255: Phone a (Dead) Friend. Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

A universal desire to have just five more minutes to convey our love to those who we have lost has been in existence for as long as humans have. For most of time, those wishing to connect with the deceased relied on mediums, until two of history’s most brilliant minds added science to the equation in hopes of inventing a diret line to the other side.

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0:00.0	Ask any grieving person and they'd all agree.
0:06.4	No matter how much time we are given with those we love, it is never enough.
0:10.9	No matter if those we have lost died old or young, suddenly or after a long battle with disease or age, for those of
0:19.4	us left behind all we want is more time. More time to spend with one another, just a few more fleeting
0:26.5	moments to convey how much we care for them or miss them. Humans have been desiring these
0:32.3	final conversations for as long as we have grieved deaths.
0:37.0	Hundreds of millions of people across every continent and throughout time, the aching to connect with our dearly departed is universal.
0:46.2	Many cope with this need through prayer or seeking the aid of mediums.
0:50.4	While at times this is certainly comforting, these avenues can lead to one-sided conversations,
0:56.2	or putting trust in a stranger in hopes that what they are communicating back to you is true.
1:02.3	And while this is more than enough for some, others
1:05.3	wanted to take it a step further. They wanted to know with absolute certainty
1:10.8	they had a direct line to the spirit world and that their person was on the other end,
1:17.0	kind of like picking up a telephone and dialing straight to the other side.
1:22.0	Hey, now that is an idea.
1:27.0	Welcome to National Park After Dark. Thank you. I'm really excited for this episode because you've hinted and you've told me off of the
1:56.2	podcast what this is about and now I'm very excited to hear the story because I don't know
2:01.1	it at all.
2:02.4	So I'm excited as well and I really enjoyed researching this topic and I hope it's going to come
2:09.8	across in a way that like gives you everything you want but there is some parts that I was
2:16.6	not expecting and I think that it's going to leave you wanting more a little bit.
2:23.2	Okay.
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