Many children seem to remember their past lives, some in great detail. Here’s a look at two cases that have been investigated and in which the memories seem to correspond to particular people who have died.
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“Before I was a baby, I had black hair,” said Luke, the 2-year-old son of insurance analyst Nick and his wife, Erika, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The couple passed this and similar comments off as just being those inexplicable things kids say. But these statements added up—and they led the family down an interesting path of discovery.
Luke’s story was told by the A&E network program “The Ghost Inside My Child.”
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Erika was putting on earrings one day when Luke told her, “I used to have a pair like that when I was a girl.”
Whenever he had to come up with a girl’s name for a stuffed animal or all those things children name, he would choose Pam. His mother was perplexed, since she didn’t know where he would have heard the name and it seemed like a strange choice. She finally asked him, “Who is Pam?” He replied: “I was. Well, I used to be, and then I died and I went up to heaven and God pushed me back down, and when I woke up I was a baby and you named me Luke.”
Not wanting to put any ideas in the boy’s head, she did not mention Pam anymore. Nick was especially skeptical about any idea of a past life and no such beliefs were fostered in the home, he said.
