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ED CONRAD
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POPE JOHN XXII
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The question of whether God exists has been a subject of controversy probably
as long as people have been able to talk -- and argue.
If He does exist, God certainly doesn't often make it obvious, undoubtedly for
some very good reason.
But every once in awhile, He allows the incredible reality of His existence -- and
His awesome power -- to be known in the most unlikely sort of way, not only providing
the evidence that He is, but also offering the proof that life certainly doesn't end
when you or your loved ones die.
This, of course, is what happened back in August 1963 when a pair of lowly
rather insignificant coal miners were entombed more than 300 feet below the
surface following a cave-in inside a mine in Pennsylvania's anthracite region.
David Fellin, 58, and Henry "Hank" Throne, 28, seemed destined to die a horrible
death because their chance of being rescued was astronomical, probably even
worse.
However, when all hope seemed gone, God stepped in, flicked His finger and, all
of a sudden, Pope John XXIII -- who had died in a hospital in Rome, Italy, 10 weeks
before the cave-in -- appeared to Fellin and Throne in their pitch-black tomb, radiating
a bluish light that cast no shadow.
Pope John, half the age of the old man he was when he passed away, was grinning at
the two miners, his arms folded in front of him, and remained inside their subterranean
chamber for at least eight full days.
It was in the 14th day of the ordeal that the most incredible mining rescue of all time
took place as Throne, then Fellin, were hauled to the surface through a bore hole
wearing football helmets and parachute harnesses.
After being entombed for 14 days -- the first 5 1/2 without any contact whatsoever
with the outside world and the last 7 1/2 during a phenomenal rescue operation
watched by people around the world in complete fascination -- the two miners
finally were safe on the surface, a most happy ending that was front-page news
in every newspaper throughout the Free World.
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Okay, so God didn't actually stick His visible presence -- His blessed Nose -- into
the making of the many miracles that had taken place inside the mine. But, being
All-Wise, He had sent a fitting ambassador to "supervise" the rescue operation
to make sure the miners would come out alive.
God undoubtedly had picked Pope John for this particular job because, during his
lifetime, his incredible humility had shone like a beacon, even after he had become
World famous.
And that humility was never more obvious than on Christmas Day in 1958 -- beloved
Pope John's very first Christmas at the Vatican -- when, on the spur of the moment,
he decided to pay an impromptu visit to a prison in Rome that housed the city's most
hardened convicts.
When Pope John entered the outer reaches of the prison, both Vatican and prison
staff expressed concern for his safety but breathed a sigh of relief realizing that
impenetrable bars of steel offered sufficient protection from the usually angry men
on the other side.
Imagine, then, how stunned they must've been when Pope John, smiling and waving
to the prisoners who were some distance away, suddenly ordered the main cell door
opened because he said he wanted to go inside.
When Pope John entered the cell block, these so-called hardened criminals dropped
to their knees and began applauding this incredible gesture of love and compassion
for his fellow man.
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Convicts are on their knees and applauding Pope John XXIII as he visits a prison
in Rome on Christmas Day 1958, his first Christmas as pope.
That's why it isn't difficult to figure out why God, when He needed a fitting representative
to keep a pair of crusty miners from their appointment with certain death, certainly
couldn't have made a better choice.
And let it be said, before we go any further, that the incredible story you're about
to read has nothing whatsoever to do with the subject of religion per se -- "Who's
right?" and "Who's wrong?"
This is because Angelo Roncalli, who had spent the twilight of his life spreading
sunshine as Pope John XXIII, tried to unite people of all different faiths and yet
respected those who did not believe. He was a true brother in the Brotherhood
of Man -- and it was just coincidental that he happened to be a priest.
The clear, unmistakable fact is that Pope John XXIII was one of the 20th Century's
most noble, most admired and most loved personalities.
Obviously, that's why even God liked him.
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David Fellin, prior to his death at age 84 in 1990, holds a copy of the Los Angeles
Times which reported that some of the Pennsylvania coal miners, who had been
given up for dead, were remarkably still alive.
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Conclusive evidence of life after death actually has been available for more than
a quarter-century.
This opinion is shared by two of the world's foremost authorities on death and
dying, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Dr. Bruce Greyson. They agree that the
roof had been provided by a pair of Pennsylvania coal miners who, back in 1963,
evealed that Pope John XXIII had appeared to both of them at the same time
during their 14-day entombment following an underground cave-in near Hazleton, Pa.
Pope John died in a hospital in Rome, Italy, on June 3, 1963, some 10 weeks
before the cave-in.
David Fellin, one of the miners, personally had told Dr. Kubler-Ross about the
ppearance of the deceased pontiff and provided details of other mysterious,
asupernatural experiences which he, then 58, and Henry ``Hank" Throne, then 28,
ad shared while cut off from the rest of the world during the first five days of
heir grueling ordeal.
Among the remarkable things Fellin had told Dr. Kubler-Ross during a day-long
conversation in her home in Headwaters, Va., were the two separate occasions
that he insisted he and Throne had been out of their physical bodies at the same
time, during which they actually had engaged in conversation.
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Dr. Kubler-Ross, the internationally acclaimed author of numerous books on death
and dying, said she believed Fellin and stated that the miners' miraculous rescue,
the appearance of the deceased pope and the out-of-body experiences shared by
two persons at the same time -- never before documented -- is ``the evidence . . .
that life does not end when our physical body dies."
Dr. Greyson, then a psychiatrist at the University of Connecticut Health Center and
an official of The International Association for Near-death Studies, had becode
acquainted with the incredible details of the supernatural events connected with
he cave-in only in the last year of Fellin's life but had found them fascinating.
"I am most intrigued by the simultaneous experiences of David Fellin and Hank
Throne, who apparently conversed while out of their bodies," he stated. ``If they
can corroborate each other's accounts, they could provide evidence for the reality
of `The Other Side' beyond anything yet available."
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David Fellin testifies on the Holy Bible that everything he had said concerning his
mysterious, supernatural experiences while entombed was the truth.
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When making that statement, Dr. Greyson, then the editor of The Journal of
Near-Death Studies, hadn't been aware that such corroboration actually had taken
lace soon after Fellin and Throne had been dramatically rescued.
After being pulled to the surface through a 17 1/2-inch bore hole on Aug. 27, 1963,
the two miners had been interviewed individually, then together, by a pair of psychiatrists
and a third staff member from the Institute of the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia.
These intriguing interviews, the subject of an article in the American Journal of
Psychiatry, offered the evidence that both men undoubtedly had been mutual
participants in a series of mysterious, supernatural events, including the
appearance of the late pontiff, and their joint out-of-body experiences.
The Journal article stated that ``neither man exhibited evidence of psychosis
or marked mental abnormality when examined,'' yet dismissed their similar
experiences as ``fantasies" and "hallucinations." The authors felt they had been
caused by the miners' life-threatening situation when entombed.
This was their conclusion even through both men independently had described
a variety of similar unexplained occurrences underground. They had mentioned,
mong other things, that their darkened chamber suddenly was illuminated with
a bluish light; the deceased pontiff appearing to them; and seeing a large
number of men who were neither miners nor members of the rescue party.
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The first photo below shows what appeared to be a hopeless rescue operation
since the only entrance to the mine was barricaded due to toxic gases and
additional cave-ins. The second photo shows members of the crew celebrating
after learning that the bore hole had hit a bull's-eye and that some of the entombed
miners were still alive.
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The mine rescue operation, unprecedented in the annals of mining anywhere
in the world, had become a top news story only after contact had been made
with Fellin and Throne who had been given up for dead.
The two miners had been discovered to be alive after a six-inch bore hole had
been drilled into the earth in a million-to-one shot. The objective had been to reach
an area where three men who had been inside Oneida No. 2 mine might have
found shelter if, indeed, they hadn't perished in the cave-in.
"MINE MIRACLE," headlined the Los Angeles Times in its edition of Monday,
Aug. 19 (1963), although erroneously reporting that all three miners -- including
Louis Bova, 54 -- were alive.
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The rather incredible news that two of the men were still alive after five days
underground was major news and remained so until their rescue.
Mining officials, engineers and men who had worked inside that particular mine
had helped determine the placement of a stake at the most probable location
where the original bore hole should penetrate the earth a distance of more than 300 feet
Fellin revealed that, shortly after being rescued, he had been interviewed for more
than seven hours by the U.S. Navy Survival Team headed by Lt. Richard Anderson,
a medical doctor and psychiatrist.
Fellin said the day after his interview, Lt. Anderson visited his hospital room and
told him he was absolutely certain his experiences were factual because Throne
also had been interviewed for several hours -- something Fellin hadn't even been
aware of -- and their two stories had meshed perfectly.
"Dr. Anderson told me that our story MUST be true because it would be impossible
for two people to concoct a story that would stand up so well during such lengthy
interviews," said Fellin. "In fact, he told me if the President (Kennedy) or the pope
(Pope Paul VI, who succeeded Pope John XXIII) would say our story wasn't true,
I shouldn't argue with them but simply walk away because he KNOWS it's true."
It should be noted that all attempts to obtain a copy of Fellin's taped interview
or a transcript from the U.S. Navy in recent years has been unsuccessful. In fact,
avy officials first denied knowledge of Lt. Anderson but later -- in response to
request for information by a U.S. Congressman -- admitted that he had resigned
from the Navy in 1964, the year following the cave-in and rescue..
Dr. Kubler-Ross said Fellin's revelations are ``obviously true'' and emphasized
that she is convinced that Pope John XXIII had much to do with their survival.
"From the moment of the late pope's appearance until they were moved out
of the drillholes, he illuminated their cave with a bluish light radiating from him,"
she stated.
Fellin tells his remarkable story to Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, considered the
world's leading authority on death and dying and the author of several books.
She was the very first person in all of medicine to claim there IS life after
physical death. Kubler-Ross said she believed "every word."
Dr. Kubler-Ross also was greatly impressed by the manner in which the two
iners had survived the first five days following the cave-in, calling it ``a guideline
for our miners, soldiers, mountain climbers and all those at risk to face a similar
ordeal one day." She referred to their battle to stay alive as ``a story of faith,
courage, and mutual care and respect . . ."
Concerning Fellin's claims of having shared two out-of-body trips with Throne
at his side, Dr. Kubler-Ross said she is certain they indeed had taken place,
calling them ``very real, as I am happy to witness from my own life experiences."
Throne actually was the first to reveal the supernatural experiences after being
rescued, even though Fellin emphatically had warned him not to do so. He said,
just before Throne had been hauled to the surface, he had grabbed him by the
shirt and told him he'd better not say a word about them because ``If you do,
right away they'll say you're nuts."
Throne failed to heed the advice and, in fact, had told several nurses and
attendants at Hazleton State General Hospital about a few of the mysterious
occurrences soon after being flown there in a U.S. Navy helicopter.
Throne also mentioned some of these mysterious events during an exclusive
interview he had granted to The Associated Press which had appeared in
newspapers worldwide. Fellin also had been interviewed by the AP, during
which he corroborated some of the things his companion had related.
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Commented Throne while being interviewed by AP:
"There were times we saw people who weren't there
and lights that weren't there and doors that weren't there.
Imagine seeing a regular house door down in the bottom
of a mine. I'd sleep! I'd wake up. I'd see all kinds of lights
and the actual figures of people. They now tell me these
were hallucinations but the crazy thing is that Davey
would see the things the same as I did."
Commented Fellin during his interview:
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"Now they're trying to tell me those things were hallucinations,
that we imagined it all. We didn't! Our minds weren't playing
tricks on us. I've been a practical hard-headed miner all my
life. My mind was clear down there in the mine. These things
happened! I can't explain them. I'm almost afraid to think
what might be the explanation."
Fellin said just after granting these interviews to the wire service, psychiatrists
and psychologists began inferring that Throne, whose interview was published
first, temporarily had lost his sanity inside the mine. This undoubtedly explains
why Throne, who is still living, had been reluctant to discuss these experiences
after freely talking about them in the first few days following his rescue.
Fellin decided to say nothing further about them for years because he said he
had become extremely angry that his companion's sanity had been seriously
questioned. ``If they wouldn't believe Hank (back in 1963), they sure as hel
wouldn't have believed me," said Fellin.
However, over the past five years before his death, Fellin had left numerous
notarized letters and taped conversations -- both audio and video -- in which
he vividly detailed a number of supernatural events in which he insisted he had
participated.
Fellin said he was absolutely certain he and Throne had been out of their physical
bodies because, the first time it happened, they suddenly found themselves
STANDING some 40-50 feet from the refuge area with a crowd of normal-looking
men on both sides of them. He said he then looked over his shoulder and saw
him and Throne still SITTING back in the enclosure. Fellin said he needed
additional proof that it wasn't a dream or a hallucination, therefore extended his
right hand in front of one of the men standing next to him to see if it would cast
a shadow, which it did.
``That's when I knew for sure I wasn't going crazy," said Fellin. ``If that hadn't
appened, I never would've mentioned a word about the strange things which
had taken place."
Due to Fellin's age and very poor eyesight, the letters had been written on his
behalf by veteran newsman Ed Conrad of the Hazleton Standard-Speaker,
ho had met the longtime miner for the very first time a week before his 80th
birthday at the wake of a mutual friend.
Conrad had been greatly impressed with Fellin's almost total recall of events
concerning the cave-in and rescue and also was impressed with his intelligence
and tremendous humility. When Fellin revealed some of the strange events
which had transpired while he and Throne were entombed, Conrad pursued
the role of an investigative reporter.
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David Fellin, then in his early 80s, and Ed Conrad stand at the tombstone of
Louis Bova which had been erected near the bore hole through which Fellin
and Hank Throne were rescued. Bova was killed in the cave-in.
Fellin's letters had been based strictly on what he had told Conrad during their
conversations, the vast majority of which had been taped. Each letter had been
read to Fellin, who signed it and had it notarized only after it had met his
omplete satisfaction as being totally accurate.
Conrad also arranged for Fellin to take a polygraph concerning his revelations
about the validity of his experiences and he emphatically agreed to do so.
One question asked of Fellin was: ``After your chamber suddenly lit up with
a mysterious bluish light, did you and Hank see Pope John XXIII, then Hank
asked you `Who's that fella?' " He answered ``Yes."
Fellin also was asked: ``When you and Hank were out of your enclosure for the
first time, did you find yourself walking among a large crowd and then look back
and see you and Hank still sitting in the chamber? He answered ``Yes."
The certified polygraphist who had administered the test had stated in writing that
the answer to both questions had revealed ``no reactions indicative of deception."
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In one of his letters, Fellin testified that when it was apparent that neither he nor
Throne would get out of the mine alive, he had gotten angry with God and said
a ``prayer'' in which he had demanded that the Creator at least have the decency
to let him know what evil he had done in his lifetime that he was being forced to
die ``a thousand deaths'' while facing mental and physical torture inside the mine.
He said a short while later, what appeared to be three tiny bluish fireflies suddenly
appeared in the total darkness, began expanding and soon filled the entire chamber
with a bluish light.
Fellin testified that the bluish light, which cast no shadow, had provided perfect
visibility. He also said the small enclosure where they had been trapped expanded,
nabling them to move around.
Fellin further testified that, when the bluish light enabled them to see, he noticed
Pope John XXIII at an elevation in the distance, visible only from the waist up.
He said the pontiff, who was 81 when he died, appeared to be about half that age,
his arms were folded in front of him and he was grinning at them.
Fellin said Pope John, who had been elected the Catholic church's 262nd pontiff
in 1958, was wearing a black cassock ``like that of a poor parish priest.
``It wasn't a vision and it wasn't a picture," he remarked. ``It was him: Pope John!
I'd have recognized him anywhere."
Fellin said he hoped Throne wouldn't see the pope -- fearing Hank would go
berserk if he realized a dead man was with them -- but the younger man definitely
aw him because he had pointed at the pontiff and excitedly asked: ``Who's that fella?"
Fellin also testified that Pope John remained with him and Throne right up to the
time they were hauled to the surface (a week later) wearing parachute harnesses
and football helmets while newspapermen from around the world were assembled
at the mine site.
Pope John, one of 13 children of an Italian sharecropper, was admired for his
tremendous humility. In his first appearance to a huge crowd assembled in the
Vatican courtyard following his election, he came out wearing only a cassock
and surplice to the great surprise of the huge crowd and the utter shock of church
hierarchy.
Fellin, during the last years of his life, insisted he had made numerous incredible
journeys to ``The Other Side" of death.
``I was shown `The Other World'," he stated. ``This is NOT the real world. We
have to earn our place in the real world. I KNOW because I made the whole trip."
Fellin, interestingly, said a multitude of persons who have come close to death
and later insisted they had traveled through ``a tunnel of light" are mistaken.
``This is because they're unknowledgeable about tunnels," he explained. ``I spent
more than 50 years working inside tunnels in the mines and even helped build
many of them, so I should know a lot about tunnels -- and I do!
``These people didn't travel throught a tunnel. Actually, there's an umbrella of light
over their head and it moves along with them as they move along in the darkness."
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Dave Fellin, in the twilight of his life, proudly holds a copy of the London Evening
News published on Aug. 27, 1963, the day he and Hank Throne were miraculously
rescued.
Much of what Fellin had seen and experienced during his journeys to ``The Other
Side" is detailed in additional notarized letters.
It should be noted that, during their second joint out-of-body journey, Fellin and
Throne had come across beautiful marble doors which were open and revealed
stairs. Throne told Fellin they should walk up the stairs because they would lead
to the surface and safety. However, when Throne was in the process of taking
is very first step toward the doors, they suddenly closed and he became
extremely angry, threatening to break down the doors. When he did, he and
Fellin were returned to their physical bodies.
Following that incident, Throne made no additional out-of-body trips, although
Fellin insisted he made many, many others past the marble doors.
Among Fellin's most remarkable revelations were journeys he insisted he had
taken back in time which had afforded him an opportunity to witness monumental
vents of history as they actually occurred.
He testified, for example, that he had watched the construction of the pyramids
in Egypt and had been aboard Christopher Columbus' ship -- unseen by Columbus
and his crew -- during his journey to discover America. As for the time-honored
question of how the pyramids were built, Fellin said, based on what he had
observed, it was nowhere near the gargantuan task as is generally theorized.
He emphasized that it did not require thousands of men working for hundreds
of years because not a single multi-ton rock had to be hauled to the site from
a great distance.
Meanwhile, Fellin said Columbus -- whom he described as having yellow hair
nd a red beard -- was Tyrolean, not Italian, and that the secret of his success
was simply because he had mastered the use of the compass. The compass
ssured Columbus that, if he didn't reach land by the time half of the crew's
food supply was depleted, he'd simply turn his vessel around and head in the
opposite direction to make it back to his home port.
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Fellin told Conrad that he had learned that Columbus' real name wasn't even
Columbus.
``He was called Columbo, which is Latin for pigeon, but it was only his nickname,"
e explained. ``Columbus had earned the nickname by sailing to points unknown
and always returning safely. So people around the docks started calling him
olumbo -- meaning that he was a homing pigeon that always returned to its nest.
"Of course, they didn't realize Columbus was using the compass -- a very large
compass which was right in the middle of his very small cabin -- to earn his reputation
as an excellent seaman. Back then, the compass had been regarded as nothing
more than a child's toy, not as a navigating instrument."
Explicit details of Fellin's out-of-body journeys which enabled to watch the pyramids
being built as well as to observe Columbus during his trip across the Atlantic to
discover America in 1492 are revealed in several of his notarized letters.
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Hank Throne, just a few years before he passed away, holds a copy of the Hazleton
Standard-Speaker which detailed his rescue from the mine shaft.
Only in the last years of his life did Fellin learn that the bull's-eye hole, which had
enabled contact with the outside world, hadn't even been drilled at the original stake.
One of the men in charge of the rescue operation had admitted in a newspaper
article on the fifth anniversary of the cave-in that the heavy rig containing the drill,
which had been driven to the mine site from a distance of many miles, actually
had experienced mechanical failure some 20-30 feet from the stake.
It was then decided, since the unprecedented attempt to reach the men through
a bore hole bordered on the impossible, that drilling be done precisely where
the truck had broken down.
Once contact had been made with Fellin and Throne, the only hope of rescuing
them was to drill a much larger bore hole, through which the men could be pulled
to the surface. The bit used to drill the 17 1/2-inch-wide hole, through which they
eventually were hauled to the surface, had been flown to the site free of charge
by one of billionaire Howard Hughes' drilling companies in Texas.
Bova died as a result of the cave-in in the mine located only a half-mile from
Fellin's home and his body was never recovered. A tombstone had been erected
above the area where the cave-in had occurred.
Fellin and Throne, who had been underground a total of 329 hours and 17 minutes,
ad received a telegram from President Kennedy, who would be assassinated
in Dallas less than three months later.
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`Congratulations," JFK had wired them. ``The stamina, courage and spirit which
you and your rescuers have exhibited in recent days have earned the admiration
of all Americans. I wish to join with them in expressing my heartfelt good wishes
for your speedy recovery."
The cave-in and rescue had been featured as part of the ``Survival!" television
documentary series in the mid-1960s and the program -- complete with actual
film clips of the rescue -- had been telecast several times.
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Copyright (c) 1990, Ed Conrad , All Rights Reserved
POPE JOHN XXII
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The question of whether God exists has been a subject of controversy probably
as long as people have been able to talk -- and argue.
If He does exist, God certainly doesn't often make it obvious, undoubtedly for
some very good reason.
But every once in awhile, He allows the incredible reality of His existence -- and
His awesome power -- to be known in the most unlikely sort of way, not only providing
the evidence that He is, but also offering the proof that life certainly doesn't end
when you or your loved ones die.
This, of course, is what happened back in August 1963 when a pair of lowly
rather insignificant coal miners were entombed more than 300 feet below the
surface following a cave-in inside a mine in Pennsylvania's anthracite region.
David Fellin, 58, and Henry "Hank" Throne, 28, seemed destined to die a horrible
death because their chance of being rescued was astronomical, probably even
worse.
However, when all hope seemed gone, God stepped in, flicked His finger and, all
of a sudden, Pope John XXIII -- who had died in a hospital in Rome, Italy, 10 weeks
before the cave-in -- appeared to Fellin and Throne in their pitch-black tomb, radiating
a bluish light that cast no shadow.
Pope John, half the age of the old man he was when he passed away, was grinning at
the two miners, his arms folded in front of him, and remained inside their subterranean
chamber for at least eight full days.
It was in the 14th day of the ordeal that the most incredible mining rescue of all time
took place as Throne, then Fellin, were hauled to the surface through a bore hole
wearing football helmets and parachute harnesses.
After being entombed for 14 days -- the first 5 1/2 without any contact whatsoever
with the outside world and the last 7 1/2 during a phenomenal rescue operation
watched by people around the world in complete fascination -- the two miners
finally were safe on the surface, a most happy ending that was front-page news
in every newspaper throughout the Free World.
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Okay, so God didn't actually stick His visible presence -- His blessed Nose -- into
the making of the many miracles that had taken place inside the mine. But, being
All-Wise, He had sent a fitting ambassador to "supervise" the rescue operation
to make sure the miners would come out alive.
God undoubtedly had picked Pope John for this particular job because, during his
lifetime, his incredible humility had shone like a beacon, even after he had become
World famous.
And that humility was never more obvious than on Christmas Day in 1958 -- beloved
Pope John's very first Christmas at the Vatican -- when, on the spur of the moment,
he decided to pay an impromptu visit to a prison in Rome that housed the city's most
hardened convicts.
When Pope John entered the outer reaches of the prison, both Vatican and prison
staff expressed concern for his safety but breathed a sigh of relief realizing that
impenetrable bars of steel offered sufficient protection from the usually angry men
on the other side.
Imagine, then, how stunned they must've been when Pope John, smiling and waving
to the prisoners who were some distance away, suddenly ordered the main cell door
opened because he said he wanted to go inside.
When Pope John entered the cell block, these so-called hardened criminals dropped
to their knees and began applauding this incredible gesture of love and compassion
for his fellow man.
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Convicts are on their knees and applauding Pope John XXIII as he visits a prison
in Rome on Christmas Day 1958, his first Christmas as pope.
That's why it isn't difficult to figure out why God, when He needed a fitting representative
to keep a pair of crusty miners from their appointment with certain death, certainly
couldn't have made a better choice.
And let it be said, before we go any further, that the incredible story you're about
to read has nothing whatsoever to do with the subject of religion per se -- "Who's
right?" and "Who's wrong?"
This is because Angelo Roncalli, who had spent the twilight of his life spreading
sunshine as Pope John XXIII, tried to unite people of all different faiths and yet
respected those who did not believe. He was a true brother in the Brotherhood
of Man -- and it was just coincidental that he happened to be a priest.
The clear, unmistakable fact is that Pope John XXIII was one of the 20th Century's
most noble, most admired and most loved personalities.
Obviously, that's why even God liked him.
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David Fellin, prior to his death at age 84 in 1990, holds a copy of the Los Angeles
Times which reported that some of the Pennsylvania coal miners, who had been
given up for dead, were remarkably still alive.
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Conclusive evidence of life after death actually has been available for more than
a quarter-century.
This opinion is shared by two of the world's foremost authorities on death and
dying, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Dr. Bruce Greyson. They agree that the
roof had been provided by a pair of Pennsylvania coal miners who, back in 1963,
evealed that Pope John XXIII had appeared to both of them at the same time
during their 14-day entombment following an underground cave-in near Hazleton, Pa.
Pope John died in a hospital in Rome, Italy, on June 3, 1963, some 10 weeks
before the cave-in.
David Fellin, one of the miners, personally had told Dr. Kubler-Ross about the
ppearance of the deceased pontiff and provided details of other mysterious,
asupernatural experiences which he, then 58, and Henry ``Hank" Throne, then 28,
ad shared while cut off from the rest of the world during the first five days of
heir grueling ordeal.
Among the remarkable things Fellin had told Dr. Kubler-Ross during a day-long
conversation in her home in Headwaters, Va., were the two separate occasions
that he insisted he and Throne had been out of their physical bodies at the same
time, during which they actually had engaged in conversation.
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Dr. Kubler-Ross, the internationally acclaimed author of numerous books on death
and dying, said she believed Fellin and stated that the miners' miraculous rescue,
the appearance of the deceased pope and the out-of-body experiences shared by
two persons at the same time -- never before documented -- is ``the evidence . . .
that life does not end when our physical body dies."
Dr. Greyson, then a psychiatrist at the University of Connecticut Health Center and
an official of The International Association for Near-death Studies, had becode
acquainted with the incredible details of the supernatural events connected with
he cave-in only in the last year of Fellin's life but had found them fascinating.
"I am most intrigued by the simultaneous experiences of David Fellin and Hank
Throne, who apparently conversed while out of their bodies," he stated. ``If they
can corroborate each other's accounts, they could provide evidence for the reality
of `The Other Side' beyond anything yet available."
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David Fellin testifies on the Holy Bible that everything he had said concerning his
mysterious, supernatural experiences while entombed was the truth.
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When making that statement, Dr. Greyson, then the editor of The Journal of
Near-Death Studies, hadn't been aware that such corroboration actually had taken
lace soon after Fellin and Throne had been dramatically rescued.
After being pulled to the surface through a 17 1/2-inch bore hole on Aug. 27, 1963,
the two miners had been interviewed individually, then together, by a pair of psychiatrists
and a third staff member from the Institute of the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia.
These intriguing interviews, the subject of an article in the American Journal of
Psychiatry, offered the evidence that both men undoubtedly had been mutual
participants in a series of mysterious, supernatural events, including the
appearance of the late pontiff, and their joint out-of-body experiences.
The Journal article stated that ``neither man exhibited evidence of psychosis
or marked mental abnormality when examined,'' yet dismissed their similar
experiences as ``fantasies" and "hallucinations." The authors felt they had been
caused by the miners' life-threatening situation when entombed.
This was their conclusion even through both men independently had described
a variety of similar unexplained occurrences underground. They had mentioned,
mong other things, that their darkened chamber suddenly was illuminated with
a bluish light; the deceased pontiff appearing to them; and seeing a large
number of men who were neither miners nor members of the rescue party.
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The first photo below shows what appeared to be a hopeless rescue operation
since the only entrance to the mine was barricaded due to toxic gases and
additional cave-ins. The second photo shows members of the crew celebrating
after learning that the bore hole had hit a bull's-eye and that some of the entombed
miners were still alive.
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The mine rescue operation, unprecedented in the annals of mining anywhere
in the world, had become a top news story only after contact had been made
with Fellin and Throne who had been given up for dead.
The two miners had been discovered to be alive after a six-inch bore hole had
been drilled into the earth in a million-to-one shot. The objective had been to reach
an area where three men who had been inside Oneida No. 2 mine might have
found shelter if, indeed, they hadn't perished in the cave-in.
"MINE MIRACLE," headlined the Los Angeles Times in its edition of Monday,
Aug. 19 (1963), although erroneously reporting that all three miners -- including
Louis Bova, 54 -- were alive.
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The rather incredible news that two of the men were still alive after five days
underground was major news and remained so until their rescue.
Mining officials, engineers and men who had worked inside that particular mine
had helped determine the placement of a stake at the most probable location
where the original bore hole should penetrate the earth a distance of more than 300 feet
Fellin revealed that, shortly after being rescued, he had been interviewed for more
than seven hours by the U.S. Navy Survival Team headed by Lt. Richard Anderson,
a medical doctor and psychiatrist.
Fellin said the day after his interview, Lt. Anderson visited his hospital room and
told him he was absolutely certain his experiences were factual because Throne
also had been interviewed for several hours -- something Fellin hadn't even been
aware of -- and their two stories had meshed perfectly.
"Dr. Anderson told me that our story MUST be true because it would be impossible
for two people to concoct a story that would stand up so well during such lengthy
interviews," said Fellin. "In fact, he told me if the President (Kennedy) or the pope
(Pope Paul VI, who succeeded Pope John XXIII) would say our story wasn't true,
I shouldn't argue with them but simply walk away because he KNOWS it's true."
It should be noted that all attempts to obtain a copy of Fellin's taped interview
or a transcript from the U.S. Navy in recent years has been unsuccessful. In fact,
avy officials first denied knowledge of Lt. Anderson but later -- in response to
request for information by a U.S. Congressman -- admitted that he had resigned
from the Navy in 1964, the year following the cave-in and rescue..
Dr. Kubler-Ross said Fellin's revelations are ``obviously true'' and emphasized
that she is convinced that Pope John XXIII had much to do with their survival.
"From the moment of the late pope's appearance until they were moved out
of the drillholes, he illuminated their cave with a bluish light radiating from him,"
she stated.
Fellin tells his remarkable story to Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, considered the
world's leading authority on death and dying and the author of several books.
She was the very first person in all of medicine to claim there IS life after
physical death. Kubler-Ross said she believed "every word."
Dr. Kubler-Ross also was greatly impressed by the manner in which the two
iners had survived the first five days following the cave-in, calling it ``a guideline
for our miners, soldiers, mountain climbers and all those at risk to face a similar
ordeal one day." She referred to their battle to stay alive as ``a story of faith,
courage, and mutual care and respect . . ."
Concerning Fellin's claims of having shared two out-of-body trips with Throne
at his side, Dr. Kubler-Ross said she is certain they indeed had taken place,
calling them ``very real, as I am happy to witness from my own life experiences."
Throne actually was the first to reveal the supernatural experiences after being
rescued, even though Fellin emphatically had warned him not to do so. He said,
just before Throne had been hauled to the surface, he had grabbed him by the
shirt and told him he'd better not say a word about them because ``If you do,
right away they'll say you're nuts."
Throne failed to heed the advice and, in fact, had told several nurses and
attendants at Hazleton State General Hospital about a few of the mysterious
occurrences soon after being flown there in a U.S. Navy helicopter.
Throne also mentioned some of these mysterious events during an exclusive
interview he had granted to The Associated Press which had appeared in
newspapers worldwide. Fellin also had been interviewed by the AP, during
which he corroborated some of the things his companion had related.
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Commented Throne while being interviewed by AP:
"There were times we saw people who weren't there
and lights that weren't there and doors that weren't there.
Imagine seeing a regular house door down in the bottom
of a mine. I'd sleep! I'd wake up. I'd see all kinds of lights
and the actual figures of people. They now tell me these
were hallucinations but the crazy thing is that Davey
would see the things the same as I did."
Commented Fellin during his interview:
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"Now they're trying to tell me those things were hallucinations,
that we imagined it all. We didn't! Our minds weren't playing
tricks on us. I've been a practical hard-headed miner all my
life. My mind was clear down there in the mine. These things
happened! I can't explain them. I'm almost afraid to think
what might be the explanation."
Fellin said just after granting these interviews to the wire service, psychiatrists
and psychologists began inferring that Throne, whose interview was published
first, temporarily had lost his sanity inside the mine. This undoubtedly explains
why Throne, who is still living, had been reluctant to discuss these experiences
after freely talking about them in the first few days following his rescue.
Fellin decided to say nothing further about them for years because he said he
had become extremely angry that his companion's sanity had been seriously
questioned. ``If they wouldn't believe Hank (back in 1963), they sure as hel
wouldn't have believed me," said Fellin.
However, over the past five years before his death, Fellin had left numerous
notarized letters and taped conversations -- both audio and video -- in which
he vividly detailed a number of supernatural events in which he insisted he had
participated.
Fellin said he was absolutely certain he and Throne had been out of their physical
bodies because, the first time it happened, they suddenly found themselves
STANDING some 40-50 feet from the refuge area with a crowd of normal-looking
men on both sides of them. He said he then looked over his shoulder and saw
him and Throne still SITTING back in the enclosure. Fellin said he needed
additional proof that it wasn't a dream or a hallucination, therefore extended his
right hand in front of one of the men standing next to him to see if it would cast
a shadow, which it did.
``That's when I knew for sure I wasn't going crazy," said Fellin. ``If that hadn't
appened, I never would've mentioned a word about the strange things which
had taken place."
Due to Fellin's age and very poor eyesight, the letters had been written on his
behalf by veteran newsman Ed Conrad of the Hazleton Standard-Speaker,
ho had met the longtime miner for the very first time a week before his 80th
birthday at the wake of a mutual friend.
Conrad had been greatly impressed with Fellin's almost total recall of events
concerning the cave-in and rescue and also was impressed with his intelligence
and tremendous humility. When Fellin revealed some of the strange events
which had transpired while he and Throne were entombed, Conrad pursued
the role of an investigative reporter.
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David Fellin, then in his early 80s, and Ed Conrad stand at the tombstone of
Louis Bova which had been erected near the bore hole through which Fellin
and Hank Throne were rescued. Bova was killed in the cave-in.
Fellin's letters had been based strictly on what he had told Conrad during their
conversations, the vast majority of which had been taped. Each letter had been
read to Fellin, who signed it and had it notarized only after it had met his
omplete satisfaction as being totally accurate.
Conrad also arranged for Fellin to take a polygraph concerning his revelations
about the validity of his experiences and he emphatically agreed to do so.
One question asked of Fellin was: ``After your chamber suddenly lit up with
a mysterious bluish light, did you and Hank see Pope John XXIII, then Hank
asked you `Who's that fella?' " He answered ``Yes."
Fellin also was asked: ``When you and Hank were out of your enclosure for the
first time, did you find yourself walking among a large crowd and then look back
and see you and Hank still sitting in the chamber? He answered ``Yes."
The certified polygraphist who had administered the test had stated in writing that
the answer to both questions had revealed ``no reactions indicative of deception."
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In one of his letters, Fellin testified that when it was apparent that neither he nor
Throne would get out of the mine alive, he had gotten angry with God and said
a ``prayer'' in which he had demanded that the Creator at least have the decency
to let him know what evil he had done in his lifetime that he was being forced to
die ``a thousand deaths'' while facing mental and physical torture inside the mine.
He said a short while later, what appeared to be three tiny bluish fireflies suddenly
appeared in the total darkness, began expanding and soon filled the entire chamber
with a bluish light.
Fellin testified that the bluish light, which cast no shadow, had provided perfect
visibility. He also said the small enclosure where they had been trapped expanded,
nabling them to move around.
Fellin further testified that, when the bluish light enabled them to see, he noticed
Pope John XXIII at an elevation in the distance, visible only from the waist up.
He said the pontiff, who was 81 when he died, appeared to be about half that age,
his arms were folded in front of him and he was grinning at them.
Fellin said Pope John, who had been elected the Catholic church's 262nd pontiff
in 1958, was wearing a black cassock ``like that of a poor parish priest.
``It wasn't a vision and it wasn't a picture," he remarked. ``It was him: Pope John!
I'd have recognized him anywhere."
Fellin said he hoped Throne wouldn't see the pope -- fearing Hank would go
berserk if he realized a dead man was with them -- but the younger man definitely
aw him because he had pointed at the pontiff and excitedly asked: ``Who's that fella?"
Fellin also testified that Pope John remained with him and Throne right up to the
time they were hauled to the surface (a week later) wearing parachute harnesses
and football helmets while newspapermen from around the world were assembled
at the mine site.
Pope John, one of 13 children of an Italian sharecropper, was admired for his
tremendous humility. In his first appearance to a huge crowd assembled in the
Vatican courtyard following his election, he came out wearing only a cassock
and surplice to the great surprise of the huge crowd and the utter shock of church
hierarchy.
Fellin, during the last years of his life, insisted he had made numerous incredible
journeys to ``The Other Side" of death.
``I was shown `The Other World'," he stated. ``This is NOT the real world. We
have to earn our place in the real world. I KNOW because I made the whole trip."
Fellin, interestingly, said a multitude of persons who have come close to death
and later insisted they had traveled through ``a tunnel of light" are mistaken.
``This is because they're unknowledgeable about tunnels," he explained. ``I spent
more than 50 years working inside tunnels in the mines and even helped build
many of them, so I should know a lot about tunnels -- and I do!
``These people didn't travel throught a tunnel. Actually, there's an umbrella of light
over their head and it moves along with them as they move along in the darkness."
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Dave Fellin, in the twilight of his life, proudly holds a copy of the London Evening
News published on Aug. 27, 1963, the day he and Hank Throne were miraculously
rescued.
Much of what Fellin had seen and experienced during his journeys to ``The Other
Side" is detailed in additional notarized letters.
It should be noted that, during their second joint out-of-body journey, Fellin and
Throne had come across beautiful marble doors which were open and revealed
stairs. Throne told Fellin they should walk up the stairs because they would lead
to the surface and safety. However, when Throne was in the process of taking
is very first step toward the doors, they suddenly closed and he became
extremely angry, threatening to break down the doors. When he did, he and
Fellin were returned to their physical bodies.
Following that incident, Throne made no additional out-of-body trips, although
Fellin insisted he made many, many others past the marble doors.
Among Fellin's most remarkable revelations were journeys he insisted he had
taken back in time which had afforded him an opportunity to witness monumental
vents of history as they actually occurred.
He testified, for example, that he had watched the construction of the pyramids
in Egypt and had been aboard Christopher Columbus' ship -- unseen by Columbus
and his crew -- during his journey to discover America. As for the time-honored
question of how the pyramids were built, Fellin said, based on what he had
observed, it was nowhere near the gargantuan task as is generally theorized.
He emphasized that it did not require thousands of men working for hundreds
of years because not a single multi-ton rock had to be hauled to the site from
a great distance.
Meanwhile, Fellin said Columbus -- whom he described as having yellow hair
nd a red beard -- was Tyrolean, not Italian, and that the secret of his success
was simply because he had mastered the use of the compass. The compass
ssured Columbus that, if he didn't reach land by the time half of the crew's
food supply was depleted, he'd simply turn his vessel around and head in the
opposite direction to make it back to his home port.
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Fellin told Conrad that he had learned that Columbus' real name wasn't even
Columbus.
``He was called Columbo, which is Latin for pigeon, but it was only his nickname,"
e explained. ``Columbus had earned the nickname by sailing to points unknown
and always returning safely. So people around the docks started calling him
olumbo -- meaning that he was a homing pigeon that always returned to its nest.
"Of course, they didn't realize Columbus was using the compass -- a very large
compass which was right in the middle of his very small cabin -- to earn his reputation
as an excellent seaman. Back then, the compass had been regarded as nothing
more than a child's toy, not as a navigating instrument."
Explicit details of Fellin's out-of-body journeys which enabled to watch the pyramids
being built as well as to observe Columbus during his trip across the Atlantic to
discover America in 1492 are revealed in several of his notarized letters.
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Hank Throne, just a few years before he passed away, holds a copy of the Hazleton
Standard-Speaker which detailed his rescue from the mine shaft.
Only in the last years of his life did Fellin learn that the bull's-eye hole, which had
enabled contact with the outside world, hadn't even been drilled at the original stake.
One of the men in charge of the rescue operation had admitted in a newspaper
article on the fifth anniversary of the cave-in that the heavy rig containing the drill,
which had been driven to the mine site from a distance of many miles, actually
had experienced mechanical failure some 20-30 feet from the stake.
It was then decided, since the unprecedented attempt to reach the men through
a bore hole bordered on the impossible, that drilling be done precisely where
the truck had broken down.
Once contact had been made with Fellin and Throne, the only hope of rescuing
them was to drill a much larger bore hole, through which the men could be pulled
to the surface. The bit used to drill the 17 1/2-inch-wide hole, through which they
eventually were hauled to the surface, had been flown to the site free of charge
by one of billionaire Howard Hughes' drilling companies in Texas.
Bova died as a result of the cave-in in the mine located only a half-mile from
Fellin's home and his body was never recovered. A tombstone had been erected
above the area where the cave-in had occurred.
Fellin and Throne, who had been underground a total of 329 hours and 17 minutes,
ad received a telegram from President Kennedy, who would be assassinated
in Dallas less than three months later.
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`Congratulations," JFK had wired them. ``The stamina, courage and spirit which
you and your rescuers have exhibited in recent days have earned the admiration
of all Americans. I wish to join with them in expressing my heartfelt good wishes
for your speedy recovery."
The cave-in and rescue had been featured as part of the ``Survival!" television
documentary series in the mid-1960s and the program -- complete with actual
film clips of the rescue -- had been telecast several times.
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