{"id":171331,"date":"2025-12-07T01:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171331\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:54:07","slug":"sensing-murder-medium-kelvin-cruickshank-on-surviving-two-heart-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171331\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensing Murder medium Kelvin Cruickshank on surviving two heart attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dad of two, who lives in the Bay of Islands<\/a>, travels the country doing shows, which involve passing on messages from spirit to family and friends in the audience. In June, he was at a motel in South Auckland, ironing a shirt to wear for his function that evening in Papakura, when he suddenly had severe chest pain that felt like \u201cbeing smashed in the chest with a sledgehammer\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Kiwi medium says there\u2019s nothing to fear about \u201ccrossing over\u201d. Photo \/ NZ Woman’s Weekly<\/p>\n

Luckily, Kelvin \u2013 who also does a lot of behind-the-scenes work with people experiencing the loss of loved ones \u2013 was not alone. His Auckland-based PA Gemma Cappel had popped in to see him at the motel, instead of driving straight to the theatre as she usually did.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God Gemma was there to call the ambulance because I couldn\u2019t have done it,\u201d admits Kelvin. \u201cI couldn\u2019t speak. I was in and out of consciousness, struggling to breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ambulance crew took him to Middlemore Hospital, where he had a second heart attack<\/a>. He\u2019s been told he only survived that one thanks to being in hospital, where doctors were able to act quickly to restart his heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time, it was like I was whacked by a cricket bat,\u201d recalls Kelvin. \u201cI was gone. It was dark and quiet and peaceful, and there was a light in the distance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no suffering, no pain. There was just this feeling of bliss and it was so good. I thought, \u2018Oh, this is nice.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I heard my good friend Vicki Walsh, who died a few years ago, giving me a growling. I couldn\u2019t see her \u2013 I just heard her saying, \u2018What are you doing here? Go back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Kelvin\u2019sKelvin\u2019s recovery has been gradual and he felt weak for a long time. Photo \/ Jess Burges<\/p>\n

Kelvin gets emotional as he describes seeing his dad Les, who died last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was pointing his finger at me and saying, \u2018Not yet, son.\u2019 Next thing I knew, I was in the hospital and there was a doctor banging on my chest.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was then transferred to Auckland City Hospital<\/a>, where a surgeon inserted stents to open up two arteries in his heart that had collapsed and were 96% closed.<\/p>\n

Kelvin\u2019s recovery has been gradual and he felt weak for a long time. Used to doing 20km tramps through the bush, it took weeks to be able to walk 50m to his letterbox.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also hard to deal with mentally, going through all of this,\u201d he shares.<\/p>\n

The experience has made Kelvin rethink how he does things. He\u2019s back doing shows around the country, but plans to do fewer tours in future and will start offering online classes to help people develop their spiritual awareness.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019ll still go ahead with a trip to Los Angeles this month for the launch of TV show Voices From the Grave, which he filmed in the US over nine years. He\u2019ll be working on more episodes in which paranormal experts join with a forensic detective to investigate infamous crimes in LA.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Kelvin is grateful to the healthcare workers involved in his treatment and thankful he was in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Gemma hadn\u2019t been there, if I hadn\u2019t been in hospital when the second one hit, if it had happened two weeks earlier when I was in the bush or a week earlier when I was on my boat fishing… I would not be here,\u201d he says, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s great over there, but I\u2019m happy I got sent back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voices From The Grave is available on YouTube from December 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dad of two, who lives in the Bay of Islands, travels the country doing shows, which involve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,5660,48054,110699,634,6179,4527,156,2893,305,1360,2862,110700,82010,194,12858,424,17768,5922,3025,4275,111,139,16546,69,90,1523,312,6661,60712,12633,99504,53883,4504,7563,1237,102],"class_list":["post-171331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-about","tag-attacks","tag-crossing","tag-cruickshank","tag-death","tag-died","tag-doesnt","tag-entertainment","tag-fear","tag-have","tag-having","tag-heart","tag-interacting","tag-kelvin","tag-kiwi","tag-knows","tag-life","tag-means","tag-medium","tag-most","tag-murder","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nothing","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-over","tag-says","tag-scare","tag-sensing","tag-spent","tag-spirits","tag-surviving","tag-theres","tag-those","tag-two","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}