'We stood there speechless': Woman wakes from brain-dead state moments before family pulls life-support plug

Two pastors had been praying for her when she 'returned from the afterlife'

A new show on Destination America captures mind-boggling stories of people who claim they died and were able to visit the afterlife before being resurrected. Johnny Clark, the filmmaker who spent years of research to find people who have experienced life after death, will release his findings in the new show titled Project Afterlife.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - In a podcast with The Church Boys, Clark reveals the series will be released in six episodes. Several investigators join Clark in the series to help delve into the mysteries of life after death.

During the podcast, Clark recalled one memorable event that occurred long before Project Afterlife got going. The event is what really made Clark consider the possibility of an afterlife.

"I was with one of my co-hosts, Roger Frievalt, and we got a call that a woman named Brandy had overdosed on heroin, and she had been in a brain-dead coma for three days," Clark recalled. "They were keeping her alive with machines and life support."

Clark claimed Brandy's family was already making plans to unplug her life support system and asked the two men to join them and bless her before they pulled the plug.  

Once they arrived at the hospital they began to pray. What happened next took everyone by surprise.

The family of the woman, who had left the room to hold a family meeting, returned and were utterly stunned to see Brandy very much alive and looking around the room.

In the podcast Clark said, "Half the family's shaking, half the family's in shock ... We stood there speechless."

The two men claimed to have felt something "come over" them and they began issuing commands.

Clark said, "I looked at her and said, 'If you know ... that Jesus forgives you and he loves you and he's taken care of you ... your son needs you, just reach up and grab my friend Roger's hand."

Brandy looked Clark in the eye, reached up and grabbed Roger's arm. After her obvious indication that she was alert, the men told her to get up.

In The Church Boys podcast, Clark admits Project Afterlife is not about what is true or false, it is just about people's claims since "it can't always be explained by science and medicine."

When one of the hosts of The Church Boys asked "What has sort of transformed within you throughout this process?", Clark said he thinks proving the events would be great.

"How do you constitute death and define what it is? Medically, that's no heart beating, no lungs breathing and no brain activity. So once that happens a doctor can declare someone dead."

But then you run into well, how long can someone be dead before they are 'dead dead?' So we try not to get too hung-up on those things, but something  needed to happen and obviously in in Project Afterlife we're focusing on what individuals remember."

Clark, who belongs to a Christian family, is the son of two ministers and had heard many similar stories when he was just a child. He said it was a "memorable event" for both he and Frievalt, who is also a pastor.

Brandy succumbed to organ failure three months later, but the memory of what transpired hit a note in Clark, who has spent the last three years investigating similar stories across America.

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