“I was in a coma for 18 days, but I spent a year in hell”, confesses a woman who later abandoned her church VIDEO

A woman who was raised to be a “good Catholic girl” says she turned her back on the Church after a terrifying near-death experience left her convinced she had spent a year in hell. Kathy McDaniel, now 80, spent 18 days in a medically induced coma in late 1999 after developing a life-threatening lung condition that left doctors in Seattle, United Statesto give him only a 38% chance of survival.

I was a “good Catholic girl” until I spent a year in helland the fact that I was tormented by demons convinced me to leave the church after I cheated death, the woman confesses, according to the Daily Mail.

What she experienced during that coma would haunt her for decades. McDaniel told the source that although doctors assured her that the powerful drugs would prevent her from remembering anything, she found herself trapped in what she believed to be a realm infernal.

She described waking up in a world of total darkness where she was taken to the burning ruins of an infernal city, a monstrous hospital that piled up the remains of unborn children, an endless road filled with sexual predators, and a frozen wasteland guarded by a demon. Although she was unconscious for less than three weeks, McDaniel said the ordeal felt like it had lasted more than a year.

In 2017, Marc Wittmann, a psychologist at the Institute for Borderlands in Psychology and Mental Health, theorized that this experience of time warping occurred during near-death experiences because the brain’s temporal processing is disrupted in extreme conditions, making events seem much longer or much shorter than they actually were.

But years later, McDaniel came to a surprising conclusion that would eventually lead her away from Catholicism. McDaniel said, “I thought I was going to go to purgatory when I died. That’s what I was told. And purgatory was like hell, but you can get out of there.” “If you’re taught that from the age of five and now you’re, say, 60, you believe it. And then, when I got there, that’s what I expected, and I did it.”

McDaniel said that when doctors put her into a coma, she “woke up” and vividly remembered floating through a silent void when a red mist appeared. “Out of this fog came this horrible, maniacal voice that just said, ‘Do you know where you are?’ And I was running, I couldn’t think, and I thought, oh my God, must this be hell? And he just laughed, this horrible laugh, and I ran,” she recalled.

The woman said she was suddenly transported to a bombed-out city

A study published in 2019 in the journal Memory, which compared positive and negative near-death experiences (NDEs), argued that there is little difference between these events and that they basically show the same type of brain activity, just with varying emotional tones.

The study authors said this helps explain why some people return from the brink of death with terrifying stories that seem just as vivid and life-changing as peaceful ones. In McDaniel’s case, she said she was suddenly transported to a bombed-out city that she compared to a New York in ruins, with collapsed buildings, screaming people and chaos everywhere.

She claimed to have seen strange figures in dark clothing wandering around. She tried to escape by climbing the rubble, but fell, and the lights went out again, her consciousness descending into another realm of hell. He then came face to face with a huge hairy demon that looked like a Yeti. McDaniel said the demonic creature gave him an impossible task of cutting through an endless field of vines while he laughed at her struggles.

He then landed in a hospital-like area where he claimed demonized “doctors” had given him the remains of some dead babies to put in a gigantic warehouse. “I said, I can’t do this and I’m not going to do it. And he’s like, ‘Oh, you know what? It’s only going to get worse.'” “I thought, how is that possible … then the lights went out.”

Her experience would end after her consciousness was sent to a frozen wilderness where she and other souls were kept in a dilapidated hut under the watch of a “female demon”. The frozen shack was her last vision of hell before she was suddenly lifted into a realm of overwhelming happiness, love and joy. McDaniel said she forgot her experience in hell because her vision focused on a bright, cathedral-like space.

Like many other near-death experience (NDE) patients, McDaniel revealed an overwhelming sense of reluctance to return to Earth, even as she said her fiance’s spirit claimed she had more to do before she died.