A young boy named Ryan Hammond from Oklahoma is completely convinced that he is the reincarnation of a Hollywood star from 60 years ago, and even a child psychiatrist believes him.
Ryan, born in 2004, claims to have clear memories of living in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. In a 2015 NBC interview, he shared the moment he first thought he was someone else. At just five years old, he told his mother, “Mama, I think I used to be someone else.”
Ryan then began sharing strange details about the life of a Hollywood star from decades earlier. His story closely matched the life of Marty Martyn, a movie extra who had been married four times and lived in New York. Marty passed away from a brain hemorrhage in 1964 at the age of 61.
Ryan Hammond, a young boy, says he has clear memories of living a past life in Hollywood. His mother shared that Ryan would often wake up at night, asking to “visit his other family” and shouting “action” as if he were on a movie set.
At first, his parents thought he was just using his imagination. But when Ryan saw a photo of someone in a Hollywood book and said, “That’s me, that’s who I was,” they began to take him seriously. He was just 10 years old at the time.
Things got even more interesting when child psychiatrist Dr. Jim Tucker believed Ryan’s story of reincarnation could be real. Dr. Tucker said, “The world doesn’t work exactly as we think it does. These cases don’t fit with what we normally understand about the world.”
Ryan, born in 2004, believes he was a Hollywood actor in a past life.
According to the authors of “The Mystery of Reincarnation,” published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, more research is needed on reincarnation. They explained that there isn’t enough solid proof or research methods yet to fully understand it.
They also noted that humans have limited minds and intelligence, which may prevent us from understanding paranormal things like reincarnation. While there’s no clear conclusion, they pointed out that the human mind tends to create beliefs and then accept them as absolute truth, which can be a weakness.
