Such paranormal experiences have occurred throughout human history and have been seen as proof of life after death. When pressed on it, the skeptic will claim it was “just a coincidence.” As someone who has witnessed a crisis apparition, I do not find such an explanation to be satisfactory. There is no scientific explanation for this phenomenon. Thousands of such incidents have been documented over many centuries. This is what psychic researchers call a “crisis apparition.” A person hundreds or thousands of miles away manifests himself to someone he knows around the time of his death, who otherwise has no means of knowing that the death had occurred. Jisa later told us that just before she had called she had felt an arm go around her shoulders and had heard my mother’s voice say, “I am leaving now.” My sister-in-law, who was over two thousand miles away, had known the exact moment of my mother’s death before those of us who were standing right next to her. She’s sleeping.” We then both looked at Mom, and I noticed the color drain from her ear. She asked us in an excited voice, “What’s the matter with Milly?” My sister answered, “Nothing.

My sister and I were at Mom’s bedside just before noon when the phone rang. He was on active duty in the Army, stationed in El Paso. I arrived on the evening of January 28, but my brother the surgeon had patients scheduled and could not leave until the afternoon of the 29th. My sister Carol had called my brother William and me the day before and advised us to come as soon as we could. She had taken a turn for the worse and was in a coma. On January 29, 1996, my mother Mildred lay dying in Calvary Hospital in the Bronx with end-stage thyroid cancer.

Sippo is a physician and specialist in aerospace medicine who has written and lectured as a Catholic apologist for over 30 years.

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