In 1991, American singer-songwriter Pam Reynolds underwent a rare, high-risk procedure known as a hypothermic cardiac arrest “standstill” surgery to remove a giant brain aneurysm. Her body temperature was lowered to just 15°C, her heartbeat and breathing stopped, and her brain activity registered flat. Yet Pam later described vivid, verifiable details from the operating room, from the surgical tools to conversations between staff, at a time when she should have been completely unconscious. Her case has become one of the most famous and scientifically debated near-death experiences in history. In this episode, we explore Pam’s extraordinary journey, the medical procedures that made it possible, and the questions it raises about life, death, and consciousness.

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On 6 April 1966, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South, more than 200 students and teachers claimed to see a silver, saucer-shaped object hover over a school before darting away at incredible speed. Minutes later, mysterious men arrived and the incident was hushed up. Decades on, the witnesses are still searching for the truth. This is the Westall UFO mystery.

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On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers known as Flight 19 took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine training mission over the Atlantic. But somewhere over the sea, things began to go terribly wrong. The pilots reported bizarre compass malfunctions, shifting skies, and confusion over their location. Then… silence.

Flight 19 vanished and no trace of the aircraft or the crew members was ever found.

Even more chilling? A rescue plane sent to find them also disappeared, adding 13 more to the list of missing.

This baffling event didn’t just confound military investigators, it ignited one of the most enduring legends in modern folklore: the Bermuda Triangle.

In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we follow the eerie final transmissions of Flight 19, the massive search effort that came up empty, and the strange theories that still swirl nearly 80 years later. Was it a tragic navigational error, a magnetic anomaly… or something else entirely?

Five planes went up. None came back.

And the ocean never gave up its dead.

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