Fact checking the fact checkers of the documentary 'Died Suddenly'

The new documentary “Died Suddenly” features interviews with several embalmers describing the white, fibrous clots they began pulling out of dead bodies in 2021.

“The longest one that I have on video is probably three feet long, which is incredible to come out of the jugular up here. It’s just incredible,” says embalmer Anna Foster.

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“I have been in this profession for approximately 12 years,” she says, “and approximately 200-250 bodies per year, and I have never seen anything like this before the vaccination.”

The main embalmer featured is Richard Hirschman, who works Alabama. He said in about November of 2021 he created a computer spreadsheet to track how many bodies contained the clots, and whether the person had been vaccinated with one of the Covid-19 vaccines or not.

“How come, all of a sudden, these things are happening in so many people?” he asked. “In the beginning, I thought, This is kind of weird, this is kind of crazy, I don’t understand.’”

He says he started talking to other embalmers who have 30-40 years of experience, and they confided to him that they were seeing the same thing when embalming bodies.

Hirschman lined up vials containing the clots he’s pulled out of bodies in the last year. Most were white or off-white.

He refers to them as “white, fibrous clots” or “white, fibrous structures.”

Another embalmer interviewed in the film described them as looking like calamari.

“Died Suddenly” was produced by Stew Peters and featured the news article I wrote about the shocking revelation by the CEO of the Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica that the entire life insurance industry had seen an unprecedented 40-percent increase in deaths among working age people 18-64 in the third quarter of 2021 (July-September).

The Society of Actuaries report that came out in August was even more startling, because it showed an even greater increase for one particular age group — a 100-percent increase in deaths among people ages 35-44.

See the reddest box in the chart below from the SOA report, which shows deaths 200 percent above the baseline:

As tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch has pointed out, the highest number of deaths was in early September of 2021, just a little less than six months after the peak in the number of Americans getting vaccinated with one of the Covid-19 vaccines.

This is also right around the time many corporate vaccine mandates were taking effect and just after college mandates took effect at almost every major college and university in America.

‘Died Suddenly’ debuted on Monday, November 21.

Within days, major media organizations rushed in to try to discredit it.

Their main line of attack was: Experts say it’s not true.

A journalist named Marisha Goldhamer with AFP (Agence France-Presse, a news service) tries to discredit the main embalmer featured in the documentary — Richard Hirschman — by saying he told AFP a couple of months prior in a Facebook message that he is “not a doctor or a scientist.”

And then she goes on to quote an embalmer….who is also neither a doctor nor a scientist….Monica Torres of NXT Generation Mortuary Support, a company in Phoenix, Ariz.

Like Hirschman, Torres is a licensed embalmer, but Torres is newer to the field, having only started working as an intern for a mortuary in 2008. And…her specialty appears to be hair and makeup on dead bodies. On her website, she says she won an award in 2015 for her “post mortem hair implantation procedure,” the No Wax Torres Technique.

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In an interview in a publication called Voyage Phoenix, Torres says she is best known for her beautification of bodies:

“I am known as an all-around service provider in the beautification of the deceased human body. I not only have extensive training in post mortem reconstructive demi-surgery I also am a makeup artist and nail technician and skilled at post mortem hair restoration and styling.”

So she seems like a strange choice of an expert.

The AFP quotes Torres as saying that the clots shown in ‘Died Suddenly’ must have formed in bodies that were kept in refrigeration for too long.

‘It's just that there were so many bodies to process, many of them sat in refrigeration for long durations so they got blood clots. It's not a big deal and these people are trying to make it a thing.”

But the AFP didn’t go back and ask how long the bodies handled by the embalmers in ‘Died Suddenly’ had been in refrigeration — or whether they’d been in refrigeration at all.

One of them, Wallace Hooker, an embalmer in Indiana who was featured in ‘Died Suddenly,’ told Crossroads Report:

“Most of the bodies that I’m embalming are coming right out of the nursing home, right out of the hospital,” he said. “They’re still warm.”

He said he’s not had any backup of bodies, even during the height of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.

But AFP’s fact-checker, Marisha Goldhamer, also threw out a few other possible reasons for the clots, writing that experts say there are “multiple other possibilities” — including obesity, smoking and a Covid-19 infection.

But of course, none of these fit what the embalmers in ‘Died Suddenly’ are describing, because all of them say they only began to see these particular kinds of white clots in 2021, so it can’t be the case that obesity, smoking or the Covid-19 virus could be to blame. If they were caused by obesity or smoking, they would have been seeing them for years. And if it were Covid-19 causing them, they should have seen the clots in bodies starting in 2020, presumably.

But the real sloppiness here is in conflating the white fibrous clots, which are the clots being described by all of the embalmers in the film, and regular red blood clots.

The link on the word obesity in the clip above from the AFP fact-check takes you to an article about blood clots that people in Europe said may have been caused by the Astra-Zeneca vaccine. The professor who authored the piece lists obesity and smoking as two things that can cause blood clots. But he doesn’t say anything about “white, fibrous clots.” The entire piece refers only to blood clots.

So the embalmers say they are seeing “white, fibrous clots” and the AFP fact-checker is saying, No you didn’t, because normal red blood clots can be caused by obesity and smoking and viruses.

She’s not fact-checking what they’re saying. She’s pretending that they’re talking about something else entirely.

(I’ve reached out to Marisha Goldhamer through Twitter, and asked if I could call her on the phone to ask several questions about the piece. If I hear back, I’ll do a follow-up.)

Wallace Hooker describes the white fibrous clots as having the consistency of “gristle” and says if you squeeze one between two fingers, you would not be able to smush it: It would hold its shape. In contrast, a normal red blood clot, if squeezed between two fingers, would be smushed and broken, he says.

Hooker has been working as a funeral director and embalmer for 30 years, and says he does 200-250 embalmings a year.

He said he started seeing the white fibrous clots 18 months ago, in the late winter or early spring of 2021.

And like other embalmers in the film, he says that they see things that doctors don’t see.

The AFP fact check seems to take issue with this also.

“About 52 minutes into ‘Died Suddenly,’ an embalmer says: ‘I believe that the only way a medical doctor could see this in the body is if they actually went internally into the body.’ This is followed by footage of a large clot being removed from a heart.”

The clot, we’re told, is actually a pulmonary embolism being removed from a live patient, presumably by a doctor.

So yes, of course some doctors — surgeons — go into the body.

But in the long conversation with Wallace Hooker, I understood what the embalmers were saying.

He explained that when embalmers put embalming fluid into a body, they pump it through the entire vascular system, through all of the veins, and that this forces the clots out — clots that may have been in the legs or arms.

Surgeons, he says, if performing heart surgery, are going into the heart, but they’re not opening up the veins in the legs and arms, or pumping anything through the veins that would force out any strange objects like large white clots.

So doctors wouldn’t see what the embalmers see. This seems clear enough.

Overall, the AFP fact check fails to debunk anything the embalmers said in ‘Died Suddenly.’ It also doesn’t offer any explanation for why so many embalmers would concoct similar stories, of seeing large, white fibrous clots starting only in 2021 and not before.

There is no apparent financial incentive for embalmers to make up stories.

“There’s no money in it for us,” says Hooker. “We’re putting ourselves at great risk, professionally, personally and financially."

“I probably lost business because of it,” he says. “I lost a funeral because of it, and it was a relative of my wife…But you know what? I’m not going to stand down.”

AFP is not well-known in this country, and most Americans are probably unaware of its existence. But it supplies “fact check” articles to other news organizations, like Yahoo News.

So it’s concerning that they seem to be willing to deceive the public, pretending to be debunking eye-witness testimony without actually managing to do so.

There are other fact checks that were concerning.

The Politico fact check, says:

“The risk of clots has been studied, and doctors still say the vaccines are safe.”

This is not really a fact check. Where are these studies? Who did them and when? Who funded them? What did they show? The reporter doesn’t say.

The journalists and researchers who have been paying close attention to issues with the Covid vaccines all along know there is evidence that the vaccines can cause serious problems with clots.

On July 12, 2021, the FDA released information on real-time surveillance of the Medicare database. The Medicare database is useful because it contains all medical information about virtually all Americans age 65 and up.

The FDA identified four “potential adverse events of interest” from what it saw in the Medicare database. They were:

1. pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in the lung)

2. myocardial infarction (a heart attack)

3. immune thrombocytopenia (a blood clotting disorder)

4. disseminated intravascular coagulation (abnormal blood clotting)

So this is quite stunning, because at least three of the four are directly related to the blood and clotting.

The FDA’s press release on this was entitled “Initial Results of Near Real-Time Safety Monitoring of COVID-19 Vaccines in Persons Aged 65 Years and Older” but there was never a follow-up report.

Wouldn’t it be good if a news service like AFP was interested in finding out why?

Shouldn’t all journalists be demanding to know more from our FDA? How many Americans on Medicare died of a pulmonary embolism after the introduction of the vaccines versus before?

If this is the initial report, where is the full report?

There is also evidence in VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, which is the nation’s official early warning system for problems with vaccines.

Since the very beginning, there have been numerous reports in VAERS of deep-vein thrombosis (blood clot in the leg) and pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung) and sudden heart attacks, often “widow maker” heart attacks involving a sudden and total blockage in someone with no prior health issues.

These appear over and over again, usually in reports submitted by doctors or hospitals.

Here’s one:

VAERS ID: 1146761-1

An 81-year-old female got a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Feb. 6, 2021 and died 26 days later of a blood clot in the heart.

Her symptoms: CARDIOGENIC SHOCK, CORONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION, MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, THROMBOSIS

This is from the narrative:

“The reporter's mother died 3 weeks and 6 days after having received the second dose of the Pfizer covid vaccine. The cause of death was a “widow maker” type heart attack where the LAD artery suddenly became 100% blocked by a blood clot; the event began about 11:45pm on 04 Mar 2021. The blockage was confirmed via cardiac cath procedure performed within 2 hours of the onset by Doctor, he removed the clot and placed a stent. However her heart was too damaged and could not recover. Doctor confirmed to us that she did not have excessive or evidence of any prior blockage and not excessive plaque. The blood clot likely came on and caused the cardiac event within roughly an hour, he explained. The patient had no prior symptoms and no comorbidities for blood clotting and was full of life and energy on 05 Mar up to when she went to bed that night. She died 06 Mar at 4:04 am at hospital.”

The narrative refers to a “blood clot” — but we don’t have a description from a doctor, so don’t know whether the clot was actually a red blood clot, or in fact a white clot (that would have been initially covered in blood when taken out of the heart).

No one has interviewed emergency-room doctors about clots they’re pulling out of people.

But what we have is substantial and includes:

1. Testimony of many embalmers, who have no reason to lie;

2. A sharp increase in the number of young working people dying, especially in the third quarter of 2021;

3. A continued phenomenon of excess deaths that have been 10-20 percent above normal since mid-May and were 30-45 percent above normal last January;

4. Indications from large databases including the Medicare database and VAERS that vaccination is associated with potentially deadly clots.

It really is past time for a thorough investigation into all of this and time for journalists to drop this silly attempt to stamp out the pursuit of truth under the guise of checking facts.