What started as a normal dive quickly turned into one of the most intense moments I’ve ever experienced underwater. Out of nowhere, a massive eel appeared, and the situation escalated faster than I ...

Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are unusual psychological phenomena provoked by a brush with death, such as feelings of immense joy or out-of-body experiences. A new pair of studies explores the ...

A man was declared clinically dead and later described an experience that felt like entering another world. He claims he was taken somewhere completely different from reality, a place that felt vivid ...

From a self-imposed 12-month ultimatum to 400M streams, the Australian artist breaks down his new album CHALANT, and the ...

Emotions can feel intense following a close call in the mountains. Giving yourself time and space to understand your reaction is part of healing.

As many as 10 percent of us have had what we think is a near-death experience, which, doing the math, that’s a lot – roughly 36 million in the U.S. alone.

Near-death experiences continue to challenge the scientific understanding of consciousness: how can vivid and structured reports be explained at moments of extreme physiological failure? This is the ...

Nina Hagen died in the early 1970s. She remembers being somewhere in between life and death, before meeting the Almighty. “I had a near-death experience in East Germany as a young teenager in a very ...

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Actor Bob Odenkirk talks about a near-death experience. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We ...

Near-death experiences, or NDEs, have become a prominent way to study consciousness in the past 50 years. A new literature review surveys nearly 40 years of NDE research and finds that children’s ...

Each week, a guest draws a card from NPR's Wild Card deck and answers a big question about their life. Bob Odenkirk has range. The "Better Call Saul" star has acted in comedies, dramas, even on ...