An absolutely horrifying story that’s the stuff of nightmares has gone viral this week.
After a man faked his own death, then turned up at his own funeral!
Keep scrolling to find out what he did…
Now, one of the consistent mysteries that always seems to be cropping up is what happens to us after we die.
While many religions promise to know the fate of our souls in excruciating detail, science tends to lean more toward an absence of consciousness.
But there’s a recent near death experience story that the internet has found incredibly terrifying.
A man arrived at his own funeral after faking his own death.
And videos have the world shook.
Death is inevitable.
We all know that we’re definitely going to die one day — and the mystery of what happens afterward is pretty scary to consider.
Which makes many of us curious!
Many look at those who’ve had near-death experiences to help us try to understand what happens when we cease to exist in the accepted sense of the word.
Is there life after death?
The idea that the essence of our personhood exists outside of our physical forms would suggest that, after death, there’s some form of continuation.
NDEs have classic signs.
There are many tropes concerning near-death experiences that have permeated our culture, like walking towards a tunnel of light.
There’s a theological aspect.
While there are a few differences between what major religions tend to think, there is an idea of an afterlife as a reward that permeates western beliefs.
But it isn’t all pleasant…
Because, if there’s a Heaven, then, by rights, there should also be a Hell — and that’s a pretty frightening concept.
There is an alternative …
Because, if there’s no Heaven or Hell, and no soul, then where does that leave us after we die?
If all there is is total oblivion, that’s pretty terrifying.
Not to mention, difficult to comprehend!
Many scientists claim that near-death experiences are a result of brain activities that go on after the heart stops beating.
Chemicals released can provide feelings of euphoria and even hallucinations, which could provide a more logical explanation.
It’s a real mystery.
And since we likely won’t actually find out until we die, it’s probably going to stay that way.
Or so we thought — until a viral post came to our attention…
One scientific study offered a clue about what happens to our consciousness after death.
Because this involved an actual, real-life recording!
It was taken from the exact moment someone died.
The study was published in the Frontiers in Ageing Neuroscience.
And it revolved around a recording taken from the brain of an 87-year-old man who suffered from epilepsy.
It was actually an electroencephalogram (EEG), to give you the full name.
In an EEG, small sensors are attached to the scalp.
These help to monitor different electric signals within the brain.
And in this particular one, they recorded the brain of a man 15 minutes after he passed one.
They recorded gamma oscillations.
These waves can represent memory, so may add credence to the claim that your whole life flashes before your eyes.
“Through generating oscillations involved in memory retrieval, the brain may be playing a last recall of important life events just before we die.
“Similar to the ones reported in near-death experiences,” said Dr. Ajmal Zemmar.
These findings aren’t just interesting, but may pay ethical concerns.
“These findings challenge our understanding of when exactly life ends and generate important subsequent questions, such as those related to the timing of organ donation.”
However, the recording does just represent the experience of one patient…
And so we can’t totally take them as universally true.
The researchers also pointed out that the individual they studied had epilepsy.
And so any findings may be as a result of his preexisting condition.
“Something we may learn from this research is …
“Although our loved ones have their eyes closed and are ready to leave us to rest, their brains may be replaying some of the nicest moments they experienced in their lives,” Dr. Zemmar added.
Now, that’s a reassuring thought.
Recently, a priest has also offered quite a different perspective about the afterlife!
Taking to TikTok, Gerald Johnson claimed he had visited hell back in 2016.
He said: “My spirit left my physical body and I thought that I was going upwards, because I thought I had done so much good in this lifetime and helped so many people and basically made decisions that were godly decisions.
“As opposed to going up I went down. There was a section in hell where music was playing and it was the same music that you hear on the Earth, but as opposed to entertainers singing it, demons were singing it.”
And one of the songs he heard was “Umbrella,” by Rihanna.
“It was some of the same lyrics that we hear here, I knew that on Earth a lot of the lyrics and the music and the songs are inspired by demons.
“Every lyric to every song is there to torment you as to the fact you didn’t worship god through music while you were on the Earth.”
A different woman has also revealed what happened to her when she actually momentarily died.
Tine Hines, who suffered a cardiac arrest back in 2018, died for 27 minutes.
Her husband initially tried to resuscitate her, but was unsuccessful, and she died.
On her way to the hospital, Tina was revived six times by medics, effectively dying for 27 minutes in total.
She also died on the operating table, but was eventually resuscitated.
And once she came back, she immediately asked for a pen and paper, and scrawled down “It’s real.”
“It was so real, the colours were so vibrant,” Tina told AZfamily.com
She also believes that she saw a figure that could have been Jesus.
Her niece was so amazed at the message, she even ended up getting it tattooed on herself.
Take a look right here.
But now, a man has gone viral after faking his own death, and showing up at his own funeral.
He reportedly did the whole thing to teach his family a lesson!
“What I see in my family often hurts me,” David Baerten told The Times.
“I never get invited to anything. Nobody sees me. We all grew apart. I felt unappreciated.”
“That’s why I wanted to give them a life lesson and show them that you shouldn’t wait until someone is dead to meet up with them.”
“Those who didn’t come did contact me to meet up. So in a way, I did win,” he added.
