Extraordinary experiences. Human stories.

Brian T NDE

One summer when the temperature was soaring above 105 degrees my brother begged and persuaded my mother and my other two sisters to go to the Comal River to escape the summer heat...

Glauco S NDE

At age eight my father took me and my two brothers (ages ten and eleven) to go fishing in a river called Rio Guaiba in Porto Alegre, Brazil...

Viva T NDE

Intense pain, loud noise, swiftly extracted through the top of my head to the uppermost left-hand corner of the ceiling of the surgical suite...

Jill D NDE

It was Halloween, 1971...

Greyson 18/32Read the account

Peter N NDE

My twin brother and I were visiting a friend of my parents, who lived on a man-made lake...

Greyson 19/32Read the account

Rachel E NDE

My mom kicked my dad out of the house when I was three years old...

Greyson 15/32Read the account

Joschua B NDE

When I was younger, my parents were both working full-time jobs...

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Sharon M NDE

It was midsummer 2005...

Greyson 27/32Read the account

Jeffrey C NDE

I heard my friends' voices; one said you better go and get his parents, this looks serious...

Greyson 15/32Read the account

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Barbara D NDE

I was jumping off the top of a small dam into the river...

Greyson 13/32Read the account

Laurie L NDE

Growing Up I was born and raised in Queens, New York, the youngest daughter in a family of five children...

Greyson 26/32Read the account

Stefania S NDE

I was born with a congenital heart defect (DIA), which means there's a hole between the two atria of the heart...