A man who ‘died’ three times in one day as a child has detailed what he saw ‘in heaven’ and a haunting confession.
Landon Kemp was just eight years old when he and his family were involved in a horrific car accident in 1997.
The Kemps, who were driving home from church in Carolina, USA, were hit sideways by an ambulance at an intersection.
Landon’s father, Andy, was killed instantly and the car was so mangled that emergency responders initially did not realize there was a child in the vehicle who needed to be rescued.
His mother Julie, who was also in the car at the time and was treated at the scene, remembered in one YouTube video of how she thought her son was dead.
Landon Kemp was just eight years old when he and his family were involved in a horrific car accident in 1997
“They couldn’t see his body because of the damage to the driver’s side of the car,” she said.
“When they saw Landon’s shoe, they searched deeper for his body.
“When they got Landon out of the back of the car, he wasn’t breathing.”
First responders were able to revive Landon, and he was immediately flown on an emergency plane to Carolina’s Medical Center.
He would die twice more that day, but each time the medics managed to revive him.
But even then, with Julie conscious, doctors said her son might suffer permanent brain damage as a result of the continued lack of oxygen he had experienced.
However, Landon not only miraculously avoided brain damage, he is also one of the few people who experienced near-death experiences and said he temporarily “went to heaven.”
These phenomena, which have been recorded around the world, are a source of fascination for clinicians and the public alike and are a general term for things people experience when they are clinically dead.
Landon’s father, Andy, was killed instantly and the wreckage of the family car was so mangled that emergency responders were initially unaware that there was a child in the vehicle that needed to be rescued. Landon pictured here in the hospital
In Landon’s case, he claims to have seen the afterlife.
Julie remembers that when Landon woke up, she was going to tell him about his father’s death, but she was interrupted when her son said he already knew because he had seen his father in heaven.
Landon, 35, still remembers his experience vividly.
“I remember being able to see my father and his friend Olan Palmer, who had passed away less than a month earlier,” he said.
“And Olan’s son, Neal Palmer, who had died on a four-wheeler years ago.
“None of us said a word to each other, but we all just stood there.”
Landon also claims to have met two of his siblings, with Julie having suffered two miscarriages during two previous pregnancies before her son was born.
He recalled, “I knew they were my brothers and sisters, even though no one had ever told me about them.
“Just because you’re in heaven, I think you know yours, or you know who everyone is.”
Landon added that during each of his “deaths” he had a different experience and in one of them he met Jesus.
Julie remembers that when Landon woke up, she was going to tell him about his father’s death, but she was interrupted when her son said he already knew because he had seen his father in heaven.
“Jesus came to me and told me to go back to earth and be a good Christian and tell others about him.”
Experiences like the one Landon had, where he saw and heard things while he was clinically dead, do have a scientific basis.
For years, studies have shown that the human brain continues to function normally for a very short time after the heart stops.
However, further research has shown that the brain can still experience sporadic bursts of activity during CPR even after an hour without oxygen.
This activity after clinical death is at levels normally associated with higher mental functions, such as thinking and imagining.
Such discoveries have led some medics to call for a review of the standard practice of declaring people dead after three to five minutes of oxygen deprivation, because in theory these patients can still be resuscitated.
Research into near-death experiences has shown that people undergoing these experiences can experience a variety of different sensations, but many have a common theme.
These include out-of-body experiences, bright lights at the end of a tunnel, meeting deceased relatives or seeing their lives flash before their eyes.
Experiences like the one Landon had, where he saw and heard things while he was clinically dead, do have a scientific basis
Some recall seeing a heavenly afterlife, while others claim to have seen demons and visited hell.
While research continues to prove that something happens in the brain after clinical death, the question of why exactly so many people have similar experiences remains a matter of debate among experts.
Some theorize that as the brain undergoes these changes, it essentially releases the system’s ‘brakes’ and opens our perception to incredibly clear and vivid experiences of stored memories from every moment in our lives.
However, this is just a theory and other experts dispute this.
It should be noted that clinical death is different from brain death.
Brain death is when a person on an artificial life support machine loses all brain function, meaning he or she does not regain consciousness.
Such patients have no chance of recovery because their bodies cannot survive without artificial life support.
Research into near-death experiences has shown that people undergoing these experiences can experience a variety of different sensations, but many of them have a common theme, like bright lights at the end of a tunnel.
In Britain this means that a person who has suffered brain death is legally dead.
This can be difficult for the families of the deceased to understand, as they can see their loved one’s chest rise and fall with each breath from the ventilator and their heart continue to beat.
Brain death can be caused by both disease and injury when the blood and/or oxygen supply to the vital organ is cut off.
The condition is different from a vegetative state in which a patient’s brain function is preserved.