February 23, 2000: Ghost to Ghost
Callers share a remarkable range of experiences from across the country. A woman in Syracuse describes a translucent young man who used her telephone, smiled at her, and walked through a wall. She also recounts something unseen regularly climbing into bed beside her, creating a visible depression in the mattress. An airman stationed at Kusan Air Force Base in Korea in 1977 tells of a ghostly Korean figure appearing at his bedside, whose throat his knife passed directly through. A trucker near Yellowstone recalls encountering a woman in 19th-century clothing walking through a snowstorm with completely dry hair.
Art reflects on how these accumulated testimonies across years of Ghost to Ghost broadcasts represent powerful collective evidence for consciousness surviving physical death, calling it the biggest question humanity faces.
Key Moments
Five church windows slam at a funeral: Listener Philip from Montreal recounts that during his brother-in-law's funeral, five open church windows slammed shut consecutively, then two altar windows, with no wind or person nearby; the priest later told the family it was a manifestation.
Knife through the throat of a Korean ghost: A former US Air Force security policeman at Kunsan Air Base, Korea in 1977 describes lying awake at 0100, drawing his bulk knife on a Korean man standing at the foot of his bed, and slashing his throat - only to have the blade pass through, the figure float up three feet and vanish.
Stranger using the phone walks through the wall: Mary Ann from Syracuse describes waking on her couch in 1989 to find a young man in a baseball cap standing in her parlor talking on her phone; after hanging up he smiled at her and walked through the wall. The phone receiver was still warm.
Something gets in bed and stays on its side: Mary Ann says an unseen presence routinely climbed into bed beside her, depressing the mattress; she negotiated by saying 'You stay on your side and I'll stay on mine,' which she says actually worked.
Frederick called the doctor's office: Before a heart test, Mary Ann's doctor's scheduler reported speaking with a worried gentleman named Frederick at her home who said she'd be back from the store soon. Mary Ann, who lives alone, told him Frederick was her father - who had died in the house in 1979.