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When I was four years old, my family and I went out to go riding four-wheelers...
I had just returned to Georgia from a reunion party in Texas...
Carmel B NDE Home Classification NDE 1920 Carmel B NDE 4055/4006 Experience Description 4055 I will talk first about my first experience of an NDE at four years of age...
When I was fifteen years old, I had a bad deformity of my upper jaw...
Jacqueline M Father Experiences Home Classification Secondhand NDE and Experiences 1930 Jacqueline M Father Experiences 4019 Experience Description This is the story as told to me by my late father; I felt the need to share it with you...
I have asthma, or more like damaged lungs due to too much jet exhaust, jet fuel (working in aircraft fuel tanks) and a bout of pneumonia at least once a year that requires hospitalization, and lots of scar tissue in my lungs...
I was slowly aware of a light ahead of me...
I was travelling by car from Alicante to Valencia with some friends; we had not slept for two days...
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I shall try and describe the most moving experience in all my life, although words are limited or do not exist in such a case and are thus very difficult to select...
David J NDE Home Classification NDE 1947 David J NDE 4050 Experience Description I found myself in a dark void...
It was three months into being diagnosed with Burkitt's Lymphoma...
I remember a severe tightness/pain in my chest, and gasping for air with the feeling I wasn't getting air...
