5. The Pollock Twins
In 1957, rural Northumberland, UK was the scene of a tragic car accident that claimed the lives of 11-year old Joanna and 6-year old Jacqueline Pollock. After a period of grieving, their mother fell pregnant again. Their father, John was a strict Catholic who didn’t believe in reincarnation. However, he became convinced that his wife was going to carry twins that possessed the reborn souls of the girls. Despite doctors insisting that there was only one fetus, Florence gave birth to twin girls Jennifer and Gillian one year later.
Baby Jennifer had identical birthmarks to her dead sister, Jacqueline and also had a strange white line across her forehead in exactly the same spot as her sister had a scar from a bike accident. When the twins were three months old, the family moved from Hexham to Whitley Bay, never setting foot in the place again until the twins were four-years old. When they returned, the twins excitedly pointed out places they had never been before, such as “their school” which they swore they used to attend. They were able to name every toy that the dead girls had possessed and played games where they pointed out, with eerie accuracy, where Gillian had blood coming from her eyes “because that’s where the car hit me”. They also developed a hysterical fear of certain types of car.
When the twins turned five, all of their ‘memories’ disappeared overnight. John and Florence had never spoken of their dead sisters in front of them until they were almost adults. Eminent psychologist Dr Ian Stevenson studied the case and declared the twins to be a result of reincarnation.
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