Episodes

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 ...

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, leavi...

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 BirchLivin...

*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 a...

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 ea...

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...

"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 n...

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 ...

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. ________________________ Get 15% off OneSkin with code ROUNDTRIP at https://www.oneskin.co/ROUNDTRIP #oneskinpod #sponsored __________________________ Her second NDE ( near death experience) came in 1999 when...

"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. __________________________ Get 15% off OneSkin with code ROUNDTRIP at https://www.oneskin.co/ROUNDTRIP #oneskinpod #sponsored __________________________ After collapsing from a catastrophic abdominal se...

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 be...

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 f...

**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. ________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTRIP Coupon Code: ROUNDTRIP _________________ Pronounced dead and resus...

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 heave...

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. ________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTRIP Coupon Code: ROUNDTRIP _________________ 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...

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. ___________________________ Text ROUNDTRIP to 64000 to get a FREE pocket pivot AND 10-pattern sprayer with purchase of any size Copper Head hose. (message & data rates may apply) ___________________________ A heavenly being appeared at her bedside, delivered two sentences — "You need to rest, you have a purpose" — and wa...

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. ________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTRIP Coupon Code: ROUNDTRIP _________________ Jennifer, a Midwestern artist and law enforcement professional, suffered sepsis following spinal surgery in January 2022, slipping into a coma while her organs shut ...

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 st...

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. ________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTRIP ...

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 dri...

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. ________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTRIP Coupon Code: ROUNDTRIP _________________ Billie Kay describes a period of intense spiritual searching in the early 1970s that led her away from organized religion and into Transcendental Meditation ...

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 under...

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. ________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTRIP Coupon Code: ROUNDTRIP _________________ What began as an ordinary day turned into a deeply transformative NDE Experience that reshaped Trent’s understanding of life, death, and wha...

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 tak...