Close Encounter Club

What if a single sentence spoken in the middle of the night could predict tragedy?

In EP 2: Milford Has Been Shot, host Justin Gearheart speaks with Christopher from Omaha, Nebraska, who shares a chilling family story that has echoed through generations. In the 1960s, Christopher’s mom suddenly jolted awake during The Tonight Show and declared, “Milford has been shot.” Hours later, the phone rang with the devastating news that her brother Milford had been killed — exactly as she had said.

That wasn’t the only time fate intervened. Decades later, Christopher found himself in a bar having a casual conversation with a stranger who told an almost identical story from his own family’s past. The synchronicity was so unlikely that the odds defy imagination — a one-in-250 quadrillion chance.

In this episode, you’ll hear how Christopher’s mother’s premonition unfolded, why his skeptical father and brother never forgot it, and how a chance barroom conversation reopened a mystery that had been buried for decades. You’ll also hear about Christopher’s own journey as an open-minded skeptic, from experiments testing whether unseen forces could hear his thoughts to moments of mindfulness and even a possible astral projection experience.

This is a story about synchronicity, fate, and premonition — and the possibility that something beyond us may be nudging events in ways we can’t explain.

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