Welcome to Mysterious Universe, Season 34, Episode 21.

Coming up on the show, we've got encounters with non-reality, terminal lucidity in animals, and the entity Sci Effect. I'm your host Benjamin Grundy, joining me is Aaron Wright? Wasn't it Rupert Sheldreck actually that recently, I think, was involved with or published an article about, was it end-of-life experience in animals or pets? Did you cover that one?

I touched on it.

We didn't go into it in any great depth, but that's not what you're going into with this. Well, kind of. Really? There's a new essay in this book I picked up today. It's on the banks of the river sticks, new perspectives on terminal lucidity and other near-death phenomena. And of course, terminal lucidity is those stories we've covered in the past of people that are really

on their deathbed, often in cases where they've got some kind of neurodegenerative disease,

like Alzheimer's.

Yeah, or dementia is a big one.

In other circumstances, it's like if they've had a stroke and they literally have had like,

like, what's it called? See, now I'm having one. It's where there's like the cut off of oxygen leads to the actual death of the brain tissue itself. Yes. It's like they shouldn't be able to function normally. And yet seemingly right at the very end, they do. They come back and be their normal selves. Yeah, sometimes it's hours before they

pass away. They're like, I'm ready to go. Oh, they get up and they pack their bags. They get everyone

to say final goodbyes. And I had never heard these ones with animals. And animals do the same thing.

And there's a bunch of stories I've got coming up towards the end of the show in the plus

extension where Fido, he's been sick for months. And he wakes up, suddenly gets up out of his dog bed, and he goes to every single member of the family. That's what Sheldrack looked into. Every member of the family. He sticks his paw out and he looks him in the eye and he goes to every member of the family and they all say goodbye and then he lies down and dies. Yep.

Or I think in Sheldrack stuff, it's like they do that, they say goodbye, but then they kind of wander off somewhere. And it's like they've just saying their goodbyes and then, you know, literally wandering off so that they can, you know, pass on to their other realm. I like those stories. There's something sweet about it. Some interesting. There's some funny ones as well.

Okay, fantastic.

So I'll be talking about that.

There's some pretty about it. There's some funny ones as well. Okay, fantastic. So I'll be talking about that.

There's some pretty grim topics like terminal lucidity in children is a new one that comes up,

which there's new cases that have never been seen before in the research.

And it's, well, it's not as grim as you expect because a lot of these stories, you come away.

It's a very positive view of death

because the person that passes away has no fear in the end. They're talking about where they're

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