5 Year Old Boy Explains Reincarnation to Pastor

What happens when a five-year-old boy from a devout Christian family starts describing his death in World War II? When he names a ship he has never seen, a pilot he has never met, and details that should be impossible for a child to know? This is the documented story of children whose memories challenged everything their families believed—and forced scientists at the University of Virginia to investigate.

In this video, we examine the case of James Leininger, whose evangelical Christian father spent four years trying to disprove his son's claims of being a reincarnated WWII pilot—only to verify fifty statements about a man who died in 1945. We also explore Ryan Hammons, a Baptist boy from Oklahoma who identified himself as an obscure Hollywood figure and remembered details that even official records got wrong.
These are not stories from distant cultures where reincarnation is accepted. These are American children from Christian homes, whose cases were investigated by researchers at one of the most respected universities in the world.


0:00 — The question that changed everything
1:30 — When the nightmares began
6:00 — A Christian father investigates
12:00 — The crisis of faith
18:00 — The Baptist boy from Oklahoma
24:00 — What the children teach us