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Rawlings, Maurice. Memorial Hospital Chattanooga case. Referenced in Wiese 2013, p. 64
Maurice Rawlings - Ira Anderson - 2013
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Ira Anderson (pseudonym), a sixty-two-year-old man, was brought to Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga suffering from an acute heart attack. His case was documented by Mary Ann Hickman and assistant head nurse Dotty Gilbert, providing medical professional testimony to the extraordinary events that unfolded. During his cardiac emergency, the medical staff had to physically restrain him as he fought violently against invisible entities he identified as demons.
Using his own words, he desperately reported that "demons were coming after me," fighting the medical staff while writhing and kicking at the unseen creatures attacking him. His cardiac arrest rhythm was successfully corrected through electric shock defibrillation, restoring normal heart function. However, even as he regained consciousness and was transferred to the intensive care unit, the demonic harassment continued. The demons appeared to follow him from the emergency room to intensive care, where they pounced on him once again. The medical staff carefully reviewed his records and found no medications that could account for the hallucinatory experience of demonization. This ruled out drug-induced hallucinations as an explanation for what he was experiencing. The nurses and medical staff witnessed his genuine terror and physical struggle against unseen forces. This case occurred during the same week as another similar incident in the same emergency room, suggesting a pattern of spiritual experiences during cardiac events. The medical documentation and multiple professional witnesses make this a particularly credible account of a hellish near-death experience.
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Acute heart attack, cardiac arrest corrected by defibrillation
Fighting demons, witnessed by medical staff
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