Silver-Suited Being

The Basement: William Shatner | Beyond the Final Frontier: Life, Death, and What Comes After

The Why FilesOct 26, 2026

Star Trek icon William Shatner sits down on The Why Files' The Basement with AJ Gentile to talk about life, mortality, and the masks people wear for those they love. He recounts a strange 1967 incident in the Mojave Desert where, after crashing his dirt bike and finding himself stranded and overheating, a mysterious figure dressed in silver appeared over a ridge and led him to safety. Shatner also reflects on surviving stage 4 melanoma, a final phone call with his dying sister, the philosophy of Spinoza, the reported hum inside the Great Pyramid, and his own theory of what we see at the moment of death.