Round Trip Death Podcast - NDE

Declared dead, zipped into a body bag, and headed for the morgue: that's where Vinney Tolman's NDE Experience begins. After accidentally overdosing on a supplement, Vinney collapsed in a locked Dairy Queen bathroom in Orem, Utah, and was found cold to the touch. Then a rookie medic broke protocol, ripped open the bag, and shocked his heart back to life just feet from the hospital doors, with Vinney floating above it all. ________________________ Get 15% off OneSkin with code ROUNDTRIP at https://www.oneskin.co/ROUNDTRIP #oneskinpod #sponsored __________________________ He saw golden light glow around the rookie's heart. Host Eric Bennett calls it one of the most amazing NDE stories he's ever heard. Vinney's Near Death Experience carried him through a life review, a radiant guide, angels, and a heaven where every blade of grass poured out more love than all the parents on earth combined. After three days brain dead, he woke at 1:11 a.m., tore off life support, and sent two nurses screaming as he hit the elevator button, determined to go home. Hours later, he was out jogging! This is one of the most remarkable NDE (near death experiences) you will ever hear. VIDEO version now available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube ______________________ RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Our first interview with Vinney: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/301-vinney-tolmans-nde-after-being-dead-15-hours-part-1/ Vinney Tolman: https://livinggodslight.org/

When Science Meets Spirit: A Near Death Experience That Bridges Two Worlds. Biochemist, cancer researcher, and lifelong martial artist Crystal Cassidy joins host, Eric Bennett to share an NDE experience that began in March 2020. After months of premonitions, she became critically ill with COVID, was hospitalized in isolation, and had to say goodbye to her husband. As a cytokine storm took hold and her nervous system began to fail, she reached a moment of deep surrender, "a giving over" rather than giving up. In response, a "loving intelligence" arrived and activated her energy centers, and she found herself back in her body without pain. Crystal's near death experience took an unusual turn when she began seeing glimpses of a medieval man's life, which she believes was a past life or a simultaneous timeline. She describes how her own healing seemed to change his story. Crystal also explains how her analytical, scientific mind has come to reconcile with her spiritual experiences, why she thinks science and spirituality are converging, and how people can lessen their fear of death through meditation and direct experience. VIDEO version now available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Crystal Cassidy: https://www.soulpodapp.com/

Is this an NDE? You Decide... What if you spent eight and a half years trapped inside a body you no longer recognized—and then, in a moment when doctors thought you were gone, something brought you back? Elena’s story begins with a devastating head injury, years of unexplained symptoms, and a family desperately searching for answers. Then, during a medical crisis, everything suddenly changes. After an unexpected response to treatment, Elena begins remembering things she hadn’t been able to remember in years—and tells her daughter about an experience that she insists was not a dream. During her NDE, she heard thunder. She found herself in complete darkness. Then a voice spoke to her, telling her, “I am your Father,” and promising to wake her up. What happened next left Elena convinced she had encountered God—and that she had been given another chance for a reason. Was it an NDE, a dream, a neurological event, or something far more mysterious? In this unforgettable episode, Ricky and Elena share a deeply personal Near Death Experience , the strange details surrounding it, and the remarkable journey that followed. It’s an NDE Experience that raises some big questions about consciousness, faith, miracles, and what might happen when we reach the edge of life. VIDEO version now available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Rikki Jo Neyer: https://www.rikkineyer.com/

Rickey visited heaven & hell, then "God raised me up and gave me a second chance." Grammy-connected producer Rickey "Slikk Muzik" Offord — the sound behind Janet Jackson, J.Lo, Ariana Grande, and Kanye West — has a story he doesn't often tell. His NDE experience began ten years ago, whe was pronounced dead for 45 minutes. His heart stopped. Doctors cut his clothes and worked on his body while he watched from somewhere else entirely, wrapped in a peace he says defies description. He crossed into a place with an endless line, a gate he instinctively knew not to pass, and a presence he never saw but undeniably felt. But that's only half of what happened in his Near Death Experience. Ricky also went somewhere darker — a fire-and-brimstone reckoning, a disorienting void where nothing and everything existed at once. On this episode of Round Trip Death , he walks host Eric Bennett through both sides of his NDE: the heaven, the hell, and the lessons buried in each. It's a haunting, deeply personal account of what waits on the other side — and why he believes he was sent back to tell it. VIDEO version now available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Rickey: https://www.instagram.com/slikkmuzik/?hl=en

It was an "amazing, freeing, gravity-defying feeling!" His heart stopped for a reason no one can explain. Air Force veteran Chase DeMayo flatlined in a Virginia hospital in 2008 — and what happened next still can't be fully accounted for. ________________________ Get 15% off OneSkin with code ROUNDTRIP at https://www.oneskin.co/ROUNDTRIP #oneskinpod #sponsored __________________________ A stranger's hand on his arm that vanished when he turned to look. A garden with colors that don't exist on Earth. A face he recognized instantly, though nothing like what he'd been taught to expect. Was it really Jesus? This is an NDE unlike the others you've heard — equal parts bliss and mystery, backed by a man who spent years trying to prove it happened, only to find the proof quietly disappearing. In this episode of Round Trip Death, Chase shares his Near Death Experience in vivid, unsettling detail: watching his own body flatline from the inside, the childlike figure he encountered on the other side, and the three-word instruction he says he was sent back to carry out. It's a story about what waits on the other side of a heartbeat — and about what happens when a near-death experience refuses to stay buried, even when the paperwork says it never occurred. Whether you come to this as a skeptic or a believer, Chase's NDE experience raises the kind of questions that don't have tidy answers. VIDEO version now available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ https://chasedemayo.com/

He flatlined for 45 minutes — and what he found on the other side still doesn't fit inside any single religion, language, or science. In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett welcomes back Greg Hman, whose original NDE account became one of the show's most talked-about episodes, for a deeper follow-up. Greg reveals newly surfaced memories: a colossal hand looming over the Earth, witnessed by both him and his brother; a being of light he now believes defies the word "angel"; and Gods (both male and female) he experienced not as a face, but as a river of pure information speaking in sound rather than words. Greg doesn't claim to have all the answers. But his NDE Experience left him certain of two things: God is real, and he judges the heart. Video Version of This Episode is now available on YouTube AND Apple Podcasts RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/

What happens when love becomes so pure that missing someone is no longer possible? In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett talks with author and spiritual teacher Darnella Ford. ___________________ Birch Natural Mattresses Podcast Listeners Receive Up to 30% OFF BirchLiving.com/Roundtrip ____________________ Darnella recounts losing her best friend to lupus — a chilling premonition, an eerie final text, a shared death experience (SDE), and a visitation where her friend walked through a wall to say: stop crying. Even more striking is her account of being pulled into the realm where her friend now exists, discovering that some deeply human emotions, like missing someone, simply don't exist there. This isn't just another NDE Experience story — it's a look at the bigger questions a Near Death Experience forces us to ask: Is death timed and orchestrated, or random? Do we truly have free will, or are we running on autopilot and childhood programming? Darnella and Eric debate predestination versus agency and what it means to "win" against death, leaving plenty of room for skepticism. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Darnella: https://www.journeytoworthy.org/

Aaron tells his story publicly for the first time. At eight years old, Aaron Gould was dying of pneumonia in a California hospital, his body withering away under a doctors' pronouncement that nothing more could be done. Instead of the ending his family braced for, Aaron slipped into a full-blown Near Death Experience — pulled through a tunnel of light into a shimmering, alive darkness, greeted by a tree, a "glass house" city humming with warmth, and a being he calls the Mother of Creation. In this episode of Round Trip Death , Aaron walks host Eric Bennett through the sensory overload of his NDE Experience: water he could hear but not see, a path that lit up beneath his feet, and a profound, wordless conversation at the top of a staircase where he was told, simply, that it wasn't yet his time. From a childhood NDE to a decades-later spiritual awakening that reshaped his faith, Aaron's Near Death Experience raises haunting questions about what waits on the other side — and why some of us are sent back. Tune in for a rare, unpolished, first-time telling of an NDE experience that's stayed with him for over thirty years. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/

A horrific auto accident takes the lives of 2 of Julie's children, and sends her to the hospital in and out of consciousness. In that space between life and death, Julie Cluff found herself standing face-to-face with Jesus in a peaceful mountain meadow — while back in her body, doctors fought to save her and she didn't yet know her two youngest children, Carrie and David, hadn't survived the same Mother's Day car accident. ___________________ Birch Natural Mattresses Podcast Listeners Receive 20% OFF BirchLiving.com/Roundtrip ____________________ In this gripping episode of Round Trip Death, Julie takes host Eric Bennett through the harrowing rollover crash, the calm voice that told her "bring your arm in" moments before impact, and the profound NDE/OBE that unfolded as she lay in the ER unsure if her kids were alive. It's a Near Death Experience unlike most — one born not from her own dying, but from a mother's unbearable loss, and the otherworldly peace that met her in the wreckage of it. What follows is even more startling: how a single Near Death Experience cracked open a hidden gift. Now a spiritual medium, Julie explains how she still communicates with Carrie and David, why she believes their short lives were part of a plan made before birth, and what she'd say to any parent drowning in grief today. If you've ever wondered what a Near Death Experience or NDE Experience can reveal about love, loss, and what waits on the other side, this conversation will stay with you long after it ends. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ JulieCluff.com

What happens when a three-year-old drowns, sees her own lifeless eyes staring up at her, and consciously chooses not to return to her body? In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett sits down with marine scientist Dr. Ingrid Honkala,PhD to unpack a lifetime shadowed — and illuminated — by death. ________________________ Get 15% off OneSkin with code ROUNDTRIP at https://www.oneskin.co/ROUNDTRIP #oneskinpod #sponsored __________________________ Her first Near Death Experience unfolds like a fever dream: frigid water, crushing terror, then a collapse into silence so profound she spent her childhood trying to recapture it. She floats above her drowned body, chases bubbles made of light, and watches her mother's intuition pull her back from the brink — an NDE Experience so vivid it gets verified years later, down to the exact soap opera playing at the moment of her "return." But one NDE wasn't the end — it was only the beginning. Equal parts scientific rigor and mystical testimony, this NDE closes a decades-long ache — and leaves listeners questioning where science ends and spirit begins. VIDEO VERSION RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Ingrid: https://www.ingridhonkala.com/

He died — not once, but three times. In this jaw-dropping episode of Round Trip Death, guest Cedar Branches takes us deep into an extraordinary Near Death Experience that defies belief: a deliberate leap off a bridge during a spiritual crisis, followed by what he calls a full-on resurrection. ______________________ Get 15% off OneSkin with code ROUNDTRIP at https://www.oneskin.co/ROUNDTRIP #oneskinpod #sponsored __________________________ This isn't just any NDE Experience — Cedar describes crossing into an infinite sea of unconditional love, a place that felt like "home," before being sent back with three electrifying messages from Spirit: it takes more courage to live than to die, we can affect far more in life than in death, and his work on Earth wasn't finished yet. From a corporate career at Microsoft to starvation-induced visions to a literal bridge jump, Cedar's journey is one of the most intense NDE stories you'll hear — raw, unfiltered, and unapologetically real. This is an NDE story about suffering, transformation, and the electrifying truth waiting on the other side. Don't miss this one. Note: this episode discusses suicide and self-harm. If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available for support. __________________ VIDEO VERSION RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Cedar: Art of the Wound (Autobiography): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8QCF85N Appied Karmic Magic (The Gift): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8T9JL74

On a quiet spring afternoon in 2015, retired IT engineer and lifelong Harley rider Stephen Weber never imagined a ride to a Hamptons barbecue joint would end with him airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, his heart momentarily stopped. What followed was a three-week coma and a near-death experience so vivid his own physician called his chart an autopsy report. But for Weber, the real story was what came next: a timeless realm he calls "the place between here and there." It was the first lesson in an NDE that would rewire everything he thought he knew about existence. What unfolded next was a recursive, aching life review — Weber reliving his own history again and again, each pass peeling back another layer, until his most painful memories became his most peaceful ones. He stood before his higher self and realized he wasn't there to teach a lesson but to learn one — that souls prepare for incarnation, that spirit never truly begins or ends. In the experience's final scene, he sat at a sunlit bluff with two old friends, only to realize they had already died — they'd come simply to check on him. When he opened his eyes, his mother was gripping his hand in a hospital room. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Stephen: https://www.betweenhereandthere.org/

In this gripping episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett sits down with Jane Osborne, a former outdoor pursuits instructor from Derbyshire, England, to unpack a base jumping accident that killed her. What began as a routine flight to capture aerial photography turned catastrophic when her emergency parachute malfunctioned and deployed alongside her main chute at 1,500 feet, sending her plummeting and slamming into the rocky terrain of Kat's Tor. ___________________ Birch Natural Mattresses Podcast Listeners Receive 27% OFF BirchLiving.com/Roundtrip ____________________ Jane recounts the harrowing physical toll in visceral detail — broken bones throughout her body, a crushed spine, and a neck broken in two places — along with a devastating prognosis from doctors that she would never walk again. It's a survival story almost too intense to believe, setting the stage for the extraordinary NDE experience that followed. What elevates this conversation beyond a simple accident story is Jane's account of her Near Death Experience while lying in her hospital bed, feeling trapped in what she calls a "body coffin." After crying out for help, she describes floating above her own body, hearing an authoritative voice tell her she needed to go back and heal others — a message that clashed with her law career ambitions and skeptical, fact-driven mindset. Her NDE didn't end there; she describes bizarre out-of-body travels, heightened senses, and a years-long recovery that led her into past-life regression and energy healing work. Listeners fascinated by NDE accounts, unexplained phenomena, and the intersection of trauma and spiritual awakening will find Jane's raw, unfiltered storytelling — paired with her later work helping others uncover the root causes of their own physical and emotional struggles — a genuinely compelling listen. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Jane: https://jane-osborne.com/

Heavenly Basketball Game With Stepdad! What really happens in the moments after your heart stops? This episode of Round Trip Death brings together two guests with strikingly different connections to the same profound mystery: the near death experience . ________________________ Get 15% off OneSkin with code ROUNDTRIP at https://www.oneskin.co/ROUNDTRIP #oneskinpod #sponsored __________________________ Host Eric sits down with Makai Calles — a journalist turned filmmaker who himself had a childhood NDE after a venomous scorpion sting in Mexico — and Bubba Herrick, a former college baseball pitcher whose routine elbow surgery turned into a full-blown clinical death. Makai wrote and hosted the new documentary Final Hours , and his own near-death experience as a seven-year-old set him on a lifelong path of investigating others' stories, including Bubba's. Bubba's account is the heart of this episode — and it's a wild one. After an allergic reaction to anesthesia stopped his heart on the operating table, he describes floating above his own body, undergoing an intense 360-degree life review filled with guilt and unexpected anger at himself, and then being pulled into a breathtaking realm of pure light. There, his deceased stepfather appears — not with words, but with a basketball, recreating a childhood memory in real time. Their telepathic "game" becomes the vehicle for a message about purpose, responsibility, and reluctant return. The conversation digs into why so many NDE experiencers report depression and grief after coming back, how life priorities shift dramatically post-experience (career changes, fading fears, even divorce), and why guilt-driven life reviews like Bubba's are actually the exception rather than the rule. Equal parts eerie, emotional, and hopeful, this episode asks the big question the show is built around: if these accounts are real, what do they tell us about fear, death, and how we're meant to live right now? VIDEO VERSION RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Makai's Film "Final Hours": https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/final-hours-is-death-really-the-end-6027582

She died for 45 minutes... and saw nothing but darkness. So why did it feel like Heaven? In this episode, Claudia Edge recounts the most harrowing night of her life — bleeding out from a placental rupture while giving birth to her fifth child, as doctors raced to save her baby while her own heart stopped. What followed wasn't the typical tunnel-of-light NDE. Instead, Claudia floated through the hospital watching her own resuscitation, then crossed into an infinite, pitch-black space she insists wasn't a void — it was absolute love , a feeling so complete she calls it being "swaddled" by the universe. No tunnel, no relatives waiting for her — just overwhelming peace, until a nurse's voice pulled her back. Claudia also shares things she's never discussed publicly: encounters with benevolent extraterrestrials, ongoing afterlife communication with her late sister and mother, "pre-life planning" of our hardest struggles, and an intimate vision of Jesus as a playful big brother rather than a figure to worship. Skeptic or seeker, this is one of the most unconventional NDE stories we've featured — and barely scratches the surface of her new book. VIDEO VERSION RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ https://claudiaedge.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Dying-SPIRIT-SCHOOL-Curriculum-Teachers/dp/0999463551/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DL6RK10WBYN2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.HSVYyuBr1b-GJo0Ckg4qfO1qdQypHIFWHemFAFXg8rjGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.uUdTEwKLHIB-mwrhUYIYZ5TiO9Qfaf44LvaO43DpbiY&dib_tag=se&keywords=dying%2Bto%2Bgo%2Bto%2Bspirit%2Bschool&qid=1782757102&sprefix=dying%2Bto%2Bgo%2Bto%2Bspirit%2Bschool%2Caps%2C276&sr=8-1#

At age four, Scarlett Heinbuch drowned in a pool—and watched her own body sink while her spirit hovered nearby in a state of overwhelming love. This NDE (Near Death Experience) changed her, and the trajectory of her life. ________________________ Get 15% off OneSkin with code ROUNDTRIP at https://www.oneskin.co/ROUNDTRIP #oneskinpod #sponsored __________________________ During her NDE Experience, she chose to come back for her mother's sake, but the door between worlds never fully closed, leaving her with a lifetime of precognitive dreams, remote viewing, and unexplained phenomena she spent decades researching just to feel sane. Then in 2005, a stranger asked her to pray over her dying son, David, who was comatose with destroyed kidneys and a grim prognosis. Scarlett experienced a shared near-death experience (SNDE) with him—recognizing his soul in a field of light—then later saw towering blue "healing beings" performing what looked like a holographic kidney transplant at his bedside. David's kidneys, supposedly damaged beyond repair, fully recovered. The two strangers married a year later, and Scarlett now researches others who've encountered the same mysterious blue figures. VIDEO VERSION RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ OneSkin Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38400612/ https://scarlettheinbuch.com/ "We Met On the Other Side" https://www.amazon.com/We-Met-Other-Side-Story/dp/B0C47YVWDK/

In this powerful episode, host Eric Bennett welcomes Lynn Arches-Rappaport, a Massachusetts teacher and grandmother, who shares her Near Death Experience (NDE) from nearly 50 years ago. While surfing in Puerto Rico, Lynn was caught in a brutal set of waves, slammed against a reef covered in sea urchins, and began drowning. At the moment she feared she wouldn't survive, she was pulled out of her body. ___________________ Birch Natural Mattresses Podcast Listeners Receive 20% - 30% OFF BirchLiving.com/Roundtrip ____________________ Her NDE included a vivid life review, a tunnel with a shadowy being, a welcoming group of entities, and the presence of both her deceased father, Jesus, and God, all bathed in an overwhelming sense of pure love and warmth unlike anything she had known on earth. Lynn describes her Near Death Experience as "more real than real" — a state of unconditional love so complete that it transformed her understanding of life, death, and her difficult childhood. She returned from her NDE with a mission to share her story and has since written a memoir, Entangled . Lynn also discusses the life lessons she believes souls choose before birth, and why she no longer fears death — viewing it instead as a homecoming to a place of permanent, boundless love. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Lynn: https://www.lynnarchesauthor.com/

*Warning: Contains Some Discussion of Abuse Not all NDEs come from happy places. When Renee Christine Martine was five years old, her father — a former member of the White Fence Gang hiding from the Mexican mafia behind a Jehovah's Witness conversion — came home in a rage and sent a tent pole into her face. Thirty-one stitches, a 45-minute drive bleeding out in a station wagon, and something else: floating above the farm looking down, a mysterious woman no one else could see, and absolute love and peace on the other side of it all. She has no paper that says she died. She doesn't need one for us to know it was a near death experience (NDE). What she came back with — apparitions appearing in her bedroom, premonitions that spooked her parents, a ghost in a pea coat outside her window at 16, and a lifelong magnetism for paranormal phenomena — made it pretty clear something had shifted permanently. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Renee: https://reneemartine.com/

Michael Florman died eight times. A cardiac arrest on the way to work launched him into one of the most vivid NDE experiences ever described — leaving his body, floating above paramedics, racing through a glowing valley, and entering a dark, peaceful void filled with unconditional love and acceptance. His near death experience even included a life review where he felt the emotional impact of his actions on others, all before being violently shocked back to life mid-NDE. But coming back wasn't easy. Heightened empathy, memory loss, and years of depression followed as Michael struggled to find meaning in ordinary life after experiencing something extraordinary. His message to anyone fearing death? You are not your body — you're the energy inside it, and that energy never dies. A must-listen episode. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Michael: https://michaelflorman.com/

What happens when a skeptical publishing executive stumbles into the world of Near Death Experience research — and it ends up saving his family? That's the unexpected journey of Shaun Tabatt, author of NDE Conspiracy , who joins host Eric Bennett on Round Trip Death to unpack how he went from doubter to devoted researcher. Shaun walks through his nine-point framework for evaluating NDE accounts, tackles the thorny questions around reincarnation and past-life memories, and challenges listeners to engage with even the most puzzling NDE testimonies rather than dismiss them outright. But the episode's most gripping moments come when Sean pulls back the curtain on his own life. When his wife Lynette was diagnosed with a stage four brain tumor, years of immersion in Near Death Experience research suddenly had urgent, personal purpose — allowing him to answer her deepest questions about death with the voices of those who'd already been there. In her final months, Lynette had her own out-of-body experience and a stunning vision of her heavenly welcoming committee. Then, on the morning she passed, a close friend texted Sean completely unprompted — describing a vision of Lynette in heaven, picking apples with Jesus. Some episodes leave you thinking. This one leaves you breathless. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ ShaunTabatt.com NDEConspiracy.com