Welcome to our paranormal afterlife.

This is an extra episode of paranormal stories.

This episode I'm reading from Michael Tim's book, Consciousness Beyond Death, New and Old Light on Near Death

Experiences. I've put a link to the book in the show notes, and I did seek permission to record

this extract, and the author kindly said yes. I'm going to read from chapter 10, which is titled

The Most Dynamic NDE You'll Ever Read About.

This is what Michael has written.

In her 1917 book, How I Know That the Dead Are Alive, Fanny Ruth Fen Padgett offers one of the most vivid and detailed near-death experiences ever recorded.

While not clearly stating her illness,

one might infer that Padgett, a resident of Houston, Texas, suffered from severe pneumonia for several days during 1911. All about and above me I could see nothing, but fancy my astonishment, if you can, when

looking down, I saw my body resting peacefully on the bed, representing what is commonly

called a dead person, Padgett recalled.

I could not move my eyes from it.

It fascinated me as it lay in the cold whiteness, robed in a gown of lavender silk with dainty laces and ruffles.

The deep blue windows of the soul, the eyes were at half-mast.

The soul being absent, the light was gone.

The lips slightly parted were a suggestion of a smile.

The left hand rested lightly on the breast, the engagement ring scintillating as brightly as ever. The right, which no doubt had been lifted unconsciously at the shock of impact, had fallen a little apart from the body, and lay palm upturned. How peaceful it looked. Thus every detail of the clay image fastened itself upon my

consideration as I viewed it dispassionately, realizing that it was a cast-off garment, for which I had

no further use. However, I felt protective kindness towards it, it had been a faithful servant, executing my every wish and whim, and now that I had passed

beyond the range of its services, it pleased my fancy to robe it in the white, pearl- bedecked

dress, the wearing of which had meant so much to me in quite a different way.

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