India, April 8 -- A US Marine and businessman has opened up about multiple near-death experiences that he has had. In 1975, Dannion Brinkley, 74, was struck by lightning.

"It went into the side of my head above my ear, it went down my spine," Brinkley told KLAS. ".It threw me up in the air, I see the ceiling, it slams me back down, a ball of fire comes through the room and blinds me. I am burning. I am on fire. I am paralyzed."

Brinkley was taken in an ambulance and soon declared dead by doctors. However, he woke up nearly 30 minutes later in a hospital morgue after his soul temporarily left his body, the outlet reported. Explaining what happened to him when he flatlined, Brinkley said there was a light and a flashback of his entire lif...