April 13, 2001: Ghost to Ghost
Callers share a remarkable range of experiences. A man in Indiana recalls his sister being grabbed at her feet by an unseen force at Fort Meade, while he felt something breathing directly into his face. A woman in Oregon describes a dark entity that announced "I want you" to her husband, and a house fire that destroyed the upper floor also eliminated years of paranormal activity linked to the previous tenants' witchcraft books. In California, a former high school filmmaker recounts a courthouse haunting where objects moved on their own, cell doors slammed shut, and a statue of justice opened and closed its eyes while he watched.
Other stories include a man whose deceased brother communicates through flickering lights and a radio that played one song at the funeral before going permanently silent, and a listener whose recording equipment turns itself on and off while his hair was set on fire by an invisible presence.
Key Moments
The Indian motorcycle stranger: A caller meets a leathery-skinned stranger on an old Indian motorcycle at a Texas campground who insists Apollo 13 was faked for morale, then vanishes during a brief outhouse trip; no one else in the campground saw him.
Compassionate woman in the Long Island bedroom: A caller describes seeing a greenish-grey woman in his bedroom window at age 6 on Long Island. Years later his sister confirms she saw the same apparition; the family who bought the house left within two months.
Buffalo Soldier reports in at F.E. Warren AFB: An ex-Air Force caller working night shift at a post-Civil War-era dorm is approached by a fully formed Buffalo Soldier in buckskins, hat, and pistols who then vaporizes in front of him.
Art's theological problem with battlefield ghosts: Reflecting on his Vietnam-era Air Force service, Art argues that if ghosts are trapped souls then a just God would not strand fallen soldiers on Earth - concluding ghosts must be 'some other component' of the dead rather than the soul itself.
Twin brother, grandfather's message, and the hot grape Kool-Aid: A Vietnam vet's deceased grandfather appears the night he dies and again the next day saying 'Daniel's alive, he's trapped.' The caller eventually finds his twin in a Greek Orthodox mission hospital in a coma. After bringing him home, a childhood mug of hot grape Kool-Aid sits on the nightstand.