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I was sleeping...
I was hit in the nose with a sharp block of wedged wood that was thrown at me, it broke a blood vessel internally...
My near death experience happened in the early 1990's...
I had just ran up the driveway after my son and I had placed a new mailbox in the ground...
Christian D NDE Home Classification NDE 2361 Christian D NDE 4662 Experience Description I woke up in some scrub hearing friends' voices looking for me...
I was in my high school swim class and I had told the instructor that I did not float the way the other kids did - black people have documented issues with buoyancy due to bone density and some other physical attributes...
1948 – I was so sick...
Jim B Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2365 Jim B Probable NDE 4669 Experience Description In October 2009, I was in critical condition with the H1N1 Flu...
Sandra H NDE Home Classification NDE 2369 Sandra H NDE 4679 Experience Description See answers to questions below, explains most if not all of experience...
Sequoia H FDE Home Classification FDE 2371 Sequoia H FDE 4651 Experience Description On our five-plus hour drive home from Palm Springs to Ventura, California, our convertible began to 'act up'...
During sex, I suddenly felt as if an axe had been put into my head, and the pain would not stop...
I was four years old and we were at a family reunion at my aunt's house by the lake...
