Patient Pronounced Dead Tells Doctor He Went To Hell And Met The Devil

A stabbing victim was declared dead before making a harrowing return to life, during which he claimed to have encountered the devil himself.

The mysteries of what happens after death have long captivated human curiosity.

Over the centuries, many have speculated about ascending to heaven, descending into hell, wandering the earth as spirits, reincarnating, or simply ceasing to exist.

People have shared countless stories and beliefs about the afterlife, including near-death experiences where their lives flashed before their eyes or they had out-of-body experiences.

This particular tale, however, takes a chilling turn to the underworld.

Shared in a viral TikTok by @outterdarkness, a doctor narrates the ordeal of a young man, about 22 or 23 years old, who was critically wounded in the heart during a drug deal gone wrong.

The patient was pronounced dead, but managed to pull through. Pixabay / Stock image

While working in the emergency room, the doctor witnessed the young man arrive with his chest open.

Another doctor on the scene was determined not to give up on him without a fight.

They rushed him into surgery and flooded his system with blood.

Incredibly, after extensive efforts, they were able to restore his pulse and repair the damage to his heart.

"After about four hours, he woke up, looked me in the eye and grabbed me, and started crying and sobbing, and said [he] met the devil," the doctor recounted.

The patient vividly described his experience: "I saw you working on me, I was dead, I'd never prayed," he said.

"[He said] he went straight down into hell and looked straight in the eyes of the devil."

It was at that moment, the man, who had never been religious, began to pray fervently.

An angel, he claimed, reached down and pulled him back from the brink.

The doctor added, "It was the most amazing experience because he was legit, I mean nobody makes up an experience like that. 

"The last I heard, he's completely changed his life; he gave his life to God, and I still to this day... 

The patient said he went to hell and back Pixabay

"The look in his eye when he woke up, the terror, I'm absolutely convinced he did meet the devil."

The TikTok video capturing this extraordinary story has garnered over seven million views and sparked thousands of comments.

One commenter, with 23 years in EMS, noted: "You can tell when you get someone back that they have seen something. It is in their eyes."

Another user shared a similarly supernatural experience: "I died at 23 after I got shot in the head, I met the lord and said it’s not your time yet. 

"After 8 hours of surgery they brought me back to life."