The "Really" File - (Birthmarks of Reincarnation?)

For the living know that they shall die:

 but the dead know not any thing,

 neither have they any more a reward;
 neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:5



From the "Really" File

"In some cultures, birthmarks are thought to be connected to aspects of a person's previous life.
Dr. Jim Tucker at the University of Virginia has been continuing the work of the late Dr. Ian Stevenson who investigated more than 210 cases of children with birthmarks believed to hold some significance to a past life.

One example of this is the case of an old woman in Thailand who told her family that she would like to be reincarnated as a boy. When she died, her daughter dipped her finger in white paste and marked the back of her mother's neck with a distinctive vertical line.

A short time later the daughter gave birth to a baby boy who remarkably appeared to exhibit a birthmark identical to the white line she'd painted on to her mother's neck. When the boy got older he also developed the habit of claiming possession of items that belonged to his grandmother as if they were his own." UnexplainedMysteries

REALLY?