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To: Williams

Sounds like a hoax or a delusion.

What do you make of this one?
Not reincarnation, just near death experience of heaven but:

A boy who almost died from a ruptured appendix has said he met the dead sister he did not know existed.

The extraordinary claims by Colton Burpo, aged four, came after he was misdiagnosed with flu while his family, from Imperial, Nebraska, were on a trip to Colorado. By the time they returned home he was seriously ill and had to undergo emergency surgery twice.

While he was in the operating theatre his parents, Todd and Sonya, prayed, believing they were going to lose their son.

However, Colton soon recovered and then told his astonished parents that he had met the sister his mother had miscarried a year before his own birth.

What made this even more remarkable was his parents had never spoken to him about her.
Daily Mail, 2011.
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Might be a hoax. Or just plain weird story.


31 posted on 10/19/2022 7:46:39 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

[[A boy who almost died from a ruptured appendix has said he met the dead sister he did not know existed]]

it’s possible he was told when young, but didn’t think about it till the near death experience jogged that part of his memory- even though the parents claim they never spoke to him about her- or he overheard them talking about her- same goes for picking the woman out- likely had seen photos of her before-

so many hoaxes though- saw one hte other night- girl who ‘cries glass shards’ had the whole world deceived until someone did an experimenter with smooth shards themselves and replicated the feat- so many people out to deceive others- she and her family were getting rich off her hoax-


48 posted on 10/19/2022 8:18:22 PM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: frank ballenger

I think that one was discovered later to be a hoax. The book was called, “Heaven is for Real”.


57 posted on 10/19/2022 8:37:23 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: frank ballenger
A boy who almost died from a ruptured appendix has said he met the dead sister he did not know existed.

Great movie!
Heaven is for Real
85 posted on 10/20/2022 4:03:34 AM PDT by j_guru
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To: frank ballenger
Not reincarnation, just near death experience of heaven but:

You KNOW this, how? I'd venture a guess that you don't know anything at all about the afterlife. It is probably more sophisticated than you'd guess.

98 posted on 10/20/2022 5:23:12 AM PDT by GingisK
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