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

Kathy (M.K.) McDaniel had a near-death experience while in a medically-induced coma from severe pneumonia. What she witnessed during those moments of clinical death challenges everything we think we know about consciousness and what happens after we die. Her experience included terrifying visions followed by profound joy, providing compelling evidence that awareness continues beyond physical death.
Kathy was raised Catholic and believed everything she was taught about the afterlife, including concepts of purgatory and hell. When she fell critically ill in Seattle, she was put into a drug-induced coma with only a 38 percent chance of survival. During that coma, she had an extensive near-death experience that lasted what felt like years. She witnessed dark, disturbing scenes and confusing scenarios. But the experience shifted dramatically, revealing something that transformed her entire understanding of existence.
What makes Kathy's case compelling is the contrast between the terrifying visions and the profound joy that followed. She describes the experience in her book Misfit in Hell to Heaven. Her story raises important questions about consciousness, the nature of the afterlife, and whether our beliefs shape our experiences when we die.
Kathy shares details about what she witnessed, why she thinks her experience began the way it did, and what the joyful portion revealed about survival of consciousness and the reality of life after death.
Guest: Kathy (M.K.) McDaniel
Book: Misfit in Hell to Heaven
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Instagram @kathymcdaniel.foxis
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International Association for Near Death Studies
August 27th - 30th
Seattle, Washington
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Love Knows No Death Summer Grief Transformation Retreat 2026
July 24 @ 4:00 pm - July 26 @ 5:30 pm
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Elizabeth Rea uses psychic abilities to advise CEOs and founders on high-stakes decisions, and previously worked with US federal agents solving cold murder cases. She's the founder of Insightful, where she provides expanded intelligence to help leaders make clearer decisions in complex business environments. Her work spans solving unsolved murders and guiding executives toward better outcomes.
Rea had a near-death experience at 16 in a McDonald's bathroom. During the incident, she watched from outside her body as a nurse checked her pulse on a white Timex watch. She could hear people's thoughts and feel their emotions. That experience revealed to her that consciousness exists independently of the physical body.
Her ability to access this expanded intelligence later helped solve a cold murder case in a Napa Valley tavern that had been unsolved for 20 years. She saw a man with dirty blonde hair and a white T-shirt, and visualized an old Cadillac with a tail fin. Thirty days after sharing these details, DNA evidence identified the murderer serving time in a Colorado prison. He had stolen the exact white Cadillac she described.
Now Rea works confidentially with ethical founders, CEOs, and investors worldwide. Her clients seek her out for clarity, sharper decision-making, and understanding the forces at play in complex situations. She discusses how the CIA has infiltrated psychic programs and why government agencies continue using psychic abilities despite public denial.
Guest: Elizabeth Rea, Founder of Insightful
Website: insightful.com
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Psi Games International
Dates: July 31st - August 2nd, 2026
Location: Charlotte, NC
https://psigamesinternational.com/

Of all the events on Psi this is the most fun! The Psi Games are a tournament to explore, learn about and celebrate psychic abilities. You can join a team to compete or be a spectator. Team member focuses on one of five core categories - Remote Viewing, Mind Sight, Precognition, Psychokinesis, and Dowsing. This will be a transformative, fun, and playful weekend. There will also be some fascinating completely WTAF?! talks and presentations.

Check out my conversation with The founder of Psi Games International, Hakim Isler. SomeWTF?! Podcast Guestswho will be giving talks Paul Smith, John Kruth, Dr. Jeff Tarrant, Dale Graff, Laura Lynne Jackson (hasn't been a guest but I never shut up about her in my books, 
Forever Family Foundation
Love Knows No Death Summer Grief Transformation Retreat 2026
July 24 @ 4:00 pm - July 26 @ 5:30 pm
Chester, Connecticut
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Not to miss events: 
You can read the details here - https://www.wtfjusthappened.net/grief-retreats-psi-spirituality-events
1 - Science + Spirituality Salons
https://www.wtfjusthappened.net/science-spirituality-salons or email hello@wtfjusthappened.net
2 - Forever Family Foundation
Love Knows No Death Grief Transformation Retreat
Dates: July 24th - 26th, 2026
Location: Chester, Connecticut
https://foreverfamilyfoundation.org/
3 - The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) 
Conference Theme: Evidence & Encounters – Two Paths to Exploring the Unexplained
Dates: June 17th – 21st, 2026
Location: Westminster, Colorado
https://www.scientificexploration.org/

4 - PsiGames International
Dates: July 31st - August 2nd, 2026
Location: Charlotte, NC
https://psigamesinternational.com/
5 - IANDS - International Association for Near-Death Studies
2026 Theme: Expanded Lives: Exploring the Impact of Near-Death and Related Experiences
Dates: August 16th - 30th, 2026
Location: Bellevue, Washington (near Seattle)
https://iands.org/events/conference/

Professor Callum E. Cooper, PhD has spent two decades researching parapsychology and haunting cases with scientific rigor. His research covers out-of-body experiences, phone calls from the dead, mediumship cases, and death bed apparitions. Unlike the dismissal of paranormal research as woo, his work is grounded in psychology, statistics, and field investigation. He holds PhDs in social sciences, serves on the council of the Society for Psychical Research, and has written multiple books providing evidence that challenges conventional explanations.
Cooper studied classic haunting cases like the Cheltenham Ghost, where an apparition appeared repeatedly and could be tracked through a house. Researchers could experiment with it, follow it, and document its behavior over time. The apparition cast shadows, was seen from windows, and left questions that remain unexplained even today. He investigated Dr. Alex Tanous, who was tested for 20 years for out-of-body experiences. During experiments, strain gages were activated when Tannis performed well on remote viewing tasks. He achieved remarkable statistical outcomes describing objects in distant rooms through optical illusion devices.
Cooper's work includes phone calls from the deceased and the living, mediumship cases with verified details, and Gansfeld experiments showing statistically significant results in extrasensory perception research. Even skeptics acknowledge the statistical outcomes from Gansfeld studies are more replicated than expected in psychology. His approach separates genuine unexplained phenomena from hoaxes and hallucinations through rigorous analysis.
Liz and Professor Cooper discuss his most compelling cases, what remains unexplained in parapsychology research, how logical thinking supports rather than dismisses paranormal evidence, and what his research reveals about consciousness, death, and afterlife.

Guest: Callum E. Cooper, PhD
Psychologist, Author, Professor, Parapsycholgist, and Science Promoter
Affiliations: University of Northampton, Society for Psychical Research, British Psychological Society


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IANDS CONFERENCE
International Association for Near Death Studies
August 27th - 30th
Seattle, Washington
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Love Knows No Death Summer Grief Transformation Retreat 2026
July 24 @ 4:00 pm - July 26 @ 5:30 pm
Chester, Connecticut
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Vincent (Vinney) Tolman died in 2003 in a Dairy Queen bathroom after taking an accidental overdose of a supplement. Clinically dead, he was bagged and transported to a medical examiner. A rookie medic broke protocol and resuscitated him. What makes his case compelling: while clinically dead, Vinney had verifiable experiences that challenge our understanding of consciousness  and what happens when we die.
 
While his body lay dead in a bathroom, Vinney's consciousness watched from outside his body. He observed paramedics attempting resuscitation, watched his body being bagged, saw the ambulance, and witnessed specific medical procedures including defibrillation shocks. He watched his arm being strapped down in the ICU. When he reconnected with his body, he could verify details he had no way of knowing while unconscious.
He also had some remarkable and transformational experiences in a non physical dimension. Including some people and beings he met there, which later provided shocking evidence that something very real was going on.  
Vinney's case included observable elements that corroborate his account. He describes what he saw while dead, what was verifiable, and what this suggests about consciousness continuing after brain death. This is a documented case of someone who experienced verifiable events while clinically dead, providing evidence that consciousness may exist independently of brain function.
Guest: Vinney Tolman
https://livinggodslight.org/
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IANDS CONFERENCE
International Association for Near Death Studies
August 27th - 30th
Seattle, Washington
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Forever Family Foundation
Love Knows No Death Summer Grief Transformation Retreat 2026
July 24 @ 4:00 pm - July 26 @ 5:30 pm
Chester, Connecticut
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