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Ampan Petcherat
A Thai girl who, from the age of one, spoke of a life as a small boy who drowned; at seven she recognised his aunt in the street, and her statements matched Chuey Puang Pei, drowned in 1950, whose body had been marked with red ochre.
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.
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.
Cevriye Bayrı
A Turkish girl whose first words grew into 'Ramazan killed'; she spoke of being Şehide Süzülmüş, murdered with her husband and two of their children in Adana in 1957, and was said to recognise several of Şehide's friends and relatives.
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.
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.
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.
Katsugoro
A Japanese boy who in 1822 said he had been Tozo, a child of a nearby village who died of smallpox in 1810, and who led his grandmother to Tozo's home; his case was written down in 1823 by an official, a retired lord and a scholar, making it one of the earliest documented cases.
Purnima Ekanayake
A Sri Lankan girl, born with pale birthmarks on the left of her chest, who spoke of being an incense maker killed by a big vehicle; her statements matched Jinadasa Perera of Angoda, near Kelaniya, whose post-mortem report recorded crushing injuries across the same area.
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.
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.
Shanti Devi
A Delhi girl who in the 1930s remembered being Lugdi, a young wife in Mathura who died after childbirth; she recognized her former husband, and a committee formed on Gandhi's advice took her to Mathura, making hers perhaps the most famous case in India.
Sunita Khandelwal
An Indian girl born in 1969 with a bleeding mark on the right side of her head who from about two asked to be taken to Kota; her statements, which gave no names, matched Sakuntala Maheshwari, the eight-year-old daughter of a Kota jeweller, who died after falling from a balcony in 1968.