Study finds pattern in over 1,000 alleged reincarnation cases

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorResearchers at the University of Virginia found a pattern across more than one thousand cases of alleged reincarnation, ScienceAlert reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA pattern in reincarnation? So the afterlife has a return policy.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe archive comes from the university's Division of Perceptual Studies, which has been collecting these cases since the nineteen sixties.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSixty years of paperwork on people coming back. That's the most committed filing system I've ever heard of.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd one researcher says the effect was stronger in families whose religions do not support reincarnation.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorStronger where nobody believes it? I assume the families' statement is, we didn't order this, but we're thrilled.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe lead author says the team is agnostic about why, and the study itself says it does not establish reincarnation.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the study doesn't establish it. Okay, so what's left? Sixty years of accounts and a pattern nobody can explain yet.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy theory is the researchers asked the same question a thousand times and got tired. Yours?

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMine is that I was a pageant queen last time, and that's why I'm good at this chair.