The Mouths of Babes: Children Who Lived Before Their Time

Subsequent inquiries revealed no history of fraud in either family, no any motive for fraud.

True or False

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The case of Sukla is one of hundreds in the files of Professor Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia. For than a quarter of the century Stevenson have the alleged former incarnation belonged, or was known to, family of the claimant, who may have simply remembered information stored subconsciously. been investigating cases in which children recall the homes, work, and families of individual unknown on to them in this life, and sometimes long dead. Stevenson suggests that these may be genuine instances of reincarnation.

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However, two Dutch researchers, Titus and Esteban Rivers, have questioned many of Stevenson’s cases. In particular, they point out that in many instances.

Of the hundreds of examples in Stevenson’s files, only two, in addition those of Sukla pass the test of the dubious Dutchmen. These, they believe may be instance of “real reincarnation memories.”

Beautiful Kumkum

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Born 1995, Kumkum Verma had never been away from her village of Bahera, 25 miles from Darbhanga in what is today Bangladesh. When she was about 3 ½ years old, she began to talk about a previous life. She had lived in Urdu Bazar, a district of, and had married a blacksmith for a lower caste than that of her present father, a doctor. Kumkum had had a son named Misri Lal, who had also become a blacksmith, and a grandson, Gouri Shankar. She said that her daughter-in-law had poisoned her during a altercation.

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Often, while talking about her previous life, Kumkum would say “call me sunnary,” Which means “beautiful”- or so her family though. Anxious to know the truth, in 1956 Dr. Verma discovered that Misri Lal really was a blacksmith in Urdu Bazar had son named Gouri Shankar. His mother name had been Sundari, which her pronounced “Sunnary.”

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Misri Lil confirmed every thing Kumkum had said. Sundari had been born about 1900 and died in 1950. She married and had two sons, one of them Misri Lal. About five years after her husband death she again married.

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It was not a happy union, and Misri Lal became convinced that is stepfather had squandered his family’s money. In 1950 he sued his stepfather and called his mother as a witness in a case. But before the trial date she suddenly died. These and a host of other detail of Sundari’s life that Kumkum described were also confirmed by independent investigators. Stevenson could discover no suspicious motive behind Kumkum’s story and no previous connection between the families.

The Girl Who Was a Boy

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Born in central Ceylon (Sri Lanka today) in 1956, Gnanatilleka Baddewithana confused her parents when she was a year old by saying that she had “another” mother and father. By the time she was two she had made it clear that these parents were from another existence.

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Gnanatilleka gave details of their village, Talawakele, in a remote highland location only 16 miles away. She also named her two former brothers and several sisters. She herself, she said, had been a boy.

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A local priest who heard of Gnanatilleka’s claims identified the family that she had described. Fifteen month before Gnnatilleka had been born, one of their children had died, a boy named Tillekeratne. In 1961 arrangements were made for Gnanatilleka to go to Talawakele to meet the family.

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She correctly recognized seven of Tillekeretne’s family and two people from the village, whom she picked out unprompted in a crowd. She delightedly embraced her former teacher, whom she especially remembered for this gentleness. Gnanatilleka showed the same warmth or hostility as had Tillekeratne to ward individual members of the family.

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There were other striking correspondences. Tillekeratne had been markedly effeminate; Gnanatilleka’s parents think she is slightly masculine. Both children share the same favorite color, blue. Tillekeratne suffered a fall that contributed to his death; Gnanatilleka avoids heights and has a distinct fear of anything medical.

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Once again Stevenson could find no motive fraud and no evidence of contact between the families. And once again event the skeptics had to agree on the only plausible explanation: Gnanatilleka was telling the truth.