US Airforce Veteran's Near-Death Experience Revealed Chase DeMayo
What Researchers Found
The Story
Chase Skylar DeMayo was in training as a U.S. Air Force SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) instructor when a training accident injured both knees. The knee surgery was not a success and the Air Force began the medical retirement process. On April 1, 2008, when he was 20 years old, his supervisor found him unconscious on his dorm room floor and he was taken to the Langley Air Force Base hospital in Virginia. Tests showed nothing wrong until, after a nurse adjusted his IV, air traveled up his arm toward his heart and he went into cardiac arrest, flatlining as staff prepared him for a chest x-ray. He heard a calm voice reassuring him as pain traveled up his arm. He saw the monitor flatline and left his body in a blissful light, moving upwards. He arrived in a vibrant garden with unseen flowers and colors. He watched his younger self play happily with Jesus, who had short brown hair and green eyes. Jesus reminded him to spread light, love, and laughter and not take life too seriously. After a timeless, friendly talk, Jesus said he must return, and Chase agreed. He woke up in an off-base hospital in Hampton, Virginia, with no pain. Chase became more intuitive, feeling others' emotions and wanting to help heal them. He now embraces joy and laughter as medicine. He pursues degrees in alternative medicine and ministry to learn continually and make the world better.
The account describes clinical death with flatline and OBE perceptions from an impossible vantage point, but lacks specific, verifiable details beyond expected emergency events like alarms and resuscitation efforts. No attempts at verification or confirmed accurate perceptions are reported, and timing of the report is undocumented.
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What Researchers Found
The account describes clinical death with flatline and OBE perceptions from an impossible vantage point, but lacks specific, verifiable details beyond expected emergency events like alarms and resuscitation efforts. No attempts at verification or confirmed accurate perceptions are reported, and timing of the report is undocumented.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
Was this Evidence Strength score useful?
Was this Experience Depth score useful?
Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.
Was this Life Impact score useful?