A spooked mother has been left unsettled by her young son who claims that he is a reincarnation of a woman who died almost 30 years ago after a horrendous hotel fire. Luke Ruehlman, 5 claims that he used to live a previous lift as an African-American woman called Pam Robinson who jumped to her death to escape the flames inside Paxton Hotel in Chicago.
His mother, Erika said the five year old had started to scare her a little after he began speaking about a woman she had never heard of named Pam, the Daily Star reports. After questioning her young son about the random woman to find out who she was, Luke revealed his startling truth about his alleged past life.
"He turned to me and said, 'Well, I was,'" she told Fox 8. "[He said] 'Well, I used to be, but I died and I went up to heaven.
"I saw God and then eventually, God pushed me back down and I was a baby and you named me Luke. '' Luke's family, who live in Cincinnati, Ohio, said their son told them he travelled by train in Chicago despite them never taking him there, reports The Sun.
Erika decided to research the bizarre claims and was shocked to find out that Pam was named one of 19 victims who died from the fire in 1993. Luke recalled eerie details about how he tried to escape the burning building and spoke about the moment he "met God."
Erika says he also speaks about other moments that he "remembered" from his past life. "He used to say, 'When I was a girl, I had black hair' or he would say, 'I used to have earrings like that when I was a girl,'" she said.
Producers of a paranormal investigations TV show "The Ghost Inside My Child" have also delved into Luke's case. During the show, the little boy was shown a page of pictures of black women aged in their 30s and was asked to find Pam.
He was able to pick her out within the first go, according to the footage. Following the creepy development, Luke's mum decided to reach out to Pam's family.
She said they described her personality and revealed chilling similarities between the pair such as their love for Stevie Wonder and playing on the keyboard. Fox8 reached out to Pamela's family but they declined to comment.
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