SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC
Our host; Dr.G had his first paranormal experience at only eight years old. With over five decades of storytelling, magic and paranormal story collection he is an award winning story teller on a mission to revive firelight and the telling of stories!
SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC
When Ghosts Are People Out of Time: Tesla, Temporal Rifts, and Real‑Time Disappearances
Ever watched a “ghost story” twist into a science problem right in front of you? We open a fresh door on the paranormal by asking a risky question: what if hauntings are just living people slipping between frequencies, slightly out of phase with our reality. Inspired by a listener email and a nod to Tesla’s notes on vibration, we sketch a city manor where time frays, “ghosts” wander confused and alive, and a mundane crime hides at the fracture point. It’s a story scaffold you can actually investigate: use temporal ripples as windows into the past, follow evidence that only appears at the right “tuning,” and decide how much truth is worth the cost of closing the breach.
From that speculative frame, we step into the cold air of real cases that truly bend the mind. Brandon Lawson’s midnight 911 call fragments into fear and static; Cindy Song leaves the faintest trace at home and then nothing; Brian Schaeffer enters a bar ringed with cameras and somehow never exits on film. We walk through Delika Patrick’s unexplained paranoia, Tiffany Daniels’ sand‑dusted car by the surf, and Lars Mittank’s sprint from an airport into the woods. Each case carries the same unnerving rhythm: a conversation interrupted, a routine shattered, technology watching—but not saving. We weigh natural explanations, human complexity, and the lure of high strangeness without tipping into easy answers.
What ties it all together is a method: keep the wonder, keep the rigor. Use narrative as a test bench, evidence as a compass, and community reports as the map we’re still drawing. If you’ve lived a “real‑time disappearance” moment—a call that went wrong, a person who stepped away and never returned—your story might be the missing variable. Press play, think with us, and then weigh in. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves mysteries, and leave a review with the case that haunts you most—your insights may guide the next deep dive.
Hey everybody, Dr. G, Spirit Tales Magic. It's about two o'clock on what we're lovingly referring to as October the 15th. Cassandra and I are getting ready for a private show this evening. Should be a lot of fun. Gonna touch on a couple of things though. Get a couple of interesting emails. Hey Doc, I have a new idea for a ghost story. Actually, it's not my idea at all. It was The Ghost by, I believe, Antonia Barber. That ghosts were actually time-displaced people. Remember your comments about Tesla? So one of the things that Tesla believed in some of his notes that I had access to at one time in my life, that everything exists on a frequency. This time period's on a frequency, another time period's on another frequency. If you could, in fact, learn to alter your frequencies, then why would it be impossible to believe that you could travel in time? It's an interesting theory. So this guy could continue to write, in a way, the past is the underworld, if you think about it. You know, the land of the dead. The past is full of people who are already six feet under. But why not explore a different kind of ghost story? Let's say it like this. This would be one idea. There is this old abandoned manor. It's in the middle of the city. A party is asked to investigate recent hauntings there. Concurrently, they might also be trying to solve a relatively more mundane crime, theft or murder, whose clues lie within the manor. Days confused and delirious, however, experimentation reveals that they are neither dead nor undead. They are actually living people who have been hurled forward from the past and rendered out of phase with material reality. We would call that a temporal disturbance, and it has taken a toll on their mind. Worse, time seems to be growing unstable in an increasing radius around the manor. The city may actually be gradually swallowed up by these ghosts, these people from the past. Can the party find a way to bridge the present with the past and forestall what we would call a temporal disaster? They might also use the temporal disturbances to clearly view the past and unearth the truth of more of the mundane crimes. What really happened here and how was the flow of time lacerated in the first place? So what do you think, Doc? Would this make an interesting twist on the usual ghost or haunting story? Assume that the party has no ghost, undead specialists, or no one who would feel like they had been bait and switched. I think it's certainly an idea that would be worth looking at. I can see about half of the movie script in my mind already. It's definitely something that we could put some research into. I think it's it's worthwhile to to look at it. Second email. Doc, you're gonna think this is crazy, but my friend Dave called me from a very small town in the deep south. It's a place where they still have payphones. I talked to him from 10 o'clock in the evening until about 10 20. He said, I'll call you right back. It's been two months. He didn't come home. All of his belongings are still there. There's no sign of foul play. There's no use on his credit cards. There's no body hiding in the woods or anything like that. He's just not there anymore. Does that sound really far-fetched? Do you know of other cases where people just vanished? I don't have the number in front of me right now, but I can tell you that a lot of people go missing every year. They're just gone. So I think we've covered this before. We're going to touch base on it again, but there's really something extra disturbing about people who vanish in real time. It's like the middle of a phone call, a text, or right after saying, hey, wait a minute, and it's just not that they're gone. It's that someone was on the other end hearing it happen. There's no time gaps, there's no warning, just silence or chaos, and poof, nothing. These cases stick with me more just because they feel so impossible in the moment. I mean, think about that. You're having dinner with a friend in a restaurant. They get up to go, say, to the bathroom. You're waiting and you're waiting. They don't come back. There's nobody in the bathroom at all. They're not there, nobody's there. They're gone. Now, shocking, yes, but once that's over, you have time to think about it. That's an impossible moment. So here's a few that I had become aware of that kind of I'd like to put further research into. So Brandon Lawson was uh, I believe in 2013. He's he was a Texan. He called 911 around 12.50 in the AM saying, yes, I'm in the middle of a field, pulled some guys over right here going toward Abilene on both sides. He was completely incoherent. He also called his brother and he said, I'm bleeding, can you help me? But no one found blood at the scene. His truck was abandoned right there on the highway, and he was never seen again. Remains were never found until 2022. But how he died or what happened that night still makes no sense. ID, wallet, money, credit cards still intact. In Pennsylvania in 2001, Miss Cindy Song went to a Halloween party. She left around 4 AM. She texted her friend, was dropped off the apartment, and just vanished. Phone, purse, even fake eyelashes. Still there. There were rumors that she was abducted by someone involved in a murder case. But nothing's ever been proven. She literally disappeared within minutes of being home. Then there's Brian Schaeffer. I believe this is Ohio in 2006. Went out drinking with some friends at a bar. The bar had many security cameras, and he was seen entering, but he was never seen leaving. The camera showed everyone else in and out, but not him. His cell phone kept ringing for days, but no one answered it. Every minute of footage was intact and reviewed. There was no exit or any way out of the bar that a camera didn't cover. No trace, no noise, no struggle, just gone. Delika Patrick in Michigan in twenty thirteen. Left work, seemed a little paranoid, trying to check into a hotel without ID, then vanished. Her car was later found in a ditch across the state line. Right before she vanished, she'd been sending odd messages to a gospel singer that she was obsessed with. But nothing ties him to her disappearance. Months later, her body was found in a lake. Cause of death? Accidental drowning. But her behavior before vanishing is still a total mystery. Then we would talk about Tiffany Daniels, I believe that's Florida in twenty thirteen. She told her boss she needed time off. She went home, made food, left a note, then drove off. Her car was found eight days later, parked by the beach. There was sand on the floor. She sent a rather cryptic text before leaving, and may have been seen with a man at a nearby gas station. There were no signs of a struggle, no reason to run, no confirmed sighting since. It's like she stepped off the edge of the world and into another time. Then there's Lars Mittenack, Germany or Bulgaria twenty fourteen. This one's famous, but still deserves a look at. He calls his mom, saying I don't feel safe after a fight with some guys at a resort. He was seen acting a little paranoid on some airport footage. Suddenly, he goes sprinting out of the terminal, jumping a fence, and running into the woods. He was never found. Some say it was a mental breakdown, others think it might be foul play. Nobody was ever found, just vanished. These are the ones I think about randomly on one o'clock in the morning on some idle Tuesday. What's the weirdest real-time disappearance you've heard of? Is there someone who was there and all of a sudden was not there? You got a story like that, believe me, we'd love to hear it. And you have our mailing address. You have many ways on the website to contact us. And I can't say this enough. Thanks to everyone who's giving us a like, giving us a share, following us, supporting the show when they can. Please help us to continue to move this forward. We are doing a great job. I guess I should say you are doing a great job. I'm just the doc that talks in the mic. And remember, there is indeed a world unseen. A world that exists all around us all the time. And every now and then, for whatever the reason, we catch a glimpse of it, and the dead get in. Or perhaps today it's the missing. Good afternoon from Phoenix, my friends. We'll talk again soon.
