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Did a Doctor Discover Proof of Past Lives

Ever have deja vu?

You know, the feeling that what you're currently doing is something that you already did before,

only the memory of it only comes to you now, in the present.

It's a common occurrence that scientists still can't explain, and one experienced by millions

of Americans every year.

Sometimes it can be unsettling, other times it's just a mild curiosity- but now imagine

having deja vu not just about something you are currently doing, but about an entire life

lived.

John and Florence Pollock were a working class couple from Britain who were in no overt regards,

extraordinary by any means.

Soon after getting married, the young couple had a daughter, Joanna, born in 1946, followed

five years later by a second daughter, Jacqueline.

Joanna, as the older sister, was closely bonded to Jacqueline, and would 'mother' her constantly.

The children grew up as normal, happy children, though Joanna would often be prone to a particularly

unsettling statement.

The normally happy little girl would sometimes stop what she was doing and muse aloud, “I

will never be a lady.”, implying that she would never grow up.

At three years old, Jacqueline suffered an accident and fell into an empty bucket, earning

her a gash on her forehead right over her right eye and close to her nose.

The gash became a permanent scar, especially noticeable in cold weather.

The little girl also had a prominent birthmark on the left side of her body, at the waist.

These details would become incredibly important just a few years later.

On the morning of May 7th, 1957, Joanna, aged eleven, Jacqueline, aged six, and a friend

were walking to church.

As the children walked together, they were blissfully unaware that just down the road

a mentally disturbed woman was barreling down on them.

The woman had had her children taken away from her, and in an attempt to commit suicide

she took large quantities of aspirin and phenobarbitone, a medicine used to treat epilepsy.

The large doses of medicine had not killed her, but rather completely impaired her mental

state, and totally out of control, the woman barreled down the road and swerved onto the

sidewalk straight at the children.

Because of a wall next to the sidewalk the two girls and their friend were on, they were

unable to escape the oncoming car, and were instantly killed.

Their father, John, was utterly distraught at the death of his two daughters, and believed

that they had died as punishment from God after he had prayed for proof of reincarnation.

This was because John held a very peculiar view for a Christian, that sometimes God reincarnated

people- not as in returning from the dead, but completely reincarnated individuals in

different bodies.

John's wife did not believe this, and their marriage nearly ended when John insisted that

God would return the girls as twins.

Later that year, Florence became pregnant again, and this fueled John's belief that

his twin girls would be returned to him.

Florence, still extremely uncomfortable with the idea, utterly rejected this belief, and

after careful observation, the family doctor predicted a single birth.

This was based on observations on palpation of the fetus as well as its heartbeat, and

the fact that neither John or Florence had a history of twins in their family.

On October 4th, 1958 though, incredibly and unexpectedly, Florence gave birth to twin

girls, Gillian and Jennifer.

Even more incredibly, Jennifer was born with a birthmark that closely resembled Jacqueline's

scar above her eye, and a second birthmark in the exact same place as Jacqueline's own

on her hip.

Soon rumors of the twin girl's reincarnation began to circulate about town, and even made

national press.

A few years later, the story of the twins drew the attention of psychologist Ian Stevenson,

who began an investigation into the matter.

What he uncovered was shocking.

At first the twin girls behaved no differently than other young children, until they turned

three.

At that time, their parents gave them a box of toys that had belonged to Joanna and Jacqueline,

and Gillian claimed a doll for herself that had belonged to Joanna, and Jennifer claimed

a doll that had belonged to Jacqueline.

The little 3 year old twins told their parents that the toys had been a gift from Santa Claus,

which is exactly what the John and his wife had told Joanna and Jacqueline when they had

originally bought them years earlier.

Further, Gillian spotted a toy clothes-wringer and reached for it, saying, “There is my

toy wringer.”

The wringer had also previously belonged to Joanna.

The eeriness however would only build.

The twin's mother would often overhear the twins discussing details of the accident that

had killed their deceased siblings, with Gillian once holding Jennifer's head and saying, “Blood's

coming out of your eyes, that's where the car hit you.”

Indeed when John went to identify the bodies of his dead children, Jacqueline's head had

been bandaged right above the eyes.

At a later time, Gillian pointed to Jennifer's forehead birthmark and said that that was

where Jennifer had being hurt when she fell in a bucket.

Years earlier while helping her husband run a milk delivery business, Florence had been

seen to wear a large smock as she helped John.

She had stopped wearing the smock when she found new work shortly after the death of

her daughters, and had put it away in a closet.

Once, John put on the smock to protect his clothes as he did some house painting, and

Jennifer asked him why he was “wearing mommy's coat”.

Dr. Stevenson would go on to find other disturbingly similar behavior between the twins and their

dead sisters, which included a strong aversion to traffic, with the girls saying that the

cars were going to kill them.

Gillian also liked to mother Jennifer, the same as Joanna had mothered Jacqueline, and

both twins looked up to their maternal grandmother as a mother figure, as Joanna and Jacqueline

had done while growing up because their mother was busy working.

Later in life Dr. Stevenson would have the girl's DNA tested, and discover that they

were monozygotic twins, meaning they came from the same egg.

This, he claimed, meant that because the girls were identical genetically, Jennifer's birthmarks

which so closely resembled Jacqueline's scar and birthmark, couldn't be explained.

Then, suddenly, at around age five, the memories of their deceased sisters completely ceased.

Dr. Stevenson, who maintained lifelong contact with the family until his death, interviewed

the girls again at age 20, and both girls expressed skepticism about reincarnation.

In 1981 though, Gillian suddenly began experiencing what she called 'inner visions', and perfectly

described the house, garden, lawns and orchards of the family home in Whickham, during which

Joanna had grown up in until age four.

Gillian though, had never been there herself.

To date the Pollock twins case remains one of the strongest for the phenomenon of reincarnation,

yet it is not without serious faults.

For starters, Dr. Stevenson himself was not present for any of the alleged behaviors or

statements that mirrored past behaviors or memories of the deceased girls, and instead

had them relayed to him by the family.

Given John Pollock's strong belief in reincarnation he would hardly make for an unbiased witness.

Skeptics argue that the girls could simply have learned details of their deceased sister's

lives by overhearing adults talking about them, and may have turned it into a game of

sorts.

This would explain their loss of interest as they grew older, and the sudden end to

these past-life memories.

However, the presence of Jennifer's birthmarks remains a thorny issue to try and explain

away rationally.

The Pollock twins were hardly the first possibly reincarnated twins however, and the most famous

case before the Pollocks was that of Burmese twins Maung Gyi and Maung Nge.

These two twin boys soon took to calling themselves Maung San Nyein and Ma Gwin when they learned

to talk, much to the shock of their parents who recognized the names as those of a couple

that they had known but who had died.

The children reported memories of the village that the deceased couple had lived in, Okshitgon,

and to test the veracity of their memories their parents took them to visit.

Incredibly the twins recognized the village and displayed an intimate knowledge of the

layout of its streets, the houses, and even the people who lived there.

They even remembered borrowing two rupees from a local woman, and when she was asked

about the debt she confirmed that the deceased couple had in fact borrowed this money from

her and died before repaying it.

Closer to home, the most stunning case of reincarnation comes to use from recent years.

In 2000 a young American boy named James Leininger fell in love with planes- specially World

War II planes- after visiting a flight museum.

Incredibly though, shortly after his visit, James, who wasn't yet two years old displayed

a knowledge of plane facts that stunned his parents.

Taking him back to the plane museum, his parents reported that James began to have nightmares,

and he would repeatedly shout, “Airplane crash on fire!

Little man can't get out.”

As James grew a little older and his parents asked him about the bad dreams, James said

that they weren't dreams at all, but rather memories.

James told his parents that they were his memories and that he had been shot down by

the Japanese, he even identified the plane he flew as a Navy Corsair.

At two and a half years old, James told his parents that he had flown his plane from a

big boat, calling it the Natoma.

Incredibly, the US Navy in fact had operated an escort carrier off Japan, where James claimed

he had been shot down, by the name of USS Natoma Bay.

As Christmas neared, James' father was looking through a book he was planning on gifting

his own father, called The Battle for Iwo Jima 1945.

As James' father flipped through the book, James pointed to a picture of the island,

showing Mt. Suribachi, and said “that's where my airplane was shot down.”

As James got older he began drawing battle scenes which involved airplanes, and would

sign them James 3.

When asked why, he said it was because he was the third James.

Eventually, James's father got in contact with a veteran from the Natoma Bay, and attended

a reunion of the surviving Natoma Bay crew.

There he learned that towards the end of the war on one of the ship's last missions at

the Battle of Iwo Jima, a single pilot had gone missing and was presumed shot down by

the Japanese: a 21 year old named James M. Houston Jr.

Even more incredibly though, the young James even gave the name of one of his wingmen:

Jack Larsen, who confirmed the events that led to James Houston Jr.'s death.

As young James's case was investigated, he began to give details about James Houston

Jr.'s family life, which prompted James's parents to contact any surviving relatives

of Houston's.

They found his sister who after being told of the details James spoke of, confirmed many

of them as factual.

Skeptics who investigated the James Leininger case have been hard-pressed to come up with

good explanations for the young boy's alleged past-life memories.

Today a world of information is at our fingertips, but in the early 2000s when James was growing

up, gathering such specific details about a World War II battle and daily life aboard

an escort carrier would have been difficult- let alone for a child of only three years

old!

Even more difficult to explain however are the specifics of life aboard the Natoma Bay

that were confirmed by veterans, or that a child barely old enough to read would even

have known the name of a relatively obscure and small Navy escort carrier which happened

to fight in the same place the young James claimed he had been shot down.

Is reincarnation real?

Certainly some cases can be looked at with a skeptical eye and a strong argument for

their falsification can be made.

For the Pollock twins, their father's strong belief in reincarnation could have led to

an accidental or purposeful hoax, and no solid evidence of the girl's experiences actually

exists.

The case of the Burmese twins can be more difficult to explain, yet given the lack of

verification and single individual who studied and reported the case so long ago, details

could have been easily exaggerated or outright invented.

More difficult though is the case of James Leininger, which not only was extremely well

documented, but presented so many exacting details that no rational explanation can easily

dispel as a hoax or a fantasy.

Perhaps then there is life after death, or some people get second chances.

Ready for more weirdness?

Check out weird phobias people suffer from- or for a change of pace click this other video

instead.

Either way click one now and keep the watch party going!

Did a Doctor Discover Proof of Past Lives Hat||Arzt||||| Hat ein Arzt Beweise für frühere Leben entdeckt? ¿Descubrió un médico pruebas de vidas pasadas Un medico ha scoperto la prova delle vite passate? 医師は前世の証拠を発見したか? Um médico descobriu provas de vidas passadas Открыл ли доктор доказательства существования прошлых жизней Bir Doktor Geçmiş Yaşamların Kanıtını Keşfetti mi? Чи знайшов лікар докази минулих життів? 医生发现了前世的证据吗 醫生是否發現了前世的證據

Ever have deja vu?

You know, the feeling that what you're currently doing is something that you already did before, |||Gefühl||||derzeit||||||||

only the memory of it only comes to you now, in the present. ||Erinnerung||||||||||

It's a common occurrence that scientists still can't explain, and one experienced by millions

of Americans every year.

Sometimes it can be unsettling, other times it's just a mild curiosity- but now imagine ||||beunruhigend||||||||||

having deja vu not just about something you are currently doing, but about an entire life

lived.

John and Florence Pollock were a working class couple from Britain who were in no overt regards, |||||||||||||||obvious| Джон и Флоренс Поллок были семейной парой из Британии, принадлежавшей к рабочему классу, и не отличались ничем особенным,

extraordinary by any means. außergewöhnlich in jeder Hinsicht||| необыкновенный.

Soon after getting married, the young couple had a daughter, Joanna, born in 1946, followed

five years later by a second daughter, Jacqueline.

Joanna, as the older sister, was closely bonded to Jacqueline, and would 'mother' her constantly. |||||||closely connected to|||||||

The children grew up as normal, happy children, though Joanna would often be prone to a particularly |||||||||||||likely to experience|||

unsettling statement.

The normally happy little girl would sometimes stop what she was doing and muse aloud, “I

will never be a lady.”, implying that she would never grow up.

At three years old, Jacqueline suffered an accident and fell into an empty bucket, earning

her a gash on her forehead right over her right eye and close to her nose. ||deep cut|||||||||||||

The gash became a permanent scar, especially noticeable in cold weather.

The little girl also had a prominent birthmark on the left side of her body, at the waist.

These details would become incredibly important just a few years later.

On the morning of May 7th, 1957, Joanna, aged eleven, Jacqueline, aged six, and a friend

were walking to church.

As the children walked together, they were blissfully unaware that just down the road |||||||completely unaware||||||

a mentally disturbed woman was barreling down on them. |||||rushing aggressively toward|||

The woman had had her children taken away from her, and in an attempt to commit suicide У женщины отобрали детей, и она попыталась покончить с собой.

she took large quantities of aspirin and phenobarbitone, a medicine used to treat epilepsy. |||||aspirin tablets||phenobarbital||||||seizure disorder

The large doses of medicine had not killed her, but rather completely impaired her mental

state, and totally out of control, the woman barreled down the road and swerved onto the |||||||||||||changed direction suddenly|| staat, en totaal uit de hand gelopen, liep de vrouw de weg af en zwenkte de

sidewalk straight at the children.

Because of a wall next to the sidewalk the two girls and their friend were on, they were

unable to escape the oncoming car, and were instantly killed.

Their father, John, was utterly distraught at the death of his two daughters, and believed

that they had died as punishment from God after he had prayed for proof of reincarnation. |||||||||||||||rebirth after death

This was because John held a very peculiar view for a Christian, that sometimes God reincarnated |||||||unusual||||||||

people- not as in returning from the dead, but completely reincarnated individuals in

different bodies.

John's wife did not believe this, and their marriage nearly ended when John insisted that

God would return the girls as twins.

Later that year, Florence became pregnant again, and this fueled John's belief that

his twin girls would be returned to him.

Florence, still extremely uncomfortable with the idea, utterly rejected this belief, and

after careful observation, the family doctor predicted a single birth.

This was based on observations on palpation of the fetus as well as its heartbeat, and ||||||feeling by touch||||||||| Dit was gebaseerd op observaties van palpatie van de foetus en zijn hartslag, en

the fact that neither John or Florence had a history of twins in their family. 约翰和弗洛伦斯两人的家族中都没有双胞胎的历史这个事实。

On October 4th, 1958 though, incredibly and unexpectedly, Florence gave birth to twin

girls, Gillian and Jennifer.

Even more incredibly, Jennifer was born with a birthmark that closely resembled Jacqueline's

scar above her eye, and a second birthmark in the exact same place as Jacqueline's own

on her hip.

Soon rumors of the twin girl's reincarnation began to circulate about town, and even made

national press.

A few years later, the story of the twins drew the attention of psychologist Ian Stevenson,

who began an investigation into the matter.

What he uncovered was shocking.

At first the twin girls behaved no differently than other young children, until they turned

three.

At that time, their parents gave them a box of toys that had belonged to Joanna and Jacqueline,

and Gillian claimed a doll for herself that had belonged to Joanna, and Jennifer claimed

a doll that had belonged to Jacqueline.

The little 3 year old twins told their parents that the toys had been a gift from Santa Claus,

which is exactly what the John and his wife had told Joanna and Jacqueline when they had

originally bought them years earlier.

Further, Gillian spotted a toy clothes-wringer and reached for it, saying, “There is my Далее Джиллиан заметила игрушечную выжималку для одежды и потянулась за ней, говоря: "Вот моя

toy wringer.” |squeezing toy device

The wringer had also previously belonged to Joanna.

The eeriness however would only build. Однако жуть только усиливалась.

The twin's mother would often overhear the twins discussing details of the accident that

had killed their deceased siblings, with Gillian once holding Jennifer's head and saying, “Blood's

coming out of your eyes, that's where the car hit you.”

Indeed when John went to identify the bodies of his dead children, Jacqueline's head had

been bandaged right above the eyes.

At a later time, Gillian pointed to Jennifer's forehead birthmark and said that that was

where Jennifer had being hurt when she fell in a bucket.

Years earlier while helping her husband run a milk delivery business, Florence had been

seen to wear a large smock as she helped John. |||||loose outer garment||||

She had stopped wearing the smock when she found new work shortly after the death of

her daughters, and had put it away in a closet.

Once, John put on the smock to protect his clothes as he did some house painting, and

Jennifer asked him why he was “wearing mommy's coat”.

Dr. Stevenson would go on to find other disturbingly similar behavior between the twins and their

dead sisters, which included a strong aversion to traffic, with the girls saying that the

cars were going to kill them.

Gillian also liked to mother Jennifer, the same as Joanna had mothered Jacqueline, and

both twins looked up to their maternal grandmother as a mother figure, as Joanna and Jacqueline

had done while growing up because their mother was busy working.

Later in life Dr. Stevenson would have the girl's DNA tested, and discover that they

were monozygotic twins, meaning they came from the same egg. |identical|||||||| waren monozygote tweelingen, wat betekent dat ze uit hetzelfde ei kwamen.

This, he claimed, meant that because the girls were identical genetically, Jennifer's birthmarks

which so closely resembled Jacqueline's scar and birthmark, couldn't be explained. |||looked like|||||||

Then, suddenly, at around age five, the memories of their deceased sisters completely ceased. ||||||||||passed away|||stopped completely

Dr. Stevenson, who maintained lifelong contact with the family until his death, interviewed Доктор Стивенсон, который поддерживал связь с семьей на протяжении всей жизни вплоть до своей смерти, взял интервью у

the girls again at age 20, and both girls expressed skepticism about reincarnation.

In 1981 though, Gillian suddenly began experiencing what she called 'inner visions', and perfectly

described the house, garden, lawns and orchards of the family home in Whickham, during which ||||||fruit tree areas||||||||

Joanna had grown up in until age four.

Gillian though, had never been there herself.

To date the Pollock twins case remains one of the strongest for the phenomenon of reincarnation,

yet it is not without serious faults.

For starters, Dr. Stevenson himself was not present for any of the alleged behaviors or ||||||||||||claimed||

statements that mirrored past behaviors or memories of the deceased girls, and instead

had them relayed to him by the family. ||passed on|||||

Given John Pollock's strong belief in reincarnation he would hardly make for an unbiased witness.

Skeptics argue that the girls could simply have learned details of their deceased sister's

lives by overhearing adults talking about them, and may have turned it into a game of

sorts.

This would explain their loss of interest as they grew older, and the sudden end to

these past-life memories.

However, the presence of Jennifer's birthmarks remains a thorny issue to try and explain

away rationally.

The Pollock twins were hardly the first possibly reincarnated twins however, and the most famous

case before the Pollocks was that of Burmese twins Maung Gyi and Maung Nge.

These two twin boys soon took to calling themselves Maung San Nyein and Ma Gwin when they learned

to talk, much to the shock of their parents who recognized the names as those of a couple

that they had known but who had died.

The children reported memories of the village that the deceased couple had lived in, Okshitgon,

and to test the veracity of their memories their parents took them to visit. ||||truthfulness|||||||||

Incredibly the twins recognized the village and displayed an intimate knowledge of the

layout of its streets, the houses, and even the people who lived there.

They even remembered borrowing two rupees from a local woman, and when she was asked

about the debt she confirmed that the deceased couple had in fact borrowed this money from

her and died before repaying it.

Closer to home, the most stunning case of reincarnation comes to use from recent years.

In 2000 a young American boy named James Leininger fell in love with planes- specially World During|||||||Leininger|||||||

War II planes- after visiting a flight museum.

Incredibly though, shortly after his visit, James, who wasn't yet two years old displayed

a knowledge of plane facts that stunned his parents.

Taking him back to the plane museum, his parents reported that James began to have nightmares,

and he would repeatedly shout, “Airplane crash on fire! и постоянно кричал: "Самолет горит!

Little man can't get out.” Малыш не может выбраться".

As James grew a little older and his parents asked him about the bad dreams, James said

that they weren't dreams at all, but rather memories.

James told his parents that they were his memories and that he had been shot down by

the Japanese, he even identified the plane he flew as a Navy Corsair. ||||||||||||Navy fighter plane

At two and a half years old, James told his parents that he had flown his plane from a

big boat, calling it the Natoma.

Incredibly, the US Navy in fact had operated an escort carrier off Japan, where James claimed Невероятно, но флот США действительно управлял эскортным авианосцем у берегов Японии, где Джеймс утверждал

he had been shot down, by the name of USS Natoma Bay. Он был сбит, по имени USS Natoma Bay.

As Christmas neared, James' father was looking through a book he was planning on gifting

his own father, called The Battle for Iwo Jima 1945.

As James' father flipped through the book, James pointed to a picture of the island,

showing Mt. Suribachi, and said “that's where my airplane was shot down.”

As James got older he began drawing battle scenes which involved airplanes, and would

sign them James 3.

When asked why, he said it was because he was the third James.

Eventually, James's father got in contact with a veteran from the Natoma Bay, and attended ||||||||war-experienced soldier||||||

a reunion of the surviving Natoma Bay crew.

There he learned that towards the end of the war on one of the ship's last missions at

the Battle of Iwo Jima, a single pilot had gone missing and was presumed shot down by |||||||||||||assumed to be|||

the Japanese: a 21 year old named James M. Houston Jr.

Even more incredibly though, the young James even gave the name of one of his wingmen: Nog ongelooflijker echter, de jonge James gaf zelfs de naam van een van zijn wingmen:

Jack Larsen, who confirmed the events that led to James Houston Jr.'s death. Джек Ларсен, который подтвердил события, приведшие к смерти Джеймса Хьюстона-младшего.

As young James's case was investigated, he began to give details about James Houston

Jr.'s family life, which prompted James's parents to contact any surviving relatives

of Houston's.

They found his sister who after being told of the details James spoke of, confirmed many

of them as factual.

Skeptics who investigated the James Leininger case have been hard-pressed to come up with |||||James Leininger|||||||||

good explanations for the young boy's alleged past-life memories. ||||||claimed|||

Today a world of information is at our fingertips, but in the early 2000s when James was growing

up, gathering such specific details about a World War II battle and daily life aboard

an escort carrier would have been difficult- let alone for a child of only three years

old!

Even more difficult to explain however are the specifics of life aboard the Natoma Bay

that were confirmed by veterans, or that a child barely old enough to read would even

have known the name of a relatively obscure and small Navy escort carrier which happened

to fight in the same place the young James claimed he had been shot down.

Is reincarnation real?

Certainly some cases can be looked at with a skeptical eye and a strong argument for

their falsification can be made. |their falsehood proven|||

For the Pollock twins, their father's strong belief in reincarnation could have led to

an accidental or purposeful hoax, and no solid evidence of the girl's experiences actually |||intentional||||||||||

exists.

The case of the Burmese twins can be more difficult to explain, yet given the lack of

verification and single individual who studied and reported the case so long ago, details

could have been easily exaggerated or outright invented.

More difficult though is the case of James Leininger, which not only was extremely well

documented, but presented so many exacting details that no rational explanation can easily

dispel as a hoax or a fantasy. Debunk||||||

Perhaps then there is life after death, or some people get second chances.

Ready for more weirdness?

Check out weird phobias people suffer from- or for a change of pace click this other video

instead.

Either way click one now and keep the watch party going!