This article presents a case which, if 100% truthful, can only be considered as incredibly strong proof of reincarnation. If you’ve previously dismissed the idea I urge you to read on. If you can find any other reasonable explanation for the story I’m about to tell you please do so via the comment box at the bottom of the article.

When the parents of two year-old toddler, James Leininger, began having nightmares about being burnt alive in a plane they were understandably concerned. The poor boy would writhe around, seemingly in agony, as he cried out “Plane on fire! Airplane crash. Little man can’t get out”. He mentioned the name James Larsen, and the words natoma and corsain, leaving his parents confused and scared. As the nightmares became more and more frequent, his parents were traumatised by the scenes, while experts remained completely baffled.

His Christian father, overcome with desperation, decided to take matters into his own hands and began an obsessive research enquiry, lasting three years, into the cause of the horrific nightmares. What he discovered caused him to question his own, long-held beliefs. The conclusion he reached was that his son was the reincarnation of WWII fighter pilot James Huston, killed when his plane caught fire after being hit by the Japanese.

Leininger questioned his son who told him the little man he spoke of was himself, only in a previous life-time, when is name had been James Larsen and he’d been shot down by the Japanese, in his war-plane. One day, when visiting a toy-shop with his mother, James informed her that the box at the bottom of a model aeroplane they were admiring was not a bomb, as she’d incorrectly stated; “it’s a drop tank”, he told her matter-of-factly. His mother, Andrea, was baffled when she tried to explain logically how young James could possibly know the correct name for the device and she actively encouraged his father to pursue the possibility of reincarnation. Bruce wasn’t keen on this line of thought because it contradicted his own religious beliefs, but with no other logical explanation he pressed on to uncover the truth.

James told his father he flew a Corsain, the name he used in his dreams, and that he had taken off from a boat, called The Natoma. When Bruce ordered a book for his father’s christmas present James took a look at the cover and told him “That’s where my plane was shot down”. Bruce investigated everything James had told him and discovered there was indeed a James Huston serving on a boat called The Natoma and he had indeed been shot down by the Japanese.

Bruce and Andrea contacted the author of a book about reincarnation among children, who told them their story sounded like a classic case. She advised them to tell James he was safe now, and that the awful things he’d experienced were now over.

To cut a rather long story short; Bruce wasn’t only able to confirm the facts given by his son, James, who was at this point still in pre-school. He even spoke to the man James spoke of in his dreams, James Larsen – one of the dead pilot’s flying team, who confirmed he’d been in the air when Jame’s plane had been taken down. He also spoke to a gentleman named Richardson, who’d witnessed the hit and would have been the last person to see Jame’s face before he’d died. He told them he’d been haunted by the image ever since.

When young James was taken to meet the veteran brothers of the dead pilot he remarked, with some disappointment “I’m sad everyone is so old.”

Bruce subsequently traced the elderly sister of the dead pilot, James Huston, who had never known the details of her brothers death or his final resting place, but had been aware of a presence in her room on the exact day he’d died.

As James grew older, and the nightmares continued, he named three of his action-figures Billy, Leon, and Walter. When questioned as to his choice of names he replied “Because that’s who met me when I got to  heaven.” Bruce investigated the names of those killed alongside him on The Natoma, and discovered the three men were Billie Peeler, Leon Conner and Walter Delvin. Young James had ever remembered their hair colours correctly and chosen the appropriate dolls to represent them.

He described making the very first napalm bombs, saying of the petrol and napalm mixture “It looked like we were making jelly.” He was even able to point to the place on the map where his plane was shot down and the family later visited Japan and dropped a bouquet into the ocean to mark the grave of the forgotten hero: James Hudson. The prospective job of telling James Hudson’s now elderly sister the real reason them contacting her left them anxious, but she was relieved to hear her brother hadn’t suffered and believed their story.

A further twist came when James told Bruce he’d actually chosen them as his parents. He unnerved his father when he coolly told him “I knew you’d be a good daddy, that’s why I picked you.” Bruce asked him where he’d found them and James told him it was in Hawaii, in a pink hotel on the beach. This was exactly where Andrea and Bruce had spent their anniversary – just five weeks before Andrea conceived.

James continued to suffer from nightmares until he was eight, although their intensity gradually subsided over the years. Bruce and Andrea Leininger remain firmly convinced their young son was experiencing past-life memories.

Of course, we have no idea if this story if entirely true and no way of checking to be sure, but if we accept the words of the parents – one of whom is a Christian and certainly wouldn’t he been looking for this particular answer – then it would seem there can be no reasonable explanation for this peculiar case, other than reincarnation…