I died for eleven minutes and went to heaven and hell. I was sent back by God to deliver a message to the living

A Kansas woman has come forward with her harrowing personal story of literally going to hell and back during an 11-minute near-death experience.

Charlotte Holmes – a 68-year-old great-grandmother at the time – said her journey to the other side began during a routine heart check with her cardiologist in September 2019.

As her blood pressure shot up from 234 to 134, her doctors told her, “Either you’re going to have another stroke, or you’re about to have a heart attack,” as she recalled.

What followed was a journey to ‘heaven’ and a journey to ‘the edge of hell’ led by God himself as a lesson, according to Holmes, who was asked to pass it on to the living.

Holmes and her husband Danny told the 700 Club that doctors declared her clinically dead after the heart stopped for almost twice the full time (five minutes) routinely used by medical professionals to determine death.

Danny watched in disbelief as the traumatic event unfolded: “Immediately they called this code and everyone started running in,” he said.

“They just started working with her and I thought, ‘Well, I wonder if I can even bring her home.'”

Danny said he was able to confirm his wife’s supernatural story, recounting the shocking moment he heard his wife describing alien things that were not physically present in the room, but that she witnessed in real time.

“That’s when I knew she wasn’t in this world,” he explained.

Holmes explained that her journey began as a classic “out-of-body experience” before she was led to heaven by angels.

“I was over my body,” as she recalled the ordeal.

“I could see them doing chest compressions. I could see them, all the nurses around. I could smell the most beautiful flowers I have ever smelled. And then I heard music.’

In a flash, Holmes said, “When I opened my eyes I knew where I was. I knew I was in heaven.’

Holmes described her diary to heaven as one of “no fear” and only “pure joy.”

As she told the Christian news station, she was greeted by younger, healthier versions of deceased relatives and historical saints from history.

‘I saw my mother. I saw my father. I saw my sister. I saw family members standing behind it. I saw saints of old,” Holmes recalled. ‘They didn’t look old. They didn’t look sick. None of them wore glasses.”

Holmes explained that her journey began as a classic “out-of-body experience” before she was led to heaven by angels. Right: This 19th-century engraving by Gustave Dore depicts Satan and his henchman Beelzebub conferring in John Milton’s classic work ‘Paradise Lost’

Holmes’ husband Danny (above) confirmed his wife’s story, recounting the devastating moment he could hear his wife describing the alien things she witnessed in real time. “That’s when I knew she wasn’t in this world,” he explained

“Behind my mom and dad was a light that was so bright,” she continued. ‘I couldn’t watch it. So bright. But I knew it was Heavenly Father.”

After briefly reuniting with a child she had lost when she was five and a half months pregnant, Holmes recalled that God then took her on a darker, but more educational, detour.

“God took me to the edge of hell,” the 68-year-old great-grandmother claimed.

“I looked down and the smell – rotten meat – that’s what it smelled like,” Holmes recalled. ‘And screams. After seeing the beauty of heaven, the contrast of seeing hell is almost unbearable.”

Holmes told it The 700 Club that God had a purpose in showing her the horrors that follow a life lived outside of morality: ‘He says, ‘I’m showing you this to tell you that if some of them don’t change their behavior, they’ll be here will live.’ I heard my father say, “You have time to go back and share.”

Charlotte and her husband Danny said she made a full recovery and was released from hospital after two weeks of observation.

Last year, medical researchers at the University Hospital of Liège in Belgium tracked 19 people after they had a near-death experience in an intensive care unit (ICU), and followed them up 12 months later.

The researchers, who published their findings in the journal Critical Carethought that Patients who had had a near-death experience were more likely to experience dissociative symptoms days after their ordeal.

These include feeling disconnected from themselves, feeling little to no pain, feeling insecure about who they were, and increased spiritual and personal well-being.

But after that period, there was no significant association with quality of life, despite the fact that NDEs (near-death experiences) “are typically reported as transformative and can be associated with negative emotions,” the researchers wrote.

Years after her own ‘NDE’, however, Charlotte Holmes continued to insist that her experience had been significantly more transformative.

To Holmes’ last death on November 28, 2023 at age 72, the Kansas native shared her incredible story both in public appearances and in private conversations with friends, family and any interested strangers she would meet.

‘People need hope. They want to know if there really is something there,” as Holmes explained her reasoning. “They want to know if everything is OK.”

“I have had the privilege of bringing people to Christ as He asked me to do. All the authority He had, He gave to us,” the great-grandmother claimed.

‘It’s more real than you can imagine. I can look you straight in the eye and tell you with certainty, ‘Heaven is real.’