An American news show last night had as its theme ‘Mysteries of the Unexplained’, a bunch of stories about strange occurences in people’s lives…the Parkinson’s survivor who, when he started drugs for his disease, developed strange and magical musical abilities…and the story of a little boy from Louisiana who calls himself ‘james 3’ and appears to be the reincarnated soul of a Corsair pilot who was shot down over Okinawa in 1945! The story was amazing, and tho I have forgotten a lot of the names involved in the story, basically a Corsair pilot off of a small escort carrier was flying a combat mission with a group of TBM’s when he took a direct hit in the engine and went down on Okinawa and was killed…he was the 2nd ‘James’ in his family, hence this kid in Louisiana began signing his artwork at school ‘James 3’ because he believes he is the third incarnation of this particular soul…he knew all kinds of things about WWII aircraft, knows things about them and particularly the Corsair (“THe tires always went flat when I landed….” he said during the show) that a child of 3 should’nt know about these kinds of planes…the parents are believers, A TBM pilot that flew the mission and saw ‘James’ get hit in the engine is a believer, as is a relative of WWII ‘James”…all in all very eerie stuff but it sure made a believer of me (footage used in the show was from the Lone Star museum, where ‘James 3’ ran right up to the F4U-5 and proclaimed it a Corsair)..
Don’t know what you believe in as far as the afterlife, but it sure mad ME reconsider the legitimacy of reincarnation…..or maybe I’m just gullible?
Mark
By: Andy Mac - 3rd July 2005 at 13:51
Mark, I have a newspaper clipping from a UK newspaper about a 9 year old boy who people claimed was a re-incarnated Do 17 bomber pilot. The lad knew lots of technical stuff and other things that one veteran said only a pilot would know. this boy even described an airfield in France as it was in wartime !
There is definately MORE to life than our little brains could possibly imagine.
By: trumper - 3rd July 2005 at 09:31
Theres alot of things we will never understand,possibly for the best really.It does make for strange reading though.
By: Dave Homewood - 2nd July 2005 at 15:33
Mark,
I saw this same story about a year and a half ago in a documentary that featured many kids who have “past-life memories”. It was certainly quite amazing. In the doco I saw there were several kids in India too – one of whom named the parents of his past soul, and named the village, etc. His ‘now’ parents eventually gave in and took him there with the camera crew, and met the parents of the young chap who’d been killed a few years before that this young kid said was him! He could tell them all sorts of stuff about this past life he shouldn’t have known. The doco reckoned all kids remeber stuff from past lives but as they get older they forget. It was certainly amazing – if true. I wonder who I used to be. The git could have left me some money!
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