A lot of kids appear to remember their past lives, certain in great detail. Here’s a look at two cases that have been examined and in which the memories seem to correspond to particular people who have died.

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Could her son pick Pamela Robinson out of the mix? She says out of all the photos he picked Pamela Robsinson, the woman who died in the exact manner he had described. The family is now convinced that their son is proof that reincarnation can happen. Reincarnation – A Constant Companion Of The Collective Human Existence. Although we won’t have an in-depth discussion of the history of the concept of past lives, or of the many religions and their differing views on reincarnation here, it is safe to say the concept and belief in life after death goes back to our collective beginnings and has permeated the many religions, belief systems. After talking about his death, Luke made a hand motion showing someone jumping out a window. When Erica punched the details into a search engine, she discovered a news story about a fire in the Paxton Hotel in Chicago. In March of 1993, 19 people died in a fire at the building and a woman, Pam Robinson. Pam died when she jumped out a window.

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“Before I was a baby, I had black hair,” said Luke, the 2-year-old son of insurance analyst Nick and his wife, Erika, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The couple passed this and similar comments off as just being those inexplicable things kids say. But these statements added up—and they led the family down an interesting path of discovery.

Luke’s story was told by the A&E network program “The Ghost Inside My Child.”

Erika was putting on earrings one day when Luke told her, “I used to have a pair like that when I was a girl.”

Whenever he had to come up with a girl’s name for a stuffed animal or all those things children name, he would choose Pam. His mother was perplexed, since she didn’t know where he would have heard the name and it seemed like a strange choice. She finally asked him, “Who is Pam?” He replied: “I was. Well, I used to be, and then I died and I went up to heaven and God pushed me back down, and when I woke up I was a baby and you named me Luke.”

Not wanting to put any ideas in the boy’s head, she did not mention Pam anymore. Nick was especially skeptical about any idea of a past life and no such beliefs were fostered in the home, he said.

When Luke was 4, he was watching TV and became upset upon seeing an explosion in a building. Erika turned the program off and told Luke it was OK, no one was hurt. He said, “Yeah, but I died and I don’t like to think about it, it makes me sad.” He said he remembered dying in a fire, that he jumped out of a window to escape the flames. His mother asked if it was like on TV, thinking he may have just gotten the idea from what he was watching. He said it was different; there was no explosion like on TV, it was just a fire.

He remembered that the fire was in Chicago. He was certain it was in Chicago.

A Google search of “Pamela Chicago fire” came up with a hit, said Erika, and it gave her the creeps. Pamela Robinson had died in 1993 in a fire at the Paxton Hotel in Chicago—she had jumped out a window while the building burned.

Erika and Nick were shocked. They continued to seek confirmation. Robinson was African American and it hadn’t occurred to Erika that Luke’s possible past life incarnation would be a different race (Luke is Caucasian).

Erika asked her son, “What color was Pamela’s skin?”

“Black,” he replied without hesitation.

The last piece of evidence was yet to come, and after hearing it, Nick described himself as “bewildered.” Erika printed out Robinson’s photograph on a sheet of paper alongside several photographs of other people and asked Luke if he recognized any of the faces.

Pointing to Robinson, he said, “That’s Pam.” He said he remembered the photo being taken, though “it was the other time.”

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The late Dr. Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, a leading reincarnation researcher, recorded thousands of cases in which children seemed to remember their past lives. He noted two cases in a 1988 paper in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in which he was especially able to verify the facts remembered by the children. In these cases, the families of the children and of the children’s supposed past life incarnations were geographically distant, and the families had not interacted to verify the details of the children’s past-life memories before investigation.

At the age of 3, a little girl in Sri Lanka by the name of Thusitha said she lived near the river in another village named Kataragama (she specifically gave the name of the village) and a dumb boy pushed her in the river. She said her father sold flowers near the Kiri Vehera, a Buddhist structure, and that her house was near the main Hindu Temple. From her statements, it was deduced that she was describing herself as a little girl who drowned in her past life.

Researchers inquired among flower vendors near the Kiri Vehera in Kataragama and found a family whose daughter had drowned in the river some years earlier and who also had a dumb son. Altogether Thusitha had made 30 statements about her past life. Of these, 25 fit this family, two were unverifiable, and three did not match.

Some were general statements that could apply to many families, but some were very specific and described very unusual things about this family for that region. For example, she said the family had two houses, one of which had glass in the roof. The family indeed had two houses, one with a skylight. She spoke of dogs being tied up and fed meat. In this region, few dogs are kept as pets, they are usually stray scavengers.This family had neighbors who were hunters and would feed meat to dogs that were tied up.

The girl’s incorrect statements may have involved a melding of various memories. For example, a description of her past-life father did not match, but it did match other men from her past-life family.

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An Ohio boy's family are starting to believe their child was a Chicago woman in a past life, after he started sharing specific details. Courtesy: Fox 8

Luke Ruehlman, pictured as a toddler, told his mother he was a woman named Pam who died in a fire. Picture: Screengrab/Fox 2Source:Supplied

WHEN Luke Ruehlman began talking about a woman named Pam, his mother Erica assumed it was just an imaginary friend.

She had no idea where her toddler son had picked up the name or why he was so obsessed with it.

The Ohio woman said she initially didn’t think it was strange, other than the fact that the family didn’t know any Pams.

But things became really strange when she quizzed him about where he had got the name from and why he liked it.

The then-two-year-old told his parents he used to be Pam, a girl with black hair, he said.

Erica Ruehlman said her son became obsessed with the name Pam at just two years old. Picture: Screengrab/Fox 2Source:Supplied

“I said, ‘what do you mean you were?’ He was like, ‘Well I used to be, but I died and I went up to heaven and I saw God and eventually God pushed me back down. When I woke up I was a baby and you named me Luke,” Erica Ruehlman told Fox 2, St Louis.

She pressed him further, asking him how Pam died.

“He looked right at me and said, ‘Yea it was fire.’ And at that point he made like a motion like his hand he was jumping off a building,” Ms Ruehlman said.

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Luke went on to explain Pam had died in a tall building and travelled on the train in Chicago.

The curious mother was baffled, since the family had never visited the city, nor mentioned it to the youngster.

A quick internet search revealed a fire had killed 19 people in 1993 at the city’s Paxton Hotel, including a woman in her 30s called Pam Robinson.

By now the family, including Luke’s grandmother Lisa Trump, were convinced there was more to the story than just coincidence.

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Chicago woman Pam Robinson died in a fire in Chicago in 1993. Picture: Screengrab/Fox 2.Source:Supplied

They later appeared on a show called Ghost Inside My Child and to test Luke, they spread out a series of photos and asked the now five-year-old to pick out Pam’s picture. He did it on the first go.

“He goes, ‘Well, I don’t recognise anybody. But, I remember when this one was taken. He pointed to the correct one,” his mother said.

The Ruehlmans, who say they haven’t received any money from their story and are not religious, said while Luke no longer connects with Pam, the story is a positive one that transcends race and gender.

It may sound far-fetched to some, but children who say they live past lives are not uncommon, according to Jim Tucker, a medical director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

An internet search revealed a woman called Pam did die in a fire. Picture: Screengrab/Fox 2.Source:Supplied

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Professor Tucker, who is renowned for his work with young children who recall their past lives, released a book in 2013 called Return to Life, which reveals the extraordinary stories of children all over the world who believe they have been reincarnated.

Among them is five-year-old Ryan, who remembers life in Hollywood in the 20th century, and his death in a hospital bed in 1963..

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Also featured in the book are a three-year-old golfing prodigy who believes he’s the reincarnation of 1930s golf star Bobby Jones and a two-year-old boy whose father-son visit to a flight museum triggered memories of the battle of Iwo Jima.