A man who had a life-altering near-death experience in a car accident at the age of eight shared his vision of ‘heaven’.
In 1997, Landon Kemp was returning home from church with his parents, Andy and Julie, when they were caught in a devastating car accident.
Following the collision, Landon was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center in North Carolina, where medical staff had to resuscitate him twice. Tragically, his father died instantly at the scene.
“I didn’t see what he was yelling at. I didn’t see the ambulance coming. But I remembered him yelling. That was the last thing I heard from him,” his mom Julie recounted to the Christian Broadcasting Network.
“They couldn’t see his body because of the damage that was done to the driver’s side of the car.
“And Landon was sitting behind his dad. And when they saw Landon’s shoe, it took a deeper search for his body.
“When they pulled Landon out from the back of the car, he was not breathing.
“And they all started working on him right away to bring him back”
Landon’s condition was critical as he ‘died’ two more times but was revived by the medical team.
Julie explained: “[Doctors] told me that if he lived, which did not look good, but that if he lived, that he would be like an eight-year-old baby.
“That he would not know how to walk or talk or to eat. I was so desperate that [it] was OK, I would take that.”
Remarkably, Landon survived without any brain damage, and over the years, he recounted to his mother that he experienced a visit to ‘heaven’ during the crisis.
“I remember being able to see my dad and his friend Olan Palmer, who had passed away less than a month before he did,” Landon recounted.
“And Olan’s son, Neal Palmer, who had died on a four-wheeler years before,” he added. “Never one of us said a word to each other but we were just all standing there.”
In addition to seeing his father, Landon described encountering his mom’s ‘two other children’ from miscarriages. Julie insists she never mentioned the miscarriages to her son.
“I knew that they were my siblings even though no one had ever told me about them,” Landon remembered. “Just being in heaven, I guess you know your own or you know who everyone is.”
“It was almost as if like a preview of a movie to where you only get to see certain bits and pieces of things,” he explained further.
Landon also claimed to have met Jesus, who advised him to ‘be a good Christian’.