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Cameron Macauley
A Glasgow boy who from the age of two and a half talked of a former family on the Hebridean island of Barra, a large white house by the beach and planes landing on the sand; on Barra a holiday house once owned by a Glasgow family called Robertson fitted his description, but no one matched what he said about his family.
Carl Edon
A Middlesbrough boy who from the age of two said he had crashed a plane through a window as a German airman, drew cockpit instruments and German insignia, and was born with a mark at the top of the leg he said he had lost; a German bomber was dug up in the town in 1997, but the case remains unsolved.
Ma Tin Aung Myo
A Burmese child who, from about the age of four, said she had been a Japanese army cook shot by an Allied aircraft in her own village during the Second World War; she was terrified of aircraft, longed for Japan and kept a firmly male identity into adulthood, but the soldier was never identified.
Pretiba Gunawardana
A Sri Lankan boy who gave 42 detailed statements about a life in Kandy ending in a car fire; no matching person or street was ever found, making it a well-documented unsolved case.