Welcome to our paranormal afterlife.

This is episode 153 of paranormal stories.

This episode I'm reading from Louisa Peck's book, Die Hard Atheist, from NDE

denier to full-on Woo-Woo,

against my will.

When I have guests on my podcasts, I read their books to work out questions for the episodes,

and when reading these books, I always find such amazing information that never makes it

into the podcast, and here I get a chance to give you a peek into the book.

I have to put a link to the book in the show notes, and I did a chance to give you a peek into the book. I have 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.

So I'll be reading from chapter two and we've got to a point where Louisa is in a nightclub

looking for a drug deal and this is what Louisa has written. We ask around until someone

points out a scrawny young guy in a beige leisure suit, who reminds me of the clingy, suicidal

character and Saturday night fever. He wants $50 for a gram. We test it by rubbing a little on our

gums while he promises nervously that it's good stuff, good stuff.

But it's not good at all, as we find out the minute we snort it.

No high, and by now the guys know where to be seen.

I can feel my excitement, the magic of this place, the sense of invincible glamour all sinking to dullness, as if someone were dragging

their thumb on the vinyl record of my life. I don't want that, so when my date chucks his

snorting bill and pronounces the stuff worthless, I wonder, what if it's just weak? Didn't it

numb my gums? There must be some high to be gotten from it. So I snort it all at one

go, but the whole pile. On my way to the bathroom, I noticed my peripheral vision is humming

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