iNTO THE FRAY 521: Visits From the Dead

Barry returns to share incredible synchronicities and premonitions that involve passed on family and friends.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The infinite complaces people went to and pro fears about
their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their dominion
over this small binning fragment of solar driftwood, which, by
chance or design, Man has inherited out of the dark
mystery of time and face.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
And in fact, I may as well include this in
the intro. Our second chat has just aired, so for
Patreon members, of course they get they get early access.
And I did title it the Field of Screams. I
just had to go, you just lay that one right

(01:22):
out there. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna I have
to use that. Yes, yes, So that is out. So
this is part three. Part one was five ten The Boogeyman.
Part two five seventeen The Field of Screams, and now
this is part three, which will include visits from the

(01:43):
dead and premonitional dreams essentially, right.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Berry, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, And you know, like I tell everybody, I'm not
sure how much of a setup you need to do.
Maybe start with, of course, where this was, if we're
still in the same place that we were for you know,
Field of Screams and all of that. You're usually pretty
good at setting things up, but wherever you believe that
we need to start.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes, I'm going to talk about some psychic dreams and
some you know, I've had strange dreams throughout my life.
Some of them, you know, are just dreams, but there's
other cases where I know that it's more than that,
you know. And one of the things that I was
saying reading about recently, and I've been studying this at

(02:32):
the Rhine and through throughout the year's human consciousness. And
you know, our modern science to this day does not
really understand consciousness. And they have theories, but there's no
one definitive answer for any of it. I've even read
something about where they think that rather than the brain

(02:54):
being the generator of consciousness, that it may be more
of a sort of a receptor to to that, a receiver,
if you will. And so it's it's very interesting, you know.
And then when you get into dreams, we still don't
understand why we dream. And again there's theories, but there's

(03:15):
no definitive answer. And you and I have some issues
with the you know, I understand the ideal of sleep
paralysis that you're in between these states. There's a conflict
going on. But you know, I can't help but wonder,
how is it that everybody has a nightmarish experience and

(03:40):
a lot of them are the same, going through the
centuries of you know, sucubists, demons, incubus, uh, you know,
a hag. It's just it's very interesting to me, and
I can't help but think that. And I personally know
that the dream state is a an entrance way into

(04:01):
the spirit realm in my opinion, that we are susceptible
and sometimes that can be a good thing, and sometimes
it could be a nightmare.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Literally, yeah, absolutely, And if I may just to bring
up really quickly that you've had some close to these
kinds of things like these these ties with family members
and premonitional things such as what happened with your dad, right,

(04:32):
I mean that, and that was a very powerful experience,
and everybody can hear that, of course in five seventeen.
But this is what we're going to be talking about today.
Is not really the first time that you've had these
kinds of ties with loved ones and essentially things that
are premonitional.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Correct, Yeah, you know, it's it's funny. I believe that
when I a little boy and we got into that
in the first episode I was, I talked about some
high strangeness stuff and I goes, I do recall having
strangers if you will visit, and whether they were in
dreams or not. And you know, I never knew who

(05:16):
these people were, and I wondered in reflection with if
some of them may have been ancestors or people. Since
I was only a young child, I didn't know a
lot of people who had died at that point in time,
but they maybe could have been people who had been
my relatives that had passed away, that you know, came

(05:39):
to say hello. Maybe I don't know, you know, it
just made me wonder about that. But the first time
that I remember clearly having a visit was when my
great grandfather paid me a visit. And he died when
I was thirteen yearsyears old, and I had a dream

(06:04):
about him. When I was just around twenty or twenty
one years of age. I had been living in South
Florida going to art school, and my great grandfather was
a master craftsman and artist, so he was a huge

(06:25):
inspiration to me. And you know it, I always revered
this person and he just was incredible at what he did,
and so to have him show up in my dream
was very exciting. And what happened, you know, I ended

(06:46):
up in Florida because of my great grandparents, actually because
they became snowbirds. Probably back in their nineteen sixties. They
got a trailer down in a retire like a trailer
park down there, which now the property would be way
too expensive and a lot of them have closed up
and turned into expensive homes, a million dollar homes or condos.

(07:09):
But back then they would have a lot of land
and they would set up trailers for retired people or snowbirds,
and my great grandparents would go down in South Florida.
And then my grandparents decided to continue with that tradition
as well, and eventually my mother packed her bags had
moved to Florida, and thus I followed my mom down

(07:32):
there to finish my art schooling. And I've been down
here in Florida ever since nineteen eighty two. So right
around that time, after I had just moved to South
Florida near Fort Lauderdale, a place called Dania, just south
of Fort Lauderdale, I went to bed one night and

(07:55):
I had this dream that all sudden my great grandfather
was there. And it's funny he was sitting in a
was sitting in a lawn chair, but it was a
lawn chair from the nineteen sixties. It was aluminum framed
lawnchair with the straps, and I remember that he would
sit out in a chair like that when I was

(08:18):
a little kid. They loved to get some sunshine up
there in western New York. When the weather got good,
they would sit out there and enjoy the good weather
out there. And my great grandfather was a really huge man.
He's like a gentle giant considering that fine detail work.
He worked in furniture factories, which my hometown was famous

(08:42):
for one going back to the eighteen hundreds and a
lot of Scandinavian craftsmen had moved into that area. And
I am of Scandinavian descent, and my grandfather, great grandfather
Abert was a big, huge Swi Yiddish man with I

(09:02):
mean giant hands, and yet he carved these very intricate carvings,
carved a family portrait. So anyways, in the dream, basically
I remember saying, you know, Grandpa Aber, wow, what are
you doing here? You know kind of thing, and he

(09:22):
just said, oh, I just wanted to give you encouragement
and tell you to continue on with your schooling and
follow your dreams and don't let anybody stop you from
doing what you wanted doing, the being an artist and
hone your skills. And he just gave me these great

(09:45):
inspiration to get to continue on and follow my dream basically.
And of course when I woke up, I was very
excited about this, and I remember going to my mother
and my grandparents and saying, I just saw Grandpa Aboard
in a dream and he you know, and they just

(10:06):
all looked at me like they didn't know how to respond. So,
you know, I'm sure that they're like, yeah, sure you did.
But the interesting thing is my great grandmother was still
alive at that time, and she was still going down
during the winters to their trailer, and my mother would

(10:27):
ask me to go and run errands for her and
pick up some groceries and things, you know, so there
was a connection too. Even though I hadn't seen my
great grandfather since I was probably about twelve or you know,
maybe thirteen, he got cancer and passed away, and it
may have been the first funeral I had ever been to, actually,

(10:48):
but you know, it just was really inspiring to me,
and you know, I've always thought about that family lineage.
My mother was an incredible artist and she would do
portraits of people and stuff, but you know, she was
a teenager. My great grandfather was hoping she would go

(11:09):
off to art school, but she ended up getting pregnant
and having me, and then my sister and then my
other said we got married and and all that stuff,
got married and then had me. But so any dreams
that she had of becoming an artist went out the
door with that. So basically, my mother kind of precariously

(11:32):
through me, pushed me to do my art. And then
of course I got that inspiration from my great grandfather.
So that was an exciting moment. And there's something about
these dreams that they don't they do not feel like,
you know, you have your typical dream. Sometimes you'll have
something that's non typical and you'll remember them, you know.

(11:56):
But most of the time when I dream, they'll just
be gone before or I even really wake up after
shortly after I wake up. But these are very vivid,
they're very short dreams. They don't they're not long drawn
out dreams. And usually the dialogue is quite slight. But
with my great grandfather there was more dialogue there. But

(12:19):
I believe that it's almost like a thought transfer, if
you will. Though it's in a dream state, but there's
no mouths moving or anything. It's just seeing each other
and the conversation takes place in that little visual short
period time. When I wake up, which is almost immediately
after I have them, I realize that I've had a

(12:42):
dream visit, and I'm excited and emotionally, it really does something. Emotionally,
it feels really great when something positive like that happens,
and oftentimes I'll find myself and even in tears of
kind of a joy for that. So I've had several

(13:03):
dream visits from family members who have crossed over. Not
too long back, my aunt showed up and she's been
gone for several years now, and I remember dreaming that
she just kind of was came through a doorway and
all of a sudden, there she was, and she looked young,
and she looked really good, you know, and I just

(13:27):
almost like I remembered her from when I was a
young child, and I just remember going, you know, seeing
you know, wow, you know again, what are you doing here?
You look great? You know kind of a thing, and
she said, you know, I just wanted to come and
see you more or less. And you know, this is

(13:49):
kind of very little in from conversation other than just
this feeling and this visual opportunity to see one another,
and then a hug oftentimes is brought into this. And
you know, I know these aren't scary stories, but this

(14:09):
was so it made me believe that our consciousness definitely
continues on after death. You know, I have not I
am not a religious person per se as in I
don't follow I don't you know, I know there's nothing

(14:30):
personal to anybody here. It's all your own personal choice.
I just decided that I, you know, I believe that
there is an afterlife. I do believe that there is
evil out there and there is good. But I just
don't get I just haven't tied myself to a specific religion,

(14:51):
so I keep sort of a more spiritual take on things.
But you know, different family members who have you know,
from different to who celebrated different religions have come to me,
So I don't know, you know how much of a

(15:12):
difference that makes. It's kind of interesting though.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
What also is a common theme about dreams such as
this is a lot of dreams you wake up and
you have a very foggy, vague, barely their memory of
what has gone on. But dreams, like you just mentioned,
people seem to remember the entire thing.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Absolutely, It's That's the thing that's so interesting is you know,
I wake up almost immediately after the dream and I
just realize it, like I'm realizing I'm during the dream.
It's it's it's almost as if I'm a lucid type
of a dream where I am having this conversation with

(15:58):
the person. I'm aware that they're there, I'm aware that
I shouldn't be seeing them, and yet there they are
and I'm asking them questions. And Yeah, when I wake up,
I just feel like, Wow, I just got visited. I
have seen my nephew who had an untimely death. I

(16:19):
have seen, like I say, my aunt. I've had actually
a list of people from family, and but like I say,
most of the time, they are a short dream, short dream,
but it always feels really wonderful, and oftentimes there is
a hug involved. So anyways, I'm trying to look at

(16:45):
my notes here, but for the most part, that is,
you know, how these things go on, and I'm going
to from this point talk about a dream visit from
my father after his passing, and you know, it's it's

(17:06):
very personal things that I'm talking about here, but they're inspiring.
And you know, I know the Ear Show deals with
a lot of scary stuff, of course, and I've had
my share of that, and I'll share plenty more of
that as well, you know. But you know, and for
the longest time, I thought of these things rather than

(17:27):
a gift, it's more of a curse that you know, Gosh,
I got creepy things coming to me at night time,
you know, being visited and terrified, and every time I
turned around, there's some other thing going on. And you know,
I've been educating myself through the years to try to
understand things better and take get a grip of it.

(17:47):
But there's still things that, you know, will terrify me.
But in these cases, I also wanted to share the
truly inspiring other side of that. And so for me,
this stuff has a profound meaning and profound effect on
my life because you know, I think about this stuff often.

(18:08):
You know, it reminds me that there are people looking
out for me up there somewhere, and that's very inspiring
for sure. So yes, I'm going to call this villium
the Viking, and I'll explain why. So back in twenty fifteen,

(18:32):
my father he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and
he had lived out of state. We lived away from
one another. It was heartbreaking to get that news and
it was late stage. So he called me and told
me he only had a certain amount of time to live.
And you know, I was have my family, I'm busy

(18:57):
with my career in world, you know, very you know,
the type of work that I did was quite demanding,
and you know, it's very hard for me to you know,
I had a pretty good relationship with my father. I
mean we there was separation. He got remarried and had
family up in a different state, and so you know,

(19:20):
we didn't get to see each other as much as
we would have liked to. And then time just goes by,
and you know, you always think when you're younger that
you have plenty of time, but you realize that people's
keep aging and you're aging as well. You know, there
was I had some guilt, you know, during the time

(19:40):
while my father his health got worse and I couldn't
speak to him on the phone, and you know, I
went up there to visit a few times. But it
was towards the end here that things really started to
you know, be stressful and and I was feeling you know,
terrible and wishing that I could do something about that.

(20:02):
But anyways, it's the cycle of life here, it is,
you know, and you're facing something like that. Well, my
father was in the hospital, and oddly during this time
at my workplace, I was dealing with some intense paranormal experiences.

(20:23):
And I'll talk about that on another episode if I can't,
but you know that was having an impact on me
as well, you know, so you know, I was experiencing
you know, it just seemed like things were really ramping
up with me as far as paranormal activity goes during

(20:44):
this time, and a part of it maybe my emotional
state was helping to perpetuate that. Maybe, But in any case,
just prior to my father passing, I had a couple

(21:04):
terrible nightmares. Actually, and you know, of course we can
get I mentioned sleep paralysis, and you know, I'm not
one hundred percent sure of this was what that was,
but I did have two really terrible, frightening nightmares just

(21:28):
be prior to my dad's passing, and you know, one
of them was that I was in bed sleeping, and
you know, basically it was that some demonic being an
entity entered the room and I'm laying in bed, seeing

(21:51):
the room exactly as it is in reality, and this
creature enters and it's in the corner staring at me
and kind of just you know, really messing with my mind,
I guess, and I'm you know, quite terrified, and I

(22:13):
cannot wake myself up, and this thing was kind of
just taunting me and enjoying it, you know. And so
apparently my wife must have heard me having a battle
in my sleep and eventually woke me up out of it.

(22:36):
But it was very intense, very visual, scared living daylights
out of me, and you know, I started doing a
lot of prayers and really was concerned about that because
of what it was. And I know that, you know,
the psychological community would say it's just sleep paralysis and

(22:59):
it's all your I ain't trying to figure out whatever,
and maybe that is true, but it just left me
with a very powerful, deep rooted terror that that happened.
And again, like I say, I was having to deal
with some other issues in my workplace which had been

(23:20):
getting the stranger, and as time was going on as well,
so I didn't know what I was dealing with. And
within a day of that or maybe two, I had
another horrific nightmare. And in this time I found myself

(23:40):
in a big open, dark space, if you will, and
there was a slight distance there was this large, very
elaborately carved chair with a high back, kind of a throne,
I guess, if you will, and there was a woman

(24:03):
sitting in it, and she was dressed in black, and
I don't know, it's like she pulled me close to her,
closer to her, and I realized that I had no
ability to I couldn't control what I was doing. And
I looked at her and she was absolutely terrifying as well.

(24:23):
But she was pretty much what you would say the
old hag thing, except for she reminded me of like
an Eastern European gipsy woman, all dressed in black, very old,
very very intense, tense expression on her face. It's like, psychically,

(24:46):
she was just messing with my mind. And somewhere in
the midst of that, she picks up her hand and
points it at me, and out of her fingers comes
this black substance coming towards me, and I would call
it black ecoplasm, if you will, because it looked like

(25:08):
some thick substance almost rolling at me, like a smoke
from a volcano or something. And then when it started
hitting me, I could feel it hitting me and I was,
you know, battling myself again in my sleep in this
and I believe my wife woke me up again from that,
and it was just so intense and so weird that

(25:31):
I was like, what the heck is going on? So
I was doing a lot of prayer, praying, and of
course with my dad in the hospital on his deathbed,
this concerned me too, you know, I was like, oh,
is this some kind of a what is going on here?
You know, is there a battle for my father's soul
going on at this time or you know, what is happening?

(25:54):
Or why am I having these experiences? So after that happened,
and I had, I suffer from a lot of insomnia issues,
which I've I've had sleep problems for years, uh and
I still do. And could you blame me? Really?

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I know I would say not Barry, especially what we
have covered on prior episodes.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's you go to bed
and you don't know whether or not something's gonna be
standing over there over you when you wake up.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
So I have had some sleep problems, and you know,
a lot of it was I there were times where
I had a tremendous amount of pressure put on me
at work situations where I was in charge of big,
expensive projects with lots of people working for under me
and stuff. So stress probably had a lot to do

(26:48):
with that in my adult life as well. But even now,
I mean, I still have a lot of insomnia problems.
So any case, I decided to go out. Actually I
found out that my father passed away, yes, and I
was grieving, grieving, and my wife goes to bed a

(27:11):
lot earlier than I do typically, so she was in
bed and I decided to lay down on the couch
out in the living room that night. And it was
just when I got that that news that my father
passed away in the hospital, and you know, he was

(27:31):
alone at night, in the middle of the night, which
really still to this day kind of haunts me that
to know that's how he went. Because we all would
like to think that we're going to be surrounded by
loved all your loved ones, and you know, the birds
will be chirping outside and all that. You know, it's
not how it always works. So but I was grieving,

(27:53):
and I went to bed on the couch, and somewhere
in the middle of the night, I had a visit
dream visit of my father. And the way that it
for me, it looked like I was in the perspective
of laying down on the couch, just as I would

(28:16):
be in my living room, and my father was standing
over me, looking down at me, and he never said anything,
but he gave me a big smile. And it's more
like a psychic telepathic transference of information, you know, It
just was he wanted to comfort me and let me

(28:41):
know he's okay. Kind of a thing. More or less.
He gave me a nice, beautiful, nice warm smile. And
I woke up after that, and when I did, I
was like, oh, my gosh, I just saw Dad. And
then I thought about it. I was like, wait, that's weird.

(29:02):
My father was wearing a Viking helmet. What in the
heck was going on? Why was my dad wearing a
Viking helmet? And I sat there on the couch after
I woke up, thinking about that, and then it hit me.
I'm like, oh, of course Dad would do something like that,

(29:22):
because Dad had a funny sense of humor. And we
called him Villiam the Viking jokingly because he was six
foot two, a big, strong, burly guy Scandinavian Swede, and
he grew a very big, full beard quite often. And

(29:48):
so I thought, of course Dad would do something like that.
He's trying to cheer me up, you know. And I
kind of put a smile on my face, and I
kind of chuckled a little bit because he would just
oakingly say I'll go to Valhalla, you know, kind of
a thing. And and so I went. I went and

(30:08):
had to tell, you know, it's all my way. I
saw my dad and he was wearing Viking. Heme, He's like,
what in a world? You know? So that was it
was a very odd thing, you know, that he that
he did. But right shortly after his passing, with the
dark nightmares that I had, and then this vision of

(30:29):
my father visiting me, I thought to myself, Now, my
father lived up in he lived in South Carolina, and I,
you know, we was living down here in Florida, so
you know this, we didn't have any idea when the
funeral would be or anything at that point in time.

(30:50):
But I thought to myself that I wanted to see
if I could find a psychic and get a reading done.
And again, I'm leary about doing this because I know
that there are people who are really good at just
reading people. And they get your horoscope and then they

(31:10):
get you to tell them a bunch of stuff about
yourself and they'll give you some generic stuff and that'll
be it and cutsh you seventy five one hundred bucks
or whatever it is. You know. So I started to
just look for I didn't know where to go with that.
I was looking in the online and then I found
a gentleman who was in central Florida who claims that

(31:34):
he outs false psychics, and you know, I was kind
of interested in that, and I thought, oh, this guy,
I'm going to go to him. I'm going to try.
So I made an appointment and I went to see
him within This was only within a couple of days
of my father's passing. And when I got there, he said,

(31:54):
don't tell me anything. As soon as I got there,
and he brought me into his house, brought me into
this little room out in the back of his house,
sat me down. He did not use tarot cards, he
did not use any devices of any kind. He sat
me down and he looked at me and goes, does
your father just pass away? And I was like, uh yeah.
He goes, yeah, I feel his presence here. He's like, hmm,

(32:18):
your dad. He goes, this is going to sound really strange,
but I see your father wearing a Viking helmet? Do
you know what that means? And I was in shock,
you know, I was like, what, oh, you know, you're kidding.
Me goes, it's not even a nice Viking helmet. It
looks like a cheap plastic one or something. And I

(32:41):
was He goes, what what do you what? What's what
is that all about? And I went, oh, my gosh,
I said, you're blow my mind. I said, it's my father.
He's he's got a funny sense of humor, and he's
just trying to be joke with me a little bit
to cheer me up because he knows I've been grieving

(33:01):
his death. And I said, I think that that's why
he did that. But I said, you know, we jokingly
called him William the Viking, and you know, that was
just part of our family thing, and when there was
a toast, it would always be a skull, and you know,
we'd drink some glog during the holidays or whatever, and

(33:25):
my father did like a nice pint of guinness is
what he liked, which is irish. But any case, yes,
the psychic picked up on that, and he was it
was pretty shocking that he did. I couldn't believe that happened.
And then he continued to tell me other things that
were There's no way this gentleman could have known anything

(33:47):
about any of this. So he pinpointed where my father lived,
that there were some of the other family members, you know,
kind of spoke about the family dynasmix a bit. He
also said things that really came out of my father's mouth,
and you know, some of it could be you know,

(34:08):
I guess somebody could guess this, but he was your
father says he really likes your car, which he said
this to me a couple of times. I don't know
he liked my old Chevy Malibu. So anyway, I'm like, yeah, yeah,
he sure did like my car kind of thing. But
ultimately he did not address the nightmares, which you know,

(34:30):
it was kind of interesting. I don't you know. I
tried to see what his thoughts were on that, but
he he just said, I feel like you have people
protecting you on the other side, I wouldn't worry about
this too much kind of a thing. And so any case,

(34:51):
that happened, and I thought that that was really interesting
that the psychic picked up on that. And so after
that happened, the gentleman actually told me that there was
going to be some a little bit of an interesting

(35:12):
family misunderstanding type of thing when I got up there,
just to not let that get to me. And he
was right. You know, people everybody was grieving. It was
a difficult time. And so I went to my father's
funeral and after the funeral was over. Now my father

(35:36):
was a practicing Catholic, which I was not, and you know,
we we always had our issues when it came to
that because when I lived with him and I was
as a teenager, he wanted me to follow in with
his religion, and at that point I was like, no,
I'm going to decide my own thing. You know, So

(36:00):
wud get mad and would want me to go to
church with him on the weekends and stuff, and you know,
I just did not I rebelled and did not want
to be part of that. So anyways, his funeral was
at a Catholic church, and after that we went back
to my dad's in my stepmother's home, and somewhere along

(36:24):
the line, my step mom pulled out a big family
photo album and we were all standing over there looking
at these photos and kind of going down memory's lane,
and somewhere in the back of this photo album, I
flipped the page and there was a photograph of my
father wearing a cheap Viking helmet and it's like staring

(36:49):
at me. You may have the picture of that, by
the way, and it just all it was like a
shocked me. You know, I had never seen this photograph ever.
I think that they took that while they were on
a vacation somewhere. And you know, my father had been
to He's traveled a little bit here and there, even

(37:11):
to Ireland and other areas. And you know, I don't
know if that photo was taken in Europe or if
it was taken you know, I could have been taken
in a theme park for all I know. But you know,
I moved away when I was eighteen years of age,
and so you know, He's did all kinds of other
things that I was not involved with. So this photograph,

(37:34):
I had never seen it before, but there it was
my dad wearing a William the Viking wearing his Viking helmet.
That kind of was a bit of a mind blower.
I took a photo of that picture and it's in
my phone to this day, and anytime I think about
my dad, I will pull that up and take a

(37:54):
look at it, you know. And I had one recently.
I had a what is it? From my father? I
was singing about him one night when I was laying
in bed, and I just started to mentally, I don't know,
send him a message, I guess if you will, and
started talking to him a little bit. And then I

(38:15):
went to bed. And when in my dream I found
myself walking into an empty diner, it kind of reminded
me of painting of from Edward Hopper. This was this
lonely diners scene. And I looked around and there's one
man sitting in the back in a booth. And I

(38:37):
glanced around. All of a sudden it dawned on me
that was my father. I looked back and I looked
at it was like, it's Dad. And I just kind
of ran over to him, and my father is sitting
in this booth and he just stands up and he
looks at me and he just tells me he loves
me and gives me a big hug, and that was it.

(39:00):
But it was, of all places, a diner. But it's interesting.
My father is one of the things that he liked
to do. And when I was a little kid, I
remember traveling around. He was a plumbing parts salesman at
one point in time, going from little town to town,
and he would stop at these little diners. And I

(39:21):
have a thing where I love those old fashioned, family
owned diners myself, so you know, I thought, well, that
sort of makes sense that he would be sitting in
a diner. I don't know. It was not what I expected,
but that's what that was. It was short, but I
felt that it was again a little moment where he

(39:41):
came through just to let me know that he was
out there and that he loved me. So that's the
story of William the Viking.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
It's pretty wild and good on the psyekic for being
that kind that was like, don't say anything at all,
just let's go sit down and I will tell you
what I am feeling and seeing and hearing whatever the
case might be. That so good on him.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, you know, sadly I tried to He told me
he was putting up his house for sale and that
he was going to be moving. And I've lost touch
with him because I thought, man, you know, you rarely
find somebody that's that good. And I would have loved
to have kept in touch and gone and gotten other
readings from him. But when I tried to look him up,

(40:30):
I could not find where he was at, and I
if I did have his card, I couldn't find it now.
So but it was, Yeah, it was pretty amazing. I
was really I was shocking. I just was like, how
in the world could this happen? But yeah, it was
very interesting, to say the least. So I'm going to

(40:52):
move on to something that has This has been going
on for a while, but it still even up till
just last week, I'm still getting information on and it's
kind of a bit of a mind blower. And I
want to talk about a friend of mine who passed away.
His name is John, and I have to describe John

(41:16):
to everybody because John was not your just average normal guy,
which a lot of my friends weren't at the time,
and people say that about me too, But John was
an extra special character. First of all, I met him
in South Florida, and John, when he met me, I

(41:37):
believe I was working at a costume store. You know,
I had a eleven year work relationship with the costume store.
They actually had a chain of stores, but this was
a privately owned business. Interestingly, as my life is so
full of synchronicities, the person who owned this costume store

(41:59):
happened to be from up near my hometown area, which
got me an instant shoe in for a job. But
I didn't work there full time. I worked there part
time in seasonal because I was pursuing work in the
film and film and television industry and so forth. So

(42:20):
it gave me flexibility, which was great. But I would
sell a costume makeup and I would do their internal
I would be there on call artists and decorate the
lobby and stuff like that. And anyways, John came in
and we met, and he found out what I did,

(42:42):
and he hired me to make a cling on forehead
piece for him because he's a big star Trek fan. Now,
John is a was a big strong guy, typically would
wear a mustache, she a big head of curly hair.
He was a very intelligent guy, and you know, I

(43:05):
guess some people would call him a nerd except for
he could kick your ass. This guy was a swords fighter.
He was a Chinese boxing instructor and tai chi instructor.
You know he he uh he was. He was a
pretty badass guy. So anyways, we got along really well

(43:25):
and he ended up becoming the best man at my
little humble wedding. My wife and I had our little
humble wedding and.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
He showed up.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
He drove a vintage Hearst to my wedding with a
with a with a basket and a and a skeleton
in it and a glowing skull on the dashboard with
the red lights which I had ridden in before. And
the look on people's faces when they drove past us
was quite interesting. So yeah, John was a character to

(43:57):
say the least. You know. After we got married, after
a Hurricane Andrew hit, which the same year I got married,
about a year later, my wife and I decided I
wanted to leave South Florida. We decided to try our
luck in Central Florida. And the reason that I was

(44:20):
interested in this. I was frightened to move, for one thing,
because I had established a lot of good work connections
and things. But we were kind of spinning our wheels.
We couldn't seem to get move ahead. The cost of
housing and everything in South Florida was very high. We
needed a I needed a job with benefits, you know,

(44:44):
you know, we were trying to give our own health
insurance and stuff. We were struggling a bit. So we
decided to make a move. And interestingly, I again I
dropped my wife off one at the salon. I think
our we had one of our cars is broke down
or something. I was coming back from the salon and

(45:06):
I see a sign out on the road psychic Fair.
And I make a U turn and gave my last
twenty bucks to this lady in this little fair. And
as soon as I walked in, I said, sitting her,
and she goes, you just read my mind. And I
was like, what you know? She goes, oh, you have
abilities and are we connected really good? And she just

(45:30):
looked at me and goes, oh my god, are you
thinking about moving? I went yeah, And she says, you
need to go pack your shit and go and so
she's like, I just I feel so frustrated right now
looking at you. She goes, oh, my god, you have
an opportunity waiting for you that's going to be amazing.
You gotta go, you gotta make this move. And you know,

(45:52):
because I had been hesitating and my wife, so I
will go, why are you so hesitating about making this move?
You know? So this woman she's like, I just see
an incredible opportunity for you. And she actually said, I see,
you're gonna go into a tall glass building and two
men are going to be standing at the doorway waiting

(46:14):
to meet you, and they're going to hire you, and
you are going to have a long, amazing career from
that job, you know. So that gave me a little hope.
And so we ended up making this trip. And by
the way, I ended up going into this big glass
building and when I got to the door, there were
two statues on both sides of figures standing there greet

(46:39):
me into the place. And I ended up with a
seventeen years worth of a career working for that company.
So it amazingly it all worked out. But I'm getting
off track here, so let me get back to my
friend John well, as we moved away, I only got
a chance to see John. He was a good friend.
We did a lot of things together in South Florida.

(47:01):
I knew him for about almost ten years or something
down there. And you know, but life, when you know,
out of sight, out of mind, you live your life.
I got up here, started a career and we, you know,
we're doing our thing. I kept in touch with him,
and I saw him a couple times here and there,
but you know, we didn't have the whole We didn't

(47:22):
have social media and all this stuff and cell phones
and things at the time that we moved away. Eventually
that stuff happened, but I was slow into getting into
all that stuff, you know, and so we didn't keep
in touch all that often. Unfortunately, there were some years
that went by before we would communicate with each other,
and eventually we both got onto Facebook with one another.

(47:46):
But I didn't do that stuff a lot and he
didn't either. So we would send a message once in
a while. And twenty eleven was the last time that
I had heard from him, and he sent me a
mess and he let me know that he had cancer.
But I did not know that he had a long
battle with it. Which you ended up being a thirteen

(48:08):
year battle with cancer. And he never told me that.
And you know, so when he did say he, you know,
had was sick, I didn't realize it was an advanced
stage at that point in time. And you know, it's
kind of a weird thing. Sometimes you just don't know

(48:28):
what to say, you know, and you hear these things
other than I'm really sorry to hear that I wish
wishing you the best kind of a thing. And then
that was the last time I think I replied to him.
But I don't think I ever heard anything after that. And
that would have been like June or July of twenty

(48:49):
and eleven, well, some were after right there after that. Well,
it was actually October. Sometime in October in twenty eleven,
I had a dream about John, and John just showed
up in my dream, and we were in a very

(49:10):
unusual surroundings. It looked like we were standing inside the
ruins of an old castle. Everything there was all old stone,
ancient stones, structure of some kind, but it was dilapidated
and it was kind of an odd place to meet him.

(49:31):
But and I was, you know, I didn't really know
what was going on there. But I was like, what
what are you doing, John, What are you doing here?
And he just said I wanted to see you, wanted
to come and see I wanted to see you. I
don't know, you know exactly, but again it's it's a
telepathic message, not I don't think I'm seeing mouths move

(49:52):
or anything like that. And he was wearing something that
looked like h from a medieval time period, if you will.
Nothing elaborate or fancy here, just like some kind of
a lucy kind of a shirt with a drawstring neck

(50:14):
front of like v cut with a lace front. And
you know something else about John, he was really big
into the Renaissance fares and did sword fighting and stuff,
and he had elaborate costumes and things that he would do.
So he was quite a boisterous character and would get
involved in a lot of these things. And so I

(50:36):
just thought that was interesting. And then after he gave
me a big old bear hug, and then that was
the end of that dream. And when I woke up,
I thought, Wow, I had a dream about John. Wonder
what that was all about, you know? And then I thought,
somewhere along the line, I went on to his Facebook

(50:57):
page and discovered that he had passed away. At that point,
I saw his mother post something on there, and I
hadn't I had heard about his mother, and John always
had He loved animals, and he always had interesting pets.
He had a pet skunk, He had a big, huge
pet iguana, a bearded drag it. I mean he is

(51:18):
somewhere along the line and yet with a pet rooster.
I don't know. But he got that from his mother,
who they his parents lived on a farm property in
northern Florida. And so I sent a message to his
mother with my condolences and introduced myself to her. I

(51:39):
had never met her because she lived far away from
South Florida. He had gone to college down there and
stayed there. But so she communicated back with me, and
I told her that he was my best man at
my wedding and so forth, and you know, it's a
nice connection. I chose to not tell her that I

(51:59):
had a dream about him, because I thought about it,
but I thought that that's kind of a weird thing
to tell somebody, you know that you don't know. Go oh,
by the way, I saw him in a dream, I
didn't know. I wrestled with that a little bit. But
any case, as time went on, I you know, I

(52:22):
just it was sad. But I kept in touch with
this mom a little bit. She's currently she's like ninety
years old and lovely lady, you know, live she lives
alone at this point, and he was her only child,
so you know, it was sad. You know that she
lost her only aunt, she lost her husband, and her

(52:42):
only son all within this two year time period or something.
So and I just decided to keep in touch with
her and I would send her a message once in
a while and that would be about it. But time
went past, and and somewhere along the line, I think

(53:03):
I ended up having another dream with John came to
visit me again, and that was interesting. I think it
was in twenty nineteen. I find myself in this huge,
huge room and I see two people standing there and

(53:29):
I realized that it was my friend John and he's
with a woman. And this room has a really high
ceiling and it's like an arched ceiling and it looks
like a medieval church or something. You know, it was
really weird. I thought, well, am I in heaven or something?

(53:51):
Where I remember looking around at the time kind of
like wow, where is this place. And I was like, John,
what are you doing? You know, Oh my gosh, so
good to me. Goes so good to see you, that
kind of thing, and he's like, I wanted to introduce
you to you know, sadly I can't remember a name,

(54:12):
you know. But there was this woman and I went
to give her. It was like an awkward hug because
I didn't know her. It was like kind of a
little hesitation, and then I hugged her, and it was
again very short. It's a very these are very short
little dreams. It makes me feel like they only maybe
they can only come through for a really little brief
moment that they're allowed to do this, whether it's an

(54:36):
energy thing or a rule you know that you can
only come back for a certain amount of time, or
maybe a rule that I am only allowed to get
a glimpse of this or whatever it is. But anyways,
I remembered that when I woke up and I thought
about this, and well, he gave me a big hug too,
and I just was like, oh my god, it's so

(54:57):
good to see you kind of a thing. And when
I woke up, I was thinking about that and I thought, wow,
I saw John again, I was like, and who is
that woman and where were they? And I thought they
were dressed in these amazing elaborate clothing, you know, and
I just was very amazed by the whole thing. But

(55:22):
I decided at that point that I was going to
share that with his mother. I thought, you know what,
I think I need to share this with his mom.
Maybe that's why he's coming back, coming through. Maybe I'm
supposed to share this. And you know, since that, I've
contacted other family when I have had dream visits that

(55:43):
pertain to them, I will say, hey, I saw so
and so, and I just wanted you to know that
they're doing good or whatever. Give them a little comfort
kind of a message, you know. So I sent John's
mother and Eat a text message and I never heard

(56:05):
back from her, and then I thought, oh, maybe I
upset her or something. You know, I started worrying about that.
I'm like, well, some people might find this because you know,
I've actually told a coworker one time that all I
had a dream visit from a family member. I was excited,
and they looked at me and went, that's from the devil.
You're being deceived by the devil. I was like, oh geez,

(56:26):
I I don't think there was nothing negative here about this,
But so people have different ways of viewing this kind
of thing. You know, it was the last time I
told that person anything, but you know, it's been insulted
a little like whoa, that's a harsh assessment of something
you don't even know about. But anyways, people have their

(56:48):
different beliefs. So that's you know, that's that. But time
went on, and almost a year later, I don't know,
I just decided to pick up the phone and call.
I tried to get my dates straight here somewhere, I guess.
I called her up and found out that her computer

(57:09):
had broken, but she ended up getting it fixed, and
then after I had a conversation with her, she ended
up seeing my messages. But you know, I on the phone,
I said, well, you know, I sent you a message
and I told you that I had a dream and
I saw your son and he was with the woman.

(57:29):
And she so she goes, oh, yeah, well, I see,
I've seen him in my dreams too. He's in Scotland.
She says. I'm like, huh, he's in Scotland. What does
that mean?

Speaker 4 (57:40):
You know?

Speaker 3 (57:41):
And she says, oh, well, in my dream. I saw
him and he was in glass Glass. He was in Edinburgh,
and I'm like, oh, he goes he was walking. I
saw him. He was in a crowd of people and
that he went through some tall buildings through an alleyway

(58:02):
and I was following him around and he ended up
in this garden and he sat down on a stone
wall in front of a fountain and pond, and I
came up behind him and he turned around and he
looked at me and said, what are you doing here?
And she said, oh, I just wanted to see you son,

(58:23):
and you know, kind of so she acted like it
was just a matter of fact, like oh, yeah, I've
seen him and he's in Scotland. Well I didn't really
understand what that was all about. But and then she goes,
oh yeah, and you probably saw. And she mentioned the
woman's name, and you know what the funny thing is, Uh,

(58:47):
you know, John had gotten married but and I only
knew a little bit about that, but I you know,
I never got a chance to meet his wife or anything.
When she mentioned this person, I thought, that's weird, why
would she think that or something? You know, I didn't
understand what she's talking about. But some more time went

(59:07):
by and we ended up I found out that John
in two thousand and nine took a dream vacation with
his wife to Edinburgh, and it was between his He
had had all this battle with cancer going on, and

(59:31):
he had been in some kind of a little bit
of a remission or he had gotten through a big surgery,
and they planned out this vacation. And what happened was
at that particular time there was this really big one
hundred years celebration of family clans gathering together, Scottish lands

(01:00:00):
gathering together in Edinburgh for this big event, and he
planned it out because apparently he he would be he
was playing this character in his Renaissance festivals of a
Scottish warrior, and ended up doing some family history search

(01:00:25):
and finding out that he actually was part of a clan,
the McClain clan from Scotland, and so he ends up
going there for this big celebration. He spent seven days
in Edinburgh and outside the window of their where they

(01:00:45):
were staying in the hotel was a cathedral. Saint Giles
Cathedral is right outside the window, so that was interesting.
Then they spent the rest of the time at a
place called the Isle of Mole, I think, is what
it was. So I, you know, I didn't I found

(01:01:08):
out all this information actually, because only in twenty twenty
three did Pegy sent me a package in the mail
with all this information in it. But when she told
me that she had a dream about him and he
was in Scotland, I thought to myself, well, that's interesting.
I wonder if there's a some kind of a big

(01:01:32):
church or cathedral with a high ceiling. And I ended
up going online and looking up a cathedral in Edinburgh,
and sure enough, the Saint Giles Cathedral came up and
I saw interior images of it and I went, oh,
my god, that is where I saw John and that
woman at You know that that was kind of a

(01:01:55):
shock to me that this looks exactly like how I
saw this in my dream. So I thought that was
very interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Yeah, that's insane that you didn't even have to go
there yourself. He took you there and you saw the
inside of it without ever actually setting foot into place.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Exactly. I didn't know what, you know, first time I
see him, we're in some old ruins of a castle
or something, and the second time I see him, we're
inside this giant cathedral, and I'm confused. I have no idea.
I didn't know anything about his trip to Scotland, know
nothing about any of this stuff, and so this was
really starting to get quite interesting, to say the least,

(01:02:39):
you know, I mean, kind of very interesting. And I
shared that with his mother and then she tells me, yes,
I've had dreams about him as well. You know what's
really interesting is I just spoke to his mother just
last weekend and she told me about her dream again,
and I asked her more specific questions. I said, tell

(01:03:00):
tell me about the actually setting that you had where
you saw him, and she described, Yes, he was sitting
on a probably a two to two and a half
foot stone circle, circular wall that went around a pond
with a fountain in a garden. Right. So I just

(01:03:22):
went online and I typed in, and my god, I
swear there is a botanical garden in that area, the
Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh, And I swear I found
her exact description online from this. Now, I haven't had

(01:03:45):
a chance to verify that with her yet because she
said her computer was giving her trouble again. But I
just saw that that was amazing that there is actually
a place like that in Edinburgh. I didn't know anything
about that, you know, I've never been there, so that
was a big of a surprise.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
You know, Yeah, that is very cool.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
And so another thing happens in twenty twenty three. I
was at work before I retired. I'm just busy doing
my work day and all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
I thought about John and his mother and I thought, oh,
and I don't know why, I just it just came

(01:04:28):
on in my head, out of nowhere. I'm just busy
doing my tasks at work, and suddenly I started thinking
about them. And I had been a while since I
had communicated with his mom, and I thought, you know,
I should I need to contact her. I wonder if
she's okay or whatever. So I was thinking about it.
But it was like a Thursday that I thought about this.

(01:04:49):
I'm at work, you know, I'm busy. I got a
family and stuff going on, and I thought, well, I'll
call her on Saturday. Basically that's what I I did.
I call. Actually, I think I sent her a text
message again, but I didn't hear back from her, and

(01:05:10):
so I called her on Saturday, and she says, oh,
You're timing is interesting that you called me and I
was like, well, why is that? And she says, well,
on Thursday, such and such and so and so drove
up from South Florida and delivered John's ashes to me.

(01:05:33):
And I was like, you know what, you know? She goes,
I say, when she goes, on Thursday, they drove up
and they stayed overnight, and they brought his ashes to me,
and she told me who She said that John's wife's
mother brought the ashes, and another person that I actually

(01:05:58):
knew that was a worker and dear friend for many years.
And I was just like, wow, okay, you know, I
was like that is interesting, and she goes, oh yeah,
I was glad to get to get his ashes, but
I still was like, well, iant to wonder why his
wife didn't deliver those ashes. Well, I've discovered afterwards that

(01:06:21):
his wife passed away the same year that I dreamt
that he introduced me to this woman in Scotland. She
had passed away from an illness too, and he wanted
to introduce me to her.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
And is that the woman that is in the picture
with him the pictures that you sent. Okay, and by
the way, just for anyone that asks, no, I will
not be sharing any of the photos. But yeah, yeah,
I wanted to ask if that was the same woman.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Yes, yeah, those are kind of personal. But I have
to also mentioned that I found out that the first
dream that I had was were in the castle that
actually John when they when they were in Scotland on
their vacation that he joined the McClain family, the clan
I should say, uh two Mule Castle, moy Castle on Mule,

(01:07:25):
the Isle of Mole. It was moy Castle was his
ancestral castle, and I pulled up images of that. Well,
some of that was in the package that his mom
sent me. She sent me a big package with all
kinds of stuff, and that also those newspaper clippings where
you see him in that. You can see he's quite

(01:07:45):
a character. He's in his fine costume with his one
hundred year old Scotch. Yeah he's got a one hundred
year old Scotch. He's drinking right there. So I look
at this castle and I'm like, oh my god, that's
were we met. The first time that we met. We
were in this ruins of this Moy Castle. It's unbelievable,

(01:08:10):
but there it is. I mean, you know, I just
it blowst my mind to know that that he came
through so powerfully, and yeah, it brought me over there
to see him, I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Yeah, definitely a lot of tie ins there.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Yeah, I mean, so that whole thing just kept going
on and on and uh and even up till just recently,
I've been, you know, discovering it was like an unfold
I was getting pieces of a puzzle, but I didn't
understand it until it all came together, and then I went, oh,
my gosh. So I think he and his wife are

(01:08:51):
still roaming around in the hills of the Bonnie Hills
of Scotland on permanent vacation I guess, if you will,
and being where his ancestral heritage is. And she was
totally into the whole Renaissance thing and all that as well.
So you know, who knows. But that is that story

(01:09:15):
and I'm sticking to it. It really happened. As far
as I'm concerned, it did. But some people go, oh,
it's just a dream, wishful thinking or whatever, but it's
more than that. There's no question in my mind about that.
Now I think I'm looking I have to make sure
I didn't forget or skip over things. Here, looking at

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my little bullet points that I gave you. Let's see
we did that. Yeah. So the next thing that I'm
going to get to is something that happened to me
when I was back in nineteen eighty four. I was
twenty three years old and living in South Florida, and this,

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this dream has haunted me for forever since it happened.
Really that Yeah, I was living in South Florida. I
was actually living with my mother while I was going
to school. She was getting I was getting on her nerves,
I'm sure, so she booted me out of there sometime

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soon after. I don't blame her, but I ended up
with some fellow art students. My kid brother moved down
and we lived in a house after that. But at
the time I was living in an apartment with my mom.
It was October nineteen eighty four. Now I had just

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gotten finished my schooling. Actually it just was getting my
career started, and some exciting things were going on for me.
And I got involved in you know, I was getting
involved in some television things and so forth. And I
had a variety of different artistic projects that I was

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getting involved with, and so forth. So, you know, I
was excited about the future in what was going on
at that time, and you know, living pretty good for
a guy who just getting started. I ended up going
to bed one night and I had a really intense
dream and it was just so heavy. It was just

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such a heavy dream. And the dream was that I
dreamt that there's somebody that was an acquaintance of mine.
They were not a friend, not a family member. That
was the weirdest part about this. It was someone that
I had gone to school with in grade school, junior

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high school, well one year in junior high school. Then
my parents got divorced and I had to move away.
I ended up returning back to town for high school.
So we had gone to school together, but we never
were friends. We didn't hang out matter. You know. This
guy was kind of everything that I wish that I
would have been if I could have. But I mean,

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he was athletic, he was good luck and an athletic
guy that was popular. You know, I wasn't well, you know,
I certainly wasn't a good athlete, and I wasn't popular.
It wasn't terrible, you know, I mean, just we just
ran with different crowds and he had his crowd that

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he hung out with, and I hung out with the misfits,
you know. But anyways, later on in high school. But
as a kid, you know, he was decent, a decent kid,
you know. It wasn't a jerky or anything, and never
gave me a hard time, although you may have hit
me with the dodgeball a few times. But anyways, you know,

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I thought it was kind of very strange that I
had this dream about him, But we had one time connected,
and that was after my senior year in high school.
I was getting ready to go away. I think I
mentioned maybe in the Last Step episode that my art

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teacher inspired me to go to art school, and thank
goodness for that, because I had no plans in my
life at all. So I was having a go and
way party for myself before I left town, and my parents,
my father and my stepmother allowed me to have some
kids show up at our family property. I don't think

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they realized how many kids were going to end up
showing up, neither did I. But anyways, this guy showed
up there because word of mouth gets around apparently when
you're in high school. So and he said, oh, I
hope you don't mind that I came. I went, oh,
my gosh, no, it's great. I'm glad to see you
make yourself at home. Hair, have a I have a beer.

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Drinking age was eighteen back then, so I think we
were legally able to do that. Anyways, and he wanted
to talk to me in the middle of this party
I was having. He wanted to have a one on
one conversation with me, which was interesting, you know, And
I said, all right, we went off to the side
a little bit and we're just outside talking a bit.

(01:14:23):
And he apologized to me for not making more of
an effort to be a friend or something. And I thought, oh,
that's just don't be silly. I said, don't worry about it.
We're fine. It's the same thing for me. I mean,
I said, we just ran in our own circles. We
were lived in different neighborhoods. Don't worry about it. Just

(01:14:43):
enjoy yourself, you know. And you know, we talked a
little bit about the future whatever, and you know, he
was like the star athlete, and so I just assumed
he was going to go off to college or whatever.
I don't know, you know, we didn't get into any
too much of that, but we I had a little
bit of a bonding moment and had a toast, and

(01:15:05):
that was kind of it, and I said, well, I
better get back to hosting this gathering before people tear
our property up or something. Make sure everybody's behaving. And
that was it. And I never talked to him or
saw him again. So five years later, I had this
dream about him, and he is crying to me and
he's telling me all his problems. In this dream, he

(01:15:27):
just weeping and he's he is distraught. When I woke
up from it, I was just highly disturbed, and I thought,
oh my god, why would I dream about him. That's
so weird. You know, we're I didn't know where he lived,
I didn't know, you know, I haven't been in touch
with him at all or anything, you know. And I

(01:15:48):
tried to go off and head off and do whatever
I was doing at that time during the day. And
during that day I kept thinking about it, and I thought, oh,
I just couldn't shake that feeling that there was something
really strange about this dream. And so later that evening,

(01:16:09):
when I was heading back home, I was driving down
I ninety five past the Fort Lauderdale Airport. I look
over and see the Jets sitting there, and I just
had this urgent feeling like I needed to get in
touch with him for some reason. It's like I have
to contact him somehow. I don't know how to, you know,
I don't have a I don't have any way to

(01:16:32):
beach him. At this time, this is nineteen eighty four.
We didn't have the internet, we didn't have the cell
phones or anything. I didn't know what to do, you know,
So that when I got home later on, I called
my sister who lived in my hometown still, and she goes,
what are you doing calling me? You know, middle of

(01:16:54):
the week, work there or whatever. And I say, hey,
do you remember so and so? And she's like yeah, yeah,
why And I'm like, oh, uh, I was just wondering,
you know what, what's going on with him or something?
And she said, oh, from you know, from what I understand,
he's got married, he's got a kid, and uh, he's

(01:17:15):
you know, doing fine, he has a home and so forth.
I was like, all right. She goes, well, why why
are you asking about that? And I was like, oh,
never mind. And she's like, you're weird and I'm like, yeah,
I know, all right, talk to you later and we
hung the phone up. The following day she called me
and told me that he had committed suicide. I was devastated,

(01:17:40):
you know, because I thought, oh my gosh, I was
supposed to do something to stop this. Why else would
that I have been given this vision? You know, why
else would this have happened.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
It's just really bothered me terribly, and it has for
years actually that you know, because you know, my grandmother
had amazing abilities. I'm sure there was times when she
would see a warning or something and try to warn people.
But I know for a fact there was times when

(01:18:17):
people did not heed their warnings, and you know, they
end up costing them their lives because she told me.
But in my case, I didn't know that I had
you know, I didn't trust these things, as you know,
a bill. I didn't know what it was going on,
why I would have dreamt about that person. But you know,
somehow I ended up having this ESP telepathic and I

(01:18:42):
don't it wasn't seeing into the future. It was like
seeing then and now at that moment what was going
on in his head. So it's more of an ESP
kind of a type of thing or clairvoyant. I guess
vision is what I got in my dream. So I
was really really torn up about that, and I just

(01:19:06):
felt terrible after finding that out. And you know, like
I say, I had a lot of guilt. Well years
go by, I never forgot about it. But in July
of twenty twenty three, I was planning to go back home.
You know, somehow I reconnected with some other people from

(01:19:27):
my school days. I was never a big like raw
rah rah school. I loved. School was not me. I
was Mark school sucks. I don't really care about it,
you know. I mean, I just I wasn't part of
the glee team or anything. You know. I was a
rebellious artist guy that liked rock and roll. So you know,
most of my friends were similar, and so you know,

(01:19:50):
I never went to do any of those reunions or anything.
Until twenty nineteen. I went. I had to go up
to see my mother. I figured, Oh, they're going to
have it. I'm like, oh, maybe I'll go, Maybe I won't,
I don't know. And I ended up going, even though
I was terribly uncomfortable. But I went and met with

(01:20:13):
some people in a bar afterwards and reconnected with a
couple of people, and so in two thousand and twenty three,
I was communicating with one of these people from school
through text message and I said, oh, I'm heading back
home and you know at this time, and he said, oh,

(01:20:34):
my gosh, so am I I'm going to be there
the same week. Wow, what a coincidence. And I was like, yeah,
it is pretty amazing. Well, I said, hey, let's meet
up and have lunch. Okay, we're going to do that.
And then, for whatever reason, out of my mouth, I
don't or well, I'm on my text. I just decided
to say I'm going to be going to the cemetery

(01:20:57):
to visit SO and so's grave, and all of a
sudden he was like I want to go. Like, oh, okay,
I don't even know why I even said it. But
and then he said, you know that we were best
friends for years, right, I had no idea. I did

(01:21:19):
not know anything about that. And I was like, no,
I didn't. He goes, we grew up together and we
were best friends for you know, throughout our entire childhood.
And at that point I was like, wow, that is

(01:21:43):
beyond coincidence. Here, I think, maybe what was that all about.
But when we had met for lunch, when we got back.
I got back up there. As we were, I ended
up telling him about my dream and that I've and
haunted by this through the years. We ended up going

(01:22:05):
and we made paid our respects and both of it.
He had been haunted by this event for years too,
which is interesting. So we paid our respects and say
some prayers, and that was kind of us to try
to close that chapter. You know, we had some conversations

(01:22:27):
about that whole incident, but and I did get some
a little bit of insight as to some of what
was going on, but you know, it was just such
a tragedy, and you know, I just would like to,
you know, since I'm talking about this, please anybody is
having problems or thinking of anything and needs help, please

(01:22:51):
call dial nine to eight eight suicide Crisis Hotline for help.
I mean, because you know, I just wish that I
could have prevented this, and you know, that's that's what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
I mean, Barry, I hope you're not still carrying a
whole lot of guilt from that, because I'm sure that
you do realize that you I mean, we don't know
for sure, but there's probably only so much that you
could have done and hopefully you and his friend his
other friend got some closure.

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
That's the thing. I think that this really did help
to get that closure, you know, which was needed, because
it really has that I have felt guilt for a
long time. I feel much better about that and I'm
just happy that we went there and that by amazing Again,

(01:23:52):
this is synchronicity. I'm going to say that I happen
to have a communication with that particular person which I
didn't have very often, and just happened to be going
home at the exact same time. He lived in another
state and I live in another state. We just happened
to be going the same exact week. And then I,

(01:24:14):
for whatever reason, shared that with him and find out
that he was best friends and so we had that closure.
We went and found where he was at, and we
talked to him and we had some prayer and we

(01:24:36):
closed that chapter out and and I think that, yeah,
it helped, it really did, you know. And that kind
of sums up my stories for as far as my
some of my dreams. That's not all of them, I
don't think, but these are some of the things that

(01:24:56):
stuck out to me more than others. And I wanted
to share them.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
Yeah, I appreciate you coming back on. So that, guys,
that is Part three, and then Part four, which is
actually titled The House of Ivy is something that you
have titled this next section for Oh boy, I'm looking
forward to that. Yeah, and that's looks like still in Florida,

(01:25:22):
So more Florida stories, which everyone loves Florida stories because
well Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
Yeah, well then that's going to be an intense one
for sure. But I, you know, really appreciate you letting
me come on and sharing this stuff. And for me,
the thing about this psychological community could say it's all
my head or I just had a dream or whatever
you want to say. You know, they I mentioned to you,

(01:25:48):
I think in a text that they have a syndrome,
a haunted person syndrome psychological. It's not official, apparently I
look that up again, but I read an article where
they believe that people who have multiple paranormal experiences suffer
or have what they call the haunted person syndrome. And basically,

(01:26:14):
you know, it comes down to where they believe you're delusional,
but they're sympathetic and we'll try to help you in
any way. They came with your problems.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Poor you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Yeah, well, I know that a lot of other people
have been on your show must have the same symp.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
We all do, my friend, we all do.

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
You know, I look at these things. Fortunately, despite all
my crazy experiences, I still keep a sense of humor
and I have to laugh about it. I might cry sometimes,
but I feel blessed now. You know that I've been
given these glimpses, these little opportunities to see things that

(01:26:58):
I feel bad for other You know, I was like, well,
you know, I mean, what a gift it is to
be able to see somebody. I wish I could pick
out and call them on like a calling them on
a phone or something. Hey, I'd like to talk to
you grandma. But you know, it's not how it happens.
It just kind of happens spontaneously or something. But it's

(01:27:20):
good to see the people that come through.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
And they come through when they're supposed to. That's obvious
by these synchronicities, as we like to call them.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
Well, thanks so much, Berry, I really appreciate you. I'm
looking forward to next time, and I encourage everybody to
go listen to the latest one. Prior to this was
five seventeen and Barry's very first edition five to ten.
Thanks again, Barry.

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
Thank you, take care.

Speaker 4 (01:27:53):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:27:53):
I so I was given the name by my parents,
my business, I was under college, I've done, and my
profession my producer of arcis.

Speaker 4 (01:28:01):
But it says forget it, that's not that's something story,
that's all gone, that's all parts. I want to see
them really you you are now, But nobody knows who their.

Speaker 6 (01:28:13):
Names because we don't know ourselves except from listening to
Marcas and consulting our menmbers.

Speaker 4 (01:28:24):
But then that's a really and then again needs expect
this question what are you? That is to mean we
shall see how they play.

Speaker 6 (01:28:36):
With this except buy the cost to get.

Speaker 4 (01:28:39):
You to come out of your show and find out it's.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
Going to be really old.

Speaker 7 (01:29:06):
It's it's, it's it's spots, its busts.

Speaker 4 (01:30:36):
For example, are quite divided on us.

Speaker 5 (01:30:38):
They will say, no, we don't believe literally in reincarnation
that after your funeral you will suddenly become somebody different
to being somewhere else. They will say, reincarnation means this
that if you're sitting here now, are really convinced that
you're the same person at.

Speaker 8 (01:30:59):
The door, An hour ago, you'll.

Speaker 4 (01:31:01):
Be wacoming if you're liberated remas now that you're not.

Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
The past hasn't been tested, The future has insistence.

Speaker 4 (01:31:13):
There is only the present.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
That's the only aweenim of the incidence.

Speaker 6 (01:31:17):
The send master, don't careerspace s.

Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
String does not become sumthense.

Speaker 8 (01:31:26):
Because there is some sense and then there is stream.

Speaker 7 (01:32:01):
It's it's, it's, it's, it's puss Puss. Puss Puss has

(01:33:21):
the same ideas.

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
Where he says, when you've settled down in the train,
you can read your newspaper. And so they were not
the same persons while ago and live the plan.

Speaker 6 (01:33:35):
If you think you are, you are linking your moments
up in the check and this is what binds the
wheel when you know that every moment of which you
are is the only moment.

Speaker 5 (01:33:50):
This cons in deers and the Master will say, from somebody,
I can have a walk across.

Speaker 4 (01:33:55):
The room and it can't be back. And he says,
where up they've gone? So where are you?

Speaker 8 (01:34:04):
Who are you?

Speaker 6 (01:34:05):
When we are asked who we are, we usually give
a kind of recitation of an instrum inst