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Nicole Strickland - The Afterlife Chronicles · Destination Unlimited with Victor Fuhrman

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My name is Victor Ferman. Some call me the Voice. I've always been
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fascinated with human nature, spirituality, science, and the crossroads at which they
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meet. Join me now and we will explore these topics and so much more
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with fascinating guests, authors, and experts who will guide us to Destination unlimited.
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Is there a connection between life, death, and the beyond? Is
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there an afterlife? And if so, what lessons may we learn from it?
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And those who have passed on? My guest this week on Destination Unlimited.
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Nicole Strickland has researched these questions virtually her entire life, including personal experiences
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which led to many answers. One of the leading paranormal and afterlife researchers on
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the West Coast, Nicole Strickland has been interested in the supernatural since childhood.
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In addition to her innate psychic and empathic abilities, Nicole's experience in the fields
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of counseling, education, psychology, and his social work give her a unique
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perspective on studying the unknown. She is known for her gentle and humble approaches
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to working with spirit realms, her clients, and the paranormal field at large.
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Her websites are author Nicole Strickland dot com and San Diego Paranormal Research dot
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com, and she joins me this week to share her path and new book,
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The Afterlife Chronicles, exploring the connection between life, death, and beyond.
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Please join me in welcoming to Destination Unlimited Nicole Strickland. Welcome, Nicole,
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Hello, Thank you so much for having me. It's such an honor,
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Nicole. I have to congratulate you on your latest book, The Afterlife
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Chronicles. It is a marvelous and engaging compendium of paranormal and spiritual knowledge and
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experience, written with care and compassion. So congratulations, Thank you so much.
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Those words really make my heart shine. So thank you so so much.
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You're very welcome. And before we discuss this book, please share with
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our listeners your early experiences and how they set the stage for your path.
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Sounds good. I'll try to do the paraphras version, or else would be
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here all day. So I'm one of these that And I know this may
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sound cheesy in a way, but I feel like as if I was born
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into the field of paranormal research and afterlife study. It's just a feeling I
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get, and I had experiences that I couldn't explain going as far back as
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when I was four year years old, maybe before that, and I just
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don't remember about four or five years old. And so I was born in
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Huntington Beach, California. Now I reside in San Diego. But when I
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was about one years old, we moved to my mom, dad and I
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moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. And so at the time, fast forward
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to when I was about four and a half five, we had a pool
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in our backyard and it was summertime, and it was about dusk, you
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know, the sun was just starting to go down, and so we got
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out of the pool and we were drying off, and I distinctly remember this.
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I saw this floating dark gray. It wasn't really black, it was
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more like a dark may gray sort of missed kind of float like by us.
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And I remember asking my mom and dad. I was like, mommy,
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Daddy, did you see that draft? Now I have no idea why
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at the age of four and a half or five I would have chosen that
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word draft to explain what I saw. But I just see remember asking that,
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and so even above that, not above it, but in addition to
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it, there was I surmise maybe from the eighteen hundreds, a man,
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a male spirit from the gold rush days, perhaps, and I would communicate
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with him so often. I'm sure my parents at the time probably thought I
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was talking to an imaginary friend. I was of that age. So,
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but this interest into mainly ghosts and haunting's, historic locations, the afterlife.
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I mean, there's all kinds of different categories of the paranormal, and my
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main focus is ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, afterlife studies. That just
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grew as I got older, and I would pretty much read anything I could
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on a subject. Now, fast forward to when I was a student at
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the University of Arizona. It was my senior year, and it was October
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twenty fourth. Yes, of course it was so my grandmother, my mom's
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mom. So my maternal grandmother called me the day before she passed and she
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wanted to know if I was okay. I thought at the time, well,
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this is just random, this is odd. But I talked with her
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and we had a great discussion and then got off the phone. The following
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morning, on October twenty fifth, by the way, which is my mom's
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birthday. So her daughter, of course, she called me. My mom
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called me and said, and I knew from the tone of her voice that
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something wasn't right, And so my mom called me proceeded to tell me I
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love you, sweetie. But Grandma passed away, and I was devastated.
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Of course, went out to San Diego, spent time with the family for
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a few days, and when I got back to Tucson, Arizona, where
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the University of Arizona's base, I started having these odd experiences in my apartment
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that I did not experience at all prior to her passing. Now, at
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first I brushed them off as well, I'm in an apartment, it's my
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neighbor's making noise, it's vibration, it's anything else, you know, than
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the parentormal. And so it started off with the doorknobs, specifically my front
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door and my bedroom door would rattle by themselves. And an interesting I guess
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caveat to that is when my grandmother was alive, she would go around her
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house at night and check the doorknobs to make sure they were locked. I
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still wasn't convinced. Then a couple of nights later, I was on my
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bed doing I think I had my laptop out writing a paper or something,
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and I felt I didn't see anything, but I felt this disembodied hand touched
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my face and it felt as if it came from someone I knew and loved.
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It was just that energy. I knew it was someone familiar. Fast
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forward even a couple of nights later. This all occurred within about a week's
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time. Again, I was in my room on my bed with my laptop
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out, and I out of my left peripheral vision, I saw something.
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And when I looked over, there was my grandmother, full bodied. It
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looked as though she had a spotlight shining against her and it created this white,
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bright halo around her. She was looked appear, she appeared about ten
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years younger, She had a smile on her face, she was wearing one
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of her favorite blue and white dresses, and it seemed to last for about
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two maybe three seconds, and then she just demanifested and faded right then and
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there. And that experience really culminated me into the research that I do today.
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And at first I thought, and I still wonder, was this some
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sort of a bereavement hallucination on my part? Did I project this from grief?
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But I really do think that this was some sort of visitation. I
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asked other family members, they didn't have it. It just seems to be
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me. So I think that my grandmother knew, maybe obviously before I did,
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that I would really like to be active in this field, and that
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I could really sense and communicate with spiritual energies. And so I thank her.
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I'm indebted to her for this because she got me on the path of
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being in this field and it's a huge passion. It's a labor of love,
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and I've learned so much on the way. And it's interesting that she
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passed away on her daughter's birthday, and so my mom always thinks, you
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know, well, maybe that's maybe there's a gift in there for me with
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that. I don't know, but it was just a really phenomenal experience.
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And I had a comparable experience with my paternal grandfather that I'll share a little
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bit later. But you've written several books on the famous ship, the RMS
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Queen Mary. For listeners not familiar with this storied vessel, please share with
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us your experience is researching and investigating her. Absolutely, the RMS Queen Mary
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has a huge spot in my heart. It's a soul love that I have
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with the ship. So let me start out with just a very basic,
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basic overview of the Queen Mary. So her design concepts began in nineteen twenty
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six, and this was a time when other countries were competing to see who
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could have the largest, fastest, you know, most luxurious liner. And
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so those concepts started in nineteen twenty six, and so she was constructed in
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nineteen thirty four. Her work was halted due to the depression, but people
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would send in letters to Sir Percy Bates, the kunarcha Kunard chairperson at that
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time, and they would, you know, they would tell him, you
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know, the ship needs to be finished, it needs to be done.
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And so obviously she resumed her building and basically beat the depression at that point.
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And so her building she finished that in nineteen thirty four and she was
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designated as Job five three four. Now, her Majesty Queen Mary of Tech
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is the one that christened her the Queen Mary, the RMS Queen Mary,
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Royal Maleship Queen Mary. And during the launch September twenty sixth, nineteen thirty
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four, it was a huge celebration. They crashed like an Australian ball a
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line against the bows, massive, massive achievement. And then her maiden voyage
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took place May twenty seventh, nineteen thirty six, and so she was an
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ocean liner, not a cruise ship. So her route was from Southampton to
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Sherburg, France, to New York City and back. And so she carried
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both pre war, pre World War two and post World War two people from
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all walks of life, celebrities, actors, actresses, business moguls, members
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of the aristocracy, students, people from all walks of life, and it
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was just it's an amazing, amazing vessel people. She was known as like
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a palace on the seas basically, and then also the Ship of Beautiful Woods
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because there were fifty six different varieties of woods from all over the world that
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were used in her interior appointments inside the ship. And so then when World
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War Two was imminent, she was requisitioned as a troop ship, mainly for
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two reasons her size and her speed, along with her sister Liner of the
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Armist Queen Elizabeth, and so she during the full length of World War Two
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was a troop ship. She was a hospital ship at one point, carrying
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injured soldiers to the United Kingdom and of course participated in carrying war brides.
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All in all, I think she's probably carried around twenty two thousand war brides.
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I'm even friends with one of them who was on the first wave of
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war brides in February of nineteen forty six, and so a huge, huge
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undertaking. During World War Two, her efforts, along with other ships,
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of course, helped save the lives of many men, women and children and
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lessened the war by about two years. So. And then after the war
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was done and she was basically resumed her pre war status as an ocean liner
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that same route New York Sherburg, France and our Southampton Sherburn, France and
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New York. And then in nineteen sixty seven there were various bids from all
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over to get the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, one out at
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three point four five million, and she's been moored there ever since since December
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ninth, nineteen sixty seven, commanded by Captain John Treasure Jones, and he
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is credited as saying the Queen Mary is closest to a human being of any
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ship I ever commanded. And that's something very interesting because in my research since
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two thousand and five, I've talked with so many people for even current crew
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of today, former crew captain's, commodore's, other crew members, even war
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brides World War Two servicemen who sailed on the Queen Mary, and they felt
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this kinship to her. They aliveness to her, like she has this soul.
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And I would have to agree, she's a very sentient vessel, and
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I think there's I think it's one of the main reasons why she's touted as
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being one of the most haunted places in the world. I don't like using
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the word haunted because it has this negative connotation, but very paranormal at paranormally
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active on board. And I think there's this duality between the ship being sentient
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and one giant spirit and then her human energies that choose to reside on her
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and or those that come through passing through. Maybe they choose to stay,
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maybe they choose to leave. But it's it's such an amazing historic vessel that
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I'm still learning history from the Queen Mary. And so I had to write
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three books. I just had to because of the love I have, and
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so the first two are are basically paranormal and historical overviews, and then the
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third book, Are Miss Queen Mary Voices from her Voyages was a labor of
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love as well, and I interview took about two years to write because I
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had to interview former crew and former passengers and war brides and veterans. I
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even got permission to republish some stories as well, from her maiden voyage and
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other times in our history. And they're sold on board in Long Beach as
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well, and they do well on there, and it's such an honor.
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But the historical research, I mean, I'm still learning to this day.
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There's so much to learn about about the Queen Mary. So interesting hearing you
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describe your experiences and your research. You feel an affinity with this ship,
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almost like a sole level affinity. Absolutely, absolutely, And I forgot to
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say too when I the first time I stepped on board and I was introduced
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back in two thousand again, was at the University of Arizona and came back
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out here in San Diego, Southern California for spring break and a friend and
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I actually took one of those three day carnival cruises, and so I was
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first introduced to the Queen Mary from the backseat of a car, and I
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remember staring at the Queen Mary, this beautiful historic ship, and something told
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me, you know, Nicole, you're going to be back there someday.
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So fast forward in two thousand and five, I have the second I stepped
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foot on a deck, and that's one of her hotel decks. I felt
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It's hard to explain, but I felt an instantaneous soul connection, like I've
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been there before. Everything about it was familiar. This just instant like love,
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and it felt like everything was right at that moment. And so it's
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happened to others. That's a blessed experience. That really is a blessing.
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M I agree, and it's just it's it's it's my second home really,
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So yeah, absolutely, you've done many investigations. What advice and perhaps code
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of ethics would you espouse to others in the paranormal field. Great question,
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And I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm sick and tired of the
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sensationalism of the BS. I'm sick and tired of people exploiting the paranormal,
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exploiting the spirit realm, even other dimensions, even energies, even cryptids.
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For example, whatever the entity. Maybe I'm tired of people being in the
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field for the wrong reasons. Maybe they're just nothing but thrill seeking. There's
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nothing wrong with that, don't get me wrong, but exploiting it for their
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own needs. Maybe they want to just be famous, maybe they just want
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to copy what they're seeing on TV. Whatever the silly reason is, I'm
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sick and tired of that. I'm one of these people that really takes this
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work seriously. It's something that needs to be approached without an ego. It's
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something that needs to be approached with humility, with integrity, with dignity,
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and with respect. And so you're going to get a lot more with your
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results by applying the Golden rule and treating these energies in the locations and even
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your fellow co teammates with respect and dignity. That's what that's what it all
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deserves. And so that's my main advice. So I would also ask people
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to ask themselves, why do you want to be in this field? What
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are your reasons? And if it's something very silly and maybe you know,
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not really, maybe it's a sensational reason. I don't know, Maybe it's
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just a silly reason. Well, you know, I really would like you
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to ask yourself why you want to be in this field, what is your
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goal, what is your purpose? Because it entails a lot more than just,
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you know, prouncing around a historical location and just in hopes of seeing
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a ghost. There's a lot that goes into it, and especially when people
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when families call and say they're having manifestations in their home and are looking for
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help. Right in that, I'm glad you brought that up, because over
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the years I've become way more selective with private homes and even businesses. I'm
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talking about non historic locations because there could be very reasons. I mean,
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I'm seeing this trend where people are blaming and I'm not trying to criticize people,
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but it's sometimes easier to blame something without looking inward and seeing maybe if
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you're causing it. Right, So these people think that, oh my gosh,
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all these problems I have in my life, Well, it's the paranormal's
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fault, it's the ghosts fault. And that's not always the case. So
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you really have to take these cases and treat them a lot like social work,
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and do extensive interviews and try to determine if there's any mental or physical
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illness, anything that could maybe be harmful to these clients, should a team
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go in and pursue an investigation or case study. I mean, I know
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groups. I've some of my good friends who are very good researchers. They've
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had experiences where they'll be like an hour or so into an investigation a private
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residence and then they find out that the homeowners or rents are trying to cause
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activity or fake things. And so you really have to really do extensive research
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in history just to determine that you know that it's that it's safe to proceed,
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not only for your safety, but for their safety as well. And
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the other thing that would disturb me about some of these shows, some of
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these sensationless programs, is this concept of provoking spirit provoking ghosts. To me,
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that is the essence of a person who was once alive and walking around
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in a body. And if they were standing in front of me, alive
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in their body, I would not say the things that some of these people
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say to them. It's disgusting, isn't it. I you know, and
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that there's an experience here I several years ago. I don't watch these shows,
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I don't, but there was one night where I happened to have the
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channel on and there was one of these, you know, it's a famous
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show that's been on for a while, and the scene was one of the
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investigators up somewhere. I'd forget the location, but was just provoking and demanding
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the end energies to speak and really saying things like the F word to them
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and things like that, and I mean, it actually brought tears to my
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eyes. But that's the type of stuff that I just can't take. And
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it's horrible. It's just it's it's horrible. Would you go up to a
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stranger in the grocery store and just start, you know, demanding them to
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answer your questions? No, you wouldn't. You would want to, you
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know, build rapport and get to know them and all of that. So
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respect and dignity for spirit as well as for the human being and exactly absolutely
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What inspired your new book, The Afterlife Chronicles, exploring the connection between life,
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death and beyond. Oh, that's a good question. This, of
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course was the labor of love as well, and it only took about under
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a year to write, but in essence, it took my entire lifespan,
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because in there is just you know, a lifespan of experiences and insights and
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theories, and you know, information from other people. I have many contributors
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in the book who opted to share very personal, very profound stories with spirit,
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and so it was just a really big labor of love. I tend
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to I'm still in the paranormal, but I think my true passion really lies
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with afterlife studies, and so to be able to write something on that,
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it's always been a dream of mine. And it's just it's like I put
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my heart into it, you know, and you can I hopefully people can
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tell when they read it that, wow, this author really has a passion
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for what she's writing about. So but and then then all the contributions really
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support the different types of discussions I have in the book and the different topics,
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so there's stories throughout. So it was a lot of fun. Her
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book is called The Afterlife Chronicles, exploring the connection between life, death and
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Beyond. Nicole Strickland, please tell our listeners where they can get your books
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and find out more about you and your amazing work. Sounds good, So
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you can get my books on Amazon pretty much on all the online retailers.
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The Afterlife Chronicles right now is on Amazon US and international. I'm also going
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to next week be publishing it through Ingram Spark and so that will give it
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worldwide distribution. But my other books you can find again online on all the
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online retailers. The Queen Mary books you can if you go to the ship,
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you can find them. They're sold in the gift stores, which is
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really really cool. It's really an honor. And then let's see San Diego's
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Most Haunted in Spirits of Ranch of Buena Vista Adobe I believe are in some
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select stores in San Diego because there are more regional books, but you can
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get them online as well. My website is author Nicole Strickland, and then
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my team's website is San Diego Paranormal Research dot com. It needs an update.
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I need to do that, I know. And then Facebook, my
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handle is Nicole D. Strickland, Afterlife Chronicles and Beyond. And then let's
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see Instagram author Nicole Strickland all one word, and then Twitter it's the acronym
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of my team, so SDPRS and then Nicole and that's the Twitter handle.
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week Nicole Strickland, her book The Afterlife Chronicles exploring the connection between life,
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death, and beyond call. You make a point of delineating the difference between
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with what most of us know as ghosts and spirits. Please share with us
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the difference between ghosts and spirits. Sure thing, Now, I want to
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say this that you know I have not been in that realm. So for
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me to sit here and say I absolutely, with one hundred percent certainty,
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can tell you what the differences are. Well, I kind of would be
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lying in a way, but based on theory and based on other people's experiences
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and research and all of that, we seem to think now and I get
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caught doing this, even myself, sometimes using the words interchangeably because it's easy
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to do that. But there is there seems to be a difference between the
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two. So a ghost or earth bounds as many people call them, our
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energies of obviously human beings or animals that have passed on, that have physically
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died, if you will, so their body is no longer functioning, but
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yet haven't necessarily advanced through the higher ranks of spirithood. So they're here more,
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here on this plane by choice. It can be voluntary. It could
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be involuntary by choice. Maybe they had a drastic accident sadly, maybe they
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don't know they're gone. That's a very tragic situation, like with crisis apparitions
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and energies of that nature. Or maybe they choose to stay. Maybe they're
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feeling they're surviving loved one's grief and they're choosing to stay. Or maybe it's
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they're they're drawn to a location. For example, some of the energies on
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board the Queen Mary choose to stay there, you know, it's unfinished business,
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whatever the reason may be. And so a spirit is someone that a
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maybe was under earthbound at one point and then is able to move on and
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transcend the earthbound a state, if you will, and then move on to
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spirit hoood, or maybe they directly moved on to it right after physical death.
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So it's they're both. They're similar and different in the sense of course
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that they both deal with human energies that are now passed on. But spirit
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is just maybe a little bit more advanced, maybe has come to terms with
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his or her issues whatever is keeping them in the earthly plane, and they
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just are a little bit more advanced in the afterlife and kind of ascending the
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ranks of it, if you will. So that's kind of how I would
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put it. But it's hard. I get caught in using the words interchangeably,
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and like whenever I do. I was like, oh God, I
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correct myself because but it's easy to do. Absolutely, you had talked about
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your experience with the spirit of your grandmother. I was one of those kids
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growing up in nineteen fifties who was labeled as having an overactive imagination, a
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label that was given to me because of what I shared with adults that no
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one else saw or experienced was admitted or at least admitted to seeing an experience.
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I was very I was very close to my paternal grandfather, and remember
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being in my room reading, looking up and seeing him standing in front of
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me. I asked him, Grandpa, where did you When did you come
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in? And he just smiled, and within a few minutes he disappeared.
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I went into the living room and told my parents, who chided me for
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imagining things. A few minutes later, a call came with the news of
28:37
my grandfather's passing. Now you share similar experiences in the afterlife chronicles. Why
28:42
do our departed loved ones communicate with the living? And how may this manifest
28:48
for others, especially for those who perhaps are not open to this phenomenon.
28:52
It's such an intriguing, fascinating concept. And you know, it's an individual
28:59
case by case basis because the reasons could be, you know, uh many,
29:06
There could be many reasons. You could have ten different people that have
29:10
a similar experience. For maybe the reason as to why they're departed loved one
29:14
visited is different from the next. It's it's so fascinating. But I you
29:18
know, in the book I do talk about and this is just my opinion,
29:21
reasons for why spiritual energies communicate with us. I think part of it
29:26
is to keep in touch. Maybe they want to help us with our grief.
29:33
Maybe it's to warn us of uh, you know, potential danger.
29:37
There's a story in my book that talks about that. It's kind of a
29:41
long story, but it's when you get to the end of it you can
29:45
see why. Well, maybe maybe that's true. Maybe spiritual energy is just
29:48
no and no one. Maybe we're going to be in danger and they're trying
29:52
to prevent it. So there's a lot of different reasons. Maybe it's to
29:56
educate us on something. I I also think it's to show us that that
30:03
life exists in the beyond, that when we die, it's not an end,
30:07
it's a beginning, that there's life that goes on. I mean,
30:10
if you reverse the word after life, you get life after, right,
30:14
So it's to demonstrate that. But you know your experience, I mean,
30:18
that's interesting. There is a story in my book. I think it's Marie
30:22
d. Jones story, and she also lives in San Diego, and she
30:25
talks about something very similar that you experienced. And perhaps you know, he
30:32
knew you could sense him, and you know, that's kind of what I
30:34
think. That's it's a beautiful experience though. Absolutely, Now you mentioned your
30:40
experience with your grandmother jiggling the doorknobs and other things, my experience seeing my
30:44
grandfather. What are some of the ways or signs, other ways or signs
30:48
in which this communication may manifest. Absolutely, there's there's many different ways,
30:52
and again every every case is different. But going to some of the more
30:59
obvious you may see the an apparitional or full bodied sighting of your departed loved
31:07
ones. You may hear them. You may hear them disembodied, maybe when
31:11
you're around the house and you hear them. If you're an investigator and you're
31:15
doing electronic voice phenomena sessions or spirit box sessions, ITC sessions, they may
31:21
come through that I haven't experience with that. Actually I can share You're just
31:27
you may sense them and see. This is the one that's hard for people
31:32
because our logical minds want to try to automatically say nope, nope, that
31:37
didn't happen, right. But if you're open to that, and if you're
31:41
feeling in your heart and soul and you sense someone there with you, hang
31:45
on to that. Pay attention to that because that is your own intuitive voice
31:48
letting you know. Synchronicity is a big one. You may see or have
31:56
experiences that are synchronous in nature that For example, let me use my cat
32:01
Kayley. When my cat Kayley passed away, and she had a brother named
32:07
Max and they were litera mates, and so like the day after she passed,
32:12
I was actually driving and I think I was on my way to Starbucks,
32:15
and I was at a stoplight and I saw these two birds dance in
32:20
unison like I've never seen two birds dance in unison before. And instantly what
32:25
came to me is, Wow, this is some sort of symbolic message letting
32:30
me know that Max and Kayley are reunited. So pay attention to those synchronicities.
32:34
That's a huge one. Dream visitations is another one. I've had very
32:38
profound dream visitationous, especially with my cat Kayley, but not the typical types
32:44
of dreams. These are dreams where it's almost like a dream visitation mixed in
32:50
with a nastrall projection where I'm Kaylee. I'm able to even though I'm a
32:53
technically asleep, I'm able to feel her and see her and communicate with her
33:00
while dreaming. It's very, very profound. So those are some ways in
33:06
my experience and in talking with others where you can really those are signs of
33:12
spirit communication. And just even look animal behavior, you know, I think
33:19
there's a story in there too in the book where you know the person's dog
33:23
is behaving in a unique way to what's going on. So but it's just
33:30
my main advice is to trust your intuition. And trust what your heart is
33:35
telling you, and to look for those synchronous signs. Maybe they come through
33:38
in music, maybe they come through and objects, maybe they come through and
33:44
times. For example, the time my grandmother passed around four forty five am
33:50
and my cat Max passed at around four forty five PM. Of course different
33:53
days, different different years, but synchronous e synchronous. Wise, I seemed
34:00
to see or be looking at a clock right when it's four forty four or
34:05
four or forty five, and so pay attention to those. Absolutely. I'm
34:08
going to share a rather personal story. I had a life changing relationship with
34:15
a wonderful woman named Judy, and she transitioned in January of nineteen ninety eight.
34:20
Wow, And it was life changing in so many ways. And I'm
34:22
not going to take up your time right now, I'm going to I'll share
34:24
it with you personally. But the day that she passed, I went and
34:29
I made the funeral arrangements, and I came home and we had two cats,
34:34
and I was exhausted and I was grieving, and I laid down on
34:37
the bed, laid down face first, and I felt flump, plump,
34:40
and the two cats got onto the bed and they sat down like two little
34:45
sphinxes in front of me by my head, and I was looking at them,
34:50
and all of a sudden, their gaze went above the ceiling and then
34:52
started following emotion as if something was coming down from the ceiling in the back,
34:59
and I felt these two hands rubbing my back and I knew it was
35:01
her telling me that she was fine and that she loved me, and thank
35:06
you's. And I'm getting tears hearing that. That's exactly how the spirit world
35:10
works. Yeah, that's how it works. And when you can have an
35:14
encounter like that that is life changing, that helps you with your grief,
35:20
it's soul changing. You just have to hold onto it. That's that's a
35:24
beautiful, beautiful story. Absolutely, thank you. Yeah. In the Afterlife
35:30
chronicles, you share how many cultures understand the afterlife? Please share one or
35:35
two that stand out for you. Yeah, I know there's Yeah, I
35:37
talk about that, and it's interesting, you know, since the dawning of
35:42
man, how people, even going back thousands of years, how people from
35:46
various cultures, various religious backgrounds, have this interest in not only what happens
35:52
to us when we physically die, if we ever do really die, that's
35:57
a whole other concept, but different thoughts and perspectives on on what happens to
36:04
us when we do pass away. So, uh you know, the reincarnation
36:09
aspect is something that that really fascinates me. In different cultures believe in that
36:15
you know that when we pass on, we are going to reincarnate, uh
36:19
in in someone else and you know, continue that way. So that that
36:22
really really stands out. I even going back into the Egyptian type of culture
36:30
and back in those days, how they would revere the dead and have you
36:36
know, these various ceremonies, and you know, when you think of you
36:39
know, the tombs in Egypt and Egypt and the pyramids, it's it's it's
36:45
it's showcasing like a respect and a reverence to the deceased. And so that
36:51
that's something that I really like about that. But it just goes to show
36:54
that no matter what culture culture you ascribe to or religious and there's always this
37:01
this fascination with what happens to us when we pass on and where do we
37:07
go after we transition. So that's why I included it in the book.
37:13
In your book, you share something fascinating about what some people believe to be
37:17
demonic. Please explain. Oh my gosh. Yeah, this is a very
37:22
very controversial subject, and I know not everyone's going to agree, and that's
37:27
fine. I mean, that's fine. We are all, you know,
37:29
it's we're all different. We can you know, agree, disagree. That's
37:34
fine. But I have a different perspective on demons and all of that.
37:37
And really the concept of a demon again applies to various cultures, different religions,
37:45
but you know, pretty much started with religion really, if you think
37:51
about it, and in the paranormal world, I'm strictly speaking of that.
37:55
I don't believe that. Let me let me say it this way. I
38:00
think that, uh, the percentages of people coming or writing teams to investigate
38:06
because they feel a demon is in their house or something malevolent and malevolent can
38:10
be applied to human and and and and demonic entities as well. Um.
38:16
But uh, you know, for the many people think just because of their
38:21
experiences and maybe their religious predispositions, you know, help them feel this way.
38:27
I don't know, but they'll say, oh my gosh, I have
38:30
a demon in my house. It's it's evil, it's trying to hurt me,
38:31
it's trying to harm me. Honestly, I think I would. I
38:37
I mean, I don't know if I'm going to throw a percentage out here,
38:39
but I would say the majority of these alleged demonic situations are caused by
38:45
the living, and it's either through whatever, um you know, the internal
38:52
baggage they have, and they're projecting it out word. They're creating a tulpa
38:59
or you know, a living thought form. They're creating it. And maybe
39:04
that's what a demon really is. Maybe it's one big giant tulpa. I
39:07
know there have been cases, and I'm not saying that maybe demons don't exist.
39:09
I just don't think they exist prevalent like what people claim. And so
39:16
that's just my thought on it. I think a lot of it could be
39:19
caused just psychological projections on the part of the living. Explain for our listeners
39:24
the word tulpa. Yeah, tulpa is an interesting thing. So if you're
39:29
familiar with James I think it's James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon, the whole fictional
39:34
paradise of Shangry Law. Right, We've heard that that's an example of a
39:38
tulpa. So it's basically I think it's Tibetan language. It means manifestation or
39:45
emanation. So when you give something, if you're thinking about something and you're
39:52
giving a lot of thought day after day onto something, well maybe that thing
39:57
that you're giving thought to creates its own life, for it starts to come
40:00
to life. That's an example of a tulpa. And so with this whole
40:05
demonic sort of situation, a lot of these shows now on TV are starting
40:09
to focus on demonic, this, malevolent that, and so it's almost creating
40:15
this big tumble weed of negative energy. And it's causing other people that maybe
40:20
are gullible or naive or don't really know anything to then ascribe to what entertainment
40:25
is telling us. And so in a sense, it's creating this one gigantic,
40:30
big tulpa. Right. So, and it's interesting because over the years
40:35
I've seen in the percentages of private residence requests that have come my way in
40:40
the last few years, the majority of them think they have something evil and
40:45
negative in their home. And that goes right along with a theme of entertainment
40:50
focusing on this stuff actually, and so you know, it's just it's it's
40:54
it's hard. It's hard to have to contend with it. But you know
41:00
shared we shared about being openly intuitive as young children. How would you describe
41:05
intuition and how may your readers and our listeners open their intuitive selves. So
41:10
intuition and psychic senses or channeling those go hand in hand. Intuition is something
41:17
that is ingrained in all of us. It's it's like an invisible survival mechanism
41:24
or a survival compass that helps guide us to safety or guide us to where
41:31
we are supposed to be at any given moment in time. And so that
41:37
in a way is the building block to developing someone's you know, psychic senses,
41:43
the six Claies, Clairvoyance, Claire, Audience, Claugustine's all of that,
41:49
and then so they pretty much are friends with a dear kinship. So
41:53
intuition. An example of that would be let's say you're, you know,
41:57
driving down the freeway and your gut is telling you to get off this exit
42:02
because this exit's going to have a gas station and you need gas, and
42:07
so then you get off on that section and you were right, okay,
42:09
there's that gas station. Whereas psychic senses, for example, let's let's use
42:15
the example of psychometry where someone I guess is on an investigation or just maybe
42:20
on a historical tour, and they pick up an item, maybe it's a
42:23
historic rock or some sort of historic piece, and they're feeling it in their
42:29
hands and they're starting to get senses from maybe a long time ago, maybe
42:35
it's emotions associated with it, or maybe they start to see visions in their
42:38
mind's eye of someone who was associated with this historical object through psychometry, And
42:45
so that's that's an example of using our psychic senses. So that's that's kind
42:49
of how the difference on. They're similar but yet different, but yet they
42:53
call exist and they go hand in hand. Her book is entitled The Afterlife
42:59
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Unlimited. My guest this week Nicole Strickland, her book The Afterlife chronicles exploring
44:52
the connection between life, death, and the beyond. Nicole. For parents
45:00
with children demonstrating intuition the way we did as children, what advice would you
45:05
offer them? Oh, this is an excellent question. I do have a
45:08
background with kids. I was a teacher and then have a master's in school
45:14
counseling, so I'm have a background with kids and that helps me with this.
45:17
But you know, and I'm going to say that we're all intuit or
45:22
right, and I do believe that children are more intuitive. It's similar to
45:25
animals. And I think the reason we're one of the main reasons is that
45:29
their ego isn't as prevalent and they don't live through their ego as much as
45:36
as adults do. And so, you know, my advice to parents is
45:40
to pay attention to what their kids are telling them, pay attention to any
45:47
patterns you see. And if you see that your child is starting to show
45:55
signs of being intuitive or psychic, there's you have to nurture it. So
46:02
uh, you know, don't don't try to chastise your kid for that or
46:07
your child, help them show them that you believe in them and that you're
46:13
going to help them foster that growth because it's it's only going to improve their
46:17
lives, right, So there's even two depending on how old the child is.
46:23
There there are like I guess, not not support groups, that's not
46:28
the right one, but groups that they can join with other like minded individuals
46:35
and they can learn from them as well. So those are those are signs,
46:39
you know. I do a whole presentation it's called Children and the Paranormal
46:43
where I get into how a child at different ages and different um you know,
46:51
the ericson stage of development and the pha's stages in those stages, how
46:57
children can react to and perceive the par normal similarly and differently at each stage
47:02
of their life. And then I get into like, you know, the
47:06
crystal and rainbow kids and science of that and all of that. So it's
47:09
a fascinating presentation, but I would my main advice is to pay attention to
47:15
your kids and listen to them and then help them to foster that growth in
47:22
a positive environment. What do NDEs near death experiencers offer in terms of the
47:30
afterlife? Oh my goodness, I will say this that people with nd ease
47:36
near death experiences are even shared death experiences. They give us glimpses into what
47:45
exists for us when we pass on. There is story after story culture at
47:52
different cultures, different backgrounds, kids, adults, elderly individuals that have these
47:58
stories and stories are all similar with very similar traits as well. Where they,
48:04
you know, pass on, they evolved to a beautiful place, a
48:08
paradise where it almost it I guess it molds itself to how their their culture
48:15
is and what they're liking is just vibrant colors. There's this connection of just
48:22
eternal love. And then when they return back to their body, you know,
48:27
they have this sense of renewed growth, no longer interested in materialism and
48:32
all of that. It's this just pure they're purely in touch with their soul
48:37
at that moment. And so uh, it really does show us we need
48:44
to listen to these stories because there's so many of them, and it lets
48:46
us know, wow, there's something out there. You know, when we
48:51
pass on and we physically die, we're not going to go to nothingness.
48:54
It's not going to just be a you know, blank, you know void.
48:58
You know, we're going somewhere the next stage in our soul's progression and
49:02
maturity, and it's something to look forward to and so that's that's the message
49:07
I take from them. Absolutely. You have a chapter in the Afterlife Chronicles
49:13
on spirit guides. How may we be aware of their communication? This is
49:19
an interesting concept, and James Van Prague is pretty much I consider him an
49:24
expert in the whole spirit guide realm. And we all have them, and
49:30
I think it's similar to that inner voice that we have, whether that is
49:34
just our inner voice or one of our guides, it could be a combination
49:38
of both. We all have them. And there are different types of guides,
49:44
you know, there's you know, more educative types of guides, and
49:46
there's you know, ascended masters and things in individuals or guides of that nature.
49:53
But it's we all have them, like I said, and it's for
49:59
me, it's learning how to know when they're they're coming to us and when
50:02
they're trying to guide us in a certain way. And I think it's similar
50:07
when we have an intuitive moment that can be perceived as guiding us to where
50:13
we need to be, guiding us to safety. So it's very similar to
50:15
that. In the stories. There's a few stories in the book too about
50:20
spirit guides, and one I believe it's Pete Orbea. He's a friend of
50:24
mine from the Pacific Northwest. And then Ariel Grace too as well, And
50:29
they're profound and give us kind of a look at what spirit guide communication may
50:36
look like. So you had mentioned the experience with your cats, I had
50:39
mentioned mine are animals also spirit guides? Absolutely? Absolutely, I believe they
50:45
are. And I mean you hear that. The whole thought of oh,
50:49
you have a guardian angel. You know, my grandmother passed away. Now
50:52
she's my guardian angel. That you know, they can turn into spirit guides
50:57
and be that, and even animals. I do believe in soul groups.
51:01
I believe that animals and humans can share the same soul group. I absolutely
51:05
believe that with my cats, Max and Kaylee, just because of the bond
51:08
that we've shared. And I love all my animals, don't get me wrong,
51:13
but there's some something greater and deeper with the bond that I have with
51:16
Kayley and Max than any of my other animals, and it's like, I
51:21
think we're part of the same soul group. So absolutely, you know,
51:25
it's interesting about animals. I've found that I communicate with certain animals. I've
51:30
had cats in my life of course, a dog. But squirrels seem to
51:35
like me. They come up to me and they put their hands in a
51:39
little begging motion. I have one that I named the Oliver because it looks
51:43
like he's saying, can I have someone nuts? Please? Oh my god,
51:45
that is so precious. Oh I love it. Yeah. Absolutely.
51:50
In addition to cats, do you have any special animals? Special animals and
51:53
it well, I mean a lot of mine that are no longer with me.
51:57
You know, I've had dogs. My dog Lady, when I grew
52:00
up with. She died when I was in high school, sadly. But
52:04
let's see besides cats now, because I have a twenty two year old cat
52:07
named Aries and she's just plugging along. She's I love her. Yeah,
52:10
I adopted her when I was in college, so twenty two years old.
52:15
Let's see. Outside would have a family of lizards. There's something about lizards.
52:19
And this goes back to my childhood living in Vegas. I would go
52:22
into the deserts, you know, back in the day when it was safe
52:24
for kids to go wander in the desert, and I would go I'll use
52:29
the word hunt. I didn't hunt them, but I would go seek out
52:31
lizards and I sometimes I would catch them and it was just I love.
52:36
It was a pastime of mine. And now here I am in my adult
52:38
years and we have a family of them living in our front and backyard,
52:43
and it's so cute to see them. So and we name ours too.
52:45
One is I named one bubb I think another one I named I think Buddy
52:50
Holly. I don't want you know that's funny, it's great. So what
52:53
would you like readers to take away from the Afterlife Chronicles? Good question.
52:59
So if I hadn't I've been asked as before, if you had to summarize
53:01
the book in one or two sentences, it would be this that even though
53:07
our loved ones that are departed are no longer physically with us, they are
53:12
still with us. Their essence, their soul, their energy is always with
53:16
us. There's always that connection. It's undying, endless love. And so
53:22
that's basically the point that I want to take away, that I want people
53:27
to take away. The other one is that there's this undying connection between mortality
53:34
in the afterlife. The two worlds I think are destined to colon, to
53:38
intertwine with each other, and there's something something happening. I think in the
53:43
cosmos that's allowing the two worlds to join together even more and learn from each
53:49
other and help each other. And so those I would say, those are
53:52
the two Biggie's big takeaway points that I want people to get from the book.
53:58
Her book is an amazing read. It's called The Afterlife Chronicles, exploring
54:01
the connection between life, death and beyond. Nicole Strickland, one more time,
54:07
please tell our listeners where they can get your book and find out more
54:09
about you and your work. Sure, so you can get my books on
54:14
online, Amazon dot Com, Barnes and Noble, all those online retailers.
54:17
The Afterlife Chronicles right now is just on Amazon US and international, but I
54:22
am next week and be publishing it through ingram Sparks, so that'll make it
54:27
get worldwide distribution. So really looking forward to that. And then Queen Mary
54:32
books you can get online or not well online, yes, but you can
54:36
also get them on the ship in Long Beach as well. And then let's
54:39
see San Diego's Most Haunted in Spirits of Rancho Buena Vista Adobe you can get
54:44
online and then in some select stores in San Diego because they are regional books.
54:50
Let's see online. My website is San Diego Paranormal Research dot com my
54:53
team's website, and then my website is author Nicole Strickland dot com. You
54:59
can find me on face Book. Nicole D. Strickland is my main page
55:02
there, and then author Nicole Strickland for Instagram, and then Twitter is my
55:07
team's handle, so sdprs and then Nicole all one word sdprs Nicole for Twitter.
55:15
So and where can people hear your podcasts? Oh, that's right,
55:19
yes, So I have a podcast I started in twenty twenty. It's called
55:22
The Afterlife Chronicles, the same as my book. That's on wltkdb dot com.
55:29
I'm currently on hiatus, but I should be resuming in the next few
55:32
months, and so that can be you can find that pretty much wherever podcasts
55:37
can be found. We use stream yard as well, so you can get
55:39
the live versions as well as the MP three archives pretty much where podcasts can
55:44
be found. And then I also co host Haunted Voices Radio on Friday nights
55:50
with my friend Taught Bates and so same network wltkdb dot com. So,
55:55
Nicole, thank you so much for joining us and sharing most important, the
56:00
positive message that you bring to the power normal community and to our world.
56:04
Thank you so much, Thank you so much. CHIV was an honor to
56:07
be on your show. Thank you so much, and thank you for joining
56:10
us on Destination Unlimited. I'm Victor the Voice Furman. Have a wonderful week