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I was six years old and was very ill with scarlet fever...
This NDE happened a long time ago when I was 23 years old...
My now husband was driving down a country road and did not see that there was a dead end on the road, that dropped about seven or eight feet down, and then there was about a four foot wall of dirt...
Kelly Q Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3492 Kelly Q Probable NDE 6951 Experience Description When I felt my heart stop, I was instantly outside my body...
I was lying in the dentist chair...
Easter 1971, I was involved in a high-speed car crash...
I was scared at first everything around me faded to darkness...
Frank H NDE Home Classification NDE 3987 Frank H NDE 7740 Experience Description I remember feeling like I was going to pass out from being light-headed...
Billy S NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2623 Billy S NDEs 5069/5067 Experience Description 5069 I was practicing a choke hold on another Marine and then he held my neck and that was when I felt my spirit rise above my body...
As I was on the floor and the blows just kept coming, I held my breath; thinking that my back would stop going up and down and they would think that I was dead or passed out...
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I was on my way home while riding my bicycle...
My childhood home was heated by a coal furnace which my mother and father would tend...
