“Some skeptical and debunking critics who have seen my documentary, The Life After Death Project, have misstated the basic facts of this incident. First, they like to refer to the ink obliteration as a “smudge.” I’ll cry foul at that. The word “smudge” implies something accidental, as if some moist ink had just smeared somehow. It was not a “smudge.” It was a deliberate targeting of four words, which is the only reasonable conclusion. There were also two levels of darkness, or opacity, also very precise.”