ABC: What it's like to experience a brush with death

PHOENIX - Wednesday night on ABC15, we took a look at what people feel, see and hear when they cross over to the other side.

ABC’s Bob Woodruff probed the mysteries of near death experiences – including his own – in a special “Primetime Nightline.”

ABC15 spoke with Woodruff Wednesday morning. He told us so many people he interviewed for the story had an out-of-body experience, similar to his own when his group was hit by an IED 5 years ago while covering the war in Iraq.

He told us when he woke up 36 days later he remembered seeing his body floating below him. Woodruff says others he spoke with describe experiences like his, but the thing he found interesting was, all of them say they weren’t scared.

“Everyone said it was comfort, there was a lack of fear, and certainly no pain. All of them share that, no matter who they are that’s gone through this and it’s very, very interesting.”

Woodruff also spoke with several doctors and scientists, who don’t necessarily reject these out-of-body experiences, but they’re just looking for answers.

“It could be some kind of bleeding in the head that might have a different kind of effect on the brain that would give you the same kinds of images, some of them really believe it is an illusion or a dream,” Woodruff explains.

ABC15 wanted to know, how the people he interviewed felt about coming back to this world. Woodruff says, “Almost everybody said not only that they thought about staying, but generally wanted to stay. I, in some ways, was fine with staying.”