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London, Mar 3 (ANI): A US boy, who almost died from a ruptured appendix at the age of four, has claimed that he went to heaven and met the dead sister his parents never told him about.

Colton Burpo, now 11, also said he met Jesus, John the Baptist and his great-grandfather, who died more than 30 years before he was born.

It all started on a family trip to Colorado when Colton, from Imperial, Nebraska, was misdiagnosed with flu. By the time they returned home, he was seriously ill and had to undergo emergency surgery twice, reports the Daily Mail.

While he was in the operating theatre, his parents, Todd and Sonya, prayed. They thought they were going to lose their little boy.

However, Colton soon recovered and then told his astonished parents that he met the sister his mother had miscarried a year before his own birth - a fact his parents had never spoken to him about.

“She looked familiar and she started giving me hugs and told me she was glad to have someone from her family up there,” said Colton.

“She doesn’t have a name though, she said they never gave her one. But she can’t wait for her mom and dad to come to Heaven to meet her,” he added.

His mother Sonja initially had doubts about her son’s vivid post-operative recollections, but his father Todd insists: “I am convinced he was in Heaven.”

“I’m looking at him in the mirror, and he says that the angels sang to me. I looked and he is just dead serious,” said Todd.

Colton said that he saw his great-grandfather Pop. However, he didn’t recognise him from a picture taken shortly before his death but from one of him as a young man.

“I remember Jesus, there’s streets of gold and a lot of colours. I sat on Jesus’ lap and then I just felt safe. God, he is the biggest one in Heaven, he can hold the world in his hands,” he said.

He even claimed he saw a glimpse of Armageddon and described meeting John the Baptist.

The Burpos have now documented the experience in a book, and Colton continues to share his testimony of Heaven.

Again, publishing the book was not something Colton intended to do, but he said he again turned to God for an answer.

“God, if this is really you. I don’t know how to publish a book. If you want me to do this you will have the publishing industry come to me,” he prayed.

So far, half a million books have been printed and bookstores across the country are trying to get more copies. (ANI)