2026-03-03 12:05:12
A dad-of-two claims he “stood next to the devil” and watched souls being ground to a pulp during a chilling five-day coma.
Gerhard Schug says his near-death experience in 2020 was nothing like the peaceful, bright-light visions often described by others.
Instead, he believes he saw hell.
Speaking to Thanatos TV EN, Gerhard said: “In my near-death experience, I didn’t pass into a bright light nor into an afterlife where everything is beautiful.”
He described a vast grey stone palace with a high canopy roof “like those found in China or Japan” and a flat stone throne.
On it, he claims, sat the devil.
“It was hot there – he had horns, how you might imagine a typical devil,” Gerhard said.
He alleges souls arrived by boat and were brought before the throne, where a terrifying selection process began. Some, he claims, were fed into a funnel and crushed beneath giant stone structures shaped like lion’s claws.
“The whole situation was terrifying. I was scared to death.”
Before the coma, Gerhard had endured years of heartbreak and illness.
Following the death of his beloved daughter Tanja in 2019 from a pulmonary embolism, he spiralled into isolation. Already battling a spine injury, Parkinson’s, lung disease and mental health conditions, he says the grief became unbearable.
“I didn’t want to live anymore,” he admitted.
After being hospitalised with a virus, he fell into a coma. Doctors reportedly warned his family he might not survive.
But he did.
Gerhard says the experience “burned itself” into his memory and lasted the entire five days he was unconscious.
Raised Catholic, he now believes the vision was a warning.
“It was clear to me that God had given me life,” he said. “I did not have the right to take my own life.”
Today, he describes himself as living “glass half full” – determined to wait until, as he puts it, God decides his time is up.
If you’re struggling with thoughts of suicide, support is available. In the UK ROI, Samaritans are available on 116 123 or samaritans.org.
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