behavioural memories
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B.B. Saxena
An Indian boy from Bareilly, born with blond hair and fair skin, who in the 1920s said he had been an English soldier named Arthur, shot in the neck on horseback in the First World War; he had a birthmark like a bullet wound on his neck and English habits, but the soldier was never identified.
Bishen Chand Kapoor
A boy from Bareilly, India, who from infancy spoke of a life as Laxmi Narain, a rich and hard-living young man of Pilibhit who died in 1918. A lawyer wrote down many of his statements before they were checked, and nearly all proved correct.
Bongkuch Promsin
A Thai boy who before he was two said he was Chamrat, a young man of Laotian descent from a nearby village who was stabbed to death at a fair in 1954; he named the two suspects, used Laotian words and kept Laotian food habits.
Jasbir Lal Jat
An Indian boy who appeared to die of smallpox at three and a half in 1954, revived, and then claimed to be Sobha Ram, a Brahmin of another village who had died in a fall from a wedding chariot at about the same time; a classic replacement case.
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.
Sujith Lakmal Jayaratne
A Sri Lankan boy whose statements about being 'Gorakana Sammy' were written down by a monk before any checking and matched Sammy Fernando, an arrack distiller killed by a lorry in 1969; as a toddler Sujith asked for arrack and acted out a drunkard's habits.