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UVA researchers have a database full of children who remember other people's lives

UVA researchers have a database full of children who remember other people's lives

A nun frightened by a ghost playing a guitar, c. 1818

The University of Virginia has spent decades collecting one of academia's strangest datasets: thousands of young children who insist they remember being somebody else.

One analysis of the data examined 1,678 of those cases and found that when the alleged "previous person" died unexpectedly or unnaturally, the interval before the child's birth was substantially shorter. — Read the rest

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