Well, one man - a priest actually, from Michigan certainly does. And for him, it’s not just a matter of faith. The priest, whose name is Gerald Johnson, says that back in 2016 he had a heart attack and found himself in hell.
The man is calling this a “near-death experience” (NDE) so, it’s not clear if he was clinically dead or not.
But his story is a fascinating one - especially the music choice in hell. Very interesting.
MSN reported that In 2016, a Michigan-based priest named Gerald Johnson suffered a heart attack. He says he had a near-death experience (NDE) that sent him somewhere he never thought he’d visit: hell.
Recently, Johnson took to TikTok to share the details of his traumatic NDE—far from the kind of warm, bright-light epiphany you might expect to hear from someone who temporarily ventures into the great beyond.
“I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy,” Johnson recounts in the viral video. “I don’t care what he did to me. No one deserves that.”
Johnson says that immediately after his heart attack in February 2016, his spirit left his physical body and went down to hell, entering through “the very center of the Earth.” Though he says “the things I saw there are indescribable,” he did his best.
Johnson claims he saw a man walking on all fours like a dog and getting burned from head to toe:
“His eyes were bulging and worse than that: He was wearing chains on his neck. He was like a hellhound. There was a demon holding the chains."
Johnson also heard music in hell, including Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”—traditionally upbeat tunes. Only this time, demons were singing the songs to “torture” people.
Johnson says his hellacious NDE made him realize he needed to forgive people who had wronged him, instead of hoping for their punishment.
Maybe Johnson’s story sounds far-fetched to you.
But scientists say that while many of the most publicized NDEs have a positive spin, negative NDEs certainly occur, too.
The experts just aren’t entirely sure how—or why.
I don’t know if this man went to “hell” or if he went into some “sleep state” and had a nightmare, but either way, I don’t blame it for having a deep impact on him.
