BOY RECOGNISED PHOTO OF HIS PREVIOUS BIRTH

Here  it is a real life story of rebirth. Ryan was a four years old boy living in Oklahoma, USA. During midnights the boy used to scream and shout. He was somehow acting like a film man. When the nuisance became too much he was taken to a psychiatrist. The doctor just told the parents that he would outgrow it soon. One day Ryan told his mother: " Mama, I think I used to be someone else." He said he remembered a big white House and swimming pool. That was in Hollywood. He said he had three sons. He couldn't remember their names. He kept crying for he could not remember the names of his sons. His mother was much upset over all these. She started searching in the internet about reincarnation and about specific cases about Hollywood.

One day Ryan and his mum were going through  one Hollywood book. Ryan suddenly stopped at a black and white still taken from a 1930s movie. Two men in the centre of the picture  were confronting one another. Four other men surrounded them. His mother did not recognise any of the faces, but Ryan pointed to one of the men in the middle. He said: "Hey Mama, that is George. We did a picture together." He then pointed to the man on the right, wearing an overcoat and scowl. That guy is me. I found me!"

The book didn't provide any names of the actors pictured. But, Ryan's mother quickly confirmed the man - Ryan said as George - George Raft, a forgotten film star of the 1930s and 1940s. Still his mother couldn't identify the man Ryan said had been him. She wrote Tucker, whom she found through her on line search and added the photo. Finally it reached a film activist, who after a long search confirmed the scowling man' name - Martin Martyn, an uncredited extra in the film.

Later, Tucker and the family travelled to California to meet Martyn's daughter. Though she was reluctant to help, afterwards, during her talk with Tucker, confirmed so many facts Ryan had given about her father. Ryan also said he knew a man named Senator Five. Martyn's daughter confirmed that she had a photo of her father with a Senator Ives, Irving Ives of New York, who served in the US Senate from 1947 to 1959. And also confirmed that Martyn had three sons. The daughter, of course, knew the names of them.

(Indebted to Michael Jawer, Psychology Today, December 2014)

KV George

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