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I don’t doubt that this man is earnest and is telling the truth about his experience as he recalls it. I am surprised at how poorly read he is Biblically, though.

My understanding of the Catholic Purgatory would have it be very similar to the Jewish Sheol. This man’s description of his experience does sound remarkably like being “gathered unto his people” in paradise, which was a level of Sheol. He even uses the word “paradise.”

But. this man’s account, of seeing wandering “souls” outside the hospital window after apparently returning from this paradise, while still clinically dead, does not in any way equate to any concept of either Purgatory or Sheol, none that I’ve ever read about at least.

Earthbound spirits are demonic, from a purely Biblical standpoint. To be absent the body is to be in the presence of the Lord, spiritually. The soul is in the blood, according to Leviticus. Soul and spirit are not synonymous, and neither are wandering around on Earth after death.

Seek out Biblical passages in the original language(s) to find out for yourselves.

To be absent the body is to be in the presence of the Lord, spiritually.

Uh; that isn 't EXACTLY what the scripture says:

New International Version (©1984)
We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

International Standard Version (©2008)
We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from this body and to live with the Lord.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
We are confident and prefer to live away from this body and to live with the Lord.

King James Bible
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

The bible merely records the PREFERENCE of men, NOT what will actually be the case.

AND is significant as well, for we are going to be absent the body for a spell until we get in the presence of the Lord.

And the dead in Christ will rise first.

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air,

and so we will always be with the Lord.

1 Thess 4:15-17

Seek out Biblical passages in the original language(s) to find out for yourselves.

you are somewhat correct, though we define the final purification/sanctification/purgatory as

All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation;
but after death they undergo purification (by the blood of the Lamb, the one-time sacrifice of Our Lord and God Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit and the grace of Our Lord, God the Father
This is not defined as a place or period of time as once dead you are immediately judged and move to heaven or hell. yet we know that some sins are forgiven after death (except for sins against the Holy Spirit), hence they are forgiven before heaven, so we call this final sanctification as purgatory. More than that, it is just speculation and not doctrine