Baby Falls Out of Burning Plane After Being Shot Down

Reincarnated! Our son is a World War Ii airplane pilot come up dorsum to life

It sounds totally beyond belief. Only read the tantalising bear witness from this male child's family and you may outset to wonder...

The agonised screams pierced the air. 'Plane on burn down! Airplane crash.' In the dark, a two-yr-old boy was simply visible, writhing on his bed in the grip of horror. 'He was lying there on his back, kicking and clawing at the covers similar he was trying to kick his style out of a bury,' remembers the boy's male parent.

'I thought, this looks like The Exorcist. I one-half expected his head to spin around like that little girl in the film. Simply and so I heard what James was saying.'

Over and over once more, the tiny child screamed: 'Airplane on fire! Little homo tin can't get out.'

Vivid recollections: James Leininger, pictured aged four had nightmares well-nigh being a WWII pilot who died subsequently his plane crashed into the sea

For his shocked parents, these nightly scenes were traumatic.

For experts, they were baffling.

Equally the nightmares became more terrifying, the kid started screaming the name of the 'little human being' who couldn't become out of the aeroplane. It was James - like his own name. He also talked in his dreams of 'Jack Larsen', 'Natoma' and 'Corsair'.

James Leininger's father, Bruce, was flummoxed. In a drastic endeavour to find an answer to his son's troubled nights, he embarked on an obsessive three-yr inquiry project, armed simply with the outbursts and names his son had been shouting in his disturbed sleep.

What he discovered astonished and perplexed him, and collection him to an extraordinary conclusion.

A lifelong Christian, it was not the respond he had sought for his son'due south behaviour. But he came to believe James was the reincarnation of a Earth War II fighter airplane pilot; a man who had been shot down in his plane and struggled to escape as it caught fire; a hero.

Hero: Fighter pilot James Huston, who died in 1945 after his plane took a direct hitting and plunged into the water

The idea seems so preposterous equally to be unbelievable. However in their new book, Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation Of A World War Two Fighter Pilot, Bruce and his married woman, Andrea, lay out some compelling evidence.

It all began on May 1, 2000. James, but iii weeks past his second birthday, was a happy, playful toddler living in an idyllic home in southern Louisiana. That dark, his mother was woken past his screams. She held him in her arms as he thrashed around.

Soon, however, James was having five nightmares a week. Andrea was worried. Her little boy began to talk during his bad dreams, screaming nearly an airplane crash and writhing as if he were trapped in a called-for aircraft.

At a toy shop, they admired some model planes. 'Look,' said Andrea. 'There'due south a bomb on the lesser.'

'That's not a bomb, Mummy,' he replied. 'That's a drib tank.' Just a toddler, he was talking like a armed services historian. How had he known almost the gas tank used by aircraft to extend their range?

As the nightmares connected, she asked him: 'Who is the lilliputian homo?'

'Me,' he answered. His father asked: 'What happened to your plane?'

James replied: 'It crashed on fire.'

'Why did your aeroplane crash?'

'It got shot,' he said.

'Who shot your plane?'

James made a disgusted face. 'The Japanese!' he said, with indignation.

He said he knew it was the Japanese, because of 'the big ruby sun'. Was he describing the Japanese symbol of the rise sun, painted on their warplanes, chosen 'meatballs' by American pilots?

Tentatively, Andrea began to suggest reincarnation; perchance James had lived a past life? Bruce reacted angrily. In that location must exist a rational explanation for all this.

He questioned his son further. 'Practise yous remember what kind of airplane the piddling human flew?'

'A Corsair,' replied the ii-year-onetime without hesitation - repeating the word he shouted in his dreams.

Bruce knew this was a World War Ii fighter aeroplane.

'Do you retrieve where your airplane took off from?' he asked.

'A boat,' said James. How did he know that these planes were launched from aircraft carriers? He asked the name of the boat.

His son replied with certainty: 'The Natoma.'

Later on James was in bed, Bruce researched what he had heard. A naturally sceptical man, he was amazed to find the Natoma Bay was a World War Ii aircraft carrier.

Equally a kid: James Huston with sisters Ruth and Anne in 1928. James' male parent sadly never found out the circumstances surrounding his expiry

James fifty-fifty began to don an imaginary pilot'southward headset when his female parent strapped him into his car seat. And when Bruce ordered a book for his father's Christmas present - The Battle Of Iwo Jima - James pointed to the picture and said: 'Daddy, that'southward when my plane was shot down.'

Bruce, who works in the oil industry, rushed into his office, where he had a dictionary of American naval fighting ships. Natoma Bay had supported the U.Southward. Marines' invasion of Iwo Jima in 1945.

Bruce was mystified - what was coming out of the mouth of his two-year- old? Adjacent, the piffling boy named his nightmare alter-ego's best friend. He was Jack Larsen.

'He was a pilot, besides,' he said. Bruce decided that he had to find Jack Larsen to prove his point to his wife - Larsen would tell him that James had invented the whole matter, and in that location was no such matter equally reincarnation.

He decided to get to a reunion of veterans of Natoma Bay, pretending he was writing a book.

Andrea, meanwhile, was convinced James had been reincarnated. She contacted Carol Bowman, the writer of a volume on reincarnation called Children's Past Lives. Bowman confirmed Andrea'southward views.

'The common threads were there with James,' she said. 'The age the nightmares began, the remembered expiry. These are all consistent with children experiencing past lives.'

She advised Andrea to tell James that he was safe, and that his bad experiences were over now. Apart from his night terrors, he was an ordinary child living an ordinary life, turning iii in April 2001.

He liked to play war games with his GI Joe action figures, Baton, Walter and Leon. He likewise liked to describe - battle scenes, with bullets, bombs and planes. He drew Wildcats and Corsairs, and named the Japanese planes Zekes or Bettys.

Pointing to one plane, he said: 'That's a Corsair. They used to get flat tyres all the fourth dimension. And they always wanted to plough left when they took off.'

He would play a game of pilots, constructing a make-shift cockpit out of a toy phone and old car seat. He would call: 'Roger. Zero at vi o'clock. Hit him!', and so throw himself on the floor, saying: 'My plane was hit, I'k parachuting.' At an airshow, he told everyone: 'I desire to exist an F18 Super Hornet airplane pilot.'

Happy families: James today at 11 with mum Andrea and begetter Bruce. James'due south nightmares continued until he was eight, but were gentler than his early terrors

In the meantime, Bruce finally managed to observe Jack Larsen - and uncovered an atrocious secret. It turned out Larsen's friend James Huston Jnr died when his plane was shot in the engine and caught fire, exactly as described by 2-yr-one-time James.

Bruce found Huston'due south proper name on the list of 18 men killed in action on the Natoma. The discovery finally made him ask: Could this be the man who inhabits my son's soul?

He sifted through a thousand combat mission reports to notice where Huston had been killed.

Larsen told Bruce: 'James was a real adept human being. It was a very dangerous place. But James volunteered to go.'

He also said that it was aboard the Natoma that the first rough napalm bombs had been improvised, mixing napalm powder with petrol. 'It looked like we were making jelly,' he said.

His business relationship brought home the full horror of battle - the flimsy planes flight to attack the Japanese. Huston was flying 'tail-end Charlie' - the final plane in - so Larsen had not seen him go downward.

The veterans' clan reported that James Huston'southward father had even attended their reunions. But the old man died in 1973, never learning any specifics of his son's decease.

Side by side, little James unnerved his male parent by telling him: 'I knew you would be a skilful daddy, that's why I picked you.'

'Where did you detect us?' asked a shaken Bruce.

'In Hawaii, at the pink hotel, on the beach,' he replied. Eerily, he described his parents' fifth wedding ceremony - five weeks before Andrea got pregnant - saying it was when he 'chose' them to bring him back into the world.

Something new emerged every 24-hour interval. On a map, he pointed out the verbal location where James's plane went down. Asked why he called his action figures Billy, Leon and Walter, he replied: 'Because that's who met me when I got to sky.'

Reunited? James Huston'due south sis Anne met James Leininger and believes he is a reincarnation of her brother

Certain plenty, on the listing of the Natoma expressionless, aslope James Huston, were Billie Peeler, Leon Conner and Walter Devlin. Uncannily, photos of the men showed their hair color matched those of their GI Joe dolls.

Finally, Bruce and Andrea located James Huston's last surviving relative - his 84-year-sometime sister, Anne.

She told them: 'Mom and Dad never talked well-nigh Jimmy's death, but Dad went to several reunions to see if he could become any details. He never could.'

Then they were able to tell her where her blood brother died. After and so many years, they were even able to transport her a moving-picture show of the harbour.

She responded: 'It is so much more personal than anything I accept. The picture of the bay is beautiful and and then peaceful. A lovely resting identify.'

In return, she sent Bruce and Andrea a flick of James with his squadron - a cluster of smiling young men. In the background was a Corsair - confirming that piddling James had been right nigh the plane Huston flew.

Bruce says: 'My purpose for researching what was happening to my son was to establish that this was all a coincidence. Simply I was getting closer and closer to something dangerous. Information technology was like putting my hand in a fire.'

Not long subsequently, the family had a phone call from a veteran who had seen Huston'southward plane being striking. He kept his knowledge to himself for more than 50 years. He described seeing the backwash of Huston's crash on the sea beneath.

'He took a direct hit on the nose. All I could come across were pieces falling into the bay. We pulled out of the dive and headed for open ocean. I saw the place where the fighter had hit. The rings were still expanding near a huge rock at the harbour entrance.'

Huston'southward aeroplane was hit in the engine and the front exploded in a ball of flames - exactly like James'due south account. Information technology explained why he always knocked the propeller off his toy planes.

Another veteran had been even closer. John Richardson explained: 'The Japs began firing at us. We formed upwardly for the attack. A plane startled me. Information technology was a fighter. He was firing his machine guns, strafing what was below. We were no more thirty yards apart when the pilot deliberately turned his head and looked at me.

Spooky: Petty James would describe a Corsair plane in his nightmares. His father institute out that pilot James Huston had flown the same plane in the war

'I caught his centre and we continued with each other. No sooner had we connected than his plane was hit in the engine past what seemed to be a adequately large beat. There was an instantaneous flash of flames that engulfed the plane. It almost immediately disappeared below me.'

Richardson began to sob, maxim: 'I take lived with that pilot's face every bit his eyes fixed on me every day since it happened. But I never knew who he was. I was the final guy who saw him alive. I was the terminal person he saw before he was killed. His face has haunted me.'

The family showed him a photograph of James Huston.

He said: 'I recognise his face. I could never forget information technology. As we retired from the harbour, I could encounter where Huston went in. He hitting most a large rock correct near the opening.'

Encouraged by the Leiningers, Richardson told Anne what he had seen - one-half a decade later on her brother was lost without trace.

Poignantly, she said: 'I'm relieved to know Jimmy didn't suffer, and a little sad that my father died before he learned what happened.'

For his office, Bruce has found peace after his exhaustive search for answers. He says: 'God gives united states a spirit. It lives for ever. James Huston's spirit had come up back to us. Why? I'll never know. At that place are things that are unexplainable and unknowable.'

Meeting Huston's veteran brothers in arms, little James was disappointed, saying: 'I'm sad that everyone is and so old.' Did he truly remember them as dashing young pilots?

Finally, the Leiningers gingerly broke the explosive news of the existent reason behind their questions to Anne. They mapped out the story, the terrible nightmares, the bright descriptions of battle, naming the send and the pilots.

She told them: 'Jimmy was due home in March 1945 and I was cleaning, anticipating his arrival. I sensed that he was in the room with me. A couple of days later I got the news that Jimmy had gone missing. I was devastated.

'When my male parent told me the date Jimmy was lost, I realised it was the twenty-four hour period I felt his presence. We never knew what happened to him. I want you to know that I believe the story.'

The Leiningers somewhen went to drop a boutonniere of flowers at Huston's bounding main grave, making the long voyage to Japan.

James'south nightmares continued until he was eight, but they were gentler than his early terrors - he woke sobbing softly. Any the truth behind the young boy's extraordinary dreams, James Huston now seems able to residual in peace.

• Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation Of A World War 2 Fighter Airplane pilot by Bruce and Andrea Leininger with Ken Gross is published by Hay House, £9.99. To order a copy (p&p free), telephone call 0845 155 0720.

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