Reality Glitch Vol. II

[upbeat music] One evening in the summer of 1974, a 60-year-old doctor named Julian Kircher sat beside his backyard pool at his home in Old Westbury, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

It was a quiet, sunny day, and Dr. Kircher was glad to have some time to relax.

He was a surgeon at a local hospital, and he also had a wife and four children, so it was not often that he got a moment of peace to himself.

And so Dr. Kircher leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes and tried to relax for a second, when all of a sudden he heard something rustle in the bushes nearby.

Now, at first he just figured it must be a squirrel or a bird or something, so he didn't even bother opening his eyes.

Like, this is just nature.

It's fine.

But this rustling sound persisted and it just wouldn't stop.

And so eventually Dr. Kircher did open his eyes and he got up out of his chair to go see what was going on.

Now, these bushes were like 20 feet away from the doctor, and so in order to truly investigate, he had to get up and actually walk over there.

And so he gets up and he takes a few steps when he suddenly freezes, because now when he's looking at the bushes, he sees there is someone standing basically in the bushes, a person.

But he realized this person was not a normal looking person.

The person was wearing what appeared to be this, this dark, long robe that covered their whole body, and in fact, the robe kind of obscured their face.

It was like they were this dark presence just standing there in the middle of these bushes.

And so Dr. Kircher is just frozen, having no idea how to react to this.

I mean, does he call out for help? Does he, you know, chase this guy out of his yard? Like, what does he do here? And as he's standing there transfixed, this person in the robe extends one of their arms, this long, skinny arm, and kind of begins to beckon Dr.

Kircher towards them.

And Dr. Kircher went from being sort of startled to being terrified.

This figure basically looked like the Grim Reaper, and it felt like now the Grim Reaper is beckoning him to come with him, to come die, basically.

That was the feeling he suddenly had, and it was unbelievably overwhelming.

And so Dr. Kircher is staring, horrified.

He blinks for a second, and the man is gone.

Over the next few days, Dr. Kircher obsessed over what he had just seen.

I mean, really, it felt like he had just witnessed the Grim Reaper and worse, that the Grim Reaper was, like, telling him to come with him.

Like he was signaling to Dr. Kircher that his time on Earth had come to an end, that his death was imminent.