The year 1910 was fatal for Adele Samoya, the wife of a doctor from Palermo. It began with the fact that Adele's five-year-old daughter Alexandrina died on March 15 from tuberculosis. In December, Adele gave birth to twin daughters.
As a kind Catholic, every Italian mother treats her pregnancy as a gift from God and the Virgin Mary, to whom she mentally prays in church every Sunday.
For Adele, the connection with the recent tragedy made this pregnancy not only happy, but also necessary. Also, Adele had a vision. A month after Alexandrina's death, Mrs. Samoya had a dream in which her daughter came to her with a baby in her arms and said that she was returning. Immediately after that, Adele found out that she was pregnant, despite the fact that, according to doctors, after an operation she had once undergone, she could no longer have children.
The mother's instinct did not disappoint the woman, and when in December she gave birth to twin girls, the first of them - a girl with a birthmark in the very place where it was in her deceased daughter's - was named Alexandrina.
Initially, Adele's husband considered his wife's sleep to be nothing more than the result of the shock experienced. He did not believe that Alexandrina had returned and insisted that his wife put all thoughts of reincarnation out of her head. But over time, even he was forced to admit that there was something strange about all this.
Every day, the second Alexandrina became more and more like her predecessor. She played the same games, loved the same food, moreover, like the first daughter, the new Alexandrina was left-handed, although her twin sister was not.
And yet, only when the girl was eleven years old did her parents finally believe in reincarnation. One day, in the spring of 1921, Adele told her daughters that the next week they would go to Montreal. Alexandrina immediately described its streets and squares with amazing accuracy. She said that there were "red priests" going there, not at all like in Palermo.
When the mother asked how she knew all this, the girl expressed extreme amazement and replied that the mother herself took her with her when she was still little, and they were accompanied by a woman with a scar on her forehead.
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Adele knew that none of her daughters had ever been to Montreal. She herself had been there several times, mainly with her first daughter and friend, who really had a scar on her forehead after the operation. Adelie also remembered seeing a group of Greek priests in the main square of the city, dressed in bright red vestments, which are not worn in Italy.
And little Alexandrina showed great interest in them then. From that moment on, nothing could dissuade the mother from the fact that the soul of her first girl returned to the body of the second daughter.
This incident, which occurred at the beginning of the century, was just one of many examples when children suddenly recall the details of a previous life, which cannot be explained by anything other than the rebirth of the soul of the deceased in a new body.
Another example from the United Kingdom, almost completely repeating the story in the Samoya family. In May 1957, two sisters, Joanne, eleven, and Jacqueline Pollock, six, were hit to death by a car that drove at high speed onto the sidewalk right outside their home in Heckegem, Northumberland.
Soon after the tragedy, the girls' father John Pollock felt confident (for reasons that he was unable to explain himself) that the souls of his daughters would be embodied in other children. Therefore, when in 1958 his wife announced the pregnancy, he already knew that twin girls would be born.
John Pollock was so sure of this that he even argued with his wife's gynecologist, who claimed that Mrs. Pollock had only one fetus. And again, as in the Samoya family, parental instinct became a more reliable doctor and advisor.
Mrs. Pollock gave birth to twin girls on October 4. And again, as in the previous case, the confidence of the parents was reinforced by the physical signs of the babies. The eldest of the twins, named Jennifer, had a small scar on her forehead in the same place where her deceased sister Jacqueline had, which she received after falling off a bicycle; the same girl had a large mole on her head, exactly the same as on Jacqueline's head.
The second twin did not have any distinctive features, like the deceased Joanna, although it looked rather strange: the twins were identical, and they had to match everything, even small moles.
And just like in a family from Italy, Pollock's parents were finally convinced of the reincarnation of their daughters thanks to the girls' memories. When the babies were only four months old, the Pollock family moved to Whiteley Bay, located a few miles from Haxham. Three years later, John Pollock decided to take his family for a day to their old town.
Both husband and wife were amazed when the girls recognized the parks and playgrounds where their older sisters played so often. They even recognized the road that the dead girls took to school and home from school every day. However, this journey did not pass without a trace for the daughters, for several weeks after that Jennifer and Gillian suffered from nightmares.
When they woke up, they again and again gave detailed descriptions of how a car had run over them. These nightmares continued for several months, with long interruptions, until, at the age of five, they simultaneously suffered minor head injuries, after which the nightmares ceased.
As adults, the sisters no longer remember anything from their previous lives, but John and Florence Pollock are fully convinced that their dead girls have returned.