Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts.

This is real ghost stories online. Having a loved one pass is incredibly difficult.

Scores of emotions come over you, things that sometimes made sense no longer make so much

sense, things that don't make sense, now make sense.

There's so many things.

And when you look at it retrospectively,

there's so many moments that you go back and say,

I would have done this differently, I would have done this differently I would have done that differently if I had been in a better mindset

But unfortunately in those moments it's nearly impossible to be in a better mindset when we're struck with something like that.

Every once in a while though, when someone passes,

there comes a moment where it seems like maybe they're coming back.

Maybe they have a message for us from the other side.

But what is that message? What are they looking for? What do they want to tell us? And how long does that window remain open for them to get those messages across to us on this side?

That's the question we ask in our next story.

Take a listen.

I'm a listener all the way from New Zealand and here's my story about the passing of my

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