Hey, it's Mike Chen.
You know, the mystery of what comes after death
is the one that almost every scientist, philosopher and religious individual
has tried to interpret and understand with no success.
As far as everything about the topic is concerned
the only way to find out what really lies beyond a veil of death
is really just an experience death itself.
But we all know that's something that we literally cannot come back from.
So all we really have are stories from people
who have had close calls with the Grim Reaper
in the so called 'near-death experience'.
Of course, many of these stories talk about a bright and shining light
beckons to them to the great beyond.
Some even profess hearing an angelic choir
welcoming them to the Pearly Gates.
However, there are those who have experienced the opposite,
dark visions of torment and evil
are among the most common stories
that unfold when people relate such visions of what they see as hell.
A number of them even claim that
they have seen the face of the devil himself.
So in today's video,
it is going to get a little dark as we climb down to the abyss
to explore this nightmarish story about the underworld.
So from fire and brimstone to demonic entities,
here are five unsettling visions of hell from near-death experiences.
Number 5, the Pit of Despair and Isolation.
A man named Matthew Botsford was at an Atlanta restaurants
when the last thing he heard before falling into a coma
was two shots from a gun.
With a bullet in his head,
Botsford was put into a medically induced coma for 27 days.
And in that coma, he had the most terrifying vision of the underworld
that may have jolted him back to life.
In his near-death experience vision,
Botsford found himself in a nightmarish situation
where his hands and legs were shackled
and his body was suspended high above a gaping pit full of volcanic materials.
On the ground directly below
he could make out shapes of creatures
that were scuttling to and from the pit.
What terrified him even more was the overwhelming feeling of isolation,
he recalled hearing tortured screams echoing,
but no other person was to be seen.
Every so often a team of demons and creatures would come visit him
and cut flesh from his bones,
flesh that would grow back instantly for those demons to feed on again
as a form of eternal torment.
He wasn't then luckily spared from this eternal anguish
when he saw a giant hand reaching from a wall near him
breaking him free from his chains and taking him away.
Before he woke up from his coma,
the last thing he heard from his vision were the word "It's not your time"
Number 4, the not-so-Pearly Gates
you know often when people recalled their near-death experiences,
they talked about a bright light or the Pearly Gates of heaven,
You know, a brightly lit place in the clouds,
where there is a large ornamented gates made out of, I don't know, solid gold
and at least according to pop culture,
at the gate is usually a lectern
or a man with a beard as white as a rope supposedly St. Peter,
is waiting for us with a large book,
looking like a heavenly maitre d'.
But on the flip side,
for people unfortunate enough to have a glimpse of health
the seen is a whole lot less appealing,
where there is a golden gate waiting for the righteous,
Hell has its own version of a welcoming gate
but filled with ominous threat and a terror.
I guess pretty much like what the Black Gate of Mordor in Lord of the Rings may look like.
Many who have almost crossed over to the other side revealed
that it got hotter and hotter as they approached the gate,
so hot that they could feel their skin burning
just by standing in front of the gates.
The helpless and hopeless souls
are then welcomed to the underworld as the gate swung open
rolling out to the red carpet for their arrival into eternal suffering.
Number 3, the Infernal Invitations.
The life and fate of a devout atheist named Howard Storm was put to the test
when a perforated stomach send him on his way to the doorsteps of Hell.
After being rushed to the hospital
Howard Storm woke up in a daze and notice that
the people in his room could not hear him
when he started asking what was going on.
Even tried to stop someone walking towards him but he was ignored
and a person literally walked right through him.
It was clear to him that he was already dead
and was now pretty much a ghost walking aimlessly around the hospital.
He said that's toward the end of the hall,
he noticed a large group of figures standing in front of a door
who were calling out to him
as if inviting him to join their group.
Confused and clearly having nothing else planned for his afterlife,
he decided to join the group and walk through the door with them.
But on the other side,
he entered a completely different world enveloped in thick fog.
The figures from earlier urged him to walk on,
their [playful] demeanor making the invitation a lot more pleasant.
Storm said he turned to look back
and would see his hospital room shrinking into the distance as he walked farther.
But the further he walked, the smaller the fog filled place became,
kind of like a an eerie Willy Wonka corridor.
Soon after the figures who were with him turned sinister
and begin shoving and pushing him deeper into the hallway.
They became more violence and began tearing him apart with their teeth,
gnawing at his flesh.
In his panic,
Storm coward and tried to shield himself from his demonic attackers
and heard his own voice in his head
asking him to do something completely out of character: "Pray"
With his flesh being ripped from his body,
the hard-line-atheist begins screaming phrases like
"One nation under God" and "Our Father who art in heaven"
And as if some kind of divine intervention was invoked by his screaming and shouting,
Howard was pulled out of his nightmare
and woke up in his hospital bed in one piece.
Number 2, Worse Than War
The story of George Ritchie was one of the first most widely circulated stories
about near-death experiences in hell.
His experience even led him to publish a book called "Return to tomorrow" in 1978.
In history, after coming down with pneumonia during the Second World War,
Ritchie recalled being brought to an Army Hospital in Virginia
where he was later on pronounced dead.
He said that he had an out of body experience
and claimed that he was able to wander around town unhindered.
and when he was just floating about,
he met a strange figure who took him on a guided tour of another dimension,
like a scene from Dante's Inferno,
the mysterious figures showed Ritchie various scenes of people
and their spirits struggling in the alternate plane
Once he was at a bar where people tried their hardest to drink
and smoke their cigarettes but to no avail.
The deeper Ritchie went on tour,
the more terrifying the scenes began to unfold.
One of these things took place in a wasteland
where he saw gigantic figures locked in a raft viewed skirmish,
Ritchie goes further into describing what he's seen,
saying, "Even more hideous than the bites and kicks they exchanged
were the sexual abuses many were performing in feverish pantomime.
Perversions I'd never dreamed of were being vainly attempted all around us."
Soon after when Ritchie woke up from his fever sleep
he would become a psychiatrist
and published several books regarding the phenomena of near-death experiences.
Number 1, Total Recall.
In 1991, a woman named Angie Fenimore attempted to take her own life.
But instead [got a dose of what may have come], had her suicides become in a word successful,
the first thing she recalled after losing consciousness was that
she was subjected to a life review
and has gone through up to the point where she attempted suicide.
And after her own life review ended,
Angie recalled that she was surrounded by a heavy blanket of darkness
that seemed to stretch onto eternity,
she thought she was completely alone
when she heard voices around her, saying,
"Oh, we must be the suicide"
And she also realized that these words were being spoken directly into her head
and that she too could communicate using her mind.
However, no matter how hard she tried,
she could not elicit any form of response from anyone around her.
Later on, according to her story,
she was thrown into a different part of Hell
that resembled an open field filled with lost souls, aimlessly walking around.
They seemed to be free to communicate with each other
but Angie notice that misery had fully consumed all of them.
And they could not look past it and make any effort to interact with anyone around them.
Of course, whether all these visions are true or not,
I guess we will never know until one day where we will all know.
But personally for me, I do believe there's a place
that people who are GOOD go
and there's a place reserved for truly evil people
like Hitler or Kim Jong-un.
So for me I guess what I'm trying to do is live my life the best I can,
be as good of a person as I can,
try to embody the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance
and hope for the best.
Again, these are just what people said they saw
during their near-death experiences
and you might not even believe in your dead experiences.
But let me know what you guys think,
do you believe there is a hell.
And if so, what do you think Hell is like?
Alright guys, thank you all so much for watching this video
I'll see you later.
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