Except to the person who experienced it directly.
Wrong again. If only one person can experience something, it is not reproducable nor is it falsifiable, hence it is unverifiable.
There is no exception here. The experience is unverified, ergo, it is not submitable as evidence.
There is no exception here. The experience is unverified, ergo, it is not submitable as evidence.
Which denies a person the right to believe in what he has experienced, unless he can verify that he experienced it. Sorry, but your materialism denies the evidence of the senses.
After that, people who hear the story have a responsibility to judge it, based on what they know about the teller -- his closeness to the person who originally experienced it, his reputation for truth, etc. It may not be proof, but it is evidence.