Kids Who Remember Their Past Lives

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A sweet 6-year old girl looks up at her mom and in  a very serious voice tells her, “I wouldn’t sleep   in your bedroom if I were you.” The mom has kind  of grown used to her daughter saying freaky stuff   to her, but still, it comes as a shock. What is  the girl seeing? What is behind her dark thoughts?  To better understand this girl, you have to  know that she doesn’t even think her parents   are her real parents. She once announced to her  alleged imposter parents that her real mom and   pop were dead. She said to them, no big deal,  you’re just my second set, I’m ok with that.   If that isn’t disturbing enough, the girl sees  what she calls “skeleton men” running around   the house. They run through walls, they  inhabit the room where her parents sleep.   Sometimes, dressed as soldiers, they walk through  the living room while everyone is watching TV.  This is a true story, well allegedly, and the  girl is now grown up and remembers nothing   about accusing her parents of being fake. She  can’t recall ever seeing the skeleton men. She’s   forgotten all about a friend she used to have who  lived in the spooky attic. That friend, Felicia,   was of course a figment of the girl’s imagination. But the question is, what was going on in that   girl’s head? As you’ll see today, she’s one of  many children who say the creepiest stuff to   their parents. In fact, some kids say they have  past lives, and they make a very, very strong   case for that being true. They remember entire  villages where they’ve never been. They know   their old houses, their old lovers, the clothes  they used to wear. They know things they just   shouldn’t know. It’s frankly unbelievable, but  sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.   Other times, well it’s just fiction. Let’s now have a look at some   amazing cases of reincarnated kids. A child was born on April 10, 1998,   in the state of Louisiana. He was named  James Leininger, son of Bruce and Andrea.  He was a healthy baby and a joy to his  doting parents, but not so long after he   learned how to talk, he announced something  incredibly strange to his mom and pop.   He told them that they were in fact not his  parents. In the year 2000, the two-year-old   told his parents that he remembered being an  air force pilot during the second world war.  Don’t turn off yet dear viewers, because  you’re about to hear that young James had   a very convincing story. It’s not the most  convincing past-life story you’ll hear today,   but it’s up there with the best. Ok, so James might not have had   those memories had his parents not taken him to a  World War II exhibit. No sooner than he got there   he was absolutely fascinated by the planes he saw.  He was so fascinated with planes that his parents   took him to the exhibit a second time, but on  seeing one plane in a hangar James suddenly became   quiet and looked quite sad. After that trip, he  developed a habit of just repeating the words,   “airplane crash on fire.” He would then take  his toy planes and smash them down on the   kitchen table, so hard that he destroyed  the planes and made dents in the wood.  Ok, thought his parents, our kid seems a bit  traumatized by the war exhibit, maybe we made a   mistake taking him in the first place. Things got much worse.  James then started waking up in the middle of  the night just screaming and screaming. Sometimes   he’d scream and then shout, “Airplane crash on  fire!” One time his mother and he dropped his   father off at the airport and James’ reassuring  words to his pop were, “Daddy, airplane crash   on fire!” James was starting to become a bit of a  downer, but he had many more surprises in store.  He started having hissy fits. He’d just writhe  around screaming, kicking, punching, shouting,   “Airplane crash! Plane on fire! Little man can't  get out!” After a few weeks of this he started   telling his parents that during the war he’d flown  a fighter plane called a “Corsair.” 6 months short   of his 3rd birthday he told them he’d flown his  plane off a boat called the “Natoma.” Unless he   was secretly using Google, he just couldn’t have  known such a boat existed. His father went online   and discovered that during the war there was  such a boat. It was the USS Natoma Bay, an escort   carrier that sailed in the Pacific Ocean. His parents, now truly spooked,   asked James a number of times the name of  the little man in the plane. For a while,   James kept telling them that he was the little  man, but after a while, he said the words, “Jack   Larsen.” He told his parents that Jack Larsen  was in the plane with him when it was shot down.  His father gave him a book called, “The Battle  for Iwo Jima 1945” and James looked at all the   pictures. When he saw a picture of the Mount  Suribachi dormant volcano James told his pop,   “That’s it, that’s where my plane was shot down.”  The father turned to his son with an incredulous   look on his face and James reiterated,  “My airplane got shot down there, Daddy.”  James’ father didn’t give his son up to the  local mental health facility and instead   looked for veterans of the war that had been on  the USS Natoma. He found one, and guess what,   he’d served with a guy named Jack Larsen. This was all getting a bit much now for James’   parents, so they started researching children  who claim they’ve had past lives. They found a   woman named Carol Bowman who’d written a book on  the topic and following her advice they assured   James that the past was the past and he didn’t  have to worry about it. The war was over. He was   now safe. James’ nightmares stopped after that. James’ third birthday passed, and he had taken   up a new hobby: drawing battle scenes.  He signed all his sketches James 3,   and when asked why, he told his parents it  was because he was living his third life.  This doesn’t make sense until you know  that James’s father found something out   when he attended a Natoma Bay reunion. He  discovered that a John M. Larson had served   on that ship. If you don’t know, John’s  are sometimes given the nickname Jack.  The father found out that Jack had actually  survived the war, although he wasn’t at the   reunion. Not one to give up, the father  went looking for Jack and he found him.   Jack told him that only one pilot had  crashed after taking off from that ship.   His name was James M. Huston, Jr. The 21-year  old from Pennsylvania had been shot down   during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Now we have James  senior, James junior, and James the freaky kid.  Huston was shot down during an eight-plane  assault. Through research, James’ father   discovered that the plane next to Huston’s  was flown by none other than Jack Larsen.   His father was now convinced that his son  had once lived the life of James Huston Jr.   James’ parents claimed that their son gave  them many details about the war and the stuff   he’d told them about his other family life was  confirmed by the real James Huston’s sister.  Ok, so you might now be thinking,  “FRAUD!”, especially when you hear   that his parents made money from a book they  wrote about the case of their strange son.   But you should know that his case has been  investigated thoroughly, and it seems that   no one thinks the whole thing is a hoax. Investigators think it’s more likely that   James lived in some kind of fantasy world that was  triggered by that first visit to the war exhibit.   That might explain the nightmares, but it  doesn’t explain Jack Larsen and James Huston.   James could not have read about those  names and there are no known TV shows   that have featured them or the Natoma. This is what one investigator concluded after   very lengthy research, including talking  many times to all the people involved:  “The documentation in James's case provides  evidence that he had a connection with a   life from the past. On the face of it, the  most obvious explanation for this connection   is that he experienced a life as James  Huston, Jr. before having his current one.”  Are you convinced? You know that children have  vivid imaginations and you know that any child   psychiatrist will tell you that it’s not out  of the ordinary for young children to be rather   obsessed by death, dead people, ghosts. Still,  reincarnated kids...that’s not easy to believe.  Now you need to hear this: In the 1950s a British couple   named Florence and John Pollock had two kids,  Joanna and Jacqueline. The kids had a happy   childhood and were inseparable. One thing you  need to know is that Jacqueline had a big scar   on her forehead from an accident and Joanna had  a birthmark on the left side of her stomach.  To cut a long story short, they were both  killed when a car struck them on a country road.   Joanna was 11 and her sister was 6. It was  a big case at the time because it seemed   that the female driver had driven right into  them after swerving around on the road. That   driver took her life shortly after the accident. Some years later, the couple had more children,   twins they named Gillian and Jennifer. The  father was convinced that these two new girls   were Jacqueline and Joanna reincarnated and he  was more convinced when he saw that Jennifer   seemed to have a funny mark on her forehead  that looked like Jacqueline’s scar. Her sister   also had a birthmark where Joanna had had one. These two twins suddenly started to call their   toys the same names that the deceased kids  had called them. They knew of landmarks to   places they had never been to. They knew  what school the dead girls had attended.  Things then got quite dark. The young twins started playing a   game that involved one girl lying on the floor  and the other girl pretending to attend to her   bloodied head. Not long after that, whenever the  pair walked near a car they’d start screaming.  The strange case came to the attention of a  paranormal psychologist named Dr. Ian Stevenson.   He studied the girls for many years, often  following them around while they were growing   up. His conclusion was they were reincarnations  of their deceased sisters. He was very aware that   the sisters’ behavior could have been the result  of the father thinking they were reincarnations,   but after spending so much time with them  he concluded that this just wasn’t possible.   He believed the girls were so young they couldn’t  have possibly learned their crazy behavior.   Something strange was afoot said the doctor. Still not convinced?   You will be by the time this show is over. Can you imagine if your three-year-old son   suddenly started saying that he had been shot  to death? That’s what Kakshappa Ishwara told   his parents in 1975. His parents didn’t believe  a word of it, but then his twin brother, Indika,   started to remember a past life of his own. In  fact, Indika remembered so much that his parents   were able to find out who he was speaking of. They  actually went to visit the dead kids’ parents and   immediately Indika fell in love with them. Then there was the case of the reincarnated   Burmese twins. They said they had been Japanese  soldiers during the war. They spoke a language   no one could understand, and they demanded  to be taken back to Japan. They were girls,   but they acted like boys while growing up. Balderdash! you’re thinking because you don’t   believe a word of this and you like  to say balderdash a lot in a manner   that suggests you are an authority on matters. We don’t blame you for either of those things,   but you need to hear more  before you make up your mind.  Now we will introduce Ryan. When Ryan was  four, he had a very vivid imagination,   so much so his parents would often hear him  shout, “Action!” from his bedroom. The kid used   to think he was directing his very own movies. There was a problem with his colorful imagination,   though, and that was the fact he had  terrible night terrors. He’d scream   and scream in his sleep, and then when his  parents woke him up, he’d tell them, “Mom,   my heart exploded in Hollywood.” They took him to  a doctor and the doctor said he’ll grow out of it.  He kept on having those nightmares and then one  time after he was awoken, he told his mom that he   thought he had lived the life of someone else.  He said he’d lived in a big white house with a   large swimming pool. The place was in Hollywood,  a very different place to Oklahoma where he lived.  His mother didn’t really believe her son had  lived in Hollywood, but the now five-year-old   Ryan went on about it every day of the week. He  was totally convinced of this other life. The mom   reluctantly brought books home from the library  that contained photos of Hollywood in the past.   On one occasion they were looking through one of  the books and Ryan stopped at a particular photo.   He said, “Hey mom, that’s George, we did a  picture together.” He then looked at another   photo and said, “That’s me. I found me.” The  movie was a 1930s hit called, “Night After Night.”  The strange thing is, the book didn’t  provide any names of the men in the photo,   so Ryan’s mom did a bit of investigating.  She found out the guy her son had said was   named George was in fact named George. He was  George Raft, a movie star. The problem was that   she wasn’t able to find out who the other guy was. She then went online and found Jim B. Tucker,   a psychiatry professor who’s spent years  investigating the claims of people who say   they have lived past lives. It should be said  that Tucker is a serious scientist, and he looks   at every angle when investigating these claims. Tucker turned up at Ryan’s home with four black   and white photos. Three of them were random  people. When Tucker asked Ryan if any of the   women were familiar to him, he pointed to  one. She was the wife of a guy named Martin   Martyn. This guy was the man in the photo  who Ryan claimed to have been. The reason   he was so hard to track down is that he had  only been in movies as an uncredited extra.  Tucker didn’t stop there. He went in search of  Martyn’s living family and he found his daughter.   At first, she wanted nothing to do with Tucker,  or some crazy kid, but when Tucker told her lots   of intimate details about her father that Ryan had  told him, she was flabbergasted. There was no way   this kid could have known those things. There  were dozens of facts. Here are some of them.  Ryan said he’d been a dancer on Broadway. True.  He said he’d been a talent agent and worked with   people who’d changed their names. True. He said  he got sunburnt a lot. True. He had two sisters.   True. His mom had curly, brown hair. True. He had  four wives. True. He had a green car and his wife   had a black car. True. He had an African maid.  True. He owned a piano. True. He said his home   where he’d lived as Martyn had the word “Rock”  on it. True. He said he’d lived at 825 North   Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. True. He said he’d  been friends with a man named Senator Five…not   true. Her father had been friends with a man  named Senator Ives. All in all, Ryan knew over   50 facts about Martyn’s life, and most of  those facts were impossible to find online.  When Ryan was introduced to the person who was  his daughter from a past life he was scared.   Remember Ryan was just a young kid then. He hid  behind his mom and said something had changed.   His mother told him that people had to  grow up. Ryan told her that he never ever   wanted to go back to Hollywood. He didn’t  much like his daughter as an old woman.  Tucker has investigated over 2,500 cases  and to this day scientific research   can’t really explain what’s going on. Now your mind is sufficiently blown,   go watch this, “Disturbing Wikipedia  Pages.” Or, have a look at this…
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Channel: The Infographics Show
Views: 3,760,409
Rating: 4.8931956 out of 5
Keywords: past life, past lives, reincarnation, children reincarnated, reincarnated, true stories, true, kids past lives, childrens past lives, the infographics show, war, history, twins, military, investigate, story, strange, weird, kids, children
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Length: 12min 55sec (775 seconds)
Published: Sat Dec 05 2020
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