The Ghost Who Couldn’t Let Go: A Brother’s Final Goodbye, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It was supposed to be a normal day in the late ’70s — bad perms, disco on the radio, and teenage daydreams. But for Ellen MacNeil, that day would change her life forever. It began with a feeling — a heaviness she couldn’t shake, a shadow that lingered behind every laugh in the high school hallway.
Then came the signs. The photo of her brother falling from the wall. Her watch freezing in time. A strange chill that seemed to move with her through the house. And the phone call — the one that confirmed what her soul already knew. Her brother had been killed in Vietnam.
But death didn’t stop him from coming home.
In the days that followed, Ellen’s world turned surreal. The lights flickered. Pictures shifted. Objects moved on their own. It was as if her brother’s spirit refused to let her grieve alone — determined to show her he was still there, protecting her, guiding her, and refusing to fade away.
Decades later, Ellen still remembers that strange and beautiful haunting — proof that sometimes love doesn’t end when the heartbeat does.
Because family ties don’t just survive death… they haunt it. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of our conversation with Alan McNeil about the soldier on the other side. |
| 0:05.8 | Let me ask you this. When you went into this initially, and maybe this has changed over the years, |
| 0:12.5 | but what was your goal when you started investigating the dead and people's paranormal experiences? |
| 0:21.1 | Like I said, after what I went through was not having anyone believe me and not being able |
| 0:29.4 | to talk to people, because if I did, they were like, oh, okay, all right, Ellen, yeah, all right. |
| 0:38.5 | You know, and, you know, just kind of patting you on the head going, |
| 0:41.1 | okay, she's grieving and everything, and I'm like, |
| 0:44.4 | I wish I, I wish we had cell phones back then |
| 0:49.9 | that I could have just taken pictures of what this room looked like |
| 0:53.4 | and all the broken things |
| 0:55.2 | that were in here. |
| 0:56.1 | Sure. |
| 0:56.7 | And I said, I never want to have people not believed and not listened to. |
| 1:07.4 | You know, everybody has a different experience. |
| 1:10.7 | It's, sometimes it's explainable. Sometimes you can say, |
| 1:15.6 | oh, that's not what it is. It's this. And it's not paranormal. And, you know, I mean, when they, |
| 1:23.6 | like on taps, when they'd be like, well, we're going to debunk this, we're going to debunk that. |
| 1:28.1 | I never really understood how far that goes, you know, when you go out of your way to find a reason for what's going on. |
| 1:41.3 | And then you can say, you know what, We couldn't debunk this. It's not your |
| 1:46.0 | pipes. It's not a raccoon. It's not squeaky floor. You have something here. You know, |
| 1:53.6 | either somebody that you don't know passed away in the house, whether it's a violent death, like my brother, they don't know they're |
| 2:04.4 | gone. You know, as far as he knows, he's still sitting on the truck. You know, it's like, |
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