’Reincarnated’ Ohio Boy Says He's an African-American Woman Killed in a Hotel Fire in Chicago

A five-year-old Ohio boy claimed that he was an African-American woman killed in a fire at a Chicago hotel and reincarnated.

According to New York Post, Luke Ruehlman of Cincinnati scared his parents when he started insisting that he used to be a woman named Pam.

The Ohio boy's mom, Erika Ruehlman, told Fox 2 Now that her son started speaking about the mystery woman named Pam when he was just two years old. However, she said the family did not know anyone by that name.

Erika further noted that her son often added details, telling his family that he traveled on a train to Chicago. However, their family lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and had never been to the city.

The Ohio boy's mom said that her son used to say that he "had black hair" when he was a girl and that he "used to have earrings like that" when he was a girl.

Erika then started to look at her son's claims more seriously when she learned of a woman named Pam Robinson. Pam was one of the 19 people killed in a fire at Chicago's Paxton Hotel in 1993.

Ohio Boy Luke Ruehlman Claims He Was Reincarnated

The Ohio boy's mom asked her son who Pam was, to which the boy answered, "Well, I was," according to Fox 2 Now. Luke Ruehlman also told his mom that he used to be Pam but died and went up to heaven.

"I saw God and eventually, God pushed me back down. When I woke up, I was a baby, and you named me Luke," the Ohio boy added as he explained to his mom who Pam was.

Erika said she was confused, adding that she and the boy's dad were not religious and never discussed God, heaven, or even life and death in front of their son. Erika then called her mother and told her something weird was happening.

Lisa Trump, Erika's mom and Luke's grandmother, said she remembered a book she had read in the '70s by the late Dr. Ian Stevenson, who clinically studied past life claims and realized "perhaps we did have something there."

Lisa said Luke did not even know where Chicago was, but the boy remembered being in Chicago. The Paxton Hotel is a residential building in a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Chicago.

When Erika asked Luke what color was Pam's skin, the Ohio boy's mom said his son looked up at her and said, "black."

Erika also asked him if he remembered how he died, and he told her, "Yea it was fire," and made a motion in his hand that he was jumping off a building.

According to Erika, Pam "had jumped out of a window to her death" as the large fire trapped many residents on the hotel's upper floors in March 1993.

Erika also said they decided to put her son to the test. She noted that they had found a picture of Pam, put it on a piece of paper with many fake pictures, and asked the boy to pick Pam's photo.

She said Luke had picked the right one. Luke said he did not recognize anybody at the time but remembered "when this one was taken."

Erika contacted Pam's family to learn more about her, and she discovered strange similarities between Luke and Pam. However, she noted that the Ohio boy has already let her go.

"It was like he got it out. He was finished and had nothing more to say about it," Erika said.

Another Reincarnation Case in Louisiana

In the early 2000s, a Louisiana boy's parents claimed their son James Leininger, born in April 1998, was a reincarnation of a World War II fighter pilot who was shot down by the Japanese.

Bruce and Andrea Leininger said their son screamed one night while dreaming, "airplane crash on fire, little man can't get out."

The Louisiana boy then told his mom he was the little man he kept speaking about. The young boy also said that he was a pilot in 1945 and recalled the type of plane he flew in.

Bruce and Andrea did research and found the man they believed was connected to their young son and he was a 21-year-old Navy fighter pilot named James M. Huston Jr.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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