S01-E08 - Crisis Ghosts
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A pilot speaks to a colleague who should not be there.
A dying grandfather appears beside a sleeping child.
A little boy in the snow leads a doctor to his mother… three years after his own death.
In this early Haunted UK Podcast episode, Steve explores the moving and mysterious phenomenon of crisis ghosts — apparitions, voices, dreams, messages, and strange encounters reported at the moment of death, shortly before it, or soon after.
These are not always frightening ghost stories. Many are deeply emotional accounts of farewell, comfort, warning, or unfinished love. Across cultures, faiths, and generations, witnesses have described seeing friends, relatives, and loved ones who appear with a final message, a last reassurance, or a sense that something important has crossed the boundary between life and death.
The episode includes the case of a commercial airline pilot at Glasgow Airport who spoke to a fellow pilot, only to later find his obituary in the newspaper; a young boy in Alabama who saw his grandfather standing beside him moments before news of his death arrived; and the haunting story of Eamon McEneany, whose wife Bonnie felt a strange and deeply personal sign in the days after the September 11 attacks.
Steve also explores accounts of automatic writing, a Liverpool doctor guided by a dead child, a shared death experience in hospice care, and a dream visitation that led to a hidden envelope, family history, and one final request.
Reflective, emotional, and quietly unsettling, this episode asks whether love, memory, and consciousness might reach beyond the final moments of life — and whether some goodbyes are powerful enough to be seen, heard, felt, or carried home.
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| 1:06.6 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the episode. Is it possible that friends and loved ones can make an appearance just before or just after their deaths? |
| 1:13.5 | Is it conceivable to think that some people can somehow harness an unknown form of energy to enable them to say a final farewell? |
| 1:21.5 | Or to deliver a final message before departing this life? |
| 1:25.9 | This can be an extremely heartbreaking experience for the witness, |
| 1:30.1 | but many others say that their sightings have given them hope |
| 1:33.3 | and a renewed sense of purpose. |
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| 1:52.0 | And The This is episode 8 of Pink Flamingo's Haunted UK podcast, and this time we're going to be exploring the stories and cases of crisis ghosts. |
| 2:37.0 | Seeing a crisis ghost is more common than you'd think. |
| 2:54.4 | There are thousands of stories spanning different cultures and religions that tell of loved ones appearing at their crucial moments of passing. |
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