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The first time I was too young to remember as I was only three weeks old...
I was working for a construction company in Alabama when I had the accident...
Walter W FDE Home Classification FDE 2450 Walter W FDE 4834 Experience Description After spending Christmas with my folks in Ohio, I set out at 5:00 am in my car to return to my apartment in Massachusetts...
Kathleen W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2458 Kathleen W Probable NDE 4846 Experience Description I remember looking for something in the refrigerator of my previous boyfriend's apartment to wash down the sleeping pills...
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I awoke in a white room...
It was beautiful, indescribable really...
Sabine E Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2467 Sabine E Possible NDE 4791 Experience Description I just had transplant surgery...
Anne M NDE Home Classification NDE 2469 Anne M NDE 4861 Experience Description I had been riding with friends and we had crossed a main boulevard and were approaching a gravel side road...
I was ten years old crossing a street heading home for dinner from a friend's house...
Rose D NDE Home Classification NDE 2472 Rose D NDE 4867 Experience Description I was having an asthma attack but this one seemed much worse than any I'd had before...
Ricky W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2494 Ricky W Probable NDE 4892 Experience Description I tried to rescue an eight year old friend of mine from drowning, and he took me down under the water...
Ken M Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2497 Ken M Possible NDE 4896 Experience Description I was surfing in Carlsbad, California in the early morning before work...
