A Kansas woman has come forward with her harrowing personal story of how she literally went to hell and back during an 11-minute near-death experience.
Charlotte Holmes, who was a 68-year-old great-grandmother at the time, said her journey to the other side began during a routine heart checkup with her cardiologist in September 2019.
When her blood pressure soared to 234 over 134, her doctors told her, “You’re either having another stroke or you’re about to have a heart attack,” as she recalled.
What followed was a journey to ‘Heaven’ and a tour to the ‘brink of Hell’ led by God himself as a lesson, according to Holmes, which he was asked to pass on to the living.
A Wichita, Kansas woman, 68-year-old Charlotte Holmes (above), has told her harrowing personal story of how she literally went to hell and back, all in the space of an 11-minute near-death experience. “God took me to the brink of hell,” Holmes told the 700 Club
Holmes and her husband Danny told The 700 Club that doctors declared her clinically dead after her heart stopped for nearly twice the full time (five minutes) that medical professionals typically use to assess death.
Danny watched in disbelief as the traumatic event unfolded: “Immediately, they called this code and everyone started running in,” he said.
“They just started working on it and I thought, ‘Well, I wonder if I’ll be able to bring it home.'”
Danny said he could corroborate his wife’s supernatural story, recounting the shocking moment when he heard his wife describe otherworldly things that weren’t physically in the room, but that she was witnessing in real time.
“That’s when I knew she wasn’t in this world,” he explained.
Holmes explained that her journey began as a classic “out-of-body experience” before angels took her to heaven.
“I was above my body,” as he recalled the ordeal.
‘I could see them doing chest compressions. I could see them, all the nurses around. I could smell the most beautiful flowers I have ever smelled. And then I heard music.’
In an instant, Holmes said, “When I opened my eyes, I knew where I was.” I knew I was in heaven.’
Holmes described his diary to heaven as one of “no fear” and only “pure joy.”
As she told the Christian news station, she was greeted by younger, healthier versions of deceased relatives, as well as historical saints from history.
‘I saw my mom. I saw my dad. I saw my sister. I saw relatives behind. I saw saints of old,” Holmes recalled. ‘They didn’t look old. They didn’t seem sick. None of them were wearing glasses.
Holmes explained that her journey began as a classic “out-of-body experience” before angels took her to heaven. Right: This 19th-century engraving by Gustave Doré depicts Satan and his henchman Beelzebub in conversation in John Milton’s classic “Paradise Lost.”
Holmes’ husband, Danny (above), corroborated his wife’s story, recounting the devastating moment when he could hear his wife describing the supernatural things she was witnessing in real time. “That’s when I knew she wasn’t in this world,” he explained.
“Behind my mom and dad was a very bright light,” he continued. ‘I couldn’t see it. So bright. But I knew it was my Heavenly Father.’
After briefly reuniting with a child she had lost when she was five and a half months pregnant, Holmes recalled that God took her on a darker, but more educational, detour.
‘God took me to the edge of hell,’ the 68-year-old great-grandmother professed.
“I looked down and the smell, like rotting meat, was what I smelled,” Holmes recalled. ‘And he screams. After seeing the beauty of Heaven, the contrast of seeing Hell is almost unbearable.’
Holmes said The 700 club that God had a purpose in showing him the horrors that follow a life lived outside of morality: ‘He says, ‘I show you this to tell you that if some of them do not change their ways, this is where they will reside.’ I heard my Father say, ‘You have time to come back and share.’
Charlotte and her husband Danny said she made a full recovery and was discharged from hospital after two weeks of observation.
Last year, medical researchers at Liège University Hospital in Belgium tracked 19 people after they had a near-death experience in an intensive care unit (ICU), and followed them up 12 months later.
The researchers, who published their findings. in Critical Care magazinefound that Patients who had a near-death experience experienced a greater propensity for dissociative symptoms days after their ordeal.
These included feeling disconnected from oneself, feeling little or no pain, feeling insecure about who they were, and increased spiritual and personal well-being.
But, after that period, there was no significant association with quality of life, despite the fact that NDEs (near-death experiences) “are typically reported as transformative and may be associated with negative emotions,” the researchers wrote. researchers.
However, for years after her own ‘NDE’, Charlotte Holmes maintained that her experience had been significantly more transformative.
until Holmes’ final death on November 28, 2023 At the age of 72, the Kansas native would share her incredible story in both public appearances and private conversations with friends, family, and any interested strangers she met.
‘People need hope. They want to know that there really is something out there,” as Holmes explained his reasoning. “They want to know that everything is okay.”
‘I have had the privilege of leading people to Christ, as He asked me to. All the authority that He had, He has given to us,’ the great-grandmother professed.
‘It’s more real than you can imagine. I can look you straight in the eyes and tell you with certainty: “Heaven is real.”