On Monday's show, filmmaker and producer
Paul Davids discussed his new documentary,
The Life After Death Project, which
airs on the SyFy channel on May 15th. The film chronicles possible
after death communications that came from sci-fi luminary, Forrest J.
Ackerman, who passed away in 2008 at the age of 92. Professor at the
University of Arizona,
Gary E. Schwartz
joined the show in the latter half to talk about his involvement in
the case and documentary. Ackerman, who was a longtime friend and
mentor to Davids, was known to be a skeptic about the afterlife, but
told his friends that if he found something upon his passing, he would
try to drop them a line.
In town for a huge tribute held for Ackerman in Hollywood after his
death, two Canadian documentarians, who'd made a film about Ackerman,
visited his crypt in Forest Lawn. One of them knocked on the crypt, and
said 'hello Forry, are you there?' An hour later, they were posting on
their blog, and had to type in a randomly generated code to make sure
they weren't a spammer. Bizarrely, the random code came up as Ackerman
000. Then, as they were discussing the event, their other computer,
which had been asleep, suddenly issued an audio snippet that seemed to
be responding to them, Davids recounted. He also shared his own
incident, which he experienced in Santa Fe, involving a document he'd
printed out that had an anomalous ink stain on it with four words
blacked out. He believes this was possibly a communication to him from
Ackerman.
Schwartz outlined four different types of evidence for after death
communications in the Ackerman incidents that are highlighted in Davids'
documentary: a host of physical phenomena that can't be explained by
conventional means, a series of stunning synchronicities, three
independent mediums who provide complementary information, and
technology-enabled testing that Schwarz conducted. He noted that while
no one area is proof of the afterlife, the combination of all four
together presents a strong case.
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