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Corinne
Very spooky.
Sabrina
Hello.
Corinne
Have you ever died and come back to life?
Sabrina
When we all die, where do we go?
Corinne
What is life as we know it? And do you have ghost stories? And the answer is yes.
Sabrina
This is two girls, one ghost.
Corinne
Two girls, one ghost. We are your ghostesses. That's Corinne. Hello, I'm Sabrina. And this is an Encounters episode where we read paranormal stories that you send to us back to you. And we themed today's encounters near death experiences.
Sabrina
NDEs, baby. You die, you come back. You immediately log on to your email account and send us an email about it.
Corinne
Y', all, I almost died.
Sabrina
I just. I'm writing you from the hospital. I died 20 seconds ago.
Corinne
Yeah, some of these are pretty intense and scary, but then also some of them are so amazing and miraculous.
Additional Guest/Listener
Yeah.
Corinne
And before we get into the stories, just a slight content warning. There is a lot of mention of death and child loss in this episode, so listen with caution. Do you want to go first?
Sabrina
Me?
Corinne
Yeah, sure.
Sabrina
Yeah, fine. Hi girls. My name is Quinn. My pronouns are they them. I've emailed you before, but that email is a hot mess.
Corinne
Honestly. Get it. It's fine.
Sabrina
Anyway, I'm currently listening to episode 320 and I had a pause to reply to Cecily's story. Sabrina mentioned a few times that it sounds like Cecily's soul isn't quite attached to her body properly. Well, let me tell you, according to some individuals that do energy work, it is possible that she might be missing some tethers. I met someone back in 2020 a few years ago after I had a Severe brain injury cell. Since that accident, I've talked a lot about how I feel. Like, when I came back, I came back as a different person. Like, I was sort of in limbo, dancing between this side and the other. And when I was in the ICU, I was sleeping probably 23 hours a day, and I was unable to remember anything besides hearing my deceased aunt's favorite song and pain.
Corinne
Why is that so? Stranger things yeah. Running up the hill if I could
Sabrina
make a deal with Go.
Corinne
Wow.
Sabrina
When I came out, I perceived the world differently. I had different preferences for food, for clothing. I can't even remember what else. But I became so much more interested in astrology and spirituality. And strangely, when my mom was talking to a friend, the friend asked if, since the accident, if I was more in touch with the stars.
Corinne
What an interesting way to say that.
Sabrina
Yeah. Back in 2020, I'm in an herbalism workshop. I'm chatting with a woman about my experiences during and after acquiring the brain injury. And she told me that there's a technique in Reiki which the practitioner can reattach tethers. Tethers that come loose or unplugged. She said that she could see some of mine were unplugged. It must have happened after the accident.
Corinne
I'm for sure half unplugged. Like, that would explain a lot.
Sabrina
I told you about one of my old co workers who basically did like, this sort of very similar thing where, yeah, she would go and find pieces of people in the astral plane and bring them back.
Corinne
Bring them back to them, reattach you,
Sabrina
plug you back in. I tried looking it up to see if I can find anything about it on the Internet, but no luck. Back then, I did end up finding a Reiki professional who used this technique and did it on me, pulling residual energy from traumatic experiences. I also learned about pulling negative energy out of my third eye and my heart chakra. I know I would love to do that. Right. Just like, clean me out. Where does it go, though?
Corinne
Once it's energy can't be created nor destroyed.
Sabrina
So floating in your front yard, you do one misstep and it's back in.
Corinne
Yeah, it's like, whoops, oops, Boomerang.
Sabrina
Okay, so I know a lot of this is sounding a little bit out there, but I used to think that Reiki was bullshit, but I was so desperate to feel grounded and like myself again and not see the world through such a dark filter. And when she pulled that residual energy out, I had chills all over my body and I started sobbing. It was one of the most visceral and intense experiences I've ever had. And as for the tethers, I can't really say that it was an instant change. I've had to slowly come back to myself in this reality over time, with lots of work on my mental and emotional, cognitive and spiritual health. And maybe that's a good push in the process. I'm not sure. With love and best wishes, Quinn. Wow.
Corinne
Well, I'm really sorry, like, to come back, like, one. Amazing that you were able to survive and get through what is sleeping 23 hours and, like, just being in such severe pain that whole time, but then
Sabrina
not having any memories except for the
Corinne
pain in that song.
Sabrina
The song.
Corinne
I wonder if that song is triggering now.
Sabrina
Yeah, maybe it's like, not. Not a favorite song. It's more of like, oh, my God, remember when I survived that traumatic brain injury?
Corinne
But. But also how confusing to come out of it. And like, everything you thought you knew about yourself is different.
Sabrina
I know. That's what's so interesting about the brain.
Corinne
I know.
Sabrina
But also just like the spirituality piece, I mean, coming out more in touch with the stars, having a sudden interest in all of these things. Is it the brain changing you, or did you just tap a little bit more into maybe like a past life or something else that only exists in this, like, other plane that you access when you. For some of us, when you temporarily die.
Corinne
Good question. And it remains as such.
Sabrina
Yes.
Corinne
I have one from our listener, Alicia, and it's called My Mom's Three Different Third Man Experiences. I just got chills, plus a Georgie. We'll see what that means.
Sabrina
Plus, it's a Georgie.
Corinne
Hi, Ghostesses. Love the show. The topic of the third man syndrome is so interesting to me, along with most paranormal topics. And my mom is in her late 60s. She grew up in the south, where we still live, and she's not particularly woo woo. But she does lean spiritual and has had three third man experiences. Three different ones.
Sabrina
Wow.
Corinne
So the first one, she had years of trouble trying to get pregnant with what ended up being me. And in the early 80s, she heard a voice in her head that said, this is not your problem anymore. Then it felt like a literal load of weight was lifted off of her shoulders. She said it sounded like a masculine voice. Very soon after that, she got pregnant with me. Like, what?
Sabrina
I got chills again. This is not your problem anymore. Yeah, I took care of it.
Corinne
You are with child number two. She was in a car crash in North Georgia, and as she Was crashing. She heard let go and did.
Sabrina
Is it the same voice? I want to know that.
Corinne
Maybe. But this one, she knows whose voice it was and doesn't specify any. First one. Oh, she let go of the wheel and the car spun the right way, basically saving her life. She crashed, but was not harmed. She said she knew it was her dad's voice saying, let go.
Sabrina
Oh, my God. I feel like it's so important that it was her dad's voice, because if it was just an unidentified voice, you might second guess yourself. And it's so hard to just release control of a vehicle and let yourself actively crash.
Corinne
Right. Okay. The third one was, my husband and I were going through fertility treatments to have our second kid in 2022 when she heard a voice say, georgie is going to have a brother. She couldn't determine if it was a masculine or feminine voice. It was just a voice. What she had no idea of was at that exact moment, my husband and I were doing our final IUI attempt, and it was successful, but it worked too well. And I was pregnant with two babies.
Sabrina
Oh, my gosh. Wait. I keep hearing stories like this, like, just around me, where people do, like, IUI or IVF or something for their first kid and then just either get, like, twins or just get accidentally pregnant or pregnant immediately with, like, everybody.
Corinne
We have a friend. Well, I don't know if you know her, but she was in my sorority in college, and her and her husband were having such a hard time getting pregnant, and so they got a surrogate. Like, they did all of, like, the fertility treatments and, like, oh, yes, she, like, is posting a bunch on social media and stuff, but she gets, like,
Sabrina
three months apart or something like that.
Corinne
So she did the surrogate. Surrogate got pregnant, like, it took and was, like, pregnant with their child immediately. She gets pregnant on her, like, on her own. So now they have basically, like, twins. Yeah, but they're three months apart.
Sabrina
I can't even imagine.
Corinne
I know. Wild. Okay, so it worked too well. And I found out I was pregnant with two babies. It was terrifying and very stressful, and I was panicking for a few weeks, but I finally told my mom what was going on, and she had to tell me what she heard. She thought that by letting me know that she heard one brother, like a brother singular, not brothers, plural, would help me cope. And honestly, it did. I knew of my mom's previous voice hearing experiences, which were super on point. So I took comfort in this. And lo and behold, a few weeks in, it was finally determined that the Other fetus wasn't growing right and was likely not viable and vanished, which is called vanishing twin syndrome. And this all happened very early in the pregnancy. And honestly, in my mind felt like very good news because now I could just focus on one healthy baby.
Sabrina
Having twins can seem so exciting, but it's also like the actual pregnancy. And carrying two healthy kids is right. It becomes very stressful.
Corinne
A few weeks later, we found out I was having a boy. And my daughter, whose name is Georgie, now has a healthy little brother. So, yeah, my mom was right. Or the voice who told her was right.
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Corinne
She said Augie will now be two on New Year's Eve.
Sabrina
But this is Georgie and Augie.
Corinne
I know. So cute.
Sabrina
That's so cute.
Corinne
Let me pause.
Sabrina
I want to rename my children.
Corinne
I imagine there are a lot of variables and reasons this phenomenon happens. Maybe not all of them are paranormal, but I do think some of them are. And I definitely believe that my dad saved my mom from dying in a car accident. Side note, and this is content warning for near death and drowning of a child. But I'm extra grateful for our healthy boy, Augie. He did have a non fatal drowning accident this past Labor Day and it was terrifying when we got him out of the water screaming for help. He was not breathing the following minutes and experience was truly a blur. But a crowd gathered and they were able to bring my baby back. The park ranger said it's the only time he's seen someone survive an incident like this. And I really fully believe my son had a near death experience, but he's too young to really talk about it. Thank you all for the fun paranormal chats. Alicia.
Sabrina
My heart is like pounding just thinking of the anxiety of that.
Corinne
Like, thank goodness he was okay.
Sabrina
Yeah. Horrific.
Corinne
So scary. Yeah.
Sabrina
Wow. Oh, my God.
Corinne
You guys have some. A lot of spiritual energy looking out for your family.
Sabrina
Yeah, that's for sure.
Corinne
Yeah.
Sabrina
Grandma's going to be told. Everything's going to be okay.
Corinne
Grandma knows everything. Because the spirit.
Sabrina
Because someone else is telling her everything.
Corinne
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Sabrina
okay, well I have one called Near Death Experience. My great aunt got to see her boys on the other side before being revived. Hey ghouls. I hope this finds you well. My name is Savannah. Feel free to use my name. I'm a new listener as of this month and I'm not a podcast girly, but there's just something about you guys, that has me hooked.
Corinne
We got our hooks into you.
Sabrina
We won't let go.
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Sabrina
For some background knowledge, my great, great grandfather on my mom's side was the seventh son of the seventh son.
Corinne
Oh my gosh. It's a lot of children.
Sabrina
That's a lot of kids.
Corinne
Yeah.
Sabrina
My grandma and mom always told me that we were gifted with psychic and healing abilities because of that.
Corinne
Wow.
Sabrina
He had five kids, two girls, three boys, and my nana. My great grandma being the second child and my great aunt Marie was the fourth child out of all of them. I have stories from them and I'm going to start off with my great aunt Marie. First, she survived a house fire that took the lives of her three boys and almost took her life as well, as well as her unborn son. She was dead for a few seconds before doctors could save her and her baby. However, she had a near death experience and she got to see her oldest boys one more time. Her husband fell asleep with a lit cigarette in his hand and unfortunately it fell onto the chair right next to him. And once the chair caught fire, he woke up. He ran out the front door, exposing the fire to the cold Canadian December air, leaving the door wide open and his sleeping wife and three boys upstairs. I'm not entirely sure of all the details from here, but I can confidently remember from all of my family's retelling of this story that my aunt sustained burns so badly on the backside of her body from head to heel, and I'm pretty sure she had to run through the fire to gather her boys up into one bedroom to escape. I'm not really 100% sure on that. I do know though that her burns were so bad that she spent a very long time in the hospital even after giving birth. Months later, I was told that when she went to go open up the window, the pressure of the air sucked her out. She landed in a snowbank and that fully knocked her unconscious.
Corinne
Oh, that breaks my heart. This is so sad.
Sabrina
This is like so tragic. Unfortunately, this left her three tiny boys behind upstairs in the fire. First responders tried to rush to them, but the tallest ladder was on loan to someone who wanted to put up his Christmas lights. Sadly, by the time they got to the boys, it was too late. They had died of smoke inhalation. I remember my nana saying that the firefighters were there saying that they saw the boys all curled up together. They looked like they were peacefully asleep. Oh my God, I'm gonna start crying. We've had some criers recently. I know my aunt was peeled out of the snow pink, leaving layers of her dead, burnt skin in the snow.
Corinne
Oh my God.
Sabrina
She was rushed to the hospital. She was placed into a coma due to the severity of her burns while in a coma, she ended up dying, but thankfully the doctors brought her back. What she experienced cannot be explained. When she died, she had what I believe we would call a near death experience.
Corinne
Absolutely.
Sabrina
She says she woke up underwater. She wasn't scared. She felt like she was at ease. She started to swim upwards and once she broke the surface of the water, she could feel the warmth. And she could also see a beach with some people on it. So naturally she started swimming towards them as she swam towards the shore. But before she could reach too close, she was met by her boys.
Corinne
Oh.
Sabrina
The oldest boy told her, mom, we are at peace now. We love you and we are not mad about what happened. It was our time, but it is not yours.
Corinne
Oh my God.
Sabrina
And that's when he shoved her back underwater and she came back to life again in her coma, but alive. I never got to meet my aunt Marie, but my mom and her had a connection that was beyond aunt and niece. I don't know if they were twin flames or what, but there was definitely something there and everybody saw it.
Corinne
This is so heartbreaking.
Sabrina
It's to the point that my aunt actually still visits my mom in her dreams. My mom told me that there were times when her and my aunt would get together and use a Ouija board. And I should say my mom always expressed that her and my aunt could control it. But if she ever heard or saw any of her kids touch one, that we would meet. Jesus.
Corinne
Oh, man.
Sabrina
I tried to ask her today as I write this to see if she had any specific people or members of the family that would talk to her. Anything. But her words were. Honestly, I don't recall anyone specific coming up to communicate. The thing usually just went wild when we used it.
Corinne
So there were so many people trying to talk.
Sabrina
And then she said that this was in her late teens and early twenties when she was doing this. And now she's 57, so fair enough. Queen. To this day, my mom still has that Ouija board. We have special instructions to bury it with her when she goes, wow. And guys, I have a confession. My mom and my sister do not know about this to this day. When I was in grade six, I touched her Ouija board.
Corinne
It's like Finding Nemo. Nemo touching the butt. Literally.
Sabrina
Little old me left the planchette facing upwards. And thankfully, nothing bad happened. After however, there was the feeling in me for days that I needed to flip it back over. So I finally caved. I went back in and I turned it over. I didn't know what I was doing or why, but it felt like I needed to do it. And it did go away.
Corinne
Trust your instincts.
Sabrina
After that, little old me went about my life. It wasn't until years later that I realized what I had done. And when I did, my stomach dropped. Even typing this now I'm getting sick to my stomach. But I also wonder, was that my aunt Marie pestering me to fix my mistake before someone or something showed me the consequences to my actions? Or was it my intuition? Thanks for reading. I can't wait to continue to binge you guys. See you on the other side, Savannah.
Corinne
I am just. My heart breaks for Savannah's great aunt. So no one should ever have to experience that.
Sabrina
How do you even.
Corinne
But like, I. I am glad that in a time where there's zero silver linings, that she at least got to hear from her boys that they are safe and they're okay.
Sabrina
And it's also miraculous, given all the trauma that happened to her body, that her unborn child at the time was continuing life.
Corinne
I know. And that also gives you something to like after such a tragedy. Like, it's good to pour your love into another child.
Sabrina
Brutal. Brutal, Brutal.
Corinne
All right, Well, I have one that will be a little bit of a palate cleanser. Ish. And it's because I went a little rogue and was like, okay, well, a near death experience could qualify as an entity trying to kill you.
Sabrina
Attempted murder.
Corinne
Attempted murder. Near death experience from our listener, Sophie, that is called an entity tried to kill me. Hi. I recently stumbled across your page and I watched a couple of your videos and I was an instant fan. But as I watched your episode on True Ghost Stories, it reminded me of an encounter I had two years ago. I'm 20 now, and so I was about 18 when this happened. It was a November night. I was home alone. And I was used to being home alone a lot because my mom, who was the only provider of our family, worked a lot. It was just the two of us. Ever since I was 10. She would come home at about 7pm from work. And I had mononucleosis at the time. So I was home for about. Is that just mono?
Sabrina
I think it's just mono.
Corinne
I've never heard it called that.
Sabrina
Mononucleosis.
Corinne
Yeah, I didn't know that it had a full name like that. So I was home for about Two months. I never felt uncomfortable in my own home. It was a three story home. It was very spacious. And at around 7pm I was in the kitchen located on the first floor, making myself some mono friendly dinner. We had a huge counter table where we do most of our cooking. And at the far end of the counter we have a stack of knives that are in a knife holder so the knives don't fall out or move. And we have a little picture to visualize and Sophie included, like me cooking. And it's like a drawing. Anyway, I was chopping some vegetables with a small knife when I heard a loud sound coming from the floor above me. I thought maybe my mom came home, so I yelled hi, but no one replied. I waited a second and I heard another loud sound. So now I'm thinking an intruder had come into our house and I'm a little panicked. So I take the knife that I was using to cut the vegetables and I grasp it in my hand and slowly I move upstairs to see what's happening. I look to my right to see where the front door is. And that door was closed, but the door next to it, which is always closed and shut tight, was wide open. The space behind that door doesn't store many items. It hides our boiler and some old house paints. And all of these house paints, which are never stacked on top of each other but just placed side by side, have all somehow fallen and spilt everywhere. I initially thought that's weird, but phew, no intruder in my house, right? Although I would be like an intruder, tried to go in the closet and knocked all the paint over, right? I quickly put my knife down and I start to clean up this paint so it wouldn't damage our floors. And as soon as I start cleaning, I hear a loud sound downstairs in the kitchen where I had been just prior to this. I was like, oh my God, someone is fucking with me. Someone did break in. So I quickly went downstairs and I see that the largest knife that we owned and I never touched and had been secured in the knife rack had fallen. Not on the counter though, but was now on the ground, which is impossible unless someone literally pulled it out of the knife block and placed it there. I instantly felt a chill run down my spine and knew I had to get out of my own house immediately. I called my mom. I told her what had happened and she said she was stuck in traffic and wouldn't be home for another hour. So I ran out of the house because I knew that someone or something had either just tried to kill Me. Or scared the living shit out of me. I quickly ran to my neighbor's house where my friend lived. They looked at me very funny, admittedly, but it was then that I realized I was still in my underwear. So, yeah, they definitely thought, I'm scared.
Sabrina
You're scared. You're not thinking about anything.
Corinne
And she had a big hoodie on. But, yeah, they probably thought I was crazy. But, hey, who wants to go die in their house alone? Not me. When my mom came home, she checked every corner of the house. And she's such a boss, because, Mom, I would never. That woman has balls. No one was in the house, and we checked our cameras, and no one entered or exited the house. So, yeah, I now believe an evil entity was there to get me. And I did not want to sleep in my house after that. Not to be a complete baby, but I did sleep with my mom in her bed because I was scared to sleep alone.
Sabrina
I have absolutely done that as an adult.
Corinne
Yeah, for sure. Fortunately, this stuff did not ever occur to me again, but in the moment, it was absolutely terrifying.
Sabrina
Oh, my God.
Corinne
Saying hello from Slovakia, your new listener, Sophie.
Sabrina
Dang, Sophie, I'm glad that you weren't murdered by your ghost.
Corinne
And look at how big the knife is. That felt like.
Sabrina
Yeah, that's really, really big.
Corinne
And, like, they have such long blades.
Sabrina
It's a horror movie knife.
Corinne
Right. And the blade is so long that when you think of a knife block, they're deep in there.
Sabrina
Yeah.
Corinne
Like, even if something, like, tried to, like, nudge it out, it would take a full.
Sabrina
You have. The angle has to be right to get it out. Like, that is not an accidental slip. No.
Corinne
Yikes. And the, like, bringing you upstairs, then going down where you were. Ugh. I'm glad you survived that night.
Sabrina
Right. And that it, like, didn't happen again, that there weren't more attempts, or at least none as obvious.
Corinne
Once your mom got in that house, the ghost was like, oh, I am messing with the wrong people.
Sabrina
Wow. Okay. Well, I have a story from our listener, Nicole. When I was 21 years old, I had an ectopic pregnancy. And for those that do not know what that is, I got pregnant. And the fetus didn't make it to the uterus and started growing in my fallopian tube.
Corinne
Super dangerous.
Sabrina
Very dangerous. Yes. I had to call 911 due to the pain, and I was in the hospital when they told me that my tube had ruptured. I was internally bleeding. I needed emergency surgery. And so under the knife, I went.
Corinne
That Is terrifying.
Sabrina
Before I go into what happened, I need to tell you that my sister died when I was seven. She was a very sick little girl. She passed when she was just five years old. She couldn't walk, talk, sit up on her own. She couldn't eat or drink. And that is important to this story.
Corinne
So sad.
Sabrina
So now back to my surgery. The last thing I remember is being in my room and them telling me that I was going to go to sleep and that I would feel better when I woke up. I drifted off feeling cold and so scared, but then started feeling warm shortly after and less scared, more peaceful. And then I saw her. My sister. I can remember word for word what she said. She said Coley. Childhood nickname. I wasn't expecting you.
Corinne
Oh, my gosh.
Sabrina
I remember responding Christy. And her smile grew wider. Hi, Coley. I think there was a mistake. I'm not ready for you yet. You have lives to change still. Just remember, I always love you. Give mom a hug for me. I'm happy here. You shouldn't worry. Today I'm a caregiver in a memory care facility, changing lives every day. I love her so much and I miss my sister every day. I look back on this memory with so much love and so much adoration for her. She is my guardian angel. Thank you for doing this. I don't know how many people would believe this, but I know that I now have a space that I can share this kind of stuff. See you on the other side. And this side, too, please. From Nicole.
Corinne
Wait, Nicole. I also, like, it's so clear. Your sister is, like, just watching out for you and your family.
Sabrina
Call me.
Corinne
It wasn't exciting. Here, girlfriend. Here. Not yet. Not yet. Wow. I'm also glad that you're okay. Like, that is such a scary experience. Yeah.
Sabrina
Yeah. Ectopic pregnancies are very serious.
Corinne
Yeah. Well, I have one to end this episode on. But don't worry, there's more on Patreon.
Sabrina
That's true. We get a bonus.
Corinne
We get a bonus story this week. It will be available on Patreon for the only Phantoms tier. So it's like our $10 a month tier, which gets access to, like, book club, witch class, and then every other week, you get a bonus story at the end of Encounters.
Sabrina
But before then, Sabrina forgot that I have one more.
Corinne
Whoopsie. I don't know how to count.
Sabrina
You're just excited to tell your bonus one on Patreon.
Corinne
I am excited to tell my bon story. So basically now you'll get two more stories Here. And then an extra, extra story on Patreon.
Sabrina
Yes.
Corinne
Okay, so this is from our listener, Don. And Don says that one time my wife died. Oh, don't worry, she got better. She lived. She lived. Or she came back to life?
Sabrina
That's such a creepy way to say it.
Corinne
Yeah. So I found out about two girls and my ghosts from Morbid in 2023. And I went back to the beginning of two girls. My ghost, because I'm crazy, but I've almost caught up. I love your relationship with each other and hope you know how hard it is to find a friendship like that. No, I just listened to the near death experience episode and I thought I would share my wife's story. This happened when my wife was a teenager, a few years before I ever met her. But here's the tale. The way that I remember her telling me, she and her friend were trunk surfing.
Sabrina
What's that?
Corinne
I think where you jump from one trunk to another on like trucks.
Sabrina
Oh, why was I thinking trees? Like little monkeys, like jumping from trunk to trunk.
Corinne
Oh, like tree trunks.
Sabrina
Trunks. Tree trunks.
Corinne
Or is it like where you like, have like a string attached to you and you're like on a. Oh, I
Sabrina
think that probably makes sense.
Corinne
Cuz like surfing. I don't know.
Sabrina
Yeah, you're on something with wheels being dragged behind a truck, but trunk anyway? We don't know. Sounds dangerous though.
Corinne
It sounds like there's one car. So they're trunk surfing on her sister's car, a Dodge Neon. Oh. Maybe even just like standing up. Oh, in the trunk. Either way, very, very dangerous.
Sabrina
They're in the trunk of a car somehow.
Corinne
What else are you gonna do? In a small southern town. So her friend starts to fall, and my wife T, reached out to her friend to catch her falling, but in doing so ends up falling off the trunk herself and cracked her skull open. It killed her. Her friend was also injured and recovered. But T, my wife, even though before I knew her, was apparently dead for two to five minutes before being officially resuscitated.
Sabrina
That's a long time to be dead, like without oxygen to your brain.
Corinne
Yeah. She was resuscitated and put into a coma for a bit. And as her mom tells it, she was throwing nurses off of her. It took so many of them to hold her down because her fight or flight instincts went off. She's maintained that supernatural strength and combined with her height, five' eleven, that she is a force to be reckoned with. Kinda like you. You're a force to be reckoned with.
Sabrina
I'm not smaller, but I'm wider.
Corinne
Sturdy enough. Backstory onto the spook. So apparently during her coma she had an out of body experience. She remembers the accident and then her memory goes out, but she remembers sitting on her bed at home and her sister coming in crying about how sad she was that she hurt her and how it was all her fault that T was in the hospital. And T tried to go up to her sister and talk to her, but her sister acted like T wasn't there at all. Couldn't hear her, couldn't see her. And later, when T wakes up from her coma, she tells her sister about this experience. Her sister is in shock because that experience that T saw exactly matched what happened the day after the accident when her sister had gone home to get clothes for everyone who had been in the hospital.
Sabrina
She was out of body, astral projecting, witnessing. Oh, this is like so many of the near death experiences that we've covered. Like research wise, where people are with their loved ones and like watching them go through the process of like grief. Attempted recover it. Yeah, yeah.
Corinne
Literally seeing it. T looks back now at this memory and this time in her life, minorly annoyed that nobody took pictures of her.
Sabrina
What?
Additional Guest/Listener
What?
Sabrina
So she can post on Instagram.
Corinne
Look, I survived. Fast forward a few years and I meet T in an Internet chat room, of all places. Yes, we're old. Not that old, but old. And that's a whole another set of weird. But we met and talked mutually for about a year and then we got married and her sister gave us the car that killed T as a wedding gift. Now here we are years later, that car long gone, but several spooky incidents and general weirdness behind us. And it seems like there is now a family rite of passage, of dying and coming back to life or near death experiences. We're basically a family of zombies. We have a kid and all three of us have technically died and come back.
Narrator
What?
Corinne
What are you. Okay, See you on the other side, Dawn.
Sabrina
Oh my God.
Corinne
But honestly, you kind of are a family of zombies. Yeah, you're back from the dead.
Sabrina
That's kind of cool to be like, I'm a zombie.
Corinne
Anyone who survived and like died and come back to life, you are a zombie. You get to say you're a zombie.
Sabrina
That's your theme song. If anyone plays baseball and you need a walk on song and you've died
Corinne
and come back zombie, put it on the Cranberries.
Sabrina
You are a zombie. By definition, zombies are real. And they're emailing us. That's wild.
Corinne
Wow.
Sabrina
Thinking about that. I'm shocked that my dad hasn't ever, like, died and come back because he's had so many near death experiences. As in things that should have killed him, but he didn't ever technically die.
Corinne
Right. Which counts as, like, kind of a near death experience. Yeah, in a way.
Sabrina
Way too many.
Corinne
Oh, wow.
Sabrina
More than nine lives that guy has. Actually, when I was picking out stories for this, not to say I save lives or anything, but it made me think of one of my friends, because it's not like these were, like, near some of them. Well, one of them was definitely near death. But I have one friend who I don't see very often anymore because of my life changes. Having a child and not being as social. But throughout knowing him, I've known him since I was five. There are, like three moments where I did intervene and it could have been something bad.
Corinne
You were the guardian?
Sabrina
Yeah. I kind of saved him from a riptide one time by kind of.
Corinne
He.
Sabrina
I swam into the riptide and gave him instructions on what to do. And then I got out of the riptide and he listened to me and survived another time.
Corinne
This is.
Sabrina
These are, like, not as intense.
Corinne
No, don't undersell yourself. Give yourself more credit. You're an angel.
Sabrina
One time I had, like, broken fingers from lacrosse and we were tubing and we. The tube flew from way up high into the air, and my friend fell and he, like, let go and he's like, falling through the air and I just grab onto his life jacket and he's flapping in the breeze, and I'm holding on with my, like, broken fingers, and his parents are on the boat and they're like, what the hell?
Corinne
You saved him.
Sabrina
So I probably saved him from a broken bone.
Corinne
Why are they all. They're all water experiences, too.
Sabrina
Okay, interesting. The last one is not a water experience. He had an interesting looking mole, but I saw it in the pool and I cornered him and said, I don't want you to be embarrassed. I'm not trying to, like, attack you or tell you what to do, but you need to go get that checked. And then I sent in my dermatologist and then he went and got it checked and they said, this is funky. And then it went off for testing. He's okay, but I was in a body of water. When identifying his.
Corinne
Wow.
Sabrina
His marking, I said, this doesn't match the ABCDs. I know.
Corinne
Wow. You are. You are angel.
Sabrina
This is my excuse to brag about my one friend who every eight years I do something to Help him survive a little bit more.
Corinne
You guys gotta go meet up in the water again. Just.
Sabrina
Yeah.
Corinne
Cause I feel like we need to
Sabrina
avoid bodies of water together.
Corinne
What story do you have? What are you gonna end this episode on?
Sabrina
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Sabrina
I have moonlight.
Corinne
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Sabrina
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Corinne
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Sabrina
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Sabrina
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Corinne
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Sabrina
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Corinne
Appreciate it. Okay.
Sabrina
The first one came about when I decided to challenge Lucifer when I got frustrated.
Corinne
Interesting decision.
Sabrina
Yes. I was really frustrated with what was going on in the world at the time. And a few nights after that, I had gone to bed, and at some point, I found myself in a pit. The pit had a lot of doors lining it, and each one of them was on fire. What did I do? Well, I flew up to the top, and as I reached the top, lightning then struck me. It knocked me back down, but I was able to grab onto the edge and haul myself out of this.
Corinne
My gosh.
Sabrina
And that is when I came face to face with Lucifer for the very first time. He seemed to be meaning, this has happened.
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Sabrina
That makes it seem like your buddies meet him again.
Corinne
A weekly session with your therapist, Lucifer.
Sabrina
He seemed to be impressed that I had escaped. You're impressing him. This is the beginning of, like, a best friend relationship.
Corinne
It becomes a buddy rom com.
Sabrina
Now, I've never told anyone this. In fact, the first time that I'm telling anyone this is right now. A few years later, my brother had told me that he had experienced something like the pit. He said that he tried to climb out, but then lightning struck him down and he fell. And then he had no choice but to try. All of these doors that were on
Corinne
fire, all of them on fire.
Sabrina
He said only one of the doors actually leads out. And behind every other door is a fear that's so crazy that, like, his brother's telling him this, not knowing that he also experienced the exact same thing.
Corinne
Damn.
Sabrina
I believe the next one happened when I was asleep. I was suddenly in a tunnel of light people. And these light people were talking about near death. Experiences. But unlike a lot of other experiences that I've heard about, these light tunnels, this one was forked. So I had to make a choice and I took the left hand path.
Corinne
Why are all of your experiences with options or different paths to follow?
Sabrina
Are you just making the right choices? And yeah, this is all a game to Lucifer. One day you might
Corinne
be a game. We're all just PCs.
Sabrina
Okay? So I took the left hand path and I ended up in Hell. And again I met Lucifer, this time for the second time.
Corinne
He's like, not you again.
Sabrina
Oh my gosh, you keep taking the wrong turns with the right ones. Yeah, we had a pleasant conversation, which I really can't remember, except for that it was his job to punish people. And now, years later, on coast to Coast Am, I hear this woman describing her near death experience. She said that she had surgery for a brain aneurysm. And she described this tunnel of light that forked, except she took the right hand path, not the left, like I did. And now I don't know if I died or not, but did I experience a near death experience?
Corinne
Hmm.
Sabrina
The next experience happened when I was starting to wake up. I saw the image of a beholder coming and rushing at me. A beholder? Is that a religious thing?
Corinne
I don't know.
Sabrina
I instinctively threw myself back, but my body did not move. Instead, I left my body. I knew what was happening. I was able to move without any trouble. And I just got up, went through my bedroom door like it wasn't there. But unfortunately, I was then sucked back into my body at that point.
Corinne
Also, the idea of like. Like, we've talked about so many different scenarios where it's like, you and I are in a place and, like, would you ditch me if, you know, like, ditching someone else when, like, a scary thing happens, but you ditched your own
Sabrina
physical body, you ditched yourself.
Corinne
That's wild.
Sabrina
You're like, peace out, body. I'm good.
Corinne
Don't need you anymore.
Sabrina
Okay. So my next experience happened before. I had a physical body, but the memory of it popped up. So I had been dreaming, and in the dream, I found a statue with some words written on it. Now, these words were a spell, but they were written backwards. When I said those words, a memory came up. I was with four other girls. I had a female body in this memory, and we were facing this big, black, shapeless entity. We had these crystalline structures around us, and they were acting as our shields. I was channeling magic from the other four girls through me. There were little pieces of the entity that were starting to chip off like it was being hit with a spell. Years later, I met this guy online and he was the entropic entity. He described the exact same memory, but from his point of view. Turns out I had put him to sleep for a very long time with my spell.
Corinne
What?
Sabrina
And that memory ties to reoccurring dreams that I had where I was in a field and there are five old fashioned windmills in it. And the windmills are falling one by one. And there's this really big black entity under the ground that would rise up.
Corinne
Why are you chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Sabrina
Literally.
Corinne
Yeah. I feel like you are a. I
Sabrina
don't think you're human.
Corinne
You're not of this world. Yeah.
Sabrina
I think you're experiencing like human life
Corinne
as like a fun shits and gigs.
Sabrina
Yeah. Like. Or like, are you trying to hide because you did something and Lucifer keeps trying to like pull you back, but you keep escaping back to your human body.
Corinne
I watch the show. But you're living it.
Sabrina
But you're living it. Okay, so the last one is my favorite experience that I've had so far. One night I found myself in a field and it had some structures that reminded me of Greek and Roman architecture. The sky was very pink with a pearlescent sheen. And the colors weren't really washed out. It was just kind of like when you see something with sunglasses and it reduces the glare. So I was sitting with another girl. Again, I'm in a female body in this experience. We each had a dress on and the dresses looked like something like a. Out of a princess fairy tale. They were both a shade of blue. Anyway, we're talking. She's worried about not being good enough. I tell her that they. And I don't remember who they were. They wouldn't have picked her if they didn't think that she could do the job.
Corinne
Oh, wait. That makes me like. It makes me think of like how you are to your friend. This listener is able to. While living in a human body is still like traveling through the astral plane and being like a guardian angel to people.
Narrator
Oh.
Sabrina
Oh, that's sweet. I was thinking of it as a memory, but you're thinking of it as like an active situation.
Corinne
Yeah.
Sabrina
Interesting.
Corinne
And you leave your body at night and you go shepherd other humans to continue through their journey.
Sabrina
Don't break it down on yourself.
Corinne
Yeah.
Sabrina
You're great. You deserve this.
Corinne
They wouldn't have chosen you.
Sabrina
Yeah. I can't remember what the job was or what she was picked for, but I had A sense that we were at least pretty good friends, if not sisters, maybe family of some kind. And if you read Birth of Queendom by Velvet Rose Hopkins, it might give you an idea of my experiences, since I think that kind of seems like where it was. Oh, and full disclosure, the author is a friend of mine who wrote this book.
Corinne
Ooh.
Sabrina
And an ex girlfriend, but maybe on the astral plane, she's a family member. It's interesting because she has had dreams of being my grandmother in the astral plane. And I've had dreams of her being my mother, though she doesn't look anything like someone related to me on this physical plane. Yeah. Or like, just traveling souls who keep Reiter. Re. What am I looking for?
Corinne
Reincarnating.
Sabrina
Reincarnating. Yeah, I was, like, reiterating is definitely not the right word.
Corinne
Kinda.
Sabrina
Yeah, reincarnating. Like, together as different in different relationships. Anyway, this book that she wrote is a book about her life and sort of, like, memories of her life on the astral plane. It's influenced by that. And this is where that experience in my dream took place. Well, that's all for now. See you on the other side. You can call me Rachel. That literally is not what they said, but maybe we should call him Rachel. Was Richard or Jill.
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Rach.
Corinne
Jill.
Sabrina
Rich.
Corinne
Jill.
Sabrina
Rich.
Corinne
Jill.
Sabrina
Wow.
Corinne
Rj, truly, you are experiencing a higher life.
Sabrina
It just.
Corinne
You're living a different frequency than we are. It doesn't seem like the typical human experience.
Sabrina
Dream world, astral plane. Like, even their brother. Yeah. Having the same exact dream with the pit and stuff. It does almost make me. Okay. I had the. I was saying, like, what if they're hiding in the human body right now? What if they were, like, banished to the human body?
Corinne
Oh, their whole entire alien family is, like, in witness protection. And the only way you do witness protection is you become a human. You're in spiritual witness protection.
Sabrina
And then it's kind of like, who's Lucifer to them?
Corinne
He's Daddy.
Sabrina
What if Lucifer?
Corinne
My father's Lucifer. That's the name of their memoir.
Sabrina
Yeah. I'm, like, trying to figure it out because it's like they're surviving their encounters with Lucifer. And the conversation is kind of friendly and engaging.
Corinne
I do believe Lucifer is a great time. Probably has lots of good stories and is a bit of a narcissist, so probably likes the attention and puts on a bit of a show.
Sabrina
It's just. I mean, I referenced it a few episodes ago about, like, the meme or whatever that was. Like, when you Go to hell. There's nothing that they can do to you that isn't already happening on earth. But like, I think that that has made the idea or fear of hell very different because it's like, what can you offer that's worse?
Corinne
What can you do? If you did like laser hair removal on all parts of my body.
Sabrina
Yeah, that's pretty horrible for eternity.
Corinne
But I'm also willingly doing that to myself. Actually, I will say it's gotten much better. Like the second session was not nearly as.
Sabrina
Yeah.
Corinne
So to all those people who I de influenced from getting laser hair removal, it's not as bad as I experienced in the first time.
Sabrina
Or just light your freak flat your
Corinne
hair flow in the wind.
Sabrina
Here comes my indigestion.
Corinne
Let your indigestion out.
Sabrina
Yeah. Be who you are.
Corinne
Don't be ashamed.
Sabrina
Okay, so now you have one more on Patreon.
Corinne
One more on Patreon. But if you have encounters, please email them to us@2girlsmithghostpodcastmail.com and yeah, if you too can say you're a zombie because you had a near death experience and came back, please let us know. We, we'd love to get more emails from zombies. So cool.
Sabrina
He forever changed my perspective on that.
Corinne
Right? I guess our listener changed.
Sabrina
Yeah, like your yours.
Corinne
I wish I could take credit for it, but damn.
Sabrina
Okay, we'll see some of you over on Patreon.
Corinne
And for the rest of you losers, I'm just kidding.
Sabrina
We'll see you in the pit.
Corinne
Ooh. What door are you gonna pick?
Sabrina
We're gonna paint them all different colors. You never pick the right one.
Corinne
Just me making silly faces behind each of them. Scary.
Sabrina
It's us watching you win every laser hair removal session.
Corinne
No, I silently scream inside. Yeah, it's not an external scream. Okay.
Sabrina
But we do love you.
Corinne
We do.
Sabrina
And we will see you on the other side.
Corinne
Very spooky.
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Episode: Encounters x338 – Between Worlds | Near Death Experiences
Air Date: July 2, 2026
Hosts: Corinne Vien & Sabrina Deana-Roga
Theme: Listener Encounters with Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
In this encounters-themed episode, Corinne and Sabrina dig into real listener stories of near death experiences—moments spent "between worlds." The segment is a medley of harrowing brushes with death, mystical moments, astral adventures, and heartwarming glimpses of loved ones on the other side. The hosts infuse the stories with both earnest empathy and their signature irreverent, warm humor.
Content Warning: The episode discusses death and child loss in several stories.
[02:31–06:32] Listener: Quinn
[07:02–12:31] Listener: Alicia
[15:19–22:00] Listener: Savannah
[22:00–27:12] Listener: Sophie
[27:12–29:43] Listener: Nicole
[39:40–48:26] Listener: Rachel (anonymous, multiple pronouns)
[30:23–34:50] Listener: Don
This episode of Two Girls One Ghost is a poignant, funny, and deeply human showcase of listener stories about crossing—however briefly—between life and death. The hosts draw out big themes: transformation after trauma, the possibility of being welcomed or watched over “from the other side,” the power of the subconscious and astral adventure, and the belief that some brushes with death are meant to open us up to new paths. Along the way, the community’s warmth, the hosts’ friendship, and the persistent mystery of “what happens next” shine through.
For more stories, including the bonus Encounters read, find the show on Patreon.