A pair of twins claim to be able to remember their former lives and say they were killed by a mob who then threw them down a well to die.
The boys, named Ram and Shesh Narain Diwediamoo, say they were a pair of farmers near their home in India who owned land with another brother.
They say they met their demise when a man came to them wanting to make peace after an argument but betrayed them, when a poisoned drink was thrown in their faces.
They were then stuffed down a well.
The story, recorded by Dr Ian Stevenson, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia who looks into the paranormal, echoed a real life double murder from four months before their birth, the Sun Online reported.
Bhimsen and Bhism Pitamah Tripathi were killed following a land dispute.
Jagannath, from a nearby village in India, is said to have invited them to his home for a reconciliation and their bodies were found dumped in a well days later.
A report by Professor Stevensen, who passed away in 2008, said: “I decided to investigate cases that came to my attention and began to publish reports of them.
“At this time—the late 1950s—an earlier interest that I had in reincarnation revived, and I quickly learned that few cases suggestive of reincarnation had been investigated.
“One of the few exceptions was a report of four cases published by an Indian investigator in a French journal.
“I thought perhaps even uninvestigated cases would reveal some feature of interest. I therefore examined the published details of 44 reports of claims to remember a previous life.
“During a first trip to India I learned the cases consisted of much more than a child’s claim to remember a previous life.
“The children also showed behaviour t unusual in their families and that, in those cases in which the claims were verified, matched the behaviour of the deceased persons the children claimed to have been.
“My first journey to Asia therefore showed the need for more journeys.”
Another instance of alleged reincarnation reported by Dr Stevensen included the case of the Pollock sisters.
In 1946 and then 1951, daughters Joanna and Jacqueline were born to parents Florence and John Pollock.
However, tragedy struck on May 5 1957, when on the way to church a car veered off the road and knocked them down, killing them. .
Florence later fell pregnant again and on October 4, 1958, gave birth to twin daughters whom they named Gillian and Jennifer.
As they grew up the pair displayed knowledge they could not have possibly known, such as picking out the toys which had belonged to the girls and knowing which had been gifted to each sister.
On another day they played a game in which Jennifer was lying on the floor, her head being cradled in Gillian’s lap where she reported overhearing her saying: “The blood’s coming out of your eyes. That’s where the car hit you.”
In another incident, Gillian recounted exactly how Jacqueline had gotten her scar by pointing at Jennifer’s birthmark and saying, “That is the mark Jennifer got when she fell on a bucket.”
The peculiarities also included the twins liked the same clothing and songs as their predecessors and identifying friends and neighbours they’d never met.
