The night their mother unexpectedly passes away, Ariel experiences a surreal out-of-body encounter where their mother appears, desperately trying to convey a cryptic message. Initially dismissing it as a reaction to grief, Ariel's perspective shifts when new revelations come to light. Check out our Merch Follow us on: Instagram, TikTok, Twitter For business inquiries contact: [email protected] If you have experienced something paranormal or unexplained, email us your story at [email protected] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What unusual experience did Ariel have after their mother's death?
It's going to be funny. I'm going to get through it. So something important to note is my dad was on probation. So he told me point blank that if I got in trouble with the law, he would go to prison. So I very much knew that. My friends knew that. So that's why we knew that no matter what happened to me, we could not call the cops. We couldn't call the ambulance.
We just had to get through it together. So we're in a studio apartment. Three of my friends are there. They're all teenage boys. And I lay down on my friend's bed, which is in the main room. It's a studio. So couch is out there, bed's out there, TV's out there. And then they had a separate kitchen. So at this point, I can't see. I'm pretty much losing optical function in so much pain.
That was the big thing when I knew I was in trouble. So it felt not just, it didn't feel like I needed to vomit. It felt like my insides were trying to be ripped out of my body. And I just remember trying to talk and not being able to talk. It felt similar to what I feel having a stroke would be. And so I'm trying to say words. And then I realized at one point I cannot communicate verbally.
I just need to lay down and just wait this out. So I lay down on the bed and this is when I know I'm really in trouble. And I do want to preface, I have done acid so many times. I know the difference between being too high and being in trouble. This was not being too high. This was an emergency situation.
I knew that because even through the tripping state, I started to get extreme chest pains to the point where I couldn't breathe. And I started losing function in my left arm. And I knew in that moment, I said, I'm pretty sure I'm having a heart attack. I think that's I think that's what's happening. Again, I was trying to tell myself, you're high, you're tripping, you're fine.
Just keep pushing forward. And when I say pushing forward, you're just trying to feel similar to when you are having food poisoning and you're just telling yourself, I just need to get to the next day. I just need to vomit and get over this. It's that on the most extreme scale I could think of. Just need to get through this, need to push through it. I can't see anything. Everything's black.
At this point, it doesn't even feel... similar to a psychedelic trip. I just know I'm having a heart attack. So I'm holding on. I'm holding on. I'm sure they heard me. It just trying to breathe, trying to get through it, trying to keep myself calm. And then I get to a point where the pain is too much. And I just say, fuck it, let go. And I did. I stopped breathing. I let go.
And when I let go, that was, it was the most relieving moment of, I don't know if I can call it my life, but whatever this experience of Ariel is, I separated from my body by floating up above it. And I was just looking at my physical form. And I would say in Earth terms, it was being a couple yards above my body, just a couple feet.
And everything being so detailed, it just felt as if I was looking through a frosted glass. Everything was kind of a different tint, almost a little bit more grayish than normal life. But at the same time, I knew I was looking into a physical world and I was no longer in it. I knew that in that moment.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of after-death communication?
And I just floated out into the street and I could see people walking. And I knew the difference between human people and ghosts. And that was the crazy part because I'd see people and they'd look at me and they'd be kind of grayish like me. And they, hey, hey, you see me? I see you. It was so strange. And it wasn't a lot. I saw one or two other spirits, people.
And I remember that jarring me and that they looked just as human as me. I remember specifically on the corner seeing this older gentleman and he was dressed, I'm not shitting you, tweed,
like tweed pants hat it looked as if he was taken from a picture in 1940. he seemed as if he'd been there for a long time and i remember seeing him and he recognized me and kind of just energetically nice to see you I remember seeing a woman, she was wearing more modern attire. So I thought that was strange too. This person looks what I would perceive to be old in where I live in human reality.
And this other woman looks closer to modern dress. It was almost as if she didn't perceive me. She was just walking, just wandering. And this other person was almost as if he was there to greet me, almost. It was very strange, but we didn't spend a lot of time elaborating on that. Just kind of, you're here now, I'm here. But again, jarring in the sense of I didn't expect that. I accept that.
You don't really have time to react and feel. It's just, okay, cool. Move on. So then, very cliche as it sounds, I just start to ascend up as what we would call the sky on Earth. I'm just going in that direction. And I did see a fucking light. It looked... As if it was just a very bright flashlight. And I intuitively knew that's where I'm supposed to go. I'm supposed to follow that thing.
So I start to go up and up. And as I'm getting closer to it, I'm feeling less connected to my physical body. And knowing that. Knowing that this chapter is over. So without any effort, I just let myself go towards this light. And it's happening really slowly. I remember that. I thought it was going to be just immediate. And it's kind of dragging on. I'm not feeling impatient.
Just kind of taking it for what it is. Looking down and the city is just eventually gone. Just at some point, I just stopped noticing it. So I'm just in this... purely white space with a light above me that I still can't seem to reach. It's there. I know I'm going towards it, but I can't get to it. And then that is when I just feel this huge rush of energy and my mom is just in front of me.
She is a force of nature. It is so different than the energy of her that I knew. So powerful. It's who she was to the max, is what I can say. Because it is all the things that she was. It was just so powerful. I was almost cowering from it. And I'm almost thinking, is this my mom? It looks like her. She's literally wearing a white fucking robe. It was just the purest a person could be.
And I remember thinking, this is so... This is silly. I would not think this to be true, but this is happening right in front of me. My mom's in front of me in this robe. This is all the things you hear about. But again, I'm thinking that, but it's all acceptance. Just, okay, this is just what it is. She's in a state almost as if she's water.
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