Oh Christ… is hell truly a reality?
Charlotte Holmes from Wichita, Kansas, claims it is, asserting she experienced both heaven and hell firsthand after her ‘death and revival’ in September 2019.
Charlotte, in her late sixties then, visited a cardiologist for a routine check-up where it was revealed that her blood pressure was perilously high. Doctors informed her she was experiencing either a heart attack or a stroke.
She was immediately taken to the hospital, where she was declared clinically dead for 11 minutes, during which she had an out-of-body experience.
Charlotte described seeing and smelling astonishingly beautiful flowers, leading her husband Danny, who was by her side during the frightening event, to suspect something extraordinary was happening.
Recalling the event on The 700 Club, Danny remarked: “That’s when I knew she was not in this world.”
Charlotte recounted: “I could smell the most beautiful flowers I’ve ever smelled, and then I heard music. When I opened my eyes, I knew where I was. I knew I was in heaven.”
Heaven, according to her, is as magnificent as described in the Bible.
Charlotte stated: “I can’t convey to you what heaven looked like, because it’s so above what we can even imagine, a million times.
“There’s no fear, it’s like pure joy when the angels take over.”
In her vision, she saw her parents, sister, and other deceased family members, including her baby who had died during pregnancy, appearing as a young boy.
Her account of hell, however, is quite unsettling.
While in heaven, she claimed that God revealed to her a vision of hell.
Charlotte elaborated: “God took me to hell, and I looked down and the smell, and the rotten flesh – that’s what it smelled like… and screams.
“After seeing the beauty of heaven, the contrast to seeing hell is almost unbearable.”
The dedicated Catholic explained that God showed her the horrors of hell to serve as a warning to others.
She continued: “He says, ‘I show you this to tell you, if some of them do not change their ways, this is where they shall reside.’ I heard my father say, ‘You have time to go back and share.'”
After 11 minutes, she was brought back to life, but in November 2023, Charlotte passed away at 72 due to a heart attack.
She is survived by her husband Danny, their daughter Crystal, and her grandchildren.