Key points

NDEs occasionally include encounters with deceased individuals whose death was unknown to the experiencer.

If NDEs were driven by expectation, accurate perceptions of unknown (and surprising) facts should not occur.

Though rare, such experiences are reported with enough regularity to warrant systematic investigation.

A new research protocol aims to document such cases with greater rigor than has previously been possible.

Those who study near-death experiences are occasionally confronted with cases that resist straightforward interpretation. The broader phenomenon is well established: Millions of people worldwide have reported NDEs (1). What these experiences ultimately represent remains genuinely open. But within this already puzzling field, there exists a class of cases

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