'I'm a nurse and one creepy moment in hospital made me believe in an afterlife'

A nurse has shared the eerie moment that has stuck with him throughout his career and completely changed his perspective on the afterlife. Moe, who works as an emergency room nurse, has taken to social media to share the otherworldly he experienced about after speaking to a man who flatlined in his hospital bed.

The TikTok users, who is known as @tribenursing on the video sharing platform, said: "We had a trauma patient flatline for 20 minutes. Doctor was about to call it when the monitor jumped. Strong pulse. He survived. Later he told us he remembered floating above the room, describing details he couldn’t have known. That’s the day I knew a higher power is real."

Wanting to know whether anyone has experienced anything similar, he asked users: "Nurse to nurse - what's one moment in your career that made you believe a higher power is real?"

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Commenting on his post, one user said: "I had a hospice patient who was a retired police officer whose transition took hours and hours.

"The priest came out and talked to the daughter about letting go and encouraging him that he was OK and it was time for her to let go so he could feel comfortable leaving.

"When he finally did he passed. Some time went by, signing papers, narcotics post-mortem care, and when the wife asked me what the time of death was I told her.

"They all shrieked and I had no clue why and asked. It was his badge number. I got chills and asked the priest what just happened here and he said, you know what just happened."

Another user added: "A patient was flatlining. We called time of death and nine seconds later her heart started again.

"When she woke up, she thanked me for holding her hand and singing the hymn, 'What a powerful name it is'. No one in that ER held her hand or sang to her. I believe it was Jesus."

A third user said: "Hospice nursing. I saw some in complete torment during the last days that were not believers, no matter what we did it was so difficult to keep pain controlled etc.

"And then the believers who went from non verbal to singing praises at the end. It was palpable."

One more user said: "I remember as a student a patient came in for a hit and run and I remember praying that a miracle would happen and the patient would survive as the patient was so young, throughout CPR I continued to say a small prayer and they called time of death and we even waited the two min of silence for respect after time of death.

"I still prayed for a miracle and once they started to body bag the patient the nurse felt a pulse and the patient came back to life. I don’t think I’ve cried for a patient like that in my life."

However, one more user shared their experience with what they believe to be "hell", saying: "I flatlined and was dead came back somehow. I didn't see god or the light.

"What I saw was darkness and evil. It was the scariest thing in the world pretty sure it was hell."