The Ryan Hammons reincarnation case is one of the most compelling paranormal stories involving a child who claimed to remember a past life. Beginning in Oklahoma around 2008, four-year-old Ryan started asking his mother to take him home. But he didn’t mean the house where they lived. He meant Hollywood—a place he claimed to remember from another life.

In this episode of State of the Unknown: Fragments, host Robert Barber explores Ryan’s reported past-life memories and the investigation conducted by Dr. Jim Tucker of the University of Virginia. When Ryan pointed to an unidentified man in a photograph from a 1932 Hollywood movie and said, “That’s me,” one question remained: Could the stranger be identified—and could Ryan’s memories be connected to a life that had actually existed?

Was Ryan creating an unusually detailed childhood story, or remembering something the rest of us have learned to forget?

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