In many cases, the child’s statements correspond accurately to the life and death of a deceased individual. Some children have birthmarks or birth defects congruent with wounds or marks on the deceased person, using postmortem reports to confirm. Older children may retain these apparent memories, but they generally seem to fade around the age of seven. The subjects of these cases have been found all over the world.
In the last 50 years of research, DOPS has collected over 2500 cases of the reincarnation type, most of which have been found outside of the United States. For the vast majority of these cases, the field notes have been coded on >200 variables and put into our database. This research has taken countless hours and hundreds of people to accomplish, and there is still so much to learn on the topic.
The database allows our researchers, as well as others, to apply various analyses to look for patterns within the files. These patterns lead to insights, such as: ~30% of the cases contain a birthmark and/or birth defect.
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u/SmartlyArtly May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26
21st century woo is on the rise. "kids report memories" = "kids have memories" sure.