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| 4601 | qualitative | journal | Tymn, Michael E. "Do We Judge Ourselves After Death?" The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Carl Gustav Jung, Case 3 | Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Pages 89-99, 2011 | 1944 | 2011 | 69 | M |
Carl Gustav Jung, the eminent Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, experienced a profound near-death experience in 1944 following a series of medical events. Jung initially broke his foot, which led to complications resulting in a heart attack. During this life-threatening cardiac event, Jung had an NDE that would significantly influence his later work and understanding of consciousness. During his near-death experience, Jung underwent a remarkable transformation of consciousness in which his entire life history became present to him simultaneously. He described the experience with the vivid metaphor of carrying everything he had ever experienced or done, everything that had happened around him, as if it were all contained within him at once. Rather than viewing his life as a linear sequence of events, Jung experienced his existence as a unified whole, where past, present, and the trajectory toward future all coexisted in a single moment of awareness. Jung's description of this experience was philosophically profound. He stated, "I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished." This wasn't merely intellectual knowledge but a felt sense of being - he didn't just know his history, he was his history. Every thought, intention, word, and deed from his life was present in this expanded state of consciousness. He felt with great certainty that this totality of experience constituted his essential identity. The experience gave him the sense that he consisted of his own history in a way that transcended ordinary memory or reflection. The vision included a sense that Jung was about to enter an illuminated room where he would understand the historical nexus of his life and what would come after. However, before this revelation could occur, his vision ceased as he returned to earthly consciousness. This interrupted vision left Jung with profound questions about the nature of identity, consciousness, and the continuity of the self beyond physical death. The experience influenced his later writings on the collective unconscious and the nature of the psyche. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 18 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Documented heart attack following foot injury, likely in hospital setting | Profound life review with sense of containing entire life history | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 0 | Simultaneous awareness of entire life history | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4602 | qualitative | journal | Tymn, Michael E. "Do We Judge Ourselves After Death?" The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Roger via Jeffrey Long, Case 4 | Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Pages 89-99, 2011 | 2011 | M |
Roger experienced a near-death experience when he was involved in a head-on automobile accident. The collision was severe enough that Roger immediately left his body and began observing events from an elevated perspective above the accident scene. This out-of-body experience marked the beginning of a profound spiritual journey that would give him remarkable insights into the nature of consciousness and moral accountability. After the initial out-of-body phase, Roger entered what he described as a dark place with nothing around him. Despite the darkness and apparent void, he reported feeling no fear whatsoever. Instead, he experienced a deep sense of peace in this transitional space. This peaceful darkness served as a threshold between his earthly consciousness and the extraordinary life review that was about to unfold. The absence of fear and the presence of peace in what might otherwise be a frightening environment suggests a protective or comforting quality to the near-death state. Roger then began experiencing his entire life unfolding before him like a film projected on a screen, progressing chronologically from babyhood through his adult life. He emphasized the extraordinary realism of this review, describing it as better than a 3-D movie because of an added dimension of consciousness. Not only could he see the events of his life playing out, but he was simultaneously capable of sensing the feelings of all the persons he had interacted with throughout the years. This multi-perspectival awareness allowed him to experience both the good and bad emotions he had caused others to go through. The veridical quality of Roger's experience was particularly notable in his ability to perceive the emotional impact of his actions on others - information that would not have been available to him during his normal life. This empathic dimension of the life review, where he could feel what others felt as a result of his actions, provided him with a comprehensive understanding of his life's true impact. Upon returning to physical consciousness, Roger retained clear memories of this profound experience, which fundamentally changed his understanding of personal responsibility and the interconnectedness of human experiences. |
5 | Other | 5 | 10 | 15 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Head-on auto accident, life-threatening trauma | Life review with multi-perspectival awareness of others' emotions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 0 | Life review with emotional sensing of others | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4603 | qualitative | journal | Tymn, Michael E. "Do We Judge Ourselves After Death?" The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Tom Sawyer, Case 5 | Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Pages 89-99, 2011 | 1978 | 2011 | M |
Tom Sawyer experienced a near-death experience in 1978 when his car fell on him while he was working underneath it. This traumatic accident triggered an extraordinary out-of-body experience and life review that would profoundly impact his understanding of human interconnectedness and moral responsibility. The crushing weight of the vehicle created a life-threatening situation that precipitated his journey into an altered state of consciousness. During his NDE, Sawyer underwent an intense life review in which he relived every thought and attitude connected with decisive moments in his life. What made this review extraordinary was that he experienced these moments not just from his own perspective, but through the eyes of those who were affected by his actions. This multi-perspectival awareness gave him unprecedented insight into the true impact of his behavior on others, revealing layers of consequence and meaning that had been invisible to him during the original events. One particular incident from when he was 19 years old became the focal point of his life review. While driving his hot-rod pickup truck, Sawyer nearly hit a jaywalking pedestrian who had darted in front of him from behind another vehicle. A verbal exchange escalated when the pedestrian yelled profanities and reached through the window to hit Sawyer with an open hand. In response, Sawyer jumped out of his vehicle and beat the man relentlessly. During the life review, Sawyer experienced this violent encounter from his victim's perspective, feeling the man's fist - his own fist - coming directly into his face. He felt the indignation, rage, embarrassment, frustration, and physical pain, including the sensation of teeth going through the lower lip. He literally experienced being in the man's body, feeling everything from that perspective. Through this reversed perspective, Sawyer gained access to deeply personal information about the man he had beaten. He learned the man's age, discovered that his wife had recently died, and understood that he was in a drunken state because of his bereavement. Sawyer came to know "unbelievable things about that man that are of a very personal, confidential, and private nature." This veridical knowledge about the stranger's life circumstances and emotional state - information Sawyer could not have known at the time of the incident - demonstrated the profound revelatory nature of the NDE life review. The experience left Sawyer with a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of all human experience and the importance of compassion. |
5 | Other | 5 | 15 | 20 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Car fell on him while working under it, life-threatening trauma | Experienced victim's perspective including unknown personal details about the man | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 0 | Gained personal information about stranger he had beaten | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4604 | qualitative | journal | Tymn, Michael E. "Do We Judge Ourselves After Death?" The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Young Woman via Jeffrey Long, Case 6 | Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Pages 89-99, 2011 | 2011 | F |
A young woman experienced a near-death experience when she nearly died from a complication of anesthesia during what was likely a surgical procedure. The anesthesia complication created a life-threatening medical emergency that triggered an extraordinary alteration in her consciousness. During this crisis, her awareness shifted dramatically from normal physical consciousness to an expanded state of perception that would provide her with remarkable insights into the nature of memory and relationships. The woman reported that during her NDE, her entire consciousness seemed to be concentrated in her head, a localized but intensified form of awareness. From this concentrated state of consciousness, she began seeing pictures that she believed were in color. These weren't random images but appeared to be a carefully orchestrated presentation of her life experiences. She described it as if someone had started a movie of her entire life, but one that was playing backwards from the present moment toward her earliest memories. This reverse chronological progression gave her a unique perspective on the trajectory and development of her life. What distinguished this life review was its extraordinary comprehensiveness and clarity. She emphasized that this panoramic review of her life was "very distinct" with every little detail of incidents and relationships preserved and presented. Nothing was glossed over or summarized; instead, each moment appeared in its full complexity and context. However, beyond just replaying events, the experience presented relationships in what she called "some sort of distilled essence of meaning." This suggests that she wasn't just seeing what happened, but understanding the deeper significance and interconnections between events and relationships in her life. The woman's description of experiencing her life review as better than a movie, with relationships shown in their essential meaning rather than just their surface appearance, indicates a veridical quality to the experience. She was accessing not just memories but a deeper understanding of the patterns and significance of her life experiences. The precise, detailed nature of the review, combined with the distilled understanding of meaning in relationships, provided her with insights that went beyond what normal memory or reflection could offer. This profound experience during a medical crisis left her with a transformed understanding of her life's meaning and the nature of consciousness itself. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 15 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Anesthesia complication during likely surgery, life-threatening | Distinct panoramic life review with distilled essence of meaning in relationships | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 0 | Life review in reverse with distilled meaning | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4605 | qualitative | journal | Vincent, Ken R., and John C. Morgan. "An 18th Century Near-Death Experience: The Case of George de Benneville." Journal of Near-Death Studies 25, no. 1 (Fall 2006): 35-48. George de Benneville, Case 1. | Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 25, Number 1, Pages 35-48, Copyright 2006 | 1741 | 2006 | 36 | M |
George de Benneville, an 18th-century physician and lay minister, experienced a profound NDE at age 36 in Germany. After suffering from a severe fever and consumptive disorder, he died and remained dead for 42 hours - 25 hours in the coffin and 17 hours before being placed there. His experience began with an out-of-body observation of people washing his body according to local custom at midnight. De Benneville was drawn up into a cloud and arrived at an extensive plain filled with delightful fruit trees emitting fragrant odors. Two exceedingly beautiful guardians with wings and shining white garments appeared at his sides. The right guardian proclaimed that the Holy Trinity would reveal how all creatures without exception would be restored to salvation. He was then conducted through seven habitations of the damned, witnessing various categories of sinners experiencing consequences of their actions, though noting those who appeared sorrowful for their sins were separated from others. Remarkably, de Benneville observed angels delivering souls from these hellish regions, with heavenly hosts proclaiming "eternal and everlasting deliverance" and universal restoration. He witnessed Jesus Christ leading this redemptive mission, saw Adam and Eve rejoicing in the mediator's work, and was conducted through five celestial habitations of increasing glory. He encountered transparent beings filled with burning love and observed recently delivered souls from infernal prisons being restored. After 42 hours that seemed like years, de Benneville was reunited with his body in the coffin. His brother Marsey and others confirmed the duration of his death. This experience reinforced his earlier vision of universal salvation and transformed him from Calvinist predestination theology to becoming a lifelong advocate of Christian Universalism, believing God too good to condemn anyone to eternal hell. |
5 | Unknown | 7 | 20 | 42 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented death for 42 hours (25 in coffin, 17 before), but no modern medical records or monitoring available from 1741 | Out-of-body observation of body being washed, specific details of otherworldly realms, observation of people and activities | First-hand autobiographical account written by de Benneville himself in 1741, timing documented by witnesses including brother Marsey | Historical account predates modern investigation methods; alternative explanations cannot be systematically evaluated | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Vincent and Morgan (researchers) | 2,006.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed people washing his body | 1.00 | Brother Marsey and others | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||
| 4606 | qualitative | journal | White, Patti R., "The Anatomy of a Transformation: An Analysis of the Psychological Structure of Four Near-Death Experiences," Journal of Near-Death Studies 15(3), Spring 1997, pp. 163-185. Case 1: Emily. | Journal of Near-Death Studies, Vol. 15(3), pp. 163-185, Spring 1997 | 1997 | 29 | F |
Emily, a 29-year-old mother of four, experienced severe complications following a vaginal hysterectomy performed 12 weeks after giving birth. She returned to the hospital expecting a routine 48-hour stay but began experiencing chest pain several hours after surgery. Unknown to medical staff, internal bleeding was occurring in her peritoneum. Twelve hours post-operation, she went into shock and was rushed back to the operating room. During the second emergency surgery, Emily remained conscious despite receiving three to four times the normal amount of pain medication. She suddenly felt disoriented with a rocking sensation and entered what she described as a different realm. She found herself in a bluish-silver tunnel that felt cold initially but became comfortable. The tunnel seemed to narrow as she traveled through it, floating rather than walking, with a sound like ocean waves. A brilliant white light appeared at the end, misty and intensely white but not blinding, which attracted her in a gentle, loving way that brought warmth and peace. The most significant veridical observation was Emily's conscious awareness during the entire second operation. She retained specific memories of faces, hands, and name tags of nurses and doctors attending to her. Halfway through the tunnel experience, she suddenly heard her husband's voice saying "This is the only wife I have!" which immediately pulled her backwards into her body with a sense of speed. Upon return, Emily experienced the sharp contrast of physical pain from needles in her arm and the confusion of the operating room, including her husband's angry outburst to the medical staff. The experience profoundly transformed her religious perspective, moving from rigid Catholic doctrine to a more personal spiritual understanding, completely eliminating her fear of death. |
1 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 25 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | Documented shock from internal bleeding, emergency surgery with monitoring, conscious during operation | Retained specific memories of medical staff faces, hands, name tags during surgery while supposedly unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 2 | 1 | Conscious awareness during emergency surgery | 1.00 | Husband (doctor) | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4607 | qualitative | journal | White, Patti R., "The Anatomy of a Transformation: An Analysis of the Psychological Structure of Four Near-Death Experiences," Journal of Near-Death Studies 15(3), Spring 1997, pp. 163-185. Case 2: Raquel. | Journal of Near-Death Studies, Vol. 15(3), pp. 163-185, Spring 1997 | 1992 | 1997 | 55 | F |
Raquel, a 55-year-old divorced Hispanic woman and self-proclaimed workaholic, developed a severe yeast infection that progressed to blood poisoning in November 1992. As a public health worker and Latino rights supporter with diabetes, she was caught off-guard by the swift onset of the infection. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors and nurses worked feverishly to stabilize her blood sugar and control the potentially fatal blood poisoning. Two days later, alone in her darkened hospital room, Raquel witnessed a black swirling hole appear in the middle of the room, resembling a whirlpool or tornado. Frightened and realizing she must be dying, she fought against being drawn into it, determined not to die because she had too much left to do. She experienced herself suddenly flying up and looking down at her body lying in the bed, struggling to live, before being pulled back into the whirlpool-like tunnel. This out-of-body journey repeated at least three times. At the entrance of the black hole, Raquel saw her deceased parents and grandmother who had died many years earlier. Her grandmother repeatedly said "Come on, mija" in Spanish, while her father insisted "It's time for you to go. You have done enough. I want you to come." Despite the familiarity bringing initial relief, Raquel resisted their calls, praying to God that she could not die because her six children needed her and she had no husband to support them. As she crawled out of the tunnel for the final time, she saw a bright, peaceful light to her right that she thought must be heaven. The experience profoundly impacted Raquel, who believed the black hole might have been hell or purgatory because "the darkness at the end held no hope." She credits her spiritual power and prayer with rescuing her from the darkness, recognizing that her workaholic nature had contributed to her body's deterioration. Following recovery, she quit her job to focus on healing and her own best interests for the first time. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 24 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Life-threatening blood poisoning (sepsis), multiple medical staff working to save her life | Out-of-body experience seeing her own body, encountering deceased relatives with specific dialogue | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 2 | 0 | Out-of-body experience | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4608 | qualitative | journal | White, Patti R., "The Anatomy of a Transformation: An Analysis of the Psychological Structure of Four Near-Death Experiences," Journal of Near-Death Studies 15(3), Spring 1997, pp. 163-185. Case 3: John. | Journal of Near-Death Studies, Vol. 15(3), pp. 163-185, Spring 1997 | 1992 | 1992-02-22 | 1997 | 34 | M |
John, a 34-year-old divorced construction worker, experienced a life-threatening accident on February 22, 1992, while working with his partner using nail guns. In an unexplained accident where his partner fell against him, John shot himself in the chest with his own nail gun, sending a one-and-three-quarter-inch finishing nail directly into his heart through the sternum. With every heartbeat, the nail was tearing a bigger hole in his heart. John immediately told his partner "I'm shot in the heart. I don't believe I am going to die!" before rushing toward their truck in intense, throbbing pain. During transport, John went into convulsions, slamming his head and arm into the dashboard and kicking the stick shift. Suddenly, he found himself in a different realm, lying on his back with his arms folded across his chest and ankles crossed, still feeling physical pain but knowing he was no longer in the truck. He recognized he might be having a near-death experience, having heard about them previously. Two waves of brilliant light came over him - the first maintaining his pain, but the second even more brilliant wave eliminating all pain and bringing a state of bliss and peace. The most remarkable aspect was when a large right hand, representing God, positioned itself over John's body, hovering about three feet above him. The hand was the brightest white imaginable with fingers outlined as if sketched in pencil. When John asked what he should do, a loving voice said, "You are all right. I like you." As the hand withdrew and the first wave of light returned, so did all the physical pain. John then heard people yelling and someone shout "He's back!" The experience profoundly transformed John's life priorities. His partner noted how remarkably calm he was upon regaining consciousness. John now appreciates life, helps others, and no longer dwells on small things, having completely eliminated his previous work-first mentality. The validation from God helped him process his recent divorce and separation from his children. |
5 | Other | 8 | 8 | 23 | Suggestive Evidence | 7 | Nail directly penetrating heart through sternum, convulsions, life-threatening injury | Heard people yelling and someone shout "He's back!" upon return to consciousness | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard people upon return | 1.00 | Construction partner | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||
| 4609 | qualitative | journal | White, Patti R., "The Anatomy of a Transformation: An Analysis of the Psychological Structure of Four Near-Death Experiences," Journal of Near-Death Studies 15(3), Spring 1997, pp. 163-185. Case 4: Jill. | Journal of Near-Death Studies, Vol. 15(3), pp. 163-185, Spring 1997 | 1997 | 31 | F |
Jill, a 36-year-old married woman, had her NDE at age 31 while training for a marathon. Her excessively brutal training regime combined with borderline anorexia and emotional stress led to severe fever and stomach cramps requiring hospitalization. Doctors discovered a large mass within her abdominal cavity requiring emergency surgery. Having become a born-again Christian one year prior, Jill had secretly felt like a fraud, wondering if she was just pretending to be Christian since she felt no different after her conversion. After surgery in the recovery room, Jill made peace with God by asking forgiveness and mentally saying goodbye to loved ones, believing she was dying after refusing a blood transfusion for fear of AIDS. She suddenly awakened to find her previously darkened room brilliantly lit. A male voice identifying himself as "The One Who loves you the most" began speaking to her, though not audibly but through direct understanding. An invisible hand lifted her out of bed with tubes still attached, and she found herself kneeling on the floor beside the bed. Jill experienced a comprehensive life review beginning from infancy, seeing herself as a crying baby with diaper rash while her mother roughly applied lotion, wishing the baby had never been born. This review revealed how her lack of self-worth originated at that moment. Unlike her expectation of a "horrendously miserable" judgment, the review presented everything from a non-judgmental perspective of love and forgiveness. The voice revealed amazing things about her life and the universe, though she could not recall all the revelations. She began speaking in tongues, yelling, screaming, dancing, and waving her arms in the air. The voice declared: "You will live. But you have died. There is nothing left of who you were... the life you have now is the life given to you by Me; it is My life. From now on, you will only find success and fulfillment if you live according to My word." Jill's life was utterly transformed - she never doubted Jesus had spoken to her and showed her a new life, finally experiencing the spiritual transformation that had eluded her at baptism. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 5 | 17 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Large abdominal mass requiring surgery, refused blood transfusion, believed she was dying | Life review included infant memory she had never recalled - seeing herself as baby with mother's emotions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 2 | 0 | Life review with infant memory | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4610 | qualitative | journal | White, John. "My Near-Death Experience." The Journal for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies, Inc. Pages 151-158. Copyright Date Not Listed. John White, Case 1 | The Journal for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies, Inc. Pages 151-158 | 1953 | 2017 | 14 | M | In 1953, fourteen-year-old John White nearly drowned at Mixville Pond in Cheshire, Connecticut. While showing off on a diving platform, he attempted a dangerous "sailor dive" with his arms at his sides, plunging headfirst at a steep angle with unusual speed. He struck his forehead on the sandy bottom with such force that he lost consciousness immediately, his body activating the drowning reflex that closed his windpipe. Lying unconscious on the pond floor for several minutes, his awareness shifted from blank nothingness to a sensation of wonderful, warm tranquility and security. In this state, he experienced the classic life review - not sequential but all-at-once, each scene discrete yet simultaneous. Unlike normal vision limited to 120 degrees, his visual field was a full 360 degrees, seeing everything around him front and back. He lived and felt these scenes as if experiencing them for the first time while knowing they had happened earlier. After drifting in this peaceful state, he became aware of pounding in his ears and his chest heaving, trying to breathe. Panic set in as he realized he was drowning in the dark murky water. His hand brushed the bottom, giving him direction, and he kicked wildly to swim up though his limbs barely moved from near-paralysis. Breaking the surface, he still could not breathe or call for help due to the powerful airway-stoppage reflex. Through tremendous will, he remained above water until his airway opened, then swam exhaustedly to a raft where he rested before riding his bike home, telling no one about the experience for many years. | 5 | Other | 2 | 5 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening drowning event with loss of consciousness | Life review experience but no specific verifiable perceptions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Unconscious underwater | 7/25/2025 | 2 | 0 | Life review with 360-degree vision | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||
| 4611 | qualitative | book | Paget, Fanny Ruthven. How I Know that the Dead Are Alive. Houston, Texas. 1917. As cited in The Journal for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies. Fanny Ruthven Paget, Case 2 | How I Know that the Dead Are Alive, 1917 | 1911 | 1917 | F | In 1911, Fanny Ruthven Paget, a Houston, Texas resident, experienced a near-death episode during what appears to have been severe pneumonia lasting several days. While gravely ill, she found herself looking down at her own body lying peacefully on the bed, appearing as what is commonly called a dead person. She was fascinated by the sight of her physical form dressed in a lavender silk gown with dainty laces and ruffles. Her eyes were at half-mast with the light gone since the soul was absent, her lips slightly parted with a suggestion of a smile, her left hand resting on her breast with her engagement ring still scintillating, and her right hand fallen apart from the body with palm upturned. After observing her seemingly deceased body, Paget became concerned about her fiancé in another town and found herself propelled by a vibratory sensation to his sleeping form. From this otherworldly perspective, she could see his shadow body more distinctly than his physical body - the shadow seemed the original and the physical the duplicate, the soul the real and the body the unreal. She observed a light penetrating from within both the shadow and physical bodies, maintaining an aura or illumination that enveloped him like magnetized clothing. This three-in-one life manifestation of physical body, shadow body, and inner light struck her as wonderful, especially since people generally recognize only the physical aspect. The experience provided her with direct perception of the spiritual anatomy beyond normal physical sight. | 5 | Unknown | 2 | 12 | 14 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe illness (likely pneumonia) for several days suggesting life-threatening condition | Distant observation of fiancé in another town, specific details about appearance and spiritual bodies | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw own body from above | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4612 | qualitative | journal | Wilde, David J., and Craig D. Murray. "The Evolving Self: Finding Meaning in Near-Death Experiences Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis." Mental Health, Religion & Culture 12, no. 3 (April 2009): 223-239. Subject: Jane, Case 1 | Mental Health, Religion & Culture Vol. 12 No. 3 pp. 223-239 2009 | 2009 | 20 | F | Jane was a young woman in her twenties who experienced an NDE during emergency surgery for a burst stomach with peritonitis. She was in extreme physical pain and feared dying when she asked a nurse if she would die. The nurse hesitated before answering, which prepared Jane mentally to accept death. During the operation, Jane experienced powerful emotions including fear, anger, anxiety, isolation, and remorse against distinct visual and auditory motifs. She found herself falling through darkness toward a globe of light while hearing a mysterious chant that felt deeply familiar, believing she had heard it hundreds of times before and during a previous operation at age 10. At the end of her fall, she encountered a group of discarnate beings described as gentle, loving, and glowing from within. She engaged in dialogue with these beings about whether she would remember the chant, which she believed would validate her experience. Despite her anger at their challenges, they offered understanding and told her she would hear the chant again in her lifetime. When asked why she wanted to return to life, she expressed her desire to have children and watch them grow up. Jane then found herself in a dark, lonely void where she reflected on her relationships with friends and parents, particularly her conflicted relationship with her mother, feeling remorse for things said and done. In this place where time had no meaning, she heard a voice say "don't be too hard on yourself" before returning to her body and awakening from the operation. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 5 | 12 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Surgery under general anesthesia for burst stomach with peritonitis documented | Heard familiar chant, encountered beings, received message about future verification | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 0 | Heard mysterious chant during NDE | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||||
| 4613 | qualitative | journal | Wilde, David J., and Craig D. Murray. "The Evolving Self: Finding Meaning in Near-Death Experiences Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis." Mental Health, Religion & Culture 12, no. 3 (April 2009): 223-239. Subject: Margaret, Case 2 | Mental Health, Religion & Culture Vol. 12 No. 3 pp. 223-239 2009 | 2009 | 21 | F | Margaret, 21, experienced an NDE during childbirth in the hospital after being informed her baby had died shortly after labor began. Despite warning staff of her known allergy to Suxamethonium, she was given an anesthetic containing this drug, resulting in excruciating, protracted labor described as torture. The pain was so severe she welcomed death as relief. Upon receiving the anesthetic, she collapsed and found herself out of body in a vast blackness without physical form, feeling she was "leaking" into the void. She experienced profound contentment and peace, relieved to escape the pain, describing herself as a "huge smile." Her attention split in two: one part engaged in dialogue with a male disembodied voice she understood to be both her deceased child and something extremely wise and all-knowing. The voice taught her about how life works and she felt instinctively she was hearing truth. Meanwhile, she became increasingly adverse to a gradually approaching light, developing a sense of foreboding. When the voice asked what was wrong, she expressed fear of entering the light because while she wouldn't cease to exist, her ego, character, and individual personality would be gone. She then witnessed her husband's grief upon hearing of her collapse and the baby's death, followed by seeing her parents being told of her death and their sadness. Contemplating the grief her death would cause, she began falling and then awoke. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 15 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Childbirth with known allergic reaction to anesthetic, collapse documented | Out-of-body experience, dialogue with deceased child, observed family reactions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 0 | Dialogue with deceased child | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4614 | qualitative | journal | Wilde, David J., and Craig D. Murray. "The Evolving Self: Finding Meaning in Near-Death Experiences Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis." Mental Health, Religion & Culture 12, no. 3 (April 2009): 223-239. Subject: Deborah, Case 3 | Mental Health, Religion & Culture Vol. 12 No. 3 pp. 223-239 2009 | 2009 | F | Deborah experienced her NDE during surgery in a hospital in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The operation was proceeding smoothly until her heart rate and blood pressure began falling dangerously. The surgical team fought to restore her vital signs, using a defibrillator to restart her heart. During this crisis, she found herself floating at the operating theatre ceiling in a state of pure bliss. From this vantage point, she could clearly see the theatre, all the equipment, the medical staff, and her own body on the table below. She recognized her friend who was the anesthetist and attempted to communicate by tapping her on the shoulder, but her friend showed no acknowledgment of her presence. She then left the hospital, flying peacefully along a tunnel toward a blue light. From the light, she saw a hand descending and reaching toward her, which she understood would mean death if she took it. She began a dialogue with what she believed was God's voice. She expressed her reluctance to leave, saying "I don't want to go yet... My baby's a couple of months old and I was still feeding, I can't leave my children, I want to see them grow old... I want to be a grandmother." In response, she heard "ok, you can go back," and she made promises to God, saying "I'll go and do your work for you." She then returned to her body and awoke from the anesthetic. Post-NDE, she embraced a life of service, teaching Kundalini yoga, working in India feeding 500 people daily with her spiritual master. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 20 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest requiring defibrillation with monitoring equipment present | Floating OBE, saw operating room details, attempted communication with anesthetist, tunnel and light experience | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 4 | 0 | Saw operating theatre from ceiling | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4615 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.1: Emine Fougner's Father, , pp. 7-8. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.1 - pp. 7-8 - Copyright 2023 | 2006 | 2023 | 58 | M | A 58-year-old man from Hamilton, Canada underwent complicated vascular surgery in connection with a fistula. During the operation under heavy anesthesia, he experienced an out-of-body experience where he could observe the surgical procedures from above his body. Despite being fully anesthetized with machines attached on both sides, he later described one by one all the procedures performed during the operation, details he had not been told beforehand to spare him distress. He reported feeling his lower jaw grow cold, seeing his chin with a shiver passing through it, and observing his body from outside. He also encountered a group of beings who looked like soldiers who decided not to take him, after which his body and soul reunited. His accurate perceptions of the surgical procedures were confirmed by medical staff. The experience profoundly changed him, as he would never have believed in such phenomena had he not personally experienced them. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 27 | Suggestive Evidence | 10 | Complicated vascular surgery under heavy anesthesia, life-threatening situation | Accurately described multiple surgical procedures not disclosed beforehand, observations while fully anesthetized | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 1 | Observed surgical procedures during operation | 1.00 | Medical staff | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||
| 4616 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.2: Joan La Rovere's Young Patient, , pp. 8-9. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.2 - pp. 8-9 - Copyright 2023 | 2023 | 9 | F | A 9-year-old girl with serious kidney disorder was being transported from a Kent hospital to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London when she suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance during rush-hour traffic. Despite prolonged resuscitation attempts while stuck in traffic, the team could not restart her heart, and a nurse suggested pronouncing her dead. Dr. Joan La Rovere had an intuitive feeling to continue resuscitation, talking reassuringly to the girl throughout. Her heart finally restarted upon arrival at the hospital, though she remained in critical condition. Months later, when the recovered girl visited the hospital, she asked to meet "the American doctor who looked after me in the ambulance and was talking to me during the trip." She reported watching everything from above and recalled all details, despite having been too ill and on life-support to have seen anything normally. The experience amazed Dr. La Rovere as the girl had never physically seen her during the transport. | 2 | Ambulance | 10 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Prolonged cardiac arrest during ambulance transport, extended resuscitation efforts | Identified specific doctor never seen before, recalled details while on life support and critically ill | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 1 | Observed resuscitation from above | 1.00 | Dr. Joan La Rovere | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4617 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.3: Dress Code, , pp. 9-10. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.3 - pp. 9-10 - Copyright 2023 | 2023 | F | A female patient underwent resuscitation and experienced an out-of-body state during which she observed the medical team's efforts from above. When being given a bath later, she recognized her nurse and told her "You were here yesterday." The patient reported seeing from above how the team tried to resuscitate her and specifically recalled a conversation between the nurse and a doctor about the dress code. The doctor had told the nurse she was not allowed to wear dresses to work anymore in response to her wearing a skirt that day. This specific and unusual detail about workplace dress code policy, overheard during a medical emergency, provides strong veridical evidence of consciousness during the resuscitation period when normal sensory perception would have been impossible. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 15 | 34 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Patient undergoing resuscitation, life-threatening emergency | Recalled specific conversation about dress code between nurse and doctor during resuscitation | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 1 | Overheard dress code conversation | 1.00 | Nurse | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 4618 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.4: A Heart Shaped Like Africa, , pp. 11-13. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.4 - pp. 11-13 - Copyright 2023 | 1978 | 2023 | 52 | M | A 52-year-old night watchman from North Florida underwent open-heart surgery at the University of Florida medical center in January 1978. During the operation, he experienced an out-of-body state where he observed his own body, medical procedures, and instruments used from above. He was surprised to see his heart was shaped like the continent of Africa and noted less blood loss than expected. He observed specific details including one doctor wearing white shoes without green scrub covers (unlike all others), surgical instruments, and procedures. Dr. Sabom compared the patient's observations with the medical report and found exact correspondence in multiple specific details: body draping, sternum sawing, self-retaining retractor use, ventricular aneurysm dissection, heart manipulation, air evacuation with needle/syringe, and layer-by-layer wound closure. These technical details matched the operative report precisely, including aspects the patient could not have known beforehand. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 40 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Open-heart surgery with documented procedures, cardiac monitoring present | Multiple specific surgical details verified against medical report, unexpected observations like heart shape | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed heart shape during surgery | 1.00 | Medical records | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4619 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.5: Al Sullivan, , pp. 15-18. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.5 - pp. 15-18 - Copyright 2023 | 2023 | 56 | M | Al Sullivan, a 56-year-old van driver, underwent emergency cardiac surgery at Hartford Hospital. During the operation, he experienced leaving his body and observing the surgery from above. He saw his surgeon, Dr. Hiroyoshi Takata, exhibiting an unusual behavior - "flapping his arms as if trying to fly." Sullivan's eyes were taped shut and a sterile drape blocked his vision, making physical observation impossible. Dr. Takata later confirmed this was his unique habit of pointing with his elbows to avoid contaminating his sterile hands, something no other surgeons did. Cardiologist Dr. LaSala confirmed Sullivan reported this immediately post-surgery and verified Takata's unique habit. Takata himself stated he cannot explain how Sullivan saw these things "under complete sleep of anesthesia" and acknowledged that science has not yet revealed all human abilities, accepting this as fact that "such things do happen." | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 50 | Strong Evidence | 20 | Emergency cardiac surgery with full monitoring, eyes taped, surgical drape blocking vision | Observed unique surgeon behavior impossible to see physically, confirmed by multiple medical professionals | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Sterile drape over head | 7/25/2025 | 2 | 1 | Surgeon flapping arms like flying | 1.00 | Dr. Hiroyoshi Takata (surgeon), Dr. Anthony LaSala (cardiologist) | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4620 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.6: The Patient From Missouri, , pp. 18-19. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.6 - pp. 18-19 - Copyright 2023 | 1972 | 2023 | 42 | F | A 42-year-old woman from Missouri underwent a lumbar-disk operation in September 1972, which she observed from the operating room ceiling during an out-of-body experience. She noted specific details: the green operating room, the operating table positioned at an angle rather than next to the instrument table, the roles of two doctors, and how they operated on her. She went into cardiac arrest after the back operation, causing the wound to be sutured quickly and not very neatly. After regaining consciousness, she recognized one surgeon she had never met before the operation. A student nurse confirmed the accuracy of her observations. Dr. Sabom verified through medical records that the two doctors she observed had indeed performed the operation, with no discrepancies between her NDE observations and the surgical procedures. Notably, the operation went differently than expected - the doctor she'd never met did most of the work rather than her primary doctor. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Lumbar surgery followed by cardiac arrest, emergency situation | Observed unexpected surgical details, recognized previously unknown surgeon, details confirmed by records | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Operating room layout | 1.00 | Student nurse | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4621 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.7: A. S. Wiltse, , pp. 19-21. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.7 - pp. 19-21 - Copyright 2023 | 1889 | 2023 | M | Dr. A. S. Wiltse from Skiddy, Kansas suffered from typhoid fever in 1889 and fell into a coma. Dr. S. H. Raynes could detect no pulse or heartbeat for four hours, declaring him clinically dead. Wiltse experienced separation of his spirit from body, describing himself as jellyfish-like in shape and color, his mind loosening from body like a soap bubble from a tube. He became a transparent figure walking through people, observing "with the interest of a doctor" all he experienced out-of-body. He saw his body on a sofa with two women kneeling and crying to his left - later identified as his wife and sister whom he didn't recognize during the NDE. After revival, Wiltse described his perceptions, which witnesses confirmed or didn't deny. He sent notarized witness statements to investigator Richard Hodgson. Myers included these written statements in his book, providing exceptional documentation for a 19th century case. | 6 | Home | 10 | 10 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | No pulse or heartbeat detected for 4 hours, declared clinically dead from typhoid | Accurate observations of room, people present, body position verified by witnesses | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Richard Hodgson | 1,889.00 | 7/25/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw body on sofa and crying women | 1.00 | Wife, sister, others | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||
| 4622 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.8: Nancy, , pp. 21-22. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.8 - pp. 21-22 - Copyright 2023 | 1991 | 2023 | 41 | F | Nancy, 41, was admitted to a California hospital in September 1991 for a biopsy when the superior vena cava was accidentally nicked. The surgeon panicked and stitched the vessel shut, hindering circulation. After revival, Nancy discovered she could not see anymore and was rushed on a gurney to an elevator. When the gurney slammed into the elevator, she had an OBE while in life-threatening condition due to impeded blood supply. Despite her loss of sight, during the OBE she could see her face covered by a breathing pump, her body under a sheet, people panicking around her, and two men in the corridor looking shocked - her son's father and boyfriend Leon. After resuscitation, doctors couldn't restore her sight. Dr. Ring and Ms. Cooper verified through medical files and interviews with both men. Leon confirmed he was in shock when learning what happened and that he and her son's father stood together in the corridor, corroborating Nancy's "blind" observations. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 40 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Superior vena cava damage, life-threatening circulation impairment, loss of sight | Blind patient accurately observed two specific people in corridor, medical scene despite vision loss | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Vision loss/blindness | Ring & Cooper | 1,995.00 | 7/25/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw despite blindness | 1.00 | Leon (ex-boyfriend), son's father | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||
| 4623 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.9: Patient 10, , pp. 22-28. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.9 - pp. 22-28 - Copyright 2023 | 2006 | 2023 | 60 | M | A 60-year-old male recovering from emergency intestinal cancer surgery was improving after 5 days when physiotherapist encouraged him to sit in a chair. Within 5 minutes, his oxygen dropped from 96% to 70-86%, requiring immediate return to bed. He lapsed into deep unconsciousness with eyes shut, unresponsive to commands or painful stimulation. During this state, he experienced floating in a bright pink room, observing from above: the consultant checking his pupils with a light saying "they're reacting but unequal," nurse Penny cleaning his mouth with what looked like a "long pink lollipop" (actually a suction catheter then pink sponge), and the physiotherapist nervously "poking her head around the curtains" to check on him. These observations were verified: the consultant was new that day, the unusual cleaning method was confirmed by Sartori, and the physiotherapist's specific nervous behavior behind curtains was accurate despite his eyes being closed throughout. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 20 | Respiratory crisis, deep unconsciousness, unresponsive to painful stimulation for hours | Multiple specific verified observations while deeply unconscious with closed eyes | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Penny Sartori | 2,006.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Consultant checking pupils | 1.00 | Penny Sartori (nurse), Consultant | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||
| 4624 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.10: J. S., , pp. 28-29. | The Self Does Not Die - Case 1.10 - pp. 28-29 - Copyright 2023 | 2010 | 2023 | F | J. S., 31 weeks pregnant, felt breathless and weak, requiring emergency caesarian delivery followed by surgery to repair aortic dissection. During deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) for 15 minutes - where body is cooled and heart artificially stopped - she experienced an OBE. Despite being anesthetized with eyes taped shut and unable to see machines behind her head when wheeled in, she observed a nurse handing instruments to the surgeon and saw anesthesia and ultrasound equipment located behind her head. She also experienced peace, joy, and saw bright light. Dr. Beauregard's team verified her descriptions of the nurse and equipment with the surgeon, who confirmed their accuracy. This case, from a retrospective study of conscious experiences during artificial cardiac arrest (2005-2010), represents the most significant of three documented cases. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest for 15 minutes, complete cessation of circulation | Observed equipment behind head impossible to see, specific nurse actions, all verified by surgeon | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Dr. Beauregard team | 2,012.00 | 7/25/2025 | 2 | 1 | Nurse handing instruments | 1.00 | Surgeon | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||
| 4625 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.11 Naomi | Near Death in the ICU, Naomi, 2015 | 2015 | F | Naomi, a patient of critical care physician Dr. Laurin Bellg, experienced two cardiac arrests during treatment for a heart attack. The medical team performed CPR and electrical shocks to stabilize her heart rhythm. Her coronary artery was blocked, and even after removal, her weakened heart required artificial ventilation. During her unconscious state, Naomi had an out-of-body experience where she observed herself from above in the emergency room, watching the medical team perform chest compressions and intubation. She saw her limp body with one arm hanging off the bed. She then experienced being in different locations - the operating room with a large overhead light, and later the ICU. When conscious, Naomi accurately described specific details to Dr. Bellg, including the team trying to place a backboard under her body for more effective compressions. She observed Dr. Bellg saying "Whoa, whoa, whoa, my stuff" while grabbing supplies to prevent them from falling when the sterile field shifted. Dr. Bellg confirmed these specific details, including the incident she had forgotten, amazed that Naomi had been aware during total unconsciousness. Naomi also reported seeing her deceased mother and angels during the experience. The verification of specific procedural details, especially the forgotten incident with the sterile field, provides strong evidence for veridical perception during clinical death. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 22 | 52 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest requiring CPR and electrical shocks, artificial ventilation needed | Multiple specific observations verified including backboard placement and sterile field incident that doctor had forgotten | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw resuscitation procedures from above | 1.00 | Dr. Laurin Bellg | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4626 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.12 Carli | Near Death in the ICU, Carlita, 2015 | 2015 | 38 | F | Carlita, a 38-year-old Latina patient, was unconscious in Dr. Laurin Bellg's ICU suffering from complications of meningitis, pneumonia, and sinusitis. Despite antibiotic treatment, she remained unresponsive for days. Dr. Bellg tested her reflexes by pressing her thumbnail on the nail bed and checking eye reflexes, finding no response whatsoever. Only after 13 days did Carlita begin responding and was eventually transferred to neurology. When Dr. Bellg visited her, Carlita revealed she had observed the examination from outside her body. She accurately described watching Dr. Bellg pick up her hand and pinch her finger, wondering why the doctor would do that. She saw the nurse tickling her feet with a stick and rubbing her chest with knuckles. Carlita observed Dr. Bellg shining a light in her eyes while the nurse held them open, moving her head side to side. Remarkably, she reported seeing all these procedures but feeling nothing, watching from a standing position beside her bed. She noted the strangeness of seeing the light being shone but not experiencing brightness from her out-of-body vantage point. Dr. Bellg confirmed all these specific neurological tests were performed exactly as described. The visual observations cannot be explained by tactile stimuli since Carlita showed absolutely no response to any of the physical tests at the time. | 4 | Hospital | 12 | 20 | 42 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Comatose state from meningitis with complete unresponsiveness to stimuli tests | Multiple specific medical procedures observed and verified, no physical response to stimuli | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed finger pinch test | 1.00 | Dr. Laurin Bellg | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4627 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.13 | La Última Puerta, The Scissors and the Needles, 2014 | 2014 | F | A middle-aged woman, heavy smoker and extremely obese, underwent emergency surgery for severe bronchial symptoms and respiratory tract obstruction. During the operation, she experienced secondary respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. Dr. Miguel Ángel Pertierra performed an emergency tracheotomy using a scalpel and a special trivalve tracheal dilator - an instrument resembling scissors from behind and a three-pronged bird beak from the front. After establishing artificial ventilation through a cannula, the team addressed her collapsed lung by inserting special orange needles (labeled number 14) into her chest cavity to release trapped air. While sedated and recovering, she obsessively repeated seeing the medical team and "the light." Later, she provided Dr. Pertierra with remarkably detailed observations. She described watching from behind him as he cut her neck with a scalpel, requested something by number, and received "strange scissors that opened downward in three parts." She accurately described the white plastic tube insertion and the connection to ventilation equipment. She observed the team's response to monitor alarms and their insertion of "huge needles that were orange where they were widest." She experienced this from about one meter away while simultaneously feeling the needle insertion as the most painful part. Dr. Pertierra confirmed her observations had no normal explanation, particularly noting she observed extremely specialized otolaryngological instruments unfamiliar to laypeople, and the needle color is never verbally mentioned when requested. | 2 | Hospital | 15 | 25 | 55 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Cardiac arrest during emergency surgery, respiratory failure requiring tracheotomy | Observation of highly specialized medical instruments with accurate unusual details never verbalized | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed tracheotomy procedure | 1.00 | Dr. Miguel Ángel Pertierra | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4628 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.14 | La Última Puerta, The Mayo Scissors, 2014 | 2014 | M | An extremely obese male patient required surgery but faced multiple complications. Finding a suitable vein for catheter placement proved difficult, and mask ventilation failed to maintain adequate blood-oxygen levels. Intubation attempts through his small mouth with fleshy tongue failed repeatedly despite multiple anesthesiologists trying. Dr. Pertierra was called from another operating room while still wearing his medical headlight. He rapidly performed an emergency tracheotomy as the patient was dying. Days later, when replacing the tube, the patient told Dr. Pertierra he recognized him and had observed the entire operation from the side. After being told to go to sleep by the anesthetist, he suddenly found himself among green-clad people around his body, hearing monitors and watching the team work. He accurately described seeing a nurse being told to notify the emergency or operating room doctor, watching her "shoot out" of the room, and Pertierra entering with "some gadget" on his forehead. The patient specifically mentioned Pertierra asking for "a scalpel and a pair of Mayo scissors," making a joke about not knowing there were scissors for every month. He described the large tube being inserted through the tracheotomy as looking like a sword swallower act with rubber tubing. Most remarkably, he accurately observed that the anesthetist hugged Dr. Pertierra afterward, noting the relief on the anesthetist's face. Dr. Pertierra confirmed all details, including the Mayo scissors (special surgical scissors bent at the tip, unrelated to the month), his headlight, and the emotional hug from the relieved anesthetist. | 5 | Hospital | 12 | 22 | 46 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Life-threatening intubation failure requiring emergency tracheotomy | Multiple specific verified details including specialized scissors name and emotional reactions | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw doctor's headlight device | 1.00 | Dr. Miguel Ángel Pertierra | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 4629 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.15 | After by Bruce Greyson, Holly Spaghetti Tie Case, 2021 | 1971 | 2021 | F | In 1971, Bruce Greyson, then beginning his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia, was called to evaluate Holly, a university student who had overdosed. While eating in the cafeteria, his pager went off and he accidentally splashed spaghetti sauce on his tie. He wiped it off, leaving a red stain, and put on a white lab coat to hide it. Holly was unresponsive in the emergency room, so Greyson went to interview her roommate Susan in the family lounge down the hall. During the heat of late summer, Greyson unbuttoned his lab coat, inadvertently exposing the stained tie. After noticing it, he buttoned his coat again before returning to see Holly, who remained unconscious and was admitted to the ICU. The next morning, Holly was groggy but claimed she remembered Greyson from the previous night. Despite being unconscious in the ER, she said she saw him talking with Susan on the couch in the lounge, not in her room. She then stated firmly that he was wearing "a striped tie that had a red stain on it," and proceeded to accurately repeat the entire conversation between Greyson and Susan, including Susan's pacing and Greyson moving a fan, without any mistakes. This experience profoundly affected Greyson, introducing him to the phenomenon that would later be termed near-death experiences when Raymond Moody joined the program in 1976. The observation of the stained tie from a distant location while unconscious provided compelling evidence of consciousness functioning beyond the physical body. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 25 | 50 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Drug overdose with complete unresponsiveness | Distant observation of specific hidden detail (stained tie) and complete conversation while unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw doctor's stained tie | 1.00 | Dr. Bruce Greyson | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4630 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.16 | Por un túnel Facebook, Lolo Simes, 2012 | 2008 | 2012 | 17 | M | A 17-year-old boy underwent surgery for his tonsils and nasal septum at Sanatorio Posadas in Argentina. During the operation, he suffered a severe hemorrhage with hypovolemic shock, requiring two units of blood transfusion in the operating room. His blood pressure dropped dangerously to 6/3 and he had low oxygen saturation, though he was not clinically dead. After surgery, in the therapy ward, the patient told Dr. Lolo Simes he had been "behind" the doctor during the critical moment, lifted up and observing the operation. He accurately described receiving exactly two units of blood, which he could not have known through normal means. The patient perfectly described the positioning of Dr. Simes, the anesthesiologist, and assistants in the operating room. He accurately reported what the medical team was saying during the crisis. When asked about typical NDE elements, he reported not seeing a white light but experiencing absolute peace unlike anything he had experienced before. Dr. Simes, an otorhinolaryngologist at Instituto Médico Simes, confirmed all the specific details and stated that as a medical doctor, he had no scientific explanation for how the patient could have known these facts. The observation of the exact number of blood units and specific positioning of medical staff while in hypovolemic shock provides strong evidence for consciousness functioning beyond normal physical limitations. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Severe hemorrhage with hypovolemic shock, blood pressure 6/3, low oxygen saturation | Accurate observation of blood units given and staff positioning during shock | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Knew exact blood transfusion amount | 1.00 | Dr. Lolo Simes | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||
| 4631 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.17 | YouTube Interview, Nilton Davide, 2019 | 1976 | 2019 | M | Brazilian aviation engineer Nilton Davide crashed while testing his self-built hang glider at the Japi mountain range near São Paulo in 1976. During the crash, he experienced being taken out of his body by a giant hand, despite heavy injuries. He could perceive everything more clearly than with physical senses while floating in the air. Initially thinking he was dreaming, he realized the reality when going upward, hearing a voice telling him to ascend. He could see in all directions without turning his head, observing buildings in nearby Jundiaí, his car, and a nervous photographer who had come to document the flight. Most remarkably, Nilton observed his brothers Gilson and Osmar descending the mountain. His 13-14 year old brother Osmar was carrying a backpack with three cameras and films of previous flights. Nilton watched Osmar drop the backpack in the brush to rush down more quickly, noting its exact location relative to trees and bushes. After recovering from fractures, Nilton drew a detailed sketch showing a distinctive dead tree, his car's location, and precise distances. Initially, Osmar claimed he had left the backpack in the car and it was stolen. However, during a later interview, Osmar admitted he had indeed dropped it but forgotten due to the commotion. Using Nilton's sketch, which required a second, more detailed version after initial misinterpretation, they found the backpack at the exact location indicated. Osmar emphasized it could have been anywhere for miles around, making the precise location through Nilton's out-of-body observation particularly remarkable. | 5 | Other | 8 | 25 | 48 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Severe trauma from hang glider crash with multiple fractures | Precise distant observation of dropped backpack location verified by detailed sketch and recovery | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw brother drop backpack | 1.00 | Osmar Davide (brother), third brother | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4632 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.18 | YouTube Lecture, Gary Habermas, 2016 | 2016 | 80 | F | An elderly woman in her eighties arrived at an emergency room in cardiac arrest, unconscious and requiring resuscitation. A female medical doctor, a close friend of philosophy professor Gary Habermas, worked extensively to resuscitate her successfully. Later, when the doctor visited to check on the patient, the woman asked why the doctor had been repeatedly shaking her left hand toward the ceiling during CPR, making a twisting motion between compressions. The patient accurately demonstrated the specific movement. When questioned, she confirmed she had seen this from above while the doctor worked. The doctor explained that her wristwatch would slide down during compressions, so she was shaking it back up her arm - a detail with no associated sound that the patient could not have known. The patient also reported hearing the doctor say something "not very ladylike" that her mother had taught them never to say. When pressed for specifics, she quoted the exact profane phrase the doctor had used. The patient explained she had been "up above" watching the entire resuscitation, feeling peaceful while the medical team was frantic. The observation of the silent, habitual watch-shaking motion during CPR represents a unique detail unlikely to be observed by others or communicated to the patient after recovery, providing strong evidence for out-of-body perception during cardiac arrest. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 22 | 52 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest requiring extensive resuscitation efforts | Silent habitual gesture observed and specific profanity heard while unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw doctor shaking wristwatch | 1.00 | Female emergency room doctor | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4633 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 1.19 | IANDS Conference Presentation, Maggie Callanan, 2016 | 2016 | M | A large man arrived by ambulance in full cardiac arrest, likely from a lightning strike on the beach. The resuscitation was lengthy and difficult in a crowded emergency room. Hospice nurse Maggie Callanan, then a critical care nurse, performed chest compressions due to her height and long arms. After achieving a steady rhythm, the team left for dinner and Callanan monitored the patient. When he began to wake, she welcomed him back, but he punched her and angrily said she had no right to bring him back from "such a beautiful place." He accurately described watching her perform chest compressions. Later transferred to ICU, he survived the near-miss lightning strike. The next day, when Callanan visited, the patient apologized for hitting her and revealed remarkable knowledge: one of the doctors had lost his watch during the resuscitation and was upset about it. The patient said it was "under the leg of the emergency room table." When Callanan returned to the ER and asked if anyone had lost a watch during the resuscitation, one doctor confirmed he had lost his watch around that time. They moved the heavy ER table and found the watch exactly where the patient had indicated - under the table leg. This observation of a hidden object's location during cardiac arrest, requiring specific knowledge impossible to obtain through normal means, provides exceptional evidence for consciousness functioning beyond the physical body. The patient had been in a beautiful place and observed earthly events, including hidden details, during his resuscitation. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 25 | 55 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Full cardiac arrest from lightning strike requiring prolonged CPR | Knowledge of hidden watch location under heavy table leg discovered after patient report | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw chest compressions being performed | 1.00 | Maggie Callanan and ER doctor | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4634 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.1: A Letter From the Venezuelan Assistant. Chapter 2, pages 2-3. | The Self Does Not Die, Case 2.1, Chapter 2, pp. 2-3, 2016 | 1978 | 2016 | F | A terminally ill cancer patient in a German hospital near Tegernsee had a remarkable experience while being treated by Dr. Ricardo Ojeda-Vera, a Venezuelan assistant physician. The patient had breast carcinoma that had metastasized to her lungs, liver, and bones. During a routine ward round, she suddenly told Dr. Ojeda-Vera that he had written a beautiful letter to his mother the previous evening, surprising everyone present as they had no prior personal interactions. When questioned later, the patient revealed she had observed him from the ceiling of his home while he wrote the letter in Spanish at his desk, wearing a green bathrobe. Despite not knowing Spanish, she accurately described the letter's content about his work pressures and thoughts on living in Germany, as well as specific details including his pen, writing pad, desk arrangement, and Roman-style chair. The patient demonstrated paranormal knowledge of private information that occurred at a distance from the hospital. She died three days after this incident. Dr. Ojeda-Vera, who had no particular bond with the patient, called this the most impressive experience he had ever encountered. | 5 | Hospital | 2 | 15 | 30 | Moderate Evidence | 13 | Terminal cancer patient, not in acute medical crisis during experience | Highly specific paranormal knowledge of distant private event, multiple verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 1 | Telepathic knowledge of private letter written in Spanish | 1.00 | Dr. Ricardo Ojeda-Vera | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4635 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.2: A Penny on the Cabinet. Chapter 2, page 4. | The Self Does Not Die, Case 2.2, Chapter 2, p. 4, 2016 | 2016 | F | A patient experienced cardiac arrest and underwent CPR resuscitation in a hospital setting. During the cardiac arrest, she had an out-of-body experience where she reported floating above everybody and observing the resuscitation scene from an elevated perspective. The patient was able to see the typical CPR procedures being performed on her body below. After successful resuscitation, she made a specific and unusual observation to a nurse who had not been present during the actual resuscitation. The patient stated that there was a penny on top of one of the cabinets in the room, noting that someone would have to climb up to see it from normal standing height. This observation seemed impossible from the patient's physical position during the cardiac arrest. When the nurse mentioned this claim to a colleague, that nurse decided to investigate. She climbed up to check the top of the cabinet and confirmed that there was indeed a penny exactly where the patient had described. This verification provided evidence that the patient had somehow perceived the room from an elevated vantage point during her cardiac arrest, consistent with her reported out-of-body experience during the resuscitation. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 25 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Documented cardiac arrest with CPR resuscitation | Specific observation of hidden object (penny) not visible from patient position | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw penny on top of cabinet during OBE | 1.00 | Nurse colleague | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 4636 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.3: Maria's Tennis Shoe. Chapter 2, pages 4-8. | The Self Does Not Die, Case 2.3, Chapter 2, pp. 4-8, 2016 | 1977 | 2016 | F | Maria, a U.S. migrant worker who spoke very little English, was admitted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a heart attack. Three days after admission, she suffered a second cardiac arrest and had an out-of-body experience during resuscitation. She observed her resuscitation from above, seeing printouts spilling from monitoring machines onto the floor and under her bed. Most remarkably, during her OBE she saw a man's left tennis shoe on a ledge outside a third-floor window. After resuscitation, Maria described the shoe in detail to social worker Kimberly Clark Sharp, using a mix of poor English, poor Spanish, and hand gestures. She said the shoe was dark blue, with worn material over the little toe, and one shoelace tucked under the heel. Sharp searched the third floor, pressing her face against windows until she found the shoe. She retrieved it and confirmed Maria's description was accurate, including details not visible from inside. This case became controversial when skeptics claimed Maria could have obtained the information normally, but Sharp refuted these claims point by point in 2007, maintaining that the shoe's specific details could not be seen from inside and that Maria's limited English made overhearing such detailed information implausible. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented second cardiac arrest in cardiac ward with resuscitation | Multiple specific details of hidden shoe: color, worn toe, shoelace position | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Language barrier (very little English) | 7/25/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed resuscitation procedures from above | 1.00 | Kimberly Clark Sharp, MSW | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4637 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.4: The New Shoelaces. Chapter 2, pages 9-10. | The Self Does Not Die, Case 2.4, Chapter 2, pp. 9-10, 2016 | 2016 | F | At Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, surgical intensive care unit nurse Joyce Harmon had just returned from vacation wearing new plaid-patterned shoelaces she had purchased during her trip. On her first day back, she was involved in resuscitating a female patient whom she had not previously known. Harmon administered medications during the successful resuscitation. The next day, when Harmon encountered the patient by chance, the woman spontaneously exclaimed, "Oh, you're the one with the plaid shoelaces!" This startled Harmon, causing the hairs on the back of her neck to stand up. The patient explained that during her cardiac arrest, she had died and observed the resuscitation scene from above, specifically noticing Harmon's distinctive plaid shoelaces. This observation would have been impossible from the patient's physical position during the resuscitation, as she was unconscious and being worked on by the medical team. The specific detail of the newly purchased plaid shoelaces, which Harmon was wearing for the first time at work that day, makes this veridical perception particularly compelling as evidence of consciousness existing outside the physical body during clinical death. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 30 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest requiring resuscitation in surgical ICU | Specific observation of unique new plaid shoelaces worn first day | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw nurse's plaid shoelaces during resuscitation | 1.00 | Joyce Harmon, RN | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 4638 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.5: The 12-Digit Number. Chapter 2, pages 10-11. | The Self Does Not Die, Case 2.5, Chapter 2, pp. 10-11, 2016 | 2016 | F | In a neurology ICU, nurse Norma Bowe encountered a female patient with a stitched head wound who had been in a coma for several weeks. During this time, the patient suffered cardiac arrest and was resuscitated after repeated attempts in the ER. When she emerged from her coma and was disconnected from life support, she reported having an out-of-body experience during which she observed the room from above. The patient suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder centered on memorizing numbers, compulsively committing every number she encountered to memory. She claimed that during her OBE, she had memorized the serial number on top of the seven-foot-tall respirator. She chanted the 12-digit number to Bowe and colleagues, who wrote it down. Days later, when respiratory staff came to remove the now-unneeded machine, the nurses asked a custodian to climb up and check for a serial number. After brushing away dust, he confirmed there was indeed a 12-digit serial number that matched exactly what the patient had recited. Bowe confirmed in 2020 that this story was "absolutely real" and that the patient said she saw the numbers while "clinically dead" when her heart had stopped, floating at the top of the room looking down. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest in neurology ICU requiring repeated resuscitation attempts | Memorized exact 12-digit serial number from dust-covered top of 7-foot respirator | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Patient had OCD focused on memorizing numbers | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 1 | Read serial number on top of 7-foot respirator | 1.00 | Dr. Norma Bowe and nursing colleagues | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4639 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.19: Hele, (pp. 149-172). Para | New Cases, Second Edition, Case 2.19, 1993 | 1993 | 1993 | F |
Helene, an elderly woman with lung cancer, was being treated in an ICU due to an adverse reaction to penicillin. As relatives kept vigil, she passed in and out of consciousness. At one point, she was able to tell her priest and two sons about her near-death experience. During her NDE, Helene experienced climbing a beautiful marble staircase, surrounded by harp music and extraordinarily scented flowers of unearthly colors. As she ascended the steps, she passed through a series of four rainbows. She encountered her sister, who was still living, and said goodbye to her. When she reached the fourth rainbow, she knew she must turn back. She then "heard a phone ring" - though no phone actually rang in the room - and knew there was a message for her family. Helene then found herself watching a scene that "unraveled like a picture" before her. It was dark and pouring rain. She witnessed a vehicular accident at an intersection involving a car and a truck. She observed two young men in the car, with one being thrown out of the vehicle and landing in a muddy ditch. She then knew with certainty that a cousin of her grandchildren, who lived in South Carolina, had been killed. This specific vision included highly detailed observations of the accident scene, including the weather conditions, the vehicles involved, the location, and the fate of the occupants. The next day when her grandchildren visited, she asked them, "Which one of your cousins has been killed?" Her grandson replied that nothing was wrong in their family. The grandmother answered with certainty, "Yes, there is: Your cousin has been killed." The grandchildren soon learned that their cousin had indeed been killed in the night, two states away. Investigator Justine Owens was able to interview corroborating witnesses and review police and medical records, confirming that the information reported from the NDE was both highly specific and unlikely, yet matched the police and medical records. The grandmother's medical crisis and the fatal accident occurred at the same time. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | ICU treatment for adverse reaction to penicillin, passing in and out of consciousness | Specific knowledge of distant fatal accident including details of weather, vehicles, and victims, occurring simultaneously two states away | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Justine Owens | 7/25/2025 | 1 | 2 | Vision of cousin's fatal car accident | 1.00 | Grandchildren | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4640 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.20: Jacq | New Cases, Second Edition, Case 2.20, compiled 2014-2023 | 1981 | 1981-10-21 | 2023 | 20 | M |
Jacques Baranowski, a 20-year-old football player, was driving with his pregnant girlfriend Florence and two friends when their car was hit by a bus going 50 mph on October 21, 1981. Florence and his best friend died in the accident. Jacques suffered severe injuries and had two cardiac arrests with corresponding NDEs at the hospital in Paray-le-Monial. During his first cardiac arrest in the afternoon after learning of Florence's death, Jacques saw himself out of his body for the first time, observing the medical team from above. He specifically noticed that the surgeon called in for resuscitation had tape on the arms of his glasses. He also saw his family members in tears, particularly his aunt. Later that evening, between 9 PM and midnight in the orthopedic surgery department Room 12, Jacques had a second cardiac arrest. Nurse Danièle noticed he lost consciousness and vital signs. The surgeon pronounced him dead and asked Danièle to call his family. During his second NDE, Jacques saw a staircase with white light at the end where Florence stood with outstretched arms, calling him to join her. He hesitated, then found himself hovering over Nurse Danièle's shoulder in the nurses' station (65 feet away behind a closed door) as she spoke on the phone with his estranged biological mother. Jacques heard both sides of the conversation word-for-word. He tried unsuccessfully to make Danièle hang up. He then found himself hovering above the surgeon writing his death certificate, again noting the taped glasses. Upon spontaneous revival, Jacques immediately told the nurse's aide that Danièle was on the phone with his biological mother and he didn't want them talking. When Danièle returned, Jacques repeated both sides of the phone conversation verbatim and told her about the surgeon with taped glasses writing the death certificate. Nurse Danièle confirmed decades later that Jacques had repeated the exact words of both sides of the conversation, despite the impossibility of hearing it from his room. |
2 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Two documented cardiac arrests with loss of vital signs, surgeon pronounced death | Multiple specific observations verified: taped glasses, phone conversation content from 65 feet away through closed door, both sides of conversation repeated verbatim | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Sonia Barkallah | 7/26/2025 | 4 | 1 | Surgeon with taped glasses during first cardiac arrest | 1.00 | Nurse Danièle | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||
| 4641 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.6: The 1985 Quarter - Ricardo, Lerma, J. (2007). I | Into the Light - Ricardo - Case 2.6 - 2007 | 2007 | 82 | M | Ricardo, age 82, collapsed during dinner and was brought to a San Antonio hospital where Dr. John Lerma, then an intern, attempted resuscitation. After the first electrical shock, Ricardo's heart rhythm was restored. He awoke mumbling about "the light" and described a classic out-of-body experience, comparing it to a roller coaster. He met angels who told him he would survive. Following another cardiac arrest, Lerma delivered epinephrine directly into Ricardo's heart, successfully restoring rhythm. Ricardo had suffered a major infarction but responded well to treatment. During his OBE, Ricardo reported floating above the trauma room where he spotted a 1985 quarter lying on the right-hand corner of an 8-foot-high cardiac monitor, amidst dust as if placed there deliberately. He asked Dr. Lerma to verify this observation to prove his experience was real. When Lerma climbed a ladder in the presence of nurses to check, he found the quarter exactly as described, including the correct year: 1985. Lerma noted Ricardo had not been physically capable of climbing a ladder for years, and no connection could be established with ER staff who might have placed it there. The verification of this specific, hidden detail provided compelling evidence that Ricardo's consciousness had indeed separated from his physical body during the resuscitation. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest with successful resuscitation via electrical shock and epinephrine injection | Specific observation of 1985 quarter on 8-foot-high monitor in exact location, verified by climbing ladder | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw 1985 quarter on top of cardiac monitor | 1.00 | Dr. John Lerma | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4642 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.7: Major | The Truth in the Light - Major Scull - Case 2.7 - 1995 | 1995 | M | Major Scull underwent hospital treatment in an intensive care unit where he experienced an out-of-body episode. During this OBE, he floated up to the upper-left corner of his ICU room and observed his own body from above. Through windows at the top of the walls, he could see into the reception area outside the unit. From this vantage point, he observed his wife Joan waiting at the receptionist's desk, which was unusual as it was not visiting hours. Joan was talking to someone behind the desk and wearing her distinctive red pantsuit. Upon returning to his body and opening his eyes, Scull immediately saw Joan at his bedside, confirming she was indeed wearing the red pantsuit he had observed. The Fenwicks emphasized the evidential nature of this case, noting that Scull observed not only the specific clothing but also Joan's presence outside visiting hours. He had not been familiar with the ICU layout or reception area as he had not left his room since admission. The door to his room was closed, preventing normal observation. When investigators interviewed Joan, she confirmed she had deliberately chosen to wear red that day - not a color she typically wore - thinking it would be cheerful and might lift her husband's spirits. As an artist, she had made a conscious decision about the color choice, making this detail particularly significant as verification of Scull's paranormal perception during his OBE. | 6 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 20 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Hospital ICU treatment but specific medical crisis not detailed | Accurate observation of wife's unusual red pantsuit and presence outside visiting hours, from impossible vantage point | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Closed door preventing normal observation | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw wife at reception desk wearing red pantsuit | 1.00 | Joan Scull (wife) | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4643 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.8: Dan O | Los Angeles Times - Dan O'Dowd - Case 2.8 - 1983 | 1979 | 1983 | 29 | M | In 1979, Dan O'Dowd, a 29-year-old co-owner of a Hollywood video company, was hit head-on by a drunk driver on the Pacific Coast Highway. Over the next two years, he underwent 50 operations. During one particularly extensive surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills lasting almost 15 hours, Dan experienced a profound NDE. Suddenly becoming totally lucid and awake despite being under anesthesia, he saw the monitor flatline and felt himself soar upward, looking down at his body. He watched in astonishment as doctors declared him dead. O'Dowd then moved into the hallway outside the operating room where he observed his family being informed of the operation's failure. Returning to the OR, he watched the medical team attempting resuscitation, observing them place defibrillation paddles on his body and deliver electric shocks. He recalled seeing himself looking "terrible dead" as they applied gel and shocked him. The first shock produced no response, but the second successfully restarted his heart, and he immediately felt himself being pulled back under anesthesia. When O'Dowd later recounted these observations, his surprised family confirmed that doctors had indeed told them exactly what Dan had witnessed. Dr. Mohammed Atik, who led the Cedars-Sinai surgical team, was perplexed by O'Dowd's accurate account. While not wanting to contradict the patient, Dr. Atik stated in the Los Angeles Times that he had no medical explanation for how O'Dowd could have known these details while under deep anesthesia during a 15-hour surgery. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest during 15-hour surgery with successful defibrillation | Accurate observation of resuscitation procedures and family being informed of death | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 2 | Saw resuscitation procedures | 1.00 | Dr. Mohammed Atik | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4644 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.9: Mr. O | Recollections of Death - Mr. O. - Case 2.9 - 1982 | 1976 | 1982 | 60 | M | Mr. O., a 60-year-old retired manual laborer, experienced a near-death episode in July 1976 during a heart attack that led to cardiac arrest. Cardiologist Michael Sabom interviewed him in August 1977 after learning about the NDE. During his out-of-body experience, Mr. O. observed the resuscitation procedures being performed on him, though Sabom was unable to locate medical records for verification. More remarkably, during his OBE, Mr. O. saw his wife along with his eldest son and daughter standing beside a doctor in the hospital corridor, crying. This observation proved highly evidential when investigated. His wife had not planned to visit that day as he was expected to go home the next day. However, their eldest son and daughter unexpectedly stopped by to see her, and having time, they decided to surprise Mr. O. with a joint visit. They arrived unannounced at the hospital without calling ahead. As they walked down the corridor toward his room, they encountered significant activity and were stopped by a nurse about 10 rooms away. The wife recognized her husband's gray hair as he was being wheeled out, though his face was turned away and she could only see the top of his head. He was taken directly to intensive care on another floor without passing them. Three days later, Mr. O. told his wife he had seen everything, including them standing at the end of the hall talking to the doctor. The wife emphasized the impossibility of this observation: his head was facing away, he couldn't have seen them even if conscious, he couldn't have known she would be there or who she was with as she has six children, yet he correctly identified who was present. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Heart attack with cardiac arrest requiring resuscitation | Impossible observation of specific family members in corridor during cardiac arrest | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw family members in hospital corridor | 1.00 | Wife and eldest daughter | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4645 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.10: The , (pp. 25–38). Routle | The Light Beyond - Medicine Vial Case - Case 2.10 - 1996 | 1996 | F | Dr. Raymond Moody described a case where he personally resuscitated an older woman in the emergency room. While performing external cardiac massage on the exam table, a female nurse assisting him ran to another room to retrieve a needed medication vial. The vial had a glass neck that should typically be broken off while holding it in a paper towel to avoid cuts. When the nurse returned, the neck was already broken, allowing Moody to use the medication immediately. Upon regaining consciousness, the patient looked at the nurse with kindness and said, "Honey, I saw what you did in that room, and you're going to cut yourself doing that." The nurse was shocked by this statement. She admitted that in her haste, she had indeed broken off the vial's neck with her bare hands rather than using proper safety protocol with a paper towel. The patient then recounted that during the resuscitation, she had followed the nurse back into the other room to observe what she was doing. This observation would have been impossible through normal means, as the patient was undergoing cardiac massage in the ER at the time. The specific detail about the improper handling of the glass vial - a safety violation the nurse had committed privately in another room - provides strong evidence that the patient's consciousness had somehow separated from her physical body and observed events occurring outside her physical location. Dr. Moody's direct involvement as both the resuscitating physician and witness to the patient's later revelation adds credibility to this account of veridical perception during clinical death. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest requiring external cardiac massage in ER | Observed nurse breaking glass vial with bare hands in separate room during resuscitation | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw nurse breaking medicine vial improperly | 1.00 | Female nurse and Dr. Raymond Moody | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4646 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.11: The | Journal of Near-Death Studies - Red Shoe - Case 2.11 - 1993 | 1985 | 1993 | F | This 1985 case from Hartford Hospital in Connecticut bears remarkable similarity to the famous Maria's tennis shoe case, a coincidence the investigators explicitly acknowledged as an example of "seriality" - meaningful coincidences without causal connection. The anonymous female patient was examined by nurse Kathy Milne following her NDE. During resuscitation, the patient experienced being pulled upward through the hospital floors while observing her body being worked on below. She eventually found herself above the hospital roof, viewing Hartford's skyline. While marveling at this aerial view, she noticed a red object in her peripheral vision that turned out to be a shoe. Her attention to this shoe preceded her being "sucked up" through a blackened hole, after which she experienced other typical NDE elements. When Milne shared this account with a medical resident, he initially responded with derision and incredulity. However, later that same day, his skepticism prompted him to request roof access from a custodian. To his amazement, he recovered the red shoe from the roof and brought it inside the hospital, his disbelief completely vanquished. The verification of this impossible observation - a shoe on a roof invisible from any patient area - provides compelling evidence of consciousness operating beyond physical constraints. The parallel with Maria's case, discovered independently at different hospitals years apart, suggests these veridical perceptions during NDEs may follow certain patterns. Neither Milne nor her patient had heard of Maria's case, making this independent replication particularly significant for establishing the reality of out-of-body perception during near-death states. | 6 | Hospital | 5 | 12 | 27 | Suggestive Evidence | 10 | Medical emergency requiring resuscitation, specific condition not detailed | Observed red shoe on hospital roof during OBE, verified by skeptical resident | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw red shoe on hospital roof | 1.00 | Medical resident | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4647 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.12: Tony | Blessing in Disguise - Tony - Case 2.12 - 2000 | 1993 | 2000 | M | Tony, husband of nursing supervisor Pat Meo at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, underwent a complex open-heart operation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1993 - approximately 1,250 miles from home. During the surgery, his heart was arrested for 30 minutes, and he subsequently fell into a coma lasting two weeks. During his NDE, Tony "floated" back to his Fort Lauderdale house where he witnessed the house-sitter having sex with an unknown girlfriend. He later provided his skeptical wife Pat with detailed descriptions of what the girlfriend looked like. Initially dismissing this as a dream, Pat was stunned when the house-sitter confirmed the accuracy of Tony's observations. What truly convinced Pat was Tony's accurate description of mail strewn across their dining room table, specifically mentioning a Danish office supply catalog they had never ordered. To her utter surprise, they had indeed received this catalog for the first time during his absence. Beyond these veridical observations, Tony experienced a vision of the afterlife and was told by a higher being the exact date of his death. His life mission would be to bear witness to his NDE until that time. Over a year after Tony's death, Pat discovered a small piece of paper in his desk drawer with "Return date: August 29" written on it - the exact date he had died. This case was independently verified by researcher P.M.H. Atwater, who confirmed the coma duration, the house-sitter incident, the Danish catalog, and Tony's subsequent transformation, noting how Pat's initial complete skepticism transformed into acceptance after witnessing the undeniable proof. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Heart arrested for 30 minutes during surgery, followed by 2-week coma | Remote viewing of events 1,250 miles away: house-sitter's activities and specific mail | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 2 | Saw house-sitter with girlfriend | 1.00 | Pat Meo (wife) | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4648 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.13: A Mi | What Happens When We Die - Muslim Woman - Case 2.13 - 2006 | 2006 | F | A middle-aged Muslim woman shared her near-death experience with Dr. Sam Parnia following interventional surgery. During the operation, she found herself observing her body from a ceiling-corner vantage point and realized she had died. From this elevated position, she could see beyond the operating room and observed doctors informing her family that she had died. The woman felt frustrated because while she felt comfortable and fine at the ceiling, she could see her family was extremely upset and crying. She wanted to communicate to them that she was alright but was unable to do so. The experience was characterized by complete peace and a bright, warm light that pervaded everything. Her main distress came not from her own state, which was peaceful, but from witnessing her family's grief and being unable to reassure them. The experience ended when she suddenly found herself back in her body, now experiencing pain. When Dr. Parnia later spoke with the woman's son, he confirmed a crucial detail: the family had indeed been told by doctors that the woman had died during the surgery. This independent confirmation from a family member who was present validates the patient's claimed observation of events occurring outside the operating room while she was clinically dead. The case demonstrates both the peaceful nature often reported in NDEs and the ability to accurately perceive events beyond the physical location of the body. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 22 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Interventional surgery with apparent clinical death | Observed family being told of her death from outside operating room | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw and heard family being told of death | 1.00 | Son | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4649 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.14: The | YouTube - Michaela NDE - Case 2.14 - 2014 | 1994 | 2014 | 17 | F | In 1994, 17-year-old Michaela from Homer City, Pennsylvania, was on vacation with her family when a large truck caused a serious car accident. She was airlifted to the emergency room by helicopter, having suffered the gravest injuries among her family members, including serious brain injury and arm wounds. Dr. Scott Magley provided trauma treatment during the helicopter flight, but despite his efforts, Michaela slipped into a coma upon hospital arrival. During her comatose state, Michaela experienced an NDE featuring a panoramic life review and glimpses of her future. She found herself in the corner of her hospital room observing her body from above. Her consciousness then traveled to the hospital cafeteria where she witnessed a remarkable scene: her parents sitting at a table with both her grandmothers across from them. Her father, a known smoker, said he needed a cigarette to get some breathing room. Extraordinarily, her maternal grandmother - who had never smoked and would never smoke in her life - suddenly declared, "Oh, I need one too. I'm gonna have one too." Her other grandmother similarly agreed, "Yeah, me too." Two weeks later, when Michaela awoke from her coma, she astonished her mother by reporting that both grandmothers had suddenly started smoking in the hospital cafeteria. Her mother explicitly confirmed this highly unusual event in the same video recording, validating that both grandmothers had indeed uncharacteristically decided to smoke during this stressful time - behavior completely out of character that Michaela could not have predicted or guessed. | 4 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 29 | Suggestive Evidence | 10 | Serious brain injury and trauma, comatose state for two weeks | Observed both grandmothers smoking - completely out of character behavior | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw and heard grandmothers smoking in cafeteria | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4650 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.15: Ches | Near Death in the ICU - Chester - Case 2.15 - 2015 | 2015 | 74 | M | Chester, a 74-year-old retired foundry worker, suffered a heart attack and was resuscitated in the Appleton, Wisconsin hospital ER before being transferred to the ICU under Dr. Laurin Bellg's care. Despite clean coronary arteries and proper heart function, he experienced three additional cardiac arrests over two days from ventricular tachycardia, requiring large medication doses and defibrillator implantation to stabilize his heart rhythm. During these events, Chester had remarkable OBEs where he discovered he could direct his consciousness and perceive distant events. He accurately overheard a conversation between his wife and daughter in the family waiting room, well out of earshot of the ICU, discussing an unusual tree visible from the waiting room window - its odd shape, fringy foliage, and distinct reddish color. They discussed possibly taking leaves to identify it and laughed about whether this would constitute theft of hospital property. Dr. Bellg confirmed knowing this strange tree, which is only visible from that specific waiting room courtyard that Chester had never visited. Chester also heard his two-year-old grandson in the waiting room fussing, crying, then laughing while playing with a green tractor, using it to knock down block walls. His daughter confirmed she had bought the tractor in the hospital gift shop to entertain him. All these observations occurred while Chester was in the ICU, immobile and trying to maintain normal heart rhythm, with no physical way to perceive these distant events. Chester later claimed improved vision and hearing after the NDE, though these enhancements disappeared within three weeks before medical assessment. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Multiple cardiac arrests from ventricular tachycardia with monitoring | Detailed observation of distant conversations and specific objects impossible to see from ICU | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 2 | Heard family discussing unusual tree | 1.00 | Wife and daughter | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4651 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.16: Don. | Near Death in the ICU - Don - Case 2.16 - 2015 | 2015 | M | Don suffered a terrible car accident resulting in multiple fractures requiring traction immobilization at an Appleton, Wisconsin hospital. His injuries included bruised lungs, severe heart contusion, and head trauma causing unconsciousness. Due to the head injury, lung damage, and broken bones, he was placed on artificial ventilation while being stabilized in the ICU. Despite being unconscious and literally unable to turn over, Don experienced trying to get a female nurse's attention. When she didn't respond and walked out, he felt ignored and, in his experience, got out of bed to follow her and confront her - physically impossible given his immobilized condition. Don accurately observed details beyond his physical sensory range, providing veridical perceptions. Dr. Bellg identified the exact night this occurred because the red-headed woman Don sought was a visiting nurse completing her two-month assignment with a night shift before moving to another city. Don described leaving his ICU room through sliding glass doors, following voices around the corner to find nurses at a central station working on computers - a work center he later described in perfect detail despite being unable to see it from his room. He approached them, spotted his nurse, and tried talking to her, but she didn't acknowledge his presence. When asked for more details, Don perfectly described the nursing station and the nurse with short, wavy red hair who had already left the hospital before he awakened from sedation. Despite Bellg suggesting he had an OBE, Don couldn't comprehend this possibility given his complete immobilization in traction. | 4 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 29 | Suggestive Evidence | 10 | Unconscious from head trauma, on ventilation, immobilized in traction | Perfect description of nursing station and specific visiting nurse on her last night | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Complete immobilization in traction | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw nursing station and specific nurse | 1.00 | Dr. Laurin Bellg | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4652 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.17: Caro | Near Death in the ICU - Carole - Case 2.17 - 2015 | 2015 | F | Carole, an elderly patient of Dr. Laurin Bellg in Appleton, Wisconsin, suffered from severe sepsis affecting multiple vital organs simultaneously. Her kidneys were particularly affected, constantly signaling the need to urinate, though her urine was being drained through a bladder tube. Being completely sedated and unconscious in the ICU, she couldn't be told that urination was being handled automatically. During her unconscious state, Carole experienced an OBE where she saw a female nurse and tried getting her attention for bathroom assistance. The nurse appeared to completely ignore her, similar to Don's experience. Frustrated, she got out of bed searching for a bathroom - impossible given her sedated, unconscious state. After regaining consciousness, Carole told Dr. Bellg she had gotten up to ask someone about the bathroom, saw a receptionist, and asked for directions but was also ignored. She identified the receptionist as Meg, accurately describing her short, spiky blonde hair with dark roots. Dr. Bellg was intrigued because Meg only worked part-time and had last worked a couple days before Carole awoke. Carole was definitely still under deep sedation with a bladder tube when Meg was working. Being on a ventilator, Carole couldn't have talked as she described. There was no possible way for her to leave her bed and room to converse with the accurately described secretary. Dr. Bellg confirmed Meg's appearance and that she was only awakened from the medically induced coma when Meg wasn't working, making this observation impossible through normal means. | 4 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 27 | Suggestive Evidence | 10 | Severe sepsis, deep sedation, unconscious on ventilator | Accurate description of part-time receptionist Meg not present when patient was conscious | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | On ventilator, deep sedation | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw receptionist Meg with distinctive appearance | 1.00 | Dr. Laurin Bellg | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4653 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 2.18: Hele | Near Death in the ICU - Helen - Case 2.18 - 2015 | 2015 | F | Helen was involved in a very serious car accident where both ankles were broken, requiring a long, difficult procedure to free her from the vehicle. She was unconscious during extraction and regained consciousness only hours after the accident. Despite this, she had vivid memories of getting out of her car in panic after the collision to assess damage and check if everyone was safe. Helen accurately knew four vehicles were involved, including a gray floral delivery van with blue writing on red roses decals. She described walking to a dark green four-door sedan smashed against her hood at a sharp angle after running a stop sign, seeing the dark-haired bearded driver slumping over the wheel, moaning. She correctly detailed that this initial impact created a pile-up when the delivery van behind her and white suburban behind it couldn't stop, slamming into her car and wedging it like an accordion between vehicles, leaving her pinned. She knew the delivery van driver was relatively unharmed but unable to open his jammed door. She observed the white suburban driver making the 911 call, then rushing between vehicles, reaching into the green sedan to turn off the smoking engine and comfort the injured driver. Helen saw the passenger crying and tried offering comfort through the shattered window but received no response. Hearing sirens, she walked back to her car and realized she was looking at her own unconscious body trapped in the driver's seat. The police report confirmed Helen was entangled in debris for thirty minutes, with both ankles clearly broken, observed unconscious at the scene - making physical observation of these accurate details impossible. | 5 | Other | 5 | 15 | 30 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Severe trauma with unconsciousness, both ankles broken, trapped in vehicle | Detailed accurate description of entire accident scene while unconscious and trapped | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Trapped in vehicle wreckage | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 1 | Complete accident scene observation | 1.00 | Police and rescue workers | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4654 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.1 | Untimely Departure Documentary, Case 3.1, 2015 | 2015 | F |
This case involves a female patient of Dr. Jean-Jacques Charbonier, a French anesthetist-ICU doctor at the Capio Clinique Saint-Jean Languedoc in Toulouse, France. The woman was undergoing surgery under general anesthesia when she experienced a remarkable near-death experience with extraordinary veridical perceptions that extended beyond her immediate surgical environment. During the operation, while completely unconscious under general anesthetic, the patient reported experiencing an out-of-body state where she found herself observing from the ceiling of the operating room. From this elevated vantage point, she was able to observe her own surgical procedure taking place below. However, what makes this case particularly compelling is that her perceptions extended beyond just her own operation. The patient described not only witnessing her own surgery but also perceiving events occurring in the adjacent operating theater. Specifically, she observed a leg amputation procedure taking place in the next room. She provided specific details about this procedure, including seeing the surgical team perform the amputation and observing them place the amputated leg into a yellow bag. This level of specific detail, particularly the color of the bag used for the amputated limb, suggests genuine veridical perception rather than imagination or hallucination. Upon awakening from the anesthesia, the patient immediately described these observations to Dr. Charbonier. She could not have had any normal means of knowing about the amputation procedure, as she was under general anesthetic and physically located in a different operating room. The walls between operating theaters would have prevented any normal visual perception, and the state of general anesthesia would have rendered her completely unconscious with no ability to process sensory information through conventional means. Dr. Charbonier took the remarkable step of verifying the patient's claims. His investigation confirmed that a leg amputation had indeed taken place in the adjacent operating theater at the exact same time as the patient's surgery. The timing was concurrent, and the specific details provided by the patient, including the placement of the amputated leg in a yellow bag, were accurate. This verification by a medical professional adds significant credibility to the case, as it rules out the possibility of the patient having obtained this information through normal channels either before or after her surgery. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 16 | Deep general anesthesia documented, patient completely unconscious during surgery in hospital setting | Distant observation of specific details in adjacent operating room including yellow bag for amputated leg | Single medical professional (Dr. Charbonier) confirmed amputation occurred simultaneously in adjacent theater | Alternative explanations limited as patient under general anesthesia with no normal sensory access | documentary_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed own surgery from ceiling | 1.00 | Dr. Jean-Jacques Charbonier | Highly Compatible | 3 | ||||||||
| 4655 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.2 | What Happens When We Die, John's Drawing, Case 3.2, 2006 | 2006 | 2 | M |
John was a young boy, not yet three years old, when he experienced cardiac arrest that led to a profound near-death experience. His heart had stopped beating, rendering him clinically dead. Witnesses at the scene observed that he was lifeless and had turned blue from lack of oxygen. Emergency responders applied chest compressions in attempts to restart his heart, and he was transported by ambulance to the hospital where resuscitation efforts continued. The severity of his condition was evident from his complete unresponsiveness and cyanotic appearance. During the time when John was clinically dead and being transported to the hospital, he experienced remarkable consciousness and perception. From an out-of-body perspective, he observed the events occurring around his physical form. He later told his family that while he was in what he called "the doctor's car" (the ambulance), he noticed that "the belt came undone" and he was "looking from above." This observation suggests he was viewing his body from an elevated position, able to see details of the emergency transport that he could not have perceived through normal sensory channels while unconscious. The spiritual dimension of John's experience included an encounter with a female being who came to assist him. He described seeing "a lady" when he died, who "came to take" him. He observed other individuals who were "getting new clothes," which he interpreted as souls receiving new forms or bodies. However, John understood that he was different from these others because he "wasn't really dead" and was "going to come back." This awareness of his temporary state and eventual return to life demonstrates a level of understanding remarkable for such a young child. After his recovery and discharge from the hospital, John began sharing details of his experience spontaneously during play. His grandmother confirmed that no one had told him he had died, yet he matter-of-factly stated, "When I died, I saw a lady." Over subsequent months, he continued to reveal aspects of his NDE through drawings and casual conversation. He repeatedly drew the same images, which became more complex as he developed greater artistic ability. A recurring element in his drawings was a balloon with a string, which he explained represented how "when you die, you see a bright lamp and are connected by a cord." John's profound statement that "When you die, it is not the end" reflects a transformative understanding gained from his experience. Despite his young age, he articulated concepts about consciousness surviving bodily death and the temporary nature of his own clinical death with remarkable clarity. |
2 | Ambulance | 10 | 5 | 15 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Documented cardiac arrest with clear clinical death (lifeless and blue), chest compressions performed | General observations from OBE perspective, belt coming undone in ambulance, seeing lady and others | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw belt come undone in ambulance from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4656 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.3 | The Near-Death Experiences of Hospitalized Intensive Care Patients, Patient 4, Case 3.3, 2008 | 2008 | F |
This case, documented by Dr. Penny Sartori during her five-year clinical study of near-death experiences in hospitalized intensive care patients, involves a female patient on the cardiac ward who experienced ventricular fibrillation leading to cardiac arrest. The medical emergency occurred while the patient was conscious and aware, as evidenced by her clear memory of her husband sitting by her bedside immediately before the cardiac event. The ventricular fibrillation caused her heart to lose its normal pumping function, resulting in the cessation of blood flow to her brain and other vital organs. During the period of cardiac arrest, while her brain was deprived of oxygen and normal electrical activity would have ceased within seconds, the patient experienced a vivid and distressing near-death experience. Rather than the peaceful or pleasant experiences often reported in NDEs, this patient encountered what she described as a vision of hell. The hellish vision was disturbing and frightening, representing a subset of NDEs known as distressing or negative experiences, which occur in a minority of cases but are nonetheless significant for understanding the full spectrum of near-death phenomena. The patient's experience included clear sequential memory formation, beginning with her awareness of her husband's presence at her bedside, transitioning into the distressing hellish vision during the cardiac arrest, and concluding with her sudden return to normal consciousness in her hospital bed. This continuity of memory and experience is particularly significant given that it occurred during a period when her brain should have been incapable of forming coherent experiences or memories according to materialist models of consciousness. Following successful resuscitation from the cardiac arrest, the patient immediately regained full consciousness without any period of confusion or disorientation. This immediate return to awareness is clinically significant, as it indicates she did not receive sedatives or calmatives that might have influenced her mental state or created hallucinatory experiences. The absence of medication-induced altered consciousness strengthens the evidential value of her NDE report. Dr. Sartori's analysis of this case emphasized the temporal certainty of when the NDE occurred. The patient was absolutely certain that her experience happened between the moment her husband was sitting at her bedside and the moment she regained consciousness after resuscitation. Given that she regained consciousness immediately after the successful resuscitation without any intervening period of semi-consciousness or recovery, this temporal anchoring strongly suggests the NDE occurred during the actual cardiac arrest when her brain would have been functionally inactive. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 2 | 15 | Suggestive Evidence | 3 | Documented ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest on cardiac ward with likely monitoring | Distressing vision of hell during cardiac arrest, no specific veridical observations of physical environment | clinical_study | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Penny Sartori | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 0 | Vision of hell during cardiac arrest | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 4657 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.4 | The Near-Death Experiences of Hospitalized Intensive Care Patients, Patient 7, Case 3.4, 2008 | 2008 | M |
This case from Dr. Penny Sartori's comprehensive five-year clinical study involves a male patient identified as Patient 7 who experienced cardiac arrest in a hospital setting. The cardiac arrest resulted in complete cessation of cardiac function, during which time the patient's brain would have been deprived of oxygenated blood flow, leading to rapid loss of cortical electrical activity within approximately 15 seconds. Despite this profound physiological crisis that should have rendered any conscious experience impossible according to materialist models of consciousness, the patient reported a vivid near-death experience with transmaterial elements. During the period of clinical death, Patient 7's experience did not include veridical perceptions of the physical environment or medical procedures occurring around his body. Instead, his NDE was characterized entirely by what Dr. Sartori classified as transmaterial aspects - experiences beyond the material world. The patient reported encountering his deceased father, a common element in NDEs that raises profound questions about the nature of consciousness and its potential survival beyond physical death. This encounter was not a vague impression but a clear perception of his father's presence during the cardiac arrest. The spatial characteristics of Patient 7's experience were particularly intriguing. He found himself in what he described as a large room, a space that existed beyond the physical confines of the hospital. Within this room, he perceived himself positioned between two thin lines that appeared to function as barriers he could not cross. These boundary lines suggest a liminal state - being at a threshold between life and death, unable to fully transition to either side. This perception of boundaries or barriers is reported in various NDE accounts and may represent the point at which resuscitation efforts prevent complete transition to death. The temporal framework of this experience is crucial to its evidential value. Dr. Sartori noted that the patient was only briefly unconscious during the cardiac arrest and immediately regained full consciousness once resuscitation was successful. This immediate return to consciousness without any period of confusion, gradual awakening, or medication-induced altered states strongly suggests that the NDE occurred during the actual period of cardiac arrest rather than during recovery or as a result of pharmaceutical influences. Dr. Sartori's professional conclusion, based on the immediate consciousness recovery and brief duration of the cardiac arrest, was that the near-death experience must have occurred during the cardiac arrest itself. This timing is significant because it places the complex, coherent experience with memory formation during a period when the brain's cortical activity would have been absent or severely compromised, challenging conventional neuroscientific explanations for consciousness. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 2 | 15 | Suggestive Evidence | 3 | Documented cardiac arrest with immediate post-resuscitation consciousness recovery | Transmaterial perception only - saw deceased father and otherworldly room with barriers | clinical_study | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Penny Sartori | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw deceased father during cardiac arrest | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4658 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.5 | NDERF Website, Marney S's Daughter, Case 3.5 | 2 | F |
This remarkable case involves a two-year-old girl who experienced an unexpected cardiac arrest lasting at least four minutes before successful resuscitation at a hospital using a defibrillator. The medical crisis was severe, with the child remaining unconscious for a minimum of four minutes while medical staff worked to restore cardiac function. The use of a defibrillator indicates the presence of cardiac monitoring equipment and a witnessed arrest in a medical setting with immediate intervention available. Despite the young age of the patient, she later provided a coherent account of experiences during the period of clinical death. Several months after being released from the hospital, the child began spontaneously sharing details of her near-death experience with family members. The delayed disclosure is significant, as it occurred naturally during family interactions rather than being prompted by questions about the medical emergency. When speaking with her twelve-year-old sister, the two-year-old declared, "I'm all better now." When her older sister asked how she knew this, she replied, "God told me." This initial revelation demonstrated the child's certainty about her recovery being divinely communicated during her NDE. A few weeks later, during a family gathering around a campfire while roasting marshmallows, the young girl provided more detailed information about her experience. She told her family, "God came to see me when I was at the hospital. He carried me up to the sky when the doctors were putting something on me. He told me I was all better now and took me back to the hospital." The reference to doctors "putting something on" her likely refers to the defibrillator pads being applied to her chest during resuscitation efforts, though the child lacked the vocabulary to describe the medical equipment precisely. The child's emotional response to her experience is particularly noteworthy. She expressed being "very upset that she had to return to the hospital" and "really wanted to go" with God. This reaction is consistent with many NDE accounts where experiencers report reluctance to return to their physical bodies after encountering divine presence or experiencing the peace of the afterlife. For a two-year-old to express such sophisticated emotional and spiritual concepts suggests the profound impact of her experience. The mother's interpretation that the "something" placed on her daughter was the defibrillator pads provides a potential veridical element to the experience. The child's perception of being carried to the sky while this medical intervention was occurring suggests an out-of-body experience during the resuscitation attempt. The spontaneous nature of the child's disclosure, her consistent account, and her age-inappropriate understanding of death and divine encounter all contribute to the evidential value of this case. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 5 | 15 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Documented cardiac arrest for 4+ minutes, resuscitated with defibrillator in hospital | Perception of defibrillator pads being applied while being carried to sky by God | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 0 | God carried her to sky when doctors applied defibrillator | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4659 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.6. | Journal of Near-Death Studies Vol. 11 No. 4 1993 | 1979 | 1993 | 60 | M |
At the end of the 1970s at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, a respiratory therapist named Sue Saunders assisted with the emergency resuscitation of a man in his 60s who had suffered cardiac arrest. The patient had lost consciousness and showed no heartbeat when Saunders began administering oxygen to him through a mask. Halfway through the resuscitation, another team member took over her duties and she left to attend to other responsibilities. The resuscitation efforts continued without her presence. A few days later, when Saunders encountered the successfully resuscitated patient in the ICU, he immediately recognized her and made a remarkable statement. He told her "You looked so much better in your yellow top... Yeah, I saw you. You had something over your face and you were pushing air into me. And I saw your yellow smock." These observations proved to be completely accurate - Saunders had indeed worn a yellow work smock only during the resuscitation and had worn a mask over her face while administering oxygen. The veridical elements of this case are particularly compelling because the patient accurately described specific details from a time when he was unconscious with no heartbeat. He correctly identified Saunders' yellow smock, which she had worn only during the resuscitation, and accurately described her wearing a mask and administering oxygen. The patient had been unconscious when she arrived and remained unconscious when she left, making normal observation impossible. Saunders was so profoundly impressed by the accuracy of these statements that the experience gave her goose bumps. The case demonstrates apparent visual perception during a period of cardiac arrest when normal sensory awareness should have been impossible. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest in ER setting with resuscitation team present. Patient unconscious with no heartbeat during observation period. | Patient accurately described specific details: yellow smock worn only during resuscitation, mask over face, and action of pushing air. Multiple specific verifiable details. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | mask over face | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw respiratory therapist in yellow smock | 1.00 | Sue Saunders (respiratory therapist) | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||
| 4660 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.7. | The Lancet 2001 | 1979 | 2001 | 44 | M |
In 1979 at Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital in Nijmegen, Netherlands, a 44-year-old man was brought in after being found unconscious in a meadow, having suffered a massive heart attack. He arrived at the hospital in critical condition - ashen gray with livor mortis, blue lips and nails, and no detectable blood circulation. The patient was clinically dead with pupils unresponsive to light. Senior nurse TG removed the patient's upper dentures to place an airway tube and laid them on a wooden pull-out shelf of a crash cart. The resuscitation was extremely difficult, lasting over an hour, with the team even debating whether to quit due to the patient's persistent "dead" pupils and lack of response. About a week later, when the patient had recovered on the cardiology ward, TG entered his room to distribute medications. The patient immediately recognized him and exclaimed: "Hey! But you, you know where my dentures are!" He then provided a detailed account of the resuscitation from an elevated corner viewpoint. He accurately described TG removing the dentures and placing them on the pull-out wooden shelf of the cart, hearing the clinking of bottles, seeing the alcove counter hidden by curtains from bed level, and identifying the two young female nurses present. Most remarkably, he perceived the team's doubts about continuing resuscitation, experiencing fear when they considered stopping. The veridical observations were extensive and specific: the wooden pull-out shelf detail, the hidden alcove counter not visible from his position, the team's verbal expressions of doubt, and the specific placement of the dentures. TG confirmed that at the time of denture removal, there was no heart rhythm or blood circulation, and the pupils remained light-rigid throughout, making normal perception impossible. The patient had no prior knowledge of the resuscitation room or crash cart design. This case became famous in near-death studies literature and was subjected to skeptical analysis by Dr. Woerlee, which TG and researchers firmly refuted based on the specific sequence of events and medical impossibility of consciousness during the observed period. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 55 | Strong Evidence | 25 | Documented cardiac arrest lasting over 1 hour, clinically dead on arrival with livor mortis, pupils unresponsive to light throughout, no blood circulation when dentures removed. | Multiple specific unique details: dentures on wooden pull-out shelf, hidden alcove counter, clinking bottles, team's doubt, viewing from corner of room. Impossible perspective from bed position. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | pupils light-rigid | Multiple researchers | 2,008.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 2 | Saw dentures placed on wooden pull-out shelf | 1.00 | TG (senior nurse) | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||
| 4661 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.8. | The Telegraph September 18, 2008 | 1983 | 2008 | M |
Between 1982 and 1984 at a cardiac ward in East Lancashire, England, head nurse Andy witnessed a remarkable case involving an elderly gentleman who suffered cardiac arrest requiring immediate resuscitation. During the emergency response, the attending nurse fumbled and dropped a kidney tray containing a full syringe of cardiac stimulants. The nurse quickly prepared another syringe while the attending physician chided him for his clumsiness. The dropped syringe rolled under a bedside locker, unnoticed by the medical team. The patient responded well to the resuscitation and was immediately transferred to intensive care. Three days later, when he returned to the cardiac ward, he recounted his near-death experience to nurse Andy. The patient described observing the resuscitation from above his bed and specifically mentioned witnessing the syringe incident and hearing the doctor's chiding remarks. Most remarkably, he knew the exact location where the dropped syringe had rolled - under the bedside locker - a detail that the medical team had not noticed during the emergency. The veridical elements include the accurate description of the dropped syringe incident, the doctor's verbal chiding, and most significantly, the previously unknown location of the syringe under the bedside locker. The patient observed these events while in cardiac arrest requiring resuscitation, when conscious observation should have been impossible. Head nurse Andy found this case particularly memorable among the many NDEs reported by patients during his tenure at the cardiac ward, due to the specific and verifiable nature of the patient's observations during his period of cardiac arrest. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest in cardiac ward requiring immediate resuscitation with cardiac stimulants. | Specific details: dropped kidney tray with syringe, doctor chiding nurse, unknown detail of syringe rolling under bedside locker. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw nurse drop kidney tray with syringe | 1.00 | Andy (head nurse) | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4662 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.9. | Segelfalter 2012 | 1985 | 2012 | F |
In the mid-1980s in East Germany, intensive care nurse Baroness Andrea von Wilmowsky witnessed an extraordinary case involving a woman admitted with severe heart attack. The patient arrived already clinically dead after failed resuscitation attempts en route. The hospital resuscitation was chaotic with too many people present. During the chaos, an IV bottle was knocked off and smashed, and von Wilmowsky's wooden rose-shaped hair clip fell from her hair and was broken when someone stepped on it. The patient was successfully resuscitated and kept unconscious in intensive care. Von Wilmowsky left for a three-week vacation immediately after that shift. Upon returning, she found the patient conscious but still in poor condition. Out of the blue, the patient asked: "What happened to your pretty rose hair clip?" When told it had broken, the patient revealed she had observed the entire resuscitation from a corner near the ceiling during her out-of-body experience. She accurately described seeing the hair clip fall and get stepped on, identified the doctor who broke it, and witnessed the IV bottle smashing - all while clinically dead. The patient also described experiencing an extremely bright light and extraordinary joy during her NDE, feeling all her questions were instantly answered and experiencing unity with the world. She expressed disappointment at being resuscitated back into her pain-riddled body. The veridical observations are particularly compelling as the patient had no way to see the hair clip normally, von Wilmowsky had been absent for three weeks, and the patient accurately identified who had stepped on it. This case from East Germany in the 1980s is notable for its specific veridical details observed while clinically dead and the delay between the event and the patient's ability to communicate what she had witnessed. |
1 | Hospital | 12 | 15 | 49 | Moderate Evidence | 22 | Patient arrived clinically dead, required chaotic resuscitation in hospital, kept in induced coma initially. | Multiple specific details: wooden rose hair clip falling and breaking, IV bottle smashing, identification of who stepped on clip, all while clinically dead. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Pim van Lommel | 2,012.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw wooden rose hair clip fall and break | 1.00 | Baroness Andrea von Wilmowsky (ICU nurse) | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||
| 4663 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.10. | Terugkeer Journal 2009 | 2008 | 2009 | 40 | M |
A Dutch ICU staff member reported a remarkable case involving a photographer patient with a fresh transverse spinal cord lesion and heart rhythm disorder who experienced ventricular fibrillation requiring resuscitation. The patient was totally unconscious during the resuscitation efforts, which involved an anesthetist and three or four nurses working to restore his heart rhythm and circulation. Immediately after the successful resuscitation, while still in the ICU, the patient provided a detailed account of the resuscitation procedures from an elevated corner viewpoint. He accurately described seeing someone holding a black balloon near his head (the bag valve mask), someone pressing on his chest for CPR, and extensive activity around his bed with many people present. Most remarkably, he correctly named each person by name and stated exactly where each team member was positioned in the room during the resuscitation. The medical team, including the anesthetist and nurses, were completely baffled by the patient's accurate observations. The case was discussed extensively afterward, not as a taboo subject but as a remarkable occurrence. The ICU staff member emphasized that someone with ventricular fibrillation has no blood circulation to the brain and drops into unconsciousness, making normal perception impossible. The patient was approximately 40 years old at the time and became wheelchair-dependent due to his spinal injury. The veridical elements are particularly strong: accurate identification of the bag valve mask as a black balloon, correct naming of all team members, precise description of their positions, and detailed observation of resuscitation procedures, all while experiencing ventricular fibrillation with no cerebral blood flow. |
1 | Hospital | 12 | 15 | 49 | Moderate Evidence | 22 | Documented ventricular fibrillation with no brain circulation, total unconsciousness, multiple medical professionals present. | Identified all team members by name, described exact positions, saw bag valve mask as black balloon, observed from corner of room. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw bag valve mask as black balloon | 1.00 | Anesthetist and 3-4 nurses | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4664 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.11. | Journal of Near-Death Studies 2013 | 1997 | 1997-12-25 | 2013 | M |
On Christmas Day in the late 1990s at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Washington, a patient with an oral infection developed an infected heart valve requiring emergency surgery. Dr. Lloyd Rudy and Dr. Roberto Amado-Cattaneo performed the valve replacement, but could not wean the patient off bypass. After exhaustive efforts, they pronounced him dead, turned off all machines, and began post-mortem procedures. The anesthesiologist left to eat, instruments were being removed, and the patient was sutured for autopsy. Remarkably, after 20-25 minutes with no heartbeat, blood pressure, or cardiac activity (confirmed by continuous monitoring and transesophageal echocardiogram), the patient spontaneously recovered cardiac function. The monitoring equipment had been left running, documenting the flatline period and subsequent return of electrical activity. The surgeons, who had removed their surgical attire and were discussing the case at the doorway, rushed back to successfully complete the resuscitation. Days later, the neurologically intact patient accurately described floating above the scene. He saw Drs. Rudy and Amado-Cattaneo standing in the doorway with arms folded discussing the case in their short-sleeve shirts. Most remarkably, he described Post-it notes accumulating on a monitor screen containing phone messages that had arrived during the surgery - impossible to know beforehand as no calls had come before the operation. He also described the chaotic return of the anesthesiologist. Dr. Amado-Cattaneo confirmed every detail, emphasizing the patient's eyes were taped shut during surgery and he was loaded with anesthetics. Both surgeons considered this medically inexplicable, with Amado-Cattaneo calling it "a miracle unexplainable by current scientific knowledge." |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 55 | Strong Evidence | 25 | Documented 20-25 minutes flatline with continuous EKG and echocardiogram monitoring showing no cardiac activity. Pronounced dead. | Post-it notes on monitor (impossible to predict), surgeons in doorway in short sleeves, anesthesiologist location, viewing from above. | interview | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Dr. Roberto Amado-Cattaneo | 2,013.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw Post-it notes on monitor | 1.00 | Dr. Lloyd Rudy, Dr. Roberto Amado-Cattaneo | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||
| 4665 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.12. | Emergency Medical Paramedic website 2013 | 2010 | 2013 | 49 | M |
In Australia, paramedics Frank and his rookie partner responded to a 49-year-old man with chest pain who collapsed in asystole - complete absence of electrical heart activity indicating prolonged cardiac arrest with little survival hope. After 30 minutes of CPR, intubation, and intravenous adrenaline with a backup team, a senior paramedic asked whether to "call it" (stop resuscitation). Frank suggested continuing for training purposes, prompting the senior paramedic to cynically remark: "if you want him to get more experience in CPR, there's a mannequin back at the station, he's got just as much chance resuscitating it as this guy." Miraculously, the patient achieved spontaneous return of circulation - virtually unprecedented after such prolonged asystole. He was stented, extubated, and neurologically intact within days. Months later, the patient "John" visited the station to thank Frank for the extra 10 minutes of CPR "even if it was only so that your rookie could practice." He revealed observing everything while "dead": Jack wanting to "call it," Frank's training rationale, and crucially, the mannequin comparison that made him realize he needed to "get back in that body" to live. The veridical elements are striking: John accurately quoted private conversations between paramedics during his asystole, including the specific mannequin comparison and training discussion. Frank confirmed feeling the patient was out-of-body and had "heard" the cynical remark. The case demonstrates apparent conscious awareness and decision-making during complete absence of cardiac electrical activity. Frank was so impressed he shared this account with all paramedics present that day and published it on his professional website, emphasizing the virtual impossibility of survival and intact recovery after such prolonged asystole. |
2 | Other | 10 | 12 | 42 | Moderate Evidence | 20 | Documented asystole (flatline) for 30+ minutes with continued CPR, virtually zero survival probability. | Accurately quoted mannequin comparison, training discussion, decision to "call it" - specific private conversations during asystole. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard decision to continue CPR for training | 1.00 | Frank and Jack (paramedics) | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4666 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.13. | Erasing Death 2013 | 1985 | 2013 | M |
Dr. Tom Aufderheide's first patient as a new doctor experienced repeated cardiac arrests from 5:00 AM to 1:00 PM, requiring continuous defibrillation. During this exhausting ordeal, when lunch arrived for the unconscious patient at 1:00 PM, the famished Dr. Aufderheide decided to eat it himself. The patient's condition finally stabilized after many hours of intensive intervention. Thirty days later, before discharge, the patient recounted his NDE to Dr. Aufderheide. After describing his experience, he remarked: "You know, I thought it was awfully funny... here I was dying in front of you, and you were thinking to yourself, 'How could you do this to me?' And then you ate my lunch!" These were Dr. Aufderheide's exact private thoughts - he had indeed thought "How could you [senior doctors] do this to me?" when left alone with this critical patient. Dr. Aufderheide later revealed the patient had observed even more: a conversation in the hallway between Aufderheide and the patient's wife, and a cardiac monitor outside his physical field of vision. Most remarkably, the patient received Aufderheide's panicked thought BEFORE resuscitation even began. Dr. Aufderheide, now Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Resuscitation Research Center at Medical College of Wisconsin, stated: "That got my attention, and to this day I have no explanation." The veridical elements are exceptional: telepathic reception of private thoughts before resuscitation, observation of eating the lunch, hallway conversation while unconscious, and viewing equipment outside normal visual range. The thought reception occurring before medical intervention suggests consciousness independent of brain function. |
1 | Hospital | 12 | 15 | 49 | Moderate Evidence | 22 | Multiple cardiac arrests over 8 hours requiring repeated defibrillation, patient unconscious throughout. | Read private thoughts before resuscitation, saw lunch being eaten, observed hallway conversation and hidden monitor. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Tom Aufderheide | 2,013.00 | 7/26/2025 | 4 | 1 | Read doctor's private thoughts | 1.00 | Dr. Tom Aufderheide | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||
| 4667 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.14. | Parting Visions 1996 | 1985 | 1996 | M |
In South Dakota, a nurse on her first ICU day witnessed an elderly rancher with a heart condition suddenly flatline. The inexperienced team grabbed a defibrillator but incorrectly placed the paddles in their haste, preventing proper function. After reversing the paddles, they successfully restarted his heart. Later, when asked about the resuscitation efforts, the patient smiled gently and stated that the team had nothing to do with his recovery - Jesus was responsible for his return to life. As proof, he revealed that their defibrillator "machine that you thought you shocked me with was unplugged the entire time." The astonished students returned to the resuscitation room and confirmed the rancher was absolutely correct - the defibrillator had been unplugged throughout their attempts. This extraordinary case suggests either psychogenic self-resuscitation based on the patient's extrasensory perception of the faulty resuscitation attempt, or divine intervention as the patient claimed. The fact that his heart restarted without actual defibrillation, coinciding with the team's paddle reversal actions, implies consciousness somehow influenced physical recovery despite the machine being non-functional. The veridical element - knowing the defibrillator was unplugged when the team didn't realize this - demonstrates apparent awareness during cardiac arrest. The patient attributed his survival to Jesus rather than medical intervention, which proved accurate given the equipment's disconnected state. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest/flatline in ICU, attempted defibrillation (though machine unplugged). | Knew defibrillator was unplugged entire time - fact unknown to medical team until checked later. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Knew defibrillator was unplugged | 1.00 | Nurse and students | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4668 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.15. | The Light Beyond 1988 | 1985 | 1988 | 49 | M |
A 49-year-old man suffered a massive heart attack in the emergency room. After 35 minutes of attempted resuscitation, the attending physician gave up and began filling out a death certificate. When someone noticed signs of life, resuscitation resumed successfully. The patient survived and was neurologically intact the next day. The patient provided detailed descriptions of the emergency room events to the doctor. Most remarkably, he accurately described a nurse who assisted - specifically her "wedge" hairstyle and her last name: Hawkes. He had read this name on her name tag during his out-of-body experience, despite being clinically dead at the time. Additionally, he observed a nurse rolling a cart down the hall with "two things on it that looked like table tennis paddles," accurately describing the defibrillator paddles used in his resuscitation. The attending physician confirmed these details could only be known if the patient had actually observed them, as they were too specific to guess. The ability to read a name tag while clinically dead after 35 minutes of failed resuscitation represents a particularly strong veridical element. This case demonstrates visual perception with sufficient clarity to read text during clinical death, suggesting consciousness with enhanced rather than diminished perceptual abilities despite absent brain function. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Massive heart attack, 35 minutes failed resuscitation, physician started death certificate. | Read nurse's name tag (Hawkes), described wedge hairstyle, saw defibrillator paddles as table tennis paddles. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 1 | Read nurse's name tag | 1.00 | Attending physician | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4669 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.16. | What Happens When We Die 2006 | 2004 | 2006 | 32 | M |
During a night shift, cardiologist Dr. Richard Mansfield led resuscitation efforts for a 32-year-old man in cardiac arrest with flat EKG, no pulse, and no breathing. The team administered oxygen, 3-minute cycles of chest compressions, adrenaline, and atropine for over 30 minutes without success. Given the patient's youth, they continued briefly before Dr. Mansfield checked all monitors and connections, confirmed persistent flatline, and pronounced death. Nurses began preparing the body while Mansfield documented the case. Fifteen minutes later, Mansfield returned to check adrenaline dosages and noticed the patient looked less blue - remarkably, he had a pulse. The team resumed resuscitation and stabilized him. A week later, the patient had fully recovered without brain damage despite approximately 15 minutes without any resuscitation after being pronounced dead. The patient then accurately described everything Mansfield had done: checking the pulse, deciding to stop, leaving the room, returning 15 minutes later, looking across at him, rechecking the pulse, and restarting resuscitation. He had observed all this while in asystole with no pulse and without resuscitation for 15 minutes. Mansfield, having carefully verified flatline, monitors, and connections before stopping, stated: "What he told me really freaked me out, and to this day I haven't told anyone because I just can't explain it." This case is exceptional for consciousness persisting not only during cardiac arrest but for 15 minutes after resuscitation ceased, with accurate observations of events during this period. |
2 | Hospital | 15 | 12 | 49 | Moderate Evidence | 22 | Flat EKG over 30 minutes, pronounced dead, no resuscitation for 15 minutes, spontaneous return of circulation. | Accurately described all of Mansfield's specific actions during and after resuscitation, including 15-minute gap. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Richard Mansfield | 2,006.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw decision to stop resuscitation | 1.00 | Dr. Richard Mansfield (cardiologist) | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||
| 4670 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.17. | NDERF Website 2015 | 1980 | 2015 | 70 | M |
In 1980, a 70-year-old man suffered a heart attack requiring surgery. His heart stopped for a full minute on the operating table. Upon awakening in the ICU, he grabbed his daughter's hand and emotionally recounted floating above his body during the cardiac arrest. He saw his two daughters and wife "huddled together" below him and told his daughter with great emotion: "You wouldn't let me go," stating he was no longer afraid of death. The remarkable veridical element emerged from what the family was actually doing during his cardiac arrest. Unknown to anyone and never communicated to the patient, his wife and two daughters were in the hospital chapel one floor below, huddled together in prayer at the exact moment his heart stopped. The daughter he first told about the NDE was the one leading the prayer aloud while holding the others' hands, explaining why he specifically said "YOU wouldn't let me go" to her rather than his wife. The patient could not have known his family's location or activity through normal means. They were on a different floor, in the chapel, praying together at the precise time of his cardiac arrest. His description of them being "huddled together" accurately depicted their physical arrangement during prayer. The grandson considers this among the rarest NDEs where someone observes actual events occurring elsewhere during their experience, providing strong evidence for consciousness temporarily leaving the body during cardiac arrest. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 20 | Heart stopped for full minute on operating table during surgery, in operating room with monitoring. | Saw family huddled together praying in chapel one floor below - impossible to know normally. Identified prayer leader. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw family huddled together praying | 1.00 | Wife and two daughters | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4671 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.18. | La Última Puerta 2014 | 2010 | 2014 | M |
An experienced surgeon recounted a case involving a middle-aged man with serious infection requiring surgery. Halfway through the operation, the patient suffered cardiac arrest following an abrupt blood pressure drop. The ECG monitor showed weak but constant rhythm after initial concern he wouldn't survive. The surgery was completed successfully, and the patient recovered consciousness. During recovery, the patient thanked the surgeon for saving his life but then asked about something specific he had observed during the cardiac arrest. He asked: "Do you remember somebody picking up the brown leather key fob that had fallen out of the pocket of your scrubs while you were trying to save my life?" The surgeon was shocked - he did remember a nurse finding his brown leather key fob on the OR floor, exactly as described, which had fallen during the resuscitation efforts. The patient explained he saw it fall from an elevated vantage point, observing it drop from the surgeon's pocket without the surgeon noticing. He had wondered whether this observation was real or imaginary until the surgeon's confirmation. The patient concluded: "That day my soul left my body." He provided a complete description of the operating room layout and team positioning, beyond just the key fob incident. The specific detail of the brown leather key fob falling unnoticed during resuscitation, observed from above and later confirmed, provides strong veridical evidence of consciousness functioning independently during cardiac arrest. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Cardiac arrest during surgery following blood pressure drop, ECG showed initial flatline then weak rhythm. | Saw brown leather key fob fall from surgeon's pocket, complete OR description, elevated viewpoint. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw key fob fall from surgeon's pocket | 1.00 | Experienced surgeon | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4672 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 3, Case 3.19, pages 1-2. | Recollections of Death - Night Watchman - Case 3.19 - pages 1-2 - 1982 | 1973 | 1982 | 52 | M |
A 52-year-old night watchman from North Florida experienced a cardiac arrest in December 1973. He had previously worked in Chapter 1 Case 1.4, surviving two heart attacks with cardiac arrest in 1973 and 1975. During his first cardiac arrest, he experienced an extensive near-death experience with remarkable veridical observations. During the out-of-body state, the patient observed himself lying on the floor in a semifetal position on black-and-white tile flooring. He watched as two or three people lifted him onto a metal cart, his legs were strapped down, and he was wheeled down the hallway with the cart making considerable noise. He observed a table with what appeared to be equipment on it, later identified as the defibrillator. He witnessed the medical team administering electric shocks, noting that the voltage seemed too high as his body jumped approximately two feet off the table with the first shock. After a second shock was administered, he returned to his body. The patient provided extensive details of the resuscitation procedures. He observed a small screen resembling an oscilloscope that repeatedly displayed the same line pattern. A plastic tube that reminded him of an oil can spout was inserted into his windpipe for intubation. Two round metal disks of different sizes were placed on his chest - one considerably larger than the other. He watched as medical personnel used both hands to insert a needle directly into his chest, an action that reminded him of an Aztec human sacrifice. The team attempted to establish an IV in his left hand but were unsuccessful due to a previous injury that had crushed that hand. They later successfully placed an IV in his right hand. He also observed them pounding heavily on his chest multiple times during CPR. When cardiologist Michael Sabom interviewed the patient in November 1977 and compared his account with the medical records (which the patient had never seen), the observations corresponded remarkably well with documented events. Sabom noted that the patient had minimal medical knowledge and even objected to common medical terminology, preferring "metal disks" over "paddles" for the defibrillator components. The detailed accuracy of the observations, combined with the patient's lack of medical knowledge, made this case particularly compelling. |
1 | Hospital | 25 | 20 | 60 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest in hospital setting with monitoring equipment (oscilloscope mentioned). Clear medical emergency with resuscitation procedures documented. | Multiple specific, unique observations of resuscitation procedures including defibrillator use, intubation, cardiac injection, failed IV attempt on left hand. Details corresponded with medical records. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 8 | 1 | Saw himself on floor | 1.00 | Dr. Michael Sabom | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4673 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 3, Case 3.20, pages 2-3. | Recollections of Death - Mrs. M. - Case 3.20 - pages 2-3 - 1982 | 1978 | 1982 | 60 | F |
Mrs. M., a 60-year-old homemaker, was admitted to a neurosurgery ward in January 1978 for serious back pain. During her morning admission, she experienced a cardiac arrest in her hospital room. The sudden medical emergency triggered an extensive near-death experience during which she maintained clear consciousness and was able to observe the entire resuscitation process from an out-of-body perspective. During her NDE, Mrs. M. observed all the medical procedures performed during her resuscitation with remarkable clarity. She watched as the medical team brought in and used various pieces of equipment including the ventilator and the crash cart. She observed the team pounding on her chest during CPR compressions and watched them establishing intravenous lines, though she experienced no pain during any of these normally painful procedures. She witnessed the placement of a ventilator mask on her face and observed as medical staff lifted her eyelids to examine her eyes. She watched them checking her pulse and saw them drawing blood from her hand for testing. Mrs. M. also perceived auditory information during her experience. She clearly heard a doctor announce that she should be transferred to the intensive care unit. Following this announcement, she observed a young nurse gathering all her personal belongings and carefully packing them into bags and suitcases in preparation for the transfer. Interestingly, despite these preparations, the transfer to the ICU did not ultimately take place. Throughout the experience, she was able to identify the various doctors and nurses who entered her room during the emergency response. When Dr. Michael Sabom later studied the medical report and compared it with Mrs. M.'s account, he found that her descriptions corresponded accurately with the documented procedures. The blood sample taken from her hand, which she had specifically observed, was explicitly mentioned in the medical records. Sabom was particularly impressed by the remarkably realistic and detailed nature of her description of the resuscitation procedures, noting the accuracy of her observations despite having no prior medical knowledge or experience. |
2 | Hospital | 22 | 18 | 55 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest in hospital neurosurgery ward. Emergency resuscitation with crash cart and full medical team response. | Multiple specific observations including ventilator use, CPR, IV placement, blood draw from hand, eye examination. Heard transfer orders and saw nurse packing belongings. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 6 | 1 | Observed CPR and equipment | 1.00 | Dr. Michael Sabom | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4674 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 3, Case 3.21, pages 3-5. | Erasing Death - Social Worker - Case 3.21 - pages 3-5 - 2013 | 2011 | 2013 | 57 | M |
A 57-year-old social worker with diabetes was brought by ambulance to Southampton General Hospital in Hampshire, England, after becoming unwell. While preparations were being made to insert a catheter, he went into ventricular fibrillation and experienced cardiac arrest. The ward had an automated external defibrillator (AED) available, a device designed for use by medical laypersons that can automatically detect ventricular fibrillation and provide voice-guided resuscitation instructions. During his cardiac arrest, the patient experienced a near-death experience beginning with an encounter with what appeared to be a female angel who motioned for him to accompany her upward. The patient felt he could not comply with this request. In the next moment, he found himself in an out-of-body state, looking down at his own body from above. From this vantage point, he observed the medical team working on his resuscitation and witnessed them attempting defibrillation twice. Most significantly, he clearly heard an automated voice repeatedly saying "Shock the patient, shock the patient" during the resuscitation efforts. He was also able to observe specific details about the people present, including where each person was standing and their physical appearances. This case is particularly significant as it was part of the AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) Study, the first NDE-related OBE case encountered in that investigation. While Dr. Sam Parnia was unable to locate witnesses who could directly confirm the patient's observations of the staff and their positions, he was able to access the patient's medical file for verification. The medical records confirmed that an AED had indeed been used during the resuscitation. These devices are programmed to announce "shock advised" upon detecting fibrillation, then prepare the electrical shock and provide verbal instructions for when to administer it. The file documented that the AED was used twice, exactly as the patient had reported. Professor Enrico Facco of the University of Padua analyzed this case and concluded that the acoustic commands heard by the patient demonstrated consciousness persisting for at least three minutes during cardiac arrest, based on the AED's programmed interval between voice commands. This provides objective evidence of awareness during a period when the brain should have been non-functional due to lack of blood flow. |
1 | Hospital | 28 | 22 | 68 | Exceptional Evidence | 18 | Documented cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation. AED monitoring provided objective timing evidence. Hospital setting with medical team present. | Heard specific AED voice commands "Shock the patient" twice. Observed people positions and appearances. Medical file confirmed AED use twice as reported. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 1 | Heard AED voice commands | 1.00 | Dr. Sam Parnia | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||
| 4675 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.22, , pp. 134-135. | The Self Does Not Die, Case 3.22, pp. 134-135, 2016 | 1975 | 2010 | M | Dominique Surel's ex-partner experienced clinical death in the mid-1970s following a medical emergency that required resuscitation. During his cardiac arrest, he found himself observing the medical team's efforts from outside his body, witnessing the doctors' attempts to revive him. Most remarkably, he perceived events occurring in the adjacent room, observing conversations and activities taking place there simultaneously. He could see and hear what was happening in both rooms during his clinical death state. Upon regaining consciousness, he accurately described not only the resuscitation procedures performed on him but also specific situations and conversations that had occurred in the adjoining room. Both doctors and nurses independently verified his observations of events in both locations. A nurse specifically discussed the experience in Surel's presence, confirming that her ex had accurately observed situations and witnessed conversations in the adjacent room. Surel emphasized that normal sensory perception would have been impossible during the clinical death state. The medical staff's verification of his dual-room observations during cardiac arrest provides strong evidence for veridical perception during clinical death. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 38 | Moderate Evidence | 13 | Documented cardiac arrest with resuscitation attempts | Multiple specific observations in two separate rooms verified by medical staff | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 2 | Observed resuscitation procedures | 1.00 | Doctors and nurses | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4676 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.23, , pp. 135-136. | Recollections of Death, Mr. J., Case 3.23, pp. 135-136, 1982 | 1978 | 1979 | 46 | M | Mr. J., a 46-year-old laborer from northern Georgia, experienced his second heart attack with cardiac arrest in January 1978. During the cardiac arrest, he had an out-of-body experience where he observed his resuscitation from above, seeing everything visually without feeling anything. He watched as medical staff stood back for the nurse who resuscitated him. He observed receiving only one electrical shock to his chest and noted the specific appearance of the defibrillator being used. From his elevated vantage point, Mr. J. observed the heads of doctors and nurses, the room layout including a sink, his bed, and two machines. He also saw his wife standing outside the door to his room, crying. Dr. Sabom consulted the medical records and confirmed the resuscitation had gone exceptionally smoothly, corresponding with the patient's observation of receiving only one shock. The defibrillation procedure matched standard protocol. Sabom contacted the patient's wife, who confirmed she had been crying during her husband's cardiac arrest and that the patient's descriptions matched the actual resuscitation as she observed it through the glass partition. The single shock success and all observed details were medically verified. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 12 | 40 | Moderate Evidence | 13 | Documented cardiac arrest with monitoring and single successful defibrillation | Specific accurate observations of equipment, personnel, and wife's presence | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Sabom | 1,979.00 | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 2 | Single defibrillation shock | 1.00 | Dr. Sabom | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||
| 4677 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.24, , pp. 136-137. | Beyond Death's Door, Case 3.24, pp. 136-137, 1991 | 1991 | F | A hospital patient, a nurse by profession, was suffering from recurring chest pain and severe depression. She attempted suicide by hanging using a neck collar on a bathroom door hook. Dr. Rawlings found her unconscious with swollen tongue, eyes, and bluish face. She had no detectable heartbeat, enlarged pupils, and was clinically dead. Rawlings administered CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while nurses brought emergency equipment. During her clinical death and coma, she observed all resuscitation efforts from outside her body. She accurately recalled Dr. Rawlings removing his brown plaid jacket and tossing it on the floor, loosening his brown and white striped tie. She remembered the worried expression of the assisting nurse, the request for an Ambu bag and IV catheter, and the arrival of two men with a gurney. After four days in a coma, she awoke and accurately described all these specific details to Dr. Rawlings. All her observations were correct, made while she was clinically dead. Remarkably, she recovered completely, returned to nursing work, and had no memory of the suicide attempt or any further suicidal thoughts. Rawlings emphasized these observations occurred during clinical death. | 2 | Hospital | 12 | 15 | 42 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest from hanging, no heartbeat detected, CPR performed | Highly specific accurate details: jacket pattern, tie colors, equipment requests | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 2 | 1 | Doctor's clothing | 1.00 | Dr. Rawlings | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4678 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.25, , pp. 137-138. | Beyond Death's Door, Case 3.25, pp. 137-138, 1991 | 1991 | 73 | M | A 73-year-old man with chest pain collapsed in the hallway before entering Dr. Rawlings' office, hitting his head on the wall. After a few coughing breaths, he stopped breathing and experienced cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation. An extremely difficult resuscitation followed where the man clinically died six times in succession - five times sitting up, pushing everyone away, trying to stand, then collapsing again. On the sixth resuscitation attempt, just before the final shock, the patient heard Dr. Rawlings say to a colleague, "We'll try one more time. If the shock doesn't hold this time, let's quit!" The sixth attempt was successful and the patient regained consciousness completely. Later, the man confronted Rawlings: "What did you mean, 'We'll quit'? That was me you were working on." His memory was absolutely correct. Rawlings emphasized it was physically impossible for the man to have heard this because he was clinically dead at that moment. The patient's accurate recall of the doctor's words during clinical death, when hearing would have been impossible, provides strong evidence for consciousness during cardiac arrest. The man made a complete recovery after this dramatic resuscitation. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 10 | 38 | Moderate Evidence | 13 | Documented cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation, died 6 times, monitoring present | Heard specific statement while clinically dead, physically impossible to hear normally | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 1 | 1 | Doctor's statement during clinical death | 1.00 | Dr. Rawlings | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4679 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.26, , pp. 138-139. | Beyond Death's Door, Case 3.26, pp. 138-139, 1991 | 1991 | M | An overweight, middle-aged man with high blood pressure had repeatedly experienced heart attacks with cardiac arrest. He had been clinically dead multiple times and had several NDEs. During one cardiac arrest, he had an out-of-body experience where he observed from above as two nurses entered the room, one wearing a rose on her uniform. Two more nurses and one orderly then entered. His attending physician was called back in and removed his coat to relieve the nurse performing chest compressions. The patient specifically noticed the doctor was wearing a blue-striped tie. He saw all this while floating out of his body. The room then became dark, and he felt himself rapidly moving through a dark hallway before being brought back by a tremendous electrical shock to his chest. Dr. Rawlings verified that all the patient's specific observations were accurate: the number of people present, their actions, the clothing details including the rose and the blue-striped tie. Based on the sequence of actions observed, Rawlings concluded the patient must have been without heartbeat and unconscious during his entire NDE. The verified details of personnel, clothing, and actions during clinical death provide strong evidence. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Multiple documented cardiac arrests with resuscitation, patient clinically dead repeatedly | Multiple specific details verified: rose on uniform, blue-striped tie, personnel count | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/26/2025 | 3 | 1 | Nurse with rose | 1.00 | Dr. Rawlings | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4680 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.27, , pp. 139-140. | Globo Reporter, Sandra do Nascimento, Case 3.27, pp. 139-140, 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | F | Sandra do Nascimento, a retired Brazilian psychiatrist with diabetes, heart symptoms, and kidney problems, experienced cardiac arrest. During her NDE, she observed two doctors and a nurse resuscitating her, then experienced the powerful presence of a light and feelings of peace and joy. According to her cardiologist, Fernanda Lanzoni, Sandra kept discussing her NDE after resuscitation. Three days later, Sandra recognized heart surgeon Leonardo Miana, who had been involved in the resuscitation, despite never having seen him before her cardiac arrest. She addressed him by his first name, Leonardo, and knew he had made an incision during resuscitation. She was moved to tears, emphasizing he had saved her life. A year later, she also recognized the other doctor who assisted Dr. Miana and addressed him by his first name. Both doctors were impressed by her recollections. Dr. Miana verified that no one could have told Sandra any details about the resuscitation. This case led Dr. Miana to become actively involved in a Brazilian project connected to the international AWARE Study. Sandra's recognition of previously unknown doctors and knowledge of specific procedures provides strong veridical evidence. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest requiring resuscitation with surgical intervention | Recognized unknown doctors by name and face, knew about incision made during resuscitation | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 2 | Saw resuscitation team | 1.00 | Dr. Leonardo Miana | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4681 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.37 - Fra | https://www.quora.com/As-an-anesthesiologist-what-has-been-your-strangest-experience-while-trying-to-put-someone-under | 2003 | 2018 | Unknown | Frank arrived nearly dead to the operating room after being resuscitated multiple times during transport from an outlying hospital. The surgical team crashed him onto cardiopulmonary bypass for 90 minutes, then placed him into complete circulatory arrest for 94 minutes with his body cooled and brain chilled with ice. During this time, the BIS monitor showed he was isoelectric with no brain activity. Against expectations, Frank survived and recovered remarkably well. When Dr. Yerington visited him in the ICU, Frank revealed he had been conscious throughout the surgery. He accurately described seeing the operation from above, including specific details like the red-haired tech who came from next door to do CPR, Yerington elbowing him aside, and the surgeon saying they should call it. Most remarkably, Frank recited from memory the three serial numbers from the tops of the operating lights in OR #20, which he said he could see while trapped on the ceiling. He recognized Yerington's voice and knew specific conversations that occurred during the circulatory arrest when his brain showed no activity. The anesthesiologist's brother, also a cardiac anesthesiologist, stated such recall could not possibly have happened given the medical circumstances. | 1 | Hospital | 35 | 30 | 90 | Exceptional Evidence | 25 | Documented cardiac arrest with 94 minutes circulatory arrest, BIS monitor showing isoelectric brain activity, eyes taped, patient paralyzed and intubated | Multiple specific verifiable details including serial numbers on OR lights, specific personnel movements, verbatim conversations during flatline | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Patient paralyzed and intubated | Dr. Chris Yerington | 2,018.00 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 2 | Saw serial numbers on OR lights | 1.00 | Dr. Chris Yerington | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||
| 4682 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.38, (pp. 31–33). Create | Physicians Untold Stories - Mary - Chapter 6 - 2016 | 2016 | F | Mary, a woman over 300 pounds, underwent routine ankle surgery but suffered cardiac arrest after receiving antibiotics intravenously, likely due to an allergic reaction. Her monitor showed a flatline, initiating chaotic CPR efforts. A young red-haired OR tech from the room next door rushed in to help but was not performing compressions adequately. Dr. Mochel had to elbow him out of the way to take over, cracking Mary's sternum and probably one rib in the process. After several minutes and IV cardiac medications, Mary regained heartbeat and breathing. She remained unconscious until transferred to ICU and recovered over six days. Upon discharge, Mary had transformed from a negative, difficult person to someone sweet and respectful. She thanked Dr. Mochel for saving her life, revealing she had watched everything from above the operating room during her cardiac arrest. She accurately described the red-haired orderly coming from next door, Mochel elbowing him away when he wouldn't move, and him stumbling away. She also mentioned seeing Mochel repeatedly looking at the door waiting for the internist who never appeared. Mary reported her deceased grandmother told her this wasn't her time and she returned when CPR started. Her observations included minute details she couldn't have known with closed eyes and no consciousness. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 20 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest with flatline during surgery, patient unconscious with eyes closed | Specific details about red-haired tech from next room, elbowing incident, doctor looking at door repeatedly | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw resuscitation from above | 1.00 | Dr. David Mochel | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4683 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.39 - Ste | 37 Seconds Book - Stephanie Arnold - 2015 | 2013 | 2013-05-30 | 2015 | 41 | F | Stephanie Arnold, 41, suffered cardiac arrest from amniotic fluid embolism during cesarean delivery of her second child on May 30, 2013. She had experienced seven premonitions of her death beforehand, which led anesthesiologist Grace Lim to prepare extra blood and crash cart. Arnold left her body before surgery began, floating near the EKG monitor and down hallways to see her daughter with the nanny. She observed the entire surgery including seeing through the surgical drape. When removing the placenta, she flatlined for 37 seconds at 12:17pm. During cardiac arrest with no brain function, she witnessed and later accurately described: Nicole Higgins at foot of table instead of head, rushing to intubate; resident Hyo Park performing delivery instead of attending Julie Levitt; Levitt frozen saying "this can't be happening"; specific nurse hitting code button; Jessica performing CPR; two crash carts with first one failing; blood on Levitt's face; Jonathan pushing out of plane. During six-day coma, she met deceased relatives including her best friend's brother who she'd never met, providing verifiable details about his death. All observations were video-confirmed by multiple medical professionals who stated her knowledge was impossible given her condition. | 1 | Hospital | 35 | 30 | 90 | Exceptional Evidence | 25 | Documented cardiac arrest with EKG flatline for 37 seconds, eyes taped after arrest, induced coma for 6 days, surgical drape blocking view | Nine+ idiosyncratic visual perceptions during arrest/coma, all confirmed by witnesses including specific positions, actions, equipment failures | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Surgical drape blocking view | Multiple medical professionals | 2,015.00 | 7/27/2025 | 5 | 2 | Daughter with nanny in Labor Room | 1.00 | Dr. Nicole Higgins, Dr. Julie Levitt, Dr. Grace Lim, Dr. Hyo Park | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||
| 4684 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.23, Sabom, M. B. (1982) | Book: Recollections of death, Mr. J., 1982 | 1978 | 1982 | 46 | M | Mr. J., a 46-year-old laborer from northern Georgia, experienced his second heart attack with cardiac arrest in January 1978. During the resuscitation, he had an out-of-body experience where he observed the medical procedures from above without feeling anything. He watched medical staff step back as a nurse prepared to defibrillate him, saw the defibrillator device which he later described as looking like an electric toothbrush, and observed that he received only one electrical shock to his chest. He also saw the room layout including a sink, his bed, two machines, and his wife standing outside the door crying. The resuscitation was exceptionally smooth and successful, requiring only a single defibrillation. Medical records confirmed the unusually smooth resuscitation with single shock, and his wife verified she had been crying outside and confirmed his descriptions matched what she observed through the glass partition. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest in hospital setting with monitoring | Specific visual observations of defibrillator appearance and single shock procedure | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Sabom, M.B. | 7/27/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw defibrillator and resuscitation procedure | 1.00 | Medical staff, wife | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||
| 4685 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.22 | Society of Scientific Exploration website, 2010 | 1975 | 2010 | M | Dominique Surel's ex-partner clinically died in the mid-1970s but was successfully resuscitated. After regaining consciousness, he was able to describe in detail how doctors had tried to resuscitate him in his room. Remarkably, he also described what had been happening in the room next door and what conversations had taken place there. Both doctors and nurses verified what he had seen and heard in both rooms during his clinical death. A nurse specifically discussed the experience in Surel's presence, confirming that her ex had really observed certain situations and witnessed conversations that had taken place in the adjoining room. Surel ruled out that the patient could have observed all of this by normal sensory means, as he was clinically dead at the time. The ability to perceive events in multiple locations, including an adjacent room, during clinical death represents a significant veridical observation that was independently confirmed by multiple medical professionals. | 2 | Hospital | 8 | 18 | 36 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Clinical death confirmed but monitoring details not specified | Observations in multiple rooms including adjacent room, conversations accurately reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed resuscitation procedures in his room | 1.00 | Multiple doctors and nurses | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4686 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.28 | Closer to the Light, Mark Botts, 1990 | 1990 | 1 | M | Mark Botts, at 9 months old, developed serious bronchiolitis requiring emergency tracheotomy during which he experienced cardiac arrest. Doctors worked 40 minutes to resuscitate him. At age 3, memories surfaced when he saw a Christmas pageant. He described seeing nurses and doctors working on him, flying out of the room, and seeing his grandparents crying while holding each other in another location. He perceived they thought he was dying. He then experienced a dark tunnel with bright light at the end, found himself in a brightly lit place running in fields with God. God asked if he wanted to return home; Mark said no, but God told him he could come back another day. His out-of-body observations of specific events were verified as accurate. His mother confirmed his descriptions of where people stood were impossible to see from his position. The case is remarkable as Mark retained clear memories until at least age 5, and his observations of his grandparents' location and emotional state were independently verified. | 1 | Hospital | 12 | 15 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest during emergency tracheotomy, 40 minutes resuscitation documented | Observed medical procedures, saw grandparents in different location crying | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Morse, M.L. | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw medical team during resuscitation | 1.00 | Mother and grandparents | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4687 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.29 | Light and Death, Pam Reynolds, 1998 | 1991 | 1998 | 35 | F | Pam Reynolds underwent hypothermic cardiac arrest surgery for brain aneurysm removal. Body temperature lowered to 59-63°F, heart stopped, blood drained from head. Eyes taped shut, ears blocked with 95-100 decibel clicking speakers, under deep anesthesia with EEG burst suppression. During skull opening with surgical saw, she experienced OBE, hearing the saw as musical note (high D). Observed from above surgeon's shoulder: saw looked like electric toothbrush with groove, interchangeable bits in socket wrench case. Heard exchange about right groin arteries being too small, suggestion to try left side. Later saw body jump twice during defibrillation, heard "Hotel California" playing. Met deceased grandmother and uncle in light. All observations verified: Spetzler confirmed saw description accurate, conversation about arteries occurred, two shocks needed to restart heart. Greene confirmed she was physiologically dead with no brain activity. Observations impossible given sensory barriers and brain state. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 20 | 50 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Hypothermic cardiac arrest, flatline EEG, complete sensory isolation documented | Extremely specific observations: surgical saw appearance, arterial exchange, defibrillation details | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Loud clicking in ears | Sabom, M.B.; Spetzler, R. | 1,998.00 | 7/27/2025 | 4 | 1 | Heard surgical saw as musical note | 1.00 | Dr. Spetzler, Dr. Greene | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||
| 4688 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.27 | Brazilian media report, 2011 | 2011 | F | Sandra do Nascimento, a retired Brazilian psychiatrist with diabetes, heart symptoms, and kidney problems, experienced cardiac arrest. During her NDE, she observed what two doctors and a nurse did to resuscitate her, then experienced the powerful presence of a light and feelings of peace and joy. Three days after resuscitation, she recognized heart surgeon Leonardo Miana who had been involved in the resuscitation, though she had never seen him before the cardiac arrest. She addressed him by his first name Leonardo and knew he had made an incision during resuscitation. She was moved to tears, stressed he had saved her life. A year later, she also recognized the other doctor who assisted Dr. Miana and addressed him by his first name. Both doctors were particularly impressed by her recollections. Miana determined no one could have told her any details about the resuscitation. This case led Miana to become actively involved in the international AWARE Study through a Brazilian project. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest in hospital with medical team present | Recognized unknown doctors, knew their names and specific procedures performed | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed resuscitation procedures | 1.00 | Dr. Leonardo Miana, second doctor | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4689 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.25 | Beyond death's door, 1991 | 1991 | 73 | M | A 73-year-old man with pressing chest pain collapsed in the hall before entering Dr. Rawlings' office, hitting his head on the wall. He experienced cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation. A difficult resuscitation followed where the man clinically died six times in a row - five times he would sit up, push everyone away, try to stand, only to collapse again. On the sixth attempt, the pattern stopped and he regained consciousness completely. The patient later told Rawlings he remembered the doctor saying just before the sixth resuscitation attempt, "We'll try one more time. If the shock doesn't hold this time, let's quit!" He confronted Rawlings: "What did you mean, 'We'll quit'? That was me you were working on." The patient's memory was absolutely correct. Rawlings asserted it was physically impossible for the man to have heard him because he was clinically dead at that moment. This represents a clear case of auditory perception during clinical death with cardiac arrest. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation, multiple resuscitation attempts | Heard specific statement about stopping resuscitation while clinically dead | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Rawlings, M. | 7/27/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard doctor's statement during cardiac arrest | 1.00 | Dr. Rawlings | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4690 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.26 | Beyond death's door, 1991 | 1991 | M | An overweight, middle-aged man with high blood pressure had repeatedly experienced heart attacks with cardiac arrest. He had been clinically dead more than once and had several NDEs. During one cardiac arrest, he had an OBE where he saw two nurses enter the room, one wearing a rose on her uniform. Two more nurses and one orderly entered, then his attending physician was called back in. The patient wondered why, as he felt fine. The doctor removed his coat to relieve the nurse compressing the patient's chest and the patient noticed the doctor was wearing a blue-striped tie. The room became dark, he felt he was rapidly moving through a dark hallway, then was brought back by a tremendous electrical shock. Rawlings verified that the patient's specific observations were accurate: the number of people present, their actions, the clothing details including the rose and blue-striped tie all corresponded with facts. Based on the sequence of actions, Rawlings concluded the patient must have been without heartbeat and unconscious during his entire NDE. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Multiple documented cardiac arrests with monitoring | Specific details: rose on uniform, blue-striped tie, personnel count and actions | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Rawlings, M. | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw medical personnel entering room | 1.00 | Dr. Rawlings | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4691 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.24 | Beyond death's door, 1991 | 1991 | F | A hospital patient, herself a nurse, suffering from recurring chest pain and severe depression attempted suicide by hanging using a neck collar on a bathroom door hook. Dr. Rawlings found her unconscious with enlarged pupils, no audible heartbeat, swollen tongue, eyes, and bluish face. He administered CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The patient showed flat EKG line (asystole, not ventricular fibrillation), received medications, and was stabilized then transported to ICU where she remained comatose for 4 days. Two days after awakening, Rawlings asked if she remembered anything. She had observed all his efforts, remembered he removed his brown plaid jacket and tossed it on floor, loosened his brown and white striped tie, that the nurse looked worried, that he asked for an Ambu bag and IV catheter, and that two men with gurney came. All memories were correct. Rawlings stressed the patient was clinically dead when observing these things. Patient recovered completely, returned to nursing, had no memory of suicide attempt. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest from hanging, flat EKG, no heartbeat documented | Specific clothing details: brown plaid jacket, brown/white striped tie, procedures | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Rawlings, M. | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed doctor's clothing and actions | 1.00 | Dr. Rawlings | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4692 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.30 | Closer to the Light, 11-year-old boy, 1990 | 1990 | 11 | M | An 11-year-old boy suffering from months of blackouts had another blackout in hospital waiting room followed by cardiac arrest. He received immediate CPR, was taken to ICU where he had no heartbeat for at least 20 minutes despite medications. When doctors tried one more resuscitation, he suddenly revived saying "That was weird. You sucked me back into my body!" then lost consciousness again. A pacemaker was implanted. Seven years later, he told Dr. Morse he had been in corner of room looking down at his body, saw specific medical personnel including his doctor and nurse Sandy. He heard Sandy say "I wish we didn't have to do this." He saw doctor put jelly on his chest, noticed his hair looked greasy, wished he had washed it. His clothes were cut off but pants still on. He heard "Stand back" then button pushed on paddles, suddenly was back in body. Morse verified many details including accurate description of resuscitation procedures, equipment locations and colors, personnel genders, and their discussions. | 2 | Hospital | 12 | 15 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest in hospital, 20+ minutes without heartbeat documented | Specific personnel identification, exact quotes, procedure details, personal observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Morse, M.L. | 7/27/2025 | 4 | 1 | Saw medical team from corner of room | 1.00 | Dr. Morse, medical team | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||
| 4693 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.40 | Explore Journal 2021 Bettina Peyton | 1988 | 1988-03-24 | 2021 | 32 | F |
Bettina Peyton, a 32-year-old physician and strident materialist, suffered a cardiac arrest on March 24, 1988, while working at Tufts-New England Medical Center. She was pregnant with her third child and diagnosed with placenta previa, requiring high-risk surgery to deliver her baby prematurely. During the operation, she bled profusely and experienced cardiac arrest, leading to her transfer to the ICU and subsequent hysterectomy. Under general anesthesia with eyes taped shut, Peyton experienced a classic NDE. She was able to hear and see clearly what was happening in the room. She heard the anesthesiologist ask about blood loss and the surgeon reply "The child is gone." She heard the anesthesiologist shout "Shit! Now she has no blood pressure at all!" and observed him trying to find a pulse, hearing alarm signals, and watching resuscitation attempts. She saw blood transfusions, the anesthesiologist hitting the emergency button, and CPR being performed. She then entered emptiness but realized she was still there, encountering a living light that recognized her. She experienced herself as "free and alive! Bodiless, eternal, pure being!" and received a message to return to her body. Peyton observed specific details including the anesthesiologist's efforts to catheterize her wrist artery, telling him internally to "go for the brachial artery" and hearing him say he heard "Just go for it!" which compelled him to switch approaches. She saw a white-haired senior surgeon enter and clamp her aorta with his hand, experiencing an explosion of white-hot light through his touch that revitalized her entire being. After regaining consciousness, she accurately described all procedures to her obstetrician and anesthesiologist before being informed, including the hysterectomy, IV line insertion, and arterial line attempts. Both Peyton and her baby made full recoveries. The experience profoundly transformed her worldview. Her husband Matthew Levine M.D. confirmed she wrote "uterus out" while still on a ventilator before being told about the emergency hysterectomy performed during cardiac arrest. |
1 | Hospital | 35 | 30 | 90 | Exceptional Evidence | 25 | Documented cardiac arrest during surgery with full medical monitoring, general anesthesia, eyes taped shut | Multiple specific veridical observations including conversations, procedures, and medical interventions all independently verified | Confirmed by obstetrician, anesthesiologist, and husband Dr. Matthew Levine | Alternative explanations ruled out - eyes taped, under general anesthesia during cardiac arrest | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Dr. Marjorie Woollacott | 2021-01-01 | 7/27/2025 | 5 | 2 | Heard medical conversations during cardiac arrest | 1.00 | Obstetrician and anesthesiologist | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||
| 4694 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.43 | YouTube interviews 2022 | 1977 | 2022 | 45 | M |
In 1977, a man in his forties was in the ICU at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was in shock when the ICU team was trying to determine his injuries, but he suddenly had an unexpected cardiac arrest. The resuscitation team immediately went into full resuscitation mode, providing CPR, drugs, oxygen, and finally intubating him. They worked on him for an extended period but were unable to maintain a stable heart rhythm. The chief resident wanted to stop resuscitation efforts, believing the patient could not be saved. Nurse Deborah King had an intuitive knowing that they should continue and convinced the chief resident to "go one more round" of resuscitation efforts. During this final round, they administered another round of drugs, defibrillations, and all available interventions. Against expectations, they successfully restored his heart rhythm, and the resuscitation room erupted in applause. King was relieved she had followed her intuitive voice. The patient remained unconscious and King was off work for two days. When King returned and entered the patient's room, he immediately exclaimed "It's you, you're the one!" He told her he had watched the entire resuscitation from the corner of the ICU room. He accurately described at least ten specific veridical details: the lead resident had blood on his shirt from a previous trauma case, King's long hair was falling down at the end of her shift, they were having trouble with his endotracheal tube requiring assistance from anesthesia, and he described the anesthesiologist as a tall man with glasses wearing a blue hat and blue scrubs. Most remarkably, he heard King's conversation with the chief resident when she said "Let's go one more round" - terminology that an ICU patient would not normally know, referring to rounds of resuscitation drugs and interventions. The patient thanked King for saving his life with those words. This case is remarkable for the accuracy and specificity of the observations made during a period of cardiac arrest with flatline EEG, before the successful final resuscitation attempt. |
1 | Hospital | 35 | 30 | 90 | Exceptional Evidence | 25 | Documented cardiac arrest in ICU with full monitoring, flatline EEG, extended resuscitation period | At least 10 specific accurate observations including appearance details, conversations, and medical procedures | Nurse Deborah King confirmed all details matched exactly | Patient had flatline EEG and no heartbeat during observations | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Deborah King RN | 2022-01-01 | 7/27/2025 | 6 | 1 | Saw resuscitation from corner of room | 1.00 | Deborah King RN | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||
| 4695 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case discussed | Medical conference lecture 2018 | 2018 | 2021 | F |
A female nurse working at the University Hospital of Bellvitge in Barcelona suffered a serious traffic accident and cardiac arrest in the ambulance during transfer. Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra, head of General and Digestive Surgery, recognized her as a colleague when she arrived. She was unconscious, not breathing, lacking basic reflexes, with multiple fractures and internal bleeding causing hypovolemia (loss of over 2 liters of blood). The medical team immediately attempted resuscitation using endotracheal intubation with oxygen, artificial ventilation, chest compressions by Dr. Sans himself, intracardiac adrenaline injection, bicarbonate administration, and defibrillation on multiple occasions. Blood transfusions were urgently administered. After 7-8 minutes with transfusions, she showed signs of life, and after 9 minutes her pulse normalized. She was transferred to the OR where her spleen and part of her liver were removed. Importantly, the endotracheal intubation occurred BEFORE CPR initiation, and the patient observed this sequence correctly. Twenty days later in General Surgery, the patient initially refused to discuss her experience. When asked again, she said "You don't need to tell me what happened. I could see how Dr. so-and-so intubated me, how you yourself gave me chest compressions." She had abruptly left her body, observed the medical procedures, and tried unsuccessfully to contact the team, going right through Dr. Sans' body when attempting to touch him. She then visited the adjacent ICU, accurately describing patients and staff appearances, and the Emergency OR where she correctly identified a femoral neck surgery being performed by the trauma team at that exact time. The patient experienced a spiritual phase meeting beings of light and her deceased mother, feeling unprecedented peace and love before receiving a message to return. Dr. Sans verified all observations through hospital computer records, confirming the medical personnel on duty matched her descriptions, the femoral neck surgery was indeed occurring at that time, and she had never discussed any details with anyone before telling him. The patient requested maximum confidentiality regarding names. |
2 | Hospital | 35 | 30 | 90 | Exceptional Evidence | 25 | Cardiac arrest from trauma with hypovolemia, multiple resuscitation methods, intubation before CPR | Accurate observations of intubation sequence, specific surgery in adjacent OR, personnel identifications | Dr. Sans verified all details through hospital computer records | Patient unconscious throughout, no prior knowledge of concurrent surgeries | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra | 2021-02-12 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw intubation and resuscitation sequence | 1.00 | Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||
| 4696 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.42 | Medical conference lecture 2018 | 2018 | 2021 | M |
Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra, former head of General and Digestive Surgery at the University Hospital of Bellvitge in Barcelona, treated a male patient with an esophagus tumor requiring surgical removal. Dr. Sans had informed the patient about the exact surgical method they would use, including that they would perform a thoracotomy (opening the thorax) rather than the less invasive thoracoscopy available at that time. During the tumor removal surgery, while attempting to extract the tumor, the patient unexpectedly suffered a cardiac arrest. Dr. Sans immediately began manual heart massage using his hands directly on the heart. The medical team also administered adrenaline directly into the patient's heart and performed defibrillation until successfully restoring the heart rhythm. The operation was ultimately successful. After recovery, the patient revealed to Dr. Sans that he had observed his own body during the cardiac arrest. He accurately described seeing his thorax opened and specifically witnessed both the cardiac arrest itself and the exact procedures used to correct it. The patient clearly saw Dr. Sans applying direct manual heart massage to his heart and observed the team injecting something (adrenaline) directly into his heart. These observations were particularly remarkable because no one had informed the patient that he had suffered a cardiac arrest during the surgery. Dr. Sans confirmed via email to researcher Alejandro Agudo Crespo on April 5, 2021, that the patient's account was completely accurate, including the crucial detail that nobody had told the patient about the cardiac arrest before he spontaneously described what he had observed. This eliminates any possibility of the patient learning about the events through normal means. |
1 | Hospital | 35 | 25 | 75 | Exceptional Evidence | 15 | Cardiac arrest during thoracotomy surgery with direct cardiac intervention | Accurate observation of opened thorax, manual heart massage, and intracardiac injection | Dr. Sans confirmed all details and that patient was never told about cardiac arrest | Patient under general anesthesia, no one informed him of cardiac arrest | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra | 2021-04-05 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw own body with opened thorax | 1.00 | Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||
| 4697 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 4.1 | The Light Beyond - Young Cardiologist - Chapter 4 - Case 4.1 - 1988 | 1988 | Unknown |
A young cardiologist from South Dakota experienced a remarkable case while working in the emergency room. Earlier that morning, he had been involved in a car accident on his way to the hospital, which left him deeply worried about potential damages and liability claims. Still preoccupied by these concerns, he rushed to the emergency room to perform a resuscitation on someone in cardiac arrest. The resuscitation was successful, and the patient survived. The following day brought an extraordinary revelation. The patient who had been resuscitated told the doctor that during the cardiac arrest, he had left his body and observed the entire resuscitation procedure from an out-of-body perspective. When asked what he had witnessed, the patient provided remarkably accurate details about the medical intervention. He described the exact appearance of the medical instruments used, including their colors and shapes. He accurately recounted the specific order in which various tools and equipment were employed during the resuscitation. The patient even described the settings of the dials on the various machines used during the procedure. Most remarkably, the patient demonstrated telepathic perception of the doctor's mental state. He told the cardiologist, "Doctor, I could tell that you were worried about that accident. But there isn't any reason to be worried about things like that. You give your time to other people. Nobody is going to hurt you." This telepathic observation of the doctor's private concerns about the morning's car accident, which had not been verbally expressed to anyone in the emergency room, convinced the cardiologist of the reality of the patient's experience. The case demonstrates both veridical perception of physical events during cardiac arrest and apparent telepathic awareness of the attending physician's thoughts. The doctor's confirmation of both the accurate procedural details and his private worries about the accident provides strong corroboration for the paranormal aspects of this near-death experience. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 25 | 55 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Cardiac arrest in emergency room with monitoring equipment present | Accurate description of instruments, procedures, and telepathic perception of doctor's thoughts | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed resuscitation procedures and equipment | 1.00 | Young cardiologist | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4698 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 4.2 | Erasing Death - Aufderheide Patient - Chapter 4 - Case 4.2 - 2013 | 2012 | 2013 | Unknown |
Dr. Tom Aufderheide, who had been a doctor for only five days, encountered an extraordinary case during his first cardiac arrest resuscitation. The patient experienced multiple cardiac arrests over a six-hour period, requiring frenzied resuscitation efforts. Aufderheide, a novice physician thrown into this demanding emergency without assistance from more seasoned doctors, felt overwhelmed. As the patient initially arrested at about 5 AM, before any resuscitation efforts had begun, a fleeting thought crossed Aufderheide's mind: "How could you do this to me?" - referring to the senior physicians who had left him to handle this critical situation alone. The patient was unconscious in ventricular fibrillation at this moment, and Aufderheide was uncertain whether the patient had merely fainted or gone into cardiac arrest. During the prolonged resuscitation efforts, Aufderheide became so hungry after six hours of continuous work that when the patient's lunch arrived, knowing the patient couldn't eat it, he decided to consume it himself. This action would later become part of the patient's remarkable near-death experience observations. The patient survived the ordeal and later reported an out-of-body experience during which he observed Dr. Aufderheide eating his lunch. Most remarkably, the patient demonstrated telepathic perception of Aufderheide's unspoken thought. The patient told Aufderheide that during the experience, he had perceived the doctor's mental question: "How could you do this to me?" This telepathic observation was particularly significant because Aufderheide had never verbalized this thought to anyone, had frankly forgotten about it, and the thought had occurred before resuscitation efforts had even begun. In September 2012, Aufderheide publicly shared this experience at a conference after one of Sam Parnia's talks. When questioned whether he might have shared his thought with the nursing staff, Aufderheide confirmed he had kept it entirely private, never expressing it to anyone until the patient brought it up. The thought had merely "glanced past" his mind for an instant. This case provides compelling evidence of both veridical perception during cardiac arrest and telepathic awareness of an attending physician's unexpressed thoughts. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 25 | 55 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Ventricular fibrillation documented, monitoring equipment present during cardiac arrest | Telepathic perception of unexpressed thought that occurred before resuscitation began, plus observation of doctor eating lunch | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed doctor eating patient's lunch | 1.00 | Dr. Tom Aufderheide | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4699 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 4.3 | Beyond the Light - George Rodonaia - Chapter 4 - Case 4.3 - 1994/2009 | 1976 | 2009 | M |
George Rodonaia, a neuropathologist and political dissident in the former Soviet Union, experienced one of the most extensively documented near-death experiences after being run over by the KGB in 1976. His death was officially confirmed at the hospital, and his corpse was placed in cold storage for three days awaiting autopsy. During this extraordinary period, Rodonaia had a profound out-of-body experience that began in darkness but transformed through positive thoughts into an increasingly detailed vision of light, starting from a pinpoint and expanding into eternally life-creating cells moving in perfect spiral symmetry. He became one with this light and experienced intense happiness. While in this state, Rodonaia discovered remarkable telepathic abilities. He could perceive the thoughts and emotions of his wife Nino and others involved in the accident as if their thoughts were "inside of him." Most remarkably, he witnessed his wife at his gravesite, where she was mentally evaluating potential future husbands, making a mental list of their pros and cons. This deeply private mental activity was later confirmed by Nino herself, who was so disturbed by George's accurate knowledge of her unspoken thoughts that she couldn't sleep in the same room with him for a year, feeling she had lost "the privacy of her own mind." Rodonaia also experienced a remarkable incident at a nearby hospital where a friend's wife had just given birth. The constantly crying newborn drew his attention, and his vision became like X-rays, allowing him to see through the baby's body. He diagnosed a broken hip from delivery and telepathically communicated with the infant: "Don't cry. Nobody understands you." The baby immediately stopped crying, which Rodonaia attributed to children's ability to perceive transmaterial apparitions. After three days, as his autopsy was beginning, Rodonaia succeeded in opening his eyes, shocking the medical staff who had confirmed his death and frigid condition. His first words were about the baby needing urgent help. X-rays confirmed his diagnosis exactly as described, revealing the hip break. The attending nurse admitted to dropping the baby and was immediately fired. This case provides extraordinary evidence of consciousness surviving clinical death for an extended period, with multiple verified observations including telepathic perception and remote diagnosis. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 30 | 65 | Exceptional Evidence | 25 | Officially declared dead, body in morgue for 3 days before revival | Multiple verified observations: telepathic perception of wife's thoughts, remote diagnosis of baby's injury, accurate perceptions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Body in cold storage | 7/27/2025 | 4 | 2 | Saw his body lying in the morgue | 0.00 | Nino (wife) | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4700 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 4.4 | Begegnungen mit dem Jenseits - Josef - Chapter 4 - Case 4.4 - 2006 | 2006 | M |
This remarkable case involves a shared death experience between five-year-old Josef and his Uncle Michael, who was suffering from a heart condition. One night, Josef suddenly began screaming in his sleep, prompting his mother to rush to his room. She found the boy still half asleep with his hands raised in the air, calling out for his favorite uncle, Michael, who had been doing very poorly after a heart attack. This spontaneous nocturnal distress in the child coincided with a critical medical event occurring with his uncle at a distant location. When Josef awakened, he provided specific details about what he had witnessed during this apparent shared death experience. He told his mother: "Uncle Michael just fell out of bed. There was a light, and I saw a grown-up, white-haired lady. Uncle Michael kept shouting, 'Mother, Mother!'" The child's description included both physical events (the uncle falling from bed) and transmaterial perceptions (seeing a light and a white-haired woman whom the uncle recognized as his deceased mother). Josef's mother, deeply concerned by her son's distressing experience and specific claims, immediately attempted to contact Michael by telephone but received no answer. This inability to reach him heightened her worry about the validity of her son's nocturnal vision. The following day brought remarkable confirmation when Josef's aunt (Michael's wife) called to report that her husband had indeed fallen out of bed during the night, exactly as Josef had described. The white-haired woman Josef saw was identified as Uncle Michael's late mother, whom the young boy had apparently perceived during this shared experience. This case demonstrates not only the phenomenon of shared death experiences across distance but also the ability of a young child to perceive both physical events and spiritual entities during another person's near-death crisis, providing independent verification of events occurring at a remote location. |
2 | Home | 5 | 20 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Heart attack patient, fell at home, no monitoring mentioned | Child accurately described uncle falling from bed and saw deceased grandmother figure | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw uncle fall out of bed remotely | 1.00 | Michael's wife (sister-in-law) | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 4701 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). | Closer to the Light, Kristle Merzlock, 1990 | 1990 | 7 | F | Kristle was a 7-year-old girl who drowned in a swimming pool after being underwater for approximately 17 minutes. She had no heartbeat for 45 minutes during resuscitation attempts. Despite the severity of her condition with fixed dilated pupils, no gag reflex, and massive brain swelling on CAT scan, she made a miraculous recovery after three days in a coma. During her cardiac arrest, Kristle had an out-of-body experience where she observed the medical procedures being performed on her. She accurately described Dr. Morse placing a tube down her nose (nasal intubation), which is less common than oral intubation typically shown on television. She saw herself being taken to a room that looked like a doughnut (CAT scan room) and recalled Dr. Morse calling someone on the phone asking what to do next. She also correctly identified the medical staff present, including distinguishing between Dr. Morse who had a beard and Dr. Longhurst who was clean-shaven. Remarkably, she described the emergency room equipment and procedures with astonishing accuracy despite having her eyes closed and being profoundly comatose throughout. Additionally, during her NDE, Kristle was given a glimpse of her home where she accurately observed her family members' activities, clothing, and even what her mother was cooking. Upon recovery, Kristle's first words were asking about her friends she had met in Heaven, demonstrating the profound spiritual aspect of her experience. Her veridical perceptions were confirmed by both the medical team and her family, making this a well-documented case of accurate observations during clinical death. | 5 | Hospital | 25 | 20 | 60 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Documented drowning with 17 minutes underwater, 45 minutes without heartbeat, fixed dilated pupils, no gag reflex, massive brain swelling on CAT scan | Multiple specific observations including nasal intubation, CAT scan room description, phone call details, distinguishing bearded vs clean-shaven doctors, home observations all verified | Verified by Dr. Morse, medical team, and family members independently | Physical impossibility ruled out - patient profoundly comatose with eyes closed throughout | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Melvin Morse | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw nasal intubation procedure | 1.00 | Dr. Morse, Dr. Longhurst, medical team | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||
| 4702 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.32 | The Other Side of Death, Jan Price, 1996 | 1993 | 1993-12-30 | 1996 | F | On December 30, 1993, Jan Price suffered a nearly fatal cardiac arrest after being bitten by a small dog. When the ambulance crew arrived and she was placed on a gurney, her heart stopped for approximately 4 minutes. During the resuscitation, Jan had an out-of-body experience where she floated above her body and observed the specific procedures the ambulance crew performed, including CPR and preparation of defibrillator paddles. She reported thinking "Oh my goodness, this is real. EMS is at my house. That's my body down there on that stretcher, and I'm not in it anymore." Remarkably, her husband John simultaneously saw her rise out of her body wearing a beautiful green flowing gown, providing a shared death experience element. Both Jan and John also saw their deceased dog Maggi, who had died three weeks earlier, appear before the gurney. Jan moved into another realm where she interacted with Maggi, who appeared younger and more vital, communicating telepathically about not leaving John alone. The paramedics Carl and Melody later confirmed Jan's veridical perceptions, with Carl stating she could describe "word for word what we said, everything that we did physically to her" in such detail it made him think about how she could possibly know this. Melody confirmed that Jan gave too much accurate information about procedures and positioning that she couldn't have known from her physical perspective. This case combines veridical OBE observations with shared death experience elements. | 2 | Home | 10 | 15 | 40 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest lasting approximately 4 minutes, CPR administered by trained paramedics | Accurate observation of specific resuscitation procedures, confirmed word-for-word dialogue, positioning details impossible from physical perspective | Confirmed by paramedics Carl and Melody who performed resuscitation | Physical impossibility confirmed - body positioning blocked husband's view, patient unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 1 | 1 | Observed resuscitation procedures | 1.00 | Carl and Melody (paramedics) | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||
| 4703 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.33, Bellg, L. (2015). N | Near Death in the ICU, Howard, 2015 | 2015 | M | Howard was a chronic alcoholic patient who suffered cardiac arrest during alcohol withdrawal following intestinal surgery. Dr. Laurin Bellg and her team administered magnesium and required four defibrillation attempts before achieving normal heart rhythm, though initially without pulse. During his cardiac arrest, Howard had an extraordinary NDE where he felt himself shoot out through his head and rise through the ceiling, feeling different densities of building materials including insulation, wiring, and pipes. Remarkably, he found himself in the nurse training center directly above the ICU, which he accurately described as having simulated hospital rooms around the perimeter with medical mannequins on beds and a collection of workstations with computers in the center. This area was restricted, accessible only with electronic key-card badges that patients never have. Howard had never been in this hospital before and could not have known about this training facility. He accurately described who was present during resuscitation, what they wore, and what they said. He was particularly struck by Dr. Bellg's lime-green shirt, which became significant when days later, while still on ventilator, he spelled out "green shirt" on a letter board while pointing at her wearing the same shirt. After being weaned from the ventilator five days later, Howard provided detailed accurate accounts of the resuscitation procedures and conversations, all perceived while he was certainly unconscious. This case provides exceptional evidence of veridical perception during cardiac arrest, particularly the impossible knowledge of the restricted training center above. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 25 | 55 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest in ICU with monitoring, required four defibrillation attempts, on ventilator for 5 days | Accurately described restricted training center above ICU with mannequins and computers, impossible to access without keycard, perceived building materials while traveling | Confirmed by Dr. Bellg and nursing staff who were amazed by accuracy | Physical impossibility - restricted area requires electronic keycard access, patient had never been in hospital before | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | On ventilator | Dr. Laurin Bellg | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw nurse training center above ICU | 1.00 | Dr. Laurin Bellg and nursing staff | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||
| 4704 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.34 | Email attachment via Dr. Kuhn, Mr. Müller's Patient, 2015 | 2000 | 2015 | M | A young man who suffered a serious motorcycle accident was brought to a German hospital with multiple injuries. During a three-hour operation, he experienced multiple cardiac arrests requiring repeated resuscitation efforts. Mr. Müller, a perioperative nurse, attended the operation and was responsible for providing surgical tools. The patient had to undergo several more operations over the following weeks. During the third or fourth transfer to the operating table, the patient told Mr. Müller he recognized him from the night of his accident. The patient reported having left his body during the operation and resuscitation, observing everything from the ceiling. He accurately described Mr. Müller's specific actions, including bringing and placing a defibrillator near him, though he didn't know the technical term, describing it as "that apparatus down near me used to administer electric shocks." He also correctly identified that he had received injections of atropine, among other medications. Mr. Müller noted that while atropine is a standard remedy, the patient couldn't have known this through his profession. The patient provided accurate details about procedures performed during his cardiac arrests when he was clinically dead. This case demonstrates veridical perception of specific medical procedures and medications during cardiac arrest in an operating room setting. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Multiple cardiac arrests during 3-hour operation for motorcycle accident injuries | Accurately described defibrillator placement and use, correctly identified atropine injection, observed from ceiling perspective | Confirmed by Mr. Müller, the perioperative nurse who performed the actions | Patient had no medical background to know about atropine, was under anesthesia during observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw defibrillator placement | 1.00 | Mr. Müller (perioperative nurse) | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||
| 4705 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.35 | La última puerta, The Assistant Who Became Nauseous, 2014 | 2014 | 20 | M | A young man in his 20s suffered a serious car accident resulting in broken bones and countless internal injuries requiring ICU admission. Dr. Miguel Ángel Pertierra, a Spanish otolaryngologist, became involved to perform a tracheotomy. During the initial procedure with an inexperienced resident assistant, the patient's blood pressure suddenly dropped causing a brief cardiac arrest. The assistant became nauseous witnessing the cardiac arrest and had to be replaced. Hours later, the tracheotomy was successfully performed with a new assistant. Days later, when Dr. Pertierra replaced the patient's tube, the young man recognized him as the surgeon from his cardiac arrest. Despite being unconscious, he accurately described seeing Dr. Pertierra wearing green surgical scrubs accompanied by a very young assistant. He observed the surgical table with instruments he'd never seen before, covered with a green cloth after preparation. He stood directly in front of the doctor trying to be seen but wasn't noticed. He clearly saw the young assistant turn pale when the heart monitor flatlined and alarms went off, requiring his replacement. In a follow-up visit, the patient added another verified detail: after the cardiac arrest scene, Dr. Pertierra had touched his colleague's mask, lowered it, told him to breathe slowly and sit down. Dr. Pertierra confirmed every detail was precisely accurate, emphasizing no family could have known these details as only the medical team was present in the ICU. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 40 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Brief cardiac arrest during tracheotomy procedure for car accident victim in ICU | Accurately described surgical team, instruments, green cloth, assistant turning pale, monitor flatline, mask lowering detail | All details confirmed as precisely accurate by Dr. Pertierra | No family present in ICU, only medical team, patient unconscious throughout | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 1 | Surgical setup and team | 1.00 | Dr. Miguel Ángel Pertierra | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||
| 4706 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 3.36 | Blog: I died and you brought me back to life, 2013 | 2013 | 30 | M | A man in his late 30s suffered cardiac arrest from narcotic patch overdose and was brought to the ER by paramedics. Dr. Monica Williams-Murphy, pregnant with her third child, had to squat like a sumo wrestler due to her gestational size to secure his airway filled with vomit. After prolonged CPR and medications, they unexpectedly achieved return of pulse. During examination, charge nurse Penny discovered narcotic patches on his back, identifying the cause. With no pupillary response or gag reflex, Dr. Williams-Murphy believed he was brain dead and would not survive. Six months later, the recovered patient visited the ER to thank her. He accurately described leaving his body and following events at his home, with paramedics, and in the ER. He knew a paramedic who cried while doing CPR. He accurately described the resuscitation room events, stating the dark-haired charge nurse (Penny) rolled him over and found patches saying "Here is our problem." He recalled Dr. Williams-Murphy discussing whether he could be an organ donor. Most remarkably, he saw light emanating from Dr. Williams-Murphy and her unborn baby during his NDE, correctly identifying the baby as a girl though this wasn't publicly known. He described experiencing things while dead that he couldn't fully share but promised to use his second chance at life differently. Dr. Williams-Murphy noted three medically inexplicable elements: his detailed recall despite appearing brain dead, knowing her baby's gender, and visual descriptions of specific events when his eyes showed no function. | 2 | Hospital | 12 | 20 | 47 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Cardiac arrest from narcotic overdose, no pupillary response or gag reflex post-resuscitation, appeared brain dead | Accurately described patches discovery, dark-haired nurse's actions, organ donor discussion, knew unborn baby's gender, saw events at home | Details confirmed by Dr. Williams-Murphy and medical team, 60+ staff could verify | No brain function signs, should have been impossible to perceive visual details or know baby's gender | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw patches being discovered | 1.00 | Dr. Williams-Murphy, Nurse Penny, medical team | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||
| 4707 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 4, Case 4.5, Pages 190-192 | The Self Does Not Die, Viola Horton, Chapter 4, Pages 1-2, Copyright 2016 | 1971 | 2016 | F |
Viola Horton, known as Vi or Belle, experienced an extensive near-death experience in 1971 that included remarkable precognitive elements. During her NDE, she encountered spiritual guides who provided her with significant information about future events. Most notably, she was shown a picture of Raymond Moody, given his full name, and told that she would meet him when "the time was right" to tell him her story. This was particularly remarkable as Moody had not yet begun his groundbreaking work on NDEs, and his bestselling book Life After Life would not be published until 1975. Following her NDE, Vi resided in a small southern city on a street one block long. Approximately eighteen months after her experience, Raymond Moody and his wife Louise moved to the same city and, remarkably, to the same street, though at the opposite end of the block. Despite this proximity, years passed without meaningful interaction between the families. The predicted meeting finally occurred on Halloween night of 1975, exactly four years after Vi's NDE. Louise Moody was preparing to take her son Avery trick-or-treating, with instructions from Raymond not to visit unfamiliar homes. Meanwhile, Vi was feeling unwell and had instructed her husband Bill not to call her to see trick-or-treaters. When young Raymond Avery Moody III knocked on their door, Bill couldn't resist calling Vi to see the child. When Vi asked the boy his name and he responded with his full name, she immediately recognized this as the moment shown to her during her NDE - the picture of his father appeared in her mind with the message "now!" She immediately turned to Louise and said she needed to speak with her husband. This meeting occurred just as Moody's Life After Life was being released, before his work had gained widespread recognition. The timing and specificity of this precognitive vision are particularly striking. Vi had no knowledge of Moody's scholarly work on NDEs at the time of her experience, yet she was shown his image and told of their future meeting four years in advance. The essential details of Vi's precognitive experience were independently confirmed by Louise Moody, providing external corroboration for this remarkable case of apparent precognition during an NDE. |
6 | Unknown | 2 | 25 | 42 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | No medical documentation provided; NDE context mentioned but no clinical details available | Exceptional precognitive perception: shown Raymond Moody's image and told of future meeting 4 years in advance, before his NDE work began; specific details verified | Louise Moody independently confirmed the essential details of the Halloween 1975 meeting and circumstances | Alternative explanations difficult given the specific precognitive elements shown 4 years in advance | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Kenneth Ring | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Shown picture of Raymond Moody during NDE | 1.00 | Louise Moody | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||
| 4708 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 4, Case 4.6, Pages 3-4 | The Self Does Not Die, The Patient Who Made Her Surgeon Cry, Chapter 4, Pages 3-4, Copyright 2016 | 2002 | 2016 | F |
A woman undergoing carpal tunnel surgery experienced a severe allergic reaction to the local anesthetic, resulting in respiratory arrest and seizures. Her husband witnessed her apparent death before medical staff successfully resuscitated and stabilized her. The surgical team then proceeded with the planned procedure. During the surgery, while under anesthesia, she experienced both an out-of-body experience and a classic near-death experience, including passage through a tunnel and encountering a bright light. The most remarkable aspect of this case occurred during the surgery when, while emerging from anesthesia, the patient suddenly sat up in the operating room. With seven masked medical personnel present, she pointed directly to one specific surgeon and delivered an extraordinary message. She stated: "I have met a woman. Her name is Anna. She says she has a message for you. She wants me to tell you that it is not your fault that she died." After delivering this message, she immediately fell back unconscious. The targeted surgeon became visibly emotional and left the operating room in tears, a reaction that the primary surgeon later described to the patient when she awoke. Remarkably, the patient had no memory of delivering this message, being overwhelmed by the overall NDE experience. A year later, after watching the movie Dragonfly which depicted NDEs involving messages from the deceased, she was inspired to investigate what had happened. She contacted the primary surgeon to obtain the name and contact information of the surgeon who had left the room. When she called him, he revealed the profound significance of her message. His wife, named Anna, had been dying from cancer and in a state of severe depression had committed suicide by slitting her throat. He had found her but was unable to save her, and had carried intense guilt about her death ever since. This case was thoroughly investigated by Dr. Gary Schwartz, Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona. He conducted a three-hour recorded interview with the patient, her husband, and the surgeon involved, providing multiple independent confirmations of these extraordinary events. The spontaneous mediumistic communication of unknown information about a deceased person during an NDE, delivered to a specific individual among seven masked personnel, represents a remarkable veridical element that defies conventional explanation. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 28 | 58 | Strong Evidence | 20 | Documented cardiac arrest with respiratory failure and seizures from allergic reaction; resuscitation confirmed by husband and medical team | Exceptional veridical perception: spontaneous mediumistic message about unknown deceased person (Anna) delivered to specific surgeon among 7 masked personnel; information completely unknown to patient | Multiple independent confirmations: primary surgeon witnessed event, assistant surgeon confirmed details about deceased wife, Dr. Schwartz conducted recorded interviews | No conventional explanation possible for knowing about Anna's suicide or identifying correct surgeon among masked personnel | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Seven masked medical personnel | Dr. Gary Schwartz | 2,003.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 2 | Tunnel and light experience | 0.00 | Primary surgeon | Low Compatibility | 7 | ||||
| 4709 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 5, Case 5.1, pages 1-2 | The Self Does Not Die - Durdana Khan - Chapter 5 - Pages 1-2 - 2024 | 1968 | 2024 | 2 | F |
Durdana Khan, the 2½-year-old daughter of Pakistani army doctor A. G. Khan, developed viral encephalitis in 1968, causing partial paralysis, temporary blindness, and constant pain. One day she was found clinically dead at home. Her father confirmed her death and began resuscitation, whispering "Come back my child, come back." After about 15 minutes, she revived. During her clinical death, Durdana experienced being in a beautiful garden among the stars with apples, grapes, and pomegranates. Four colored streams flowed through the garden - white, brown, blue, and green. She met her grandfather in this celestial realm and heard her father calling her to return. When she wanted to go back, her grandfather told her she would need to ask God. God asked if she really wanted to return, and when she affirmed, told her to go back. She returned to consciousness on her father's bed, though she had been in no state to know her location. The most remarkable veridical observation occurred later during recovery. While visiting an uncle's home for the first time after brain tumor surgery in Karachi, Durdana spontaneously recognized a photograph on a small table. She pointed and declared "This is my grandpa's mother. I met her in the stars. She took me in her lap and kissed me." This was Khan's grandmother who had died long before Durdana was born. Only two photos of this great-grandmother existed, both in the uncle's possession. Under the circumstances, Durdana could not possibly have seen the photo before. The Khan family friend Peter Brookesmith, editor of The Unexplained book series, vouched for the family's integrity and confirmed Durdana spontaneously recognized her great-grandmother. |
2 | Home | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Clinically dead for approximately 15 minutes, confirmed by physician father | Spontaneous recognition of deceased great-grandmother never met or seen in photos | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Location on father's bed | 1.00 | Khan family, Peter Brookesmith | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4710 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 5, Case 5.2, page 3 | The Self Does Not Die - Colton Burpo - Chapter 5 - Page 3 - 2024 | 2003 | 2024 | 4 | M |
In March 2003, 4-year-old Colton Burpo underwent emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Nebraska. Medical staff indicated a significant chance he would not survive. During the operation, the boy experienced cardiac arrest but the surgery ultimately succeeded. Four months later, while driving past the hospital, Colton spontaneously mentioned it was where "the angels sang to me," marking his first disclosure of his NDE. During his NDE, Colton had a joyous experience in the presence of Jesus and angels. His veridical perceptions were remarkable for a child his age. He accurately saw his father praying alone in a small room while his mother was on the phone in another room - information later confirmed by both parents. He met "Pop," his father's grandfather who had died when Colton's father was young, later recognizing Pop in an old photograph showing him as a young man. Colton noted the close relationship between his father and Pop. Most remarkably, Colton met a deceased sister during his NDE, revealing knowledge that his mother had suffered a miscarriage. His parents had never told him about this lost child due to his young age and the sensitivity of the topic. When Colton disclosed meeting his sister in heaven, it provided profound validation of his experience. The case gained widespread attention through his father Pastor Todd Burpo's book, offering multiple witnesses to Colton's spontaneous revelations and the verification of details he could not have known through normal means. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 40 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest during monitored surgery with life-threatening condition | Multiple veridical observations including unknown deceased relatives and parents' locations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 1 | Parents' locations during surgery | 1.00 | Todd and Sonja Burpo | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 4711 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 5, Case 5.3, pages 3-4 | The Self Does Not Die - Andrew - Chapter 5 - Pages 3-4 - 2024 | 2006 | 2024 | 3 | M |
3½-year-old Andrew underwent open-heart surgery, after which he began describing his near-death experience to his mother. Two weeks post-surgery, he started asking questions about "when he could go back to the beautiful sunny place with all the flowers and animals." His mother documented his account and contacted researcher Sam Parnia with the remarkable details. Andrew described being taken by a "floating lady" who held his hand as they floated up together. He observed himself from above, lying in a bed with his arms by his sides while doctors worked on his chest. Everything appeared very bright, and he eventually floated back down to his body. He emphasized that the experience was not scary but lovely, and that the lady who accompanied him loved him and looked after him during the procedure. He was aware his parents were outside during the heart surgery. A year later, while watching a television program about pediatric heart surgery, Andrew recognized the bypass machine and stated it was the same type used in his operation. He claimed to have observed this machine while floating with "that lady." The veridical observation became even more remarkable when his mother showed him an old photograph of her own mother at a younger age. Andrew immediately identified her, saying "That's her, that's that lady." This case provides multiple forms of verification: the child's accurate description of surgical procedures and equipment he could not have seen normally, and his spontaneous recognition of his deceased grandmother whom he had never met, from an old photograph. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 27 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | Open-heart surgery with general anesthesia documented | Recognition of bypass machine and deceased grandmother from photo | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Bypass machine recognition | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4712 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 5, Case 5.4, pages 4-6 | The Self Does Not Die - Pop-Pop - Chapter 5 - Pages 4-6 - 2024 | 1988 | 2024 | 3 | M |
On Father's Day 1988, Sherry's 3-year-old son fell into his grandmother's swimming pool while adults were distracted. When discovered, he was floating unconscious, turning blue with purple lips and not breathing. After his stepfather administered CPR, the boy regained consciousness briefly before losing it again en route to the hospital. The paramedics diverted to a more distant hospital in Christiana, Delaware, 20 minutes away, due to the severity of his condition. That evening after returning home, the boy suddenly broke down sobbing intensely, saying "I just want to go back to heaven with Pop-pop." He then described his near-death experience: initially struggling in the pool and experiencing pain, followed by peace and white light everywhere. He met a man he somehow knew to be his great-grandfather, who had died when the boy was only 10 months old. The man told him he had to go back because it wasn't his time yet. The family had never really discussed this great-grandfather, yet the boy provided a perfect physical description: somewhat bald with hair on the sides, short, and stocky but not fat. At his great-grandmother's house, he would identify objects as "Pop-pop's." Most remarkably, he reported meeting the Virgin Mary who told him he would receive a book from his great-grandfather when older. Years later, his great-grandmother confirmed that Pop-pop had indeed intended a book for his great-grandson. The boy's fearless behavior afterward - immediately jumping into the pool's deep end the next day wearing arm floats - demonstrated the transformative effect of his experience. |
5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 25 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | Drowning with loss of consciousness and respiratory arrest | Perfect description of great-grandfather barely known, prophetic book information | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Great-grandfather's appearance | 1.00 | Sherry, Great-grandmother | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4713 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 5, Case 5.5, pages 6-8 | The Self Does Not Die - Viola Horton - Chapter 5 - Pages 6-8 - 2024 | 1971 | 2024 | 35 | F |
In spring 1971, Viola Horton, in her mid-30s, underwent routine gallbladder surgery in North Augusta, South Carolina. Days later while recovering in the hospital, she suddenly experienced cardiac arrest. During resuscitation efforts, she left her body and found herself in the hospital corridor observing family and friends who had rushed to the hospital upon hearing of her critical condition. Horton made several remarkable veridical observations. She noted her daughter Kathy wearing mismatched plaids. Moving through the corridor, she witnessed her brother-in-law telling a neighbor that he was canceling his out-of-town plans because Horton was "going to kick the bucket" and he would need to be a pallbearer - an insensitive remark that stuck with her. Both observations were later confirmed by the embarrassed parties. After moving through a tunnel to a colorful meadow, Horton was guided by beings of light. Most remarkably, she encountered a baby who claimed to be her brother, though she only knew of having two sisters. The infant, wearing a tiny cap and dress with socks and booties, told her to describe his appearance to their father. When she recovered and shared this detail, her father acknowledged that his first child had indeed been a boy who died days after birth - never discussed in the family. Cheryl Moody confirmed in 2015 that Raymond Moody's interviews with the family verified the accuracy of each perception, making this one of the most extensively validated NDE cases. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 40 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Cardiac arrest in hospital setting during recovery from surgery | Multiple verified observations including unknown deceased brother, mismatched clothing, and overheard conversation | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 2 | Daughter's mismatched clothing | 1.00 | Family members | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4714 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 5, Case 5.6, pages 9-12 | The Self Does Not Die - Eben Alexander - Chapter 5 - Pages 9-12 - 2024 | 2008 | 2024 | 54 | M |
On November 10, 2008, neurosurgeon Eben Alexander developed severe bacterial meningitis and fell into a deep coma. His NDE was unusual in that he experienced complete loss of memory, language, and personal identity. Beginning in what he called the "Earthworm Eye View" - a dark, murky realm - he was lifted through a tunnel of white-gold light into "The Gateway," a hyperreal heaven-like realm of extraordinary beauty with a verdant valley and flowering trees. Most remarkably, Alexander found himself floating on a butterfly wing accompanied by a beautiful young woman with high cheekbones, deep blue eyes, and golden-brown hair. She communicated telepathically that he was loved and cherished forever, that he would learn many things, but would eventually return. Alexander remembered her features and clothing so precisely that he frequently described her to his wife Holley and friends, who could almost visualize her. Four months after his recovery, Alexander received his first photograph of Betsy, his youngest biological sister who had died nine years earlier, before he could meet her. Alexander had been adopted at four months old and only reunited with his birth family a year before his illness. Upon seeing Betsy's photo - showing her long brown hair, deep blue eyes, and radiant smile - he immediately recognized her as the woman from the butterfly wing. Family friend Sylvia White independently confirmed that Betsy matched Alexander's earlier descriptions "right down to her high cheekbones." This third-party verification of his descriptions before seeing the photograph provides exceptional evidential value. |
4 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 40 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Deep coma from bacterial meningitis with extensive medical documentation | Recognition of unknown deceased sister from prior detailed descriptions, third-party verification | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Complete cortical shutdown | 7/27/2025 | 1 | 1 | Recognition of deceased sister Betsy | 1.00 | Sylvia White, Holley Alexander | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||
| 4715 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 5, Case 5.7, pages 12-13 | The Self Does Not Die - Laura Blanchon - Chapter 5 - Pages 12-13 - 2024 | 2008 | 2024 | F |
On February 14, 2008, French nursing student Laura Blanchon was hospitalized with acute meningitis, first in Coulommiers and then transferred to Paris where she was placed in a deep medically-induced coma for ten days. Her condition deteriorated rapidly, requiring mechanical life support. During this time, she experienced being stuck between two worlds, outside of space and time. Laura's experience combined classic NDE elements with remarkable veridical perceptions. Floating above her body, she observed herself attached to machines and saw her brother crying at the foot of her bed. She clearly perceived her father holding her hand and experienced telepathic communication with him about her suffering and desire to die. Her father later confirmed he had whispered in her ear that he wanted her to go if it would end her suffering. After entering a realm of soft light with loving beings, Laura saw her recently deceased maternal great-grandmother in an elegant evening dress, who told her she would return after some rest. Most remarkably, she found herself in an unknown rustic house with a sturdy, peasant-like elderly man she had never seen, accompanied by two dogs. He sat in a wooden armchair with his head against the wall in an unusual posture, then showed her poplar trees, a weeping willow, and a hen house through a window. Laura's husband Julien and his sister Céline immediately recognized her description as their deceased grandfather, whom Laura had never met. They confirmed all details on a French talk show: his appearance, the rustic house, his peculiar sitting posture, and his beloved dogs. |
4 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Deep medically-induced coma for 10 days with mechanical life support | Detailed description of unknown deceased grandfather and his environment, all confirmed | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Medically-induced coma | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Father's presence and communication | 1.00 | Father, Julien, Céline | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4716 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 5, Case 5.8, pages 13-16 | The Self Does Not Die - Lynn Arches - Chapter 5 - Pages 13-16 - 2024 | 1978 | 2024 | 22 | F |
In February 1978, 22-year-old Lynn Arches was surfing at Rincón, Puerto Rico when she found herself drowning, being repeatedly bashed against a reef cliff covered with sea urchins. As she desperately tried to climb the cliff with urchin tentacles breaking off in her body, she prayed not to be taken. At that moment, she detached from her body through her head and found herself hovering over a wooden bench, simultaneously aware of her drowning body below and people gathering on the beach to rescue her. During her life review, she encountered Jesus in pastel colors and her "growing-up father" Joe in cloudy blues and browns at a tunnel entrance. Most significantly, a shadowy figure with thick Elvis-like hair repeatedly asked Joe "Is she coming?" while Jesus responded with "Patience, we don't know yet. We're waiting to see." The figure went back and forth to inform other beings waiting at the tunnel's end. Lynn intuitively felt she knew this energetic male entity but couldn't identify him. Forty-three years later, through DNA testing, Lynn discovered Joe was not her biological father. When her half-sisters showed her a photo of their father Raymond - whom her mother had dated before marrying Joe - Lynn immediately recognized him as the shadowy figure from her NDE. Her sisters confirmed their father had "dark, slicked back hair with a wave on top" like Elvis in his younger years. Both Joe and Raymond had died in the 1970s before her NDE, and the two men had been friends who went to school and played football together. After being told by God to return and teach that "I am that I am," Lynn was thrust back into her body and rescued by a human chain of people. |
5 | Other | 5 | 15 | 30 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Near-drowning with loss of consciousness and life-threatening injuries | Recognition of unknown biological father 43 years later from photograph | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Rescuers on beach | 1.00 | Half-sisters | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 4717 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Chapter 5, Case 5.9, pages 17-18 | The Self Does Not Die - Ken Leth - Chapter 5 - Pages 17-18 - 2024 | 1963 | 2024 | 8 | M |
In September 1963, 8-year-old Ken Leth experienced an NDE during emergency appendectomy surgery. He left his body and was placed in a protective bubble that took him through the universe and a spinning tunnel. At a cloud-like barrier, a "happy looking man" in modern pants and a leather jacket pulled him up by his shoulders. This man, later identified as his father's cousin Eddie who was killed in the Korean War, led him to meet deceased relatives. Ken encountered many relatives who wanted to know who he was. When he said "I am Kenneth Leth" in his small voice, some recognized the name. Upon learning he was Lyle's son, many gasped with recognition, saying "Oh, you're Lyle's son." He was quickly introduced to numerous departed family members, with two older couples standing out most prominently - his two great-grandmothers and their husbands on his father's side. Years later, when Ken's living grandmother showed him oval-framed photographs from the early 1900s that she had stored in her basement, he immediately recognized them as his great-grandparents whom he had met in heaven in 1963. She only showed him these photos because he kept talking about meeting his great-grandparents during his NDE. His father also confirmed Ken's description of Eddie, his favorite cousin. Ken's brother Steve later verified to researcher Robert Mays that their father had confirmed Ken's physical descriptions of his great-grandmother and her dominant behavior, as well as the description of cousin Eddie, though no photos of Eddie existed for reference. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 29 | Suggestive Evidence | 10 | Emergency appendectomy with general anesthesia | Recognition of great-grandparents from photos and cousin Eddie from description | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Great-grandparents recognition | 1.00 | Father Lyle, Grandmother, Brother Steve | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 4718 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 6.1. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Huriye Kacar - Chapter 6 - Pages not specified - 2016 | 2009 | 2016 | F |
Huriye Kacar experienced a severe medical crisis during childbirth at St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. She went to the hospital to deliver her second child but experienced catastrophic complications requiring emergency caesarian section. During the procedure, she lost massive amounts of blood and went into cardiac arrest, with her heart stopping three times according to her sister. The medical team performed extensive resuscitation efforts including defibrillation and connection to a heart-lung machine. During her cardiac arrests, Huriye had an out-of-body experience where she observed the medical procedures from above. She saw the doctor saying "Her eyes are shut" and the nurse adding "She's asleep." She watched as they placed a green screen below her chest and observed the doctor opening her abdomen with a scalpel and pulling the baby out by her head. She cried out "He's cutting me open!" though no one could hear her. She saw the umbilical cord being cut and the baby being laid on her chest briefly before being handed to Nurse Melissa. The veridical aspects included her accurate observation of the caesarian procedure while completely unconscious, the specific dialogue between medical staff, and the green surgical screen placement. She correctly described seeing her husband's head and the baby trying to suck on his face when she briefly regained consciousness. Remarkably, her sister Emine had been visited by their deceased grandmother at 2:11 AM, who accurately predicted Huriye's soul would leave her body and she would have a very hard time but would recover. After the crisis, Huriye required a hysterectomy due to uncontrolled bleeding and remained in intensive care for an extended period. She had to stay in the hospital for 12 days total, with 17 doctors and 50 nurses involved in her care. Medical records obtained by her sister confirmed the accuracy of Huriye's observations during her unconscious state. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest with resuscitation, heart-lung machine, multiple arrests | Accurate observation of surgical procedures while unconscious, specific details confirmed | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/27/2025 | 3 | 2 | Observed caesarian section procedure from above | 1.00 | 17 doctors and 50 nurses involved | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4719 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 6.2. New York: Bantam Books | The Light Beyond - Death of a Sister - Chapter 6 - 1988 | 1988 | 1988 | M |
A man at Fort Dix Army base experienced a severe cardiac crisis while his sister was simultaneously dying from diabetic coma in another part of the same hospital. Neither sibling knew about the other's critical condition. During his near-death state with heart problems, the man left his body and moved to the corner of the room, observing the medical team working on his physical form below. While in this out-of-body state, he suddenly found himself in conversation with his sister, who appeared to be with him in the same elevated perspective. They were both observing the medical activity below and having what he described as a "great conversation" about the events unfolding. The siblings had always been very close, making this encounter particularly meaningful. As they conversed, his sister began to move away from him through what appeared to be a tunnel. The man attempted to follow his sister but she repeatedly told him to stay where he was, insisting "It's not your time. You can't go with me because it's not your time." She then receded into the distance through the tunnel while he remained behind. This separation marked the end of their encounter. Upon awakening, the man immediately told the doctors that his sister had died, though the doctor initially denied this was the case. At the man's insistence, the doctor had a nurse check on his sister's status. The verification revealed that she had indeed died at the time of his experience, exactly as he knew from their encounter. Dr. Raymond Moody personally contacted the attending physicians who confirmed the accuracy of the patient's account, including the timing of both medical crises and the sister's death. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Heart problems requiring medical intervention, no specific monitoring mentioned | Encountered sister not known to have died, specific conversation, knowledge of her death | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/27/2025 | 1 | 1 | Knew sister had died without being told | 1.00 | Attending physicians | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4720 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 6.3. | Nahtoderfahrungen - Renate A. - Chapter 6 - 2007 | 1993 | 2007 | F |
Renate A. from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, experienced a life-threatening medical crisis on Christmas Day 1993 while living in Saarland. She had been suffering from severe alcoholism which had seriously deteriorated her physical condition. The alcohol-related damage caused her to fall into a coma and she was admitted to the hospital. Her husband Bernd later discovered a doctor's note dated December 15, 1993, warning that Mrs. A.'s illness was life-threatening due to liver cirrhosis with acute danger from bleeding esophageal varices. The day after Christmas, Renate was transferred to the university clinic in Homburg. When her husband arrived, he found her in the recreation room smoking a cigarette, having recovered from a near-death experience the previous night. The doctors had given her up for dead during the crisis. During her NDE, she encountered her late father and her aunt Cilla in what she described as the afterlife realm. Both deceased relatives communicated with her and insisted she return to her body because her time had not yet come. The most remarkable aspect of this case was the veridical element involving Aunt Cilla. Both Renate and her husband Bernd knew that Renate's father had died, but they believed Aunt Cilla was still alive and well. Neither had any reason to suspect she had passed away. Renate specifically identified seeing and interacting with Aunt Cilla during her NDE, along with her father, both telling her she needed to return to life. A week after Christmas, when Bernd visited his mother-in-law, she asked if she could accompany him to the hospital and whether Renate was recovered enough to hear sad news. That very day, Renate's mother had received a letter stating that her sister Cilla had died and been laid to rest three days before the letter was written. Counting back the days revealed that Cilla had died shortly before Renate's NDE, confirming Renate had encountered someone she couldn't have known was deceased. |
4 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Coma from liver cirrhosis, doctors gave her up for dead, transferred to university clinic | Encountered Aunt Cilla not known to have died, later confirmed deceased at time of NDE | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Encountered Aunt Cilla not known to be dead | 1.00 | Bernd A. (husband), Mother | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4721 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 6.4. New York: Signet | Children of the Light - Eddie Cuomo - Chapter 6 - 1995 | 1995 | 1995 | 9 | M |
Nine-year-old Eddie Cuomo suffered from a high fever that persisted for 36 hours while his parents and medical personnel maintained a vigil over him. The severity of his condition required constant medical supervision and his parents stayed at the hospital throughout the crisis. When Eddie finally regained consciousness at 3:00 AM, he immediately began sharing his near-death experience with his parents and Dr. K.M. Dale who was present. Eddie told them he had been in heaven during his unconscious state. He reported seeing his late Grandpa Cuomo, as well as his Aunt Rosa and Uncle Lorenzo, all of whom he knew had previously died. His father felt embarrassed that Dr. Dale had to overhear Eddie's account and tried to dismiss it as a hallucinatory dream brought on by the fever. However, Eddie then made a stunning revelation that changed everything. Eddie stated that he had also seen his 19-year-old sister Teresa during his heavenly experience. He specifically reported that Teresa had been the one to tell him he had to go back to his body. This deeply unsettled his father because just two nights earlier he had spoken with Teresa, who was away at college in Vermont. The claim was so disturbing that Eddie's father asked Dr. Dale to give Eddie a sedative, unable to process what his son was saying. Later that morning, Eddie's parents called Teresa's college in Vermont to check on her. They received devastating news: Teresa had been killed in a car accident just after midnight the previous night. College officials had been trying unsuccessfully to contact the parents to inform them of the tragedy, but the parents had been at the hospital with Eddie throughout the night, out of communication. The timing confirmed that Eddie had encountered his sister in his NDE at a time when no one in the family knew she had died. |
5 | Hospital | 8 | 15 | 33 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | High fever for 36 hours with medical supervision, required sedation | Encountered sister Teresa not known to have died, she told him to return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Encountered sister Teresa not known to be dead | 1.00 | Dr. K.M. Dale | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4722 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 6.5. New York: Simon & Schuster | On Children and Death - Young Patient - Chapter 6 - 1983 | 1983 | 1983 | M |
A young boy was in a coma following a serious car accident that had also involved his mother and brother Peter. Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was attending to him when he briefly emerged from his comatose state. The accident had been severe enough to cause critical injuries to multiple family members, with the boy requiring intensive medical care and remaining unconscious for an extended period. During his brief return to consciousness, the boy spoke directly to Dr. Kübler-Ross with remarkable clarity and calm. He told her, "Yes, everything is all right now. Mommy and Peter are already waiting for me." He displayed a contented smile after making this statement, showing no distress but rather a sense of peace and anticipation. After delivering this message, he slipped back into the coma from which he would never recover. Dr. Kübler-Ross was aware that the boy's mother had died at the scene of the accident, but she believed his brother Peter had survived. Peter had been taken to a different hospital with serious burns because the car had caught fire before rescuers could extricate him. As far as she knew from the available information, Peter was still alive and receiving treatment at the other facility. Concerned about the boy's statement, Dr. Kübler-Ross decided to contact the other hospital to verify Peter's condition. However, just as she was about to place the call, she received an incoming call from that hospital. They were calling to notify her that Peter had died just a few minutes earlier. This timing meant the boy had accurately perceived his brother's presence in the afterlife at the moment of or immediately after Peter's death, despite having no possible way of knowing about it. Dr. Kübler-Ross noted she had witnessed this pattern multiple times - children perceiving deceased loved ones whose deaths were unknown to them. |
4 | Hospital | 8 | 15 | 33 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Coma following car accident, never recovered consciousness | Knew brother Peter had died when this was unknown to medical staff | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Knew brother Peter had died at another hospital | 1.00 | Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4723 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 6.6. Documentary | Medical Miracle Documentary - Lucky Pettersen - Chapter 6 - 2000 | 1997 | 2000 | 4 | M |
Four-year-old Lucky Pettersen from Julian, California, developed a sudden severe fever in 1997 that was initially diagnosed as flu. After a week and a half, his condition drastically worsened - he appeared to be shrinking and became unresponsive. His parents rushed him to UC San Diego Medical Center where he was diagnosed with acute renal failure, cerebral edema that could cause severe mental impairment, and a nonfunctioning liver. He slipped into a coma and required an emergency liver transplant within 12 hours or he would die. Lucky was flown by trauma helicopter to UCLA Medical Center over 100 miles away. Dr. Ronald Busuttil stated in the documentary that Lucky was as sick as any 4-year-old could be and could have died at any moment. No liver was available from deceased donors, so living donors were sought. Surprisingly, Lucky's 16-year-old half-brother Jason proved to be a perfect match despite being less genetically compatible than the parents. Part of Jason's liver was transplanted into Lucky. During the procedure, Lucky had two cardiac arrests but was successfully resuscitated both times. Three days after the transplant, Lucky woke up and told his father "I'm back." When his mother asked what he remembered, Lucky said he had a dream that "Big Gino had walked him back from Heaven." Big Gino Focarelli was an elderly friend who owned a restaurant next door to Lucky's mother's store, and the two had spent hours playing together. Lucky reported repeatedly hearing "Go back! Go back! Go back!" and identified the voice as Big Gino's. Lucky described this as someone bringing him back from heaven to his family. It wasn't until two weeks later, when the family returned from UCLA Medical Center, that Carl Focarelli (Big Gino's son) was able to tell Lucky's mother Dana that his father had died on the same Thursday that Lucky had gone to the hospital and slipped into a coma. No one at the hospital knew about Big Gino's death during Lucky's crisis. The Pettersens and Carl considered Lucky's experience with Big Gino to be an answer to Dana's prayers for someone to bring Lucky back, making this a verified case of encountering someone not known to have died. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Two cardiac arrests during surgery, coma, required liver transplant, documented by Dr. Busuttil | Encountered Big Gino who told him to go back, death unknown to family at hospital | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 2 | Heard Big Gino telling him to go back | 1.00 | Dr. Ronald Busuttil | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4724 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 6.7. New York: Bantam | Final Gifts - Su's Sister - Chapter 6 - 1997 | 1997 | 1997 | 93 | F |
Su, a 93-year-old Chinese Buddhist woman, was dying of cancer and being cared for by her daughter Lily. As her death approached, Su frequently dreamed of her deceased husband and expressed acceptance of her impending death, saying she would join him soon. Both Su and Lily, as Buddhists, had come to terms with Su's approaching transition. The case was documented by hospice nurse Maggie Callanan who was providing end-of-life care. One day, Su reported to her daughter that her husband was calling her to join him, which seemed natural given her condition and their Buddhist beliefs about death and reunion. However, a few days later, Su became very puzzled and asked a surprising question: "Why is my sister with my husband? They are both calling me to come." When asked if her sister was dead, Su replied, "No, she still lives in China. I have not seen her for many years." This confusion was notable because Su believed her sister was still alive. The revelation deeply affected Lily, who tearfully told Nurse Callanan: "My aunt died two days ago in China. We decided not to tell Mother—her sister had the same kind of cancer. It was a very painful death; she lived in a remote village where good medical care was not available. We didn't want to upset or frighten Mother, since she is so sick herself." The family had deliberately withheld this information to protect Su from additional distress during her final days. After discussion with the hospice nurse about the meaning of Su's vision, Lily decided to tell her mother the truth about her sister's death. When informed, Su responded with a knowing smile, saying "Now I understand." Her puzzle was solved—she now comprehended why her sister was appearing with her husband to call her home. Su died peacefully three weeks later with a sense of anticipation about reuniting with both her husband and sister. This case provides verification that Su perceived her sister's presence without any knowledge of her death. |
5 | Home | 5 | 12 | 25 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | Terminal cancer patient in hospice care, dying process | Saw sister who had died 2 days earlier in China, death deliberately kept secret | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw and heard sister calling with deceased husband | 1.00 | Lily (daughter), Maggie Callanan (hospice nurse) | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4725 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.1. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.1 - Pages 126-128 - 2016 | 2016 | 60 | M |
A 60-year-old British patient known as Patient 10 in Penny Sartori's prospective study had suffered from cerebral palsy with right spastic hemiparesis since birth, causing his right hand to be permanently contracted in a claw-like position. Medical records documented this congenital abnormality, and a splint had been made for his hand years earlier, though it proved ineffective. During hospitalization in intensive care, he experienced cardiac arrest and had an NDE with verified paranormal perceptions. After his NDE, the patient was suddenly able to open his previously contracted hand, even though he did not report that the NDE explicitly involved healing. The physiotherapist explained that the hand should not have been capable of opening without an operation to release the tendons that had been in a contracted position for more than 60 years. No extensive physiotherapy had been performed on his hand during hospitalization. The medical notes prior to discharge mentioned increased muscle tone in his contracted hand. This spontaneous healing of a lifelong congenital deformity remains medically unexplained. The fact that his contracture had resolved was mentioned only when the patient misinterpreted a question during the in-depth interview. His sister provided a witness statement confirming the extent of his contracture prior to the NDE. Additionally, the patient's walking impediment, also present since birth, suddenly and markedly improved after his NDE. The healed hand remains inexplicable as there is no known mechanism for how permanently shortened tendons due to spastic hemiparesis from birth could spontaneously open fully. |
1 | Hospital | 8 | 3 | 19 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | Patient 10 experienced cardiac arrest in ICU with monitoring | Miraculous healing of congenital deformity - claw hand opened after 60 years | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Penny Sartori | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 2 | Spontaneous healing of congenital claw hand deformity | 1.00 | Physiotherapist | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4726 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.2. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.2 - Page 128 - 2016 | 2016 | M |
Patient 12 in Sartori's prospective study was involved in a traffic accident and suffered serious injury to his chest, a torn liver, and a broken right shoulder with a complex fracture. Due to his critical condition in intensive care, the orthopedic surgeon had to postpone surgery on the right shoulder until after discharge from the ICU. During his time in critical condition, the patient experienced an NDE. When the surgeon finally examined the patient after his ICU discharge, he was amazed to discover that the broken bone had already healed completely. This development was remarkable because the injury had involved a complex fracture that would normally require surgical intervention. The healing occurred spontaneously during the patient's time in intensive care, when he was too critically ill to undergo the planned surgery. The orthopedic surgeon could not explain the healing and supposed that it might be normal for patients with head injuries to heal quickly. However, Sartori pointed out that this explanation was not relevant because the patient's injuries had not included any head injury. The spontaneous healing of a complex fracture without surgical intervention remains medically unexplained. This case represents another instance of miraculous healing associated with an NDE, where a serious injury that would normally require surgery healed spontaneously during the patient's critical illness and near-death experience. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 3 | 17 | Suggestive Evidence | 7 | Traffic accident victim in ICU with life-threatening injuries | Spontaneous healing of complex shoulder fracture | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Penny Sartori | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Spontaneous healing of complex shoulder fracture | 1.00 | Orthopedic surgeon | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4727 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.3. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.3 - Pages 128-129 - 2016 | 2016 | M |
In the 1970s, Ralph Duncan was dying from leukemia and had been told he had only a short time to live. He had already prepared himself for death when he was hospitalized. During his hospital admission, he experienced an NDE in which he encountered a being of light whom he took to be Jesus, even though the being did not look like traditional depictions. The being had eyes that were "shooting fire" and communicated with Duncan telepathically through three brief sentences: "That's enough. It's dead. It's gone." After regaining consciousness, these words continued echoing in Duncan's ears. While he did not fully understand what "That's enough" meant, he associated "It's dead" with the disappearance of his leukemia. This interpretation proved correct as his terminal leukemia went into complete remission following the NDE. Professor Emeritus Howard Mickel of Wichita State University's religion department investigated this case thoroughly and stood staunchly behind its authenticity. The miraculous healing was verified through medical documentation showing the leukemia had indeed disappeared. When Kenneth Ring last had news of Duncan in 1989, he was still doing well, having survived well beyond his terminal prognosis. This case represents a clear instance of miraculous healing during an NDE, with the spiritual being explicitly stating that the disease was "dead" and "gone," followed by complete remission of terminal leukemia. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 19 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | Terminal leukemia patient with short prognosis | Being of light declared disease dead and gone, followed by complete remission | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Howard Mickel | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Telepathic communication from being of light | 1.00 | Howard Mickel | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4728 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.4. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.4 - Pages 129-133 - 2016 | 2006 | 2006-02-02 | 2016 | F |
Anita Moorjani, diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2002, fell into a coma on February 2, 2006, after 4 years of home care. Her organs were shutting down and the oncologist told her husband she would die within 36 hours. The cancer had spread everywhere with open lesions on her skin. During her coma, she had a radical NDE where she could hear and see extrasensorily what doctors were discussing 40 feet away in the corridor, verified by her husband Danny. She was also aware her brother was en route by airplane. During the NDE, she was told she could choose to stay in physical life and be healed of cancer. If she chose life, her organs would function normally again. She chose life and regained consciousness. Her organs recovered, amazing the doctors. By mid-February, outward signs of cancer had disappeared. Biopsies and ultrasounds revealed no evidence of cancer. Despite only completing partial chemotherapy cycles, all scans showed she was cancer-free. U.S. oncologist Peter Ko flew to Hong Kong to study her case, copying all medical files. He concluded she should have died and sent findings to cancer institutes worldwide - all responded they had never encountered such a case. Ko stated he was unable to attribute her recovery to chemotherapy, speculating something non-physical either switched off mutated genes or signaled programmed cell death. The case is medically documented with before/after verification. Ko confirmed the tumor disappeared, skin ulcers healed without grafting, and recovery was remarkable. This represents one of the most well-documented cases of miraculous healing following an NDE. |
4 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 28 | Suggestive Evidence | 10 | Comatose with organ failure from stage 4 lymphoma, 36-hour prognosis | Complete cancer remission following NDE with choice to return | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Peter Ko | 2006-03-01 | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 2 | Heard doctors discussing her case in corridor | 1.00 | Dr. Peter Ko | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||
| 4729 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.5. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.5 - Pages 133-135 - 2016 | 1971 | 1971-06-01 | 2016 | 13 | F |
Jennifer, age 13, was the only one of five sisters who suffered from a neurological disorder involving tics and epileptic seizures occurring a dozen times daily, greatly limiting her body control. In June 1971, during a thunderstorm, she was trying to lower a ham radio tower at her father's request when lightning struck it. She felt sharp pain, couldn't let go of the metal crank, her whole body shook, and blood came from her nose and ears. She smelled burning meat as her insides felt destroyed by electricity. Her sister's boyfriend received a shock trying to pull her off. During this time, Jennifer had an NDE where she was surrounded by a cocoon of golden light that formed into a human shape without a face. The being came closer until she was suddenly back in her body, thrown to the ground. She knew something had changed in her body and felt everything would be okay because of the golden light experience. The following week, EEGs showed something about her brain biochemistry had changed. Her seizures and tics decreased immediately after the incident. Two years later, she no longer needed any medications and has had no neurological symptoms since. Doctors were amazed at the change. The miraculous aspect is that healing effects are hardly expected from lightning strikes - the opposite is more plausible. Jennifer attributed her cure not to being electrified but to her NDE: "The golden light had somehow cured me." |
5 | Home | 6 | 5 | 18 | Suggestive Evidence | 7 | Lightning strike causing electrical shock through body | Complete healing of lifelong neurological disorder | written_account | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 2 | Cocoon of golden light forming into being | 1.00 | Patti and boyfriend | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||
| 4730 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.6. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.6 - Pages 135-136 - 2016 | 2016 | 16 | M |
Sixteen-year-old Will Barton fell over 40 feet from a tree while hunting for a Christmas tree in Idaho. He was instantly and totally paralyzed, unable to feel anything. X-rays showed broken and dislocated neck vertebrae. Dr. James F. Todd confirmed he could only breathe on his own. Barton became suicidal but could not move, even asking his mother to smother him with a pillow, which she refused. Days later, physiotherapists raised his bed head too quickly, causing all blood to drain from his head. He lost consciousness and suffered cardiac arrest. During this, he had an NDE that started gloomy and lonely but transformed when a light dispelled the darkness. His entire being was immersed in this light, which gave him a choice: die or return to his body. He chose life. After resuscitation, he remained paralyzed but was mentally and emotionally changed by the positive NDE impact. He became willing to cooperate with long-term, painful rehabilitation. One year later, against all expectation, he was able to walk again. Dr. Todd stated that according to conventional medicine, Barton should have been quadriplegic for life, calling the recovery a "miracle." Barton attributed his recovery to family support, prayers, and his NDE. The transformation from suicidal despair to determined rehabilitation following the NDE enabled what should have been medically impossible. |
1 | Hospital | 8 | 4 | 20 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | Cardiac arrest from orthostatic hypotension, quadriplegic from spinal injury | Complete recovery from paralysis deemed impossible | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. James F. Todd | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Light that dispelled darkness | 1.00 | Dr. James F. Todd | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4731 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.7. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.7 - Pages 136-137 - 2016 | 2006 | 2016 | 5 | M |
Five-year-old Jake Finkbonner, a Roman Catholic Lummi tribe member, cut his lip during basketball and contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria. Within a day his face was unrecognizably swollen. His condition deteriorated rapidly with expected death imminent. For two weeks doctors tried everything while Jake was kept in artificial coma. During his illness, Jake had an NDE where he felt his body was so light he could "lift off." He had a vision where he looked down on the hospital and saw his family, then observed family at his house. He ended up in "heaven" where he talked with God, who looked very big and sat in a tall chair. He saw deceased family members and angels. Heaven was so appealing he asked to stay, but God said his family and "all the others" needed him. He was sent back. Against all expectation and with no medical explanation, the infection suddenly stopped and Jake healed. His face had been severely deformed, requiring dozens of operations with remarkable recovery from surgeries. The Vatican initiated rigorous investigation through Jesuit priest Paolo Molinari, who reviewed medical files and photos. Seattle archdiocese questioned treating doctors. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints concluded the healing was medically inexplicable according to mainstream science. This finding contributed to canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, first Native North American Catholic saint, whom the family had asked for intercession. |
4 | Hospital | 9 | 5 | 24 | Suggestive Evidence | 10 | Necrotizing fasciitis in artificial coma, expected death | Vatican-verified inexplicable healing from flesh-eating bacteria | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Paolo Molinari | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw hospital and family from above | 0.00 | Multiple doctors | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||
| 4732 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.8. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.8 - Pages 137-139 - 2016 | 1982 | 2016 | M |
Mellen-Thomas Benedict had terminal brain cancer with an inoperable tumor in 1982, expected to live 6-8 months. He had cardiac arrest and was clinically dead for 1.5 hours. During his extensive NDE, he left his body and received images of Earth's past and humanity's future, plus insights into biological systems. He later applied these insights to important research projects. In one University of North Texas study, he underwent hypnosis to reexperience the omniscient aspect of his NDE and generated accurate genetic information about a rare hereditary disease. After regaining consciousness, his condition changed. After 3 days he felt more normal and lucid. Three months later, the tumor had disappeared completely. The treating doctor called it "spontaneous remission." P.M.H. Atwater verified the case, met his mother and stepfather, and followed his life. She saw his x-rays showing the brain tumor before and its absence after. His mother confirmed the tumor and that the hospice nurse felt he had died. X-rays taken about a week before he died and shortly after showed the tumor had gone, stunning doctors. Atwater stated: "I can attest that his case is genuine and his claims about the brain tumor and the conditions of his death are true." Years later the x-rays were lost during moves and the hospital had destroyed their copies per retention policy. His mother died and couldn't provide additional confirmation, making Atwater's testimony crucial. This represents complete spontaneous remission of terminal brain cancer following an extensive NDE with later verified paranormal knowledge acquisition. |
1 | Home | 7 | 6 | 21 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | Cardiac arrest from terminal brain tumor, 1.5 hours clinical death | Complete spontaneous remission of inoperable brain tumor | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | P.M.H. Atwater | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 2 | Received biological system insights | 1.00 | P.M.H. Atwater | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4733 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.9. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.9 - Pages 139-140 - 2016 | 2014 | 2014-09-23 | 2016 | 40 | F |
Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro, age 40, underwent cesarean section at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. She developed amniotic fluid embolism, a rare complication causing a dangerous heart clot. She had cardiac arrest and lost consciousness. Resuscitation efforts lasted three hours with no pulse for 45 minutes. Doctors applied electrical shocks and heart massage. Family was called to say goodbye as doctors prepared to pronounce her dead. When family left to pray fervently, doctors suddenly saw a heart monitor signal. Nurse Claire Hansen connected this to prayers and encouraged continuation. A day later, Ruby could be disconnected from life support. Remarkably, she suffered no brain damage or resuscitation injuries and was soon completely healthy, as was her newborn daughter Taily. Ruby described a dream/vision where she talked with a spiritual being she experienced as her deceased father, who said her time hadn't come. She recalled light behind her father and many other spiritual beings. She moved by "flowing" not walking. She said "It was peaceful. There is nothing to be afraid of." She felt held back by a force at a certain point and understood she wasn't going to stay: "It's not my time. I was chosen to be here." Doctors and nurses considered this one of few true medical miracles they witnessed, attributing recovery to divine intervention. The complete absence of brain damage after 45 minutes without pulse is medically inexplicable. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 3 | 22 | Suggestive Evidence | 9 | Cardiac arrest from amniotic fluid embolism, 45 minutes without pulse | No brain damage after 45 minutes pulseless, complete recovery | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Encountered deceased father with other beings | 0.00 | Multiple doctors and nurses | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||
| 4734 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.10. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.10 - Pages 140-141 - 2016 | 2011 | 2011-12-01 | 2016 | 9 | F |
Nine-year-old Annabel Beam from Texas suffered from two incurable gastrointestinal conditions: antral hypomotility disorder and pseudo-obstruction motility disorder. These forms of gastroparesis caused severe chronic pain and extreme bloating after eating. Her illness was so unbearable she once told her mother she would rather die and go to heaven. In December 2011, while playing with sisters, she fell head-first 30 feet into a hollow cottonwood tree trunk, hitting her head three times inside. Firemen rescued her and brought her to Cook Children's Hospital. Remarkably, she had no serious injuries - only possible concussion and superficial bumps and bruises, surprising the ER doctor. Days later, Annabel described visiting heaven, sitting on Jesus's lap, and seeing her dead grandmother "Mee Mee." She recounted: "I started to wake up in the tree and could hear firemen's voices. I saw an angel that looked very small, like a fairy. God winked at me through the angel's body saying 'I'm going to leave you now and everything is going to be okay.' The angel stayed with me the entire time, shining light so I could see." After the accident, Annabel was suddenly cured of her digestive disorders with no physical complaints and no medications needed. Dr. Samuel Nurko from Boston Children's Hospital confirmed she is "completely asymptomatic, leading a normal life, not requiring any therapies." Though doctors had no explanation, Nurko didn't call it a miracle but confirmed complete cure. |
5 | Other | 6 | 5 | 19 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | 30-foot fall into tree, head trauma | Complete cure of incurable gastrointestinal disorders | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Samuel Nurko | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | Visited heaven and saw Jesus | 1.00 | Dr. Samuel Nurko | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||
| 4735 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 8.11. Durham | The Self Does Not Die - Case 8.11 - Page 141 - 2016 | 2014 | 2016 | M |
A patient of Spanish physician Miguel Ángel Pertierra in Málaga was estranged from his brother when the brother died. Later, the patient contracted a neck tumor diagnosed as lethal. He wanted to stay alive at all costs and refused to accept his terminal diagnosis. He was in a terminal phase receiving only palliative treatment to improve quality of life, with recovery considered completely impossible. Nevertheless, he suffered cardiac arrest and had an NDE. During the experience, he saw his estranged deceased brother who told him not to worry because, against all odds, he would not die of his incurable tumor. The brother's message provided reassurance about his survival despite the terminal diagnosis. The patient shared his NDE with Dr. Pertierra, who responded skeptically with "Well, let's hope so," as recovery seemed unrealistic given the terminal status. To Pertierra's surprise, the lethal tumor suddenly began improving, treatment was resumed, and eventually it could be surgically removed entirely. Pertierra is certain the tumor was indeed lethal and the patient was terminal when recovery became impossible. At the conference time, the patient had fully recovered. Pertierra and the patient meet occasionally in Málaga and always hug, feeling especially connected through their shared emotional experience. This case demonstrates complete healing from a verified terminal tumor following NDE reassurance. |
1 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 18 | Suggestive Evidence | 7 | Cardiac arrest during terminal cancer phase | Complete recovery from lethal tumor deemed impossible | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Miguel Ángel Pertierra | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Deceased brother provided reassurance | 1.00 | Dr. Miguel Ángel Pertierra | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4736 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 7.1: The Open Front Door, Flammarion, C. (190 | The Self Does Not Die + The Open Front Door + Chapter 7 + Pages 1-2 + 2016 | 1800 | 2016 | M | This 19th century case from French Alsace involves Baeschly's great-uncle who had emigrated to the United States. On the night of his death, his brother and father in Brumath experienced an extraordinary phenomenon. After midnight, they were awakened by their front door opening noisily. When they went to investigate, they found the door inexplicably ajar. They closed and locked it, but it opened again with loud noise. This happened a third time, requiring them to bind the door with rope to keep it shut. Shortly after, they received a letter informing them that Baeschly's great-uncle had died in America on the exact date when the door kept opening. The dying man had reportedly expired, then opened his eyes one last time saying, "I just went on a grand journey: I went to see my brother in Brumath." No apparition was observed, but the inexplicable and noisy door openings corresponded precisely with the time of death across the Atlantic. The repeated physical phenomenon suggests a connection between the dying man's reported out-of-body visit and the mysterious events at his brother's home. | 5 | Unknown | 5 | 12 | 25 | Suggestive Evidence | 8 | Death reported but no medical details available from 19th century | Physical phenomenon (door opening 3 times) corresponding with death time across Atlantic | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Door opened mysteriously three times | 1.00 | Baeschly and his father | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4737 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 7.2: Mrs. Birkbeck, Barrett, W. (1926). | The Self Does Not Die + Mrs. Birkbeck + Chapter 7 + Page 3 + 2016 | 1739 | 2016 | F | In 1739, an English Quaker named Mrs. Birkbeck was on her deathbed at the home of friends, unable to return to her own home due to her critical condition. Before her death, she expressed a strong desire to see her three children again, who were being cared for at her home. After voicing this wish, she appeared to fall asleep for about ten minutes. When she awakened, Mrs. Birkbeck claimed that she had gone home and seen her children. She died shortly after making this claim. Remarkably, at the same time Mrs. Birkbeck had her experience, her children at home became excited and told the adults caring for them that their mother had come to visit them. Both Mrs. Birkbeck's claim of visiting her children and the children's report of seeing their mother were independently confirmed shortly after the incidents occurred. The simultaneity of these experiences, with the dying mother claiming to have visited her children and the children independently reporting seeing their mother at the same time, suggests a genuine out-of-body visitation rather than coincidence or hallucination. | 5 | Home | 5 | 15 | 30 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Deathbed condition documented but no medical details from 1739 | Simultaneous bidirectional awareness - mother claimed visit, children confirmed seeing her | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Visited children at home while dying elsewhere | 1.00 | Three children | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4738 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 7.3: Olga Gearhardt, Morse, M. L. (with | The Self Does Not Die + Olga Gearhardt + Chapter 7 + Pages 4-5 + 2016 | 1989 | 2016 | 63 | F | In 1989, 63-year-old Olga Gearhardt of San Diego underwent a heart transplant after a virus damaged her heart. During the surgery, at exactly 2:15 a.m., her transplanted heart suddenly stopped beating and she was clinically dead for an extended period, requiring hours of resuscitation. While her body lay in the operating room, Olga had an out-of-body experience. She first watched the doctors working on her body for a few minutes, then saw her family in the waiting room 30 miles away. Unable to communicate with them, she decided to visit her son-in-law who had stayed home due to his fear of hospitals. At 2:15 a.m., the exact time of her cardiac arrest, her son-in-law saw her apparition standing at the foot of his bed. She told him, "I am fine, I'm going to be all right. There is nothing for any of you to worry about." He immediately wrote down the time and her words. When Olga regained consciousness, her first words were "Did you get the message?" She described having left her body and visiting her son-in-law to reassure him. Both parties independently confirmed identical details: the time (2:15 a.m.), her appearance at the foot of his bed, and the reassuring message. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Documented cardiac arrest during surgery with monitoring, clinical death confirmed | Precise time correlation (2:15 AM), specific message, both parties confirmed independently | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | Watched doctors during surgery | 0.00 | Son-in-law | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4739 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 7.4: Mary Goffe, Baxter, R. (1691). | The Self Does Not Die + Mary Goffe + Chapter 7 + Pages 5-7 + 2016 | 1691 | 1691-06-04 | 2016 | F | Mary Goffe of Rochester was dying from a long illness at her father's house in West Mulling, nine miles from her home, on June 4, 1691. The day before her death, she desperately wanted to see her two children whom she had left with a nurse. Between 1-2 AM, she fell into a trance with fixed eyes, fallen jaw, and no perceivable breath. Her caregiver, widow Turner, thought she might be dead. The next day, Mary told her mother she had been home with her children, though her mother insisted it was impossible. Mary replied she had visited them "while asleep." Meanwhile, at her home in Rochester, the nurse (widow Alexander) witnessed Mary's apparition emerge from the room where her elder child slept. The apparition stood by the nurse's bedside for 15 minutes, with moving eyes and mouth but saying nothing. The nurse was fully awake, saw this in daylight (one of the longest days of the year), and heard the clock strike two. When asked "What art thou?" the apparition departed. The nurse immediately told neighbors at 5 and 6 AM. Pastor Thomas Tilson investigated within two days, interviewing all parties separately. All accounts matched perfectly: Mary's claim of visiting, the nurse's detailed sighting, and the timing. The nurse offered to swear oath before a magistrate about what she witnessed. | 5 | Home | 7 | 20 | 42 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Dying condition with trance state observed, no breath detected | Extremely detailed corroboration: 15-minute apparition, daylight viewing, exact time match | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Apparition seen by nurse for 15 minutes | 1.00 | Widow Alexander | Highly Compatible | 3 | ||||||||
| 4740 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 7.5: In Two Places at Same Time, Bellg, L. (2014). P | The Self Does Not Die + In Two Places at Same Time + Chapter 7 + Pages 7-11 + 2016 | 2011 | 2016 | F | A Wisconsin woman dying of cancer was estranged from her adult son who had previously served prison time for theft that destroyed his parents' finances. On her deathbed, she refused to see him despite his desire for reconciliation after 25 years. While she lay dying in the hospital, her son sat in a bar experiencing deep remorse and sorrow, desperately wanting to connect with his mother. He suddenly saw his mother enter the bar and was shocked and elated, crying at her appearance. As he got up to greet her, people passed between them and she vanished. Simultaneously, the dying woman woke in her hospital bed and told her daughter, "I had the strangest dream. I dreamed that I was in a bar and I saw my son sitting at a table crying, and he got up to start coming to me. And I got scared and I woke up." Dr. Laurin Bellg, the attending physician, corroborated both accounts. The mother described seeing her son crying and him getting up to approach her. The son reported seeing his mother enter, getting up to go to her, then losing sight of her in the crowd. Both independently described the same scene at the same bar near the hospital, at the same time. The mother could not physically leave her deathbed. Though they never reconciled physically before her death, this shared experience suggested a soul connection was made. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 18 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Terminal cancer patient, bedridden and dying, unable to leave hospital | Simultaneous reciprocal experience - both saw each other in same location, same actions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | Mother saw son in bar crying | 1.00 | Dr. Laurin Bellg | Mixed Compatibility | 5 | |||||||||
| 4741 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 7.6: Stephen's Girlfriend, Stephen. (2011). St | The Self Does Not Die + Stephen's Girlfriend + Chapter 7 + Pages 12-13 + 2016 | 2011 | 2016 | F | Stephen's girlfriend underwent emergency surgery for an ectopic pregnancy with twins, where one baby was stuck in a fallopian tube. They had been together over a year but had just had an argument after a camping trip where she felt unwell. Stephen left and went home, lying on his bed 20 miles away. During the surgery, his girlfriend had an out-of-body experience where she saw Stephen lying on his bed and called out his name. At that exact moment, Stephen was startled awake by someone clearly shouting his name in his girlfriend's voice. The voice was so loud and clear that he went to his stairway landing to see who was calling, but no one was there. When they spoke days later, she said "I saw you lying down on your bed, and I called to you." Stephen exclaimed, "Oh my God, I heard you call! How can that be? You were 20 miles away!" This was one of the first things she told him before he could mention his experience. The simultaneous nature of the experience - her calling his name during surgery and him hearing it 20 miles away - convinced them they were soul mates. Years later, this shared experience continues to strengthen their relationship during difficult times, serving as proof of their deep spiritual connection. | 5 | Hospital | 8 | 15 | 33 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Emergency surgery for life-threatening ectopic pregnancy | Auditory phenomenon verified - she called his name, he heard it 20 miles away | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw boyfriend and called his name during surgery | 1.00 | Stephen (boyfriend) | Moderately Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4742 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 7.7: Jed Archdeacon, The Extraordinary: | The Self Does Not Die + Jed Archdeacon + Chapter 7 + Pages 13-14 + 2016 | 1990 | 1990-08-27 | 2016 | 10 | M | On August 27, 1990, 10-year-old Jed Archdeacon had a fatal asthma attack during a dodgeball game at his Perth school. Teachers failed to revive him and rushed him to the hospital where he was eventually resuscitated after being clinically dead. That morning, his mother Diana experienced unusual phenomena. She was overcome by intense feelings of love for Jed and felt drawn to a family photo, especially his image. While gardening, she felt compelled to smell alyssum flowers that Jed had selected and helped plant - his favorite flowers. At that moment, she experienced an inexplicable feeling of peace, later saying "I was just suddenly thinking of Jed all the time. But I knew whatever it was, was something good." During his NDE, Jed traveled through a tunnel resembling a mineshaft with colored lights and beautiful humming sounds. He felt surrounded by love and was approaching the spiritual world when he was pulled back. After recovering, Jed told his mother: "The funny thing was—I don't get it—I saw you in the garden smelling the flowers." Diana confirmed she was indeed in the garden smelling flowers at the time he was near death. She believed Jed had come to say goodbye. The correlation between Jed's observation during his NDE and his mother's actual activity, which he couldn't have known about, provides veridical evidence. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Fatal asthma attack with clinical death, resuscitated at hospital | Saw mother in garden smelling flowers - independently confirmed by mother | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw mother in garden smelling flowers | 1.00 | Diana Archdeacon (mother) | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||
| 4743 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 7.8: Madame Turban's Sister, Flammarion, C. (192 | The Self Does Not Die + Madame Turban's Sister + Chapter 7 + Pages 16-17 + 2016 | 1920 | 2016 | F | Madame Turban's younger sister suffered from an incurable disease and was being cared for by Madame Turban. The ill sister claimed to see people walking down the street despite this being impossible from her bed's location. One Sunday afternoon, the sister expressed deep regret at being unable to attend the sermon of her fiancé, a clergyman. Immediately after, she entered a cataleptic stiffness and appeared dead for two hours. Upon awakening, she told Madame Turban she had attended her fiancé's sermon and described its specific subject matter. After the sister's funeral, Madame Turban asked the fiancé if he had preached on that specific topic that Sunday. Surprised, he exclaimed "How could you know?" When told it was from his deceased fiancée, he revealed something remarkable: "That is very strange, because during my sermon, it seems as if I saw a white shape enter the church that resembled my fiancée. She sat down on an empty seat and disappeared when the church service was over." Both the dying woman's claim of attending the sermon and describing its content, and the preacher's independent observation of her apparition in church, provide mutual corroboration. The apparition appeared as a white shape, was visible for the sermon's duration, and disappeared when the service ended. | 5 | Home | 5 | 18 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Incurable disease, cataleptic state lasting two hours | Specific sermon content verified, reciprocal sighting by fiancé in church | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | Attended fiancé's sermon and knew its content | 1.00 | Clergyman fiancé | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4744 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 9.1, , pp. 243-244. | The Self Does Not Die, Denise, Chapter 9, pp. 243-244, 2016 | 1999 | 2016 | 10 | F | In summer 1999, 10-year-old Denise from Utah fell into a diabetic coma and was hospitalized. Tests revealed she had suffered a stroke that destroyed two-thirds of the left side of her brain. Her organs were shutting down and doctors expected she would not survive or would remain vegetative. Remarkably, she regained consciousness after three days and could walk on her own after six days. Following her recovery, Denise exhibited paranormal abilities including seeing auras around people and knowing their emotional states. She could see deceased spirits and accurately perceive people's character. During her coma, she had an NDE featuring Christian religious imagery. Her father documented her new abilities, including her ability to see energy fields and spirits, which she attributed to her out-of-body experience during the coma. | 4 | Hospital | 7 | 15 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented diabetic coma with stroke destroying two-thirds of left brain hemisphere | Post-NDE paranormal abilities including aura vision and spirit perception documented by father | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Coma state | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | Ability to see auras around people | 1.00 | Father | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||
| 4745 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 9.2, , pp. 244-245. | The Self Does Not Die, Mrs. P.B.B., Chapter 9, pp. 244-245, 2016 | 2016 | F | Mrs. P.B.B., a patient of Spanish physician Dr. Enrique Vila López, retained psychic abilities following her near-death experience. The specific details of her NDE are not provided, but the aftermath is well-documented. She developed the ability to detect illness in people by seeing which parts of their bodies were affected. She could accurately predict future events, personally foretelling countless incidents to Dr. Vila López and his wife that later came about exactly as indicated. For example, she knew that the doctor's wife was nervous about their dog and predicted problems that would arise from an extended visit of a particular person at their home. Dr. Vila López himself verified these abilities, documenting multiple instances where her predictions proved accurate. The case demonstrates persistent paranormal abilities following an NDE, with medical professional verification. | 5 | Unknown | 5 | 18 | 38 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Life-threatening event occurred but specific medical details not provided | Multiple verified predictions and illness detection abilities documented by physician | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Enrique Vila López | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | Ability to detect illness in people | 1.00 | Dr. Enrique Vila López | Low Compatibility | 2 | |||||||||
| 4746 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 9.3, , pp. 245-263. | The Self Does Not Die, Cherylee Black, Chapter 9, pp. 245-263, 2016 | 2016 | 29 | F | Canadian artist and former Armed Forces music instructor Cherylee Black experienced three NDEs: falling down stairs as a preschooler, ruptured appendix at age 10, and car accident at age 29 causing brain injury. Her first NDE included seeing her deceased maternal grandmother whom she later recognized in a photograph. Following her NDEs, she developed extensive paranormal abilities including psychokinesis, precognitive dreams, and after-death communication with unknown deceased persons. Multiple researchers documented her abilities: Robert and Suzanne Mays observed her PK influence on pinwheels; John Kruth documented her ability to affect an Egely Wheel and photomultiplier readings at Rhine Center; Dean Radin and others confirmed pinwheel movement abilities. She achieved 40% accuracy in controlled precognitive dream experiments. She had verified ADC with Robert Van de Castle after his death and George Weissmann's deceased son Ari. Her abilities were extensively tested and documented by multiple scientific researchers. | 5 | Hospital | 8 | 20 | 48 | Moderate Evidence | 20 | Three separate life-threatening NDEs documented including car accident with brain injury | Extensively documented PK abilities, precognitive dreams, and ADC verified by multiple researchers | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Brain injury from car accident | Multiple researchers | 7/28/2025 | 4 | 1 | Psychokinetic abilities | 1.00 | Mays, Kruth, Watkins, Radin, Gordon, Hansen, Newell, Alexander, D'Elia, Braude | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||
| 4747 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 9.4, , pp. 263-269. | The Self Does Not Die, Tom Sawyer, Chapter 9, pp. 263-269, 2016 | 1978 | 1978-05-23 | 2016 | M | U.S. competitive cyclist Tom Sawyer had an NDE on May 23, 1978, when a pickup truck he was working on fell on him, crushing his chest. He was clinically dead for 15 minutes. Following his NDE, he developed enhanced psychic abilities. In October 1983, at Kenneth Ring's home, Sawyer made a remarkable prediction about a Lockheed L-1011 Tri-Star crash that would occur. He provided specific details: the plane would crash in a thunderstorm due to wind shear approaching an airport, temperature would be 103°F in southern U.S., and he knew details about passengers. On August 2, 1985, he called Bruce Greyson saying the crash would happen that day. Hours later, Delta Flight 191 crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in exactly the conditions predicted: 103°F temperature, thunderstorm with microburst wind shear. Greyson confirmed Sawyer had no psychic abilities before his NDE. Sawyer also demonstrated ability to find lost objects through clairvoyance and located a lost child. | 5 | Other | 10 | 20 | 48 | Moderate Evidence | 18 | Clinically dead for 15 minutes after truck crushed chest | Extremely detailed plane crash prediction verified 2 years later with multiple specific accurate elements | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Crushed chest | Bruce Greyson, Kenneth Ring | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Prediction of L-1011 plane crash | 1.00 | Bruce Greyson, Kenneth Ring | Mixed Compatibility | 4 | ||||||
| 4748 | qualitative | book | Titus Rivas et al., The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, 2nd edition, ed. Janice Holden (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2023). Case 9.5, , pp. 269-276. | The Self Does Not Die, Elizabeth Krohn, Chapter 9, pp. 269-276, 2016 | 1988 | 1988-09-03 | 2016 | 28 | F | Elizabeth Krohn had an NDE on September 3, 1988, when lightning struck her umbrella during a thunderstorm at a synagogue. She saw her body on the pavement and found herself in a beautiful garden with her deceased grandfather, feeling surrounded by unconditional love. She felt she stayed weeks though only minutes passed. Following her NDE, she developed exceptional precognitive abilities expressed through vivid dream visions. She began emailing herself timestamped records of predictions. On January 15, 2009, she predicted US Airways Flight 1549 would crash in NYC river with people standing on wings - verified 7.5 hours later when plane landed on Hudson River. Her husband Matt witnessed her prediction and skepticism about it. On March 10, 2011, she predicted a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan killing thousands - verified when it occurred 20 hours later. Multiple predictions were documented with timestamps and witness verification. | 5 | Other | 8 | 20 | 48 | Moderate Evidence | 20 | Lightning strike with NDE documented, saw body from outside | Multiple timestamped predictions verified including specific details of plane crash and earthquake | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Lightning strike | Matt Krohn (husband) | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | US Airways Flight 1549 prediction | 1.00 | Matt Krohn (husband) | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||
| 4749 | qualitative | book | Wills-Brandon, Carla. Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2023. Author's Personal NDE, pp. 4-6. | Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, Carla Wills-Brandon (Author), pp. 4-6, 2023 | 2023 | F |
The author experienced a near-death event due to calcium overload related to Crohn's disease. She had been taking calcium supplements for years when the brand was removed from the market. She switched to an over-the-counter calcium without reading directions and took excessive amounts. Over six months, she developed memory loss, muscle problems, lethargy, and began losing consciousness. During hospitalization, while in the same room where her father-in-law had died, she experienced a profound NDE. A very bright golden light appeared in the windowless room. She heard beautiful music and perceived a holy man leading prayers for groups of people who were separated from her. She felt overwhelming joy, peace, warmth, safety, and calmness. The holy man continued speaking while bells and chimes tinkled. The groups of people were moving around, visiting and enjoying themselves like at a party she wasn't invited to. The author saw no tunnels to heaven, only experienced floating sensations with the calming golden light and golden human-like forms. She heard tinkling music and soothing words from a spiritual being. She remained conscious during the entire experience. Medical records showed she was only given potassium, no strong medications that could cause hallucinations. The day before this life-threatening event she had been very frightened and even tried to escape the hospital. After the experience, the fear disappeared. The calcium levels were dangerously high - her doctor wondered how she was still alive. The specialist determined it was 100% calcium blockage. She kept this experience silent for years afterward. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 20 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Life-threatening calcium overload documented by physician, hospitalization required | Golden light vision, music heard, spiritual beings perceived, but limited specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw bright golden light in windowless room | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4750 | qualitative | book | Wills-Brandon, Carla. Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2023. Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, pp. 117-122. | Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, pp. 117-122, 2023 | 1992 | 2023 | M |
Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld was a champion skydiver involved in a catastrophic plane crash in spring 1992 that killed sixteen out of twenty-two people on board. He suffered a collapsed lung, broken neck, severe head trauma, broken skull, and serious internal injuries. He was in a coma for over a month with no memory of the crash itself. When he woke from the coma, he had one crystal-clear memory that he insisted was not a dream but as real as any real-world experience. During his coma, he found himself in free fall, appearing there suddenly. The experience felt natural as he was an experienced skydiver who loved free fall. However, he noticed this wasn't normal - it was quieter, the wind wasn't blowing as fast, and he wasn't descending. A gentle breeze was suspending him. He was floating and flying but felt confused about why he was there, though not afraid. His friend James, who had died in the crash, flew down to him with a playful smile, swooping as if they were on a skydive together. James stopped in front of him and asked "Danny, what are you doing here?" When Dan said he didn't know, James told him "You're not supposed to be here. You have to get back down there." Dan asked if James was coming with him, but James' expression changed to sadness and he said "No, I can't." James raised his voice with authority and gave him an order: "Now, you need to get back down there. You need to go get control of the situation." After six weeks in a coma, Dan finally awakened. He experienced an intense understanding that he was united and connected with infinity. His fear of death disappeared completely, and he gained certainty that physical death isn't the end of life. The experience imprinted on his soul and remains crystal clear. He now works as a motivational speaker helping thousands understand life's purpose. |
4 | Hospital | 8 | 12 | 27 | Suggestive Evidence | 7 | Severe trauma from plane crash, documented coma for over a month, multiple life-threatening injuries | Clear communication with deceased friend James who died in same crash, specific dialogue remembered, knowledge that James had died | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Coma for over a month | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 0 | Encountered deceased friend James with specific dialogue | 1.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4751 | qualitative | book | Wills-Brandon, Carla. Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2023. David Z., pp. 103-104. | Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, David Z., pp. 103-104, 2023 | 2013 | 2013-11-11 | 2023 | M |
David Z., an active tennis player and conservative Jew, experienced sudden cardiac arrest at a tennis club on November 11, 2013. The event was caused by a 100% blockage of the left anterior descending artery. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was administered at the scene, and clinical death occurred with cessation of breathing and heart function. He was unconscious in a "cold coma" for five days, waking up on Tuesday with no memory of anything except his near-death experience. The experience was intensely visual. He was rocketed straight upward toward a bright light that appeared like a different galaxy or vortex in the sky. When he hit the light, everything reversed - up became down and he was racing downward. As he approached Earth, which initially appeared in black and white, he saw streets and houses that felt like a town. When he got closer, Earth turned blue and green. Upon impact, the colors exploded in vivid blue and green that brought exhilarating feelings. The impact was described as a "huge rush" that was very fast. David first told his sister-in-law about the experience, who informed him about similar reported NDEs. The light he encountered was clearly mystical or otherworldly in origin, which he described as a "solar vortex or parallel dimension." He experienced excitement, peace, incredible pleasantness, happiness, and felt united or one with the world. Before his NDE, David was not very active with Judaism despite being a conservative Jew. His grandfather was a Holocaust survivor who lost seven to nine family members. After the experience, David's religion became of great importance to him. He gained certainty that an afterlife exists, no longer fears death, believes God is absolutely real, and understands life as meaningful and significant. He now has increased compassion for others and celebrates two birthdays - his original and his NDE date. |
2 | Other | 10 | 10 | 25 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Documented sudden cardiac arrest with 100% LAD blockage, CPR administered, clinical death confirmed, 5-day coma | Vivid visual experience of ascent to light, reversal, specific color transitions from black/white to blue/green | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Cold coma for 5 days | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw Earth transition from black/white to color | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4752 | qualitative | book | Wills-Brandon, Carla. Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2023. Diane LaRoe, pp. 88-89. | Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, Diane LaRoe, pp. 88-89, 2023 | 2023 | F |
Diane LaRoe, a Juilliard-trained vocalist, was killed in an automobile accident many years ago. The ambulance doctor pinned a DOA (Dead on Arrival) sign on her coat and delivered her to the Santa Monica morgue. She was clinically dead and had been pronounced dead by medical personnel at the scene of the accident. While dead, she heard a voice ask if she wanted to stay where she was forever. She recognized this as the Omnipotent Power speaking to her. She answered as quickly as she could: yes. She felt completely protected, safe, and truly at home in this perfect place. She had never been so happy in her life and completely surrendered to the experience. The feeling of being in this realm was one of absolute perfection and belonging. During her time on the other side, she was taught about the blessings, powers, and gifts that humans were given because they are loved. She learned that humans could heal themselves and others, contact those on Earth as well as those who had crossed over, and conduct this service for others. God explicitly told her she had to return to this plane to tell everyone how to find and use these powers. Following her return from death, she wrote a book called "The Awakening" with the mission of making sure all know there is no such thing as death - it is just a transmission from one plane to another. The experience left her with a profound sense of purpose and a message to share about the continuation of consciousness after physical death. She was given specific knowledge about human spiritual capabilities and a divine mandate to share this information with others. |
5 | Other | 15 | 12 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 5 | Pronounced DOA at accident scene, taken to morgue with death certificate, clear clinical death | Direct communication with omnipotent power, specific teachings about human spiritual abilities received | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | DOA tag attached | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 0 | Received teachings about human spiritual abilities | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4753 | qualitative | book | Wills-Brandon, Carla. Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2023. J.R. Barrett, pp. 1-2. | Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, J.R. Barrett, pp. 1-2, 2023 | 2023 | F |
J.R. Barrett, a prolific writer of over thirty books whose family included Holocaust survivors, experienced a profound NDE when thrown from her horse during a ride. Her father was a French-Romanian Ashkenazi Jew and atheist lawyer who never recovered from his anger toward the Nazis. Her uncle was in a German POW camp during WWII. Her mother, a Swedish Sephardic Jew and agnostic, later had departing visions on her deathbed. Before the accident, the sky was golden bright and the wind was blustery. While riding on a ridge, she saw a man on an Arabian horse screaming as he galloped down the hill, causing her horse to rear up and flip over her. The horse reared a second time with feet skidding downhill. At this moment, she left her body with no care about her physical form. She observed her sisters putting their hands over their faces in horror. She felt someone on her left say "come with me" as a three-dimensional hand came forward. They held hands and were "surfing" together through space. Before hitting a barrier, she could differentiate individual things, but upon hitting the barrier, she saw that everything was connected - "we were all connected." She encountered a warm light that didn't hurt her eyes, feeling like she was "sitting in the lap of good." A face was buried in this light. The being pulled part of himself away, and she could see far away - every blade of grass, every flower in perfect detail. People were coming through a meadow. The guide with the three-dimensional hand told her "You have to go back." When she said "No," she had a panic attack and was slammed back into her body. Charlie, the ranch owner, threw her across his horse and took her for medical help. She had suffered a broken pelvis and broken lower back. The message she received was profound: "All paths lead to God. All paths lead to truth." The experience left her with a deep understanding of universal connection and spiritual truth. |
5 | Other | 8 | 15 | 31 | Moderate Evidence | 8 | Life-threatening horse accident with broken pelvis and back, required emergency transport | Out-of-body observation of sisters' reactions, detailed vision of connected reality, specific message received | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw sisters putting hands over faces | 0.00 | Charlie (ranch owner) | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4754 | qualitative | book | Wills-Brandon, Carla. Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2023. Older Jewish Gentleman, pp. 95-96. | Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, Older Jewish Gentleman, pp. 95-96, 2023 | 2023 | 72 | M |
A 72-year-old Jewish man with a history of receiving visitations from deceased relatives and friends underwent heart surgery. He had experienced multiple heart surgeries and a major heart attack previously. During one of his surgeries while in intensive care, he had a profound visitation experience. At the time, he was neither depressed nor afraid of dying. His best friend of over sixty years had died the previous year after a prolonged illness, predeceased by both of his children and his wife. While asleep in intensive care, he saw a river in his dreams. One side of the river was very dark, while the other side was extremely bright and beautiful with green grass and rolling hills. He found himself on the dark side of the river. Suddenly, his deceased best friend appeared with his wife and one of their children on the bright side of the river. They were all holding hands, smiling, and laughing together. His mother and father, both deceased, also appeared smiling, laughing, and waving at him. A little boy was with them whom he recognized as his grandson who had died at childbirth. His maternal grandmother and one of his maternal aunts were also present on the bright side, smiling, laughing, and waving. His friend spoke to him from across the river saying, "When the time comes, my wife and I will take you across the river." The experience ended when he awoke feeling peaceful rather than frightened. The man reported he was not afraid of dying before the visitation and certainly not afterward. The experience reinforced his belief that when his time comes, his family and friends will be there to guide him across to the other side. He found great comfort in knowing he would not die alone and that those he loved were waiting for him in a beautiful place. |
3 | Hospital | 12 | 8 | 25 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Heart surgery with general anesthesia, ICU monitoring, documented medical procedures | Specific identification of multiple deceased relatives including grandson who died at birth | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw multiple deceased relatives across river of light | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4755 | qualitative | book | Wills-Brandon, Carla. Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2023. Rene Hope Turner, pp. 160-161. | Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, Rene Hope Turner, pp. 160-161, 2023 | 2023 | F |
Rene Hope Turner, raised Jewish with all holidays observed, holds a doctorate in biblical literature history and a bachelor's in mechanical optical engineering. She moved to Australia where she purchased forest property and built a house from the timber. Her life changed dramatically when a tragic car accident put her in a coma. Her doctor told her parents she was dead, with the neurosurgeon insisting she had passed away. However, an excited nurse reported that Turner had suddenly sat up in bed and was talking. During her coma, Turner experienced a profound near-death encounter. She met her deceased grandfather who looked younger than she remembered. He appeared without his hare lip or cleft palate, but she knew undoubtedly it was her grandfather. They embraced during the experience. Most significantly, her grandfather told her that her grandmother was coming soon and that he was looking forward to her arrival. When Turner returned to consciousness and began recalling her memories from the coma, she shared this information with her family. Her mother was initially upset upon hearing about the grandfather's message regarding the grandmother. However, the significance of this premonition became clear three months later when her grandmother was diagnosed with an untreatable illness. The grandmother passed away not long after the diagnosis. This experience brought three generations together through the veil between life and death. The deceased grandfather came to his granddaughter not only to offer reassurance but specifically to prepare the family for the grandmother's upcoming death. The advance knowledge, while initially disturbing, ultimately helped soften the grief when the prediction came to pass. The experience demonstrated the continuing bonds of love and care that persist beyond physical death. |
4 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Coma from car accident, pronounced dead by doctor, neurosurgeon confirmed death, then sudden revival | Premonition of grandmother's death verified three months later when grandmother diagnosed and died | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Pronounced dead by neurosurgeon | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Grandfather's premonition about grandmother's death | 1.00 | Family members | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4756 | qualitative | book | Wills-Brandon, Carla. Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2023. Tikvah Feinstein, pp. 32-34. | Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, Tikvah Feinstein, pp. 32-34, 2023 | 2007 | 2007-02-05 | 2023 | 63 | F |
Tikvah Feinstein, born in 1944, is an award-winning writer and activist who survived sexual assault by a rabbi in childhood yet maintained her Jewish roots. She discovered her biological father was David Horowitz, a UN diplomat who influenced the 1947 UN vote for Palestine partition. In 2001, she received an anthrax-contaminated letter that caused respiratory and heart failure, possibly weakening her heart. On February 5, 2007, she awoke feeling danger and an urgent need to leave her house. Following her intuition, she drove to a Foodland grocery store instead of staying home or going to her first choice store - a decision that saved her life as emergency response was available there. Upon entering the store, she felt heart palpitations and began coughing as instructed for heart attacks. She then collapsed, striking the back of her head, and experienced cardiac arrest. She floated above the store with clear auditory perception and no sense of distance, observing the chaos below. She heard her deceased father approaching and saw her stepfather as a distinct image. A being moved ahead of her and she saw shapes. She had the profound realization: "This is where we always are. We are one big organism." When she woke in the ambulance, returning to her body felt heavy and constricted. The experience profoundly changed her perspective on retaliation and kindness. She realized that retaliation is not acceptable and she would not hurt others. She gained the understanding that kindness, despite being misrepresented as weakness, is actually strength. She emerged with certainty that death is not final. Feinstein is among the 5% who retain full mental faculties after clinical death. She received two key messages during her NDE: "Kindness is the greatest of human assets" and recognition that consciousness continues after physical death. The experience transformed her understanding of human nature and reinforced her commitment to compassion over retaliation. |
2 | Other | 10 | 12 | 27 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Documented cardiac arrest with CPR and multiple defibrillator shocks, clinical death confirmed | Floating above scene observing chaos, saw deceased father and stepfather, clear auditory perception | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 0 | Floated above store observing chaos with clear audio | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 4757 | qualitative | book | Wills-Brandon, Carla. Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2023. Tienke Klein, pp. 109-111. | Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, Tienke Klein, pp. 109-111, 2023 | 2023 | F |
Tienke Klein was born to a Jewish family in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). At age three, her father was taken away and she never saw him again. During World War II, she was captured by the Japanese and sent to Ambarawa prison camp in Java, where she endured starvation, physical cruelty, daily inhumanity, and witnessed carnage that stole her childhood. After liberation, healing did not come easily. The darkness of the Holocaust continued to haunt her for years, leaving her feeling shackled to the past. It would take a bicycle accident and near-death experience in her fifties to finally bring healing. During her NDE following the bicycle accident, Klein was ejected from her body and found she was no longer angry. She became completely that energy - it was love, wisdom, and dynamism. The experience brought profound healing from her concentration camp trauma. She finally was able to grieve the loss of her father and process her imprisonment in the brutal camp. Klein received two essential messages during her NDE: "People love as much as they are able to" and "You don't need to go anywhere." The latter message meant "I am complete. I am freedom." She realized that ever since coming out of the prison camp, she had still been trying to get out of the prison camp psychologically. The profound insight was that she didn't need to go anywhere to regain freedom - no one could take away the ground of her soul. Like Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, Klein's NDE taught her that nobody can take away her inner freedom. The experience provided complete liberation from decades of psychological imprisonment. She understood that regardless of past tragedies, peace and joy in life are still possible. The NDE allowed her to finally process and heal from the severe trauma of her childhood imprisonment and her father's death. |
5 | Unknown | 5 | 8 | 18 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Bicycle accident in fifties, life-threatening but limited medical details | Ejected from body, became energy of love/wisdom/dynamism, received specific messages | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 0 | Received messages about love and freedom | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4758 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Dr. Lloyd Rudy Case. 2024 | Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Dr. Lloyd Rudy Case. 2024 | 2024 | Unknown | Patient underwent cardiac surgery on Christmas Day performed by Dr. Lloyd Rudy in Great Falls, USA. An oral infection had spread to a heart valve requiring surgical intervention. During the procedure, the surgery appeared to fail and life support machines were turned off. Staff began leaving the operating theater and the patient's chest was sewn up in preparation for autopsy. Suddenly vital signs began returning spontaneously without CPR. The patient staged a full recovery, remaining unconscious during surgery and in a coma for two days afterward. Upon awakening, the patient reported an out-of-body experience during which he observed the surgical procedure. Most notably, he saw post-it notes on a monitor that had been placed there by a nurse during surgery with messages for Dr. Rudy. These notes were placed after surgery began and removed immediately after it finished. The patient could not have seen these notes through natural means as he was unconscious before the operation began. Dr. Rudy confirmed there was no way the patient could have naturally observed these details. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest during cardiac surgery with monitoring | Specific observation of post-it notes verified by surgeon | physician_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/28/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw post-it notes on monitor | 1.00 | Dr. Lloyd Rudy | Highly Compatible | 3 | ||||||||||
| 4759 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Frank/Dr. Yerington. 2024 | Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Frank Case. 2024 | 2003 | 2024 | M | Frank arrived at Ohio State University Hospital in late 2003 or early 2004 with vital signs so severely compromised he was effectively dead on arrival. Dr. Chris Yerington and the medical team placed Frank into hypothermic cardiac arrest for an extended period. Frank was transferred to ICU where he was expected to die. Dr. Yerington returned days later to find Frank had staged a complete recovery. Frank reported being stuck on the ceiling of the operating room during the procedure. He claimed to have read and memorized serial numbers on three lights in the operating room. He also recalled specific conversations during the procedure. Dr. Yerington confirmed the conversations occurred when Frank's EEG was isoelectric showing no brain activity. When Dr. Yerington checked the serial numbers on the OR lights, they matched exactly what Frank reported. This represents one of the most compelling verified OBEs with specific numerical data that could not have been obtained naturally. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 20 | 50 | Strong Evidence | 15 | Hypothermic cardiac arrest with flatline EEG documented | Memorized serial numbers verified correct, conversations during isoelectric EEG | physician_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/28/2025 | 2 | 1 | Read serial numbers on OR lights | 1.00 | Dr. Chris Yerington | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4760 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Maria Tennis Shoe. 2024 | Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Maria 1979. 2024 | 1979 | 2024 | F | Maria, a Spanish-speaking migrant worker, was admitted to Harbourview Hospital in Seattle in 1979. After being in the hospital for two days, she experienced a cardiac arrest. Following resuscitation, Maria reported an out-of-body experience to social worker Kimberly Clark Sharp. During the OBE, Maria claimed to have left her body and traveled outside the hospital building. She saw a blue tennis shoe on a window ledge several floors above ground level. Maria asked Sharp to verify if the shoe existed. Kimberly Clark Sharp searched multiple floors and windows, eventually discovering the blue tennis shoe exactly as Maria described. The shoe was positioned on a ledge impossible for Maria to see from her room or any location she could have physically accessed. Sharp concluded the only way Maria could have seen the shoe was through an out-of-body experience. This became one of the most famous verified OBEs, presented by Kenneth Ring. Multiple debunking attempts have failed to explain how Maria knew about the shoe. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 28 | Suggestive Evidence | 6 | Cardiac arrest in hospital with resuscitation | Observation of hidden shoe on distant ledge verified | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw blue tennis shoe on window ledge | 1.00 | Kimberly Clark Sharp | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 4761 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Ricardo 1985 Quarter. 2024 | Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Ricardo Quarter. 2024 | 2024 | 82 | M | Ricardo, age 82, was admitted to a San Antonio, Texas hospital after collapsing. He experienced cardiac arrest but responded to resuscitation by Dr. John Lerma. Once stabilized and conscious in ICU, Ricardo eagerly told Dr. Lerma about his NDE and OBE. During the OBE, Ricardo observed the trauma room from an elevated perspective. He saw a 1985 quarter covered in dust on top of a high cabinet. Ricardo asked Dr. Lerma to verify the quarter, wanting confirmation his experience was real. Dr. Lerma, with nurses present as witnesses, obtained a ladder and checked the cabinet top. He found exactly what Ricardo described: a dusty quarter dated 1985. This verification had such profound impact on Dr. Lerma that he changed his career to pursue end-of-life hospice medicine. The case demonstrates both the veridical nature of the OBE and its transformative effect on the medical professional who witnessed verification. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest with successful resuscitation | Specific dated coin on hidden surface verified | physician_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw 1985 quarter on cabinet | 1.00 | Dr. John Lerma and nurses | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4762 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Van Lommel False Teeth. 2024 | Did Jesus Die For Nothing? Van Lommel Study. 2024 | 2024 | M | A patient with possible cardiac arrest was treated in the coronary care unit while in a coma. A nurse removed his false teeth and placed them in a crash cart drawer. The patient remained comatose and was moved to another room before regaining consciousness. A week later, when the nurse visited him in ICU, the patient recognized her despite being comatose during their only interaction. He told other nurses present that she knew where his teeth were. The nurse was astonished as she removed the teeth while he was unconscious and he was moved before waking. The patient accurately described the teeth placement and other events during treatment. This occurred within Van Lommel's prospective study published in The Lancet, making it the first verified OBE in a formal prospective study. The peer review required for The Lancet adds significant credibility. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest in CCU setting | Placement of teeth while comatose verified | journal_study | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Patient in coma | Van Lommel et al. | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Knew teeth placement while comatose | 1.00 | ICU nurse | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4763 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. Did Jesus Die For Nothing? NJ Serial Number. 2024 | Did Jesus Die For Nothing? New Jersey Case. 2024 | 2024 | F | A patient admitted to a New Jersey hospital neurological unit in a coma experienced cardiac arrest and was resuscitated. Upon emerging from coma, she told nurse Norma Bowe about her NDE and OBE. The patient had OCD with number fixation. During her OBE, she memorized the serial number on top of a 7-foot respirator beside her bed. Nurse Bowe noted the number provided. Days later when a technician came to remove the respirator, Bowe asked him to check for a serial number on top. The technician confirmed a serial number was present and it matched exactly what the patient provided. The patient's OCD trait provides explanation for noticing such detail during OBE. Nurse Bowe later became a PhD professor at Kean University, adding credibility. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest in neurological unit | Serial number on equipment verified | medical_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Patient in coma | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Read serial number on respirator | 1.00 | Nurse Norma Bowe (PhD) and technician | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4764 | qualitative | book | Truman, Jon. Code Blue: A Christian Perspective of Near Death Experiences. 2022. Referenced in Kubler-Ross, On Life and Death. | Code Blue Book - Devastated Father Case - 2022 | 2022 | M | A man whose wife and eight children were tragically burned alive when their van was struck by a gasoline tanker experienced a devastating NDE two years later. Following the accident that killed his entire family, he began drinking heavily, consuming half a gallon of whiskey daily, and adding heroin and other drugs. After multiple suicide attempts, while drunk and stoned on a dirt road, he was run over by a large truck. He observed the entire accident scene from a few feet above his body, watching the ambulance arrive and his transport to the emergency room. During his out-of-body experience, his deceased family appeared before him in a glow of light, communicating through thought transference. He witnessed medical personnel working on his body from above and eventually re-entered his physical form. The experience provided him with evidence that his family continued to exist in another realm, offering some solace despite his overwhelming grief. | 5 | Other | 5 | 15 | 25 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Life-threatening trauma from being run over by truck | Observed accident scene from above, saw deceased family members | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 3 | 0 | Observed accident scene from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4765 | qualitative | book | Truman, Jon. Code Blue: A Christian Perspective of Near Death Experiences. 2022. Chapter 1. | Code Blue Book - Valerie Case - 2022 | 2022 | 17 | F | Seventeen-year-old Valerie experienced an NDE during surgery when her breathing tube became clogged. She recalled being anesthetized and then finding herself going through a dark tunnel. Her hands appeared translucent to her vision. An angel appeared and comforted her, telling her she was safe. When Valerie expressed that she was not ready to die, the angel acknowledged this and pointed downward. From her vantage point above, Valerie could see doctors performing CPR on a young girl lying below. Not initially realizing it was her own body, she watched the entire operation including all resuscitation efforts. She expressed sadness at seeing such a young person in distress. The angel then indicated that the medical team was bringing the girl back to life. At that moment, Valerie felt herself being pushed and thrown back into her painful physical body. The experience provided her with detailed observations of her own resuscitation that she could not have witnessed from her physical position. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 22 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Surgery with deep anesthesia, CPR performed | Observed own resuscitation, saw translucent hands, tunnel experience | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw doctors performing CPR | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4766 | qualitative | book | Sabom, Michael B. Light and Death. Referenced in Truman, Code Blue, 2022. | Code Blue Book - Pam Reynolds Case - 2022 | 2022 | F | Pam Reynolds underwent remarkable brain surgery where her blood was chilled twenty-five degrees and later to sixty degrees. As part of the delicate medical procedure, her heart was stopped and brain waves flattened. Blood was drained from her body "like oil from a car." By all medical definitions, she was clinically dead with no brain activity and no blood flowing through the brain. Despite this state of clinical death, Pam had a vivid near-death experience. She left her body and observed the surgical procedures from above. During her out-of-body experience, she encountered beings of light that she could recognize and understand. She specifically recognized her grandmother among the figures of light. She also saw her great-great Aunt Maggie and a grandfather. All the beings she encountered appeared to be at their best, in their prime years rather than how they appeared at death. The experience occurred while she had absolutely no measurable brain function, challenging conventional understanding of consciousness. | 1 | Hospital | 15 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest with complete cessation of brain activity, blood drained, body chilled | Recognized specific deceased relatives, observed surgical procedures | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | blood drained, body chilled | Dr. Sabom | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Recognized deceased relatives as beings of light | 1.00 | Dr. Sabom | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4767 | qualitative | book | Morse, Melvin. Closer to the Light. Referenced in Truman, Code Blue, 2022. | Code Blue Book - Katie YMCA Case - 2022 | 2022 | F | Katie was discovered floating face down in a YMCA pool after drowning. Emergency CAT scan showed massive brain swelling, and she had no gag reflex. She was kept alive by artificial lung machine and doctors estimated only a 10% chance of survival. She remained comatose for three days before suddenly awakening as if from deep sleep. Within 24 hours, she was up and around with no signs of brain damage. When Dr. Morse asked what happened, Katie replied "You mean when I saw the Heavenly Father?" She described seeing God as a bright being of light who radiated kindness and love, and spoke of a guardian angel who guided her through heaven. Despite being profoundly comatose with eyes closed, she accurately described medical procedures: being in a big room, then moved to a smaller room for X-rays. While comatose, her soul visited her home where she observed specific details - her brother playing with a GI Joe in a jeep, her sister combing a Barbie doll's hair while singing a rock song, and her mother preparing roast chicken and rice in the kitchen. These observations were later confirmed by her shocked parents. | 5 | Hospital | 8 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Drowning with massive brain swelling, comatose for 3 days, no gag reflex | Multiple specific distant observations of family activities while comatose, verified by parents | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | comatose | Dr. Morse | 7/29/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw medical procedures while comatose | 1.00 | Parents | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4768 | qualitative | book | Piper, Don and Murphey, Cecil. 90 Minutes in Heaven. Referenced in Truman, Code Blue, 2022. | Code Blue Book - Don Piper Case - 2022 | 1989 | 1989-01-18 | 2022 | M | Don Piper was nearly crushed to death when a semi-truck plowed head-on into his car. His soul was immediately ejected from his body and he found himself standing in heaven. He became aware of a large crowd of people standing in front of a brilliant, ornate gate. They surged toward him - all people who had died during his lifetime, smiling, shouting, and praising God. He recognized many including his great-grandmother Hattie Mann who appeared transformed - standing strong and upright without her earthly osteoporosis, with sparkling natural teeth instead of dentures, wrinkles erased, appearing ageless. The brilliance beyond the gate was brighter than the surrounding light, intensifying as he walked forward. He heard the swooshing of angels' wings magnified thousands of times, and music comprised of hundreds of songs sung simultaneously, all worshiping God. He could clearly distinguish each hymn of praise. Drawing nearer to the gates of heaven, he was awed by the intensity of light and felt he was being ushered into the presence of God. He experienced being truly home before being sent back to his body after 90 minutes of clinical death. | 5 | Other | 10 | 12 | 30 | Moderate Evidence | 8 | Severe trauma from head-on collision with semi-truck, declared dead at scene | Detailed descriptions of heaven, recognized specific deceased relatives with transformed appearances | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw transformed great-grandmother | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4769 | qualitative | book | Morse, Melvin. Closer to the Light. Referenced in Truman, Code Blue, 2022. Chapter 2. | Code Blue Book - Diabetic Coma Case - 2022 | 2022 | F | A young girl experienced an out-of-body experience after her blood sugar soared to the highest level ever recorded at Children's Hospital, causing her to slip into a diabetic coma. She remained comatose for several days before recovery. When Dr. Morse interviewed her after she regained consciousness, she described her experience: "All of a sudden, I was floating above my body looking down at myself. There were two doctors pushing me on one of those stretchers toward a room. Both women were doctors." She noted feeling strange about the dissociation but emphasized that while she had been sick with headache when brought in by her mother, during the floating experience she felt good and had no pain or discomfort. The experience provided her with specific visual observations of the medical team and procedures while her physical body remained in a deep coma. Her ability to identify that both attending physicians were female and describe being transported on a stretcher demonstrated conscious awareness despite her comatose state. | 4 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 20 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Diabetic coma with highest recorded blood sugar at Children's Hospital | Observed two female doctors, transport on stretcher while comatose | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | diabetic coma | Dr. Morse | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw two female doctors and transport | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4770 | qualitative | book | Ritchie, George and Sherrill, Elizabeth. Return From Tomorrow. Referenced in Truman, Code Blue, 2022. | Code Blue Book - George Ritchie Case - 2022 | 1943 | 2022 | 20 | M | Retired psychiatrist George Ritchie experienced clinical death and had a profound NDE where he met Jesus Christ. After realizing he had died, he noticed the room becoming increasingly brighter with light coming from nowhere, like a million welders' lamps blazing at once. Upon hearing an inaudible command to stand, he knew immediately he was in the presence of the Son of God. Jesus appeared as the most totally male being he had ever met - power itself, older than time yet more modern than anyone. What emanated most from this Presence was unconditional love, an astonishing love beyond his wildest imagining. This love knew every unlovable thing about him and accepted and loved him just the same. During his experience, he also witnessed hell where people were continuously upset, sad, self-centered, and sorry for their past. He saw constant frustration, confusion, misery, and anger with no relief ever possible. He was eventually told he wasn't ready for heaven, hadn't lived a suitable life for heaven, had many things to learn, and still had his job to do - to take care of people God needed him to love. He then returned to his body and the agonizing pain he had left behind. | 2 | Hospital | 8 | 10 | 24 | Suggestive Evidence | 6 | Clinical death, later resuscitated | Detailed encounter with Jesus, witnessed hell, received life mission | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw Jesus as being of intense light | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 4771 | qualitative | book | Morse, Melvin and Perry, Paul. Closer to the Light. Referenced in Truman, Code Blue, 2022. | Code Blue Book - June Drowning Case - 2022 | 2022 | 8 | F | Eight-year-old June drowned when her hair got caught in a pool drain. She had no heartbeat for over forty minutes before doctors successfully resuscitated her, making a full recovery within six weeks. During her NDE, she remembered her hair getting stuck and blacking out, then floating out of her body. She could see herself under the water but felt no fear. While out of her body, she experienced complete freedom from pain and was totally surrounded by love. She felt like a soul - neither boy nor girl, neither grown-up nor child - with a sense of absolute peace and completeness. Looking down, she saw a girl lying in bed and empathized with her pain, then realized it was herself and returned to her body. June found herself leaving the operating room and traveling down a long tunnel, at the end being bathed in bright warm light she described as "the Light of God." After experiencing this light, she never feared death again, knowing she could die at any time without fear. Years later, the day before her death, her deceased sister appeared to her saying "June, it's time to go." June called family members to say goodbye and peacefully died that night when her pacemaker failed. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 23 | Suggestive Evidence | 5 | Drowning with no heartbeat for 40+ minutes | Tunnel, Light of God, later sister appearance before death | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Morse | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw self underwater and in hospital bed | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4772 | qualitative | book | Sabom, Michael. Light and Death. Referenced in Truman, Code Blue, 2022. Chapter 4. | Code Blue Book - Pete Morgan Case - 2022 | 2022 | 53 | M | Fifty-three-year-old Pete Morgan suffered two cardiac arrests and severe chest pains. During his first cardiac arrest, he left his body and watched the resuscitation efforts from above. When Dr. Sabom asked him to describe exactly what he saw, Pete provided remarkably detailed and accurate observations - so precise that Dr. Sabom noted the recording could be used to teach physicians resuscitation techniques. Pete described specific medical procedures including a doctor's attempt to restart his heart: "He struck me. And I mean he really whacked me. He came back with his fist from way behind his head and hit me right in the center of my chest." He observed doctors inserting a needle in his chest and shocking him, describing how his body "jumped about two feet off the table" from the defibrillation. His detailed observations of the resuscitation procedures, which he could not have seen from his physical position, provided compelling evidence of consciousness existing outside the body during clinical death. Dr. Sabom was particularly impressed by the accuracy and medical precision of Pete's account. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Two cardiac arrests with severe chest pains, resuscitation required | Extremely detailed and medically accurate observations of own resuscitation verified by Dr. Sabom | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Dr. Sabom | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Detailed observation of resuscitation procedures | 1.00 | Dr. Sabom | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4773 | qualitative | book | Burpo, Todd and Vincent, Lynn. Heaven is for Real. Referenced in Truman, Code Blue, 2022. | Code Blue Book - Colton Burpo Case - 2022 | 2003 | 2022 | 3 | M | Three-year-old Colton Burpo nearly died from a ruptured appendix that leaked poison into his body for five days before proper diagnosis. He appeared near death with unhealthy pallor and dark purple shadows around his eyes. Several days after surgery, he surprised his parents with knowledge he couldn't have had - telling them "I almost died," words he heard surgeons say while out of his body. Four months later during a road trip, Colton revealed he had gone up out of his body, spoken with angels, and sat on Jesus' lap. He accurately described where his parents were during surgery: his father alone in a small room praying, his mother in a different room praying and talking on the phone - details confirmed by his parents. Most remarkably, Colton revealed meeting a sister who died in his mother's womb, whom his parents had never told him about. When asked who told him about the baby, he said "She did," describing meeting his sister in heaven. He also met his grandfather who appeared young, contradicting photos Colton had seen of him as elderly. These revelations of unknown family information provided compelling evidence of a genuine heavenly experience. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 15 | 34 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Ruptured appendix with 5 days of poisoning, emergency surgery | Knew parents' locations during surgery, met unknown deceased sister, grandfather young in heaven | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 1 | Knew parents' exact locations during surgery | 1.00 | Todd and Sonja Burpo | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4774 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies. Self-published. Chapter: The AWARE Studies. Al Sullivan Case. Pages referenced. Copyright 2024 | NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies - Al Sullivan - Flapping Surgeon - 2024 | 2024 | M |
Al Sullivan was undergoing heart surgery at Hartford Hospital when he experienced a cardiac arrest and had an out-of-body experience. During the surgery, Sullivan found himself floating above his body, observing the medical team working on him. The most remarkable aspect of his experience was seeing a surgeon standing over his body making unusual arm movements. Sullivan observed the surgeon flapping his arms in a distinctive manner, as though he were trying to take off like a bird. This peculiar gesture stood out vividly during his OBE. He also noted other specific details about the surgical procedure and the positioning of medical staff around his body. The observation occurred while his eyes were taped shut and a surgical drape separated his head from the open chest cavity where the surgeon was operating. As soon as Sullivan was able to speak after the surgery, he told his cardiologist, Dr. Anthony LaSala, about his experience. He specifically described seeing a doctor flapping his arms like wings while standing over his body. Dr. LaSala was astonished by this account because Sullivan's eyes had been taped shut during the operation, and given the stage of the operation when Sullivan noted the arm flapping, he was almost certainly unconscious. The surgeon, Dr. Hiroyoshi Takata, was known for a unique habit of using his elbows to gesture to others about what he wanted to do during surgery, holding his arms like wings when he did so. While Dr. Takata seemed defensive about the observations and would not confirm whether he specifically did this during Sullivan's operation, he acknowledged that this was something he did routinely. Dr. LaSala confirmed that there were other details reported by Sullivan that he couldn't possibly have known through normal means. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 12 | 42 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Cardiac arrest during heart surgery with full monitoring, eyes taped, surgical drape in place | Unique specific observation of surgeon's distinctive arm-flapping gesture that was characteristic behavior | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Surgical drape between head and chest cavity | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw surgeon making distinctive arm movements | 1.00 | Dr. Anthony LaSala (cardiologist), Dr. Hiroyoshi Takata (surgeon) | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4775 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies. Self-published. Chapter: The AWARE Studies. Dr Chris Yerington Case. Pages referenced. Copyright 2024 | NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies - Frank - Dr Yerington - 2024 | 2003 | 2024 | M |
Frank arrived at Ohio State University Hospital in late 2003 or early 2004 with vital signs so critical that he was effectively dead on arrival. Dr. Chris Yerington, an anesthesiologist, was part of the medical team attempting to save his life. The team placed Frank into hypothermic cardiac arrest for an extended period as part of the emergency treatment protocol. His EEG showed isoelectric activity, meaning his brain showed no electrical activity whatsoever. During this period of clinical death, Frank experienced an out-of-body experience where he found himself stuck on the ceiling of the operating room for a prolonged time. From this vantage point, he witnessed the medical team's attempts to save his life. Most remarkably, while on the ceiling, Frank was able to read and memorize the serial numbers on three lights in the operating room. He also overheard and remembered specific conversations that occurred between medical staff during his resuscitation. After being wheeled to the ICU where he was expected to die, Frank surprisingly staged a full recovery within a day or two. When Dr. Yerington returned to the hospital and found Frank alive, Frank immediately recognized him and recounted his experience. Frank told Dr. Yerington about being stuck on the ceiling and provided the serial numbers he had memorized from the three OR lights. He also recalled the specific conversations he had overheard. Dr. Yerington verified that the conversations Frank recalled had indeed occurred during a period when Frank's EEG was isoelectric, meaning it was impossible for him to have heard them through normal means. Most astonishingly, when the serial numbers were checked, they were found to be completely accurate. This case is considered one of the most remarkable verified OBEs due to the specific, verifiable nature of the serial numbers that Frank could not have known through any normal means. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 15 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Hypothermic cardiac arrest with documented flatline EEG (isoelectric) | Memorized serial numbers on OR lights - extraordinarily specific and verified | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Hypothermic cardiac arrest protocol | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 1 | Read serial numbers on OR lights | 1.00 | Dr. Chris Yerington (anesthesiologist) | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4776 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies. Self-published. Chapter: The AWARE Studies. Dr Lloyd Rudy Case. Pages referenced. Copyright 2024 | NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies - Lloyd Rudy Patient - 2024 | 2024 | M |
On a Christmas Day in an unspecified year at a hospital in Great Falls, Dr. Lloyd Rudy, a highly respected cardiac surgeon, performed emergency cardiac surgery on a patient whose oral infection had spread to a heart valve. During the surgery, the patient's condition deteriorated catastrophically. The surgery appeared to fail completely, and the patient showed no vital signs. Life support machines were turned off, and medical staff began leaving the operating theatre, believing the patient had died. The patient's chest had already been sewn up in preparation for autopsy when suddenly, without any CPR or medical intervention, some vital signs began to return spontaneously. Staff rushed back to the theatre, and miraculously, the patient's blood pressure and heart rate normalized. He had effectively come back from the dead without any resuscitation efforts - an extremely rare occurrence. The patient remained completely unconscious during the entire surgery and fell into a coma for two days following the restoration of vital functions. When the patient finally awoke from his coma, he reported having had an out-of-body experience during the surgery. Most remarkably, he described seeing a series of Post-it notes on a monitor in the operating room. These notes had been placed there by a nurse who had taken messages for Dr. Rudy that he needed to respond to after the surgery. Critically, these notes were put on the monitor after the surgery had begun and were removed immediately after it finished. Dr. Rudy confirmed there was absolutely no way the patient could have seen these notes through normal means, as the patient was completely unconscious before the operation began and the notes were only present during the surgery. This spontaneous return from death without CPR, combined with accurate observation of temporarily-placed objects, makes this one of the most extraordinary verified OBE cases. Dr. Rudy shared this account in 2011, shortly before his own death in 2012, as a spontaneous aside during a dental surgery discussion. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Complete cardiac arrest during surgery, spontaneous revival without CPR | Saw Post-it notes only present during surgery when patient was unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Patient was unconscious before surgery began | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw Post-it notes on monitor | 1.00 | Dr. Lloyd Rudy (cardiac surgeon) | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4777 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies. Self-published. Chapter: Further Implications. Howard Storm Case. Pages referenced. Copyright 2024 | NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies - Howard Storm - 2024 | 2024 | M |
Howard Storm, an atheist university professor who frequently mocked Christianity, experienced a profound near-death experience that completely transformed his life. During a medical emergency, Storm found himself outside his body in his hospital room. After frantically trying to get his wife to listen to him without success, he heard voices coming from beyond an open door in the corner of the room. Initially, these voices seemed friendly and beckoning, so he decided to follow them. As Storm followed these beings, their demeanor suddenly changed from friendly to hostile. Even though he no longer had a physical body in the conventional sense, he experienced real pain as these entities began to violate and torment him. The fear he experienced was absolute and overwhelming. He found himself in a dark, hellish realm with beings that appeared to be either demons or other tortured souls. The experience was one of complete horror and suffering. Eventually, Storm managed to escape this hellish experience and encountered beings of light. During his life review with these celestial beings, he discovered that the moment in his life they were most excited about was when, as a teenager, he had heard his sister crying in a neighboring bedroom and went to hug and comfort her for the rest of the night. This simple act of love and compassion appeared to be one of the most important things he had done in his entire life. After his NDE, Storm underwent a complete transformation. He went from being an atheist who mocked Christianity to becoming a Christian minister. He reported seeing a Being of Light from a distance, which he described as being like the center of a galaxy, but felt he was too ashamed of his own lack of goodness to approach it. His experience emphasizes that life's primary purpose is about loving others, and his dark experience serves as a warning about the reality of hellish states after death. |
6 | Hospital | 5 | 5 | 10 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Medical emergency in hospital setting, specific medical details not provided | Transformative experience reported but no externally verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 0 | Hellish experience with hostile beings | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||||
| 4778 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies. Self-published. Chapter: The AWARE Studies. Norma Bowe Case. Pages referenced. Copyright 2024 | NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies - Norma Bowe Patient - 2024 | 2024 | F |
At a hospital in New Jersey, a female patient was admitted to the neurological unit in a comatose state. During her hospitalization, she experienced a cardiac arrest and was successfully resuscitated by the medical team. A seven-foot-tall respirator was positioned beside her bed to assist with her breathing during her critical condition. The patient remained in a coma for an extended period following the cardiac arrest. When the patient finally emerged from her coma, she told nurse Norma Bowe about having a near-death experience during her cardiac arrest. She also reported having an out-of-body experience during which she found herself floating above her body. The patient revealed that she had obsessive-compulsive disorder with a specific fixation on remembering numbers. This unusual trait became significant to her OBE verification. During her out-of-body experience, while floating above her body, the patient was able to see the top of the seven-foot respirator standing beside her bed. She told Nurse Bowe that she had memorized the serial number that was on top of the respirator. The patient provided the specific serial number to Nurse Bowe, who carefully made a note of it. This was particularly remarkable given that the serial number was completely out of view from the patient's position in the bed. A few days later, when a technician came to remove the respirator because it was no longer needed, Nurse Bowe asked him to check if there was a serial number on top of the machine. The technician climbed up to look and confirmed that there was indeed a serial number on top of the respirator. When he read it out, it exactly matched the number that the patient had given to Nurse Bowe. Norma Bowe, who is now a PhD Professor at Kean University, has shared this remarkable case as evidence of verified out-of-body experiences. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest in neurological unit, patient was comatose | Memorized serial number on top of 7-foot respirator, exactly verified | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Patient in coma, 7-foot respirator height | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Read serial number on top of respirator | 1.00 | Norma Bowe (nurse, now PhD Professor), technician | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4779 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies. Self-published. Chapter: The AWARE Studies. Ricardo 1985 Quarter. Pages referenced. Copyright 2024 | NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies - Ricardo - Dr Lerma - 2024 | 2024 | 82 | M |
Ricardo, an 82-year-old patient, was admitted to a hospital in San Antonio, Texas, after collapsing. Shortly after admission, he experienced a cardiac arrest within the hospital. Dr. John Lerma and the medical team successfully resuscitated him, bringing him back from clinical death. Once Ricardo was stabilized and fully conscious in the ICU, he showed an eager desire to speak with Dr. Lerma about his experience during the cardiac arrest. Ricardo told Dr. Lerma about his near-death experience and out-of-body experience that occurred during his cardiac arrest. He described various aspects of his NDE, including beautiful elements that had deeply moved him. However, what Ricardo was most interested in verifying was a specific observation he had made while out of his body in the trauma room. He told Dr. Lerma that during his OBE, he had seen a 1985 quarter sitting on top of a dusty high cabinet in the trauma room. Ricardo specifically asked Dr. Lerma to check if the quarter was really there, as he wanted confirmation that his amazing experience, including all the beautiful aspects of his NDE, had been real and not just a hallucination. This request for verification showed Ricardo's need to validate the profound spiritual experience he had undergone. The specific date on the quarter and its location on a high, dusty cabinet made this a particularly precise and verifiable observation. Dr. Lerma, accompanied by a couple of nurses as witnesses, obtained a ladder and climbed up to look on top of the cabinet. There he found exactly what Ricardo had described - a dusty quarter with the date 1985. This verification had such a profound impact on Dr. Lerma that he chose to change his career path, pursuing end-of-life hospice medicine. The case demonstrates how a simple, specific observation during an OBE can provide powerful verification of consciousness existing outside the physical body. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Cardiac arrest in hospital, successfully resuscitated | 1985 quarter on dusty high cabinet - specific date and location verified | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw quarter on top of cabinet | 1.00 | Dr. John Lerma, two nurses | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4780 | qualitative | book | Wedgwood, Orson. NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies. Self-published. Chapter: Study 1 Van Lommel. Dentures Case. Pages referenced. Copyright 2024 | NDE Near Death Experience and AWARE Studies - Van Lommel Dentures - 2024 | 1988 | 2024 | M |
In Pim Van Lommel's groundbreaking prospective study of near-death experiences in the Netherlands, one of the most famous veridical out-of-body experiences was documented. A male patient had experienced a cardiac arrest and was brought to the hospital in a comatose state. During the resuscitation efforts, a nurse needed to intubate the patient and had to remove his dentures to clear his airway. In the urgency of the situation, she placed the dentures in the drawer of a crash cart and, in the chaos of the emergency, forgot about them. The patient remained in a coma for an extended period following his cardiac arrest. Medical staff worked to stabilize him, and he was eventually moved to different areas of the hospital as his condition evolved. A week after the initial emergency, the same nurse who had removed his dentures went to visit the patient, who had by then regained consciousness. To her astonishment, when she entered his room, the patient immediately recognized her. The patient told the other nurses present that this particular nurse knew where his dentures were. He explained that he had seen her remove his dentures and place them in the crash cart drawer during his resuscitation, even though he had been in a deep coma at the time. He also described other events and procedures he had witnessed during the resuscitation efforts. The nurse was completely shocked by this revelation, as she was certain the patient had been deeply unconscious and could not have possibly seen or known what she did with his dentures. The nurse confirmed that the patient was definitely in a coma during the resuscitation and that there was no way he could have naturally observed her actions or the location of his dentures. She also verified that he accurately described other events that occurred while he was clinically dead. This case became one of the most cited examples of veridical perception during an out-of-body experience in the scientific literature on NDEs. |
1 | Hospital | 15 | 12 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest in prospective research study, patient comatose | Saw nurse place dentures in crash cart drawer while in coma, verified by nurse | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Patient in deep coma | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw nurse place dentures in crash cart | 1.00 | Primary nurse, other nurses present | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 4781 | qualitative | book | Melvin, B.W., A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion, Xulon Press, Full Book, B.W. Melvin, Pages 1-200+, Copyright 2005 | A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion, B.W. Melvin, Full Book, Pages 1-200+, Copyright 2005 | 1980 | 2005 | 23 | M | B.W. Melvin, a young electrician in Tucson, Arizona, contracted Vibrio Cholerae from contaminated water in July 1980. After days of severe illness with fever, vomiting, and diarrhea, he experienced respiratory and cardiac arrest at home while his roommates were away. During his clinical death, Melvin reported leaving his body and observing it from above, noting specific details like a hidden fingerprint in ceiling texture he later verified with a ladder. He was then transported through a dark void toward a brilliant light, encountering a figure in white robes with blue sash who he identified as Jesus Christ, noting traumatic wounds on the hands and feet. This being showed him an extensive hellish realm organized as a descending spiral with cube-shaped cells stacked six high along a broad road. Each ten-by-ten foot cube contained a trapped soul experiencing personalized torments related to their earthly deeds. Melvin was guided through this domain by a reptilian creature who showed him various levels of punishment, from boredom and isolation to severe physical and psychological torments. He observed that no children or mentally disabled individuals were present. Throughout the experience, he received telepathic communications explaining divine justice, free will, and the nature of sin. The experience culminated when the white-robed figure rescued him from imminent entrapment, carrying him back through the void. Upon returning to his body, Melvin was rushed to Tucson Medical Center where he was treated for severe dehydration from cholera. The experience profoundly transformed him from an atheist-agnostic to a committed Christian. He verified the ceiling fingerprint observation post-experience, confirming details impossible to see from ground level. | 2 | Home | 10 | 20 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 5 | Cardiac arrest documented through medical records at Tucson Medical Center, severe dehydration from Vibrio Cholerae causing clinical death | Specific observation of hidden fingerprint in ceiling texture only visible from ceiling height, later verified with ladder. Out-of-body observation of own body position. | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw hidden fingerprint in ceiling texture fold | 1.00 | Rick (neighbor) | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 4782 | qualitative | book | Alexander, Eben, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, Simon & Schuster, Full Book, Eben Alexander, Pages 1-188, 2012 | Proof of Heaven, Eben Alexander, Full Account, Pages 1-188, 2012 | 2008 | 2008-11-10 | 2012 | 54 | M |
Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon with decades of experience at Harvard Medical School, contracted an extremely rare case of E. coli bacterial meningitis on November 10, 2008. The infection attacked his neocortex, shutting down all higher brain function and placing him in a deep coma for seven days. His condition was so severe that doctors gave him less than 10% chance of survival. During his coma, while his neocortex was completely offline, Alexander experienced an extraordinary journey through otherworldly realms. He began in what he called the "Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View," a dark, primordial place of pulsing sounds and murky sensations. From there, he was rescued by a spinning melody of light that transported him to the "Gateway," a brilliant world of incredible beauty featuring lush countryside, laughing children, and millions of butterflies. He was accompanied by a beautiful girl on a butterfly wing who communicated three profound messages without words: "You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever," "You have nothing to fear," and "There is nothing you can do wrong." Alexander then journeyed to the "Core," an immense void filled with the presence of the Divine, which he called "Om." Here he received direct knowledge about the nature of existence, consciousness, and the universe's foundation of unconditional love. He learned that evil exists in tiny amounts to allow free will, but love overwhelmingly dominates reality. Throughout his journey, he had no memory of his earthly identity, allowing him to experience these realms without the limitations of his physical self. The most remarkable veridical element occurred when Alexander saw his guide - the girl on the butterfly wing. After his recovery, he received a photograph of his biological sister Betsy, whom he had never met (she died before their reunion). He immediately recognized her as his heavenly guide, providing powerful validation of his experience. On his seventh day in coma, against all medical expectations, Alexander suddenly awakened with his full faculties intact, eventually making a complete recovery that his doctors called miraculous. |
4 | Hospital | 33 | 28 | 83 | Exceptional Evidence | 22 | Extensively documented 7-day coma from E. coli meningitis with complete neocortex shutdown verified by CT scans, EEG, and multiple physicians. CSF glucose of 1.0, WBC over 4300. Medical impossibility per literature. | Recognition of biological sister Betsy as guide despite never meeting her in life - verified through photograph after recovery. Experience occurred with documented non-functional neocortex. | Multiple medical professionals documented condition including Drs. Wade, Brennan, Potter. Extensive medical records, published medical statement by Dr. Wade confirming miraculous recovery. | All standard explanations fail due to complete neocortex shutdown for 7 days. DMT, REM intrusion, ketamine-like states all require functional cortex which was absent per medical documentation. | published_book | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Complete neocortex shutdown verified by multiple tests | Dr. Scott Wade, Dr. Robert Brennan, Dr. Laura Potter | 2008-11-17 | 7/29/2025 | 3 | 4 | Saw beautiful girl on butterfly wing as guide during NDE | 1.00 | Dr. Scott Wade, Dr. Robert Brennan, Dr. Laura Potter | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||
| 4783 | qualitative | book | Ingraham, M.C., A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience Revised Edition, Chapter: George Ritchie, Pages referenced, Copyright 2016 | A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience - George Ritchie - 1943 | 1943 | 2016 | M |
George Ritchie was a soldier in 1943 who experienced a profound near-death experience that later inspired Dr. Raymond Moody to write his pioneering book on NDEs. During his military service, Ritchie died and was declared dead by medical staff, experiencing an extended journey through the afterlife realms. During his out-of-body experience, Ritchie was given what he described as "the grand tour" of the afterlife, including extensive observations of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. He encountered Jesus Christ directly, who served as his guide through these realms. In Purgatory, he witnessed souls working through their obsessions and addictions in a grinding fashion. He observed assembly line workers in a spiritual state, unable to interact with the physical world, including a woman desperately trying to obtain cigarettes but unable to grasp them. He saw suicides chained to the consequences of their acts, including a young man following his father saying "I'm sorry, Pa!" repeatedly to ears that could not hear. The experience included specific veridical observations of the medical environment and spiritual realms. Ritchie observed people unaware of spiritual beings right beside them, souls attempting to communicate with the living who could not hear them, and the systematic nature of purgatorial suffering. He witnessed how those in Purgatory who had committed suicide were bound to observe the ongoing consequences of their actions on their loved ones. Jesus explained to him that these souls were "chained to every consequence of their act." Upon his return to life, Ritchie's experience had profound and lasting effects. He later became a doctor specializing in psychiatry, using his NDE insights to help others. His detailed account became one of the first modern NDEs to be extensively documented and studied, providing a comprehensive view of multiple afterlife realms and their inhabitants. |
5 | Hospital | 15 | 20 | 45 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Documented death experience in military hospital setting with medical staff present | Multiple specific observations of spiritual realms and detailed descriptions of souls in Purgatory | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed souls in Purgatory unable to interact with physical world | 0.00 | Military medical staff | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4784 | qualitative | book | Ingraham, M.C., A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience Revised Edition, Chapter: Howard Storm, Pages referenced, Copyright 2016 | A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience - Howard Storm | 1985 | 2016 | M |
Howard Storm, by his own admission a man pursuing vanity and self-satisfaction with little regard for others, experienced one of the most detailed and transformative NDEs on record. He appears to have been selected for an early unscheduled death so that he might experience Hell, Heaven, and Jesus, and tell others about his experience. His was his second NDE warning, suggesting divine intervention for his spiritual awakening. His experience began with a descent into Hell where he was attacked by its occupants. In this terrifying realm, he witnessed the ultimate consequences of selfishness and separation from God. An interior voice instructed him to pray to God, and though Howard could only stumble through the religious words he remembered, this was sufficient to remove him from Hell and bring him into the presence of Jesus and his angels. The transformation from Hell to the divine presence demonstrated the immediate power of sincere prayer and calling upon God's name, even from the depths of spiritual darkness. Howard received what he described as "the grand tour" including a question and answer period with Jesus and the angels. He was shown prophetic visions of Earth's future, including calamitous weather, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, increasing arrogance among people, and explosions of incredible magnitude. However, these destructions would be followed by a period of peace and brotherhood. His angelic guides revealed that this period of peace would come approximately 200 years from 1985, when all persons would attain perfection comparable to the saints. Following his return, Howard underwent a complete life transformation. The former atheist professor became Reverend Howard Storm, dedicating his life to sharing his experience and its spiritual implications. His detailed account provides one of the most comprehensive modern testimonies of the reality of Hell, the saving power of prayer, and the ultimate triumph of God's love over evil. |
5 | Hospital | 12 | 18 | 38 | Moderate Evidence | 8 | Life-threatening event requiring divine intervention as stated in narrative | Extensive observations of Hell, Heaven, and prophetic visions of Earth's future | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 0 | Witnessed Hell and its occupants attacking him | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4785 | qualitative | book | Ingraham, M.C., A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience Revised Edition, Chapter: Brian H, Pages referenced, Copyright 2016 | A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience - Brian H - 27 Stab Wounds | 2016 | M |
Brian H experienced one of the most physically traumatic NDEs on record, surviving head strikes, 27 stab wounds, and nine hours in a dumpster before returning to life. The extreme nature of his injuries makes his survival and subsequent recovery remarkable from a medical perspective. His case demonstrates that even the most severe physical trauma can be survived when, according to his NDE account, there remains unfinished spiritual work on Earth. During his near-death state, Brian encountered a light being who transformed into the form of an adolescent girl. This being identified herself as his guardian angel, a concept deeply rooted in Catholic theology where each person is assigned an angelic protector from birth. The appearance of the guardian angel as a young girl rather than the traditional winged figure suggests that spiritual beings may appear in forms most comforting or meaningful to the individual. The encounter was characterized by the intense love and light that Brian observed radiating from this divine figure. The primary message Brian received was that he could not yet enter Heaven because he still had things to accomplish in his earthly life. His guardian angel explicitly told him that his mission on Earth was incomplete. This reflects the NDE theme of the life contract or divine purpose that each soul agrees to before incarnation. The emphasis was not on Brian's past actions but on his future potential and the work that remained to be done. Brian's miraculous survival from such extensive injuries - 27 stab wounds and head trauma that would typically be fatal - suggests divine intervention. The nine hours he spent in a dumpster before being discovered and returning to consciousness adds another layer of medical impossibility to his survival. His experience reinforces the Catholic belief in guardian angels and their active role in protecting and guiding souls according to God's greater plan. |
5 | Other | 15 | 12 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 8 | Extreme trauma - 27 stab wounds, head strikes, 9 hours in dumpster before recovery | Encountered guardian angel who explained his life mission was incomplete | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 0 | Light being transformed into adolescent girl guardian angel | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4786 | qualitative | book | Ingraham, M.C., A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience Revised Edition, Chapter: Admiral Francis Beaufort, Pages referenced, Copyright 2016 | A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience - Admiral Francis Beaufort - 1795 | 1795 | 2016 | M |
British Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, later famous for devising the Beaufort wind scales, experienced a near-death episode in 1795 when he fell into Portsmouth harbor. Clothed and booted, and unable to swim, he promptly sank into the waters. This historically documented case from the 18th century provides valuable evidence that NDEs are not merely modern phenomena but have occurred throughout human history with remarkably consistent features. During his drowning experience, Beaufort reported that although his physical senses were deadened, his mind remained extraordinarily active and clear. He experienced what would later become recognized as a classic life review, though he did not advance to meeting divine beings or entering heavenly realms. His entire existence seemed to be placed before him in a panoramic review, with each part accompanied by a consciousness of right or wrong, and reflections on causes and consequences. Events from his immediate situation expanded backward through time - the accident itself, its awkwardness, the effect on his affectionate father, the moment of disclosure to his family, and countless other circumstances associated with home. The review continued traveling backwards through every past incident of his life in retrograde succession - his last cruise, former voyages, shipwrecks, school days, and boyish pursuits and adventures. Remarkably, these memories appeared not as mere outlines but as complete pictures filled with every minute detail and collateral feature. Many trifling events that had been long forgotten crowded into his imagination with the character of recent familiarity. Each memory was accompanied by moral evaluation and understanding of its ethical implications. Admiral Beaufort's reflections on his experience were notably philosophical. He questioned whether this might warrant the inference that death is only a change or modification of existence, with no real pause or interruption. His solid religious upbringing influenced his interpretation, though his NDE did not progress to the divine encounters common in other accounts. His systematic documentation of the experience, befitting a naval officer and scientist, provides one of the earliest detailed Western accounts of the life review phenomenon. |
5 | Other | 10 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Clear drowning incident in Portsmouth harbor, unable to swim while clothed and booted | Detailed panoramic life review with moral consciousness of each event | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Clothed and booted, preventing swimming | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 0 | Panoramic life review in retrograde succession | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4787 | qualitative | book | Ingraham, M.C., A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience Revised Edition, Chapter: Betty Eadie, Pages referenced, Copyright 2016 | A Catholic Understanding of the Near Death Experience - Betty Eadie | 2016 | F |
Betty Eadie experienced one of the most frequently referenced NDEs in the literature, with her account providing profound insights into pre-mortal existence and life purpose. Jesus explicitly told her during her experience that "You have died prematurely, it is not your time," indicating that her death was somehow outside of the divine schedule. This suggests that while God has sovereignty over life and death, the disorder introduced by sin can sometimes cause death to occur at unintended times, requiring divine intervention to correct. During her extensive time in the spiritual realm, Betty met three robed men who revealed they had been with her "for eternities." This statement has profound implications, suggesting either repeated creation cycles or existence across multiple dimensions of time. She was given comprehensive knowledge about the pre-mortal world and the spiritual contracts souls make before incarnation. She understood that in the pre-mortal world, souls know about and even choose their missions in life, with earthly stations being based upon the objectives of those missions. This reveals that social position, challenges, and circumstances are not random but purposefully selected for spiritual development. Betty was shown that the opportunity for spiritual advancement exists primarily during earthly life, not after death in Heaven. When given a choice to stay or return, she was told by Jesus that if she chose to stay and become part of the light, she would not be able to choose by her sole decision to live an earthly life again. This emphasizes the precious and unique nature of mortal existence as the arena for spiritual growth and the exercise of free will. The pre-mortal knowledge and consent to incarnation that Betty witnessed supports the concept of consensual incarnation discussed in Catholic mystical theology. Her experience also revealed the systematic nature of spiritual progression and the careful planning that precedes each incarnation. The three beings who had been with her for "eternities" suggest either guardian figures who transcend single lifetimes or the cyclical nature of creation itself. Betty's NDE provides one of the most detailed accounts of pre-existence and the purposeful nature of human life, confirming that no life is accidental and each soul comes to Earth with specific objectives to accomplish. |
6 | Hospital | 8 | 18 | 36 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Jesus stated she died prematurely, indicating actual death occurred | Met three beings who had been with her for eternities, learned about pre-mortal existence and life missions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 1 | Jesus told her she died prematurely | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4788 | qualitative | book | P.M.H. Atwater, Dying to Know You: Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience, Rainbow Ridge Books, Chapter 6, Young Woman Car/Truck Accident, 2014 | Dying to Know You, Young Woman Car/Truck Accident, Chapter 6, 2014 | 2014 | F |
A young woman was critically injured in a car/truck accident and rushed to the hospital by medics. During emergency surgery, she died but was successfully resuscitated. While still on the operating table, immediately after resuscitation, she opened her eyes and became very animated, speaking excitedly about seeing her father during her death experience. She reported that her father had appeared to her and told her that he had just died, explaining to her exactly how and why his death had occurred. He specifically told her that his time had come to leave. However, he also communicated to her that she could not remain dead because she still had important things to accomplish in her life before she could fulfill her life plan. Her animated testimony about this encounter with her deceased father became problematic for the surgeons, as she would not hold still on the operating table, nor would she stop talking about what her father had told her. One of the surgeons went to the waiting room where some of her family members had gathered to discuss the situation. The family members assured the doctor that she must be hallucinating, as her father was in excellent health. One family member specifically mentioned having spoken to him on the phone that very morning. When the physician returned and told the patient this information, she became even more excited and animated, her face beginning to glow with an unusual radiance. The doctor, now almost angry at the disruption, returned to the gathered family and insisted that they get the father on the phone immediately. After numerous phone calls were made by the family members, they discovered the shocking truth: the father had indeed died exactly five minutes before their daughter had died on the operating table, and his death had occurred in precisely the same manner she had described from her near-death experience. |
1 | Hospital | 25 | 28 | 75 | Exceptional Evidence | 22 | Documented cardiac arrest during surgery with successful resuscitation in hospital setting with medical monitoring | Specific knowledge of father's death including exact timing (5 minutes before her death) and manner of death, information impossible to know through normal means | Multiple family members verified through phone calls that father died at exact time stated | No alternative explanations possible - information about death timing and manner verified by independent sources | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 1 | Knowledge of father's death | 1.00 | Multiple family members | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4789 | qualitative | book | P.M.H. Atwater, Dying to Know You: Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience, Rainbow Ridge Books, Chapter 6, Portland Oregon Man, 2014 | Dying to Know You, Portland Oregon Man Car Accident, Chapter 6, 2014 | 2014 | M |
A man in Portland, Oregon was driving north of town around midnight during the dark of the moon in late October. A sudden temperature drop created black ice on the roadway with tight switch-backs. Driving much too fast for the dangerous conditions, he missed one of the turns and crashed head-on into a large tree. The impact was catastrophic, with his car broken into pieces, blood everywhere, and his right arm completely severed from his body. In his near-death state, he reported floating up to the top of the tree and looking down at the accident scene below. From this elevated vantage point, he could see his destroyed car in pieces, observe the blood everywhere, and clearly see that his right arm was gone. Despite the severity of his injuries, he made a conscious choice to try to save his body. Though no dwellings were close to the accident site, he spotted one house on a hill nearby and saw a light coming from a window on the second floor. He described floating over to that window where he saw a man inside. In his out-of-body state, he jumped up and down and screamed at the man: "There's been an accident. Call the police." The man inside the house later told police investigators a remarkable story: "There was this jumping fog outside my window. Fog doesn't jump up and down. I just stared at that fog and then heard a loud voice in my ear yelling, 'There's been an accident. Call the police.' I did, then I grabbed a flashlight and went downstairs and outside. Took me a while to find the wreck." Physicians saved the man's life but could not save his arm. He had been a right-handed professional artist who now also had to deal with blindness caused by the force of impact. Two months later his sight returned. When it did, he requested pencil and paper, and with his left hand drew a detailed picture of the accident scene, including every single minute detail. The man from the house and the investigating police officers were called to study the drawing. All were stunned by its accuracy - there was no way the injured man could have seen anything that night, yet his drawing was so accurate it was as if a photograph of the accident scene. |
5 | Other | 20 | 30 | 75 | Exceptional Evidence | 25 | Severe trauma with life-threatening injuries including severed arm and temporary blindness | Detailed observation of accident scene from above, communication with witness who perceived "jumping fog" and heard voice, accurate drawing of scene despite blindness | Witness confirmed seeing jumping fog and hearing voice, police verified accuracy of detailed drawing | No conventional explanation for witness perceiving jumping fog and hearing voice, or for blind man's accurate scene drawing | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Total blindness from impact | 7/29/2025 | 3 | 2 | Aerial view of accident scene | 1.00 | Homeowner | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||
| 4790 | qualitative | book | P.M.H. Atwater, Dying to Know You: Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience, Rainbow Ridge Books, Chapter 6, George Rodonaia, 2014 | Dying to Know You, George Rodonaia Georgia 1976, Chapter 6, 2014 | 1976 | 2014 | M |
In 1976, George Rodonaia, a vocal communist dissident in Tbilisi, Georgia (then part of Russia), was deliberately run over twice by a car driven by a KGB member while waiting for a taxi to take him to the airport. He was rushed to the hospital where he was immediately pronounced dead, and his body was placed in a morgue freezer vault where it remained for three days. When his body was finally wheeled out for autopsy, a team of doctors began splitting open his lower torso. His eyes suddenly opened, which one doctor dismissed as a mere reflex and closed them to continue cutting. This happened a second time with no one thinking anything of it. When his eyes popped open a third time, the attending doctor jumped backward, screamed, and subsequently had to take a one-month leave of absence. Remarkably, Rodonaia's own uncle was one of the attending physicians. During the three days he was supposedly dead, Rodonaia experienced an extensive near-death journey. He visited Paris and attempted to communicate with people who could hear but not see him. He traveled back in time and witnessed the execution of both his parents by the KGB, finally learning the truth about their fate as he had been raised by an aunt and uncle who never discussed what happened to them. He entered the minds of his friends to determine if they were truly loyal. Most significantly, he discovered that the pregnant wife of one of his friends had delivered a baby. He instantly confronted the crying infant, scanned her as if possessed of X-ray vision, and discovered she had a broken hip. He knew with certainty that the head nurse had dropped her. Rodonaia was also present in his wife's consciousness when she picked out his gravesite. While there, he observed her making mental lists of eligible bachelors with their pros and cons, as she was now a widow with two children to consider. His uncle was able to verify that it took three full days for the swelling of Rodonaia's tongue to recede enough for him to speak. When he could finally talk, his first words were about the baby with the broken hip. Being a physician himself, Rodonaia provided exact medical details of the infant's hip fracture to the doctors. When confronted with this specific information, the head nurse confessed to dropping the baby and was fired. He then recounted to his wife every single man on her mental lists, including all the traits she had privately considered for each one. This so shocked and frightened his wife that she would have nothing to do with him for a year, explaining "I had no privacy. We had to learn how to live together again." |
6 | Hospital | 35 | 30 | 90 | Exceptional Evidence | 25 | Pronounced dead, body in morgue freezer for 3 days, survived autopsy beginning, uncle as witness physician | X-ray vision diagnosis of baby's broken hip, knowledge of wife's private thoughts, witnessed parents' execution | Uncle verified 3-day tongue swelling, nurse confessed to dropping baby, wife confirmed mental lists | No possible conventional explanation for knowledge acquired while body was in morgue freezer | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Body in morgue freezer | 7/29/2025 | 3 | 2 | Baby's broken hip diagnosis | 1.00 | Uncle (physician) and other doctors | Low Compatibility | 7 | ||||||
| 4791 | qualitative | book | P.M.H. Atwater, Dying to Know You: Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience, Rainbow Ridge Books, Chapter 6, Margaret Fields Kean, 2014 | Dying to Know You, Margaret Fields Kean, Chapter 6, 2014 | 2014 | F |
Margaret Fields Kean was rushed to the hospital with severe phlebitis and died on the operating table during emergency surgery. During her death experience, she found herself in a colorful, lovely world where only peace and unconditional love existed. While in this transcendent realm, she sensed she had an important choice to make and contemplated where she could best be of service. She determined that becoming a healer once back in her human body would be the most beneficial path. In that moment of decision, she instantly knew everything, including understanding why she had a daughter and recognizing the importance of living to finish raising her. A divine Light appeared to her, which she immediately recognized as God. She anchored this Light in her spirit and soul and accepted her mission of healing. After being successfully resuscitated and while still in the recovery room, she became aware of a young man nearby who was in great pain. Despite her own condition, she spoke softly to him, soothing him until he fell asleep. She then experienced what she described as "projecting" her consciousness into a shuttered isolation room where a white boy, charred black by severe burns, lay dying. She sat on his bed in this projected state, introduced herself by name as Margaret Fields Kean, and counseled him about his purpose in life. She told him it was acceptable if he chose to die, for God was loving and he had nothing to fear. Months later, while continuing her recovery as an outpatient and still experiencing pain, Fields Kean attended a horse show where her daughter won an event. When the loudspeaker announced her daughter's name as a winner, a couple approached her, having recognized the name. They revealed they were the parents of the severely burned boy she had visited. Before their son died, he had told them about meeting Margaret Fields Kean and relayed all the wonderful truths she had shared about God and life. The boy had identified her by her full name, describing their conversation in detail. The remarkable verification is that the two had never physically met or verbally spoken in any conventional manner. No nurse was aware of any communication between them. It would have been impossible for her to know the isolation room was occupied, and equally impossible for the dying boy to know her name. Yet the parents confirmed their son's detailed account of the encounter, including her exact name and the specific spiritual counsel she provided. Fields Kean went on to develop "The Results System," a healing technique, and eventually worked with native healers in South Africa. |
1 | Hospital | 25 | 28 | 76 | Exceptional Evidence | 23 | Died during surgery for phlebitis with successful resuscitation, documented medical emergency | Projected into isolation room, counseled dying burn victim by name, boy reported exact encounter before death | Parents of burn victim confirmed son's detailed account including her exact name | No conventional explanation for burn victim knowing her name or conversation details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 1 | Awareness of burn victim in isolation | 1.00 | Parents of burn victim | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 4792 | qualitative | book | Atwater, P.M.H., The Forever Angels, Bear & Company, Case 105, Glee, 2019 | The Forever Angels, Case 105, 2019 | 2019 | 5 | Unknown | Glee was hospitalized in the Philippines with whooping cough at age five. During the crisis, he experienced going up below the clouds where he heard children laughing and playing. Above the clouds, everything was white with Mylar balloons on strings standing on clouds. He saw three male figures in their 60s-70s wearing glowing white gowns like Jesus Christ, with grey/white hair and short white beards. He communicated telepathically with a higher power presence. His surroundings then turned pitch dark in the universe with tiny stars. He saw Earth approaching as a dot that kept coming closer, turning like it does now. He was able to feel the life experiences and emotions of billions of people on Earth in an instant, which made him want to come back. The experience was amazing and intriguing but he could not talk about it as no one would believe him. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 15 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Whooping cough in intensive care, life-threatening respiratory crisis | Observed Earth from space perspective, experienced collective consciousness of humanity, telepathic communication | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw three spiritual beings | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4793 | qualitative | book | Atwater, P.M.H., The Forever Angels, Bear & Company, Case 117, Mimi, 2019 | The Forever Angels, Case 117, 2019 | 2019 | 1.5 | F | At age one and a half, Mimi was severely beaten by her father with English books until she lost consciousness from unbearable pain. She found herself in a huge tunnel moving through space at super fast speed with an annoying noise surrounding her. She saw a light in the distance with irresistible attractive power. The light came closer until she stood in dazzling bright light that felt like coming home, with perfect temperature and nourishing qualities. She saw an enormous shiny entrance gate with a male light being who communicated without words. She was surrounded by 4-5 light beings and told to choose between righteousness and unrighteousness, written in huge letters over a massive rainbow in a secret language of living signs. She received complete information in 6D multidimensional reality including time, space, consequences, wavelength, frequency, and holy geometry. The light being told her she had a job to fulfill and must go back to earth. Despite being pre-verbal at 1.5 years old, she carried this knowledge inside as if normal. | 5 | Home | 5 | 18 | 31 | Moderate Evidence | 8 | Severe physical trauma from beating, lost consciousness | Complex multidimensional knowledge received, living alphabet, choice between righteousness/unrighteousness, specific mission given | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 0 | Received multidimensional information | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4794 | qualitative | book | Atwater, P.M.H., The Forever Angels, Bear & Company, Case 112, Damon, 2019 | The Forever Angels, Case 112, 2019 | 2019 | 3 | M | At age three, Damon drowned and experienced a remarkable out-of-body perspective. He doesn't recall entering the water but remembers darkness and swirling sandy water around his face, feeling calm as though all would be okay. He then found himself staring at a little boy standing crying with arms raised, watching sand and water run off him. He was amazed by the sight of sand running from the boy's eyes, ears, and nose, thinking he didn't know so much sand could come from a boy's nose, eyes, and ears. He felt no compassion or empathy, viewing it as fine with nothing to be concerned about. To his left he could hear his mother hysterical and the toddler crying with commotion over what happened. He had little patience for it, thinking everyone should calm down as nothing dramatic had happened. He knew the child was himself and who everyone was, though he felt no real attachment to any of them. | 5 | Other | 7 | 20 | 39 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Drowning incident with loss of consciousness | Clear out-of-body observation of own body with specific details about sand coming from nose, eyes, ears; observed mother's hysteria | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 0 | Out-of-body view of self after drowning | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4795 | qualitative | book | Atwater, P.M.H., The Forever Angels, Bear & Company, Case 97, Kelly, 2019 | The Forever Angels, Case 97, 2019 | 2019 | 3 | Unknown | At age three, Kelly drowned and was pulled from the water by family who reported she was underwater for an extended time with no sight of her before washing ashore. Her brother said she came out with a big smile, laughing and giggling. Kelly remembers leaving her body as she was pulled out, going into the Light where Jesus and other divine beings were present. She asked why she was there and was told they knew her life was difficult and they wanted her to remember her mission and the Light. She felt bathed in Light, Love, and Peace she hadn't known in her body. She returned to her body and magically washed ashore, not upset at all. Since then she has had a healthy fear of the ocean, loving it but needing to talk herself into feeling secure in water. | 5 | Other | 8 | 15 | 35 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | Extended drowning with family witnesses reporting no sight of child | Met Jesus and divine beings, received mission reminder, miraculous return to shore | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 2 | 1 | Encountered Jesus and divine beings | 0.00 | Brother and family members | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4796 | qualitative | book | Atwater, P.M.H., The Forever Angels, Bear & Company, Case 96, Aiwen, 2019 | The Forever Angels, Case 96, 2019 | 2019 | 4 | M | At age four, Aiwen felt pulled by water and jumped into a pool despite not knowing how to swim, sinking to the bottom. He saw a slight light coming through, then was surrounded by beams of soft golden, pink, and white light that was alive and peaceful. The light glided through his spirit and he felt the water and light were part of him before leaving his body. He saw his body floating above him as if attached by a string. The light surrounded him and bubbles arose with mirror-like screens showing glimpses of the universe, the other side, reasons for existence, and sacred mysteries. He had a life review revealing he was a loving, devout, tender boy with a great gift. He was shown his life from birth through family unions and holidays. Light beings with human forms and rainbow golden energy stretched their arms to him, making him feel completely divinely loved. A voice said he was okay, taken care of, sent here but not his time, would help others see the light, and they were with him. He saw his destiny to help others throughout life, understanding love and bonds as keys to reality. His mother pulled him from the pool. | 5 | Other | 8 | 20 | 43 | Moderate Evidence | 15 | Drowning in pool, sank to bottom, mother rescued | Life review, universal knowledge received, saw destiny, light beings with rainbow auras | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 3 | 1 | Out-of-body experience | 0.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 4797 | qualitative | book | Atwater, P.M.H., The Forever Angels, Bear & Company, Case 55, Alma, 2019 | The Forever Angels, Case 55, 2019 | 2019 | 1 | F | Alma had her first NDE at age one from dehydration, followed by multiple NDEs at ages 2.5, 3, and 4 from repeated sexual abuse. During the abuse, her attacker would suffocate her causing her to pass out. She vividly remembers his face, the smell of alcohol, and not crying. When everything went dark, she found herself in a calm place with sweet aromas like hundreds of flowers. She was floating inside a large White Light that surrounded her completely. It felt like being on a giant fluffy warm hand clasping her, also like being submerged in calm warm water. She knew she was safe and extremely loved. The abuse continued until almost age five when her grandmother witnessed it and forced the abuser out. During one final attempt, Alma resisted and said "No" for the first time, which led to her grandmother discovering the abuse and ending it permanently. | 5 | Home | 7 | 15 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Multiple suffocation episodes from abuse causing loss of consciousness | Consistent experience of White Light, floating, overwhelming love and safety | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 1 | Experienced protective White Light realm | 0.00 | Grandmother | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4798 | qualitative | book | Atwater, P.M.H., The Forever Angels, Bear & Company, Case 101, Jack, 2019 | The Forever Angels, Case 101, 2019 | 2019 | 3 | M | At age three, Jack fell over a protective railing around stairs in the attic, landing 10 feet below. He remembers being in the attic with his mother, walking around holding his pillow. Next, he found himself up in a large tree in their front yard watching his mother run out carrying something in her arms, which he realized was his own body. He wasn't concerned, just watched. He was then slammed down with water running over his face - he was on the countertop with his head in the sink being revived. Years later, he insisted a tree be planted in the exact spot where he had observed from during his OBE. Remarkably, there was no tree in that location at the time of his fall, yet he had been absolutely certain about being in a tree there. As years passed and the tree grew, he would often look at it thinking the tree "used to be bigger" - a reference to his out-of-body perspective. | 5 | Home | 7 | 18 | 37 | Moderate Evidence | 12 | 10-foot fall, unconscious, required resuscitation with water | Veridical OBE observation from non-existent tree location later verified by tree placement | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 0 | OBE from non-existent tree location | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4799 | qualitative | book | Atwater, P.M.H., The Forever Angels, Bear & Company, Case 48, Deborah W., 2019 | The Forever Angels, Case 48, 2019 | 2019 | 4 | F | At age four, Deborah was slammed by a steel cart pushed by an attendant at a department store, thrown in the air, and landed face down beneath a clothing rack. She awoke to find herself hovering near the ornate ceiling, sitting on and gently swinging from a light fixture with no fear of height. She could see the whole department floor laid out in sections and people gathering around a body on the floor (her own). She felt no attachment, simply observing without past or future. Then a pulling energy like a huge rubber band snapped her back into her body - not gravity but an elastic quality. She felt the impact to her head like a train. The experience left her awed and amazed at seeing her body from above, with a sense of being content to remain in that state forever. | 5 | Other | 7 | 15 | 32 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Severe head trauma from being struck by steel cart | Clear OBE with view of department store layout and crowd gathering around body | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/29/2025 | 1 | 0 | OBE view of department store | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4800 | qualitative | book | Black, Dale and Kay, Randy - Visiting Heaven: Heavenly Keys to a Life Without Limitations - Destiny Image Publishers - Chapter 1-14 - Dale Russell Black - Pages 1-300 - Copyright 2023 | Visiting Heaven - Dale Russell Black - Chapters 1-14 - Pages 1-300 - Copyright 2023 | 1969 | 1969-07-18 | 2023 | 19 | M |
Dale Black, a 19-year-old aspiring pilot, was the sole survivor of a catastrophic airplane crash on July 18, 1969, at Hollywood-Burbank Airport. The twin-engine Piper Navajo struck the Portal of the Folded Wings monument at 135 mph, killing the other two pilots instantly. Dale sustained massive injuries including broken bones throughout his body, severe facial lacerations, and a damaged right eye. He remained in a coma for three days at St. Joseph's Hospital. During his unconscious state, Dale experienced an extensive out-of-body experience and journey to Heaven. He observed his broken body from above at the crash site and in the emergency room. He witnessed paramedics performing CPR and Dr. Homer Graham leading the trauma team. Dale then traveled through a corridor of light accompanied by two angelic guides, arriving at a magnificent celestial city surrounded by a massive multi-layered wall. At the gate, he saw the Book of Life containing his name and birth dates - both physical and spiritual. The city contained townships, gardens, animals, and beings radiating love and unity. Light, containing God's life and love, emanated from the center and ministered to everything. Dale observed multiple veridical elements during his NDE. He saw his body compressed in the mangled cockpit instrument panel, witnessed the specific medical procedures being performed, and observed Chuck Burns dying in an adjacent room while being taken by demonic forces. He accurately perceived the chaos in the emergency room and the doctors' attempts to resuscitate him. Most significantly, Dale encountered Jesus at a magnificent stairway, where Jesus asked him "What will you do with the life I give you?" before he was sent back. Upon awakening from the coma, Dale was permanently transformed. His priorities shifted from selfish ambition to serving God. Through faith and prayer, his severely damaged body was miraculously healed over two years, including his eye regaining 20/20 vision despite doctors saying he would never see properly again. Dale went on to become an airline pilot for TWA, fulfilling his dream despite medical impossibility, and dedicated his life to ministry work worldwide. |
5 | Other | 30 | 25 | 70 | Exceptional Evidence | 15 | Documented airplane crash with NTSB report declaring it non-survivable. Three-day coma with massive injuries requiring resuscitation at scene. Multiple surgeries and extensive medical documentation by Dr. Homer Graham at St. Joseph's Hospital. | Multiple specific veridical observations including seeing his own body in the wreckage, observing specific medical procedures, witnessing events in adjacent hospital room, and accurate perception of crash scene details later confirmed. | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Three-day coma following impact trauma | Dr. Homer Graham | 7/30/2025 | 5 | 2 | Observed own body at crash site from above | 1.00 | Dr. Homer Graham | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||