On January 18, 2003, Vinney Tolman was found dead in the bathroom of a restaurant.
By the time medics discovered him, he had likely been there for close to an hour. And here’s the most interesting part: they placed him in a body bag.
As they were taking him away, a rookie medic decided to check him one more time. Against all odds, Vinney came back to life.
But the real story isn’t just that he died. It’s what he says happened while he was gone.
If you’ve been following along with us, you know this is a subject we’ve taken seriously for a while. A few months ago, we released a documentary-style episode on what science has revealed about the afterlife.
And back in 2024, we sat down with one of the leading scientists in the field of near-death studies, a field that examines patients who clinically died, came back, and described where they had been.
But today is different.
Because today, we’re not talking about near-death experiences from the outside. We’re sitting with someone who says he had one.
And because we take this subject seriously, we knew that if we ever brought someone on to describe what they saw after death, the circumstances around the death had to matter. It had to be extreme.
It had to be difficult to explain away. We needed to understand what happened medically, who was there, how long he was gone, and whether the basic facts of the story held up under scrutiny.
After doing the background work, we don’t think Vinney’s story is something you can casually dismiss.
So for the next two hours, you’ll hear what happened. The circumstances around his death. What he says he experienced while he was gone. And then you can decide what to do with it.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 – Intro
2:23 – How Vinney Died
6:56 – Separating From His Body
24:43 – Verifying It Actually Happened
30:24 – The Life Review
43:17 – The Bright Light
47:49 – Experience of Time
56:03 – Entering Another World
1:12:33 – Coming Back In His Body
1:30:06 – A Stunning Realization in Wyoming
1:35:31 – The Lessons Vinney Learned
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Od'ed in 2023.. had a very similar experience. I remember waking up and thinking… NO! I want to go back. But I was given the choice. I was in a coma for 5 days. I tried to tell everyone that I was back. They keep saying from where? I didn't know. I felt new and happy. Everyone keep trying to scold me about over dosing. I just keep smiling and telling them. . It doesn't matter. I'm going to be OK. We are all OK. I've never touched a hard drug since. But.. I'm not afraid to die.
No oxygen to the brain for that long would definitely cause brain damage which this BS is proof of
That rookie definitely screwed up….
Open our eyes, Holy Spirit! Amen
hitler deve ta até agora revivendo as coisas ruim que fez ahahah, só o julgamento é sua propria consciencia pode existir algem sem essa "consciencia"?
01:06 God is bigger is exactly (allahu_akber) in arabic
The ingenuity of people to become famous on the net 🎉
I had an NDE and honestly i went cold and everything blacked out. There was nothing but emptiness as in you just stopped feelling amd thinking as you felt colder each moment until your existence just stopped. Then boom. Youre back in a hospitall room feeling warm again and thinking consciously again.
Watched such similar shit about NDEs before dying but it was nothing like this guy or others described. My NDE happened two months ago while i had a major car accident. There was no 7 mins recap of life or watching your life all over again. Everything just stopped and your vision grew black. I knew i was scared about dying cause i knew that was happening and everything just stopped. No cinematic feeling watching your own body dead or everything that happened from above or such as this guy described. Probably was hallucinating cause of what he took and imagined everything based on what others described about NDEs or he just wants to make the most of his NDE. No hate but just honesty here.
Timpanogos Hospital is allegedly where Charlie Kirk was taken. That bit of information jogged me a bit. While so-called scientific experts have every right and duty to examine his man's story from the most rational viewpoint, I think his experience speaks for itself. All of the things he knew, all of the phases he went through, the amount of time he was "dead" all speak to the survival of consciousness after our so called passing. That his story is not a lone story, or a rare one, or even new on the scene of NDE also speaks to what is real. It should give all of us pause before we reach any conclusions and ponder what Hamlet said to Horatio: There are more things of Heaven and Earth then are dreamt of in your philosophy." This is an illuminating share indeed.
if u arent born u wont have to die
Obviously people wear clothes in the afterlife. Interesting, there is modesty in heaven, it seems.
The only thing I don’t understand it’s that if he was dead for all of that time, he should have brain damage or even brain dead because of the oxygen that the brain hadn’t received, so it’s pretty amazing..
We are in the end days. I love you all, read your bible and know that we have all sinned (lied, stolen, taken the Lord's name in vain, hated one another) The Lord is a judge and in court even if you say you're sorry and that you've done way more good, it will not cancel out your crimes. God is good, and demands moral excellence. By His mercy He sent his own Son Jesus, who was sinless to pay our fine. We are free to go and can live with God in heaven! A beautiful, fun, place where there is no pain; instead of hell, a place where you cry out in agony for eternity. It's the absense of anything good. Ask Jesus into your life. He overcame death and was raised again. He can give you His Spirit so you can overcome this world and sin and live with joy and peace. You can pray right now with an honest heart, read His word and ask understanding.
Jesus is the only way, the truth and the life. No other god died to save you. No other god can free you from the things you do that are evil.
We grow into being like Jesus. It's not immediate. Wait on the Lord and He will finish a good work in you!
Well, his story fully convinces me now that people are just seeing their own projections. First off, I definitely don’t think God is a man with a long flowing beard. If I had to choose a gender, God would 1000% be a woman since all life comes from women. But in reality, I think God wouldn’t have a gender or even be personified as a person. So that kind of shows me that it’s our own minds projection of whatever we think that source energy would look like in a physical form. So in other words, like if someone was a Buddhist they might see a Buddha meditating instead of a God with a long white beard and flowing robes.
Thank you I felt some of those things most of my life when someone asks me if I believe, I do but just like that.
Also, the fact that his life review only seemed to include the negative things he did or the hurtful things – that’s also suspicious to me. I don’t think a loving , just God or creator would only show you the bad stuff you did in your life. I believe we would see both the good and the bad so there’s a lot in his story that doesn’t make sense to me. I’m not doubting that This is his experience. I’m just stating that I think each person’s experience is seen through their own personal lens so another person’s experience could be totally different. Which then goes back to the argument that maybe it’s really just the brain creating all of it and there’s nothing else that really exists. Personally I don’t believe that because that would just put me into a negative existential crisis. But just in terms of being objective that is sounding like one possible option. That the Leif review is just the brain doing what it does when it’s shutting down which is like reviewing every possible experience to see if there’s anything similar because this is an experience that has never happened. His story doesn’t make me believe in a creator at all. It makes me believe it was just a projection of his mind. But ultimately, I choose to believe in a higher power, but not a personified one more of a source energy type one. I also listen to the slave planet Earth theory that we’re all in a energy siphoning. loosh harvesting machine ( David Icke’s theory and others) and we’re being siphoned by evil demonic entities or reptilian, and that they lure you back in to reincarnate with the light and the tunnel and visions of loved ones which are actually just like Mirage’s created by these evil ones running this place and that you actually shouldn’t not go to the light. There’s a whole theory out there about it to be honest. I do kind of subscribe to that though because I definitely believe that we’re all being gamed on this planet by some sort of dark entity which you might call demonic but the people running the planet are satanic PDF files as evidence by the Epstein files and many other things. So I don’t doubt that they’ve created some sort of soul recycling system where people just get stuck going back into this planet over and over again like rats on a hamster wheel in a cage. The Buddhist called that the wheel of Samsara . The theory then is that you should not go towards the light and you should not go towards the relatives because that’s just their way to lure you back into taking another incarnation and another lifetime and that’s how people get stuck in this planet for multiple lifetimes and why this is a prison planet and a dark place. The idea is that these beings are more advanced than us and evil. That really makes a lot of sense especially the more I’ve studied alternative history and alternative archaeology. I don’t think those people in the Epstein files are human. I believe that they’re some sort of more advanced dark energy demonic entities that shape shifted into human bodies and or possess humans. The more you know the more you know that you don’t know. One thing I do know though. If this planet doesn’t have some sort of great awakening and some sort of higher consciousness evolution then I definitely don’t wanna come back to this shit hole. Especially in the current state of affairs where we’re all basically slaving away our lives until we’re 75 years old to make money for these satanic predators that have billions of dollars and are running our lives. This planet is the most corrupt disgusting thing I could possibly imagine and I do know for a fact in my heart and soul that I’ve been many other places or realms that were much better than this and this place is a real shit hole. Not that it has to be. It has the potential to be a garden of Eden or a utopia, but it all depends on if human can finally break free from these more advanced dark entities that are running us around like kindergartners, throwing our lives away just to pay for a roof over our head and some food in our bellies. It’s honestly absurd when you wake up and the veil is lifted. Once you go down all the rabbit holes of all the non-conspiracy theories and you see how dark this place is- it’s literally paralyzing. For anyone who has high consciousness and an empath. And the other 80% of people on this planet are completely zombies under the brainwashing psychological operations. Those are the ones that can just look at things like Epstein files and don’t care. They just go back to their bread and circuses go watch a football game. Go watch the Super Bowl go drink a Coors light. Let’s go rape some women -sorry just learned about the Cornell seven and let’s not forget the rape Academy. This place is really a hell hole, especially for women and girls. Just keeping it real over here !! peace out everybody. ❤❤❤
So in conclusion to my last comment , yeah dude, that guy who convinced you to come back who was wearing the costume of your personal image of God -that was the reptilian the satanic pedophiles that are secretly running the country as evidenced by the Epstein files if you actually read them. That’s exactly how they lure you back into a prison planet. Like luring children into Vans with candy. Or luring animals into cages . Just keep those rats on that hamster wheel going around and around in that little cage. 😅😢😢😢
So let me ask you this? Do you think an aboriginal person or someone living in the jungle that theoretically has never seen a white man or read the Bible would see a white male God and flowing robes and with a beard? Of course, not because there were tribes that had never even seen white people or a Bible. So clearly it’s a projection of what he believes in and it’s coming from his mind. Due with that information what you will.
Clearly these two have never had children. The love you have for a pet becomes like the love you have for a can of Coke after you have children. God men really annoy me more every minute of the day. 😮😮😮 but also if you have children, you’ll see it’s not the little simplistic relationship of a pet. It’s literally the craziest experience of your life. You give everything for decades like your entire life and sometimes these kids don’t give two craps. It’s the most spiritual and enlightning experience one could have. It’s like 80% hard work and turmoil and only 20% joy and for some parents it’s just grueling. like if your kid becomes a drug addict. You just have to sit and watch them suffer wanting to help and not being able to do anything. I think these two guys and their dogs are gonna end up having many more lifetimes on the prison planet Earth because they have many more lessons to learn. They are at a very Preschool level with these dogs they have. The karmic experience of children is about 10,000 times more than that of a pet. 😮😮😮 sorry not sorry I’m just in the mood to point out how dumb men can really be in this dumb patriarchy that we’re all living in. God is a woman that I forget to mention that. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He Wasn't Dead In My Opinion More Like A Medically Induced Coma..
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One of the things I've learned from listening to these reports is this: They often vary. Why? My Vegas bet is the result relies heavily on if the witness is a physical materialist (even unconsciously). Again, this is just a hunch/gambit/bet/opinion.
2:15 in and you sound si gay I can't stand to listen anymore.
If you were dead for 107 minutes you would be brain dead! Your brain lives for 4-6 minutes without oxygen for 4 to 6 minutes and then brain damage happens, passing that time line your brain is dead and you are a vegetable! I hate videos like this that talk 💩🤡🤡🤡
i believe him❤
14:20 he's speaking like he's not describing himself
Isn't timpanogos hospital where Charlie Kirk was taken to?
So much fucking bullshit i carry bodybag trust me no one came out alive 👌
Монро описывал это как невероятно тяжелое, буквально сжигающее ощущение стыда.
Перед лицом чистого Света все маски, социальные статусы и достижения (деньги, успешные проекты, репутация) оказались пустым мусором.
Значение имел только эмоционально-духовный след, оставленный в других.
Ад и Рай создаются лично: Наказание за грехи — это не внешняя геенна огненная, а собственное осознание того, сколько боли ты принес другим, когда спадают иллюзии эго.
На Суде не спросили про его религиозность, богатство или статус. Единственный критерий, по которому оценивалась жизнь — насколько ты научился любить и отдавать, и сколько страдания ты породил.
At the start of the life review when it was all the bad stuff I was just face palming and rolling my eyes. It was total garbage just hearing negative negative negative but luckily there's the other side of it
He wasn't dead. Near death is still alive. His brain could still process the audio around him and his brain constructed a grand hallucination. Cool story though and glad he survived.