Ep. - 1523 - SATURDAY SERIES: BRUCE LEININGER
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Kate revisits one of her most memorable and frequently requested interviews: a conversation with Bruce Leininger, co-author of Soul Survivor and father of James Leininger.
This remarkable story began when Bruce and his wife, Andrea, noticed that their young son, James, was experiencing intense recurring nightmares and speaking with unusual specificity about events he claimed to remember from another life. At only two years old, James began describing detailed memories of being a World War II fighter pilot named James Huston Jr., who was killed during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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| 0:00.0 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey. |
| 0:08.1 | It's been a heavy week in the world, and when the days feel especially loud or uncertain, |
| 0:13.5 | I find myself craving stories that remind us of something quieter and something deeper. |
| 0:18.9 | Stories that offer comfort, stories that leave room for wonder. |
| 0:22.7 | So for today's Saturday series episode, I wanted to share something uplifting, one of my |
| 0:27.3 | favorite interviews and one that I'm often asked about. This story began for me in the most |
| 0:32.6 | ordinary of places, a bookstore in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I walked past a table stack with books, |
| 0:39.4 | and one cover immediately caught my eye. It was Baby Blue and the title read, Soul Survivor. |
| 0:46.2 | I picked it up, sat down, and before I knew it, I had read the entire book in one city. |
| 0:52.4 | It was the unbelievable story of a little boy who could remember his |
| 0:55.7 | past life as a World War II pilot. Bruce and Andrea Linenger's two-year-old son, James, |
| 1:01.8 | began having intense nightmares. But these weren't ordinary childhood dreams. James was describing |
| 1:07.9 | things his parents couldn't explain. Vivid, detailed memories of being a fighter |
| 1:12.9 | pilot named James Houston, who died during the Battle of Iwo Jima. At first, Bruce and Andrea were |
| 1:19.3 | skeptics, understandably. But what followed was an investigative journey that led them through |
| 1:24.6 | military records, obscure historical details, and eventually to confirmations |
| 1:29.5 | that stunned them. Their toddler knew names, planes, missions, specific facts that no child |
| 1:36.5 | his age could have possibly known. They discovered that James Houston Jr. was indeed a pilot |
| 1:41.6 | killed in 1945. James McCready Houston, Jr., a 21-year-old U.S. Navy |
| 1:47.6 | pilot from Bryn M.R. Pennsylvania, died on March 3, 1945. He was killed when his plane was shot down |
| 1:54.6 | by Japanese anti-aircraft fire near Chi Chi Jima. He took off from the escort carrier, USS Natoma Bay, and his body was never recovered. |
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