This Man, clinically dead, claims he saw the other dimension filled with massive, glowing, colorful stars. These appeared to him as energetic beings. He found that life on Earth is like an illusion—a trick or a game designed to forget who humans truly are. He saw Aliens similar to those shown in the film Communion.
Bill Letson is a retired firefighter living on the Central Coast of California. He talks about having a powerful near-death experience (NDE) in 1994 while he was on duty. At the time, he didn’t know how to explain it or where to find answers, so he kept it to himself for about 15 or 16 years.
After retiring, the memory of the experience came back strongly, pushing him to start searching for answers. His search led him to explore ancient knowledge, including the teachings of shamans and Native American beliefs. He mentions that these older traditions seem to tell a different story from the history, religion, and science we’ve been taught in the last few hundred years.
Bill then begins to describe what happened during his NDE. He was working as a paramedic firefighter at Station 11 in Goleta, California, during a flu epidemic that overwhelmed Santa Barbara’s hospitals. He and his team were constantly responding to emergency calls.
One call brought them to a woman trapped in a dark room with the curtains shut, suffering badly. Bill acted quickly to help her. He climbed over her to put an oxygen mask on her face. Just as he adjusted the mask, she exhaled, and he accidentally inhaled her breath. He immediately felt something was wrong.
A couple of days later, Bill became extremely sick — worse than he’d ever felt before. He was vomiting, losing fluids, and becoming dangerously dehydrated.
When he looked in the mirror, he saw he looked skeletal and dark, like something was seriously wrong. His heart was racing at 150 beats per minute, and when he checked his wrist pulse, he couldn’t feel it, meaning his blood pressure was dangerously low. Realizing how bad things were, he called his family, and his niece called 911.
Santa Barbara County Fire arrived, started IVs to get fluids into him, and rushed him to a hospital in Santa Maria with lights and sirens. The hospital was packed with people suffering from similar symptoms. The doctor in charge was overwhelmed and treated everyone the same way — giving them pain medication (a type of morphine) and something for nausea.
Bill stayed in the hospital for about half an hour, receiving IV fluids. He started feeling better and thought he could go home to continue treatment there. But a nurse told him that everyone in the hospital was receiving the same medication. Wanting to cooperate, Bill agreed. Even though he wasn’t feeling severe pain or nausea, the nurse gave him two medications: a synthetic morphine and another drug for nausea.
As soon as the nurse injected the medication, Bill’s wife saw his eyes roll back into his head, almost like in a cartoon. He immediately collapsed backward onto the hospital bed. This shocked the hospital staff, and they quickly responded. They gave him Narcan, a drug used to reverse opioid overdoses, which paramedics usually give to people overdosing on heroin or other opiates. The Narcan was administered multiple times, but Bill’s condition was critical. His blood pressure dropped dangerously low to 40 over zero, meaning his body wasn’t circulating blood properly. He was rushed to intensive care, where doctors fought to stabilize him.
By the next morning, doctors told him that the only reason he had survived was his exceptional physical condition. He had been a triathlete and had even competed in Ironman races, which meant his body was highly efficient at using oxygen. This likely kept his organs from completely shutting down when his blood pressure collapsed.
During the night, while unconscious, Bill had an extraordinary experience. The morphine had caused his blood vessels to expand too much, making it impossible for his body to circulate blood properly. At some point, around 1:00 or 1:30 in the morning, he left his body. He describes the feeling as if he had been released from a hot, stuffy closet into a vast, open space. It was an incredible sense of freedom.
He found himself in a world filled with massive, glowing, colorful stars. These stars felt welcoming and full of love. Some people call them “orbs,” but to Bill, they appeared as energetic beings. He realized that in this form, he himself was a massive, cloud-like energy being. The feeling was beyond anything he had ever known—it was pure joy and freedom.
Bill describes feeling an overwhelming sense of joy and ecstasy, unlike anything on Earth. He compares it to a cosmic sensation, as if honey were flowing through his brain and nerves, filling him with life and exhilaration.
He realizes that being on Earth is a difficult challenge, and as he moves through this experience, he suddenly remembers who he really is. He’s shocked that he ever forgot—how could he have believed he was just a person with relationships and problems? He now understands that life on Earth is like an illusion, a trick or a game that comes with entering the material world.
As he flies through this incredible space, he sees glowing orbs—like colorful stars—surrounding him. Everything feels full of love, joy, and acceptance, as if he is returning home. It feels like a celebration, like he is being welcomed back by a group that knows him. Suddenly, he lands in a solid place, one that seems real and structured, with indirect lighting, tables, and equipment.
There are beings there, and in front of him stand three short, chubby figures wearing dark hooded robes. He can see parts of their faces, and they are grinning from ear to ear. Their eyes are bright, and they are excitedly asking him questions, giggling as they talk.
At first, Bill is confused, but then he remembers a movie called Communion that he had seen years before. In that film, there were small elf-like beings who looked exactly like these figures. However, the ones in front of him are playful, good-natured, and full of mischief. They ask him things like, “How was it? What can you tell us? What did you learn?” One of them looks at him and tells the others, “He doesn’t remember us,” and they all laugh. Bill starts to recognize them a little but still feels disoriented.
Then, another being appears, who seems to be in charge. This being is tall and wispy, almost like a thinner version of Gumby or a cactus. He looks as though he is made of vapor or mist, and when he moves, his body shifts and catches up with itself, as if seen underwater. He, too, has a huge smile and bright eyes. Even though he seems like the leader, everything feels lighthearted and playful.
When the tall being comes close to Bill, an overwhelming sensation washes over him. His chest expands, his throat tightens, and he feels as if he might burst into uncontrollable tears from the sheer amount of love radiating from this figure. The love is so intense that it is almost too much to handle. The environment around him isn’t very structured—there’s no strict order, just giggling, smiling, and a sense of fun.
During his near-death experience, Bill found himself in another place, not in his body anymore. He was with a tall, wispy figure and three smaller beings. He expected some kind of life review, where he would look back at everything he had done, but instead, the tall figure laughed and asked him how he wanted to start. Bill shared a couple of small regrets, like not taking a park ranger job on an island that his wife wanted him to take. But nothing major came up.
Then, the tall figure told Bill it was time to go back. Bill was shocked and refused, saying he had no reason to return. He tried to argue that the only people who would miss him were his wife and parents, and even though they’d be sad for a while, they would eventually be okay. The tall figure found this amusing and simply told him again that he had to go back. The three smaller beings disappeared, as if reassigned somewhere else, and the place around him started breaking apart.
Bill then felt himself descending, like he was dropping to a lower frequency. He believes that reality and different dimensions exist on various frequencies, like channels on a TV. As he got closer to his body, he passed through a terrifying place—one he didn’t want to admit existed for a long time. It was a dark, lonely, and miserable place, very close to the physical world. He warns that it’s not a place anyone would want to stay in.
After that, he re-entered his body. When he woke up, he saw he was connected to medical equipment, and his blood pressure was dangerously low. He drifted in and out of consciousness, noticing that his numbers were slowly improving. Eventually, a nurse noticed he was awake. He told her he didn’t understand why he was back, because he had been home—where he felt like he truly belonged, with old friends and brothers he had known forever. He thought he had died for sure.
The nurse responded with humor, telling him, “Honey, you were in escrow, but you fell out, and now you’re back.” Bill thought that was a funny way to put it, but he still felt sad. He wasn’t clinically depressed, but he was deeply upset about being back in his physical body instead of staying in the place where he felt at peace.
After returning to his body, Bill could feel his experience fading, like it was slipping away. He knew that over time, he could even convince himself that it never happened. But for a while, he told everyone he could about what he had learned. He reassured them that death was nothing to fear—he called it a “joke” because people had the wrong idea about it. According to him, death isn’t an end but an incredible upgrade, like an instant transformation into something better.
People who had lost loved ones—whether a child or a parent—would come to him for comfort, and he would tell them the same thing: nobody actually dies. He explained that we don’t truly lose anyone; we just step out of the physical world and return home. He knew this because, even after leaving his body, he was still himself. His personality, sense of humor, and inner thoughts all remained unchanged. It was a smooth transition—he simply moved to another place but was still the same person.
Because of this, Bill strongly believes that no one is ever really gone—not our loved ones, not even our pets. They are still here, just in a different form, close to us in ways we might not fully understand.
However, sharing his story wasn’t always easy. He heard about a Navy chief named Tony Woody, who had a near-crash experience and was warned by a superior to stop talking about it. Bill experienced something similar—a coworker quietly warned him that people were starting to talk about him. That made Bill realize that his story, even though it was the most amazing news anyone could hear, wasn’t something people were ready to accept. So he kept quiet and didn’t talk about it for 15 years.
Then, in 2010, after he retired, his story took another turn.
