There are many accounts of near death experiences (NDEs) and out-of-body experiences in YouTube that are consistent with Roman Catholic teaching about the afterlife, Hell in particular. Horrific, lurid, they concur with the private revelations of the saints.
Told with with heartfelt sincerity, they are gripping but unverifiable stories, so that the truth to which they claim to attest is at best indicative.
Some of the most instructive and memorable visions include the following:
—Bill Wiese, “23 Minutes in Hell (8 Minutes) - Bill Wiese, The Man Who Went To Hell,” YouTube video, 7:59 minutes, March 8, 2018
This vision confirms the private revelations of the saints concerning the following details about Hell:
—Living For Christ, “MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL LITERALLY GRABBED THIS MAN OUT OF HELL AFTER DEFEATING A 13 FOOT TALL DEMON,” YouTube video, 20:41 minutes, July 3, 2016
Notable points in this vision include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_3thytWnXU&list=LLhsHG1GBwJKMuoteJBzZfEg&index=57
—The Final Stand With Pastor John, “I went to hell a warning you must hear, incredible testimony,” YouTube video, 9:19 minutes, November 26, 2016
Notable points in this vision include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOHHE4r0FGw
—Richard Ellis, “Once Saved Always Saved? I went to the Outer Darkness (Hell) for unfaithful christians!” YouTube video, 9:01 minutes, February 13, 2018
Notable points in this vision include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkFGrxzJz7o
—FOX 8 News Cleveland, “Man Says He Went to Hell and Back,” YouTube video, 5:57 minutes, May 14, 2014
Notable points in this vision include:
It’s good to dwell on the horrors of Hell and as a consequence to pray often for our salvation and those of others.
Photo of Darvaza gas crater, near Derweze, Turkmenistan courtesy of flydime
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The fate of the damned is unspeakable.
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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Chapter 41
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Dostoevsky describes the essential punishment of Hell, the pain of loss.
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RELATION IS ESSENCE
Delete“The relations do not merely exist between the Persons. They are the Persons, for they are subsistent relations.”
https://catholicism.org/the-relations-in-the-blessed-trinity.html
—Brother André Marie, “The ‘Relations’ in the Blessed Trinity,” Catholicism.org, January 25, 2008
In ordering human beings towards relations—towards God first and then towards angels and all humanity in and through God—human beings are created by God in the image and likeness of God. Because in God, relation is essence, while in human beings, relation belongs to their essence. Human beings are created by God in order to relate to God first and then to the angels and all humanity, second. We are created to relate to God and to each other in love, the love of God.
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FIVE SAINTS WHO HAD TERRIFYING VISIONS OF HELL
ReplyDeleteBlessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
Saint Teresa of Avila
Saint John Bosco
Sister Lucia dos Santos of Fatima
Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska
https://www.churchpop.com/2015/10/28/5-saints-who-had-terrifying-visions-of-hell/
—ChurchPOP Editor, “5 Saints Who Had Terrifying Visions of Hell,” ChurchPOP, October 28, 2015
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When I first encountered Christians who denied the existence of hell and its revealed attributes, I was very surprised because it is a truth I have grown up with and have taken it for granted for most of my life. I was also horrified—horrified to see anyone turn a blind eye toward the possibility of their eternal damnation. Now I am no longer surprised. However, I am still horrified.
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THE REMNANT?
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—Touching The Afterlife, “Engineer Dies & Fights Off Demons from Hell & Jesus Asks Him the Ultimate Question – Karl’s Testimony,” YouTube video, 1:26:41 minutes, December 31, 2023
What caught my attention is really just one detail (see 1:00:12): 2.5% +- 0.1% go to heaven, and the remainder goes to hell.
I wonder.
Scripture doesn’t give us a number.
Revelation 12:4 indicates that one-third of the angels fell from heaven—that is, 2/3 of the angels were granted the beatific vision in heaven.
Now he’s saying, less than 3% of humanity goes to heaven?
The Roman Catholic religion doesn’t tell us what proportion of humanity will be damned or what corresponding percentage will be saved.
I’m speechless.
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His story illustrates some of the problems about private revelation. Short of any endorsement by the Church, we are inclined to be skeptical, and we should be.
DeleteOne important point can be gleaned from his vision: we cannot be presumptuous about our salvation. Saint Paul is correct. We work out our salvation in fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12).
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How many will be damned and how many will be saved? Or in what proportions?
DeleteBased on private revelations approved by the Church—those of Saint Faustina Kowalska or Saints Jacinta and Francisco Marto, for example—it would appear that many are indeed damned.
Jesus’ words in the gospels appear to imply that the majority are damned.
Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.” (Luke 13:23-24)
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’” (Matthew 7:21-23)
When Jesus speaks of the “narrow gate,” it’s possible that he is speaking about the direct entry of a soul into heaven without undergoing the purifying fires of purgatory.
Truth is, short of any dogmatic statement by the Magisterium, we don’t and won’t know who or how many are damned.
Notably, the private revelation reported by Father Joseph Ianuzzi below indicates that the majority will be saved; it is a very rare instance wherein the proportion of those saved is actually declared in a private revelation, in fact, the only instance I know of wherein the entire population of humanity throughout their existence in time is encompassed.
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How many are saved and how many are lost? What is the percentage? What would you say if you wanted to know? What would you say? …I can tell you the answer that comes from an approved prophetic work with the seals of approval of the Church on it by a Mexican mystic by the name of Concepción Cabrera de Armida who’s a venerable and whose spiritual director is also a venerable, servant of God Archbishop Luis [Maria] Martinez, who wrote the book The Sanctifier. …in the book that contains the Church’s approval written by this mystic Concepción popularly known as Conchita, Jesus tells her, “In the end, Satan will not be able to gloat because the vast majority of souls will be saved.” These are Jesus’ exact words in Spanish to Conchita. In the end, at the general judgment, when everyone is judged and everyone is saved and condemned, the vast majority will be saved and Satan will acknowledge that he has been defeated.
https://youtu.be/APUSYlKn6tE?si=EkIYQagPNLFATbxo
—Everything Catholic, “Majority will go to Hell? How do they know? Only God knows this number. Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi explains,” YouTube video, 23:08 minutes, May 21, 2026
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Pastor John Lopez deleted his account, so this video is no longer available:
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—The Final Stand With Pastor John, “I went to hell a warning you must hear, incredible testimony,” YouTube video, 9:19 minutes, November 26, 2016
Pastor John’s experience of hell is now available from his interview in Touching the Afterlife. This video, however, is not as easy to digest because it is over one hour longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH2pqLQU22c&t=2314s
—Touching the Afterlife, “I’m a Christian Pastor and Went to Hell for This - Pastor John Lopez’s Testimony,” YouTube video, 1:12:15 hours, September 24, 2024
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See 32:44
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Pastor John’s original video was re-uploaded by a third party here:
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—Urban Prepper reloaded, “ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING Once Saved Always Saved Preacher Goes to Hell,” YouTube video, 10:01 minutes, November 4, 2018
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“Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” (Matthew 10:28)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXOVmgNcvng
—Heaven Encounters with Randy Kay, “Bill Wiese: 23 Minutes in Hell — What He Saw and What the Bible Confirms” YouTube video, 51:43 minutes, April 4, 2026
I’m familiar with Bill Wiese’s story. I also visited hell for one to two seconds in the winter of 1994. I would affirm all his points but also underscore the following:
- You are alone in hell. You cannot relate to anyone in a loving way. Because our nature is to love…we are created by God to love…hell is perpetual torment in this absolute respect—there is no one to love in hell. The damned in hell exist in relation to each other like an inanimate aggregate. They are akin to a pile of stones. There is no love in hell.
- Hell is forever. You aren’t getting out. Ever.
- God’s goodness is present in our experience on earth of his creation. All this goodness is absent in hell.
- Because of my own personal experience of hell, I pray daily for the salvation of souls, with fervor. I pray for my own salvation first, because we can never presume our own salvation.
“Hell: No Way Out”
https://oddsandendsgonzalinhodacosta.blogspot.com/2022/09/hell-no-way-out.html
“What’s Wrong with the Fatima Prayer?”
https://oddsandendsgonzalinhodacosta.blogspot.com/2025/10/correcting-fatima-prayer.html
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