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Ricky W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2494 Ricky W Probable NDE 4892 Experience Description I tried to rescue an eight year old friend of mine from drowning, and he took me down under the water...
Ken M Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2497 Ken M Possible NDE 4896 Experience Description I was surfing in Carlsbad, California in the early morning before work...
I was standing in the kitchen of my home...
Tim NDE Home Classification NDE 2526 Tim NDE 4927 Experience Description During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table...
I was playing with my sister hanging upside down on the washing line over a stone path...
Catherine P NDE Home Classification NDE 2534 Catherine P NDE 4935 Experience Description It was a regular school day...
1) At school, with this guy on my back, his legs wrapped around my torso, holding me in a headlock (it felt like he was trying to rip my head away from my shoulders), I remember getting dizzy and passing out...
After I died, I remember being pulled upwards towards the ceiling...
I was twenty years old and working for the US Forest Service building trails in the mountains north of Los Angles...
Ruth B Probable FDE Home Classification Probable FDE 2565 Ruth B Probable FDE 4974 Experience Description This is going to be hard in English (writer is from France)...
Jean C NDE Home Classification NDE 2567 Jean C NDE 4982 Experience Description My mother took me to the dentist when I was seven...
Riley Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2570 Riley Probable NDE 22432 Experience Description I was hit by a car...
