據美國廣播公司16日報導，大約60年前，一名叫做詹姆斯·M·小胡斯頓的21歲美國海軍飛行員在太平洋上執行任務時，飛機被日軍炮火擊中而墜毀；6年前，一名叫做詹姆斯·雷寧格的美國路易斯安那州男孩誕生在這個世界上，幾年來，他的種種古怪行徑讓親人們相信，他的『前生』很可能正是那名在太平洋戰場上犧牲的二戰飛行員。
小孩老做『墜機噩夢』
據報導，當小詹姆斯·雷寧格6年前誕生後，除了飛機玩具外，不喜歡其它任何玩具。大約兩歲時起，詹姆斯喜歡的飛機玩具開始給他帶來頻頻不斷的夢魘。安德麗對美國廣播公司記者克里斯·庫莫道?『他總是在夢中尖叫，我不得不將他搖醒。當我問他夢到了什麼時，他總是說?「飛機著火墜毀了，沒有人逃得出去！」』
對戰機結構『了如指掌』
據安德麗稱，詹姆斯平時看電視時只看孩子看的卡通秀節目，從來沒看過二戰紀錄片或有關軍事方面的節目，然而詹姆斯卻對飛機結構具有驚人的了解。在一盤詹姆斯3歲時拍的錄影帶上，可以看到他一本正經地檢查著一隻玩具飛機，就好像起飛前的例行檢查一樣；安德麗稱，另外還有一次，當她給兒子買了一隻新玩具飛機、並指出它的下腹部有一枚炸彈時，詹姆斯立即糾正了她的錯誤，稱那不是炸彈，而是一個可分離式燃料槽。安德麗道?『我以前從來沒有聽說過可分離式燃料槽，我更不知道這是什麼東西。』
自稱曾駕二戰戰機
安德麗對記者道?『我問他，你的飛機怎麼了?他說?「被擊落了。」我問掉在哪裡，他說?「掉在水裡。」我問飛機是被誰擊落的，他說?「日本人。」他還稱，他駕駛的是一架海盜號艦載戰鬥機，他還告訴父親布魯斯飛機是從「納托馬號」上起飛的，當時他還認識一個叫傑克·拉森的戰友。』
老兵證實小孩話
布魯斯開始上網查找一切與『納托馬灣號』相關的資料，並約見一些曾在該航母上服役的倖存二戰老兵。據報導，一名叫做拉夫·克拉波爾的二戰戰鬥機投炮手證實了詹姆斯的說法。克拉波爾接受訪談時稱，1945年3月3日，他也正好在『納托馬灣號』航母上，他的飛機緊跟著詹姆斯·M·胡斯頓的那架起飛。『我親眼看到小胡斯頓的飛機被一枚反航行器炮彈擊中，這枚炮彈迎面擊中飛機，正好擊中它的引擎。』
April 15 <!-- FirstParagraph -->— Nearly six decades ago, a 21-year-old Navy fighter pilot on a mission over the Pacific was shot down by Japanese artillery. His name might have been forgotten, were it not for 6-year-old James Leininger.
Quite a few people — including those who knew the fighter pilot — think James is the pilot, reincarnated.
James' parents, Andrea and Bruce, a highly educated, modern couple, say they are "probably the people least likely to have a scenario like this pop up in their lives."
But over time, they have become convinced their little son has had a former life.
From an early age, James would play with nothing else but planes, his parents say. But when he was 2, they said the planes their son loved began to give him regular nightmares.
"I'd wake him up and he'd be screaming," Andrea told ABCNEWS' Chris Cuomo. She said when she asked her son what he was dreaming about, he would say, "Airplane crash on fire, little man can't get out."
Reality Check
Andrea says her mom was the first to suggest James was remembering a past life.
At first, Andrea says she was doubtful. James was only watching kids' shows, his parents say, and they weren't watching World War II documentaries or conversing about military history.
But as time went by, Andrea began to wonder what to believe. In one video of James at age 3, he goes over a plane as if he's doing a preflight check.
Another time, Andrea said, she bought him a toy plane, and pointed out what appeared to be a bomb on its underside. She says James corrected her, and told her it was a drop tank. "I'd never heard of a drop tank," she said. "I didn't know what a drop tank was."
Then James' violent nightmares got worse, occurring three and four times a week. Andrea's mother suggested she look into the work of counselor and therapist Carol Bowman, who believes that the dead sometimes can be reborn.
With guidance from Bowman, they began to encourage James to share his memories — and immediately, Andrea says, the nightmares started become less frequent. James was also becoming more articulate about his apparent past, she said.
Bowman said James was at the age when former lives are most easily recalled. "They haven't had the cultural conditioning, the layering over the experience in this life so the memories can percolate up more easily," she said.
Trail of Mysteries
Over time, James' parents say he revealed extraordinary details about the life of a former fighter pilot — mostly at bedtime, when he was drowsy.
They say James told them his plane had been hit by the Japanese and crashed. Andrea says James told his father he flew a Corsair, and then told her, "They used to get flat tires all the time."
In fact, historians and pilots agree that the plane's tires took a lot of punishment on landing. But that's a fact that could easily be found in books or on television.
Andrea says James also told his father the name of the boat he took off from — Natoma — and the name of someone he flew with — "Jack Larson."
After some research, Bruce discovered both the Natoma and Jack Larson were real. The Natoma Bay was a small aircraft carrier in the Pacific. And Larson is living in Arkansas.
"It was like, holy mackerel," Bruce said. "You could have poured my brains out of my ears. I just couldn't believe it.
James 2 = James M. Huston Jr.?
Bruce became obsessed, searching the Internet, combing through military records and interviewing men who served aboard the Natoma Bay.
He said James told him he had been shot down at Iwo Jima. James had also begun signing his crayon drawings "James 3." Bruce soon learned that the only pilot from the squadron killed at Iwo Jima was James M. Huston Jr.
Bruce says James also told him his plane had sustained a direct hit on the engine.
Ralph Clarbour, a rear gunner on a U.S. airplane that flew off the Natoma Bay, says his plane was right next to one flown by James M. Huston Jr. during a raid near Iwo Jima on March 3, 1945.
Clarbour said he saw Huston's plane struck by anti-aircraft fire. "I would say he was hit head on, right in the of the engine," he said.
Treasured Mementos
Bruce says he now believes his son had a past life in which he was James M. Huston Jr. "He came back because he wasn't finished with something."
The Leiningers wrote a letter to Huston's sister, Anne Barron, about their little boy. And now she believes it as well.
"The child was so convincing in coming up with all the things that there is no way on the world he could know," she said.
But Professor Paul Kurtz of the State University of New York at Buffalo, who heads an organization that investigates claims of the paranormal, says he thinks the parents are "self-deceived."
"They're fascinated by the mysterious and they built up a fairy tale," he said.
James' vivid, alleged recollections are starting to fade as he gets older — but among his prized possessions remain two haunting presents sent to him by Barron: a bust of George Washington and a model of a Corsair aircraft.
They were among the personal effects of James Huston sent home after the war.
"He appears to have experienced something that I don't think is unique, but the way it's been revealed is quite astounding," Bruce said.
Asked if the idea that James may have been someone else changes his or his wife's feeling about their son, Bruce said: "It doesn't change how we think. I don't look at him and say, 'That's not my boy.' That's my boy."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Primetime/US/reincarnation_040415-1.html
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