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I was awakened from a deep sleep by my sister to answer a telephone call...
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...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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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...
After a night of celebrating while watching the Montréal Olympic games, my friend and I left to go home...
My childhood home was heated by a coal furnace which my mother and father would tend...
I observed the body surrounded by a surgical team, then the hospital from above, then the hospital surrounded by wintering cornfields...
After the doctors could not revive me, I found myself above them in the corner of the room...
I was going in and out of consciousness during the examination and when I was in the second operating-theatre I suddenly found myself surrounded by very bright light, where there was really no way to tell up or down...
During a car trip with my wife I had to stop because of a severe illness with sudden sweating, precordial, and neck pain...
I had not long been given two cats...
On January 27th I had an appointment with my cardiologist at 2:00 pm...
