One night when I was checking out videos on Youtube, I saw an amazing story of an 8-year old boy who started remembering things when he was 2 years old. Things that never happened to him --- at least not in this lifetime.
James Leininger is a little boy who has a peculiar passion and interest in planes. Particularly, war planes. James is the first son of Bruce and Angela Leininger of Baton Rouge, LA.
At first glance, James seems like a typical boy. Playful, imaginative and curious. However, when his deep fascination with war planes suddenly started giving him nightmares, his parents were alarmed. James, then about the age of 2, did not know how to read. He would flip through books and could only appreciate the photographs. One instance, when his mother brought him to a small World War II Museum, he pointed to a green plane and said, "That's a corsair".
One instance, Angela bought him a toy plane. While playing, his mom said "Oh look sweetie, there's a bomb in the belly of the plane." But James corrected her, "No mom that's not a bomb. That's a droptank." Much to her mother's surpise, little James' claim --- at that time barely 4 , had no idea how to read and had never seen or heard of any World War II stories before, turned out to be correct.
This baffled and worried Bruce. One night. he decided to talk to his son before he went to bed, while he was very, very sleepy. Little James started to tell stories that had so much detail. He said he once flew a plane, a corsair. His plane got shot in the nozzle by the Japanese and crashed in the ocean. He remembers a good friend, Captain Jack Larson and their planes took off from a big ship in the middle of the sea. Little James said they called it "Netoma".
His parents were concerned all right, but not until James was almost 5 and started doodling, writing his name with a number 3 (James 3) did they decide to do something about it. Bruce started to research on whatever he could to get answers to where his son might be getting his stories, memories, claims. The results of his search, according to Bruce, shook him to the core.
Bruce and Angela found out that there is a very huge possibility that their son James was reliving the life of Lt. James McCready Huston Jr., a 21-year-old Navy pilot who died in March 1945 during World War II when his plane was shot down by the Japanese. His plane took off from a battleship called Netoma. And it turned out that Captain Jack Larson, the friend James was talking about, does exist and actually is still very much alive.
This possibly was the reason why James wrote 3 every after he writes his name. He always says "because I'm the 3rd James." Lt. James McCready Huston --- was a Jr.
Experts say children remember their past lives the most in clearest detail when they are between ages 2 -7 and gradually fades after they start attending school, when they start to get exposed to other stimulus. I am a mother of a young boy, too. I'm not saying I believe reincarnation now. But then again, I don't have a reason not to, either.
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