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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.
Criticisms of reincarnation research
The main objections raised against reincarnation case studies, from fraud and cultural shaping to psychic explanations and the population argument, and how researchers have answered them.