Welcome to Otherworld. I'm your host, Jack Wagner.

This episode is about somebody who believes they may have come face to face with death itself.

Not a near-death experience in the way that it normally comes up on this show.

This is an encounter with the personification of death, the Grim Reaper, also known as the Angel of Death.

The Grim Reaper has got to be one of the most famous figures in the scary universe.

These days, I feel like you're most likely to see the Grim Reaper pop up as a decal on the back of a

truck, maybe as a tattoo or printed on a giant t-shirt, perhaps even on some kind of very aggressive Facebook meme

one of your uncles might share.

However, the origins of what we know as the Grim Reaper date back very far into history.

Most cultures and religions have some sort of similar deity who carries out God's will

by taking lives and serving as a sort of bridge between our world and the next. And even though

the Grim Reaper we know of now is visually kind of a creation of pop culture, Over the years, I have heard of many people

encountering a cloaked black figure that appears near the end of someone's life. Often,

this is something seen by people who work in hospitals or in places where lives tend to come to an end.

So whether this being is a literal entity slipping between worlds and reaping souls

or just a manifestation of a very well-known symbol of death, I'm not really sure.

But this episode features two people who had experiences involving it.

And hopefully we end up getting even more stories about this topic submitted in the future.

This first story comes from Alexis. This is episode 120. The title is The Final Visitor, and you're listening

to Otherworld.

Hello? Is this Bobby? Yes, it is. At its core, the science, you can't argue.

It's not only, about all the science. It's almost frustrating that it's happening.

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