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Bridey Murphy
The 1950s hypnosis case in which a Colorado housewife, regressed by Morey Bernstein, described life as an Irishwoman who lived from 1798 to 1864; some obscure details checked out but Bridey herself was never traced, and the case was widely declared debunked, though some of the debunking was itself unreliable.
Corliss Chotkin Jr
A Tlingit boy from Sitka, Alaska, born in 1947 with two marks matching surgical scars that his great-uncle, Victor Vincent, had shown his mother while saying he would return as her son. As a toddler he reportedly used the uncle's name and recognised his relatives.
Gretchen (Dolores Jay)
A 1970s American case in which a minister's wife, under hypnosis, became 'Gretchen', a German girl of the nineteenth century who answered questions in simple German; investigated by Ian Stevenson.
James Leininger
An American boy whose nightmares and statements about being a Second World War navy pilot were matched to James Huston Jr, shot down during the Iwo Jima campaign in 1945; one of the best-known Western cases, and one of the most debated.
Jim B Tucker
American child psychiatrist who took over Ian Stevenson's reincarnation research at the University of Virginia, best known for his work on Western cases such as James Leininger.
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.
Surviving Death (TV series)
A 2021 Netflix documentary series based on Leslie Kean's book, whose final episode is devoted to children who remember previous lives.
The Reincarnation Records Podcast
Season 3 of the documentary podcast The Telepathy Tapes (2026), in which Ky Dickens follows families whose young children seem to remember past lives, and the researchers who check their claims.