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On the night I came into the hospital I had both my lungs filling up with blood...
It was on Monday, September 3rd, I went to work as usual and felt as if I was coming down with tonsillitis, so I went to the pharmacy and bought over the counter pain killers...
It was as though I was stuck in a clean, approximately eight feet diameter, pipe with the brightest white light at one end and completely pitch dark at the other end...
I know it's hard to believe at three years old going on four...
We had met with an accident and I hit my head and cut my forehead...
Sanz Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1599 Sanz Probable NDE 3561 Experience Description It was in the course of the surgical operation after the anesthesia, normally I shouldn't have felt anything...
I was shot on May 8th, 1982 at the age of twelve...
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Ryland D FDE Home Classification FDE 1608 Ryland D FDE 3576 Experience Description When I got sucked into the drainpipe, the instant I knew I was in trouble, my life flashed before my eyes not like a movie with scenes in it...
I looked up and thought to myself that I was sure that I had turned the light off, when I had gone to bed...
I was driving with a friend from Missouri late at night...
I got food stuck in my respiratory tract whilst eating food with my mother and friend...
Pat R Probable NDE Home Classification NDE 1638 Pat R Probable NDE 3631 Experience Description I found myself inside a tube that was like a bank deposit chute...
