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I was visiting my brother at his home...
Amy D ADC Home Classification ADC 2096 Amy D ADC 16016 Experience Description My grandmother, Josephine, who was full German and spoke broken English, was very spiritual and loving...
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...
It was in the afternoon...
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...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I was four and a half years old...
Sandy M Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2118 Sandy M Probable NDE 4300 Experience Description I was admitted to the hospital hemorrhaging after a miscarriage...
I am going to send it to you as a word document...
Late one afternoon in 2004, I was outside, feeling depressed and on an impulse, knowing full well that I was allergic, I decided to put an end to it all by stinging myself with a bee...
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