Woman died for 11 minutes claims to have seen both heaven and hell

The idea of heaven and hell has been around for thousands of years. however, since there is a requirement to be dead to get into these places, it’s been hard to document. But in 2019, one woman claims that she undertook an extraordinary journey to both heaven and hell after she was pronounced clinically dead for 11 minutes. So, what did she see? (Picture: The 700 Club/Youtube)

What happened?

Charlotte Holmes was 68 years old when she was medically dead for 11 minutes after she took ill during a routine heart check. When she was visiting her cardiologist, her blood pressure suddenly began to spike to 234 over 134 so she was told to stay in hospital, as it needed to come down or she would have stroke or heart attack (Picture: The 700 Club/Youtube)

She was put on an IV drip to help bring her blood pressure down. But, suddenly, she coded, and required emergency intervention. During this time, Charlotte said she was above her body, in a sort of out of body experience, and the doctors were doing chest compressions. But then something happened – and she says she knew she was in heaven (Picture: The 700 Club/Youtube)

Speaking to The 700 Club, Charlotte, from Kansas, US, said: ‘I could see them, all the nurses around, I could smell the most beautiful flowers I've ever smelled and then I heard music. When I opened my eyes I knew where I was. I knew I was in heaven.’ She added: ‘I was above my body. I could see Danny standing in the corner. He had backed up. I could see them, all the nurses around then I opened my eyes. I looked around at the beauty. I could see the trees, I could see the grass and everything was swaying with the music because everything in heaven worships God. I can't convey to you what heaven looked like because it's so above what we can even imagine, a million times’ (Picture: Getty)

She said that she was led into heaven by angels, adding there was no fear, and recognised family members who had died including her parents and sister, as well as ‘saints of old’. She said: ‘There's no fear. It's like pure joy when the angels take over there's no fear when you're going home. It's pure joy. They didn't look old, they didn't look sick. None of them wore glasses, they looked like they were in their 30s but yet it says in the scriptures we will be known as we were known. I knew them, there in their new bodies. They looked wonderful’(Picture: The 700 Club/Youtube)

Charlotte added: ‘Standing behind mom and dad was a light so bright I couldn't look upon it. It was so bright but I knew it was my heavenly father.’ And then she saw a toddler. She said: ‘I couldn't understand and I can remember thinking "who is this?" and I heard my heavenly father said to me, it's your child. I lost that child. I was five and a half months pregnant. I can remember them holding the baby up and saying Charlotte, it's a boy, then he was gone.’ She says she asked God how this was possible. She said: ‘He says they continue to grow in heaven but there's no time it's eternity. So 48 years and here my child, our child, is a toddler’(Picture: The 700 Club/Youtube)

But it wasn’t only heaven she saw. Charlotte said she also saw something that she will never forget. ‘God took me to hell,' she added. 'I looked down and the smell and then rotten flesh, that's what it smelled like and screams. After seeing the beauty of heaven the contrast to seeing hell is almost unbearable.’ Charlotte explained that she was shown this to warn people what could happen if they don’t change their ways. Then, she felt herself being drawn into her own body. And after remaining in hospital for two weeks following the incident, she made a full recovery and has been sharing her story ever since (Picture: Getty)