Maybe the biggest mystery of all time is what happens to us after we die.

Is there an afterlife?

Do we come back as someone else?

After centuries of scientific discoveries and progress, we still don't know.

But a certain phenomenon may hold the answer.

A person who remembers living a previous life and whose past life memories turn out to be right.

This is supernatural, a podcast original, and I'm your host Ashley Flowers.

Every Wednesday I'll be taking a deep dive into a real unexplained mystery to try and figure out the truth.

This week's episode is about Shanti Devi and James Lininger, two children who grew up in different parts of the world decades apart.

But each had memories of a previous life that were so accurate reincarnation is the only way to explain them.

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The story of Shanti Devi begins in 1926 when she was born in Delhi, India.

For the first several years of her life, Shanti's a typical little girl except for one thing. She doesn't talk at all.

Her parents actually begin to think she's mute.

When Shanti turns four to everyone's relief, she starts to speak. But something's off.

Instead of just using one or two words at a time, the way you'd expect from a child, Shanti speaks in long perfectly formed sentences, like a grown-up, which is extra strange because she keeps referring to her husband.

It seems this four-year-old girl believes she's a married woman expecting a baby and living in an entirely different city.

When her parents and older sister think she's joking, Shanti gets angry. She tells them that this isn't her real life.

This isn't her real name, and they aren't her real family. She has a whole other life somewhere else that she's desperate to get back to.

When she closes her eyes, she still sees herself as a grown woman. It's like she went to sleep and woke up in a different child's body.

Now, because she's so young, Shanti's parents don't take her that seriously. They figure this is just a phase that will end sooner or later.

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