Destiny: J. Allan Danelek — Ghosts Explained: An Objective Look at the Paranormal

Summary

Paranormal researcher J. Allan Danelek joins host Cliff Dunning to break down his book Ghosts Explained: An Objective Look at the Paranormal, arguing that ghosts are the conscious, disembodied personalities of people who have not yet moved on. He explains why some souls linger, how they manifest visually as orbs, vortexes, or full-body apparitions, and why poltergeists and low-vibration non-human entities may be something else entirely. The conversation also covers living ghosts, animal apparitions, EVPs, Ouija boards, channeled music and novels, and how to respectfully ask an unwanted spirit to leave.

Key takeaways

• 1Danelek defines a ghost strictly as the disembodied personality of a once-living human who either chooses to stay or becomes trapped, often only for months or decades rather than centuries.
• 2Abraham Lincoln's ghost was reportedly seen in the White House Lincoln Bedroom in the early 20th century, and Lincoln allegedly dreamed of his own assassination weeks before it happened.
• 3Rosemary Brown, a British woman in the 1960s, claimed that deceased composers including Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven dictated new music to her.
• 4Patience Worth, said to be a 17th-century Puritan girl, came through a Ouija board to a housewife around 1913 and produced acclaimed novels by automatic writing.
• 5Danelek claims low-vibration non-human entities can attach to depressed people and amplify their despair, possibly contributing to suicides.
• 6The biblical account of King Saul and the Witch of Endor summoning the prophet Samuel is cited as ancient evidence of spirit communication.

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Transcript excerpt

Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. Music Well, there you go. Happy Halloween. We are into that part of the year. And I think we have a change in the daylight, too. Daylight Savings Times ends this weekend. I believe it's November 1st. So, happy Halloween. I hope you're doing well. We are talking about ghosts and other phenomenon. Poltergeists actually seeing ghosts. this phenomenon. And what's interesting is when we look at the Western version of afterlife, ghosts, and other phenomenon that's dimensional, we typically. Don't look at it from the indigenous point of view. And I really do appreciate Day of the Dead, which is November 1st and 2nd every year. It's actually after I was mistaken for a number of years that it was combined. It should be, though, because Halloween should also be thinking of our past relatives, friends, even animals can be brought into that conversation. But it's sacred to the indigenous people because they are connected and they cherish their relatives and friends who have passed over. And this is much more accepted in the Latin community than it is in Western culture because we're afraid of it. We have Hollywood that turns it into horror movies and frightening apparitions and things like that. Whereas it should be a time to bless and commune with these departed souls. I find it interesting when you begin looking at oral traditions of communicating on a regular basis with our ancestors. And we just don't say ancestors. These are actually communications in meditative practices, in group councils, with shaman who are more focused and tuned in to those departed souls than a lot of people are. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Oct 28, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.