True Reincarnation Files: Helmut
The following is a true story…
In the summer of 1918, a general of the Austrian Imperial Army commanding a Division on the Italian Front, began walking towards the front line. WWI wouldn’t come to an end for another five months, so approaching the battle line at this point in the war was extraordinarily dangerous, as the general’s troops warned. Without explanation, he continued his suicide walk, undeterred. General Werner Seehofer was shot and died in an Italian military hospital.
Eighteen years later, a four-year-old boy named Helmut from Linz, Austria began making odd statements and exhibiting strange behavior. He’d enthusiastically salute any soldiers he encountered and refused to wear an unbuttoned coat because “an officer is not allowed to go with an open overcoat,” he explained.
One afternoon, Helmut explained that he’d once lived as an “officer in the Great War.” Perhaps this statement and his habitual saluting were the products of a young boy’s fascination with the military—not entirely unusual. But then Helmut declared, “When I was big, I used to live at 9 Manfred Street,” in Linz. He went on to provide a specific address for another residence in Vienna where he claimed to have lived “for many years.” Helmut then gave a third street and house number of a home where he said his in-laws had lived.
Investigators interviewed the current residents of 9 Manfred Street and learned that a man named Seehofer had once lived there. General Werner Seehofer, in fact. Helmut, still in kindergarten at the time, had also correctly provided the precise address for General Seehofer’s in-laws house and the general’s former home in Vienna.
I’ve read many accounts of people providing specific names of people they claim to have known in a past life, and sometimes even offering the name of their previous identity. Helmut’s case is the first I’ve encountered where the subject gave specific street addresses (and in two different cities!). The fact that this occurred in 1935, before cell phones, search engines and Google Maps, makes Helmut’s identification of General Seehofer’s former residences even more remarkable.
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About the author: Matt Miksa is a bestselling author and former FBI intelligence analyst who helped prevent foreign spies from stealing America’s secrets. Today, he writes thrillers that blend history, politics, science, and espionage.
Matt reviewed many fascinating, real cases like Helmut’s while conducting research for his new paranormal crime thriller, DON’T GET CLOSE, available now.
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