1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,400 From the unexplained to the mundane, come join us on a journey to the fringe. 2 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:20,120 Hello and welcome to Journey to the Fringe, where, like everywhere, we have to deal with 3 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:21,120 death. 4 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:22,600 And, mate, you know what? 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,080 Maybe we do it now. 6 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:29,120 We are your podcast hosts, Taylor and Chelsea, here today, doing a Chelsea episode, and in 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:30,720 fact, she told me beforehand. 8 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,360 But, I think we're dealing with death. 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:34,360 Oaks on you! 10 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:35,800 We're dealing with life. 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:36,800 Oh, damn it! 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,800 It's like all these other episodes. 13 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:40,800 Yeah. 14 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,920 You only thought that I told you. 15 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,800 And really, I don't know, I got nothing. 16 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:47,800 Oh, god. 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:54,440 Today, I'm here not only to bridge the gap from Halloween to regular Journey to the Fringe 18 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,960 Life, but also between the living and the dead. 19 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:03,440 And what more of a perfect time to do that than the day after Halloween? 20 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,600 Well, the day after Halloween is All Saints' Day, which is where we... 21 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:08,600 Are you serious? 22 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:09,600 Yeah. 23 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:10,880 Did you not know that? 24 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:11,880 No. 25 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:18,360 No, November 1st is All Saints' Day, where we cherish and remember all of the saints. 26 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:23,240 Well, then maybe this episode is not appropriate, but we don't care. 27 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:24,800 Maybe this is about a saint. 28 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:29,880 And Chelsea, just so we're on the same page, to make a saint, one has to die. 29 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,160 There are no living saints. 30 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,000 Yeah, so we're going to deal with that today. 31 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,600 We're not going to murder anybody here. 32 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,600 We're going to learn about the Grim Reaper. 33 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:40,600 Yet. 34 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,960 Grim Reaper. 35 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:44,200 You know I'm to see him. 36 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:50,440 He's the Beroved Skeleton wielding a scythe, mostly dawning a deep hood, so he can't see 37 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:51,440 his face. 38 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,520 Obviously, there are exceptions to the rule. 39 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,280 And we know he's a skeleton in that deep robe though. 40 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:03,880 Sometimes you see like a glimpse of like a skeleton hand or something like that. 41 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:10,240 And leaves regarding what he's doing include a wide variety of things, but the most popular 42 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:16,160 are either that he's causing the victim's death by coming to collect that person's 43 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:17,160 soul. 44 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,920 It is taking part in the murder of that person, essentially. 45 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:23,880 He's causing that person's death. 46 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:30,520 Or the alternative being a psychopomp, which is responsible to escort newly deceased souls 47 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:36,280 to the afterlife and has no control over when or how the victim dies. 48 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,720 Just the escorting of the soul to the afterlife. 49 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,360 This has to be there, yeah. 50 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,360 It happens that they died so he was there. 51 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:49,360 Obviously, the rule is filled by other characters and entities and other cultures, the correct 52 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:54,160 term being psychopomp like I just called him, which actually I didn't know that. 53 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:55,520 It was even a thing before. 54 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,520 Is that French? 55 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,080 I don't know what it is. 56 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,520 Let me see if I can find out quick. 57 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,040 That sounds like crazy grapefruit in my mind. 58 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,080 It's from a Greek word. 59 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:06,080 Oh. 60 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,080 Literally meaning guiding of souls. 61 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,840 But the Greek word does not look like psychopomp at all. 62 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:18,720 So, guiding of souls are way more than I would ever think. 63 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,200 But alas, today I'm only talking about the Grim Reaper. 64 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:26,720 Could potentially be an episode in the future to talk about all the different ones you have 65 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,640 all over the world. 66 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:32,840 Psychopomps come in all shapes and sizes, as well as genders. 67 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,280 They exist in all cultures throughout all of recorded history. 68 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,200 Ancient people took a friendlier approach to death. 69 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,960 For example, Thanatos, the Greek god of death, was an attractive and noble-hearted young 70 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:46,040 man. 71 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:51,040 And the Velkeries, who decided which Norse soldiers would die in battle, were beautiful 72 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:52,440 and heroic women. 73 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:57,280 Well, they were not only, they didn't choose which soldiers died in battle, they chose 74 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,880 which ones would go to battle, how the fighting's a valiant life. 75 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:07,400 And I always find that so interesting with older requisitions of death, is that they aren't 76 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,720 necessarily talking about killing people, it's more so just like their job and what 77 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,640 they're looking at. 78 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:19,400 The turning point in our attitude towards death came in the 14th century, when Europe 79 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,600 was ravaged by the Black Plague. 80 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,400 Some cities, as many as one in five people, died from the plague. 81 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:30,080 Decaying bodies piled up in the streets and everyone had loved ones to grieve. 82 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,160 Not a great time to be alive. 83 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:37,160 During the plague, artists began painting death as a horrific figure, rather than… 84 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,320 Somebody doing their job, yeah, just a profession. 85 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,720 Yeah, exactly what Taylor just said. 86 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:47,800 Skeletons armed with deadly weapons danced among plague victims in the street and rode 87 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,800 white horses with wagens full of bodies attached. 88 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:56,200 Eventually, a black cloak figure, the first recognizable reaper, became appearing at the 89 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,600 head of these ghastly processions. 90 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,960 This dark costume and curved sight may have been inspired by plague doctors who wore 91 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:08,160 dark shrouds and bird-like masks to protect themselves from breathing infected air. 92 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,800 Which there is some similarities between the two, actually if you were to look at them 93 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:12,800 side by side. 94 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:14,680 Equally creepy, I would say. 95 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,440 One no more creepy than the other. 96 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:23,160 But also, I honestly love the death mask of the doctors at that time where they had 97 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,320 the bird kind of nose coming out and all the pulses inside it. 98 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,960 It couldn't have been a creepier mask, I don't think. 99 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,480 Yeah, no, you couldn't have tried to make it. 100 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,480 And that was like, that was their way of being like healthy. 101 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,040 So it's beautiful how they did it. 102 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,160 It served a purpose, that's for sure. 103 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:43,160 Yeah. 104 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:48,360 So the name Grim Reaper doesn't appear until the 19th century, although the Grim was a popular 105 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,640 nickname for death dating all the way back to the 13th century. 106 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:53,640 Huh. 107 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:59,640 It's a really cool history and the Grim Reaper is now our beloved personification of death 108 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:07,560 and it kind of emerges out of this kind of tradition as it became from Earl the Darkness. 109 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,880 But why the skeletal figure? 110 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:10,880 Why the scythe? 111 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,680 Why the robe? 112 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,080 Skeletons are symbolic of death. 113 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:15,080 Yeah, fair enough. 114 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,600 It makes a lot of sense. 115 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:17,600 Yeah, exactly. 116 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,960 Representing the human body after it has decayed. 117 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:25,320 Robe is thought to be reminiscent of the robes that religious figures of the time wore when 118 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,720 conducting funerary services. 119 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:28,720 That makes sense. 120 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,720 Scythe is an apt image taken from agricultural practices at the time. 121 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:39,000 Harvesters use scythe to reap or harvest crops that were ready to be plucked from the earth. 122 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,680 And while that's kind of what happens when humans die and the Grim Reaper comes for them, 123 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,040 they are plucked from the earth as if they are being harvested. 124 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:53,080 And it's kind of like he's explaining the cyclical nature of it, of souls, through harvesting 125 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:54,720 the crops. 126 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,440 That's always how I've kind of noticed it. 127 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:57,840 It's actually pretty cool. 128 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:00,240 Yeah, they're coming for them to harvest them. 129 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,040 The Grim Reaper is a complicated guy. 130 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,880 Sometimes he's a psychopath collecting a soul and others look at him as a harbinger of 131 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:08,880 death. 132 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,600 Actually, I forgot one when I was talking about why he comes. 133 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:16,360 There's also that other one where he's coming to predict somebody dying. 134 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,560 You see the Grim Reaper before someone dies, which is a little bit more terrifying. 135 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,280 Not really. 136 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:23,840 One is not more terrifying than the other. 137 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,720 I don't think whether you see him or not. 138 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:30,240 Let's be honest with that setup, I think we all have a pretty good idea going in of who 139 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,400 and what the Grim Reaper is as much as he likes to be a man in mystery. 140 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,480 So I'm filling this episode up with sightings. 141 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:43,120 Some I proofread, some I'm leaving wildcard because it's just who I am. 142 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:49,360 And let's start off with something super interesting that I stumbled upon from the online nursing 143 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,600 continuing education course. 144 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:57,800 Chelsea, before we start these, I am curious how close Grim Reaper sightings are to shadow 145 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:58,920 people sightings. 146 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:04,600 I didn't see anything where I could have said, you know what, that's a shadow person. 147 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:05,920 Okay, fair enough. 148 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:10,760 And I didn't come across any, we've read a lot of shadow person sightings and I've never 149 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,280 thought one might be the Grim Reaper. 150 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,760 But at the same time, like it's an entirely black or opaque character. 151 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,120 So you think that like it could be considered a shadow person. 152 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:22,120 So it's interesting. 153 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:29,160 That being said, I could think that some of these could be in your episode of Robe Figures. 154 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:30,160 Oh fair enough. 155 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:31,720 That's an interesting question. 156 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,800 Let's see what we think about it by the end, if we remember. 157 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:35,800 Okay. 158 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:37,560 Yeah, like I was saying, this is super cool. 159 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:39,600 I wasn't expecting to find this. 160 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:45,040 This is from the online nursing continuing education, which is online nursing continuing 161 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:49,560 education.com titled apparitions of the Grim Reaper. 162 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:54,080 Some individuals described seeing the Grim Reaper at the foot of their bed during a near 163 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,200 death experience and they eat. 164 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:01,080 The figure is described as wearing a hooded cloak, often faceless, but occasionally a 165 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,760 skeletal figure is visible underneath. 166 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,200 The figure often makes individuals feel cold. 167 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,440 Undoubtedly, this is a frightening experience. 168 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,080 Most report that the figure simply fades away when told to leave. 169 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:18,160 Ralph had an encounter with a Grim Reaper after being admitted to the hospital because 170 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:19,320 of a heart attack. 171 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:24,560 He reported suddenly feeling very cold below freezing at the foot of my bed on the right 172 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:27,120 side was a dark gray cloaked stranger. 173 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:28,560 He had no face. 174 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:30,280 How did you know it was a heat? 175 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:31,280 I didn't know. 176 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:32,280 I just knew. 177 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,680 The other thing I knew was I wasn't bad enough or sick enough to go with him. 178 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:39,600 Lawrence 1997. 179 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,280 Nurses also have reported seeing the Grim Reaper. 180 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:43,640 Here's an example. 181 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:48,040 I was running down the hall to my patient's room so I could relieve the nurse in charge. 182 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:53,520 I ran past this room across the central floor, nurses station, and had run past five rooms 183 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,600 before I registered what I saw. 184 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,240 I did not believe it. 185 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,920 I went back down the hall and stopped at the room. 186 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:01,320 I glanced into it. 187 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:05,880 On the bed was a little gray haired lady dressed in lace propped up with pillows. 188 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:10,640 Inside the bed stood this tall figure dressed in a monk's robe with its head covered. 189 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,000 It looked at me when I appeared in the door. 190 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,280 His face was a skull with tiny red fire for eyes. 191 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:21,200 His hands skeletal were patiently folded over each other inside the dark sleeves. 192 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,080 My impression was he was just patiently waiting. 193 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,800 Tchavinsky 1997. 194 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,440 The Grim Reaper is not always reported as a frightening figure. 195 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,080 Sometimes he is helpful. 196 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,920 A man reported being on his couch one evening watching television. 197 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,320 He saw the cloaked figure of the Grim Reaper. 198 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:43,120 Realizing someone was close to death, he ran upstairs and found that his wife had attempted 199 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:44,120 suicide. 200 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,720 He was able to call an ambulance in time to save his wife. 201 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:47,720 Tchavinsky 1992. 202 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:53,920 In our book Dancing Past the Dark, The Stressing Near Death Experiences, the author Nancy Bush 203 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:58,520 describes not only distressing near death experiences but also distressing death bed 204 00:10:58,520 --> 00:10:59,520 visions. 205 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,320 Based on the information in this book, these Grim Reaper experiences could well be called 206 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,360 distressing near death visits. 207 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,720 As described in this course, these experiences are similar to the previously described near 208 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,680 death visits but felt as distressing. 209 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:18,160 In these cases of distressing near death visits, the patients perceive a figure as frightening, 210 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,040 thus naming it the Grim Reaper. 211 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:24,440 A parallel could be made with a patient who saw a hooded faceless figure but instead of 212 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:29,480 being distressed, interpreted the image positively being the figure to be Jesus. 213 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,560 From the research about distressing experiences, we now believe that there are distressing 214 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:39,160 near death experiences, distressing death bed visions, and distressing near death visits. 215 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,200 In all three cases, the distresses can come from the way a person interprets the image 216 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,360 and or experience not necessarily what is said or done. 217 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,120 I thought that was just a good point so I left it in the end. 218 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,400 But I thought that was so cool that it was on a continuing education course. 219 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,400 Yeah. 220 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:55,400 Yeah. 221 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,360 That's not somebody who's directly worried about him. 222 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,480 Like, oh shit, he's coming for me because I'm about to die. 223 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,200 No, but close enough to death to have sightings. 224 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:06,400 Exactly, yeah. 225 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:13,080 So my next few are from nurses because I didn't even think to include nurses when I came across 226 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,080 that. 227 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,840 So I was looking for nurse encounters and I have a few coming up here. 228 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:22,880 So quote, a nurse friend worked in a nursing home and one of her patients, a man in his 229 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:27,480 80s whom we'll call Sam, was rumored to have been involved with one of the most infamous 230 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:28,840 crime families. 231 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,320 He may have actually been a hit man and had spent many years in prison before being paroled 232 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,200 as an elderly man. 233 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,800 One night while assisting a patient, she suddenly heard a man screaming. 234 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,760 She and the patient both looked into the hallway outside the room and were horrified to see 235 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,040 Sam being dragged down the hallway by two figures dressed in all black. 236 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,920 She dropped what she was doing and dashed into the hallway but there is no one there. 237 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,520 The exit door at the end of the hallway was still closed, locked to the outside and the 238 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,720 alarm was on but silent. 239 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:01,560 Two other residents who routinely kept their room doors open at night had also seen the 240 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:06,360 same black clad figures drag and Sam down the hallway toward the locked door. 241 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,400 Running back to Sam's room, she found that he had passed away quietly in his bed and 242 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,720 nothing in his room had been disturbed. 243 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,880 She and the residents were convinced that on that night they saw Sam's soul being dragged 244 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:18,000 to hell. 245 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,760 End quote. 246 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:24,920 Next up, this is a story that's going around TikTok right now. 247 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,760 I'm at TeddyLove302 on TikTok. 248 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,680 And she's a hospice nurse who explains that she was at her station one night and she swore 249 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:36,800 she saw a strange hand brush the face of one of her sleeping patients. 250 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,840 She knew there was no one in the room and rushed in to confirm that indeed the patient 251 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:41,840 was all alone. 252 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,360 Still, she claims she saw something and could not figure out what she had witnessed. 253 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,640 Later she wondered if perhaps she caught a glimpse of the Grim Reaper himself and wondered 254 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,400 if it meant the patient was at the end of their journey. 255 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:57,280 Sure enough, when she arrived for her shift the following day she learned that the patient 256 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:58,280 had died. 257 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,920 In the comments, other medical workers chime in and they say they too have witnessed similar 258 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:07,960 occurrences and that the Angel of Death is very real in the hospice space. 259 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,640 Okay, next one. 260 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,200 This is Reddit. 261 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,920 Reddit user expensiverooster43. 262 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:16,560 He's at my work sometimes. 263 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:21,920 He does rounds days up to months before he takes them. 264 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,480 I can see him in my peripheral view. 265 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,800 I don't acknowledge him by looking at him but I will tell my co-workers he's back and 266 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:33,400 they'll acknowledge they either saw him or experienced other paranormal activity around 267 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:34,400 the same time. 268 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:39,480 I laugh because a bunch of people commented on this asking where this person worked and 269 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,280 they didn't actually reply. 270 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,160 So I'm gonna assume it's a hospital. 271 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,200 That's the only thing that would make logical sense to me. 272 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:53,440 And another thing I want to note at this time is a lot of people say when they have sightings 273 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:58,960 of the green reaper that it's only in their peripheral vision which is funny to say the 274 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:00,280 least I think. 275 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:06,000 Though I know a lot of sightings of paranormal things are in the peripheral vision. 276 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,520 Here's another good one. 277 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:15,000 We're getting away from the hospital scene and I'm jumping over to a book called Gods 278 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:23,240 of Eden by William Bramley and this is from page 185. 279 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,720 It's titled on this page Grim Reaper. 280 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:31,560 Fascinatingly there were also accounts of horrible men, demons and fearful faces dressed 281 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:36,760 in black and carrying long sights, brooms and swords that were directly associated with 282 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,200 plague outbreaks. 283 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,120 A second phenomenon was sometimes reported. 284 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,800 The appearance of frightening human-like figures dressed in black. 285 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:49,560 Those figures were often seen on the outskirts of town or village and their presence would 286 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,040 signal the outbreak of an epidemic almost immediately. 287 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:58,320 A summary written in 1682 tells of one such visit a century earlier. 288 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:05,560 Quote in Brandenburg in Germany, there appeared in 1559 horrible men of whom at first 15 and 289 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:07,640 later on 12 were seen. 290 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:12,600 The foremost had beside their posterior little heads the other's fearful faces and long 291 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:18,680 sights with which they cut at the oats so that the swish could be heard at a great distance 292 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:20,760 but the oats remained standing. 293 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:26,080 An quantity of people came running out to see them they went on with their mowing. 294 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:30,920 The visit of the strange men to the oat fields was followed immediately by a severe outbreak 295 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,080 of the plague in Brandenburg. 296 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:38,400 This incident raises in treating questions who were these mysterious figures? 297 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:43,320 What were the long scythe-like instruments they held that emitted a loud swishing sound 298 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:44,720 sounds like a scythe? 299 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:50,160 It appears that the scythe may have been long instruments designed to spray poison or germ 300 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:51,760 laden gas. 301 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,240 This means that the townspeople misinterpreted the movement of the scythe as an attempt to 302 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:01,520 cut oats when in fact the movements were the active spraying aerosols on the town. 303 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,120 Similar men dressed in black were reported in Hungary. 304 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:09,160 In the mountain towns of Hungary on ascension day in the evening to the great disturbance 305 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,280 of all went on the Schulersburg. 306 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,640 They appeared so many black riders that the opinion was prevalent that the Turks were 307 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:22,440 making the secret raid but who rapidly disappeared again and there upon a raging plague broke 308 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:29,600 out in the neighborhood in the year of Christ 1571 was seen at Amnist. 309 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:34,320 Each man dressed in black, demons and other terrifying figures were observed in other 310 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,160 European communities. 311 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:41,200 The frightening creatures were often observed carrying long brooms, scythe or swords that 312 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,640 were used to sweep or knock at the doors of people's homes. 313 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,400 The inhabitants of these homes fell ill with the plague afterwards. 314 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:53,600 It is from these reports that people created the popular image of death as a skeleton or 315 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,320 deeming carrying a scythe. 316 00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:01,040 The scythe came to symbolize the act of death bowing down people like Stoxa Grain. 317 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,920 End of the whole section of this. 318 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,800 I thought that was a super interesting one. 319 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:13,680 It's not really the pop culture. 320 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:18,040 This is kind of a different, not just take but different. 321 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,000 It's a softer one for sure. 322 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:26,120 Yeah, this one is almost like, I don't know if it's Grim Reaper's per se but they were 323 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:34,440 people showing up prior to an outbreak happening in certain areas and they could be Grim Reapers 324 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:38,840 actually but then they say that they were spraying something so I'm not sure what to 325 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,400 make of that other than they might have been the plague doctors. 326 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,520 I don't know. 327 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:49,600 I thought that was creepy nonetheless to think of people showing up in towns dressed like 328 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,480 Grim Reapers or something. 329 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:56,360 So we'll move on from that to more Reddit encounters and these ones are wildcards. 330 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:58,520 They are not hospitals or anything. 331 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,600 They are just people giving sightings of the Grim Reaper. 332 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,560 So yous are deleted. 333 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:08,760 As a person who has medically died multiple times I want to say what you saw is probably 334 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:09,760 a Reaper. 335 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,600 Granted you saw the black figure because it probably wasn't after you. 336 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:18,320 My experience with Reapers is that they take the form of something that comforts you. 337 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:23,560 Only I believe they can alter space and time because I could see the doctors and I'm screaming 338 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,240 but I can't hear them and they can't hear me. 339 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,880 Then someone special to me was in a chair and ended up talking about my whole life including 340 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,080 stuff you forget. 341 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:37,520 I think they take the form to help comfort you moving on but I got the defrauder later 342 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,260 so it ended there. 343 00:19:39,260 --> 00:19:42,440 Not entirely sure why you could see them though. 344 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,680 Usually something has to die. 345 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:49,160 But on this one it was a post of someone sharing a Grim Reaper experience. 346 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,800 That's why he's saying not sure why you could see them though. 347 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,640 Next sighting user it is what Otis? 348 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,480 I don't know. 349 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,040 It is what Ot is. 350 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,080 I don't know. 351 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:05,920 So I was actually looking for one of these to comment on because my biological grandmother 352 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,880 was incredibly convinced that my biological father was a psychic medium or you could 353 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:12,160 call it a prophet. 354 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,440 We could if it's a cult. 355 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:19,640 We also have native blood and my father was associated with eagles or birds. 356 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:24,840 I've had a lot of religious experiences in my life and have had good understanding of 357 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:30,640 psychology which obviously totally rejects spiritual experiences and you walk a fine 358 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,360 line whenever you discuss it. 359 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:36,320 I've seen the future probably over 40 times in my lifetime. 360 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:37,320 Very detailed. 361 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,720 If you say you saw something like a ghost people assume it's schizophrenia but I can't 362 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,120 shake off an experience I had. 363 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:48,880 My mind could have been playing tricks on me but I was listening to a song called Directions 364 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:55,000 by Nacko and Medicine for People which calls out on grandparents for guidance. 365 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,320 It has a feel about it that is a lot like native prayer. 366 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:03,000 My cat suddenly started saying my grandmother's name plain and clear. 367 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,600 My grandpa is deceased. 368 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:09,760 I tried to get it on camera but I failed although it was definitely happening. 369 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:15,240 He never said her name before and it was clearly her name almost like a human saying 370 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,240 it. 371 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,840 It happened for several weeks and prior to it stopping I was certain I saw the Grim Reaper 372 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:26,520 and a black road with the hood up was a person and my cat was saying my grandma's name plus 373 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,040 something that sounded like where are you. 374 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:34,040 I thought that I might be getting a warning that I was about to die but then about 3-4 375 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,320 months later my grandmother passed away. 376 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,000 What a weird sighting this is. 377 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:43,520 My cat had already stopped saying her name about 3 months prior and it only happened 378 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,040 for 2 weeks. 379 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:49,720 That is why I think the Grim Reaper does usher people between and I don't think the Grim 380 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,200 Reaper is a demon. 381 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,300 I think you can see the spiritual world but only some people. 382 00:21:55,300 --> 00:21:59,560 That is why I know I didn't understand that he was coming for my grandma but I understood 383 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:00,560 later. 384 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,920 I felt a little bit of anxiety but not scared either. 385 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,840 I was mostly confused about how to interpret it. 386 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:12,000 It was a person maybe 5'5 or 5'6 and in a black cloak with a hood couldn't see the 387 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,840 face and they were not looking at me just kind of about 3 feet away. 388 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:21,760 My cat just kept saying my grandma's name over and over again which I thought maybe 389 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,160 my grandpa who was already dead was looking for my grandma. 390 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,960 I had no idea my grandma was about to die either. 391 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,640 I thought maybe I was going to die. 392 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:32,560 Completely silent hooded figure too. 393 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:37,320 I've had weird experiences before we had a house that used to have doors that would 394 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:43,840 slam shut and we moved in whenever I was around and we moved in whenever I was around 395 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:44,840 12 feet away. 396 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:50,240 I'm sorry Chelsea did we just stop talking about the like short Grim Reaper and start 397 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,480 talking about the house? 398 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:52,480 Okay. 399 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,640 I never brought it up but when I was alone the door downstairs to the bathroom that connected 400 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:01,320 to another room used to slam shut when I was down there sometimes that was a long time 401 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,120 ago though too I remember things felt different there. 402 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:11,360 So that was clearly one that I didn't proofread so I'm experiencing this fresh with you live. 403 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:12,360 That was quite strange. 404 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:18,440 I don't know why he thinks it is not weird that the cat was saying his grandma's name 405 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,800 or that it was like a 5'6 Grim Reaper that just kind of showed up. 406 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,640 Not that tall he was kind of short actually. 407 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,640 He's my height he's not tall. 408 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:28,640 Yeah. 409 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:29,640 Yeah. 410 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,640 That was weird. 411 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,520 Why was the cat saying the grandma's name? 412 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:35,520 Okay. 413 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,320 User E3-dash. 414 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:42,760 I personally have never seen anything paranormal but my dad swears he saw the Grim Reaper. 415 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,240 It was a pretty dark time in his life around that time. 416 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,280 Anytime we ask him about it his hair stand up. 417 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:53,400 He said could you imagine if you could physically see someone's hair standing up when they're 418 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,640 a creeped out? 419 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,120 You usually just like get a sensation it's not like they actually stand up. 420 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:00,720 That would be great. 421 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,280 Like wow are you creeped out your hair is literally standing right up. 422 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,240 I feel like you make that a certain fact right there. 423 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,240 Yeah. 424 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,160 But you can't just creep someone out on demand. 425 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,240 Has to be like you have to be camping in the woods you have to be listening to a scary 426 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,600 story and be in a tent. 427 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,200 Already established this on Friday the 13th. 428 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,640 He says he was outside at night smoking a cigarette and felt somebody breathing on his 429 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,280 neck and his hair stood up. 430 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,720 He looked back and saw a figure wearing a hood and he couldn't see a face. 431 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,920 It's pretty interesting he's seen a lot. 432 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,080 Had to look behind me that creeps me out. 433 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,080 Would you rather feel someone breathing on your neck and it be the Grim Reaper or they 434 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,320 put their skeleton hand on your shoulder? 435 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:45,640 You got an answer. 436 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,280 You got a what one? 437 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:49,280 Probably the shoulder. 438 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:50,280 The skeleton hand? 439 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,280 Yeah. 440 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:52,280 Yeah. 441 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,280 Breathing on the neck. 442 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,600 Oh that actually sounds pretty bad. 443 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:56,600 Don't like that. 444 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:57,600 Okay. 445 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,680 User Blondie 1967. 446 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,520 When I was about 14 years old I was going to my mate's house. 447 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,000 This was about a five minute walk. 448 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Oh no they're Australian. 449 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,280 I know that's what I thought too. 450 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:11,560 Shit. 451 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,440 It was thick fog about November time. 452 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:20,720 I had to walk by a green which is a grassed area a bit like a roundabout but down a suburban 453 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,720 street not a main road. 454 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,120 There is a really big tree on this green a weeping willow. 455 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:28,760 I bet it was a nice freaking weeping willow. 456 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:33,960 As I was walking along I saw what I can only describe as the Grim Reaper. 457 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,680 Do it next to the big tree. 458 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,720 All in black a big hood covering the face just stood staring at me in the fog. 459 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,120 Don't remember seeing a scythe. 460 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:46,960 I remember staring back frozen to the spot thinking what's going on. 461 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:47,960 It didn't speak. 462 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:48,960 It didn't move. 463 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:49,960 Just stood staring. 464 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,560 I ran to my mate's house I would fucking run to I think. 465 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:57,960 Banging on the door my mate's dad and brother went out to see if they could see anything 466 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,080 but after being gone about 20 minutes they returned. 467 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:02,240 They couldn't see anyone. 468 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,880 I've never seen it since but I won't forget that night. 469 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,400 Oh that's a creepy one. 470 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:07,400 That is. 471 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,800 I felt like I could understand what was going on because it was Australian. 472 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,000 It's true. 473 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,800 You can't understand that language. 474 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,880 I'm surprised I read it so flawlessly though. 475 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,480 Yeah I mean you helped a lot. 476 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:20,480 I know. 477 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,560 I do what I can. 478 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,040 These are MacGyver Fiverr. 479 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:29,120 I was walking down the street on my way to return someone's favorite coffee cup so I 480 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:33,000 was like super busy or else I would have stopped and walked right up to him talking 481 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:38,440 about what's up brah because I was in the middle of like so many fucking paranormal 482 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,400 situations all at once but it wasn't nothing new to me. 483 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,400 Ended up seeing him standing over in the distance beside a highway just watching the 484 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:52,280 traffic and enjoying the weather with a black cape on with the hood on holding a stick about 485 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:56,680 as tall as he was with an axe looking thingy off of it. 486 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,200 What am I reading? 487 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:03,160 I have read somewhere that he has something to do with the Revolutionary War and or the 488 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,920 Civil War but I don't know. 489 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:11,760 If you have any idea the relationship between them I'd be interested to find out as it turns 490 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,520 out there is a ghost or spirit. 491 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,560 I don't know the difference between the two. 492 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:20,160 That is like 272 years old who fought in the Revolutionary War. 493 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,760 I have a reason to believe that he is my great great great grandfather. 494 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:29,840 I'd like to find out what his name is and then my granddad's dad was in the Civil War 495 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,160 oh well so that that. 496 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,160 Okay? 497 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,160 Oh that was a good story. 498 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:39,400 I'm really liking actually the despondence between the stories that you told prior Reddit 499 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:46,400 where they were definitely like people were dying and now now the it's a Grim Reaper shape. 500 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:53,480 I agree Grim Reaper hate shape but not Grim Reaper activities going on. 501 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:58,040 This one wanted to go up to him and say what's up brah but he was too busy and then there 502 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,840 was a cat talking. 503 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,880 True teller 001 just came across this post. 504 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,000 I had a crazy repeat encounter when I lived in Brooklyn, New York. 505 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:16,000 My brother and I were about 5 and 6 so when we began seeing a man in a hood holding a 506 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,120 large stick just standing on a rooftop that was about 3 buildings away. 507 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:24,640 We were about 5 stories up and our window had bars on them for safety. 508 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:30,000 Our window looked down at where the man would stand every single day with his back facing 509 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,000 us. 510 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,080 This happened for about 2 or 3 days until one day the man turned around but it wasn't 511 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,080 a man. 512 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,280 He had a skeleton face and we heard a voice come from the walls telling us stay away from 513 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,200 the window or I'll come for you. 514 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:47,200 The figure didn't eat or sleep he just stood there all the time and he seemed to know whenever 515 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,800 we would open the curtain and look out the window. 516 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:54,120 We didn't know anything about a Grim Reaper at the time so we called him Skeletor because 517 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,960 he looked like the character from He-Man. 518 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,440 We told our parents about Skeletor on the roof but the adults couldn't see him for 519 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,040 some reason. 520 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,280 Cousins came over and also saw him. 521 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,120 One day while we were playing hide and go seek we decided to turn the lights out in 522 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:14,120 our bathroom and when we tried to turn it back on the lights would not come on. 523 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,760 Tried to leave the bathroom but the door wouldn't open. 524 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,960 Then a voice came from the small bathroom window don't worry I'll come and get you. 525 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,560 We were scared to death. 526 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,600 Also we tried to test him one day and decided to see what he would do if we didn't obey 527 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,120 his order to stay away from the window. 528 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,560 Figure walked off to the right until we could no longer see it and as soon as he was out 529 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,560 of sight there was a loud knock at the door. 530 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,640 It was literally a few seconds after he cleared the window frame. 531 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,640 There was no possible way a person could get down flights of stairs and then walk over 532 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,920 to our building and go back up 5 stories to our apartment in that amount of time. 533 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,320 We begged our mom not to answer the door but she thought we were imagining things. 534 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,600 She answered the door and nobody was there. 535 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,680 From then on we stayed away from the window. 536 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,240 Your story about nobody seeing the figure you saw shook me same with us but we remember 537 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,480 till this day. 538 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,360 That one I didn't know what to make of that which is why it made it in. 539 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:12,240 Yeah it's different like categorically different from everything we've talked about. 540 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:18,680 I would say there's two categories before that and this is a distinct third grade there. 541 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:25,720 So you'll notice in my sightings that I specifically did physical sightings only. 542 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:32,720 There's a whole other genre out there about those who see the Grim Reaper in their dreams. 543 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:39,400 And like I mentioned in the beginning of the story there's also kind of the stigma I guess 544 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:46,800 around the Grim Reaper that he also signifies somebody in your life is going to pass away. 545 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:52,320 Not only that he's coming to collect a soul and to usher it to the other side or causing 546 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,320 it. 547 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:58,680 I've never seen anything in my research that would say that he's causing someone's death. 548 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,680 And again it's all on perception. 549 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:06,680 And then I also saw the stories where like I just said with it's all on perception where 550 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,120 it was in the nursing thing I think that it's in perception. 551 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:15,240 Because some people think it's Jesus where others see the Grim Reaper. 552 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:23,280 And then there's others that made the comparison to the Grim Reaper of near death experience 553 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,280 experiences. 554 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:29,680 And this might be something for another episode where people cross over and right before they 555 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:35,120 died they say you know their husband waiting for them their mother waiting for them and 556 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,600 saying come with me or something like that. 557 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:42,880 And that's also compared to the Grim Reaper because it's that happens a lot but that's 558 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,880 also not the Grim Reaper like the Grim Reaper is a very specific character. 559 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:47,880 Yes. 560 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:48,880 Which I agree. 561 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:54,520 Which is why I didn't put it in here but it's the same comparison of the Psycho Pomp which 562 00:31:54,520 --> 00:32:00,960 might be something to look into in a future episode as well because it's all on how you're 563 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,160 perceiving whatever instance it is. 564 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:09,800 And then there's also a whole other thing of you know people coming for you when you 565 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,440 die near death experiences something and stuff like that. 566 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:18,880 There's also the perception of really bad near death experiences which is terrifying 567 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,280 and also super interesting. 568 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:26,360 And so I just talked myself in a circle because I was also talking about how I didn't include 569 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:35,160 anything of dreams but I did want to throw in here as my last story because I am renownly 570 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:41,960 a sleepwalker it's came up a few times in our episodes and I myself have woken up more 571 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:46,560 than likely sleepwalking and have seen the Grim Reaper myself. 572 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:54,200 I woke up looked at the Grim Reaper literally standing there with his big cloak with a scythe 573 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,680 you could see his skeleton hands and I said oh it's the Grim Reaper and I laid back down 574 00:32:58,680 --> 00:32:59,680 and fell asleep. 575 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:05,880 I have seen him and that's the funny thing about sleepwalking is it's a dream and I interact 576 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,200 with things but I wanted to share my own experience. 577 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:14,120 Importantly just like seeing the Grim Reaper it's how everybody experiences it and will 578 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,120 feel other people judge them when they tell them about it. 579 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,840 Yeah so don't judge me. 580 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:19,840 Yeah. 581 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:20,840 I saw him. 582 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,160 Yeah I think that's fair. 583 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:28,000 I mean it didn't shake me that I couldn't fall back asleep after it. 584 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,640 But A.O. Chelsea after reading these stories do you feel like this is a character who's 585 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,240 actually doing anything or just kind of waiting for things to happen? 586 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,560 You get that feeling don't you that he's just kind of waiting. 587 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:39,560 Yeah. 588 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:40,560 In which case. 589 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,800 He's got no actions throughout like pretty much all of the stories it's just like oh 590 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,000 yeah and he was there. 591 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,720 I got the same feeling and it didn't make that big of an appearance in this episode. 592 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:56,040 That's why I kind of had to stress it at the end but he does seem like he's more of a 593 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,920 predictor of somebody who's going to die soon. 594 00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:00,920 Yeah. 595 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,520 And then once you start having sightings around them especially the nurses that have had the 596 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:10,600 sightings and there's that cool show that's one of my favorite Dead Like Me. 597 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:11,600 That's such a good show. 598 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:12,920 I love that show. 599 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,680 And they're passed over and they have their own jobs of being grim reapers so they have 600 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,560 to go collect a soul before the person dies. 601 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:25,440 See I was thinking more of Discworld but there were no punny reactions from death so it's 602 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,480 not quite the same. 603 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:28,480 Discworld? 604 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:29,480 Discworld yes. 605 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:30,480 Sounds like a DJ. 606 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,080 Well it's Terry Pratchett so you get what you get. 607 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,080 Okay. 608 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,640 But yeah Chelsea I think this is a great place to stop. 609 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:42,720 This is a very interesting character to look at and I know we restricted it to just like 610 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:48,060 a North American standpoint so there are many different ways we can look at this going forward. 611 00:34:48,060 --> 00:34:53,600 So I don't think this won't be our only parlay with death going forward but I think it will 612 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:54,920 at least be our first. 613 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:55,920 At least. 614 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,840 And with that I have been Taylor here with Chelsea. 615 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,200 We are journey to the fringe. 616 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,520 Thank you all for listening and we'll see you next week. 617 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:03,520 Bye. 618 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,720 I'll be all same Steve. 619 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,040 Thank you for listening to Journey to the Fringe. 620 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:15,080 If you have liked what you have listened to please like, share, subscribe or follow 621 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,400 depending on what venue you are listening to us through. 622 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:24,520 Also please if possible leave a five star review as that really helps us in the algorithms. 623 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:29,360 Should you wish to interact with us please check us out on your social media of choice. 624 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,120 I bet you we are there. 625 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:35,600 And if you really want to communicate with us and give us ideas for new episodes or tell 626 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:42,480 us that we're wrong and terrible either way please send us an email at journeytothefringe.com. 627 00:35:42,480 --> 00:36:00,240 For now I'll see you in the next episode.