An elderly Thai woman died with one desire - to be born a boy in her next life. Her daughter dipped her finger in a white solution and marked the back of her neck.
Shortly after the death of her mother, the daughter gave birth to a son with a birthmark on his neck that resembled a white mark left on the neck of her grandmother. When the boy learned to speak, he began to claim that the things that belonged to his grandmother were always his.
This is one of those cases that Dr. Jim Tucker talked about at the University of Virginia where a birthmark can connect a person to a past life.
Earlier, Dr. Ian Stevenson, whose work was continued by Jim Tucker, investigated 210 cases in which springs or defects in children were related to their past life memories. Stevenson received a report of 49 cases posthumously. It said that 43 percent of wounds and birthmarks were located within 10 sq. sentiments from each other, and many others were almost the same.
In some cultures, people mark the deceased with soot or paste in order to recognize them upon reincarnation. Here are some examples of past life birthmarks that Stevenson studied.
An Indian boy who was born without fingers on his right hand remembered his other life as a boy who had his fingers amputated after being stuck in a food chopper.
A boy in Turkey with a distorted right ear remembered being shot at close range in the head from that side.
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A boy named Maha Ram from India remembered being killed in a past life by a shotgun shot at point-blank range. His recollections were quite detailed, and Stevenson was able to find an autopsy report on the person who was supposedly reincarnated as Rama. Moles on Ram's chest matched the bullet wounds.
Here are a couple of other funny but unverified birthmark stories people have shared online:
Karen Kubiko posted photos of herself in high school with a mole around her neck and a photo of herself in older age without a birthmark. She said that in 2011 she remembered that in a past life she was a woman named Helen, who was shot by a stray bullet in 1927.
The birthmark was where the bullet had hit in her vision. After she remembered, the stain gradually disappeared.
Another girl said on a blog that she had a mole on the back of her leg. She remembered a past life in which a snake bit her in the same place. Several years later, she realized that the mole was gone. The girl said that her legs were not exposed as often, so that lighting or other external factors did not affect the disappearance.
A large birthmark with irregular outlines on the head of a Thai. As a child, he recalled that he was killed by a blow to the head with a large knife.
Another Thai man has a congenital nail defect on his toe. According to memories from a past life, it was in this place that he suffered from a severe infection.
Congenital absence of half of the lower leg in a girl from Burma (Myanmar), who remembered that in a past life she was a young girl who died after being hit by a train. The train cut her leg.