[DancesWithCats]

Now, I do not believe in reincarnation. I don't believe in ghosts and spirits, nor do I believe in elves or gnomes either. And if this were an adult telling us this tale of what had happened to them, I'd be saying, 'yeah. right. sure' but when a child comes up with this story? For years? Then I wonder about it. Unless mom is just a big fat lier and told the boy to tell these tales. But with a child? The truth usually spills all out ... 'and then mom said to say this or that ...' so it does make me wonder. What do y'all think about this ?

[DancesWithCats]

... liar ... sorry about the misspell!

[Tax-chick]

How interesting. I have to wonder, who are the witnesses to his telling this story at age 2? I’ve been throught the Twos seven times; their communication skills are underwhelming.

Now a five-year-old could easily make this whole thing up, especially if he saw something in a movie, TV show, or book that captured his imagination. My five-year-old plans to move to Jupiter and make everyone there speak Greek.

My suggestions are either that his mother has told him stories which he has come to believe are true (very easily done with young children), or that he has made up a story, perhaps based on fiction, that he believes is true.

It’s interesting that he had a dad in his “past life” story, while he doesn’t seem to have one in reality.

[A knight without armor]

There is this little American boy who remembers being a pilot shot down during WWII in the Pacific. He started babbling about this very early and would come up with names of people and names of parts of his plane that there was just no way he’d know. Some of the airplane parts were unique to that era. He kept this up for a few years but as he got older he mentioned it less and less. When the story was put out a lot of people on FR thought he must have memorized tv shows. But the parents had said the kid was so young during this he was not watching historical shows or anything else that would be so accurate. The person he claimed to be really did die there as did another pilot or two he also named. Creepyville indeed.

[FReepapalooza]

I tend to believe some of these stories. Perhaps some of the details get scrambled, like a dream.

I don’t know but when I was young I experienced some really weird deja-vu episodes when visiting places that I had never been to before. Kinda creepy.

[dynachrome]

He’s channeling Bridey Murphy.

http://skepdic.com/bridey.html

[SunkenCiv]

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Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by Ian Stevenson	Other Lives, Other Selves: A Jungian Psychotherapist Discovers Past Lives by Roger J. Woolger, PhD.

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