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I was eleven years old...
Rick H Possible NDE 4228 Home Classification Possible NDE 2061 Rick H Possible NDE 4228 Experience Description My kids had just got off the bus and we were talking and I was telling them that I love them and was talking to them...
I woke up this day feeling a bit tired but nothing unusual...
Debbie NDE Home Classification NDE 2081 Debbie NDE 4253 Experience Description I was staying at a hotel in Florida on holiday with my family...
The near-death experience I had was not as spectacular as some I have read about, but the epiphany certainly was...
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I was at the hospital with my mother and I remember I was nervous or scared since they were going to draw some of my blood...
Ludmila NDE Home Classification NDE 2093 Ludmila NDE 4168 Experience Description I was on an obstetrical table; they made me unconscious through a mask...
It was a boring Saturday night, just after a city celebration called 'Crazy Water Festival', where it had rained all day...
On Sunday evening around 8:30 pm and after my parents left I collapsed in my bed...
Grady R NDE Home Classification NDE 2103 Grady R NDE 4276 Experience Description See Below...
Debbie P NDE Home Classification NDE 2107 Debbie P NDE 4280 Experience Description During emergency surgery to correct prolonged bleeding from a spontaneous abortion (unknown early stage pregnancy) my heart stopped and electric shock to my heart was applied...
I had been in an old 1957 Chevy on a cold day - I was playing with toys on the back seat...
