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Folks In This Online Group Shared 30 Stories Of Kids Showing Signs They Might Have Lived A Life Before Their Current One
There is such a philosophical or religious concept of reincarnation. It suggests that a person’s soul is immortal and when the body perishes the soul moves on to be reborn in a new body. There is no way to prove it as nobody found out what happens to a person’s consciousness when they die but there are indications that lead some people to believe it is actually real.
Most of those cases are related to children. Sometimes they say just nonsensical things but occasionally they might say or do something that is out of character to them or requires specific knowledge. Like remembering names of real people they have never met or heard being mentioned or remembering specific places.
The unexplainable source of such knowledge might creep parents out and make them believe their children are actually confusing their lives with their past ones. There are so many of these stories that even further prove the theory. We collected the best ones from a Reddit thread started by poopcornkernels when they asked “Parents of Reddit, what has your child done to make you think they lived a past life?” Let us know if you have any similar stories in the comments!
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#1
My mom loves to tell this story:
When I was young, I really wanted to learn Russian, so they got me into a class. In general, Russian was very easy to pick-up and use. It sort of "made sense" and I could construct complex sentences. The teacher told my mother that it was spooky, because I could speak it in a way that they hadn't been teaching me (I could figure-out colloquial phrases). To this day, I still have it and haven't lost my Russian.
Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
This is fascinating but I need to know things like how old was OP, was the teacher familiar with teaching kids, did OP hear Russian anywhere else... in short, kids' ability to aquire a language is truly astounding and mind-boggling.
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#2
My friend had a miscarriage before she had her first daughter. A few years ago when her daughter was about 4 a group of us were at a party and her daughter was sitting on her lap and said something along the lines of "I'm sorry I left you before mommy. I was hurting really bad and I wasn't ready." My friend asked her was she meant and her daughter said she left her before she was born but came back. Super creepy. Daughter doesn't remember this conversation and still doesn't know about the miscarriage.
#3
I asked my son once who he was before he was my son. He was small, maybe 3
He looked at me sadly and said, 'It was dark and cold and I wasn't anything. Just all by myself..'
And then be perked up and said 'And before that I had black wings and I flew! And I'd take shiny stuff because all shiny things are MINE!'
And that is how I realized my son was magpie in his past life. And gave me a clue where to find my missing earrings. (He had a hidden cache of jewelry in his room, the little imp.).
#4
When I was 3 I told my dad I used to live in Ohio before living with him.
All these interesting stories and I'm just that guy from Ohio.
#5
When my sister was 3 she would go on and on about her brother, Brian. We're all girls, and we don't know where she would have heard the name. But it was all, Brian does this Brian and me used to do that, on and on. Thinking Brian was an imaginary friend I asked her where Brian was now. She said "he's passed away, I am, too. The bomb got us and our house is gone." Very weird.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 2 years ago
When my niece had just turned 4, I was living with her and her mum to help take care of her whilst her mum was at work. Normal silly kid. One day at breakfast she's really upset, I ask her, "Claire, what's wrong?" She looked at me with such sad eyes and said, it's Emily. I asked who Emily was and she got more upset, and said, No, my name is Emily. I must have looked at her confused and paused because she then started crying and said, why don't you remember me? You were there too! (I asked where) and she continued to be go smacked that I didn't know what she was talking about. She cried and said, in the War, you were there too, when the soldiers came and we had to lie down in the ditches in the field in the village. I asked what war, she said, the one with the whole world, that the bad men came, and eventually that we were in France. Next day she had literally zero memory of it. Was one of the most bizarre but amazing experiences I've ever had
#6
My 3y/o niece, in a hotel near her home "I've been here. I used to sit in this chair and knit." Wouldn't say anything else when pressed further.
Another time in an antiques shop, we looked at an old school desk with a flip-top lid when she, bemused, said "Where's the inkwell??" It just seemed strange that she'd expect there to be one.
#7
My daughter would freak out and start crying and screaming while repeating. "Why! Why! I got married, I just got married, I got married." Over and over again with this tone filled with grief that I never heard come out of a child so small. 2 and 1/2 is pretty young to be sobbing you're heart out. It was a cry that I had only ever heard from adults who have lost the love of their life.
#8
So I am raised Roman Catholic. My son is raised Roman Catholic. But I was dating this muslim guy who would play prayers constantly (that were on YouTube). This particular day my boyfriend was playing a prayer that's supposed to protect you from jinn. My three year old son looked up from his colouring book said clear as day "now they will be gone for 1000 days" my boyfriend looked him dead in the eye and was like "how do you know that?" My son smiled shrugged and continued to colour.
I don't know if this is true but my boyfriend explained that if you recited that specific prayer it was supposed to banish evil spirits for 1000 days. To this day I still get chills when I think about it.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
Its creepy but most people don't realize that children listen to and repeat everything. I was thought to know creepy stuff as a kid but I just listened and absorbed everything I heard. Adults think ur playing but walls always have ears
#9
When my oldest son was three, he used to wake up crying and saying that he wanted to "go home". Over and over he would repeat it. I would reassure him that everything was okay, he was at home. Happens for many months. We had a huge map of the world in the hallway and one night when he was upset, I took him to the map and showed him where we lived and asked, where his other home was. He pointed out a small town in Mexico. Day after day he pointed to the same exact place. So, we took him there. It was a beautiful little area and we had a great time. There was nothing profound in any of his reactions. When we got home he started sleeping through the night and never mentioned it again. We live in California and my husband and and I are both white. However, our son is adopted and although his bio father is technically "unknown", we were told it is probable that he was Hispanic.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
So maybe its possible he does have former memories that OP wasn't aware of?
#10
When my then 2-1/2 yr old daughter heard a loud boom, then jumped into a small low spot in our yard and yelled "Foxhole!" with a terrified look on her face. She had never seen any movies about wars or anything. Definitely had me curious.
#11
When my son was about 3 1/2 we where watching price is right. Something I very very rarely do. He looked at me and said "When I was as old as you this was bob barkers show." Drew has been the host since before he was born.
#12
When I was about 3, I used to tell my mum stories of being a little Chinese girl. Apparently I lived at the bottom of a hill with my grandmother, and I passed away in a flood. When I was 6 or 7, I came home from school upset that I'd been surrounded by a group of boys, and I cried to my mum that it was like when the soldiers on horses came to take us away.
#13
When my son was about 3 he told me he was flying around then decided to choose me to be his mum. Very sweet
#14
When my daughter was little (younger than 4,) not only did she never get mad once, she loved to put on bathrobes and sit Indian style and close her eyes and meditate, with no knowledge of the practice that we were aware of.
Imogene Cargeaux 2 years ago
Probably just saw it on tv. Not that weird. Kids do s**t like this all of the time. My step daughter when she was 7 spoke in a Scottish accent for weeks and wore my old catholic school skirt "as a kilt" and made fake "bagpipes" out of paper towel types and a canvas shopping bag and called herself Angus Macduff n refused to speak to us unless we spoke to her in a Scottish accent. Nobody we know is Scottish... no shows or movies we watch have Scottish ppl in them... turns out it was from some comic book or book her friend from school told her about that she never even read or saw.. she just thought it was funny and apparently identified with this made up dude Angus. Lol. I could have told myself she was a Scottish bag pipe player in a past life.. but
#15
When my middle son was 3 he used to tell me about his family he used to have before he came to me. They all passed away because they had no food, they also lived in a forest and he passed laying next to his brother and sister. This story stayed consistent until he was around 4 and never spoke about it again. He's a earthy kid and I believe this definitely isn't his first time here!
#16
My sister accurately told our grandmother what had been in some building before she was born. She was a toddler.
#17
When my daughter was 4 she looked at me and said "we've been together as long as you've been on this earth....but I've been here a lot longer than you." Also, just after my Mom passed away, I was having a rough day. She came over to me and said something to the likes of "time moves differently in the afterlife. What is a lifetime for you is only the blink of an eye for your Mom." She had just turned 7 when she said this.
#18
When our 9 year old was 3, he happily playing in his sandbox, looked at his mother and said, "I was old I got sick and I passed away, but now I'm new again!" When my wife asked him more about it, he said he remembered being an old woman. He doesn't remember saying it anymore.
#19
Have posted this before, but my Mom loves to tell the story when little me was with her driving past the cemetery, and I announced loudly "That's where they put you when you commit treason against the king!"
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
Off point but I didn't think traitors were buried in consecrated ground? Maybe it varies
#20
We live in Ohio, took our 4 year old to Cape Cod for a long weekend, first day there we kayak with her down an inlet to a beach. She gets out looks at the ocean and says "oh it is the ocean, where I used to come before I knew Mommy and Daddy." My wife and I just looked at each other, we were creeped out.
#21
Not as a parents, but My niece drew a picture "of a man in her room" that she kept telling her parents about. He had two different colored eyes, and one was gray. When asked why it was gray, she responded "because he can see the storm coming."
#22
When my sister was about five she told me "You used to be a music producer in Finland, but I can't tell you your real name cause it will hurt you really really bad".
How she even knew what a producer was kinda weirded me out.
#23
When my daughter was younger, she often talked about her "other family". She went into great detail, but she hasn't mentioned them in a long time. She also described what it was like being inside of me when I was pregnant.
#24
Our 4 year old told my wife that he used to have numbers tattooed on his arm.
#25
I was walking down the street with my daughter who was about 4 yrs at the time and she pointed to a random house and told me about how she had lived there with her sister but they had to leave when the house went on fire and her sister went to heaven.
#26
When my son was very small, 3-4, whenever he would get tired or cranky he would say "I want to go home." Which was way weird because we were already home. But maybe he was remembering a previous life/home?
It kinda freaked me out, and I would always hug him and say "This is your home now, please stay here, we love you."
#27
The first time my 6 year old step-daughter got to handle my practice broadsword she knelt in front of it like a Templar praying to the cross of the crossguard. It was weirdly solemn too.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
A 7 year old has def been exposed to fictional swordplay. Tell me she's never come across an ad for assassins creed or any shows about templars? By that age she's prob learning about the dark and middle ages. At least I was around then.
#28
My grandmother reluctantly told me how my uncle, who was around 2 or 3 at the time, described to her in great detail "skinning the white men"
We are white
#29
My daughter at the age of 4 or 5 had a friend (imaginary) she called Lucy whose father was a wildlife guide at an animal sanctuary.She would give very detailed information about them. I always wondered where the heck she got all this information from. Such a vivid imagination.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
Vivid imagination key words. Not saying I don't believe every story but children listen to and absorb everything. When your child is playing on the ground and you think they're not paying attention they are in fact listening to every word and storing it their mind for later. I can say this for certain as I was a former Child.
#30
My younger brother cried one time because he thought he was losing control of his stuffed animals "again". When prompted, he said they used to hurt him in "another time".
What do you think ?
Linda Mermaid 2 years ago
Yeah it’s almost as bad as people whose lives are so bereft of color, they have to insult others and disparage their experiences to make themselves feel better.
Load More Replies... Eiram 2 years ago
Its sad only because children at 2 or 3 years wouldnt be able to physically say half the stuff these people claim, and the older ones 4-8 are so easily confused between dreams and photographs, and hearing stuff from random places. My youngest sister would claim to be "there" when looking at old albums when obviously she wasn't born and no one in the events had died. Adults read all kinds of stuff into natural human behavior.
Stoopham McFernybabes 2 years ago
I disagree. I’ve worked in child development and for many years and had 3 of my own. While I don’t take any of these stories as evidence for past lives, I promise you many MANY 2 and 3 years olds can speak with this degrees of eloquence. I was often struck with just how much my children were able to recollect, as toddlers, and just how well they could turn phrases to express themselves (and that’s not just the proud mother talking).
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Mokayokok 2 years ago
I don't know which is worst, the pure absurdity of these claims or the comments of the ppl dumb enough to buy into it.
Rens 2 years ago
There was a particular house my mom used to drive past, I was about 3 or 4; every time, I told her that I used to live there. She told me we'd never lived there, but I told her that when I lived there, my name was Mandy, and I had long blonde hair and a long blue dress. Turned out my mom had once been there at a party shortly after meeting my father; they met playing tennis and the older couple who lived there had given a party my parents had attended. They'd had a 17 year old daughter named Mandy, she had long blonde hair and had been wearing a long blue dress when she had been killed in a car accident 5 years before that particular party.
Rens 2 years ago
I have no reason to lie; and I have Asperger's Syndrome, telling lies is only possible for me to do by omission.
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Jo Choto 2 years ago
I can relate to these, because I remember saying some of this stuff. My family used to laugh at me because I would try to tell them about when I was 20, except I was about 6 or 7. But I really did want to tell them about when I was grown up. I also remembered a castle I used to live in and roughly where it was, near some marshland. In my teens, a librarian helped me find it in a book of English castles, in a marshy area, with the features I remembered. Except it didn't have the smaller waist high wall I used to sit on, that went around the castle itself. Librarian did more research and found that the castle did have that wall, but it had sunk into the marsh, estimated 400+ years ago. I understand this subject is ridiculous for many, as are most things when never experienced personally.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
That's so cool. It takes courage to speak up sometimes. I need evidence to believe and I believe you. I didn't have these experiences myself but my bro did. Its cool u looked into it. Most kids forget.
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L.A. Trefry 2 years ago
For the skeptics, don't be so sure. I'm the most fact-based, evidence-demanding person in the world; I don't believe in gods or demons or any other supernatural things. But it is not at all uncommon for children to say things that suggest that reincarnation might actually be a thing. Three years old seems to be a very common age for this -- it's possible that the memories happen earlier but it's only at 3 or 4 that they have the words to express these experiences. My daughter at that age said (at various times) things that she could not possibly have heard or seen on TV. Once she turned to me and said, "I couldn't kill my brother yesterday. That's why there wasn't enough food. After all, I was supposed to be a preacher man." And, yes, that's verbatim. It was over 15 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday. There were other, less dramatic statements as well, but that one was the oddest.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
I don't know why you were down voted. I'm a sceptic but I don't know it all. I've seen strange stuff. Maybe 98% I can explain. The rest who knows.
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Linda Mermaid 2 years ago
I clearly remember sitting on my bed looking out the window of our tiny house as a 4 year old, crying my eyes out, wishing I could ‘go back’ because I was so miserable. ‘Go back’ to the white stone house that had a small tower, on a green hill in Scotland. I hated my life (we were pretty poor) and my family, and didn’t want to be there anymore. Not a dream. Not a tv show. Not a book I read because I couldn’t read and my parents never read to me. Never been to Scotland. I can still see that house in my mind. So all you nay-sayers can bite me.
Tiffany Marie 2 years ago
Sometimes I think it's our genetics 🧬 that are passed down to us and maybe we inherited a few memories from our blood lines.
Gabby M 2 years ago (edited)
This has actually been proven with generational trauma marginalized groups experience.
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Armağan Altun 2 years ago
I'm Turkish and since my high school days, there's this phrase in English which I don't remember where on when I heard it. It is "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die." I find myself saying this phrase since high school days and never asked the reason why (PUN) Even I learned the meaning of the phrase while studying university I kept checking it online to see what movie, or series I heard it and it turned out it was a poem called "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Lord Tennyson written in 1854.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
Thank you. I always thought it was Churchill but knew it must have been older.I was just too lazy to look but thanks as its a quote that has stuck with me as well
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thEBOrdeSTpaNDA 2 years ago
A recurring theme here is that most of the kids were ~3. I wonder if there's any significance in that?
Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
It blows my mind that there are adults out there who believe this nonsense.
John Baker 2 years ago
It used to make me wonder when I was younger, but as I got older, I began to realize that by the time they reach their mid teens, most people are as intellectually and emotionally developed as they're ever going to be. Mature, intelligent people with good critical thinking skills are actually the minority.
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GaeFrog 2 years ago
I'm not claiming anything but when I was super young one of my very first memories was being in the back seat of a really old car with no seatbelts and I had a brother and a mom and dad and we were driving to the beach and I was about 7 and I had never been before so I didn't know how to swim and I went to far out and I don't remember what happened after that but I bet I drowned also I don't have a brother or any siblings and my family has never had an old car like that idk where that memory came from but I have always held on to it for my whole life and I've never told anyone so idk maybe that was a past life
John Baker 2 years ago
You no doubt drowned in a sea of unpunctuated verbiage.
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Donna Rakowiecki 2 years ago
I was a young girl around 12 when I drowned in a lake by falling through the ice while skating, thenI remember waiting and waiting to get my new life. I was also a bag lady with a cart where l stashed all my possessions I was a poor homeless horder really. When I died From age and elements cold.
Kathy Wilbourne 2 years ago
For nearly six centuries, reincarnation was a core part of Christianity, making it a religion for all of humanity. The teaching of Jesus, promising the restoration of all of God’s children was removed from Christianity in 543 AD. The doctrine of only one life made it easier to control the followers. Even though there is a lot of evidence for reincarnation, Christians don't want to believe because they have been told not to.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
Exactly its easier to control people who think they've only one shot. It doesn't help when everything that doesn't fit is removed from the bible. It worked a treat for a while until the unread masses got smart
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Julio España 2 years ago
Tengo una amiga , ella es psicóloga, años atras uno de sus pequeños hijos comenzó a hablar de sus vidas pasadas y la relación que hubo entre ellos. Mi amiga aún siendo psicóloga se asustaba. Fué a ver a un ser espiritual que conocía y le comentó su preocupación. Esta persona le dijo que no se preocupara que a los 8 años como mucho se les borra este recuerdo. Y así fué. El hijo no tenía mas de 3 o 4 años.
LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
Lot of non-believers in the comments. My mother loves to tell this story: when I was about 3 years old, my mom and I were visiting my aunt who lived in another city. I got really sick on this trip. Yet the only part of this entire trip I remember with clarity is sitting in a train with red leather seats, the conductor? I have no idea but he wore a uniform and came up to see if I was OK while I threw up into an empty bucket picked up at a dollar store. I remember him speaking, my mom speaking, and according to her, during this train ride I repeatedly asked them both not to let me go, that I wasn't ready to die again. There's pictures of this entire vacation and one of the train while my aunt held a very sick looking child. Even with the pictures I question this vacation taking place yet I remember with perfect clarity asking a complete stranger not to let me die again. If I had a near death experience before then, nobody has ever told me.
Leodavinci 2 years ago
The interesting thing bout reincarnation is where do all the "old souls" come from? You see, starting from the earliest days of humanity to today, the vast majority of people who have ever lived on Earth... are currently alive. Which means that most people are new souls, not old ones... and have never been reincarnated.
Dee 2 years ago (edited)
What if humans aren’t the only ones with souls? If all the wildlife who’s numbers are dwindling had souls they could be reborn as humans.
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Dan St John 2 years ago
The University of Virginia and a University in Canada have been doing reincarnation studies since the 1970's. Virginia has over 2400 case studies and the have proven 75% of them, to be 100% accurate. You can go to their site, by just typing reincarnation studies University of Vrginia. Children lose most of their childhood memories around the age of 8. So, most of these studies are with children under that age. If you read the stories and evidence, you will walk away with a whole different perspective on reincarnation. The University stats are impressive, and they don't publish or promote their findings, except as studies. Go read some of the stories and see if it doesn't change your outlook on life after death. Just a thought.
John Baker 2 years ago
Have these alleged "studies" been peer reviewed? Has anyone else been able to consistently reproduce the claimed results?
Load More Replies... Dan St John 2 years ago
There have reincarnation studies going since the 1970's at the University of Virginia. They have over 2400 case studies that are more than convincing. There is also a university in Canada that is doing the same. Children lose their childhood memories between 8-10 years old, so all of these studies are from children below that age. More than 75% have been proven 100% accurate. There is much we don't know, but if you read these stories from these children and look at the evidence, you will walk away scratching your head and questioning religion.
Grace and Lucy 2 years ago
How many of us learn powerful lessons without pain ? How much can we learn in just 80 or 90 years ? If we have one life, why does it not make sense to have many ? What difference does it make ? The Catholic Church use to teach reincarnation. Then canceled that idea when they realized more money and fear filled their coffers with the idea of one life only. For some of us life is what you believe, for others it is what you know.
Load More Replies... Suzi Q 2 years ago
My sister visited a small town in Washington that she'd never visited. She knew the streets like she'd lived there before. They talked to a town elder because she swore there was a coffee shop here and a library there. These things existed in those spots back
Suzi Q 2 years ago
before she was born. She's always been a little more sensitive to spirits. She didn't talk about it.
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Any who have known/or heard about someone who died would say that as it is what adults always say to kids, and kids remember things like that.
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Requiem 2 years ago
Nope, you cant say you believe in vaccines and than go on about how someones 4 year old is actually their first baby who was a miscarriage. this post does not belong on here
Liz the Wanderer 2 years ago
I actually CAN believe in both vaccines AND reincarnation if I see fit.
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vivioh 2 years ago (edited)
I wish people wouldn’t make up stories to get the attention of strangers or anyone else. I was a licensed child care specialist for 25 years. In all the years I was with the kids I never had a 1.5 year old that could say more then a single word at one time. Even that was unusual. But one person described her 1 yr old actually giving a short speech. And the 3 year olds that spewed out entire scenarios in multiple sentences is highly unlikely. Not entirely impossible but very uncommon. I believe in reincarnation so hate to see people make up their stories. It ruins it for the true story tellers.
Annamagelic 2 years ago
Umm, what? I'm not sure you've ever actually met a three year old. Three year olds spew out muti-sentence scenarios all day every day!
Load More Replies... Linda Mermaid 2 years ago
Yeah it’s almost as bad as people whose lives are so bereft of color, they have to insult others and disparage their experiences to make themselves feel better.
Load More Replies... Eiram 2 years ago
Its sad only because children at 2 or 3 years wouldnt be able to physically say half the stuff these people claim, and the older ones 4-8 are so easily confused between dreams and photographs, and hearing stuff from random places. My youngest sister would claim to be "there" when looking at old albums when obviously she wasn't born and no one in the events had died. Adults read all kinds of stuff into natural human behavior.
Stoopham McFernybabes 2 years ago
I disagree. I’ve worked in child development and for many years and had 3 of my own. While I don’t take any of these stories as evidence for past lives, I promise you many MANY 2 and 3 years olds can speak with this degrees of eloquence. I was often struck with just how much my children were able to recollect, as toddlers, and just how well they could turn phrases to express themselves (and that’s not just the proud mother talking).
Load More Replies... Mokayokok 2 years ago
I don't know which is worst, the pure absurdity of these claims or the comments of the ppl dumb enough to buy into it.
Rens 2 years ago
There was a particular house my mom used to drive past, I was about 3 or 4; every time, I told her that I used to live there. She told me we'd never lived there, but I told her that when I lived there, my name was Mandy, and I had long blonde hair and a long blue dress. Turned out my mom had once been there at a party shortly after meeting my father; they met playing tennis and the older couple who lived there had given a party my parents had attended. They'd had a 17 year old daughter named Mandy, she had long blonde hair and had been wearing a long blue dress when she had been killed in a car accident 5 years before that particular party.
Rens 2 years ago
I have no reason to lie; and I have Asperger's Syndrome, telling lies is only possible for me to do by omission.
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 2 years ago
I can relate to these, because I remember saying some of this stuff. My family used to laugh at me because I would try to tell them about when I was 20, except I was about 6 or 7. But I really did want to tell them about when I was grown up. I also remembered a castle I used to live in and roughly where it was, near some marshland. In my teens, a librarian helped me find it in a book of English castles, in a marshy area, with the features I remembered. Except it didn't have the smaller waist high wall I used to sit on, that went around the castle itself. Librarian did more research and found that the castle did have that wall, but it had sunk into the marsh, estimated 400+ years ago. I understand this subject is ridiculous for many, as are most things when never experienced personally.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
That's so cool. It takes courage to speak up sometimes. I need evidence to believe and I believe you. I didn't have these experiences myself but my bro did. Its cool u looked into it. Most kids forget.
Load More Replies... L.A. Trefry 2 years ago
For the skeptics, don't be so sure. I'm the most fact-based, evidence-demanding person in the world; I don't believe in gods or demons or any other supernatural things. But it is not at all uncommon for children to say things that suggest that reincarnation might actually be a thing. Three years old seems to be a very common age for this -- it's possible that the memories happen earlier but it's only at 3 or 4 that they have the words to express these experiences. My daughter at that age said (at various times) things that she could not possibly have heard or seen on TV. Once she turned to me and said, "I couldn't kill my brother yesterday. That's why there wasn't enough food. After all, I was supposed to be a preacher man." And, yes, that's verbatim. It was over 15 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday. There were other, less dramatic statements as well, but that one was the oddest.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
I don't know why you were down voted. I'm a sceptic but I don't know it all. I've seen strange stuff. Maybe 98% I can explain. The rest who knows.
Load More Replies... Linda Mermaid 2 years ago
I clearly remember sitting on my bed looking out the window of our tiny house as a 4 year old, crying my eyes out, wishing I could ‘go back’ because I was so miserable. ‘Go back’ to the white stone house that had a small tower, on a green hill in Scotland. I hated my life (we were pretty poor) and my family, and didn’t want to be there anymore. Not a dream. Not a tv show. Not a book I read because I couldn’t read and my parents never read to me. Never been to Scotland. I can still see that house in my mind. So all you nay-sayers can bite me.
Tiffany Marie 2 years ago
Sometimes I think it's our genetics 🧬 that are passed down to us and maybe we inherited a few memories from our blood lines.
Gabby M 2 years ago (edited)
This has actually been proven with generational trauma marginalized groups experience.
Load More Replies... Armağan Altun 2 years ago
I'm Turkish and since my high school days, there's this phrase in English which I don't remember where on when I heard it. It is "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die." I find myself saying this phrase since high school days and never asked the reason why (PUN) Even I learned the meaning of the phrase while studying university I kept checking it online to see what movie, or series I heard it and it turned out it was a poem called "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Lord Tennyson written in 1854.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
Thank you. I always thought it was Churchill but knew it must have been older.I was just too lazy to look but thanks as its a quote that has stuck with me as well
Load More Replies... thEBOrdeSTpaNDA 2 years ago
A recurring theme here is that most of the kids were ~3. I wonder if there's any significance in that?
Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
It blows my mind that there are adults out there who believe this nonsense.
John Baker 2 years ago
It used to make me wonder when I was younger, but as I got older, I began to realize that by the time they reach their mid teens, most people are as intellectually and emotionally developed as they're ever going to be. Mature, intelligent people with good critical thinking skills are actually the minority.
Load More Replies... GaeFrog 2 years ago
I'm not claiming anything but when I was super young one of my very first memories was being in the back seat of a really old car with no seatbelts and I had a brother and a mom and dad and we were driving to the beach and I was about 7 and I had never been before so I didn't know how to swim and I went to far out and I don't remember what happened after that but I bet I drowned also I don't have a brother or any siblings and my family has never had an old car like that idk where that memory came from but I have always held on to it for my whole life and I've never told anyone so idk maybe that was a past life
John Baker 2 years ago
You no doubt drowned in a sea of unpunctuated verbiage.
Load More Replies... Donna Rakowiecki 2 years ago
I was a young girl around 12 when I drowned in a lake by falling through the ice while skating, thenI remember waiting and waiting to get my new life. I was also a bag lady with a cart where l stashed all my possessions I was a poor homeless horder really. When I died From age and elements cold.
Kathy Wilbourne 2 years ago
For nearly six centuries, reincarnation was a core part of Christianity, making it a religion for all of humanity. The teaching of Jesus, promising the restoration of all of God’s children was removed from Christianity in 543 AD. The doctrine of only one life made it easier to control the followers. Even though there is a lot of evidence for reincarnation, Christians don't want to believe because they have been told not to.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
Exactly its easier to control people who think they've only one shot. It doesn't help when everything that doesn't fit is removed from the bible. It worked a treat for a while until the unread masses got smart
Load More Replies... Julio España 2 years ago
Tengo una amiga , ella es psicóloga, años atras uno de sus pequeños hijos comenzó a hablar de sus vidas pasadas y la relación que hubo entre ellos. Mi amiga aún siendo psicóloga se asustaba. Fué a ver a un ser espiritual que conocía y le comentó su preocupación. Esta persona le dijo que no se preocupara que a los 8 años como mucho se les borra este recuerdo. Y así fué. El hijo no tenía mas de 3 o 4 años.
LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
Lot of non-believers in the comments. My mother loves to tell this story: when I was about 3 years old, my mom and I were visiting my aunt who lived in another city. I got really sick on this trip. Yet the only part of this entire trip I remember with clarity is sitting in a train with red leather seats, the conductor? I have no idea but he wore a uniform and came up to see if I was OK while I threw up into an empty bucket picked up at a dollar store. I remember him speaking, my mom speaking, and according to her, during this train ride I repeatedly asked them both not to let me go, that I wasn't ready to die again. There's pictures of this entire vacation and one of the train while my aunt held a very sick looking child. Even with the pictures I question this vacation taking place yet I remember with perfect clarity asking a complete stranger not to let me die again. If I had a near death experience before then, nobody has ever told me.
Leodavinci 2 years ago
The interesting thing bout reincarnation is where do all the "old souls" come from? You see, starting from the earliest days of humanity to today, the vast majority of people who have ever lived on Earth... are currently alive. Which means that most people are new souls, not old ones... and have never been reincarnated.
Dee 2 years ago (edited)
What if humans aren’t the only ones with souls? If all the wildlife who’s numbers are dwindling had souls they could be reborn as humans.
Load More Replies... Dan St John 2 years ago
The University of Virginia and a University in Canada have been doing reincarnation studies since the 1970's. Virginia has over 2400 case studies and the have proven 75% of them, to be 100% accurate. You can go to their site, by just typing reincarnation studies University of Vrginia. Children lose most of their childhood memories around the age of 8. So, most of these studies are with children under that age. If you read the stories and evidence, you will walk away with a whole different perspective on reincarnation. The University stats are impressive, and they don't publish or promote their findings, except as studies. Go read some of the stories and see if it doesn't change your outlook on life after death. Just a thought.
John Baker 2 years ago
Have these alleged "studies" been peer reviewed? Has anyone else been able to consistently reproduce the claimed results?
Load More Replies... Dan St John 2 years ago
There have reincarnation studies going since the 1970's at the University of Virginia. They have over 2400 case studies that are more than convincing. There is also a university in Canada that is doing the same. Children lose their childhood memories between 8-10 years old, so all of these studies are from children below that age. More than 75% have been proven 100% accurate. There is much we don't know, but if you read these stories from these children and look at the evidence, you will walk away scratching your head and questioning religion.
Grace and Lucy 2 years ago
How many of us learn powerful lessons without pain ? How much can we learn in just 80 or 90 years ? If we have one life, why does it not make sense to have many ? What difference does it make ? The Catholic Church use to teach reincarnation. Then canceled that idea when they realized more money and fear filled their coffers with the idea of one life only. For some of us life is what you believe, for others it is what you know.
Load More Replies... Suzi Q 2 years ago
My sister visited a small town in Washington that she'd never visited. She knew the streets like she'd lived there before. They talked to a town elder because she swore there was a coffee shop here and a library there. These things existed in those spots back
Suzi Q 2 years ago
before she was born. She's always been a little more sensitive to spirits. She didn't talk about it.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Any who have known/or heard about someone who died would say that as it is what adults always say to kids, and kids remember things like that.
Load More Replies... Requiem 2 years ago
Nope, you cant say you believe in vaccines and than go on about how someones 4 year old is actually their first baby who was a miscarriage. this post does not belong on here
Liz the Wanderer 2 years ago
I actually CAN believe in both vaccines AND reincarnation if I see fit.
Load More Replies... vivioh 2 years ago (edited)
I wish people wouldn’t make up stories to get the attention of strangers or anyone else. I was a licensed child care specialist for 25 years. In all the years I was with the kids I never had a 1.5 year old that could say more then a single word at one time. Even that was unusual. But one person described her 1 yr old actually giving a short speech. And the 3 year olds that spewed out entire scenarios in multiple sentences is highly unlikely. Not entirely impossible but very uncommon. I believe in reincarnation so hate to see people make up their stories. It ruins it for the true story tellers.
Annamagelic 2 years ago
Umm, what? I'm not sure you've ever actually met a three year old. Three year olds spew out muti-sentence scenarios all day every day!
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