Hey Bella, come here.
(baby babbling)
You ready to sing Holly Jolly Christmas?
Holly Jolly?
(baby giggling)
That Pop Pop.
You're talkin' to Pop Pop?
And Mommy.
And Mommy?
Yep.
Mommy?
I do believe in
afterlife awareness and I do believe that
Shan'ann and Nico and Bella and Cici have access.
Mmhmm.
What did they say to me when they came to see me?
Have they?
Yes.
And what did Cici say?
The first night when they found Shan'ann's body,
I'm gonna be honest with you, Dr. Phil.
I was laying in the bed weeping so hard,
talking to God and I said,
"Ya know, I could just end my life now
"and go find my daughter."
I'd fallen asleep.
The next morning, I get a phone call and they found
Shan'ann's body.
I said, "Do you want me to identify her on the phone?"
He said, "Yeah, you could do that."
I said, "Is she beautiful?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Does she have black hair?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Then you have my daughter."
That night, I was laying in bed and I just felt a presence,
and I heard my daughter, I felt her and I heart her say,
"I love you Mommy and I'm sorry."
She told me she was at peace.
I finally fell asleep with my daughter at my presence
and she slept with me, I just felt her.
That following day, I get a phone call
and they said, "Sandy, we found your granddaughter
"but we're not sure which one."
I said, "Bella's a little taller, she's pretty slimmer.
"She doesn't got a little belly."
And if you pull her hair up a little bit,
'cause I do their hair and it would be so long, ya know?
Then I realized all the oil, they would never know.
So they said, "Who's the one that wears a pull up?"
I said, "That would be Cici."
They said, "Then we have Cici."
I said, "Well, keep going."
I said, "Find my Bella."
Two hours later, they did.
It was hard for them to even tell us, ya know?
You could hear it in their voices.
I couldn't imagine trying to be in their shoes
trying to tell the parents what they just found.
And it was two hours later that they said
they had found Bella? Yeah, she was at the
bottom of the drum
and their skin was falling off as they were trying to
get them out.
Everybody needed so much therapy after that.
Our hearts just go out to all of them
that worked so damn hard on this case.
And you felt Cici and Bella's presence.
I felt Cici's presence, she was first.
She goes, "Hiya Nana."
I could see her, but in my mind.
But I could hear her.
And she said, "You've been always so good to us, Nana,
"and we love you with our soul."
And I always took their face and kissed them all over.
She grabbed my face and just kissed me all over.
And Shan'ann said it's OK now and we gave kisses
and she turns her to her left.
Then Bella came in and Bella went kinda like
"Hi Nana," ya know?
Just the way she
did it, yeah. On her elbows.
And she said, "Guess what Nana."
I said, "What Bella?"
She said, "I can go to Walt Disney World any time I want."
I said, "That's right Bella, that's right."
She thanked us for loving her so much.
And that's how you remember those two.
Yes, after I saw Bella and Cici
and then Shan'ann was standing there.
I could see her body but kinda like see through
and then just her upper part turned and then she,
I couldn't see who was handing the baby to her
and she handed me my grandson and it's just like Frankie.
It's crazy but looks just like Frankie.
So he's beautiful, he's beautiful.
I'm so glad that you have that presence
and that experience It saved my life.
It saved my life.
Rather than the experience of just how they were found.