Premonition and Tragedy: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Prophetic Vision and Assassination

In this powerful episode of Generation X Paranormal, we delve into the chilling premonition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the tragic events surrounding his assassination. Did Dr. King foresee his untimely death? What clues did he leave behind in his speeches and personal reflections? Join Logan and Nicole as they explore the spiritual, historical, and paranormal elements of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. From his haunting “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech to the unanswered questions about his assassination, we uncover the mysteries behind his prophetic vision and untimely passing.

Tune in for a thought-provoking discussion blending history, spirituality, and the unexplained. Subscribe now for more intriguing episodes of Generation X Paranormal.

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In your life's blueprint, you must have as a basic principle, the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor.

You're going to be deciding as the days and the years unfold what you will do in life, what your life's work will be.

And once you discover what it will be set out to do it and to do it well.

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, be a scrub in the valley.

Well, hey, everybody, welcome back.

Hey, everyone.

So I'm Logan.

I'm Nicole.

And this is Generation X Paranormal.

You probably can guess by the way we sound, we're just a tad bit under, actually, to tell you the truth, we're getting better-ish.

We're on the upward trend.

We're on the upward trend of whatever's going around.

And a little truth in advertising, this is our first episode back where we're actually recording after the Christmas break.

Or I should say the holiday break.

And it was a good break.

If you ever do any of this, if you're a content creator of any kind, you know there's no such thing as an actual break.

You just get a small pause.

And unfortunately, during that pause, we got sick.

And I guess as of recording now, it's January 7th.

And when I talk to everybody, and honestly, you could go online, and every content creator out there is sick.

Yeah, they are.

Yeah.

I can't tell you how many YouTube videos I've watched were just like, you know, I've been sick for, you know.

So nonetheless, you know, we're happy to be back.

How was the holiday for you?

It was great.

I got to see all my family.

Yeah.

It was awesome.

Not like I wasn't there.

Yeah.

Well, speaking of that, you know what I mean.

Speaking of that, my awesome cousins got us this little gift.

I thought I'd show everybody.

It's a little Bigfoot.

Yep.

It's Bigfoot.

Yeah.

Or if you're an Adam the Woo fan, Big the Foot.

But there you go.

Yeah.

So open up all your bottles.

Yep.

And your little, if you're listening to it on the podcast, they got us this really cool, like die-cut keychain Bigfoot, which is pretty cool.

So thanks Amber and Alex.

Yes.

We love it.

Thank you very much.

We do love it.

But yeah, it was good.

Quick.

It went fast.

Oh, it always does.

Yeah.

It just seemed like a little bit quicker.

And luckily we didn't get hung up in too much bad weather.

That waited until now.

Yep.

It's like 17 degrees outside right now.

But we were already sick, so we couldn't go anywhere anyway.

We weren't going anywhere.

There's been a lot of couch the last week or so.

But yeah, we're excited to be back.

And we've already talked about this before, but a lot of changes are coming up.

Obviously new sound and we have got some, and I'm not going to give anything away, but we have got some absolutely crazy stuff coming up.

Yeah, we're excited.

Yeah, we're super excited.

We want so badly to tell you, but and I'm the worst.

She'll tell you, I want to spill the beans the second I hear about it.

So, but anyway, yeah, so today.

Also, we want to say a little shout out to Sarray.

Yep, Sarray.

Hey, Sarray, thanks for listening.

So today's, it's an important topic and there will be some Paranormal behind it, okay?

It's not that it's not.

In fact, to tell you the truth, the Paranormal portion of this show is going to be really interesting.

I think a lot of people may know this, but I'm venturing to say there's a very large proponent of people, especially the younger crowd, that probably doesn't know this.

Well, I'm younger than you and I didn't know it until I looked it up, so.

It's not hard to be a little younger than me.

But yeah, and of course, guys, we're talking about Martin Luther King.

I guess I should say Martin Luther King Jr.

Yes, technically.

Technically.

You know, this particular episode, it resonates with me on honestly on so many interesting levels.

For starters, my dad was a huge MLK guy.

In fact, I mean, he constantly had books of his and it was very important to him.

And oddly enough, I lost him April 4th.

So if you know when this all went down when when he was killed, it was April 4th.

So on that just on that little note alone, there's some gravitas, I should say, for me.

And then of course, you know, although I am not of the same ethnicity as Dr.

King, he fought for a lot of minorities.

It wasn't just for, you know, his movement, but it's tough.

You know, it resonates with me on a lot of different levels.

And, and you don't have to be a person of color per se to know what it's like to be, you know, inspired.

Yeah.

And he's very inspired.

I'm inspired by everything he did.

And his cause was amazing.

So, yeah, kind of heavy.

So, yeah, start this off.

So, this will come out Friday before Martin Luther King Jr.

Day, which is Monday, January 20th of 2025.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So make sure you just take a moment and appreciate what he did.

But to start this off, we've actually been to the Lorraine Motel.

Yeah.

Didn't plan on being there.

No.

In fact, I'll be honest with you.

I'm really kind of, I wouldn't say embarrassed, but like almost a little bit dumbfounded how that all sort of went down.

Well, we took a trip to Memphis to go see Graceland.

Yes.

OK.

So that's why we were actually there.

Go see Graceland.

So we went and did the whole thing, went over to the house.

What else?

We went through the museums and that takes nearly an entire day.

Yeah.

There's this really awesome metal museum that we went to.

Yeah, we did that.

Awesome.

And then we also went to Sun Studio.

Yeah.

We were there.

And Sun Studio, I'm a guitar.

It was really cool.

I didn't expect it to be so neat.

Absolutely amazing.

And I'm a guitar player, and I'm a big fan of a lot of the older music, kind of coming up in that time frame.

So going there was a huge thing for me.

It was exciting because a lot of people came out of that.

Obviously, Elvis, I mean, a couple of people heard of him.

Johnny Cash, yes, of course, he recorded there.

Jerry Lee Lewis, and there's a couple of others that I...

You know that more than I do.

Yeah, I think like the Statler Brothers.

Anyway, it was a very well-known place.

It's extremely well-known.

We're going to put some pictures in here of our trip because we got to actually sit in the seat that Elvis sat in all the time.

So we sat there, and the microphone that he first sang into is still there, and the piano where the famous picture is, we'll put that up too, of all of them around it.

So that was a really cool thing.

But all of that activity got us hungry.

Just a little bit.

So I can't remember if somebody recommended it or if we looked it up, but we were wanting what?

Barbecue because it's Memphis.

You got to have Memphis barbecue.

So I don't remember how we got to this place, but we go to this little rickety old building.

From the outside.

Yeah, it definitely looks like, it's called Central Barbecue.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

And it was really, really good.

But after we're done, we're walking back to the car.

Yeah.

And I remember, I'm looking at guys, I'm so sorry because I feel, this is the part where I'm like, you know, you'd have thought you'd know that.

But I'm looking around, there's these people kind of milling around and there's all this activity in the parking lot.

I'm like, look, I know that the barbecue was good, but geez, I mean, they're just hanging out in this.

I mean, I don't know, you know, it's a popular spot.

Well, as luck would have it, it only happens to be across the street, well, at least behind the Lorraine Motel.

And if you don't know what the Lorraine Motel is, you're about to find out a whole lot about it.

But it unfortunately was a setting of, you know, a very tragic event.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

So with that, let's get on with the history of the hotel.

Okay, sounds good.

Now, so the Lorraine, it wasn't actually named that in the beginning.

Okay.

Okay.

It was opened in 1925 as a 16-bedroom Windsor Hotel.

Windsor Hotel.

Is what it was called.

Okay.

At 450 Mulberry Street, Memphis, Tennessee.

And it did start as a whites-only hotel that slowly catered to the black population as they kind of moved in the area.

Yeah.

And they eventually changed that name to the Marquette.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

So it's had several names.

Now, I don't know if everybody's seen this movie.

We didn't.

I loved it.

The Green Book with Viggo Mortenson.

And I'm sorry if I-

Mahershala Ali.

Mahershala Ali.

Thank you.

Mahershala Ali.

I loved that movie.

It was really, really good.

But it became, it was one of those that was in that Green Guide.

It was actually called the Green Guide.

And it was marked as a safe motel to go to if you were an African American.

Right.

Where they could stay safely and nothing would happen to them.

Yeah.

And honestly, it was written by their community.

So it was-

Yeah.

Yeah.

It held a lot of important information for them.

So yeah.

So then from there, Walter and Laurie Bailey, okay, these people are important, purchased the hotel in 1945 and renamed it the Lorraine Motel.

Okay.

And I read somewhere that they had like actually, I think it was just one story at that point and they added the second story.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

Okay.

And that's what turned it from a motel into a hotel.

Is that what you do?

I guess.

I don't know.

If you guys know, let us know.

Yes, but yeah.

Now, it did cater because where it's at, like we said, that restaurant was not too far from Sun Studio, down there in Memphis where all the entertainers and stuff hang out and recorded their songs and all that stuff.

So-

Right.

It was a huge blues contingent that was all throughout that entire area.

So of course, that being right there catered to those entertainers.

They didn't have to, and it was dangerous for them to go in the wrong part of town.

So they would stay there.

Now, I think Beale Street, which is the famous street, is like a block away.

Yeah.

Okay.

Now, Stax Records was located on Beale Street as well, and they were responsible for recording Otis Redding, Albert King and Booker T.

Yeah.

I remember those 45s.

My dad used to listen to them all the time and I remember Stax.

It was amazing.

Now, there was, let's see, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke all stayed at the Lorraine at one point.

I mean, that is a wealth of amazing musicians.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

Okay.

So that's the history of the Motel Hotel.

Okay.

Now, Martin Luther King Jr did stay at this place multiple times.

Whenever he was in Memphis, he would go to this one.

Right.

And it makes sense.

And he'd get the same room, actually.

Really?

I didn't know that.

He'd get the same room.

Okay.

So the month of April, 1968, King was in Memphis, and he was there to support some striking sanitation workers.

Right.

Okay.

And this was supposed to happen earlier, but it got rescheduled.

There was a lot of stuff going on, and we're not going to go through all that history because it would take forever.

And we're not here for that.

We're here for the main event and afterwards.

But I do urge you, if you're interested in it, it is a very...

There was a lot of reason for him to be there.

And why the sanitation workers were on strike.

There was just...

I urge you to get some history knowledge because it is very important.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, I guess he got a bomb threat before he even came to Memphis.

Yeah.

For the plane, I think.

But he decided to go ahead and come.

Now, he was staying in room 306, which is on the second floor.

Yeah.

Okay.

And there were reports that Dr.

King entered and left his room like three different times during this day.

So, this is Thursday, April 4th of 1968.

Yeah.

Okay.

Now, he was there, kind of resting, waiting to go to dinner, basically.

He was going to be a guest at the home of Reverend Samuel B.

Kiles, which is a pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church.

So, he was just kind of waiting around, going to go to dinner soon.

I think the sun was starting to, you know, kind of go down.

This is still April, so, I mean.

Yeah, I mean, you're gonna.

Around seven o'clock, I would say, sun was gonna set, something like that.

Now, this Chauncey Eskridge, okay, was a man that was there, and he was the attorney for the King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

And Solomon Jones was also there, who was the chauffeur that was driving King around.

Okay.

And they were in the parking lot, okay, below the room.

Right.

So, and we'll put pictures up, but for those of you listening, the Lorraine, obviously, Nicole mentioned that it is a two-story.

Yeah.

The door is on the outside, obviously.

Right, right.

And the railing.

And those individuals were downstairs in the parking lot, and they had direct view up to the railing and the rooms up above them.

Now, King came out on the balcony, and he told Solomon Jones, which is the chauffeur, quote, Solomon, I am ready to go start the car.

Now, all what I'm saying here is all quotes from these two men of what they saw.

Right.

Okay.

Now, Eskridge, remember who's the attorney, said, quote, we were both standing down on the parking lot, looking up at him as he stood on the balcony.

Okay.

This is around six o'clock.

Okay.

I'm just going to say that now.

King waited as Jones started the car and he kind of peeked his head out of the car and he said to Dr.

King, he said, quote, you had better get your coat, Dr.

King, because it has turned cool.

At that point, he said, King looked up, rubbed his arms and then looked down at Jones saying, quote, you are right.

He smiled and then Jones heard the shot.

Okay.

Now, Jones said, quote, he had a kind of surprised look on his face and he fell very slowly.

He said he clutched at his neck as he fell and Jones said he looked over his shoulder and about 25 feet away, he saw a man jump out of some bushes and run.

Quote, he had something white on his face.

Now, before we go further, I'm not going to get into the whole who did it, all the things afterward or where they went.

I just kind of wanted to mention that because I smell a rat.

Yeah.

It's all I'm going to say because every other count is, you're going to hear it came through the bathroom window and all this stuff.

But this guy was on the ground and he saw something.

So, I think there was multiple things involved here.

And that's all we're going to go into it because this is not what the about.

It's this is going to be about Dr.

King is not about the person who killed him or the people responsible.

Exactly.

So, we're not going to get into that.

But again, though, we do urge you, please look it up.

Look at all the different angles because it's very interesting.

Now, Eskridge, at this point, runs up the stairs and he says, quote, his eyes were closed and I thought he was dead then.

He said he was so full of love, so full of life and full of hope.

How on earth could this have happened?

So, these are these two men's account that, you know, our reporter had interviewed them.

Now, they also said standing with King on that there were several people on the balcony.

So, this is not just the only people, but standing with King on the balcony several feet away was Reverend Jesse Jackson, who was the King's chief organizer of Economic Boycotts of White Businesses at the time, okay?

And he was very close with King.

And his, so King's aide, Andrew Young, was also there, who moments before was told by King, now this is important, this kind of leads to what we're talking about.

Right.

He was told by King, quote, be sure to sing Blessed Lord Tonight and sing it well.

Okay.

Now, Eskridge says, quote, Jesse went and got a blanket and put it over him.

If Dr.

King ever said anything after he was shot, he must have said it to Reverend Jackson, but I don't believe he did.

And I've heard other people's accounts of what happened basically after he was shot.

They just thought he was dead.

That was it.

So I don't think he spoke after that.

Now, he was taken to St.

Joseph Hospital in Memphis.

And at 7...

This happened at 6.04 or something like that p.m.

At 7:05 p.m., Dr.

King died in the emergency room of a gunshot wound to the right cheek that broke his jaw, went through his spinal cord.

He was only 39 years old when he died.

So, the fact that it went there, I don't know if he wouldn't have been capable of speaking, I don't think.

And even if he...

Let's just say if the mechanism, and I know this is very non...

I'm basically just talking from a medical background.

If you have a broken jaw, theoretically, you can still talk, okay?

But when it hits the spinal cord, now we're talking about neurological things, and I don't think, and I hope, that he was gone as quickly as he could.

I think he probably was.

I think he was too, but you just don't know.

But no, whenever you get a spinal injury like that, yeah.

And I'm just going to say this, because I have to do a lot of research for these podcasts.

I don't go off of one source.

No, she doesn't.

Because one newspaper might say this, and one report might say this, and somebody might make this up, and you get conflicting information, and so you have to find what you think is valid and what is the most used thing to basically find what the true answer is.

Because like I said, they quoted, they say he grabbed his neck, but then the medical report says he was shot in the face basically.

But it makes sense for the trajectory of the bullet.

If it goes in the mouth, he grabbed his neck because he felt it in the spinal cord.

That makes sense.

But you have to read multiple things.

So if you're ever doing your own research for anything, you always gotta, don't go off one thing.

You gotta multiple, multiple, multiple check.

It does take time.

It's not something that's going to go fast.

But that's essentially what happened to him.

Now, I'm just gonna briefly talk about the killer, whom we don't know who it is.

We know who's been blamed for it.

Who was charged with it.

Who's charged with it, James Earl Ray, which, not funny, but I guess funny enough, he was at the Missouri State Penitentiary.

And we've heard that story being at the Missouri State Penitentiary, that he escaped there in a bread truck, and then several years later kills King.

Now, like I said, we're not gonna get into that type of stuff right now.

Right, but I'm gonna say one quick thing.

But we're not gonna get into that stuff right now.

We have to, though.

Okay, never mind, I won't say it.

Okay, now, whoever it did, they found a.30-06 caliber Remington pump rifle equipped with a telescopic sight with a.30 caliber bullet.

So that's what killed him, okay?

People in the, it was like a rooming house that was across the street from the Lorraine.

Some people call it like a flop house.

Yeah.

Heard a man come down the stairs, and he dropped the rifle, a pair of binoculars and a small bag containing some clothing in a doorway that just happened to match James O'Rae's stuff, okay?

Now, people saw him climb into a white 1966 Mustang and speed off north.

The thing about the Mustang is funny because I saw other accounts where people said they saw two white Mustangs speed off, and another newspaper article was talking about, or I think it was one of the policemen said, oh, a white Mustang.

I guess that was the most produced color of that car in like, like five years.

It was always a white Mustang.

So they were all over the place because when they were looking for the car, they were parked all over the city.

So it made it really hard to find him, okay?

Now, police found the 30-06 cartridge in the upstairs bathroom of room five in this rooming house, okay?

And a chair had been placed next to the open window, which is one account, and the other account said that he was standing in the bathtub.

So I'm not sure which it actually is, but I'm presenting you with both of them.

And they said a drape had been pulled out of the way, okay?

Now if you, and we've got pictures, if you look through that bathroom window, it's a straight shot over to Dr.

King's room.

Yeah, I mean, it's literally, you know, it's a sniper's nest, really, is what it is.

Perfect.

And when they measured, it was exactly 205 feet and three inches from the window to where Dr.

King was standing.

That's a pretty close shot for a rifle like that.

That is a very close shot.

And having been in the military and having to qualify with the rifle more times than everyone admit, that's not that far away.

So you don't have to be the greatest shot.

And with a.30-06, I mean, you just need to get close.

Because whatever it hits at that range, well, we know what happened.

Now we're going to include some photos here.

Some I got from some newspapers at the time, which I love because you always want to go with firsthand accounts, as opposed to years later because things can change in that time period.

So we'll put a few of those up.

And I also want to give credit to Henry Groszinski.

He was a life photographer at the time, then went and took pictures at the Lorraine.

Right.

And graphic, if there are children watching, you need to turn this off now.

But he took pictures of the blood on the balcony where Dr.

King was killed.

I mean, and it's terrible.

Like, and I guess it was the hotel's brother that actually...

The hotel's brother?

The hotel...

Shut up.

The hotel owner's brother.

Okay.

That was actually like he was sweeping up the blood and he was...

Yeah.

I don't know what this was for, but he was putting the blood in a jar.

And I don't know if they kept it, what that was for, or just a way to get it up off of there.

I don't know, but...

Yeah.

I don't know.

It's a bit morbid when you think about it.

It is.

Yeah.

I know that nowadays they'll put this stuff down.

It's like a...

I don't know.

It's made out of some wood or something like that.

When you lay it down, it kind of sucks everything up.

Like they did in elementary school when people would throw up in the bathroom.

We used to call those barf bits.

It's nasty.

But it's the same principle if you guys know what we're talking about.

Yeah.

But that's not what he's using here.

No.

I should say with it being a black and white photo, I don't know, but I assume that's not what he's doing.

Now, they said he was scooping it up into the jar.

It's just odd.

Excuse me.

Yeah.

He also took pictures inside the room.

There's a very classic photo here of King's suitcase.

Yeah.

And some of his clothes, his brushes, book, stuff like that.

So, there's some, I mean, they're sad photos.

Yeah, they are.

Actually, but for a life photographer.

I mean, in a big sense, he's, you know.

There's a reason a lot of Pulitzer Prize photography is done on it.

And the one thing that resonates with me a lot is, you know, there's a lot of these pictures and of course the blood and everything, but you look at his suitcase and right at the top of it in letters says MLK.

I mean, it's just, I don't know, it tugs at the heart.

Okay, so the next part, which is something I had no idea about, and I don't know that most people do.

I mean, unless you really looked into this, you'd be the only ones to know this, but I did not know this.

Nor did I.

Okay, so the owners of the hotel, I keep wanting to say motel because we've gone back, or Walter and Laurie Bailey.

I don't know, I saw conflicting reports about this.

Okay, it either happened during the night or the next morning, and it was unclear because there was different newspaper accounts of what actually happened or when it happened, but the wife, Laurie, actually, they think she went into shock, because they were close with Dr.

King.

I mean, he'd stay there.

Yeah, I mean, they were friends with him, so this happens in their hotel, but she basically goes into shock.

Some of the accounts said that it happened during the night, and the brother-in-law found her, but then there's accounts that the husband saw her convulse.

I'm not sure which it is, but she was taken to the hospital.

Now, remember, Dr.

King was shot at 6 o'clock on-

April 4th.

April 4th, Monday night, okay?

So she died at the hospital on Tuesday, April 9th, at 8:58 a.m.

at the Baptist Hospital.

So she survived a little bit longer in the hospital, but she was taken the very next morning.

So-

Yeah, and you got to think, here's the literally the face of a movement, obviously a huge movement, civil rights movement.

The owners were African-American.

So here you are, you've got arguably probably the most important person in maybe in their universe right now.

This is somebody that obviously we weren't around during that time, but I can only imagine that there was a lot of resonating with what he said.

It was a huge movement.

And then at the her place of business, the place that you own, that happens.

Yeah, I can see where someone would potentially have a breakdown or a heart attack or something like that.

Yeah.

So they think she had a stroke.

Yeah.

And that can be brought on by stress.

You know, so, you know, the conflicting reports is whether she was found, you know, later displaying there, or if she was actually having that in front of someone, I don't know.

But it was the day after he got shot, like the next morning, they found her at like 9 a.m.

So in rush to the hospital, and she only lasted like a week in the hospital and died.

She was only 55, 55 years old.

So you got two tragedies right there at that hotel within two days of each other, you know?

I mean, and I never heard that the owner of the hotel had died.

No, I'd never heard that either, but to be honest with you, that's not really something, at least when I was young, you didn't really learn that much about, you know, the area, you obviously, you're taught the highlights of what happened, but.

Well, everything was focused on him.

Right.

At the time.

Now, the husband Walter, he did put up like a dedication at the hotel, you know, for Dr.

King and his wife, Laurie.

Yeah, I couldn't imagine his sense of loss.

No, I mean, yeah.

Anyway, so Walter tried to operate the motel for another 14 years.

Okay.

But then he had to declare bankruptcy in 1982.

But there was a foundation called the Save the Lorraine Foundation that stepped in and purchased it and allowed him to continue running it as a motel until 1988 when he died, Walter died.

So even though it wasn't his anymore, this foundation saved it so that that was a good thing.

Okay.

Right.

Now, in there was some reconstruction done, you know, between those years.

And in 1991, it reopened as the National Civil Rights Museum.

Now, we didn't go through that.

I wish we had.

I wish we had because we were on a, I think we had to get back or something because we didn't mean to stumble upon this.

No.

And I wish you would have, but we'll be back to Memphis sometime.

Oh, we're going back and we're absolutely doing this.

And you know, what's interesting is that the, we'll just say the facade of the hotel is very much so in the, and again, we're going to show pictures, but the museum, if you're not paying attention, it is, it's this vast thing right behind it.

I mean, they, they put a lot of resources into this, so it's amazing.

Now, this is not after the reconstruction, but even when Walter was still running this SM Motel, he kept Dr.

King's room the way it was left the same time as when he last was in there.

Okay.

Yeah, I mean, why wouldn't you?

You know, I mean, something that cataclysmic that happened in your place, I'm surprised he'd ever enter that room again.

Well, they, and I don't know, I'm sure some of the stuff, but like, I think some of the bedsheets were pulled back because Dr.

King had been laying in them.

That's left there.

A can of pomade is on the vanity.

Gideon Bible was on the nightstand.

There were dishes that he had used were left in the room from the kitchen, because Laurie would prepare the food and take it to the guests.

So where he had ate off those dishes are still there.

The dishes are still there.

I'm sure they cleaned the food off of it, because that would be gross.

The adjacent room, so he was in 306.

So in 307, they decorated it in honor of Laurie.

You can go through, and I wish we would have known that.

We didn't know that at the time when we were there, so we didn't even go inside there.

But they've got a partition where you can look into the room and see.

I mean, it is, it's like a time capsule.

Yeah, and you always make that argument about, and we're going to get into this, but we're not going to talk about, this kind of goes towards ghost and things of that nature, apparitions.

When you leave something that way, there's a very real chance that there's some attachment still involved.

Granted, guys, this is not what this show is about, but I'm just saying, every time you see something like that, you always wonder about that.

Right.

Now, I mean, the Lorraine is supposedly haunted, right?

They say that they feel the presence of Lori.

Okay.

They also say that you can feel the presence of Dr.

King.

Right.

Okay.

In the room, there's like a heavy presence, there's a sadness, there's stuff like that.

Yeah.

I mean, when someone's quickly killed like that, I could see where that would happen.

His belongings are in that room.

So he has attachment to those things.

Absolutely.

But will we ever know?

No, because you can't investigate the place or anything like that.

I mean, it's the way people feel, but you also got to think, okay, you're going in.

It's just like going to a memorial, like the Vietnam Wall Memorial in DC.

I was there in seventh grade or something like that.

It has that same feeling, that heavy.

Even though there's no bodies there, it's just that you know what that represents.

Absolutely.

I think it's part of just our psyche, like we know.

I think that that weight, that's something I think, like you said, transcends more than just a paranormal attachment.

Right.

I personally, this is my personal belief, even though we're paranormal people, that's an interesting way of saying that.

But even though we were very much so in this thing, there are some places I think should never ever be investigated.

True.

I think that should never ever be investigated.

Now, someone probably has, who knows?

Well, standing outside the room, but, yeah, not in the typical sense.

Right.

I think it's just in honor of those folks that paid an ultimate price for a movement, you know, respect that needs to be given.

Now, here's where we talk about the paranormal, because we can't really talk about if it's technically haunted.

Nobody technically knows that.

I mean, nobody's caught EVPs or, I mean, because you can't investigate it.

But the assumption is definitely that there is more than likely some.

There's probably at least residual, if nothing else.

However, this is something that I wasn't really aware of.

And you said you had heard a little bit about it, but I didn't realize how much of it there was.

And this is part of paranormal.

This is something that you have to think about, because our consciousness takes place with this.

Absolutely.

And who told me about it was my dad, which again, just, yeah.

And this is something that's not just Dr.

King.

It's a lot of people that have been assassinated have, and there's somewhat of a reason for this, but it's our intuition, a premonition that you're going to die.

And apparently Dr.

King knew he was going to die.

Now, aside from the constantly getting threats, I mean, his house is blown up.

I mean, there were all these types of things.

Everybody wanted to kill him, right?

The KKK was after him, those types of things.

Besides just knowing that and always getting threats, I mean, that's already at the baseline, but it's specific to certain events.

So we're gonna get into that a little bit of his premonitions.

Now, in the months before King died, he sensed it.

He did.

He shared his premonition with his aid, Andrew Young, who happened to be on the balcony with him when he passed away.

Andrew Young said, he said, quote, he talked about death all the time.

Yeah.

On March 27, 1968, in a New Jersey visit for his Poor People's Campaign, while speaking with Oliver Lofton, he said, quote, he started talking all this fatalistic stuff.

And speaking about his return in New Jersey, King said, quote, I may not come back.

Now, this is in March of 1968.

He dies very next month.

Like, he knew he was never going to see New Jersey again.

Right.

And, you know, and we talk about some of the folks who have gone through this.

You know, very famously, Abraham Lincoln, and I don't know if we're covering that here, but you have a Kennedy.

There was a sense, I mean, Lincoln had these horrible, horrible nightmares, you know, and they came to fruition.

So I don't think that Dr.

King's, I guess what he's seeing is just him that does it.

But man, you know, he had this premonition.

And, you know, obviously, I would love to have him around, but to just curious of what it is that, you know, you see before that happens, because it's so, they were so, especially with, like, Abraham Lincoln, he was troubled by he, like, I think for the last portions of his life, barely slept, he didn't eat much, because he knew what was happening.

I think it's just a feeling.

It's probably a feeling.

And some people get visions too.

Yeah.

So, I don't know.

But he also told his friend, Reverend Mortimer Kartveldt, that he'd meet with a violent end and would probably be killed by an assassin's bullet.

And he'd had the vision of his assassination on March 31st, 1968, four days ahead of his death.

So, he did have a vision.

Yeah, he did.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

And, you know, it was one of those things where, I remember my dad telling me very vividly, he said, he knew he was gonna die.

And again, you always say, kind of like you mentioned, if you're an activist, especially during that, well, honestly, in any time.

Well, there's so much violence, you just assume it's, you know, the risk is very high, but that's different than the feeling that you're, you know what I mean?

To have the vision of it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, we watched this, and it was really disturbing because he made a speech while in Memphis, and it was his final speech, and they call it I've Been to the Mountaintop speech, and he gave it at the Mason Temple in Memphis on April 3rd, 1968, the day before he was assassinated.

It's hard to watch.

It is hard to watch.

And we're going to play a little part of it right here, but if you, the look on his face, for people that are just listening, the look on his face tells it all.

Like you can see it in his eyes that he feels like, that's it.

He's gone.

It almost feels like he thought that day.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It really got to me, but we're going to play that clip right here.

I may not get there with you, but I want you to know the night that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.

Yeah.

I mean, just seeing his face is just, you know, and I don't know, when he went to sit back down, I remember the comment is he was like flushed, like his whole emotion collapsed.

He collapsed.

They had to help him to his seat.

So he obviously, this was Dr.

Martin Luther King had made so many speeches by this point.

Now, for some of the younger folks and even for some people that may not have ever heard one of his speeches, he was very, very amazing order by his presence and how much emotion he put in everything.

You could see where-

Obama on steroids.

Yeah, right.

I mean, you could definitely see the two very similar.

You could tell he was just depleted, but I don't think I'd ever seen that happen.

I think that has a lot to do with the fact that he knew.

Yeah, I think so too.

And I'm going to reiterate this because I told you guys this earlier, but if you think about it, moments before he died, he's standing there, he tells us, AD.

Andrew Young, quote, be sure to sing Blessed Lord tonight and sing it well.

Like, I'm not going to be there to see it.

Please do this for me.

That really got me.

Now, okay, we've said all these things, that he said all these things to multiple people and he felt he was going to die.

And I was like, okay, we need to provide the skeptic side of it, right?

What else could this be?

Sure.

So, scientists think they kind of have an explanation.

Okay.

And it's not necessarily skepticism, it's kind of like explaining how it could be.

Right.

Okay.

Now, neurobiologists and scientists seem to think that our occipital lobe in the brain of a spiritually advanced individual, like Dr.

King, like Kennedy, like Abraham Lincoln, all these people that were, you know, just amazing.

Larger than life.

Amazing people.

Yeah.

Okay.

So that, of a spiritually advanced individual is super sensitive.

Okay.

The occipital lobe is super sensitive, as well as receptive.

And it sends signals of an eminent end.

So when you combine that with the temporal lobe, the occipital lobe gets premonitions of death and it informs the neural system.

So the neural system, that's when I said earlier like it's a feeling, it's just a feeling.

Because it's not just with assassinations, like people that have cancer or people that just know that they're going to die and they'll say it.

Like they're ready, they'll be like, yeah, they start giving their stuff away, they start because they have a feeling that they're gonna die, whether or not they've been diagnosed with anything.

Right.

It's just our bodies know.

Yeah, it's just well, and with an illness and stuff like that, that that to me makes makes a lot more sense, right?

But if you're, you know, in fear all the time and getting threatened all the time, you would think that you're on high alert.

But I think it's more than that.

Right.

And if they're getting visions, I mean.

Yeah, it's guys, listen, that's tell us what you think, too.

I mean, it's there.

I know there's walks a fine line between intuition, premonition and, you know, just being really capable of understanding your situation and kind of what's happening to you.

So, yeah, yeah, I don't know.

A bit of a loss on that one.

Now, Buddha, okay, we all know who Buddha is, right?

Yeah.

He had a term for this.

He called it conscious awareness.

When the mind, body and self are in unison, futuristic events can be foreseen.

So to me, that almost sounds like they're talking about your intuition.

They're talking about people that can possibly learn, you know, how to use their brain to be psychic, to pick up on things.

And I think that's what it is.

Like, they've learned to tap into that part of their brain, especially with being, especially those people that care for others and are working to a better world like Dr.

King was.

I think he was able to tap in and he just knew like it wasn't gonna happen for him.

Well, and he had the pulse of a lot of different people.

So he obviously had great intuition, you know, I mean, there's a reason why to this day, his words carry levity, why he is still a very important figure, not just in our country, but, you know, just for people.

I mean, listen, I could go, we could have a whole three-hour podcast on my thoughts of Martin Luther King, but.

So that's kind of the paranormal part of this now, you know, like I said before, they say it's haunted.

Sure.

They think there's like a spiritual aura in the room, in King's room, and people have claimed this overbearing presence when entering the rooms.

And they say their breathing becomes short and their chest begin to feel heavy, and they feel an overwhelming sadness.

Now, like, you know, kind of what I said before, you also know where you are.

Yeah.

So, you're probably just taking that in.

But if you combine it with his personal belongings, plus, you know, I've seen some close-up pictures of his blood went into that concrete.

That blood is still there.

You can see an outline of where it was.

Yeah.

His blood is still there.

Yeah.

I mean, there's definitely still physical, albeit it's probably much, much more miniscule than it was, you know, several years ago, but it's still there.

Yeah.

He had a quick death, fast, you know.

Plus, there's something to be said.

You know, we've talked about this before when multiple people give their energy towards something.

If you've got how many people per day coming through those rooms, Geez.

speaking his name, talking about him, giving their sadness to things, I think it's probably more that than it is anything.

Yeah, like, their own sadness of losing this great man.

Right.

Is probably why there's a feeling of sadness in those rooms.

Yeah.

Because he was a very positive, happy person.

So for him to leave behind, now, when you get killed, obviously, you're probably not, but I don't know that we really think about it in that way.

No, I wouldn't think so.

You know what I mean?

I hope not.

Yeah, I would hope not.

Like, I think what he would have left behind is hope.

Right.

And happiness and love each other as opposed to overbearing presence and sadness.

And I don't think that's him.

I think that's us.

Yeah, for sure.

Of how we feel of losing him.

So I think that's more what they feel there than actually being him.

Now, I don't know about the wife, Laurie could be because she felt that way before she died.

And I think the family's apartments were, and I don't know if they turned 307 in a tribute to her because that's where their apartments were, right next door to him or not.

I couldn't get any clarification on that, but I think it was pretty close.

Okay.

It could be her that you're feeling instead of him.

I mean, guys, you're out there too.

If you know something, by all means, let us know in the comments, you know.

We thought it was really important to do an episode for his day coming up on Monday.

He was a great man, inspired a lot of people, and his movement is still going.

It's unfortunate the way he left us, but he has some of the best quotes out there that I've ever seen.

Hell yeah.

So today, instead of our chit chat, like we usually do, we're going to end with two of our favorite quotes by Dr.

King.

So if you want to go first with yours.

Yeah.

I'm going to try not to tear up on this one because it's something my dad kind of pushed into me from the word go.

So yeah, I'm already starting.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Good quote.

And here's my favorite, because I think it also lends to not the time that he was alive, but to all time periods.

It definitely leads credence to today of kind of like society, the way things have been going.

And I think just how we should always be as a people.

So I'm going to make this quote and I'm just we're going to say, bye, we'll see you next week right now.

But I'm going to leave you with this and I want you to think about it.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness.

Only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate.

Only love can do that.