Eduardo Muñoz’s near-death experience

Step 1

Monday, February 3, 2025 · In the morning · He is fine · Eduardo’s account

A tennis match with his uncle

Eduardo Muñoz is an engineer and lives in Madrid. He has worked for motor racing teams. A week earlier, he was on a trip to Rome.

That Monday he has a simple plan. In the morning he plays tennis with his uncle. Afterward he wants to drive out to the countryside with his little dog, who is waiting for him in the van.

He plays hard. When the match is over, he hugs his uncle goodbye. Then he feels a very sharp pull in his chest, like something tearing. He can’t breathe for two or three seconds.

He thinks he must have pulled a muscle from the effort. It passes, and he gets on with his day.

Step 2

Shortly afterward · Driving · Eduardo’s account

He drives to the emergency room as his vision fades

He drives his uncle home, and they stay and talk for a while. Then he gets back in the van and sets off for the countryside.

Soon after he starts driving, his whole body begins to shake, his arms and his legs. His vision slowly fades. Nothing like this has ever happened to him, and he doesn’t know what is wrong.

He doesn’t like hospitals. But he feels that something is very wrong. He is about ten minutes from the Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, in the south of Madrid, and he heads there.

It gets harder and harder for him to stay awake. He remembers gripping the steering wheel and telling himself, “I have to get there, I have to get there” (translated from Spanish).

Step 3

Around 1:30 p.m. · In the emergency room · Eduardo’s account

An orderly takes him inside without waiting

He parks the van at the emergency entrance, where the ambulances pull up. A hospital orderly comes out to tell him to move it. But as soon as the orderly sees him, he realizes that Eduardo is in very bad shape.

The orderly puts him in a wheelchair and takes him inside. At the admissions desk, they tell him to wait in the waiting room. The orderly answers, “This young man is in no state to wait even a minute.” And he takes him straight to the nurses. Today Eduardo calls him his guardian angel.

They lay him on a stretcher. He sees a white coat next to him. He feels relief, because now he is somewhere safe. He lets out his breath, like a sigh.

That is the last thing he remembers. He knows what happens next because the hospital staff told him.

Step 6

The night of February 3 to 4 · In the ICU, sedated · Eduardo’s account

His parents sleep beside his bed

That night he has the catheterization. Afterward, doctors keep him asleep with medication in the ICU, the intensive care unit.

The doctors tell his family they don’t know whether he will wake up, or when, or in what condition. Usually no one stays overnight in the ICU. That night, his father and his mother are allowed to stay.

Around three in the morning, Eduardo wakes up with a start. He sees his father beside him. His father tells him, “Easy, son, everything’s all right.” And Eduardo falls back asleep.

His parents knew how the ambulance trip had gone. And when Eduardo wakes up, he says he remembers something else.

Step 10

February 4, in the morning · He wakes up in the ICU · Eduardo’s account

Eduardo says he asks whether he came with the police

In the morning, the doctors stop the medication that was keeping him asleep. Less than a day has passed since the heart attack. The doctors did not expect him to wake up so soon.

He doesn’t remember arriving at the hospital. He thinks he has been in a car accident. The first thing he does is lift the sheet to see whether his legs are still there, and to move them. He asks whether he hurt anyone. His family tells him there was no accident.

He is dazed, “like I was drunk,” he says. He is very thirsty, and they won’t let him drink.

And he asks his family whether he was brought in an ambulance with a police car in front and another behind. According to Eduardo, they are taken aback: “How do you know?” They tell him yes, that is how he was taken.

That is how he tells it in almost all of his interviews. In a 2026 interview, he says he asked that question a little later, at another moment when his head was clear. And he himself says that this question was not recorded.

Step 11

February 4 · In the ICU · This part is on video

His mother films him on her phone

His mother is a nurse. According to Eduardo, she is “very skeptical.” That day she films him on her phone so that he can tell the family himself how he is doing. She starts like this: “Good morning. Reporter Maribel here, with Eduardo’s update.”

Eduardo has a thin tube in his nose and wires on his chest. He speaks slowly and with effort. His mother asks him questions. He tells her that his grandfather was with him that night. His grandfather didn’t say anything, but he looked at him and gave him strength, “like a wave pushing me.” Eduardo also tells her he saw “another realm,” a tribunal. He says it “looked more like ancient Rome than the Bible.”

This recording exists. Eduardo posted all of it on Instagram. It lasts about seven minutes. The grandfather, the tribunal, and the push to go back are in it. The police are not.

Nineteen days after the heart attack, Eduardo explained why the police are not in the video. He said the ambulance part “isn’t recorded anywhere, because I didn’t say it” in that video. In his interviews he says he asked about the police before the recording, and that in the video he said whatever came to him.

Step 12

Afterward · Eduardo’s account

He goes home and begins to tell his story

He spends seven days in the ICU and another seven on a regular ward. He has pneumonia, and his kidneys and liver are slow to recover. On February 17 he is discharged. He says the only lasting effect is some memory loss. For two or three days he kept asking, “What happened to me?” because he couldn’t hold on to what people explained to him.

While he is in the hospital, one of his uncles brings him a book on near-death experiences by the cardiologist Manuel Sans Segarra. Eduardo says that as he reads it, he recognizes what he went through. He had already studied out-of-body experiences and astral travel before.

He says that later, someone who works in emergency services explained to him when the police escort an ambulance. The police escort it when the patient is so ill that they could die on the way. He says he didn’t know this and had never seen an ambulance with a police escort.

Eduardo tells his story on Instagram nineteen days after the heart attack. Since then he has told it on the radio, on television, and in many interviews.

He is an engineer, and he says he likes to check things. For him, the ambulance is the proof. The question from the beginning remains: how did he know he was taken with the police? Let’s look at what can be checked.