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You're listening to episode 401 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about animal after- death communications. I'm Dom Betanelli,

and joining me today is Jimmy Aitken. Hey, Jimmy. Howdy, Doc?

Folks, I want to encourage you to stay around for the end of the episode. We'll have your

feedback on our recent episode, number 390, St. Albert the Great and Magic, and we have a special surprise for you, so don't miss it.

But for now, for millennia, people have reported apparitions of their deceased loved ones.

In parapsychology, these are known as after-death communications or ADCs.

They've been studied for a long time, but recently some

parapsychologists have been studying a different type of ADC, because people also report

apparitions of their deceased pets, and scientists have now finally begun studying animal after-death

communications as well.

So what kind of animals appear in these ADCs?

What do the experiencers report?

And do these experiences offer evidence for animal life after death?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World.

So, Jimmy, we've done several previous episodes

on topics related to what we're talking about today. What have we covered and what should listeners

know? Well, we've done a bunch of episodes on related topics. One of the two major areas of

study in parapsychology is the survival of death. And I'm kind of a survival guy, so we've done a bunch of episodes on it.

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