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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man

5/8/202640 min

Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/THEWHYFILES to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. Hundreds of survivors across a century — climbers, sailors, divers, soldiers — report the same thing. At the moment they were about to die, a calm presence appeared beside them. It gave directions. It knew the way out. It disappeared the moment the danger passed. A neuroscientist built a machine that can summon something like it. But what his subjects experienced and what survivors describe are not the same thing. The cases are real. The pattern is undeniable. What the presence actually is — that part is still open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  10. AJ Gentile· Host0:57

    [gentle music] Frank Smythe had to stop. He was 28,000 feet up Everest and fading. He knew if he closed his eyes, he wouldn't open them again. Lots of climbers took their last breath right here. Some were still frozen in the ice. But his partner wasn't worried. They just needed a break and a bit of food. Frank broke a mint cake in half and held a piece out, but nobody was there. But Frank knew he wasn't alone. He experienced something thousands of people in danger experience,

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