Author Topic: Boy is reincarnated WWII flyer (Read 1379 times)

ravells · « **Reply #30 on:** April 18, 2004, 04:23:11 PM »

Don't know.

This regressive hypnosis thing about people having previous lives has a lot of evidence to support it.

But then, I'm a hindu

Ravs

ravells · « **Reply #31 on:** April 18, 2004, 04:35:49 PM »

lol! Me too.

There was one scene with two dogs fighting outside a pyramid. Don't know why, but it just scared the crap out of me.

If you havn't seen it, watch 'The Devil's Backbone' (Spanish film), that and 'Sixth Sense' were the two most recent horros which made things go up my spine.

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Gnslngr · « **Reply #32 on:** April 18, 2004, 10:35:11 PM »

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Originally posted by GScholz
Yes, and in Northern Iraq of all places. Haven't seen the Spanish movie, but the 6th Sense got to me big time. The mother slowly poisoning her daughter to a slow agonizing death ... I'm never seeing that movie again. Nor am I seeing The Ring ever again. I can only take so much cruelty.

WOW this is the second thing we agree on. I HATE THE RING! any movie involving scary kids (IE the ring, villiage of the damed) just freaks me out.

Me and my wife watched the ring. Right after it was over with the DVD preview screen was on and THERE WAS A REAL FLY ON MY TV JUST LIKE THE MOVIE. I went up to make sure it was real and the friggin phone wrang. I nearly lost it.

crowMAW · « **Reply #33 on:** April 18, 2004, 10:41:03 PM »

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Originally posted by texace
Corsairs can't fly off an escort carrier? What about the Sicily?

Didn't say they couldn't, but I thought the only jeep that launched squadron of Corsairs into battle during WWII was the USS Gilbert Islands at Okinawa. Weren't the early CVE fighter complements of FM2s?

Drunky · « **Reply #34 on:** April 18, 2004, 11:37:15 PM »

Wow. That story was incredible. I don't know how anyone cannot believe that it's not true. What with all that description going on. Jeezus, obviously it's true, reincarnation and the whole bit. Man, even if I doubted it it has to be true because its on the intardnet.

Get a grip, yahoos.

If you really believe that tripe then I have a boat load of 'little timmy died but before he died he wanted his mother to know how much he loved her before he died and somehow, very strangely he know he was going to die' stories that I get emailed to me from other weak minded people such as yourselves that you might also believe in.

Shesh.

Boooooo....did I scare you?

Pooh21 · « **Reply #35 on:** April 19, 2004, 02:57:35 AM »

Why when they hypnotise them and they descibe their past lives on those wacky shows, they was all Cleopatra? Occasionally Joan of Arc. Never I was dumb peasant #231345 that got stepped on by a horse.

SunTracker · « **Reply #36 on:** April 19, 2004, 04:35:10 AM »

In my past life I was a peasant that shoveled horse manure and picked weeds out of a field. I died of the flu.

ravells · « **Reply #37 on:** April 19, 2004, 06:07:18 AM »

Grandad!!!!

Ravs

Urchin · « **Reply #38 on:** April 19, 2004, 08:17:48 AM »

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Originally posted by crowMAW
Well, one thing is for sure...James Huston sure wasn't flying Corsairs off of an escort CV. It would have had to have been an FM-2.

Crow, just looked up a picture of the USS Natoma Bay, and she's underway... with F4U's onboard.

Address is http://www.bosamar.com/ap16.html.

Freaky story though, a lot of coincidences. At first I thought Crow had the best argument.. but I read a couple stories about this and here is my question.

The first story seems to imply that Lt. James Huston was actually shot down by an enemy plane.

""
"I was reading him a story and he got a faraway look," she recalled. "I asked what happened to your plane? 'Got shot,' he said. Where? 'Engine.' Where did it crash? 'Water.' When I asked him who shot the plane, he gave me a look like a teenager, rolling his eyes, 'the Japanese,' like who else could it have been?

"What little kid knows about the Japanese," she asked. "He said he knew it was a Japanese plane because of the red sun. My husband and I were shell-shocked."

""

However, there is an eye-witness account in a different story, http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/us/reincarnation_040415.html says the following

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Bruce says James also told him his plane had sustained a direct hit on the engine.

Ralph Clarbour, a rear gunner on a U.S. airplane that flew off the Natoma Bay, says his plane was right next to one flown by James M. Huston Jr. during a raid near Iwo Jima on March 3, 1945.

Clarbour said he saw Huston's plane struck by anti-aircraft fire. "I would say he was hit head on, right in the middle of the engine," he said.

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No mention of any enemy planes there, and to be honest I doubt the guy even saw any enemy planes. So... was it AAA or an enemy plane?

It is a cool story though.

cpxxx · « **Reply #39 on:** April 19, 2004, 09:45:43 AM »

This is all very interesting. I have heard stories like this before. Usually very young kids. Sometimes very spooky stories. Perhaps it's a hoax but why pick on an obscure pilot on an obscure carrier?
But if you were to accept that it's possible. Then perhaps some of us here are former pilots reliving our past lives LOL. Given our umitigated enthusiasm for old warbirds.

I imagine young James will try to become a US Navy aviator when the time comes. Oddly enough I have a particular fascination with the Corsair and the Pacific Air War. But I am definitely not alone with that.

I remember once being at an old RAF base, West Malling in Kent. I just couldn't shake of the feeling of having been there before. It all seemed so familiar particularly from out on the field. I get to a lot of other airfields and only felt that at one other also military and old.

In any case not everything is explainable in rational terms. I know that from my own experience. But I think there might be a rational explanation which one day in the future might be discovered. Let's face it radio and TV while detectable with the right equipment is impossible and almost inconceivable otherwise.

midnight Target · « **Reply #40 on:** April 19, 2004, 09:49:09 AM »

I bet you guys believe John Edward really talks to your dead grandma too.

Bodhi · « **Reply #41 on:** April 19, 2004, 10:16:02 AM »

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Originally posted by Urchin

Address is http://www.bosamar.com/ap16.html.

Sorry, don't see any corsairs in this pic, but I see some apparent F6's

although I am almost positive that F4u's served on Escort cv's at the end of the war.

SunTracker · « **Reply #42 on:** April 19, 2004, 10:22:31 AM »

Corsairs had enough trouble trying to operate from full sized carriers. I don't think anyone would let a squadron of them fly from escort carriers.

Urchin · « **Reply #43 on:** April 19, 2004, 12:38:09 PM »

Yea, looks like you are right. According to some other website I found, the Natoma carried FM-2s. She did ferry some P-47s somewhere though, bet that was a fun take-off.

Maybe the news guy got it scrambled... if the kid was supposed to be a reincarnated pilot I don't see how he could not remember what plane he flew.

texace · « **Reply #44 on:** April 19, 2004, 12:48:40 PM »

Corsairs could and did fly off escort CVs. VMF-323 served off the Sicily at the end of the war. Whole squadron of them. Yes, it was hard to get them off the deck, but they did.