The Woman Who Proved Reincarnation is Real - Shanti Devi

This Paranormal Life

Improv, True Crime, Comedy

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In 1930, a 4 year old girl in Delhi, India started to make some incredible claims, claims relating to the concept of reincarnation. As we’ll see these weren’t just the random babblings of an innocent child, the claims proved strangely accurate. Who was this little girl? And how did she convince Mahatma Gandhi himself that reincarnation is real? Time for Rory and Kit to investigate! Become a commune member to get access to bonus episodes: https://thisparanormallife.com Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Secret Society Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Official TPL Merch!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by Philip Shacklady Researched by Ewen Friers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How far back does your memory go? Your early teens? Primary school? Preschool? Sure, some people have
0:06.9	amazing memories recalling events from as far back as their years in nappies, but what if you could
0:11.4	remember events from before you were born? What about memories of a previous life? How can you prove
0:18.4	a past life is real? Have we all been reincarnated and we just don't remember?
0:23.8	And would your partners still love you if you were a worm in your past life? Answers to these
0:28.7	questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life! Hello and welcome to This Paranormal Life,
0:37.3	the weekly comedy podcast where every Tuesday we investigate a different paranormal tale,
0:41.2	citing by the end of the episode, whether we think it's real or not. How are you doing today? Rory.
0:45.0	Doing great. Exciting to be talking about the world of memory. As someone whose earliest memory is Wednesday,
0:53.6	it's interesting to hear about people's people whose brains can contain more than 30 minutes of information. I think they say, no, to take it to a dark place. I think they say if you don't have good long-term memory, that's depression. Right, because I'm trying to forget all the things. Right. It's like your brain is trying to do you a solid.
1:12.7	Yeah.
1:13.0	It's like, brain, why can't I? It's like, you don't want to know. You don't want to know, Chief. People would be like, oh, what did you do on the weekend? It doesn't matter. I don't remember. So clearly wasn't that exciting. All right, E. Yeah. Doesn't matter.
1:27.5	What is your earliest memory?
1:28.9	Do you remember?
1:29.8	My earliest memory is I All right, E. Or, doesn't matter.
1:29.2	What is your earliest memory? Do you remember?
1:33.6	My earliest memory is actually really sad. My earliest memory... Okay, let's move on. We don't have time for that. No, go on.
1:38.6	My earliest memory was driving away from our house in America.
1:45.7	Right. And leaving to come to Ireland.
1:48.6	Yeah. And my parents saying,
1:50.5	because we used to live in this big old blue wooden house.
1:55.1	I remember my parents saying, everyone wave goodbye to the big blue house.
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