Round Trip Death Podcast - NDE

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...

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.

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Jane recounts the harrowing physical...

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.

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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 rout...

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 "swad...

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.

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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 sh...

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.

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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.

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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 st...

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 gr...

"Go Back, Your Work's Not Done!"

What would it take for you to die — not once, not twice, but thirteen times — and come back with something to show for it?

In this electrifying episode, host Eric Bennett sits down with Greg Halpern, a Chicago-based judo world champion turned serial entrepreneur who has survived 13 Near Death Experiences that would have broken — or simply ended — anyone else.

It starts at age five (NDE #1), when a post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage sends young Greg bleeding into the night and straight into a boundless space of warm, infinite light, where a deep...

In this powerful episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett welcomes Tammy Julien, who shares a Near Death Experience (NDE) she kept hidden for nearly 40 years.

During a home birth gone wrong, Tammy hemorrhaged and found herself outside her body — watching the emergency unfold below while feeling absolute peace and love.

Her NDE took her through extraordinary encounters of love and compassion. "The love was going into the Earth."

After returning, Tammy spent decades quietly integrating her NDE experience into everyday life, finding few people who could relate to what she had wi...

Sally's NDE: "I Wanted To Stay!"

Sally Reed has died twice and lived to tell about it! Her first NDE hit at age three when too much surgical ether stopped her breathing, sending her floating into a warm, loving light where her deceased grandmother had to drag her back kicking and screaming.

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Her second NDE (near death experience) came in 1999 when a horse launched her backwards, snapping three vertebrae in her...

"His eyes were filled with so much love and compassion!" "My skin vibrated with His love!"

In this beautiful episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett sits down with Bridget Cooke-Birch who recounts her NDE (near death experience) the night she died in a hospital bed in her early twenties.

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After collapsing from a catastrophic abdominal sepsis infection, Bridget was unknowingly being killed by an antibiotic allergy that sent her...

Heart Stopped for 7 Minutes! Cara shares her NDE publicly for the first time.

During a high school soccer playoff game, a ball struck her in the left temple with such force that it stopped her heart for seven minutes. The moment she lost consciousness, she found herself floating above the scene, watching her teammates and parents — not as physical bodies, but as brilliant, swaying flames of light. She felt an overwhelming sense of pure love, complete freedom from fear, and a profound sense of being held by the universe.

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BEST EPISODE of The YEAR! Riley Courtwright shares her two Near Death Experiences (NDEs) publicly for the first time.

Riley was a lifelong atheist, diagnosed with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that led to her organs shutting down, and ultimately her NDEs. Over the course of 18 months, Riley died twice — the first time at home after being sent away by doctors with no further options, and the second time seven months ago in St. Thomas, where she and her husband had moved so she could spend her final days.

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**CONTROVERSY ALERT: If you listen to the end of this NDE, you might be surprised (maybe even offended) at some of the things that Jason has to say about religion and the Bible *

Jason Janis shares his near-death experience (NDE) from April 2020, when rapidly growing tumors burst in his lungs and filled them with 2.8 liters of blood.

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Pronounced dead and resuscitated after his heart stopped, Jason spent a month in the ICU — an...

During his NDE, David experienced leaving his body and going to a heavenly place. "It was like walking from one room to another."

In this powerful episode, David Cooke shares a life-altering near-death experience (NDE) he had at just seven years old after falling 75 feet into a canyon.

Clinically lifeless and placed in a coma for eight days, David recounts vivid out-of-body experiences, including watching doctors work on him, floating above the hospital, and entering what he describes as a heavenly realm.

From his NDE, he describes overwhelming peace, weightlessness, and unconditional love—fe...

At 43, Bryan Duszczak was living on pizza, Mountain Dew, and 14-hour workdays when a massive stroke dropped him to the floor of a hospital ER. The result was a profound and detailed near death experience.

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During his NDE, he remembers leaving his body, watching nurses load him onto a gurney while experiencing 360-degree vision and feeling the molecular density of everything around him.

Then God showed up — a glowing, golden-white entity beyond ex...

Kohila's NDE (Near Death Experience) at age 12, following a suicide attempt born out of isolation and hopelessness, is not the typical "went to the light" near-death experience.

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A heavenly being appeared at her bedside, delivered two sentences — "You need to rest, you have a purpose" — and was never seen again. Kohila believes that being was God.

That NDE became the turning point of her life...

How can anyone prove their NDE?

In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett welcomes back Jennifer Morris for a second appearance to discuss her Near Death Experience in greater depth.

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Jennifer, a Midwestern artist and law enforcement professional, suffered sepsis following spinal surgery in January 2022, slipping into a coma while her organs shut down. During her NDE, Jennifer experienced an out-of-body state in the ER before ascending to a...

In this powerful episode of the Round Trip Death podcast, host Eric Bennett sits down with Steven La Russa from Reno, Nevada, to discuss one of the most remarkable near-death experience (NDE) accounts you'll ever hear. In fact it was a shared NDE.

In October 2024, Stephen suffered a sudden heart attack with no prior cardiac history while on a trip to Lake Tahoe with his wife Wanda. What followed was a deeply transformative NDE in which Steven blacked out, traveled through darkness into a vast starry space, and neared a white light — all while receiving direct, telepathic me...

In this rich and moving episode about NDE's, host Eric Bennett sits down with David McGinley — psychospiritual specialist, former Lutheran pastor, and 25-year hospital chaplain based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. What begins as a conversation about a rare and life-threatening illness quickly opens into one of the most profound explorations of consciousness, faith, death, and the nature of the afterlife.

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David has faced cancer four times and as a result has had multiple NDE's, in...

In this transformative episode, host Eric Bennett sits down with Liane Marie Lambert, who experienced an NDE after being hit by a double-decker bus in London over 20 years ago. What started as a traumatic accident that cracked her skull in two became the catalyst for a profound spiritual awakening and life mission.

Liane shares her unique NDE (near death experience) perspective, where she experienced herself outside her body (OBE), witnessing both herself on the ground and the frightened bus driver. Though brief, this NDE experience opened a floodgate of spiritual exploration that led her to become an...

In this extended episode of Round Trip Death, we hear the full story and NDE Experience of Billie Kay Rains, a 79-year-old woman from Texas who chose to speak publicly as she nears the end of her life.

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Billie Kay describes a period of intense spiritual searching in the early 1970s that led her away from organized religion and into Transcendental Meditation and altered states of consciousness. Over time, this search unraveled into psychological...

Imagine seeing what seemed like the entire universe and feeling a love so great that it can't be described in words!

In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett welcomes Masati, a rare three-time Near Death Experience survivor, for an expansive and thought-provoking conversation about consciousness, identity, and what happens when we die.

Masati’s story includes three distinct NDE Experiences, each occurring at a different stage of his life and each revealing deeper layers of understanding. His first NDE happened at age 22 after a catastrophic workplace accident, where he experienced full separation fr...

In this moving episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett sits down with actor and stuntman Trent John Miller to explore his profound NDE, a life-changing Near Death Experience that followed a devastating accident.

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What began as an ordinary day turned into a deeply transformative NDE Experience that reshaped Trent’s understanding of life, death, and what it means to be present.

During his NDE, Trent describes leaving his physical body an...

In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett, sits down with Tammy Cheney, a lifelong traveler whose path was profoundly altered by a near-death–like (NDE) experience following a head injury. Tammy shares how a series of spiritual awakenings culminated in an instantaneous transport to what she describes as “home”—a realm more real than physical life, permeated by unconditional love, vivid colors, soundless tones, and living light.

Guided by two silent, luminous beings, Tammy's NDE takes her to an otherworldly landscape where flowers always face the observer, scents blend into a single transcendent fragrance, and love...

In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett and guest Donald Winner take a deep investigative dive into near-death experiences (NDEs) using the tools of intelligence analysis rather than belief or doctrine.

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Drawing on decades of experience in military intelligence and journalism, Don explains how he began studying NDEs after his father briefly lost consciousness and wondered aloud if that moment felt like dying. What started as curiosity turned into a large-scale...

What happens when everything you think you know suddenly stops—and something far greater takes its place?

In this powerful episode of Round Trip Death, Eric sits down with Richard Greene, a retired business leader who clinically died for three minutes following a cardiac procedure and experienced what he describes as an overwhelming state of love, unity, and oneness. What he encountered on “the other side” reshaped his understanding of life, fear, gratitude, and our shared humanity.

Richard shares his near-death experience (NDE) in vivid, grounded terms—avoiding dogma while offering deep insight into consciousness, love, an...

In the final episode of 2025, Round Trip Death travels to Scotland for a deeply intimate and powerful conversation with Jane Dawson. Jane’s near-death experience (NDE) occurred during the birth of her son, after hours of unmedicated labor left her physically exhausted and emotionally depleted.

At the moment she felt she could no longer continue, Jane’s spirit separated from her body. The pain vanished, replaced by a velvety darkness filled with peace, love, and profound relief. In that space, she encountered the spirit of her father, who had recently passed away. Their connection was not verbal, but...

In this deeply moving Christmas episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric welcomes Tammy Lee Anderson, a psychotherapist, martial artist, spiritual seeker, and medium who shares her extraordinary life story shaped by three near death experiences (NDEs).

Tammy recounts being stillborn, experiencing cardiac arrest during infant surgery, and a profound third NDE at age 23 following a heat stroke while fasting in the mountains.

Across these encounters, she describes overwhelming encounters with unconditional love, light, spiritual beings, her grandfather, and Jesus—experiences that fundamentally altered her understanding of life, suffering, and divine presence.

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In this enlightening conversation, Gary Wimmer shares his profound near-death experience (NDE) that transformed his understanding of life, consciousness, and the universe.

He recounts his journey from a curious young man to a spiritually awakened individual after a life-altering accident and his NDE (near death experience).

Gary discusses the insights he gained about the infinite mind of God, the nature of free will, and the importance of personal empowerment. He emphasizes the role of free will in shaping our perceptions and experiences, and how it can lead to personal growth and happiness.

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Our Purpose: To go from Selfishness to Selflessness In this episode of Round Trip Death, Eric welcomes Marilynn Hughes, whose powerful NDE (Near Death Experience) forever changed her life and faith. Suffering from severe peripartum cardiomyopathy,

Marilynn slipped out of her body and entered a translucent tunnel of light where she reunited with her childhood dog and encountered Jesus in radiant form. She was shown multiple realms, a spiritual “measure” of how souls progress from selfishness to selflessness, and was given the choice to stay in the afterlife or return to her young children.

Though Jesu...

At 13 years old, Ishtar Howell survived a devastating car accident that took his mother’s life and shattered his fear of death. His NDE (Near Death Experience) is unusual and the story also includes a SDE (shared death experience) when his mother dies.

Moments before impact, time seemed to slow as he slipped out of his body (OBE) into a profound life review, encountered a loving, omniscient presence, and discovered that everything—even pain and trauma—was held within a vast field of love.

In this conversation with host, Eric Bennett, Ishtar shares how this near d...

LOVE NEVER DIES

In this episode of Round Trip Death, Eric sits down with evidential psychic medium and author Connie Fusella to explore her three near-death experiences (NDEs) and how they slowly woke her up to her soul’s purpose.

From an early-twenties anaphylactic reaction and a profound life review, to a dramatic cardiac arrest in a New York ER, to a luminous visit with Jesus in a meadow full of joyful children, Connie shares how each NDE experience peeled back another layer of who she really is.

Connie also describes the years-long jo...

NDE vs SDE.

In this moving conversation, Eric talks with Amber Kasic about the night she accompanied her father as he was dying in 2020 and unexpectedly experienced what’s known as a shared death experience (SDE) — a spiritually transformative moment in which she felt her father’s soul transition before his physical body died.

In this SDE, Amber describes holding her father’s hand in hospice, dropping into pure love and surrender, and suddenly feeling a powerful, "whooshing" presence move through her body, down her arm, and into her father — along with the unshakable knowing: “We are etern...

Artist and author Nicole Meeuws joins host, Eric Bennett, to share the near death experience (NDE) she had during an emergency procedure following the loss of a pregnancy in 2015.

Nicole recounts leaving her body as a surge of peace carried her into a luminous, “watery” blue-white light and then into a vast white hall where two enormous, blue beings sat upon marble thrones. With feather-like hair, indigo eyes, humanoid torsos, and mer-like tails, they conveyed—wordlessly yet unmistakably—“welcome back,” triggering a profound sense of home and dissolving grief, guilt, and fear.

She describes the jarring sens...

Author and screenwriter Sai Marie Johnson flatlined during a high-risk C-section complicated by placenta percreta.

While doctors fought to stop catastrophic hemorrhaging, Sai experienced a profound “void, tunnel and light." During her NDE (Near Death Experience) she met and saw her deceased grandmother and great-grandmother. They told her that she had to go back.

Above all else, she felt "Every good emotion we can feel on earth, times 5,000!" Goodness and Pure Love.

Following her NDE, she woke to a premature son in the NICU, a partial hysterectomy, and 25 transfusions—but also a new clar...

Crisis Line #998

Imagine life being so tough that you attempt to take your life. Then it gets worse!

In this episode of Round Trip Death, Nicole Consiglio opens up about her life's difficulties that resulted in a suicide attempt. But she came back. That's the definition of a near death experience (NDE).

During her NDE Experience, Nicole was "sucked up into a vortex." There she dealt with black shadow figures holding her down. Eventually her cries for Jesus and Mary were answered.

When she thought about her children, she thought about...

Dead 15 Minutes! At nine years old, Mario was declared dead at home after violent spasms and unbearable chest pain. His first NDE followed.

He describes separating from his body and entering a realm of tunnels and roads made of fluorescent, multicolored light, where he felt only absolute love, safety, and belonging.

Family had begun preparing for his funeral, but he revived within minutes, telling his father he’d wanted to stay “there.”

The years that followed were marked by poverty, bullying, and vivid encounters he interpreted as demonic—experiences that deepened his prayer life and...