The following is a true story…

This case is different from the ones I’ve shared previously. It’s unsolved, meaning no deceased person had been identified who matches the subject’s memories. In fact, the subject of this story, a little Welsh boy named David, never explicitly claimed to have lived before. He did, however, experience the most unusual dreams. And they were truly disturbing.

Around age three, David began having recurring nightmares. In them, he stood at the edge of a dark hole, filled with bodies. He worried that he’d fall in and die. He described people wearing striped clothing wandering around, looking like “skeletons” with shaved heads. They were prisoners, David believed. The stench of burning flesh filled the air, in the dream, and he always smelled something strange in his bedroom, even after he awoke.

One day, David was visiting his aunt when she turned on her gas stove top to prepare a meal. David’s house had an electric stove and no gas-powered appliances of any kind. The smell of the burner sent him into a panic. He said it “was like the smell in my room at night, it’s going to smother me!”

Another clue emerged when David’s mother suggested traveling to a holiday camp for vacation. He’d never been to a campsite before, but instantly rejected the idea. “No,” he said. “There is no happiness there. People are caged in and cold, hungry, and frightened. They’ll never get out.”

Although David’s mother wasn’t Jewish, he believed the people in his dreams were. Without any known environmental exposure to Jewish customs, David seemed to know some specific details. He’d ask his mother if the food she’d prepared had blood in it. Once, he pointed to a synagogue and correctly stated that people wore “caps” in there, even though no people from the synagogue were around. He had a habit of reading and writing from right to left, up until age eleven. More disturbingly, David seemed both transfixed and frightened by the Jewish Star of David.

Researchers believed David’s dreams matched events that occurred during WWII at German concentration camps, like Treblinka and Auschwitz. Prisoners wore striped uniforms, had their heads shaved, and became extremely emaciated from malnutrition. These details are widely known among adults and even adolescents, but not necessarily among three year old children, like David. And David’s nightmares matched even more horrific details about the camps, which typically reeked of burning flesh or of the gas used in the execution chambers. At Treblinka, children were often pushed into deep pits and left to die.

The emotional trauma of his childhood nightmares troubled David well into his thirties. As he matured, he’d come to believe the dreams were indeed memories of a past life as a Jewish prisoner in a concentration camp. His connection to this horrific history took on deeper significance when he ultimately learned the man who’d raised him wasn’t actually his biological father. David mother had been unfaithful and gotten pregnant. She’d had an affair with a Jewish man.

Psychologists who specialize in past-life memories are divided about the significance of dreams like David’s. However, when images materialize in our subconscious that are eerily accurate, and yet cannot be explained through normal environmental exposure, perhaps they warrant more investigation. Have you ever had a dream like this? What do you think it meant?

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I reviewed many fascinating, real cases like David’s while conducting research for my new novel, DON’T GET CLOSE.

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