How some children have memories of reincarnation

"Tucker has painstakingly coded the handwritten files, discovering intriguing patterns. For instance, 70 percent of the children say they died violent or unexpected deaths in their previous lives, and males account for 73 percent of those deaths— mirroring the statistics of those who die of unnatural causes in the general population.

'There'd be no way to orchestrate that statistic with over 2,000 cases,' Tucker said.

Tucker said the majority of children he has investigated say they remember average lives— rarely do they claim memories of someone famous."