The question of whether humans truly reincarnate remains an unclear notion. However, there are accounts of real people who have reincarnated and could even give some factual details about their previous lives and events.
Another interesting part of these reincarnation stories is that people could reincarnate into different races and gender. Also, many of those who claim t have returned to earth recollect the stories as children but as they grow older, the memories fade. Some striking stories about people who have been reincarnated are included in this article.
People Who Have Been Reincarnated
1. James Leininger Remembered Fighting WWII
Young James Leininger was born on April 10, 1998, in San Francisco, United States. By the time he was 2, he started having nightmares and would shout about a plane crash in his sleep.
He subsequently started talking about a pilot, James Huston Jr. who fought in WWII. He also remembered that it was the Japanese that shot their plane and further gave the name of another pilot he supposedly worked with in his former life. This name turned out accurate when his father asked questions in the army.
young Leininger was also drawn to planes and could easily identify those that were used during the war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.
His tales about the war continued and by the time he was 3, he had started drawing planes and signing them James 3. When asked why he was adding 3 to his name, he claimed that he was James the third. His parents researched and found out that the pilot that their son claimed to be was James Jr. Hence, their son, could be a third if he was actually reincarnated.
The young boy was said to have given details about his past family and surprisingly, many of those details turned out true. The news of reincarnation quickly traveled and the parents were interviewed by ABC news.
His parents also wrote a book, Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a WWII Fighter Pilot. It tells the story of James and his memories of WWII.
While there are rarely available details about his whereabouts at the moment, he reportedly still had some memories of his past life when he was 12.
2. Baby Sam Was His Own Granddad
18-month-old Sam Taylor looked up as his father was changing his diaper and said ‘When I was your age, I used to change your diaper’. This began a revelation of details about his grandfather whom he always claimed to be him.
On several occasions at the age of four, he was presented with his grandfather’s pictures and he said ‘That is me’. He was even able to recognize ‘himself’ in his grandfather’s old school class picture of seventeen boys.
He also had stories to tell which his father insisted had never been mentioned in his presence such as his grandfather’s sister being murdered and dumped in a river.
3. Kevin Came Back As His Younger Brother
Patrick Christenson was born in March 1991 with several resembling features of his elder brother, Kevin, who died twelve years earlier of cancer at the age of two years and three weeks.
Kevin began showing signs of cancer six months before he died. He had a limp while walking and soon broke his leg from a fall. A small nodule was found just above his right ear on his scalp upon carrying out a biopsy and this proved that he had metastatic cancer. Several tumors were also seen growing in different parts of his body. Two significant occurrences were blindness due to a growth in his left eye and scars on the right-hand side of his neck following chemotherapy.
Patrick had a slanting birthmark synonymous with Kevin’s scar on the right side of his neck. He also had a cloudy left eye and a small nodule on his scalp and walked with a limp. At the age of four, he asked to be taken back to their old house which was an old orange and brown house where Kevin actually lived with their parents. These shreds of evidence were just too real to be true.
4. Luke Died a Female and Returned a Male
Luke Ruehiman told his mom that he had been a girl in his past life until he died and went up to heaven where he saw God who eventually pushed him back to earth. He said he woke up as a baby and was called Luke.
Luke had beforehand named his toys ‘Pam’. This seemed strange but it got stranger when he started insisting that he had lived in Chicago as a girl where a fire happened and in jumping out of a window had died.
This corresponded perfectly with how Pam Robinson died in March 1993. His mom was certain that she had never discussed any of those details with him, nor had he been to the city of Chicago before.
5. The Return of Pollack’s Twin Girls
May 5, 1957, was a gloomy day for John and Florence Pollack as they lost their twin girls, Joanna and Jacqueline, in a car accident. They were relieved the following year as they had another set of twin identical twin girls
They named the newborns Gillian and Jennifer. Jennifer had a similar birthmark on her waist to that of Jacqueline and one resembling Jacqueline’s scar on her forehead.
The twin girls soon began to request specific toys which belonged to their deceased elder sisters and shared memories of their past lives. They also displayed a huge fear of moving cars, always crying that ‘the car was coming to get them’. Fortunately, at the age of five, the memories faded and they lived normal lives as adults.
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6. Marilyn Monroe, The Late American Actress is Now Living as Chris Vicens
A Brit, Chris Vicens is 100% sure that he is Marilyn Monroe reincarnated. His conviction began during a therapy session where he had apparently revealed to his therapist who he was.
He said that in the course of five sessions with Fiona Childs, his therapist, he had learned a lot about Norma Jean a.k.a Marilyn Monroe of which he had no previous knowledge. This convinced him that he is a reincarnated version of her.
The death of Monroe brought debates as others believed she committed suicide while others suggest that she may have been killed by cabals. Well, dnaindia.com reported that the shop assistant, Chris claimed that the highly acclaimed actress, Monroe was killed in her pool house before she was dragged to her bedroom and stripped.
Like in many cases of reincarnation, there are mixed feelings about the truth of his story.
Well, Chris is not the only person to have claimed to be Monroe reincarnated. A Canadian singer Sherrie Lea Laird also asserted to be the reincarnation of the late actress.
Laird was said to have had the ability to recollect a lot of lesser-known details about Monroe.
7. Ryan Hammond Returned to Normal Life After Enjoying Hollywood Fame
40 years after the death of Hollywood star and agent, Marty Martyn, a boy named Ryan Hammond was born in America.
His life was considered that of a normal child until he was 3 years old. He then started to recall his claimed past as Marty. He recounted living in Hollywood and remembered how he left after his heart exploded.
His claims became more disturbing to his parents when he would wake up in the night clutching his chest or shouting “action” in his dreams. He once asked his mother to take him to Hollywood to see his other family.
His words quickly made waves and he was interviewed on NBC News.
The revelation prompted a documentary crew who heard about Ryan to want to prove if his reincarnation story was true.
Hence, they set up a meeting between Ryan and the late Marty’s daughter. Ryan was confused when he met her and he wondered why she was now a woman instead of the little girl he left.
The two went on tour and Marty’s daughter attested that some of the boy’s claims were true.
Well, a psychiatrist who has worked with a couple of children who recollect their memories from another life also believes in Ryan’s story.
Following the attention the boy got, he chose a private life and the memory of Marty faded. However, he is said to have a common love with Marty in terms of New York and movies.
8. A Japanese Boy Led 3 Lives
Many of those who share stories of their past lives remember their former lives and the present. This is not the exact case of a Japanese boy, Katsugoro who claimed to remember his past life as a young boy who lived for 5 years before his death.
He also remembered his life after death. He was said to have given an account of how he lived in a place where there was no day or night and it always seemed to be twilight. This same place which may be translated to the afterlife had no cold or hunger.
His story drew the interest of his small community as he could give a vivid description of his previous village and family. It turned out that the descriptions were accurate.
Japanese intellectuals at the time created quizzes for the boy and the finding was even more shocking. He remembered that he died after suffering smallpox in 1810 and when the home of his supposed previous family was visited, they gave a similar account of how their 5-year-old died.
9. A Syrian Boy Recognised His Killers From Past Life
A Syrian boy was born with a scar-like birthmark on his forehead. At first, the mark did not add up to any story until the boy was old enough to speak. He claimed to have been killed in his previous life and even remembered the name of his village.
His parents led him to elders who in turn, led him to the village of his past being. There, they were told of a young man that went missing about 4 years prior. To make the story even more interesting, the name the little Syrian boy gave coincided with that of the man that went missing. It was more than just a coincidence.
Thankfully, he was able to identify ‘his’ supposed killers. Although they denied it, he led people to the grave where he was buried in his past life.
A skeleton was found and there was a scar to match his. He was also able to show and identify where the murder weapon, an axe was kept.
His story has been documented in the book, Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation Today. The book was written by a German therapist Trutz Hardo.
10. An Indian Girl, Shanti Devi Remembered Her Husband, Child, and Parents From Past Life
Just when she was old enough to speak, an Indian girl, Shanti Devi told her parents about her past life and how her name was Lugdi.
With time, she gave her husband’s name in her past life and recounted how she died shortly after childbirth. She also told the name of her previous village and details about it even without ever visiting it since her reincarnation.
Finally, her family sent a word to the man she claimed she was married to and surprisingly, her details were correct. She had an emotional meeting with him and his child whom she claimed to have birthed before she died the first time.
The news brought fame to her so much so that even Mahatma Gandhi was interested in the story. She led her family and the press to the village she claimed to have led her previous life. There, she met her aged parents and identified other family members from her past.
The story was even more shocking as she claimed to have even remembered her being in the afterlife before her reincarnation.
She grew to be devoted to her spiritual life and was not married again. She died in 1987 at the age of 61.
Sture Lennorstrand wrote a book, I Have Lived Before: The True Story of the Reincarnation of Shanti Devi about the incident and Devi’s life.
So all of these stories, one may wonder if there is actually the existence of reincarnation or if they are just created in the minds of people. While science may not have given any reason to suggest that a thing like that exists, a notable author, Alexander Cannon, amongst others, has researched deeply.
In his book about reincarnation, The Power Within, Cannon has been able to bring forth certain psychological and philosophical concepts based on investigations and discoveries. However, despite all the documentation and research carried out, supporting and refuting these reincarnation stories, we may never be able to tell for sure if reincarnation is a reality.
