Heather's Ulcerative Colitis Goes Septic, Leads to 20 NDEs (Near Death Experiences). SUBSCRIBE NOW
What Researchers Found
The Story
Heather Vander Maiden was a 20-year-old woman who had a near-death experience due to severe ulcerative colitis. This led to her large intestine being removed in surgery and multiple complications during a three-month hospital stay in late 1999 and early 2000. During her NDEs, Heather left her body multiple times. She first floated above her bed on New Year's Eve. Later, she observed nurses working on her from outside her body and felt no connection to it. She traveled at high speed through a dark tunnel with a guide resembling Abraham Lincoln. Heather visited iridescent rooms with angels who helped dying patients, saw God through a door, and entered a building of knowledge with books and scrolls. She bathed in healing waters that soothed her soul. Deceased relatives appeared as orbs or in person to comfort her. At heaven's entrance lined with light beings, her guide told her it was not her time and sent her back. After surviving against 4% odds, Heather recovered over two years, adopted two children she had foreseen in visions, and no longer fears death. She now lives gratefully with a changed view on life.
“back into there and now looking back I know it was a tunnel and I'm sure there”
The account features extreme medical crises including ARDS, 107.5°F fevers, organ failure, and 4% survival odds, paired with detailed OBEs from impossible vantages like viewing from behind a nurse whose hands were on her shoulders. Specific actions (nurse shaking and snapping fingers, mom freaking out) were confirmed immediately by the nurse stating 'we lost you there for a minute' and family noting blank facial expressions during episodes. However, most verifications are self-reported with limited independent specifics, and many claims involve spiritual visions or precognition rather than purely real-time physical veridicals, capping the score.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.
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What Researchers Found
The account features extreme medical crises including ARDS, 107.5°F fevers, organ failure, and 4% survival odds, paired with detailed OBEs from impossible vantages like viewing from behind a nurse whose hands were on her shoulders. Specific actions (nurse shaking and snapping fingers, mom freaking out) were confirmed immediately by the nurse stating 'we lost you there for a minute' and family noting blank facial expressions during episodes. However, most verifications are self-reported with limited independent specifics, and many claims involve spiritual visions or precognition rather than purely real-time physical veridicals, capping the score.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.