True Reincarnation Files: Taru
The following is a true story…
As a toddler, Taru despised her father. “He can go away and we can live together without him,” she once said to her mother, Iris. The young Finnish girl refused to call her father “Papa,” and only addressed the man by his name, Heikki.
Conversely, Taru expressed deep affection for her mother. At times she seemed confused about their relationship. “Why should I have to choose you as my mother?” she asked. Then, Taru revealed a strange clue when she declared, “I am not Taru; my name is Jaska.” Jaska was the nickname of Iris’s second husband. He’d been run over by a bus and killed three years before Taru’s birth.
Iris had never discussed the grisly details of her late husband’s death with Taru, and yet when barely three years old, Taru said, “I was left under a car and died. Don’t you know?” She went on to say the car was big and “first died the stomach, then the head.” Taru added, “I was taken to the hospital, but I was already dead by that time.”
In fact, Iris’s former husband, Jaska, had stumbled off a curb and fallen underneath a city bus while it was stopped at a traffic light. When the signal changed, the bus’s enormous wheel rolled over Jaska’s body, first crushing his torso, and then his skull. An ambulance raced him to a hospital even though he had died at the scene.
Investigators who study cases of people who remember past lives have documented many instances of someone believing they once lived as a deceased family member. Still, how strange would it be if your own child declared herself the reincarnation of your former spouse?
Taru’s insistence that she’d once lived as Jaska created such a disharmonious family dynamic that her father, Heikki had to live a different home for much of his daughter’s childhood. As Taru grew up, however, her past-life memories faded, and she eventually became very close to her father.
I reviewed many fascinating, real cases like Taru’s while conducting research for my new psychological crime thriller, DON’T GET CLOSE, available March 8, 2022.
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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.
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