- If you've ever had a case of deja vu,
you know just how strange it can feel
that something has happened before,
but what if goes beyond that?
What if that happens all the time?
What if it starts to feel like your entire life
has been lived in the past, not just once by many times?
Here are 10 mysterious cases of people who reincarnated.
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Number 10 is the boy who lived before.
Though Cameron Macaulay lived with his mother
and his older brother in Glasgow, Scotland,
he repeatedly told his mother
that he wanted his Barra parents.
As it turns out, there's an island
off the Scottish mainland called Barra,
354 kilometers away from Glasgow.
Cameron constantly spoke of his old home there,
and this fact caused him great emotional distress.
Though Cameron has never been to the island,
he gave detailed descriptions of a house there
where he said his father, Shane Robertson lived.
It was near there that Cameron remembered being killed
by a car in his previous life.
Psychologists treating Cameron's distress
were able to find the house that he described.
Though they could not find a man called Shane living there,
the house was owned by a family with the same
second name of Robertson.
Number nine is an ancient resident.
James Arthur Flowerdew was an English captain
who lived from 1906 until 2002.
He lived an amazing life,
but he claimed that it wasn't his only one.
James had been haunted by bizarre visions.
These visions were of a strange stone city carved into
a cliff like something out of a Lovecraftian nightmare.
As an adult, he watched a BBC documentary
about the ancient city of Petra in Jordan
and realized that it was the city from his visions.
After traveling to the city,
James was asked by archeologists to describe his memories.
Not only did he identify where he had been
murdered in his past life, but he also explained
what several recently found relics were used for,
and he had a knowledge of the city which even archeologists
themselves had to admit eclipsed their own.
Number eight are repressed memories.
The field of hypnotic regression is often used
controversially to revel a person's traumatic experiences.
These experiences had been pushed so deep
that the individual has no memory of the time.
During the 1950s, hypnotists began to uncover
bizarre memories which predated their patients' births.
In one famous instance, a woman named Ruth Simmons
from Colorado was regressed so far back
that she began to speak in a heavy Irish accent.
She claimed that she lived in Ireland in the 19th century.
Some of the details she gave were verified after the fact,
such as naming two people in her village
who she used to buy food from.
When researchers looked at the census for the village
during the 19th century, they found two people
with the names that Ruth had given.
Both listed their occupations as greengrocers.
Number seven is the runaway.
During the 1930s, one of the most well-documented cases
of alleged reincarnation occurred.
It revolved around a young girl
named Shanti Devi in Delhi, India.
She claimed from as young as four years of age
that her true home was 145 kilometers away
in a place called Mathura.
Shanti believed her husband from her previous life
still lived here, and tried to run away from her
biological family in an attempt to reach her old home.
Shanti used words from the dialect found in the Mathura
region, words she could not have known otherwise.
When a local headmaster found the man she claimed
to be her old husband, Shanti recognized him immediately,
despite him introducing himself as someone else.
Though she remained with her biological family,
Shanti maintained her claims of reincarnation
until she died in 1997.
Number six is a phoenix from the flames.
Many children who claim to be reincarnated
can vividly describe the moment of their previous death.
This information is then used to verify their claim.
In the case of two-year-old Luke Ruehlman,
it was his descriptions of his death
which led to his mother to uncover the truth.
At just two years of age,
Luke began naming some of his toys Pam.
When his mother asked who Pam was,
he answered saying "I used to be Pam,
"but I died and went to heaven and saw God,
"and eventually God pushed me back down.
"When I woke up, I was a baby and you named me Luke."
He then went on to describe how he used to be a woman
and had died after jumping out of a window
during a fire in Chicago.
Later research revealed that just before Luke was born,
a woman named Pam Robinson
died in those exact same circumstances.
Number five is the fire chief.
Retired Assistant Fire Chief Jeffrey Keene's account
of reincarnation is very compelling.
In 1991, Keene was nearby a field in Sharpsburg, Maryland
when he felt drawn to the environment around him.
As he walked through the field, he was overcome with emotion
and then experienced symptoms of a heart attack.
Repressed memories soon came to him
after seeing an article on General John B. Gordon,
who fought in the field during the Civil War.
It became clear to researchers
that Keene actually was the general in a previous life.
Keene's medical records show that he experienced
pain in his body at the same age that the general
had been wounded in those exact same areas.
It was as if the memory of those events
were forever etched into the body of Keene
as a testimony to General Gordon's service.
Number four is Gone with the Wind.
When a midwestern child named Lee
remembered his previous life at just two years old,
his recollections stunned his family.
He was adamant that he had another mother
living in another house.
Although Lee was born on June 21st,
he was adamant that he was born on the 26th instead.
He then argued that his middle name was Coe,
and that he even had a daughter named Jennifer.
The last pieces of information he could remember
were that he had been 48 when he died
and that he had been a screenwriter by profession.
Lee's parents asked him what he had written,
and proudly identified Gone With the Wind
as one of his works.
Thinking this was all fantasy,
Lee's parents were shocked when they discovered
that a man named Sidney Coe Howard
had indeed written the film,
and had a daughter named Jennifer,
and died at the age of 48.
Number three is the Japanese soldier.
The descriptions of a Burmese girl named Ma Tin Aung Myo's
previous life are some of the most vivid on record.
Aung Myo claimed that she was the reincarnation of a
Japanese soldier, one her mother had known in real life.
During her pregnancy, Aung Myo's mother
had vivid dreams of a Japanese soldier she'd met in Burma,
as if his ghost was following her wherever she went.
Aung Myo was soon born in 1953,
and had a strange birthmark near her groin.
As she grew, she exhibited a tremendous fear of airplanes.
Eventually she told her mother that she had been
the Japanese soldier her mother previously knew,
and that he had been killed by an Allied fighter pilot
while running for cover on the ground.
A bullet had fatally pierced him
exactly where Myo's birthmark now was.
Number two is the anonymous killer.
It's not just newspapers and academic papers
which uncover reincarnation claims.
The internet has given an anonymous voice to those who
have been afraid to speak out about their experiences.
In one such case, Reddit user Drabbynormalblues
posted their chilling account.
Their memories were of being a serial killer
throughout the 1940s and '50s, and burying over 50 bodies
somewhere near a remote farmhouse.
Since then, the Redditor has a number of strange
coincidences in their life.
This includes when meeting and marrying their partner.
They both felt that they had already married
each other in a previous life.
In a darker twist, the Redditor claimed
that they often had thoughts about killing people,
but never wanted to act on them.
As if the broken psyche of their previous serial killer
life still had influence from the great beyond.
And number one is he solved his own murder.
In 2015, a three-year-old boy from Golan Heights
in the Middle East discussed a red birthmark
on his head with anyone who would listen.
He claimed that he had previously been another boy
who had gone missing four years previous,
and then been murdered.
What's more is that he knew who his killer was.
The boy had been able to show where he had
previously lived, as well as his name
and other details not widely known.
While walking through his previous village,
the boy walked up to a man
and publicly accused him of being his murderer.
The man panicked and eventually confessed
after the boy showed where his body had been buried.
Pointing to his own head where the red birthmark lay,
he told everyone "this is where he hit me with the ax."
The victim's body was found
and had a wound in the exact same place.
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