According to Charlotte Holmes, a resident of Wichita, Kansas, who “died and came back to life” in September 2019, she witnessed firsthand the existence of both heaven and hell.
Charlotte, a woman in her late sixties, found out her blood pressure was extremely high at a routine visit to a cardiologist. The physicians then told her that she was either experiencing a heart attack or a stroke.
After being declared clinically dead for eleven minutes, she was whisked away to the hospital, where she had an out-of-body experience.
As soon as Charlotte described being able to smell and see the most beautiful flowers, her husband Danny, who had been by her side during the whole frightening experience, suspected something was wrong.
While speaking about the experience on The 700 Club, he stated, “That’s when I knew she was not in this world.”
Speaking about it, Charlotte said: “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.”
It would appear that the Bible’s depiction of heaven is accurate.
Charlotte said: “I can’t convey to you what heaven looked like, because it’s so above what we can even imagine, a million times.
“There’s no fear, it’s like pure joy when the angels take over.”
She saw her late parents, sister, and other relatives in her vision, including her unborn son, who had tragically passed away during her pregnancy, but who appeared as a small boy rather than a fetus.
Her depiction of damnation, though, is what really gets under your skin.
She asserted that God showed her hell when she was in heaven.
Charlotte added: “God took me to hell, and I looked down and the smell, and the rotten flesh – that’s what it smelled like… and screams.
“After seeing the beauty of heaven, the contrast to seeing hell is almost unbearable.”
The devout Catholic said that God showed her the horrors of hell so that she might warn others.
She went on: “He says, ‘I show you this to tell you, if some of them do not change their ways, this is where they shall reside.’ I heard my father say, ‘You have time to go back and share.'”
Although she was revived after 11 minutes, four years later, in November 2023, at the age of 72, Charlotte passed away from a heart attack.
Danny, Crystal, their only kid, and the grandchildren were left behind when she passed away.