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Rakesh Gaur
An Indian boy from Kankroli, Rajasthan, who from the age of five said he had been a carpenter from Tonk who was electrocuted; the man was identified as Bithal Das, who died in 1955, but the two investigators, Satwant Pasricha and the anthropologist David Barker, disagreed over whether the identification was genuine or socially constructed.
Ramoo and Rajoo Sharma
Indian twin boys who, from about the age of three, said they had been twin brothers from a village 16 kilometres away who were lured to a house and strangled in 1964; they were born with streaks of darker skin across their abdomens, which Stevenson came to link with the poles used to pin the men down.
Ratana Wongsombat
A Bangkok girl who at fourteen months showed an adult's knowledge of Buddhist worship at Wat Mahathat and said she had been Kim Lan, a wealthy laywoman who had meditated there and died after an operation in Sri Racha in 1962.
Ravi Shankar Gupta
An Indian boy from Kanauj who from the age of two said he was Munna, a six-year-old murdered six months before his birth; he named the two men arrested for the killing and had a long mark across his neck that he linked to the fatal wound.
Records made before verification
Cases in which a child's statements were written down before anyone checked them against a previous person, which rules out memories being reshaped after the fact.
Reincarnation – Past Lives Revisited
A long-form podcast hosted by Marilyn Elliott since 2020, in which each episode reviews a reported reincarnation case and weighs the evidence, often with the researchers or the people involved.
Ryan Hammons
An Oklahoma boy whose memories of Hollywood were traced, through a still from a 1932 film, to Marty Martyn, a minor actor turned talent agent who died in 1964.
Rylann O’Bannion
An Oklahoma girl who from the age of three said she had died in the rain after a loud noise; at five she spoke of a plane crash, and her mother found Jennifer Schultz, an eleven-year-old killed in her carport when a Pan Am jet crashed into Kenner, Louisiana, in 1982.