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On June 14, 2022, Brad Hassig drowned in his own backyard pool—right in front of his two 10-year-old sons and their friend. What happened next made headlines across the country.
After Brad lost consciousness during a meditative breathing exercise, his sons jumped into action, pulling their father’s lifeless body from the water and starting CPR—saving his life before paramedics arrived. Their bravery made national news, with appearances on The Today Show and Good Morning America.
But what the world didn’t hear… is what Brad experienced while he was dying underwater.
In this incredible interview, Brad shares:
⇨ What he saw and felt during his drowning experience
⇨ How he encountered God’s presence below the surface
⇨ The spiritual transformation that’s followed
⇨ The untold miracles above and below the water that day
This is more than a survival story—it’s a divine encounter that changed a life, and a family, forever.
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Brad Hassig is a Chiropractor who also hosts the podcast Second Chance at Health. It’s on all major podcast player and on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/@bradhassig1019.
Brad also wants to bring awareness to the often fatal Underwater Hypoxic Blackout, and has an understandable desire to increase education in water safety. For more about Underwater Hypoxic Blackout, please visit
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 – Intro: The Near-Death Experience (NDE) That Made National News
0:02:40 – His Spiritual Pursuit: The Prayer that Led to the Drowning
0:08:00 – I Died: The Overwhelming Bliss, Pure Light, and Entering Heaven
0:11:53 – The Choice: Why I Was Pulled Back to Earth and My Son’s Voice
0:13:50 – The Chaos of the Return: Pool Deck Rescue, EMTs, and the Hospital
0:17:27 – The Guilt and The Gratitude: Processing a Traumatic Miracle
0:20:47 – Proving God is Real: The Undeniable Certainty of the NDE
0:36:57 – The Transformation: Why I Lost My Desire for Alcohol
0:46:11 – The Gifts: Scriptural Downloads and New Boldness to Pray
1:04:05 – Divine Orchestration: The Impossible Coincidences That Saved Me
1:14:18 – My Son Saw Jesus: The Miracle Above the Water
1:27:30 – Conclusion: Why I No Longer Fear Death
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You're a patent first, period.
People who want to believe will .
Oh my…..
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Brad, this HAS impacted me and I thank you for talking about it! Sharing your experience has indeed impacted me, and am sure others. God allowed you to live so you would share your experience to help those who may be questioning or hard hearted to hear about God, Jesus, and what happens when you die. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Bless you, man!
Can anybody hear that’s giving any comments even this guy that supposedly says he went to heaven share the gospel so other people can get saved because that’s the cause of every believer
Do children who live in remote villages and die without ever hearing about the bible go to heaven?
there are hundreds of thousands NDEs and as a Christian I am struggling with how most are portrayed as everyone goes to heaven…. most do not experience Jesus in their NDE and most do not come back and confess Jesus is the only way. Can someone help me with processing this?
God said we can't imagine
that breathing is great BUT NEVER IN WATER!!!!!!!!
First he said they (the boys) did cheat compressions on him but then he said the one neighbor helped pull him out of the water the rest of the way. So how could the boys be doing cheat compressions on him in the water. It’s not making sense to me. I’m not doubting his story. But if he was in the water and got pulled out by the neighbor who was a doctor, would t the doctor be doing the CPR on him?
The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.
I haven’t had an NDE, but I heard from my son in Heaven. He was 43 when he died. Shortly before he died, he told me that he really missed his grandaddy – my father. Then, early one morning I heard from him. He said “Mom”. I made a note of it. It was August 13th, 2022. Several months later, I realized that he had contacted me on my father’s 105th birthday. Now I no longer miss him. I’m happy for him.
I had a NDE 40 Years ago. My initial moment was being "tumbled" by waves of sound! I felt the praises of the angels and the saints. I could feel EVERYTHING in heaven praising God .
Give your son more time, he is young, let him mature, his heart is still very fragile, he will let you know, when he is ready to understand and talk about it. God bless
In terms of the "bright light" and there being "2 or 3 other places" in scripture, as this guy is saying at 25:19 or 35:15 .. it's a theme found in hundreds of places. The whole Bible culminates in that light, that effulgent love, the word glory in the NT (it's kabod in the OT) as you start to say, dazzling is another… I mean… fire and truth for the ancient Greeks was about how light disconceals, how it reveals …WHENEVER we see the word fire, it's about not merely revelation but the revelation of God's face, and how, as Malachi put it, the "face of the Lord is like a refiner's fire, who can stand it?". In the ENTIRE Bible, there is only one place where the word fire is not about revelation, the word apocalypse means revelation, the idea of God as "a light in which there is no darkness whatsoever" is not a lil' idea in the Bible- it's the eschatological POINT of the whole thing. Paul's "face to face" motif is an OT motif, and that "face to face" is the ultimate revelation; so when we think about light and revelation, we're really talking about the ultimate revelation- the revelation of the face of God. THAT is what scripture is talking about, not all the other stuff. Lossky hits this point pretty hard, Romanides is another guy, both Eastern Orthodox (not Russian or Greek orthodox). Christianities emerging from the western Med don't quite get there, although some of the saints have mystical along these lines, Theresa de Avila comes to mind.
I say all of this because it's a very prevalent theme in NDEs, the light of God, the overwhelming light of God AND it is the whole eschatological playing field of the NT. Gehenna was a site of idolatry, like Auschwitz, think people burning, not German countryside. So Jesus was warning people who'd heard of the idolatry of becoming like the idolaters who did some horrific stuff in that valley. There's a play on words in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus so that's about the rich guy's "big mouth," literally.
All that eschatological imagery is about this light as it relates to the revelation of the face of God.
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Is that interviewer asking those questions to get a response that disproves heaven or just to reinforce God touched him
What an intelligent man able to explain radical differences from endorphins to a real Blessed visit to heaven
Beautiful testimoney
Jesus is alive and real and many had true NDEs Brad
Holy Spirit gives us a discerning spirit to listen and hear fake NDEs but yours is real
Praise God
Will I see my animals that have passed? I hope so!
Really? Why would one practice meditation breathing exercises under water?
Nice think he was thinking of the boys too. God first– then your family. How hard it was for them. What strong dear boys!
I saw Jesus Christ in a dream a few days ago. How I long to be in His presence eternally!
Thank you so much Brad for sharing your experience with us❤✝️
I would stay there. Why did you come back? 😂
Bradd story is amazing. Nothing is coincidence in this life. He had many little miracles of the reality of God. I am Catholic and yesterday March 30 a taught cane to read the Book of Matthew in my Bible. This morning as I was praying and thanking God for another day of life, the taught came to read Matthew and I decided to watch this video. It's interesting for me how Bradd mention the book of Matthew and the transfiguration. Thanks Bradd for sharing your experience of your NDE which proof the existing of God and one day we will go back to where we belong. God Bless you both of my Brothers in Christ!
appreciate Your help with Your story. My only man/child lost his life in this world dec/24. He had many miracles thru his young life with cancer. then he had many miracles! Joshua f45. flagging that car! that's a miracle! boys a miracle! You a miracle. rejoice
divine intervention! = miracles. just believe that miracles are real, dont dispute, because one day You may need some! Joshua Amos 22 miracles in 34 years! dont doubt. all doctors asked "if he had 9 lives?? i always replied, no he's on miracle # 22 , all documented.! from mama & the Lord!
✨️🙌 How good that our Creator foresaw religious fanaticism, foreseeing various ways to reach HIM 🙏To have a kind, gentle and appropriate behavior in all circumstances and towards all His creatures, voilà True Religion✅️
💚BLESSED IS THE ETERNAL BECAUSE HIS MERCY IS EVERLASTING AND IMMEASURABLE🙌✨️
The Lord gifted this man with a visit of Heaven, and just like Moses who was in the Presence of God, he returned changed! Hallelujah to the King of Kings!!!
It's true: Words are used to describe the experience, but others can't really grasp it. Still, the telling can have great value in giving hope.
Hallucinations from holding your breath. You shouldn’t be getting into this kind of meditative stuff by withholding oxygen and trying to seek God. Your mind can produce a lot of things.
Doctors, Scientists & brain surgeons have proven it’s not “Endorphins” of the brain! 👍
I've experienced deliverance and what he experienced was an importation.
Chemicals has zero to do with it.
the word is the knowing
A lot of honesty in his smile and eyes
If endorphines is causing his euphora, why would you feel your body get slammed like to ground the next minute. He shld kept feeling euphoria, I would think.
Wim Hof breathing and water: Don’t do it!
I used to do that as a kid, breathe out go to the bottom of the pool until things started to go black. Was cool lol bet my mum didn't think so.
Other than seeing all white, what did he see and hear? Maybe I missed it. His story keeps getting broken up.
God is light not darkness. He is love and he is peace 🕊
Why would he do that in a pool with a young family? I do believe in heaven and God. I know I'll be there one day❤
God is pouring his spirit out and i believe we've only "scratched the surface" as they say when it comes to the miricles of Jesus Christ present day in America
Win Hoff warns never to do the breathing in water as it’s a known risk. God bless you.
Angels minister to the Lord's people..ALSO❤
I had a very similar experience. I was driving and all of a sudden I was enveloped in this light. It was so bright so white and I new I was drawing close to God I could feel his love and nothing mattered. I was aware of still driving I new my daughter was going to be okay.I new my family was going to be okay there was peace and so much love. I pulled over on the road and was back. I feel GOD was saying everything is going to be okay trust in him. I know exactly were on the road it started and where it finished. He is real I didn't die but I know that I know it was real
No random experience God is in control of everything ❤pray for me and my family the word of God tells us also to pray for one for another seen God do miracles since I was a young child my grandma had the spiritual gifts in her life that i seen work in her God can do anything pray get to know him 🙏 ❤️