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#1 NDE podcaster Eric Bennett Spoke January 24

Eric Bennett is the host of the Round-Trip Death podcast, the #1 audio podcast about Near-Death Experiences. Over the last three years, he has interviewed hundreds of experiences and brings a broad perspective and objective viewpoint to the conversation.

The “Round-Trip Death” podcast delves into the profound subject of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Each episode features in-depth conversations with individuals who have temporarily crossed the threshold of death, ventured into the afterlife, and returned to share their transformative stories. The podcast aims to explore the mysteries of what transpires after we die, offering listeners firsthand accounts that shed light on this enigmatic aspect of human existence.

Gained a link to the other side, Ted Whiting Spoke February 28, 2025

In 1981, Ted had back surgery after a motorcycle accident. The five-hour surgery had complications, during which Ted died on the operating table. The extraordinary part of Ted’s NDE is that he met his father, who had been murdered. Ted hardly knew his father, whom he had only seen a few times when he was young, before his father was killed. Ted was able to become close to his father during his NDE. After their reunion and discussion on the other side of the veil, Ted’s father explained that it was not Ted’s time to die, and he had to go back to earth. Ted’s father gave him some insights into his future and sent him back into his body on the operating table, which involved excruciating pain.

Later, in 1989, working as a mechanic, Ted was on top of a truck fixing an airhorn. He slipped and fell onto the concrete floor. Ted was knocked out. His sinuses were seriously damaged, resulting in recurring, serious sinus infections. During one bout with infections, as Ted was brought into St Mark’s Hospital on a stretcher, the pain was so severe that Ted became exhausted. With his will to live gone, he gave up fighting for his life and died. On the other side of the veil again, this time Ted saw his aunt, who told him the same thing his father had eight years before during his first NDE, that he wasn’t supposed to be there, he had to go back, it wasn’t his time yet, because he had more todo in life. Again, Ted went back and woke up in his physical body in the hospital, in pain.

We invite you to hear firsthand from Ted his extraordinary story of bonding in the spirit world with his murdered father and the insights and lessons he learned on the other side about life, its struggles, and its purposes.

Dead for nearly an hour, Vincent Tolman in person March 28, 2025

Our presenter for March 28 was Vincent (Vinney) Tolman. At the age of 25, Vincent Tolman was pronounced dead and put in a body bag. Nearly an hour later, he miraculously came back to life. His book, The Light After Death, tells the story of Vincent’s experience–what he saw, what he was taught, and the message of hope and joy he brought back with him to Earth. Vincent was involved in developing health-related supplements but could not get a product from his normal source. He and his partner shallowed the concoction, and both lost consciousness in a Dairy Queen. Vincent was in a locked restroom when he died and was cold when they finally found him. His resuscitation was a miracle.

Perhaps the most viewed NDE video in history, Scott Drummond , May 23, 2025

Scott Drummond’s near-death experience (NDE) occurred at age 28 following a skiing accident that led to a surgical complication. During the procedure, a nurse mistakenly administered anesthesia that stopped his heart for 20 minutes. Pronounced clinically dead, Drummond later recounted a profound journey beyond life.

After being resuscitated, Drummond experienced an overwhelming sense of peace for several days. He later reflected on his life, realizing his previous focus on personal success had overshadowed deeper values. This realization led him to prioritize kindness, love, and spiritual growth.

For decades, Drummond kept his experience private. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he felt compelled to share his story to offer hope. His testimony resonated widely, amassing over 21 million views and sparking discussions on life, death, and spiritual transformation.

For a more detailed account, Drummond’s book, What Dying Taught Me About Living, delves deeper into his experience and the lessons learned.

Howard Storm’s salvation from hell, via zoom, June 27

Howard Storm is an American Christian minister, writer, and painter. He is a former professor and chairman of the art department at Northern Kentucky University. In 2000, he authored My Descent Into Death, which chronicles his near-death experience. Howard Storm’s unique and wonderful story is a special treat. Howard died in France after developing a hole in his lower intestine. His story has a hellish beginning and ends in heaven. He is sent back with a good deal of knowledge about our relationship to God. His recovery leads him into the ministry, a huge change from his life as an atheist before his experience.

In heaven Howard asked God every question he could think of, and Howard is a deep thinker. After what seemed to him to be about a year, he was told he needed to return to earth and he came back with the promise that he could connect with heaven from time to time.

Howard’s recent health problems prevent him from traveling and speaking in person.

God’s suicide intervention transforms a life, JoAnna Oblander July 25

JoAnna Oblander spoke in-person July 25 at 7 pm in the Salt Lake County Commission Chambers. JoAnna is an author, health and family advocate, seasoned domestic engineer, and business owner. She has been happily married for over 45 years to her best friend, Greg. She is  the mother of six children, two of whom were adopted from Russia, and grandmother to 22 1/2 grandchildren. Her near-death experience occurred in 2002 – at a time in her life when she was suffering from  24/7 migraine headaches, severe depression, and she had become convinced that she was a horrible burden to her husband and family. That night, after she prayerfully announced to God that she planned to join Him the next day, an angel came and took her back to heaven to witness, once again, her pre-life meeting with God.  

Her  book, A Glimpse of Heaven, One Woman’s Life-Altering Visit with God, chronicles her near-death story,  God’s bringing her two adopted children into their family, and her 15 year  pilgrimage to healing.  As a result of her near-death experience, she has a deep desire to help others know God, find healing, understand the profound importance of life, and to help others fulfill their personal missions.   

COVID causes NDE, Holly Porter, August 22, 2025

During her 70-day battle with COVID-19, Holly Porter was placed on life support twice, endured a tracheotomy, sepsis, and multiple infections, and in the midst of it all, she had a detailed, lengthy and profound near-death experience. 

Holly found herself in a vast, light-filled realm surrounded by angelic beings, receiving messages of love, purpose, and resilience that would forever change her life. 

That journey not only brought Holly back, it inspired her mission to help others heal, lead with purpose, and embrace every moment as a gift. 

Holly had several NDEs and other experiences during her recovery in which deceased loved ones appeared to her.

Anorexia battle leads to near-death experience, Haley Freeman, September 2025

As a young adult, Haley Freeman struggled with anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight, which can lead to self-imposed starvation. Anorexia has a high mortality rate, driven by severe medical complications and a high risk of suicide.

Haley’s book, A Future for Tomorrow, is an extraordinary non-fiction account of her battle against anorexia nervosa, as well as a spiritual triumph against evil. Haley will bring you into the anorexic mind, and spiritually edify as you journey with her between life and death to an eternal world where angels confirm Christ’s gospel truths.

You will be touched by a mother’s sacrifice to save her daughter, be riveted by insights into the psychological world, and witness miracles along the way.

Premonition Saves Young Mother, Stephanie Arnold, October, 2025

When she was pregnant with her second child, Stephanie Arnold had a sudden and overwhelming premonition that she would die during the delivery. Though she tried to tell the medical team and her family what was going to happen, neither the doctors nor her loved ones gave her warnings credence. Finding no physical indications that anything was wrong, they attributed her foreboding to hormones and anxiety.

One member of the medical team did take her concerns seriously enough and made the fateful decision to order extra units of blood “just in case.” Then, during the delivery, Stephanie suffered a rare Amniotic Fluid Embolism. She went into cardiac arrest and flat-lined for 37 seconds. She died. Using the supplementary blood, the medical team revived her, and she remained unconscious for more than six days.

After months of recovery, Stephanie began to remember details of her experience, details she knew because she had witnessed the entire dramatic event, including her death, from outside her body—beside other spirits that were with her. In this remarkable true story, Stephanie will share her NDE, and the spiritual insights she learned from it. We are not alone and have more loving help than we can imagine.

Her book, 37 Seconds, chronicles her story.

Complications in childbirth cause NDE, Bonni J Burrows November 28, 2025

Bonni J. Burrows will be joining us this Friday.   Bonni was born on a small, backwoods farm in the Eastern United States at the end of WWII. On the farm, she, her sisters and two older brothers grew up without indoor plumbing, electricity, or phone. Water was carried from a spring in a galvanized bucket and food was cooked on a wood stove, winter and summer. Her father plowed the fields with a mule or horse and her mother washed the family’s clothes on a washboard. The children had very little social interaction outside the family until they were six or seven years old and could go to school. Religious teachings were very fundamental.

In 1975, Bonni was a young mother, living on a small farm, expecting her third child. Complications six months into that pregnancy took her, first to the hospital and then, on the greatest journey of her life—a Love-permeated journey so incredible she would have chosen to abandon her beloved family to remain in that realm, her true home—Our True Home.

Bonni will tell you of consciously leaving the body and traveling to visit her young sons before exiting this world, entering the light and being met on the other side by family, loved ones and her guardian angels. There she met her stillborn sister for the first time, many unborn spirits and a very special soul-mate. This is a story of reunion, forgiveness, and love more powerful than anything known this side of the veil.

She will tell you about her life review, visiting other worlds, being taught things only dreamed about on Earth-plane and truths so complete and crystal clear that we don’t have words for them.