GIRL RELEASES BALLOON AT DAD'S GRAVE; IT BEATS THEM HOME

Back on Father’s Day, in June, Sandy Seibold and her daughter Saige visited the Oklahoma gravesite of Johnny Seibold, Sandy’s husband and Saige’s father, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in May at the age of 43. They released a balloon carrying a letter, eulogizing their loved one and asking anyone who found it to contact them. They ran some errands that took a couple of hours, then drove 25 miles from the cemetery in Sterling to their home in Clement, where 13-year-old Saige found the same balloon they had just released. She recognized the balloon immediately, tangled on a fence on her property with the phrase “#1 Dad” written on it. Saige said she and her father used to work together in the field where she found the balloon. They said they had no idea how the balloon reached their home, but that the find put them at peace. Sandy said, “We felt it was a sign from my husband to let us know he was OK and to quit worrying about him.”
* The creepy part is that the balloon is now following them everywhere.
* “Quit worrying about me, and by the way, Saige, there are 11 misspelled words in your letter.”
* Let’s see Neil Degrasse Tyson explain THIS.
* I don’t want to burst their balloon but … let me rephrase that.
* Hey, if the dad can direct the wind we could use some better weather.
* Forget the weather. If they’re going to contact you from the afterworld at least throw in some lottery numbers.
* So are they saying he got the letter and it wasn’t on the balloon anymore? ‘Cause that would be cool.
* Well, you have to admit. It’s a nicer than the Balloon Boy story.
* PHONE TOPIC: Listener tales from … BEYOND THE GRAVE!!!