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Reincarnated! Our son is a World State of war Two pilot come back to life

It sounds totally across belief. But read the tantalising evidence from this boy'due south family unit and you lot may kickoff to wonder...

The agonised screams pierced the air. 'Aeroplane on burn! Airplane crash.' In the night, a two-twelvemonth-quondam boy was just visible, writhing on his bed in the grip of horror. 'He was lying there on his back, kicking and clawing at the covers like he was trying to kick his mode out of a coffin,' remembers the boy's male parent.

'I idea, this looks like The Exorcist. I half expected his head to spin around like that little girl in the film. But then I heard what James was proverb.'

Over and over again, the tiny child screamed: 'Plane on burn! Little man tin can't go out.'

Brilliant recollections: James Leininger, pictured anile four had nightmares near beingness a WWII pilot who died later on his plane crashed into the ocean

For his shocked parents, these nightly scenes were traumatic.

For experts, they were inexplainable.

As the nightmares became more terrifying, the child started screaming the name of the 'little man' who couldn't get out of the plane. It was James - like his own name. He also talked in his dreams of 'Jack Larsen', 'Natoma' and 'Corsair'.

James Leininger'southward father, Bruce, was flummoxed. In a desperate try to notice an respond to his son'due south troubled nights, he embarked on an obsessive three-yr research projection, armed simply with the outbursts and names his son had been shouting in his disturbed sleep.

What he discovered astonished and perplexed him, and collection him to an extraordinary conclusion.

A lifelong Christian, it was non the reply he had sought for his son's behaviour. But he came to believe James was the reincarnation of a World War 2 fighter airplane pilot; a man who had been shot down in his plane and struggled to escape as it defenseless burn; a hero.

Hero: Fighter pilot James Huston, who died in 1945 after his airplane took a directly hit and plunged into the water

The idea seems and then preposterous every bit to be unbelievable. Withal in their new book, Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation Of A World State of war II Fighter Airplane pilot, Bruce and his wife, Andrea, lay out some compelling prove.

It all began on May 1, 2000. James, only iii weeks past his second birthday, was a happy, playful toddler living in an idyllic home in southern Louisiana. That night, his female parent was woken by his screams. She held him in her artillery as he thrashed around.

Soon, however, James was having v nightmares a week. Andrea was worried. Her little male child began to talk during his bad dreams, screaming about an airplane crash and writhing as if he were trapped in a burning aircraft.

At a toy shop, they admired some model planes. 'Look,' said Andrea. 'There'south a bomb on the lesser.'

'That's non a bomb, Mummy,' he replied. 'That's a drib tank.' Just a toddler, he was talking similar a military machine historian. How had he known about the gas tank used by shipping to extend their range?

As the nightmares connected, she asked him: 'Who is the little man?'

'Me,' he answered. His begetter asked: 'What happened to your plane?'

James replied: 'Information technology crashed on fire.'

'Why did your plane crash?'

'It got shot,' he said.

'Who shot your plane?'

James fabricated a disgusted face. 'The Japanese!' he said, with indignation.

He said he knew information technology was the Japanese, considering of 'the big red sun'. Was he describing the Japanese symbol of the rising sun, painted on their warplanes, called 'meatballs' by American pilots?

Tentatively, Andrea began to suggest reincarnation; maybe James had lived a by life? Bruce reacted angrily. There must exist a rational explanation for all this.

He questioned his son further. 'Practise you lot retrieve what kind of airplane the little human flew?'

'A Corsair,' replied the two-year-old without hesitation - repeating the word he shouted in his dreams.

Bruce knew this was a World War II fighter plane.

'Do you recollect where your airplane took off from?' he asked.

'A boat,' said James. How did he know that these planes were launched from aircraft carriers? He asked the name of the boat.

His son replied with certainty: 'The Natoma.'

After James was in bed, Bruce researched what he had heard. A naturally sceptical man, he was amazed to notice the Natoma Bay was a World War Two aircraft carrier.

As a child: James Huston with sisters Ruth and Anne in 1928. James' begetter sadly never found out the circumstances surrounding his death

James even began to don an imaginary airplane pilot's headset when his mother strapped him into his car seat. And when Bruce ordered a volume for his begetter's Christmas present - The Battle Of Iwo Jima - James pointed to the motion picture and said: 'Daddy, that's when my plane was shot down.'

Bruce, who works in the oil industry, rushed into his office, where he had a lexicon of American naval fighting ships. Natoma Bay had supported the U.Due south. Marines' invasion of Iwo Jima in 1945.

Bruce was mystified - what was coming out of the oral cavity of his ii-year- old? Next, the little boy named his nightmare alter-ego'southward all-time friend. He was Jack Larsen.

'He was a airplane pilot, too,' he said. Bruce decided that he had to find Jack Larsen to testify his signal to his married woman - Larsen would tell him that James had invented the whole matter, and in that location was no such thing as reincarnation.

He decided to get to a reunion of veterans of Natoma Bay, pretending he was writing a book.

Andrea, meanwhile, was convinced James had been reincarnated. She contacted Carol Bowman, the author of a book on reincarnation called Children'due south Past Lives. Bowman confirmed Andrea's views.

'The common threads were there with James,' she said. 'The age the nightmares began, the remembered death. These are all consequent with children experiencing past lives.'

She advised Andrea to tell James that he was rubber, and that his bad experiences were over at present. Apart from his night terrors, he was an ordinary child living an ordinary life, turning three in April 2001.

He liked to play war games with his GI Joe action figures, Billy, Walter and Leon. He also liked to draw - battle scenes, with bullets, bombs and planes. He drew Wildcats and Corsairs, and named the Japanese planes Zekes or Bettys.

Pointing to one aeroplane, he said: 'That'due south a Corsair. They used to get flat tyres all the time. And they always wanted to turn left when they took off.'

He would play a game of pilots, constructing a brand-shift cockpit out of a toy phone and onetime machine seat. He would telephone call: 'Roger. Zilch at half dozen o'clock. Hit him!', then throw himself on the flooring, saying: 'My plane was striking, I'm parachuting.' At an airshow, he told everyone: 'I want to be an F18 Super Hornet pilot.'

Happy families: James today at 11 with mum Andrea and begetter Bruce. James'southward nightmares continued until he was eight, but were gentler than his early terrors

In the meantime, Bruce finally managed to observe Jack Larsen - and uncovered an awful secret. It turned out Larsen's friend James Huston Jnr died when his plane was shot in the engine and caught fire, exactly as described by two-year-old James.

Bruce found Huston'southward proper name on the list of 18 men killed in action on the Natoma. The discovery finally made him enquire: Could this be the man who inhabits my son's soul?

He sifted through a thousand gainsay mission reports to find where Huston had been killed.

Larsen told Bruce: 'James was a real good man. Information technology was a very dangerous place. Simply James volunteered to go.'

He likewise said that it was aboard the Natoma that the first crude napalm bombs had been improvised, mixing napalm pulverization with petrol. 'It looked like we were making jelly,' he said.

His account brought abode the total horror of battle - the flimsy planes flying to assail the Japanese. Huston was flying 'tail-end Charlie' - the last plane in - and so Larsen had not seen him go down.

The veterans' clan reported that James Huston's begetter had even attended their reunions. Just the old homo died in 1973, never learning any specifics of his son's decease.

Next, little James unnerved his father past telling him: 'I knew you lot would exist a good daddy, that's why I picked you.'

'Where did you find united states of america?' asked a shaken Bruce.

'In Hawaii, at the pinkish hotel, on the beach,' he replied. Eerily, he described his parents' 5th hymeneals anniversary - five weeks before Andrea got pregnant - saying it was when he 'chose' them to bring him back into the world.

Something new emerged every day. On a map, he pointed out the verbal location where James's plane went downwards. Asked why he called his action figures Billy, Leon and Walter, he replied: 'Because that'south who met me when I got to heaven.'

Reunited? James Huston'due south sis Anne met James Leininger and believes he is a reincarnation of her brother

Sure enough, on the list of the Natoma expressionless, alongside James Huston, were Billie Peeler, Leon Conner and Walter Devlin. Uncannily, photos of the men showed their hair colour matched those of their GI Joe dolls.

Finally, Bruce and Andrea located James Huston'due south last surviving relative - his 84-year-old sis, Anne.

She told them: 'Mom and Dad never talked well-nigh Jimmy'south decease, only Dad went to several reunions to see if he could go whatsoever details. He never could.'

And then they were able to tell her where her brother died. After then many years, they were even able to send her a motion-picture show of the harbour.

She responded: 'It is then much more personal than anything I accept. The pic of the bay is beautiful and so peaceful. A lovely resting place.'

In return, she sent Bruce and Andrea a flick of James with his squadron - a cluster of grinning immature men. In the background was a Corsair - confirming that little James had been right nigh the plane Huston flew.

Bruce says: 'My purpose for researching what was happening to my son was to institute that this was all a coincidence. Just I was getting closer and closer to something unsafe. It was like putting my hand in a fire.'

Not long later on, the family had a telephone phone call from a veteran who had seen Huston'south airplane being hit. He kept his knowledge to himself for more than 50 years. He described seeing the aftermath of Huston's crash on the sea beneath.

'He took a direct hit on the nose. All I could come across were pieces falling into the bay. Nosotros pulled out of the dive and headed for open sea. I saw the place where the fighter had hit. The rings were still expanding near a huge rock at the harbour archway.'

Huston's plane was hit in the engine and the front exploded in a ball of flames - exactly like James's account. It explained why he ever knocked the propeller off his toy planes.

Another veteran had been even closer. John Richardson explained: 'The Japs began firing at us. We formed upwards for the attack. A plane startled me. Information technology was a fighter. He was firing his auto guns, strafing what was beneath. We were no more than 30 yards apart when the pilot deliberately turned his head and looked at me.

Spooky: Picayune James would describe a Corsair airplane in his nightmares. His father institute out that pilot James Huston had flown the same plane in the war

'I caught his eye and we connected with each other. No sooner had we continued than his plane was hitting in the engine by what seemed to exist a fairly big crush. There was an instantaneous wink of flames that engulfed the aeroplane. It almost immediately disappeared below me.'

Richardson began to sob, saying: 'I have lived with that pilot's face up equally his eyes fixed on me every day since it happened. Merely I never knew who he was. I was the last guy who saw him alive. I was the last person he saw earlier he was killed. His face has haunted me.'

The family showed him a photograph of James Huston.

He said: 'I recognise his face. I could never forget it. As we retired from the harbour, I could see where Huston went in. He hit virtually a large rock right near the opening.'

Encouraged past the Leiningers, Richardson told Anne what he had seen - half a decade afterwards her brother was lost without trace.

Poignantly, she said: 'I'm relieved to know Jimmy didn't suffer, and a piddling sad that my father died earlier he learned what happened.'

For his part, Bruce has plant peace later his exhaustive search for answers. He says: 'God gives united states of america a spirit. It lives for e'er. James Huston'south spirit had come back to us. Why? I'll never know. At that place are things that are unexplainable and unknowable.'

Meeting Huston's veteran brothers in arms, little James was disappointed, saying: 'I'one thousand sad that everyone is and so old.' Did he truly remember them as dashing young pilots?

Finally, the Leiningers gingerly broke the explosive news of the real reason behind their questions to Anne. They mapped out the story, the terrible nightmares, the vivid descriptions of boxing, naming the send and the pilots.

She told them: 'Jimmy was due abode in March 1945 and I was cleaning, anticipating his inflow. I sensed that he was in the room with me. A couple of days later I got the news that Jimmy had gone missing. I was devastated.

'When my begetter told me the date Jimmy was lost, I realised it was the solar day I felt his presence. We never knew what happened to him. I desire you to know that I believe the story.'

The Leiningers eventually went to driblet a boutonniere of flowers at Huston'south ocean grave, making the long voyage to Japan.

James'south nightmares continued until he was eight, but they were gentler than his early terrors - he woke sobbing softly. Whatever the truth behind the young boy's extraordinary dreams, James Huston at present seems able to rest in peace.

• Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation Of A World War II Fighter Airplane pilot past Bruce and Andrea Leininger with Ken Gross is published past Hay Firm, £9.99. To order a copy (p&p free), call 0845 155 0720.

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