Decades have passed since Landon’s accident but he still remembers every detail of his visit to heaven (Video Below).
Looking at 33-year-old Landon Kemp now, you might think he’d been the victim of a crime at some point in his life. With a highway of deep scars running down his forehead and across his left cheek, it’s hard to miss that some kind of trauma has befallen him. But the stocky young man’s visible disfigurement belies his true experience, one that changed his life forever when it happened twenty years ago.
As a kid, he suffered a fatal accident but he came back to life miraculously, never to go back to being the same person again.
One Sunday morning in 1997, Julie Kemp, her husband Andy, and their eight-year-old son, Landon, were driving home from church when their car was struck by an ambulance at an intersection. Unfortunately, Andy died instantly, but the first responders were able to resuscitate and stabilize Julie.
But what they failed to realize was that there was a third passenger in the car with life-threatening injuries.
“They couldn’t see his [Landon] body because of the damage that was done to the driver’s side of the car and Landon was sitting behind his dad,” Julie said. “When they pulled Landon out from the back of the car, he was not breathing. And they all started working on him right away to bring him back.”
Landon was resuscitated and flown to Carolina Medical Center in North Carolina, but his fight for life was far from over. He died two more times that day, and doctors informed Julie that he would likely not survive. Even if he did, he would have the mind of an 8-year-old baby and be unable to walk, talk or eat due to the severe brain damage incurred.
But so desperate was Julie that she made peace with that. “I was so desperate that that was okay. I would take that just to have him. He was all that I had.” she said.
After two weeks in a coma, Landon opened his eyes, and surprisingly, he did not have brain damage. Even in this happy and emotional moment, Julie knew that she had to inform Landon about his father.
“He had scars on his face. And his head was just full of hurt,” she remembered. “And I didn’t want to hurt him anymore. So I asked Landon, I said Landon, do you know where your dad is at? And he told me, ‘Yes, I know where he’s at. I saw him in heaven,’” she added.
Now a grown-up, Landon says, “I remember being able to see my dad and his friend Olan Palmer who had passed away less than a month before he did, also in a car accident, and Olan’s son Neil Palmer who had died on a 4-wheeler years before.”
He went on to say, “And it was funny because I remember us all like standing in a square. Never one of us said a word to each other, but we were just all standing there.”
According to Opposing Views, folks online who read this amazing story believed Landon meets Jesus in heaven.
“I have no doubt about his experience! I have been with dying family members and had similar experiences,” one All That’s News reader commented on the site’s Facebook page.
“I did not make it to heaven but I walked with 4 angels towards a hand reaching down in a beam of pure light. It was so peaceful. It really is true the peace of the tribe surpasses all understanding,” another wrote.
“I know heaven is!! That’s where my husband is and I will see him again! I thank Jesus for his love and mercy,” another added.
“I have suffered a lot in my life. many of the experiences I’ve gone through seemed so unfair and I haven’t been able to find a purpose in my life. Yet I’ve always believed that Jesus is real since I was a little boy. It’s like my soul has just always known how true it is, therefore, I’ve never needed any proof or could lose faith in him,” another reader commented, All That’s News reported. “I have never allowed my unhappiness to cause me to lose faith…even though I still struggle with depression I love Him. And I know that I always will no matter what.”
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Sources: All That’s News, All That’s News/Facebook, OpposingViews