WTF Just Happened?!: All about the afterlife. No woo.

Coma and near-death experience research took journalist and former BBC correspondent Alan Pearce somewhere he never expected: toward evidence that consciousness continues after death. He shares what coma survivors told him about parallel lives, past lives and near-death experiences, and how the sudden loss of his daughter changed everything.
In this episode:
How a pandemic question about medically induced comas turned into years of research with coma survivors
Nick, who says he lived 20 years of another life during a two-week coma, and came back with skills he never had
Survivors who grieve the spouses and children they left behind in their coma lives
Repeated past deaths, from a Spitfire pilot shot down over the Thames to a drowning fisherman
Why Alan says coma experiences can't be dreams or hallucinations
Dark retreats, DMT and the parallels between comas and mystical states
Nikki's coma baby with ice blue eyes, and the son with the same eyes she later gave birth to
What families should and shouldn't do around a loved one in a coma
Why Alan believes negative near-death experiences are underreported
The death of his daughter Rebecca, and the experience Alan says felt like coming home
Listen for an inside look at comas, near-death experiences and the research that changed a journalist's mind.
 



Guests:

Alan Pearce, journalist, broadcaster and former BBC correspondent, is the co-author of Coma and Near-Death Experience: The Beautiful, Disturbing, and Dangerous World of the Unconscious, based on years of interviews with coma survivors.

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Haunted dolls, seances and a possible case of spontaneous combustion take center stage with Patti Negri, the Good Witch, a psychic medium known for 11 years of appearances on Ghost Adventures. She shares the story of Belle, her haunted doll, a seance she says ended with a cameraman on fire, and the 30-second spells she uses every day.
In this episode:
How Patti began holding seances at age 7 or 8 in her suburban Los Angeles home
Belle, the haunted doll Patti says once drained a Belgian family's energy, and a doll that moved six inches on camera
Adrian, the former owner Patti says still haunts her Hollywood home and showed up at her wedding
Her one rule for handling dark energy: respect, and a confident "not today"
The seance at the Mary Astor House that Patti says ended with a cameraman bursting into flames, and the dragon shaped scar that followed
How a seance differs from mediumship and psychic readings
Why Patti trusts whatever comes through, from a giraffe at her dining table to a bird on Portals to Hell
Psychokinesis, the Philip experiment and her experience with the God helmet
Killer pigs, scorpions and Death Valley on the way to Ghost Adventures shoots
Why she practices only positive magic, and her 30-second elemental spells for clearing emotions and foggy thinking
Guests:

Patti Negri, renowned Psychic-Medium and "Good Witch," is best known for her recurring appearances on Travel Channel and Discovery+'s hit series Ghost Adventures and YouTube's leading paranormal show, TFIL Overnight with Elton Castee.

Website: https://www.pattinegri.com/
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Haunted Hollywood crime scenes meet forensic science in this episode with Voices from the Grave creator Alisa Statman and retired forensic detective Karen Smith. They discuss what psychic mediums, blood testing and ghost boxes revealed at the Los Feliz murder house and the Sowden House, home of Black Dahlia suspect George Hodel.
In this episode:
How burnout from directing comedies led Alisa to create Voices from the Grave
The Los Feliz murder house, left untouched as a time capsule for 50 years after a 1959 murder
The medium reading that led Alisa straight to a lost letter her late partner wrote to her children
Blood a medium pointed to that Karen confirmed with Bluestar, and bones found in a crawl space
The strict protocols that keep the show's mediums from knowing where they are going
Why Alisa says mediums named George Hodel and Elizabeth Short two years before the team ever reached the Sowden House
How ghost boxes work, and why Alisa warns against using them alone at home
The ghost box responses Karen and Alisa still can't explain, including one word: Schumacher
Karen's sudden nosebleed after a ghost box threat, and a message Alisa says a medium relayed from Richard Ramirez
Whether police use psychic mediums, and how Karen and Alisa see evil and the afterlife
Guests:
Alisa Statman + Karen Smith
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VoicesFromTheGrave
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Evidence of the Afterlife is a new documentary on evidential mediumship. In Part 2, director Robert Lyon and mediums Kerry McLeod and Philip Dykes discuss how mediums separate psychic information from evidential mediumship, fear of death, criticism of afterlife research, and stories from three years of filming.
In this episode:
The 15-minute practice reading in Miami that Robert calls his turning point, from a grandfather's classic car to snowball fights in Central Park
How a sport fisherman father came to Robert unprompted while he sat behind the camera in Troy, Ohio
What Kerry and Philip feel that separates their own mind, a psychic impression and a deceased person communicating
Why Philip compares psychic work to water and evidential mediumship to champagne
Whether Robert, Kerry and Philip are certain of an afterlife, and why fear of dying still lingers
Kerry's warning that partially trained mediums are now training the next generation
How Robert handles online criticism, and his first documentary, Rinaldi, about Brazilian researcher Sonia Rinaldi
How Kerry and Philip went from fellow tutors to a married couple, just in time for lockdown
Close calls with Blackpool's tides and Australia's waves, plus a Beatles detour to Liverpool
Why two mediums who know each other inside out still refuse to read friends and family
Guests:
Kerry McLeod + Philip Dykes, Psychic Mediums + Tutors
Website: Philip Dykes + Kerry McLeod

Robert Lyon, Director  
Website: We Don't Die Films
Watch: Evidence of the Afterlife 
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Evidence of the Afterlife is a new documentary on evidential mediumship. Director Robert Lyon and mediums Kerry McLeod and Philip Dykes discuss the making of the film, how evidential mediumship works, and why they believe it is at risk.
In this episode:
- How a former CBS photojournalist who did not believe in an afterlife came to make a documentary on mediumship
- Robert's first attempt at a reading during Kerry and Philip's class at the We Don't Die conference
- Kerry's and Philip's early experiences and how each came to train as a medium
- Three years of filming in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
- Why the film uses unscripted footage from live demonstrations and private readings
- A reading for Robert with a detail about a former colleague that could not be found online
- The difference between psychic readings, which focus on the sitter, and evidential mediumship, which focuses on the deceased person
- What counts as evidence, and why unique, verifiable details matter more than names and dates
- Why "the messenger should never be bigger than the message"
- Social media, sensationalism, and people calling themselves mediums without practicing mediumship
Listen for an inside look at evidential mediumship and the making of Evidence of the Afterlife.
Guests:
Kerry McLeod + Philip Dykes, Psychic Mediums + Tutors
Website: Philip Dykes + Kerry McLeod

Robert Lyon, Director  
Website: We Don't Die Films
Watch: Evidence of the Afterlife 
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