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Forty years ago I experienced something no one could explain...
Mattie K NDE Home Classification NDE 3423 Mattie K NDE 6853 Experience Description First the wave smacked me, and then I found myself standing in a blue channel of light...
Lourdes L NDE Home Classification NDE 3424 Lourdes L NDE 6785 Experience Description For eight years I had put up with my husband's infidelity (we are now divorced)...
Paolo D Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3425 Paolo D Probable NDE 5452 Experience Description As a consequence of a car accident, I suffered brain trauma and I have been in coma for some days...
On the 12th of June, I got an operation...
In August of 1989, I was bicycling home from a volunteer position around 10 p...
Before the experience, I had been huffing gas regularly for one year...
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Avery D NDE Home Classification NDE 3443 Avery D NDE 6882 Experience Description I was electrocuted by an old 1960’s refrigerator...
Krystal S Probable FDE Home Classification FDE 3450 Krystal S Probable FDE 6891 Experience Description This story is strange, as no life threatening event happened...
My mother was getting me ready or school...
Karen L Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3472 Karen L Probable NDE 6924 Experience Description The experience was very brief...
The 17th of November 2011 I went to the operating room for a lipoma [tumor of the fatty tissue] operation in the right armpit, nothing serious, only the risk of any operation with a general anesthesia...
