visions of angels. They take
that final step into the eternity that God has promised
them since the beginning of time, totally unafraid and at peace.

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If you want to learn more about angels, you could
listen to the Church of the Undead episode Do I
have a Guardian Angel, which I have linked to in
the show notes. If you made it this far, welcome

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to the weird O family. Please recommend Weird Darkness to
your friends, family, and coworkers who love the paranormal, horror
stories or true crime. All stories in Weird Darkness aren't
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is a registered trademark. And now that we're coming out
of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light.
Second John one, verse six, and this is love that
we walk in obedience to his commands. As you've heard
from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
And a final thought, do not pray for an easy life,

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Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee,
I'm Darren Marler. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness.

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