A woman who had a near-death experience after she was stabbed 16 times by her ex-boyfriend says she has seen ‘shadow people’ since the horrific attack.
Elementary school teacher Eilish Poe, 25, was attacked in her home by Jonathan Crossley, 25, on November 4 2020 after he hid out inside her crawlspace for more than 24 hours.
Poe, from Colorado, told the Otherworld podcast that she had gone upstairs to check on her pet rabbit when Crossley charged at her.
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Recalling the shocking assault, she said: “He then pushed me down the stairs, and I hit my back pretty bad — I still have injuries and trauma from that.
“He grabbed me by the back of my hair — it was really long at the time. He shoved my head into the wall five or six times.”
He then stabbed her in her neck, torso and arms - before running off after Poe played dead.
As she lay on the floor bleeding, Poe claims to have seen a ‘carousel of people’ who are no longer with us.
She went on: “My paternal grandmother was standing right there. She passed away in 2014. She was standing there just kind of quaintly smiling at me. She didn’t wave or anything like that.”
Poe says that as her grandmother’s image ‘faded out’ a friend who had taken her own life several months before the attack ‘faded in’.
“It is a crystal clear image of what she was wearing, and she was also just standing there, and the same as Jeanie [her grandmother] she had this comforting smile on her face,” Poe said.
“I am still grieving for her three years later, but it felt like a bonus time, even just for five seconds, or however long it was, to see her and be near her again.”
After the attack, Crossley died after throwing himself from a cliff.
Meanwhile, Poe’s lengthy recovery included 10 surgeries and she claims that during that time she’s seen ‘shadowy figures’‘probably between 50 and 100 times’ during her recovery.
She added: “They never approach me apart from one specific time, and the second I start to walk towards it or acknowledge it, it’s just gone..
“I think because I almost crossed over, because it was so close, maybe those shadow people are people who are in the between of crossing over and they’re in the middle somewhere, maybe that’s why I can see them.”
Claire Reid