Briton Karl Edon was most likely the reincarnation of a Luftwaffe pilot who took part in the battles of World War II.
The history of Karl in the 90s was carefully studied by British researchers of anomalous phenomena and does not cease to amaze to this day.
When Karl was five years old, he really loved drawing. He could work on a picture for a long time and thoroughly, and once he was drawing something especially for a long time and with passion.
When his mother Val looked at the drawing, she was surprised to see that there was a very well drawn plane, as well as some symbols. Mom asked Karl what he had drawn, and the boy began to tell him that it was “his plane” and that he had insignia, including eagles with straight wings.
Karl's mother understood another of these "insignia" without explanation, it was a swastika. This alarmed her, but she chalked it up to the impact of television and did not pay attention.
A few months later, for his sixth birthday, Karl again drew a picture with an airplane and now it was a view from the cockpit with very detailed controls.
When he showed the picture to Dad, he pointed to a large red button and told him that it was a bomb release button. And then the boy directly called the plane a bomber Messerschmitt. These bombers were used by the Nazi German Air Force until 1945.
After that, Karl's parents began to remember that at the age of 2, their son woke up crying from nightmares. At the same time he shouted that his plane crashed, that his leg was torn off, that he was bleeding and he was dying.
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The parents were sure that these were just nightmares. But Karl shook his head and insisted that he really died, he even showed on his leg the place where the leg was torn off.
In the place where Karl said his leg was blown off, he had a large red mole from birth, but his parents were still skeptical about all these strange stories of their son. However, after Karl also started painting, his parents were really scared.
On the same day, when Karl drew a picture with a cockpit and a button for bombs, his mother began to ask him what he was wearing then. And the boy without hesitation began to answer that he was wearing "gray trousers tucked into knee-high leather boots and a black jacket."
And the next day, Jim, Karl's father, took his drawings to the local library in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. He asked for a book about the Luftwaffe of World War II and was shocked to find everything that his son portrayed in the pictures. The image of the instruments in the cockpit, the signs on the plane, the clothes of the pilots matched.
And then I found mention of the crash of the Messerschmitt-110 bomber in the vicinity of Middlesbrough on January 15, 1942. A German bomber knocked out by the British tried to land, but exploded on contact with the ground. Later, three corpses of the pilots were pulled out of the funnel and buried in the cemetery. There were rumors about a fourth body, but it was never found, and the hole was dug right from the burned-out frame of the plane.
Karl Edon was born on December 29, 1972, 30 years after this incident, and according to his mother, she immediately felt something unusual. Karl's parents, his own sister and brother had dark hair and brown eyes. Karl had blue eyes and light red hair. Also, his skin was lighter than theirs and he burned easily in the sun.
There were oddities in his behavior too. He always seemed not childishly restrained and always made sure that the collar of his shirt was buttoned up with the top button and lay flat and neat.
When Karl was 7 years old, his friend Michael came to visit him for tea, and during this Karl began to tell him in detail the story of how he was dying and bleeding. Then he said that when he died he was not even 25 years old.
Karl's mom was there and she felt very uncomfortable from this. But she nearly fainted when Karl began to talk about a man who reminded her of Adolf Hitler. And then Karl started walking around the room, mimicking the man's gait. Michael laughed at this joke, and Karl's mom was very bad.
When Karl went to school, he began to attract attention there too. He was distracted in the classroom and told different things that happened in the past. So he began to tell the teacher one day what Middlesbrough had been like before, what streets he had then and what kind of industry it was. He also began to mention his "father" by the name of Fritz, who taught him botany and his "mom", whose name he did not remember, but he said she was big and wore glasses.
“Karl, I'm your mom,” Val told him somehow, and Karl, as if waking up, answered her “I know”, and then added “But she is also my mom.”
Then Karl began to remember what his childhood was like. He described how he worked around the house, took out a bucket, chopped wood and that his mother was very strict and often scolded him. And that she made him a dark red soup. Val had never cooked anything like that.
Karl remembered that he had brothers and that one of them had also died in the war. All the memories, according to his parents, came to him suddenly and in fits and starts, as if a television was turned on somewhere in his head. Here Karl is an ordinary child, and in the next minutes he is a 19-year-old boy.
His classmates at school made fun of him, called him Hitler and in other words, so Karl soon stopped telling stories.
In 1983, psychiatrist Ian Stevenson from the University of Virginia became interested in him, and for the next 25 years he devoted his life to studying the phenomenon of reincarnation. Stevenson was criticized by colleagues, but many listened to him. Karl came to him for sessions, but Stevenson could not learn anything new from him, apart from what Karl had told him earlier. Including because Karl very quickly began to lose the memory of his past life. By the age of 13, he practically did not remember anything, this gift was gone from him.
Karl Edon graduated from high school at the age of 16 and then worked on the railroad. He led an ordinary life, got married and had two girls.
And in 1995 he was found brutally murdered near his place of work. He was stabbed 37 times. His partner was convicted of murder.
In 1997, local workers were digging in one of the sections of the sewer canal and came across the remains of a military parachute. When the site was cordoned off for fears that there could be bombs from the Second World War, the remains of a Messerschmitt-110 bomber plane were excavated and it was confirmed that this was the one that fell here in 1942.
And when they dug a little deeper, they found a human skeleton. This was the fourth crew member who was not found in 1942 and therefore was not buried with the first three. His name was established from the remains of the uniform - Heinrich Richter. One of his legs was torn off in the place where Karl Edon showed himself.
Richter's remains were buried in the same place where three other pilots were previously buried. And a few years later, the historian Bill Norman from Middlesbrough managed to find a photograph of him from Richter's relatives and he was shocked at how much Heinrich Richter looks like Karl Edon.
When he showed this photo to Carl's parents, Val and Jim, they were also struck by the unusual resemblance. And when they saw "eagles with straight wings" on Heinrich's uniform, they immediately remembered Karl's drawings and his words about "insignia".