The possibility of fraud is also very real. There's a guy named Dannion Brinkley from a town near mine in South Carolina who claims to have died for 28 minutes as a result of a lightning strike while he was talking on the 'phone. He even claims that he was dead in the hospital morgue for some time before returning to life. Oddly, a local newspaper article published right after the accident quotes Brinkley as saying he was out for a few minutes until his wife pounded on his chest. His doctor reported that his claim of being dead in the morgue was untrue. It would seem Mr. Brinkley makes a habit of lying. He claimed in his book Saved by the Light that he had served as a CIA sniper in Laos during the Vietnam war. Investigation of military records showed that he served as a truck driver in Georgia when he claimed to be in Laos. He, of course, claims that this is a government cover up due to the classified nature of his mission, but actual special forces snipers who served in Vietnam report that his story is riddled with holes exactly as if it were written by someone who was pretending to know about a business that he really knows nothing about. He also fails to explain why the U.S. government has failed to press charges against a covert operative who is blabbing publicly about classified secrets.
Brinkley also claims to have had future events revealed to him while he was having his out-of-body experience. The fall of the Soviet Union, The disaster at Chernobyl and the first Gulf War were all predicted by Brinkley. Of course, he forgot to tell anyone other than Raymond Moody about these prediction until after the events happened, so he was left saying "I knew that was going to happen" a posteriori. Actual a priori predictions, a nuclear disaster in Norway in '95 and an economic collapse in the U.S. in the late '90s, proved somewhat less impressive in regard to accuracy.
