Plot Synopsis

Using first-person interviews and dramatic re-creations, PROJECT AFERLIFE follows a team of investigators -- a paramedic, an ordained minister, a retired state trooper, and an investigative filmmaker -- motivated by their own experiences with pulling victims back from the grave, as they launch an unprecedented quest to unlock the mysteries of resurrection with help from real people who say they have gone through it. The investigation team pours through case files, examines medical records, and visits key locations in each case to better understand these documented experiences by survivors. Interviews with doctors and family who kept vigil bring investigators one step closer to understanding resurrection by revealing key patterns in the surrounding circumstances, such as loved ones always holding the victim's left hand during prayer. Each 60-minute episode chronicles two stories of contemporary cases of resurrection across America. Survivors were in the prime of their lives when an accident or sudden illness led to their untimely deaths, only to inexplicably return to life. They reveal details about the moment they realized they were dead, what -- and who -- awaited them on the other side, what it felt like to die and come back, and how it changed their lives afterward. The team includes: investigative filmmaker Johnny Clark, who was the storyteller behind the 2013 documentary DEADRAISER, which examines the ability of humans to raise the dead; paramedic Jesse Birkey, who took part in a resurrection after praying for the patient to come back to life in 2009 -- and has since continued to mix prayer and medicine in his professional duties; ordained minister Rodger Frievalt, once a skeptic of all things supernatural, who became so inspired by reports of modern-day miracles that he left behind a successful career in sales and marketing to become a full-time minister and healing evangelist; and retired state trooper Sam Wagner, a member of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol for more than 15 years, who witnessed the resurrection of an infant as the child laid dead in his arm while he was on duty in July 2008.
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On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 10pm ET/PT, Destination America premiered the season finale of PROJECT AFTERLIFE. In the season ender, "A Sister's Premonition; Cowboy Feud," the team sends Rodger and Jesse to investigate two cases of death and the afterlife, where the bond between friends and siblings may have changed the course of death's plan.