S08-E01 - Near Death Experiences
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
A tunnel.
A brilliant light.
A familiar voice saying it isn’t time.
For generations, people who have come close to death have returned with stories that seem to follow a strangely familiar pattern — leaving the body, moving toward light, encountering loved ones, and feeling an overwhelming sense of peace.
In this first part of Haunted UK Podcast’s exploration of near-death experiences, Steve examines extraordinary accounts from those who stood at the boundary between life and death. From Jeanette Atkinson’s hospital-bed encounter with a grandmother she barely remembered, to neurosurgeon Eben Alexander’s vivid journey during a devastating coma, and Christina Stein’s account of watching surgeons fight to save her life after a catastrophic road accident, these stories raise profound questions about consciousness, memory, survival, and what may wait beyond the final moments of life.
The episode also travels to the Cairngorms, where Jackie Greaves endured a brutal mountain survival ordeal after a fall in white-out conditions, guided by strange lights and impossible visions that may have helped keep her alive.
Blending witness testimony, medical mystery, scientific theory, and the enduring hope of an afterlife, this atmospheric documentary episode explores whether near-death experiences are the final dream of a dying brain — or a glimpse of something far beyond it.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Haunted UK podcast, where paranormal stories from around the world refuse to stay buried. |
| 0:09.4 | If you want to help us keep uncovering the unseen, support us on Patreon, or leave an offering on coffee. |
| 0:17.3 | Now sit back, dim the lights, and don't look behind you. |
| 0:21.6 | Holly had to begin to come to terms. |
| 0:31.6 | Holly had to begin to come to terms with the distinct possibility that the chances of her husband making it through this were incredibly slim. |
| 0:40.3 | Everything seemed to be working against Eben, and in his own unconscious and comatose world, |
| 0:46.3 | he was moving closer and closer to death itself. |
| 0:50.3 | This horrific condition had burrowed itself so deeply into Eben Alexander's brain |
| 0:56.0 | that even when the doctors were pulling back his eyelids |
| 0:59.0 | and checking for any responses from the pupils of his eyes, they were getting nothing at all. |
| 1:05.0 | The life support systems, which he was hooked up to, were keeping his body alive. |
| 1:10.0 | But it seemed his brain may be totally lost. I'm I'm I'm |
| 1:28.3 | I'm |
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| 1:47.0 | The This is episode 71 of the Haunted UK podcast, and in this episode, we travel to the other side to listen to stories of near-death experiences. |
| 2:20.3 | Thank you. to listen to stories of near-death experiences. Every single day we go about our daily lives and routines, mostly completely unaware that |
| 2:42.0 | danger lurks around every corner, danger that walks hand in hand with each and every single one of us as human beings. |
| 2:57.1 | Innocent actions that we take for granted, such as crossing the road, can sometimes have devastating consequences. |
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