When James Laininger from Louisiana was 2 years old, he began to have terrible nightmares about the plane crash. The boy said that he was shot by the Japanese, that his plane took off from the Natoma, and that he had a friend named Jack Larson. He also recognized the site where he crashed - the island of Iwo Jima - in photographs from World War II that his parents showed him.
Iwo Jima is an island with which the United States fought in 1945. The aircraft carrier Natoma did take part in the battle for Iwo Jima, with only one pilot killed in the air battle. A pilot named Jack Larson was also on board the Natoma.
The boy also revealed that he was the third James. The pilot who died in the Battle of Iwo Jima was named James Huston Jr., which makes James Laininger the third James if he is the reincarnation of that pilot.
James Leininger on an American TV show
The story of this boy was told by Dr. Jim Tucker of the University of Virginia, a lead researcher on reincarnation.
One skeptic writing for the Skeptico blog noted that the boy probably went to a military museum, where he was impressed by a plane from World War II. Shortly thereafter, his nightmares began.
Outwardly, the boy is quite similar to the deceased pilot
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the logger believes that it was the visit to the museum that caused the nightmares, and not at all memories from a past life. And the fact that the adults supported the boy may have created the rest of the story. The blogger admits that it is difficult to explain that the boy remembered names, he believes that adults could have suggested them to him.
Dr. Tucker said the boy's father was a Christian who did not believe in reincarnation. Dr. Tucker, while researching children's stories about reincarnation, paid attention to the attitude of parents to the stories of children. And he often found that children whose parents ignored their stories nevertheless had amazing stories to tell.