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waiting” (Chorvinsky, 1997). A terrible death
smell, like something rotting in the sun, hung
in the air.
The nurse felt a literal freezing sensation
when the figure stared at her. She quickly retreated.
By the time she got to her original
destination, the male nurse on duty saw that
she was cold. He wrapped her in blankets and
gave her hot chocolate. It was two hours,
however, before she felt herself able to speak
about what she had seen.
Another re t i red nurse claimed to have
seen the Grim Reaper on a number of occasions.
“Us u a l l y,” she said, “I just see a dark
f i g u re, robed, standing near the nurses’ station,
or perhaps in the hall. Ve ry rare l y, the
f i g u re will be white. I’ve never heard it speak,
but someone always dies within a few days of
its appearance.”
A man identified only as A. L. told a story
with a different ending. Late one evening in
1974, he was sitting in his Yonkers, New
York, apartment while his three children slept
in their rooms. His wife was in their bathroom.
When he happened to glance to his
right, he was startled to observe a blackhooded
figure holding a scythe, its face a luminous
white skull. It was staring at him as it
glided slowly backward and disappeared
through the door. Fearing that the Reaper had
come for someone, A. L. banged on the bathroom
door. When he got no response, he entered
and found his wife lying on the floor
next to an empty bottle of pills. With the assistance
of his sister and her husband, who
lived close by, he was able to revive his wife
and take her to the hospital. “The encounter
has left me with the feeling that the Reaper is
a special friend,” he told Chorvinsky. “He appeared
to me and gave warning instead of taking
someone.”
Someone else claimed that the Grim Re a p e r
s a ved his life when he was eight years old.
Dennis Wa rd rop was skating on a pond when
the ice gave way under his feet, and he
plunged into the frigid water. He tried desperately
to find a way out as his lungs filled with
the water. He felt something poking him and
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grabbed onto it as it lifted him to safety. After
he wiped the water from his eyes, he was terrified
to learn that he was holding the blunt end
of a long scythe in the hands of a tall, large figu
re with the face of a decomposing corpse. It
w o re a black robe and a hood over its head. Inside
the eye sockets we re “swirling whirlpools
of black and dimly glowing reds.” An “odor of
d e a t h” permeated the air. Perhaps sensing his
f e a r, the fig u re assured him (whether telepathically
or orally is not explained) that he would
be okay, that it was not yet his time. The boy
collapsed from exhaustion. When he re v i ve d
soon there a f t e r, the fig u re was gone, and he
felt curiously warm even though it was only
f o u rteen degrees above ze ro.
Chorvinsky writes, “I have investigated
particularly intriguing cases in which the
Reaper has been seen by multiple witnesses.
And . . . I know of incidents in which the
Reaper was reported to have actually healed
injuries and assisted the ill and the dying.”
Further Reading
Chorvinsky, Mark, 1997. “Encounters with the
Grim Reaper.” Strange Magazine 18 (Summer):
6–12.
Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn
Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn—usually addressed
and referred to simply as Hatonn—speaks
through Doris Ekker (known as Dharma).
George and Desiree Green and others associated
with the Phoenix Project distribute Hatonn’s
messages through a magazine called the
Phoenix Journal. Hatonn describes himself as
“Commander in Chief, Earth Project Transition,
Pleiades Sector Flight command, Intergalactic
Federation Fleet-Ashtar Command;
Earth Representative to the Cosmic Council
and Intergalactic Federation Council on Earth
Transition” (“Who Is Hatonn?”).
Hatonn denies that the process through
which he communicates is channeling. It is,
he says, more like radio transmission directly
from spaceship to contactee. “We travel and
act,” he says, “in the direct service and under
Command of Esu Jesus Immanuel Sananda.