This kid says he remembers his past life. And he wasn’t Cleopatra. He was a smart talkin’ Hollywood agent…
Ten-year-old Ryan believes he is the reincarnation of Hollywood agent Marty Martin. And child psychiatrists are starting to believe him.
At the age of four, Ryan began sharing “memories” of acting with Mae West and dancing on Broadway. But it was only when his mother, worried about his obsession with the past, showed him some books on Hollywood that Ryan realised whose life he was remembering.
“She turns to the page in the book, and I say ‘that’s me, that’s who I was,” Ryan told the US Today program, referring to a photo of Marty Martin on the set of West’s Night after Night.
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But Ryan didn’t only identify Marty – he went on to describe scores of little-known facts about his life, including the colour of his car, the street he lived on and a detailed description of his house and pool.
He even correctly identified the age at which Martin died, even though the fact has been widely misstated in official records.
Dr. Tucker, a child psychiatrist, says Ryan’s memories ring true.
“If you look at a picture of a guy with no lines in a movie, and then tell me about his life, I don’t think many of us would have come up with Marty Martyn’s life,” Dr Tucker said. “Yet Ryan provided many details that really did fit with his life.”
This picture was taken in 2014. The little girl in it died 100 years ago.
Dr. Tucker’s office is filled with the files of over 2,500 children between the ages of two and ten who claim to remember a past life.
“These cases demand an explanation,” Dr. Tucker said. “We can’t just write them off or explain them away.”
Ryan says that as he gets older, his memories of Marty’s life are slowly fading.
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Since the 1980's, I've read many accounts of past life recall in children and adults, spontaneously and through hypnosis. Major religions accept the cycle of rebirth as a given. I find belief systems fascinating. But it is equally fascinating when people not raised in belief system which accepts reincarnation have stories of past lives. I think that it is just narrow-minded to dismiss such tales as deliberate lies, or self-delusion, or an attempt to deceive others. I like to keep an open mind.
Agreed. I have heard this many times before too.
I agree, I have had a profound experience of a past life. No one famous or anything like that but it explains some of the seemingly irrational fears that I have in my life now.
To continue that story for six years makes it believable. Kids can't sustain that level of bullshit for that length of time, my own child can't do anything for longer than 10 minutes!