WTF Just Happened?!: All about the afterlife. No woo.

Haunted dolls, seances and a possible case of spontaneous combustion take center stage with Patti Negri, the Good Witch, a psychic medium known for 11 years of appearances on Ghost Adventures. She shares the story of Belle, her haunted doll, a seance she says ended with a cameraman on fire, and the 30-second spells she uses every day.

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Haunted Hollywood crime scenes meet forensic science in this episode with Voices from the Grave creator Alisa Statman and retired forensic detective Karen Smith. They discuss what psychic mediums, blood testing and ghost boxes revealed at the Los Feliz murder house and the Sowden House, home of Black Dahlia suspect George Hodel.

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Evidence of the Afterlife is a new documentary on evidential mediumship. In Part 2, director Robert Lyon and mediums Kerry McLeod and Philip Dykes discuss how mediums separate psychic information from evidential mediumship, fear of death, criticism of afterlife research, and stories from three years of filming.

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Evidence of the Afterlife is a new documentary on evidential mediumship. Director Robert Lyon and mediums Kerry McLeod and Philip Dykes discuss the making of the film, how evidential mediumship works, and why they believe it is at risk.

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- How a former CBS photojournalist who did not believe in an afterlife came to make a documentary on mediumship
- Robert's first attempt at a reading during Kerry and Philip's class at the We Don't Die conference
- Kerry's and Philip's early experiences and how each came to train as a...

Lyn Buchanan spent 25+ years in the U.S. military's classified Stargate remote viewing unit, where controlled remote viewing was used to gather intelligence using what is essentially psychic abilities.

In this episode, he explains what remote viewing is, how it differs from general psychic ability, and why the military deployed it as an operational tool for over two decades. He also discusses his face-to-face alien encounter during an abduction, technology transfer between humans and extraterrestrials, and remote viewing assignments targeting other planets and alien civilizations for space research companies. Lyn's military career inspired the film "The Men...

Luciano Arruda, president of the International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA), has been collecting information through remote viewing and psychic abilities since 1989. He shares the incredible story of President Jimmy Carter witnessing something that proved remote viewing works: psychic abilities finding a missing plane. Remote viewing is a structured protocol that allows people to access information that is non-local and not attached to time and space without knowing what the target is.

Luciano has experienced remarkable precognition throughout his life. He anticipates what people will say seconds before they speak, hears future events like a blue car pulling...

Stephan A. Schwartz has spent 60 years researching consciousness through remote viewing, a technique he developed in 1968 to access the non-local aspect of human consciousness. He's used remote viewing to locate Cleopatra's Palace, Mark Antony's Timonium, Christopher Columbus's caravels, and archaeological sites that no one else could find. His work proves non-local consciousness exists and is not electromagnetic in nature.

Schwartz discusses his precognitive research warning of a major crisis coming in 2040. He's documented through remote viewing that people unconsciously sense this future threat, which is driving contemporary fear, resentment, and social division. This precognitive awareness is manifesting...

David Collura co-founded Mosaic Wellness and Education, offering free energy workshops on experiencing your multidimensional self. He's the author of "Multidimensional Lens: Practical Ideas for Spiritual Co-Creation," a part-memoir and practical framework for multidimensional living.

David shares his out-of-body experiences, which range from full projections to mini OBEs where he steps partially out of alignment with his physical body. These experiences allow consciousness to operate outside familiar neural pathways, creating new insights and reframings. He discusses the spectrum between dreams and projections, and how they can mix together in complex ways.

He explores why experiential...

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This is an intimate, highly emotional, and evidential experience. It consists of Liz sharing her experiences examining evidence of an afterlife and a scientifically certified psychic medium giving group readings.

Learn about up to quintuple-blinded studies of psychic mediums, research that shows how time isn't what we think, and remarkable stories of Near Death Experiences and kids whose memories of past lives were verified.

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Ishtar Howell has been having out-of-body experiences and communications with deceased relatives since childhood. Raised in an agnostic, scientifically-oriented family, he experienced high strangeness that defied conventional explanation. His out-of-body experiences began around age five or six and continue to this day, providing evidence that consciousness exists beyond the physical body and that communication with deceased loved ones is real.

When Ishtar was 13, a car accident took his mother's life. He had a near-death experience during that accident that shifted his entire understanding of consciousness and the afterlife. His out-of-body experiences intensified after this event, and he...

David Ferrugio lost his father on 9/11 at age 12. Now he hosts Dead Talks, a podcast normalizing conversations about death and grief through hundreds of interviews. His new book, You're Not Dead Yet, explores how grief and loss teach you to live fully. His core belief: when we face death openly, we learn to live more completely.

Instead of letting his father's death define him, David learned that loss is inevitable and you choose how you respond. The experience shaped his philosophy about mortality and meaning. He discusses the choice between fear and action, staying open to possibilities...

Reverend Nancy Smith creates spirit drawings that accurately depict deceased loved ones she's never met, reads the Akashic Records to access consciousness-level information, and brings through mediumship messages providing evidence that awareness continues after physical death. Her work bridges artistic expression with spiritual communication, offering families specific details that prove loved ones are still present.

Smith has been highly sensitive since childhood, perceiving information beyond what people say in words. A major awakening forced her to develop and trust her abilities. Now she works from what she calls the highest vibrational level, accessing information directly from the "...

Kathy (M.K.) McDaniel had a near-death experience while in a medically-induced coma from severe pneumonia. What she witnessed during those moments of clinical death challenges everything we think we know about consciousness and what happens after we die. Her experience included terrifying visions followed by profound joy, providing compelling evidence that awareness continues beyond physical death.

Kathy was raised Catholic and believed everything she was taught about the afterlife, including concepts of purgatory and hell. When she fell critically ill in Seattle, she was put into a drug-induced coma with only a 38 percent chance of survival...

Elizabeth Rea uses psychic abilities to advise CEOs and founders on high-stakes decisions, and previously worked with US federal agents solving cold murder cases. She's the founder of Insightful, where she provides expanded intelligence to help leaders make clearer decisions in complex business environments. Her work spans solving unsolved murders and guiding executives toward better outcomes.

Rea had a near-death experience at 16 in a McDonald's bathroom. During the incident, she watched from outside her body as a nurse checked her pulse on a white Timex watch. She could hear people's thoughts and feel their emotions. That experience...

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Dates: June 17th – 21st, 2026
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Professor Callum E. Cooper, PhD has spent two decades researching parapsychology and haunting cases with scientific rigor. His research covers out-of-body experiences, phone calls from the dead, mediumship cases, and death bed apparitions. Unlike the dismissal of paranormal research as woo, his work is grounded in psychology, statistics, and field investigation. He holds PhDs in social sciences, serves on the council of the Society for Psychical Research, and has written multiple books providing evidence that challenges conventional explanations.

Cooper studied classic haunting cases like the Cheltenham Ghost, where an apparition appeared repeatedly and could be tracked through...

Vincent (Vinney) Tolman died in 2003 in a Dairy Queen bathroom after taking an accidental overdose of a supplement. Clinically dead, he was bagged and transported to a medical examiner. A rookie medic broke protocol and resuscitated him. What makes his case compelling: while clinically dead, Vinney had verifiable experiences that challenge our understanding of consciousness  and what happens when we die.

While his body lay dead in a bathroom, Vinney's consciousness watched from outside his body. He observed paramedics attempting resuscitation, watched his body being bagged, saw the ambulance, and witnessed specific medical procedures including de...

Dr. Debra Lynne Katz uses remote viewing to find missing people, predict future outcomes, and locate lost objects. She's founder of the International School of Clairvoyance and former president of the International Remote Viewing Association, a practicing clairvoyant, medium, and parapsychological researcher.

Remote viewing isn't what you think. Clients hire Dr. Katz to predict crypto and stock movements, find missing jewelry and pets, hunt buried treasure, and locate missing people. She worked with police on a case where a two-year-old boy went missing in Oregon. She described the location matching where his body was found in the...

Dr. Roger Nelson, founder of the Global Consciousness Project, shares how random number generators placed around the world respond when millions of people focus on major events like 9/11, elections, and celebrity deaths.

Dr. Nelson started at Princeton University's Engineering Anomalies Research Lab studying whether human consciousness could affect sensitive electronic equipment. They found 15% of people could change random number generator behavior through intention alone. People who could do it were free of conditioning that says you can't. The effects were tiny but accumulated over years of data collection.

This led Dr. Nelson to create the...

Retired NYPD detective Mark Pucci and psychic medium Kiersten Hathcock share how they've partnered for over a decade solving cold cases and finding missing people when police departments gave up.

Kiersten, an entrepreneur who had appeared on Shark Tank, was shocked when she got contacted by a boy who had passed away. She was even more shocked when what she got was verified. Her scientific brain tried explaining everything away until she started physically seeing deceased people.

Mark was working a missing person case when the widow asked if he'd talk to a medium in...

Dorie Pickle, author of Dawn: A Fresh Perspective on Life, Death and the Other Side, shares how her mom Carly had vivid dreams and visions in her final days that revealed specific details about the afterlife, and made Dorie promise to write a book about what she was seeing.

Carly spent 40 years battling kidney disease. When she was hospitalized for pneumonia, something shifted. She started telling everyone who came into her hospital room about what she was witnessing. She told Dorie "I am staring death in the face right now" and described things about our journey and...

Dan Cohen, host of Awakenings in Real Life podcast and author, shares how his father had a two-day awakening from severe dementia after pneumonia treatment, becoming 90% himself again and delivering a message that changed how Dan views consciousness and what dementia patients might still understand.

Dan's father developed dementia after a stroke at 75 and progressed through all seven stages over 10 years. He became nonverbal, incontinent, needed help with everything, had no short term memory. Then in 2015, after antibiotics and steroids for pneumonia, something unexpected happened. For two days, he became himself again. He recalled specific details about...

Victoria Pippo, psychic development teacher and founder of Sovereign Healer school, shares how she channels extraterrestrials from multiple dimensions, why souls choose their gender across lifetimes, and the grounding practices that prevent spiritual psychosis.

Victoria's psychic journey began when her grandfather came through in meditation with the unmistakable scent of campfire and went to verify if this checked out. Soon she was channeling interdimensional beings including extraterrestrials who revealed their origins and why they're fascinated by Earth's evolution. She explains how most humans carry hybrid extraterrestrial DNA, what different dimensions actually mean, and why lower dimensional entities...

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Kim Hodous, happiness speaker and author of Beyond Grief, shares how she connects daily with her son Rob through automatic writing after losing him at 29, the profound messages he shares about the other side, and the system he gave her to teach other mothers to connect with their children who have passed.

After losing her daughter Chelsea to leukemia 30 years ago and receiving white rock signs everywhere she went, Kim was a happiness speaker for 15 years when she got the devastating call that Rob had died. That night in a hotel room stranded in a snowst...

Rebecca Kastl, pediatric speech pathologist and healer, shares her profound two-year spiritually transformative experience that began when she had a spontaneous spiritual awakening while journaling at age 26. After surviving sexual trauma at 13 and spending years healing, Rebecca saw a beautiful light over her bed that looked into her heart, spoke to her, and changed everything.

For the next two years, Rebecca saw glowing white light emanating from every person she encountered, had psychic dreams that accurately predicted a car accident and carbon monoxide poisoning with verifiable details, witnessed alternate timelines of her life, experienced a spontaneous life...

Betty Guadagno, former homeless addict turned manifesting teacher, reveals how she used the Law of Attraction to rebuild her life from rock bottom and shares practical techniques for manifesting money, relationships, and abundance.

Betty shares her transformation from drug addiction, homelessness, and prostitution to becoming a manifesting workshop leader after a life-changing near death experience. She explains why manifesting is not toxic positivity or bypassing real emotions, the difference between manifesting and mindset, and how the universe works as an echo chamber responding to your vibration. Betty breaks down the chakra system and which affirmations work best...

AJ Capasso, paranormal investigator and near death experiencer, shares his journey from opioid addiction and 12 overdoses to founding an international paranormal podcast and investigating the mysteries of the afterlife.

AJ survived a profound near death experience after his final overdose in 2014 during the opioid epidemic. He describes leaving his body, standing above two paramedics working on him, and being able to simultaneously exist in multiple places just by thought. He experienced a life review where he felt the pain he caused others through their eyes, traveled through hyperspace passing stars, and arrived at a vibrant landscape with...

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This is an intimate event capped at five people, where a scientifically certified psychic medium conducts live readings for every person and Liz walks the group through in-depth scientific evidence for an afterlife — focusing on data, research, and personal experiences that changed her mind and made her think, as a science-minded skeptic, that there is actually an afterlife.

What's included: A live group reading by a scientifically certified psychic medium, plus a talk by Liz on...

Marjorie Woollacott, PhD, a neuroscientist and emeritus professor at the University of Oregon, shares her journey from materialist scientist to consciousness researcher and her work on telepathy in children with nonspeaking autism, terminal lucidity, and near death experiences.

Dr. Woollacott was a strict materialist who believed the brain creates consciousness until a meditation initiation changed everything. She describes feeling a current of electricity flow from her forehead to her heart, radiating pure joy and love throughout her body. Her worldview shifted overnight, though it took 25 years to integrate her neuroscience career with her meditation practice. She explains...

Hakim Isler, creator of the Psi Games, reveals how anyone can develop psychic abilities through competitive training and why the next generation holds the key to humanity's evolution.

Hakim shares his journey from ninja martial arts (ninjutsu, the art of perseverance) to military psychological operations, then remote viewing and Mindsight training with legendary remote viewers Paul Smith, Joe McMoneagle, and Dale Graff. He explains the difference between remote viewing (perceiving information at a distance) and Mindsight (seeing through blindfolds), why his best remote viewing happened when stressed and rushed (not calm and meditative), and Ingo Swann's principle: "...

Olivia LaBarre, animal communicator and Reiki practitioner, reveals how animals communicate with us—both while living and after they've passed. She explains how she receives messages from animals (visual images, physical sensations, emotions, and "just knowing"), why animal communication comes more clearly than human mediumship, and how wild animals communicate differently than companion animals.

Olivia shares remarkable verified readings: Tinkerbelle the cat who sent circus tent images (her guardian had a circus tent tattoo, photo sets, and passed them daily going to cancer treatments), and a cat in spirit who promised to send another cat to the ya...

Karen Bell, internationally recognized clairvoyant and channeler, joins the show to discuss her upcoming Omega Institute workshop, Amplify Your Intuition: A Guided Journey to Trusting Your Inner Wisdom. She explains how to distinguish genuine intuitive guidance from protective anxiety patterns, why intuition manifests differently for different people (visual, auditory, or physical sensations), and why reducing stress is essential for accessing clear decision-making.

Karen shares her story of closing a successful Etsy shop to follow an illogical nudge that led to channeling Sarai, a non-physical being who now informs her teaching. We discuss how intuition feels persistent and g...

What does it mean when you dream in a language you don't speak or share a dream with your dog? Dr. Bonnie Buckner, author of The Secret Mind: Unlock the Power of Dreams to Transform Your Life and founder of the International Institute for Dreaming and Imagery, explores the mysterious aspects of dreaming—including how to recognize when a deceased loved one is actually visiting versus appearing as a dream character.

We explore her family's dream story (her grandmother taught her father to find a lost knife through dreaming), how to distinguish regular dreams from premonitory dreams an...

Can consciousness exist independently of the brain? Dr. Marina Weiler, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), shares research on mediumship, out-of-body experiences, remote viewing, and non-speaking children with psychic abilities. A neuroscientist specializing in consciousness studies, Dr. Weiler explains how rigorous scientific methods are being used to investigate phenomena suggesting the mind operates beyond the physical brain.

We discuss the award-winning Bigelow Institute research on Brazilian medium Chico Xavier, who produced over 500 books and 10,000 letters attributed to deceased individuals despite only elementary school education. Dr. Weiler shares current DOPS studies using...

ITC and EVP researcher Tony Rathman explains Staticom 3.0 and real-time spirit communication.

Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) and Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) are often dismissed as noise or coincidence, but this episode explores why some researchers believe the evidence goes much further.

Tony Rathman, an ITC researcher and creator of the Staticom 3.0 system, explains the difference between EVP and ITC, how real-time two-way communication is said to work, and why he moved away from radio-based methods toward white-noise and closed-circuit systems designed to remove common skeptical objections.

Tony shares how he went from skeptic to...

Akashic Records readings are used to explore past lives, relationships, life purpose, and emotional blocks, and this episode breaks down how that information is accessed and applied for healing and clarity.

Liz speaks with Krista Rauschenberg, an Akashic Records Facilitator and Certified Breathwork Practitioner, about how the Akashic Records are described as an energetic record of the soul and how people use them for self-discovery, decision-making, and spiritual healing.

They discuss how Akashic Breathwork helps release emotional blockages, reduce stress, and realign the body and nervous system, along with big questions listeners often ask, including...

Join Mark Anthony, JD at The Omega Institute for The NDE Zone: Connected by the Light From the Cosmic to the Subatomic.

Guest: Mark Anthony, JD the Psychic Explorer® (aka The Psychic Lawyer)

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Mark Anthony, JD Psychic Explorer (also known as The Psychic Lawyer) is a fourth-generation psychic medium who communicates with spirits. He is an Oxford-educated attorney licensed to practice law in Florida, Washington D.C., and before the United States Supreme Court. Mark wa...

Near-death experiences and past-life memories are often dismissed, yet at the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies they are examined using rigorous psychiatric and neuroscience research methods.

In this episode, Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at UVA, explains how near-death experiences are defined and measured in scientific research, why many experiencers struggle after returning, and what decades of data suggest about consciousness beyond the brain.

The conversation also explores children who report past-life memories, how cases are investigated, what makes a case verifiable, why many children stop talking...

In this bonus episode, Mark Anthony, JD returns to the show to share details about a special virtual event he is hosting with the Omega Institute called The NDE Zone: Connected by the Light From the Cosmic to the Subatomic.

Mark Anthony, known as the Psychic Explorer, explains what near-death experiences really are, how consciousness operates beyond the physical body, and what happens in the space between this world and the other side. We talk about the science, patterns, and shared features of NDEs, spirit communication, and why understanding these experiences can be deeply healing, especially for...

What happens when you blend intuition and creativity to help shape the life you want? Learn from someone whose insights have repeatedly proven true.

In this episode, Colette Baron-Reid joins WTF Just Happened?!: All About the Afterlife. No Woo. for a grounded, fun conversation about intuition, oracle cards, manifestation, recovery, and taking real action to create change.

Colette shares her personal journey from addiction and recovery to building a globally respected body of work around intuition and creativity. She also shares verified and surprising moments where intuitive and mediumistic information proved to be accurate, including...