Secrets from Beyond The Grave

Chapter 8 The Mystery of Near-Death Experiences

Steve Lofty has worked with the emergency medical services (EMS) in the area where I live. In May of 2008, on a Saturday, he returned from work tired, fell asleep, and suddenly awoke with a funny feeling in his chest. After drinking water brought no relief, his experience with heart attack patients indicated to him that he was having a heart attack. He was rushed to the hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he underwent emergency bypass surgery to relieve the heart pressure. After regaining consciousness in his room, he began to notice certain people appearing near his bed. He was amazed to see people who were deceased stepping through the wall and watching him. They would smile at him, and he could actually communicate with them. They answered questions that were in his mind--without his audibly communicating with them. One of the first questions he asked was, "Am I going to die?" The response was, "No. You are not done. There are still things you have to do." He asked this question twice and both times was told he would live and not die. He was amazed at how he could simply think of a question, and the answer would come, just as when two people communicated with each another. As hours and a few days passed, he was fully awake and would see others who had departed pass into his hospital room. At times they would smile at him and say nothing. He saw two very special people: his grandmother and a past friend--rescue chief for West Park Fire Rescue, Roy L. Rogers. They looked exactly as he remembered them while they lived on Earth, except they had a rather translucent appearance, almost like a full-color hologram. When nurses entered the room, the nurses walked right past the visitors--and through them at times--and never realized they were there! When asking his grandmother and Roy how they were, they replied they were fine. After several days of seeing many friends who had passed appear in his room, he realized that two people were missing from this group: his father and his grandfather. When he inquired of Roy and his grandmother about the two missing men, they simply looked at each other and ignored his question, never responding. After this occurred several times, he then realized that these two men were not in the same heavenly place that his Christian grandmother and Roy were. He recalled that his father had passed away with severe unforgiveness and with an unrepentant heart. He also recalled that his grandfather was a very wicked man in many ways. Both men suffered before their deaths. They never went to church, never asked for forgiveness, and allowed pride to hinder them on their deathbeds. Some would suggest that Steve was simply hallucinating from his heart problems or tripping out on medicine. The following incident proves this theory incorrect. A man appeared to Steve and revealed an important incident concerning a mutual close friend. He asked Steve when he returned home to speak to this friend and give him this information. After returning home, Steve called the man to his house and revealed what the departed fellow had told him. The fellow ran out of the house, later returning, and said, "You really did see him. Only two people on Earth knew about that incident--me and him!" Steve and I have discussed these events, and we are uncertain if these individuals appeared to him in the same manner as Moses and Elijah did to Christ or if this was an actual vision given to him in the manner John saw the events of the Apocalypse. However, such strange events are a part of what some term near-death experiences . Steve said prior to this experience,