Prevail Beyond

Prevail Beyond

From escaping serial killers to surviving mass shootings, from flying fighter jets to cult survivors; from shark attack victims to psychic detectives; we interview extraordinary guests who are inspirational, motivational, and even somewhat, unusual! Nothing is off-limits!

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October 27, 2020 35 mins

 Their mission is to capture, without question, evidence of the unknown, the unbelievable and the unexplained. They seek to identify the intent of anything unnatural existing among you. They aim to help the living understand, cope with, and be unafraid of...the beyond that lives among us.  What is left after failure to uncover scientific evidence, must be paranormal.  The crazy part is...they do it for free!!  Joining today’s show ...

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Today’s guest communicates with those who have passed over to
the spirit world. She explains the technical details of being an evidential medium. Let’s welcome to the show, from the United Kingdom, Danielle Smith…also known as "Danielle the Happy Medium."

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In 1979 and 1980, a minimum of 21 boys and young men were raped,
tortured, and murdered by William George Bonin...also known as the
Freeway Killer. He was suspected of committing a further 15 murders and
the bodies of his victims were discovered alongside numerous freeways in
southern California. Described by the prosecutor at his first trial as "the
most arch-evil person who ever existed."  Bonin was sentenced to death
and execu...

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Today’s guest has led a life of tragedy. When she was 6 years old, her father was murdered in the family home. As a teen and young adult, she coped with mental health and addiction issues, until she experienced the birth of two children, Paris and Ella, and turned her life around. But, tragically, on February 4th, 2007, Charity’s 13-year old son, Paris, murdered his 4-year old sister, Ella.  Listen to her tragic story and how she i...

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Mark Inglis lost both of his legs in 1982 when he, along with his partner and fellow climber Philip Doole, got stuck in an ice cave for 13 days, during an intense blizzard, on Mount Cook. Mark would later fulfill his mission to summit Mount Cook and then he became the first double-amputee to climb Mt Everest.

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Vennie Kocsis grew up in Sam Fife’s, "Move of God," an evangelical,
socialist cult with compounds around the globe. She lived there during its
conception from 1973-1984. During her childhood, she was sexually assaulted by multiple people, beaten almost daily, and forced into daily child labor. Facing her darkest memories, she wrote her book called, "Cult Child."  She is now a child advocate and helps others. 

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14-year-old Tanya Kach vanished from her parents' home in 1996 and was not seen again for another 10 years. The teenager spent a decade imprisoned in the 2nd floor bedroom of Thomas Hose, a security guard at her middle school. He brainwashed, threatened, and raped her daily.  Listen to her terrifying story and courageous escape.

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Jerry Schemmel is a survivor of United Airlines Flight 232 that crashed in Sioux City Iowa on July 19, 1989. That crash took the lives of 112 people when one of the DC-10’s 3 engines exploded in air.  Not only did Jerry survive, but he rushed back into the wreckage to save the life of a baby.  After the crash, Jerry spent 10 years as a radio play by play announcer for the Colorado Rockies, 20 seasons broadcasting radio and televisi...

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August 11, 2020 39 mins

In 2017, Tiffany Johnson was attacked by a shark while on vacation in the Bahamas, she and her husband decided to go on a snorkeling excursion that would ultimately change her life forever. Listen to her terrifying and courageous story of how she came face-to-face with a shark that would take her arm.

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August 4, 2020 31 mins

On August 4th, 2001, Krishna Thompson, a 36-year-old Wall Street banker who was celebrating his 10th wedding anniversary in the Bahamas, when he lost his left leg to a bull shark. The attack occurred in water that was only 4- to 5-feet deep. Near death, he made it to shore where a passerby helped save his life. Today, Krishna is a shark advocate with the group, Shark Attack Survivors for Shark Conservation.

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Today’s guest is Brett Archibald, who fell off a charter boat in the middle of a stormy night…spending 28.5 hours alone in the Indian Ocean…longer than medical science would expect anyone to survive! Listen to his terrifying experience as he fought the elements, the ocean, and struggled to maintain his sanity. Today, he’s an entrepreneur and successful businessman. 

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Holly Dunn is the only known survivor of the Railroad Killer...a serial killer who murdered at least 23 people across the U.S. and Mexico. He bludgeoned her boyfriend Chris Maier to death with a 52-pound rock and then turned his attention to her. Reséndiz sexually assaulted and severely beat Holly Dunn, who nearly died. Holly, went on to appear on the Biography channel television programs I Survived..., 48 Hours: Live To Tell, and ...

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He’s a 6’ 2”, 225lbs former linebacker (American football) with the Central Connecticut State University Blue Devils who gave an extraordinary gift that saved the life of a toddler.  He’s been interviewed on numerous networks, such as ESPN, NBC Nightly News, and Reader’s Digest, inspiring thousands with his story of selfless sacrifice and the hope he gave to the parents of a dying little girl, named Eleanor.  It is an honor and pri...

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He's an acclaimed Psychic Medium and Psychic Investigator. His work as a psychic intuitive medium has taken him throughout the United States, Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia. He’s assisted on hundreds of cases to include the murder case of Kelsie Shelling and The Long Island Serial Killer case, and most recently, the Tiger King case of Carole Baskin. Troy has been featured on ABC News Nightline, ID (Investigations Discove...

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While visiting Interlaken Switzerland on July 27th, 1999, she went on a what she thought would be an enjoyable adventure, not anticipating her life would change forever.  Tiffany Johnson was one of the few survivors of the Swiss Canyoning Disaster, where 21 young people lost their lives in a horrific flash flood. She would escape the clutches of death, sustaining a broken leg, a dislocated jaw, internal injuries, and soft tissue da...

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June 23, 2020 28 mins

On Memorial Day in 2019, Dion Green was sitting at home in Dayton Ohio, when an F-4 tornado ripped the roof off his home carrying many of his belongings blocks away. A few months later on Aug. 4th , Dion survived the worst mass shooting event in Ohio’s history…the Oregon District mass shooting. On that day, a lone gunman killed 9 people, including Dion’s father.  Listen to Dion's extraordinary story of how he has used this trag...

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Derek Amato is one of only fifty people in the world who has what is known as “Acquired Savant Syndrome”.  In acquired savant syndrome astonishing new abilities, typically in music, art or mathematics, appear unexpectedly in ordinary persons after they’ve suffered a head injury, stroke or a central nervous system (CNS) incident where no such abilities or interests existed before the trauma. The brain is an amazing thing.  Derek has...

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June 9, 2020 31 mins

In 1974, Rhonda Stapley was a pharmacy student at Utah University.  While waiting for a bus to take her back to the university campus, a young charismatic man, claiming to be a law student, pulled over in his VW Beatle and asked Rhonda if he could offer her a ride.  Against her better judgement, the young Mormon girl accepted.  Little did she know, she had just gotten into the car of a psychopathic serial killer, named Ted Bundy.  ...

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By age twelve, Flor had lived in 24 different locations across three continents with her family and 11 siblings as part of the apocalyptic cult…The Children of God. They were always on the move to escape the Antichrist and in preparation for the Apocalypse that was supposed to come in 1993…or at least that’s what their founder, David Berg had them believing. 

Growing up, Flor was not allowed to read, write, or have a traditional edu...

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How do people become cult victims and somehow escape from the clutches of devils such as David Koresh, David Berg, and William Kamm?  Claire spent the first 36 years of her life in two different strict religious movements…the latter of which was Australia’s largest Doomsday cult… The Order of Saint Charbel, created by a pedophile named, William Kamm, also known as "The Little Pebble". In 2005, Kamm was sentenced to ten year...

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