Eight-year-old who died three times reveals what he saw in the afterlife

After spending two weeks in a coma he told his mum what he saw

In 1997 when Landon Kemp was eight he was returning home from church in North Carolina with his dad Andy and mum Julie when they were involved in a tragic car accident.

The family’s car was struck side-on by an ambulance, killing Andy on impact.

Emergency services were able to stabilise Julie but they did not realise there was a third passenger inside the mangled wreckage.

Julie told the Christian Broadcasting Network: “They couldn't see his body because of the damage that was done to the driver's side of the car. And Landon was sitting behind his dad. And when they saw Landon's shoe, it took a deeper search for his body.”

When they located the young boy, he was not breathing. They resuscitated him and flown to Carolinas Medical Centre but died twice more that day.

Julie recalled: “They told me that if he lived, which did not look good, but that if he lived, that he would be like an eight-year-old baby, that he would not know how to walk or talk or to eat.

“I was so desperate that was ok, I would take that.”

After spending two weeks in a coma, Landon woke up and miraculously did not have brain damage.

Julie was forced to tell her injured son that his father had died in the crash once he woke up, however, Landon remembered seeing his father in heaven when he died himself.

As an adult he reflected on the near-death experience: “I remember being able to see my dad and his friend who had passed away less than a month before he did.”

He also remembers seeing his ‘two siblings’. Julie had two miscarriages before Landon was born but his parents did not tell him about the pregnancies before the car accident.

He said: “I knew that they were my siblings even though no one had told me about them. Just being in heaven, I guess you know your own or you know who everyone is.”

Each of the three times he died, he had a different experience in heaven he said.

“It was almost as if like a preview of a movie to where you only get to see certain bits and pieces of things.

“Jesus came to me and told me that I have to go back to Earth and be a good Christian and tell others about him.”

Landon now helps other people as they come to terms with loss and grief.