A woman claims that she saw 'something impossible' when she was looking death in the eyes during an operation.
Pam Reynolds Lowery's case is one of the most well-known 'near death experiences' ever record, and it happened back in 1991, when she was 35.
After checking herself into the hospital after experiencing bouts of paralysis and a temporary loss of speech, an aneurysm to the brain was revealed in a CAT scan, forcing the American to undergo brain surgery.
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And it was during this operation that took place in the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, where Reynolds saw something harrowing.
Podcaster Christina Randall, known for her research into crime, health and conspiracy theory stories, covered the events in a recent episode on her YouTube channel, explaining: “As a last resort a neurosurgeon of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona decided that a rarely performed procedure called a standstill operation could improve Pam's chance of surviving.”
Her body temperature was lowered to 10°C, as her breathing and heartbeat stopped and the blood was 'completely drained from her head' in the high-risk operation.
Reynolds' eyes were taped shut, while a headset that played clicking sounds were put over her ears, ensuring that she was unconscious as they would be irritating if she wasn't.
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But the musician said that she underwent a number of unbelievable experiences while being declared 'dead', speaking to many experts' beliefs that it takes the brain longer to fully 'die'.
First, she claimed that she heard a tone in the D note, with Randall explaining: “Pam said during this she felt more aware than normal and her vision was more focused and clearer than normal… her senses became so hyper-aware it was as if she had more than five senses.”
With this perception, she then saw the surgeons drill through her head to get to the aneurysm, with some details so specific that experts believed that Reynolds had somehow witnessed the life-saving procedure from a third-person perspective.
In an old interview, she recalled: “I was looking down at the body. I knew it was my body but I didn’t care. My vantage point was sort of sitting on the doctor's shoulder.
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“I remember the instrument in his hand, it looked like the handle of my electric toothbrush."
She could even describe the tool in detail, comparing it to her father's old tools that she saw as a child.
Reynolds could even recall discussions that took place between doctors and nurses while operating, and also revealed that she wasn't alone when observing the operation.
“When she tried making out the figures, she realised that it was her grandmother and uncle and other deceased people that she knew,” Randall revealed.
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Reynolds saw her late uncle, who died aged just 39, who was guiding her through the experience.
“My uncle was the one who brought me back down to the body but then I got to where the body was and I looked at the thing and I for sure did not want to get in it,” she previously explained.
Comparing it to 'diving into a swimming pool', the figure of her uncle pushed her to get back into her 'lifeless' looking body, after the seven-hour procedure, and went into recovery.
Reynolds shocked doctors with details of what happened while she was 'dead', though many have tried to debunk her claims since.
Theories on anaesthesia awareness have been shut down, as Reynolds had her eyes closed and hearing blocked from the audio clicks in her headphones.
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Reynolds passed away following heart failure in May 2010, aged 53.
Joshua Nair