After an extremely close call while driving home late at night, Alexis finds herself being visited by what can only be described as the personification of death. Lily shares a very similar experience that occurred just prior to hearing grave news about a dear family member. 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 encounter does Alexis share?
Up in the sky.
It's almost frustrating that it's happening. I'm going to die. His limbs were just like, wrong.
Everybody moves back into the light, even if it takes them a minute.
Hi, my name is Alexis. I am 34. I am an event producer and a drag performer and currently live in Portland, Oregon with my partner and my two cats, Weegee and Lemmy. I grew up in Orange County, California, specifically Laguna Niguel.
It was a brand new track home with white picket fence, ocean blue carpeting, two stories with a beautiful garden in the backyard that kind of butted up to a steep hill with walking trails. I was an only child, so I definitely was left to my own devices a lot of times. I spent a lot of time with my maternal grandmother, who's an artist, but otherwise a lot of time just kind of playing by myself.
My dad was a senior deputy coroner investigator for the Orange County Sheriff's Department. So as a kid, my understanding of that was he goes out and finds dead bodies. And his specialty was solving unidentified or John or Jane Doe cases. And he was always really good with computers, building them from scratch in his free time.
And so he was essentially the IT department before they had an IT department. And he went on to create the John and Jane Doe online database. Because there wasn't a way for other counties or states to quickly cross-reference, you know, if somebody went missing in one state and they found, you know, an unidentified body in another state.
So this way they could kind of communicate with each other or even within the same state. And they even did a KCAL 9 special on him. And I think it was like 1999 or 2000 called Detective of Death, which I thought was really funny when I was a kid. He had a really great sense of humor. He also taught classes at the Corners Academy there on identification.
And he would be talking about tissue samples and walking around with a specimen jar in his hand and while doing the lecture, reach into the jar and take a bite. It was full of beef jerky, of course, not actual human flesh. That was kind of his personality. But I know it was really draining on him.
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Chapter 6: How does the Grim Reaper figure into cultural interpretations of death?
left lane so not the fast lane but the next one over and I'm going and weirdly even though it's probably a Tuesday or Wednesday night there's not really anybody else on the road which is great because I just want to get home. I'm going, and all of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, I see a... It was either tan or silver, little four-door sedan going sideways across the freeway.
So from my right to the left, cutting across, and this all happens... Within a matter of seconds, but it feels like it's in slow motion, I...
turn the wheel super fast and swerve into the fast lane and luckily there was nobody there because otherwise i would have hit them i swerve this person cuts across the front of my car hits the center median and starts spinning and they start spinning clockwise towards my car and There's a brief moment where I see the person inside the car. Like, I see their eyes. In that moment...
My brain was just trying to process what is happening because, A, when is there ever somebody driving sideways on the freeway or any street, for that matter? And so there's the moment of kind of puzzling realization, like, wait, there's something traveling in front of my car going in a perpendicular direction to where they should be going. I'm going 70 miles an hour.
So regardless, if somebody had like swerved into my lane, I still have to slam on the brakes. And... They hit the wall and they start spinning towards me in this counterclockwise way. And again, I don't know how quickly or how slowly this was happening, but it definitely felt like it was happening really slowly. Like I can see the car rotating towards me and...
The way the light was, because it's, you know, 1230, one o'clock at night, there's a few overhead street lamps, but not super well lit. So I can only really see a silhouette of a person. I couldn't really see anything. their face.
I honestly don't even really know what they looked like, but I just saw a kind of like reflection of their eyes for a second as they were spinning towards me counterclockwise. And we kind of had this passing moment where I looked at them and I can see them looking back at me. And I can only imagine how terrifying that would be. I mean, it was terrifying for me being in that situation.
And it just felt like, a dream, but it was absolutely not a dream. You know, I had not been drinking. There is no way that this wasn't real, but it felt like this should not be happening. And then seeing them spin so close to my car and just be a couple inches away, like I should have hit them. And I didn't.
And them spinning off diagonally backwards towards the opposite side of the freeway and smashing against the wall. I just was in shock. I was frozen. I was maybe five inches away from dying.
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