Inside the Dying Mind: Julie Ryan on Angels, Healing & the 12 Phases of Transition

In this episode of Fringe Beyond Limits, the hosts explore bizarre, real neurological disorders that fracture perception and identity. From alien hand syndrome and Lilliputian hallucinations to Charles Bonnet syndrome, Anton's syndrome, and foreign accent syndrome, listeners hear vivid stories and scientific explanations showing how the brain constructs — and sometimes distorts — reality. Through patient cases, history, and listener reactions, the episode asks unsettling questions about consciousness, identity, and how fragile our experience of the world truly is. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Host Frank interviews Julie Ryan, a medical intuitive, psychic medium and inventor, about consciousness, energy healing, past lives and what she calls the 12 phases of transition. Julie explains how she scans bodies, communicates with angels and deceased loved ones, and describes what she repeatedly observes as people near death. Listeners learn that these abilities can be developed, discover practical examples of healings and near-death encounters, and are pointed to Julie’s resources including her book Angelic Attendance and free downloadable guides for families facing end-of-life transitions. To contact Julie please use the links below Website: https://askjulieryan.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/askjulieryan/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askjulieryan/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-ryan-5224698 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@askjulieryan http://www.youtube.com/@askjulieryanespanol http://www.youtube.com/@askjulieryanportuges     Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This episode investigates the Rendlesham Forest incident of December 1980: military witnesses, the Halt tape, and Jim Penniston's claimed binary message. Hosts examine evidence, physical traces, and competing explanations—extraterrestrials, secret military tech, or time-traveling future humans. Focusing on the provocative hypothesis that the visitors could be humanity’s distant descendants, the episode explores how telepathic communication, nuclear-site patterns, and the restraint of the visitors might fit a chrononaut explanation and what it would mean for our future. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, the hosts dive into the true story of Jeff the Talking Mongoose, an eerie and absurd phenomenon from the Isle of Man in the 1930s. Isolated farming family the Irvings experienced uncanny voices, animal mimicry, and a fast-talking, profanity-laced entity who claimed to be an immortal mongoose from New Delhi. The episode explores the social pressures and isolation that may have produced Jeff, the scientific investigations and debunking attempts, the media circus that followed, and Jeff’s lasting cultural legacy as a weird, enduring folklore figure. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The episode explores the Skoll (Skull) experiment in a Norfolk cellar during the 1990s, where regular sittings produced recurring phenomena: moving lights, disembodied voices, object movement, apports, and unusual images on sealed photographic film. Investigators from the Society for Psychical Research documented repeated, hard-to-explain events but found the conditions—total darkness and limited controls—prevented definitive conclusions. The case remains unresolved, neither proved nor fully debunked. The discussion connects the Skoll reports to broader questions about consciousness, the limits of scientific methods, and whether repeated, controlled study could shed more light on what was witnessed. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On a cold August night in 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain vanished from a campsite near Uluru, prompting Lindy Chamberlain's famous cry: "The dingo's got my baby." What followed was a decades-long saga of sensational media coverage, flawed forensic science, and public hysteria that culminated in wrongful convictions. After years of legal battles, inquiries, and the discovery of missing evidence, the Chamberlains were ultimately exonerated and Azaria's death was officially attributed to a dingo in 2012. This episode explores confirmation bias, junk science, and the heavy human cost of mass judgment. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This episode of Fringe Beyond Limits explores how the "Florida Man" meme grew from true, bizarre headlines into a global folklore figure. Hosts examine odd news stories, the Florida Sunshine Law, the state’s population and environment, and how social media amplified the phenomenon. Using real examples and cultural analysis, the episode explains why Florida became the stage for these stories and what the legend reveals about human curiosity and the internet age. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode of Fringe Beyond Limits, the hosts investigate Project Echo Mind — a purported Cold War program that claimed to record human thoughts onto magnetic tape. They recount Dr. Harold Lange's experiments, famous tapes and their eerie effects, and explore scientific, paranormal, and ethical theories about whether consciousness can leave a measurable imprint. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This episode of Fringe Beyond Limits explores rare psychiatric and neurological conditions that fracture perception and identity. Through documented cases—like Cotard’s walking-corpse delusion, face-distorting prosopometamorphopsia, clinical lycanthropy, Capgras, somatoparaphrenia, Alice in Wonderland syndrome, Ekbom delusional parasitosis, and depersonalization—the hosts explain how these syndromes alter a person’s sense of self, body, and reality. The discussion covers clinical signs, possible neurological and psychiatric causes, examples from modern case studies, and how treatment and insight can sometimes restore a connection to reality. It’s a concise, unsettling look at how fragile our experience of being human can be. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hosts share chilling personal encounters and listener stories about shadow people — from prison sightings and bedroom figures to the Hat Man, crawlers, and child-sized shadows. They examine folklore, sleep paralysis, and theories like djinn or interdimensional beings to explain why so many people report similar experiences. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.