Few people, even those in the film industry, have heard the name of Marty Martin, a not-so-successful 1930s Hollywood actor who turned into an agent.
But a 10-year-old American boy named Ryan knows everything about Martin's life and work - down to the smallest details. Moreover, the guy in paints and with an accuracy worthy of a professional historian describes the era in which the actor lived, including details that were not described anywhere.
Ryan says that he can do all this for one simple reason - he is Marty Martin, or rather, he was in a past life!
Ryan was born in 2005 to a Baptist family in Muskogee, Oklahoma. At the age of four, he started having nightmares and his parents did not know how to stop them. He often said that he felt his heart break, and he described Hollywood, which is several thousand kilometers from Oklahoma. According to Cindy, Ryan's mother, the boy spoke in such cases with absolute confidence, as of well-known facts.
A year later, Ryan spoke about his past life for the first time.
“He said: Mom, I need to tell you something. I used to be someone else,”- said Cindy.
At first, Cindy, a Baptist parishioner, refused to take her son's words seriously and did not say anything to her husband. But Ryan told more and more details about his past incarnation, cried and begged his mother to take him "home" and she gave up.
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“His 'memories' of a past life were so detailed and multifaceted - the child couldn't just make it all up,” Cindy said.
Ryan talked a lot about Hollywood, about his five marriages, about his travel to Europe, old houses and a career - first an actor, then an agent.
Intrigued, Cindy went to the library and took books about Hollywood in the 30s. She began leafing through these books with her son. And so, on one of the pages they came across a frame from the 1932 film "Night after Night". "It's me," Ryan said, jabbing a finger at one of the actors. Later, the parents found out that this actor's name was Marty Martin.
Marty Martin
Having written down the strange "memories" of her son and armed with the information she could collect about Marty Martin, Cindy decided to turn to professionals. The Ryan phenomenon is currently being investigated by Dr. Jim Tucker, a renowned child psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, who already has experience working with children "with past life memories."
Although Tucker is aware of thousands of similar cases, he considers Ryan special. The doctor notes the extraordinarily detailed descriptions of the boy and the precise statements about Martin's life.
“If you just look at the photograph of this person, you can hardly tell much about his life. However, Ryan gives a lot of details that fit perfectly into Martin's real life."
With the help of Dr. Tucker, Ryan's parents were able to contact the Hollywood Archives, and then with one of Martin's daughters. She confirmed 55 of the boy's statements related to her father's life. Ryan accurately named the street where Martin lived, the names of his children, brothers, sisters and ex-wives.
Ryan's most startling statement was made to Dr. Tucker during one of the sessions. He said that he would like to know why God decided to end Martin's life at 61 and bring him back to this world as a child. This statement was at variance with biographical data - according to official information, Martin died at the age of 59. However, closer examination of the documents revealed that there was a mistake in the biography, and Ryan was absolutely right!
Over time, Ryan's memory of Martin began to fade. But by that time, Tucker had documented the incident. He entered the doctor's book along with other 2,500 similar cases that he had to deal with in his practice.