A five-year-old boy, Ryan Hammons, claims that he was a Hollywood actor in his previous birth and is now reincarnated. The little boy’s stories shocked his mother, Cyndi Hammons, from Muskogee, Oklahoma. She told US programme, TODAY, that the boy would cry and ask her to take him to Hollywood which he called his home.

The preschooler suffered from nightmares since he was four years of age. One year later, he shared his concerns with his mother and began to claim that he was a Hollywood actor in his past life. Cindy told TODAY that her son expressed his desire to tell her something one evening and then confided that he remembers to be living as someone else.

He described a few instances of his "past life," which included meeting Rita Hayworth, dancing on Broadway and travelling overseas. He even stated that he was working for an agency. He also clearly remembered that the street he lived on had the word "rock" in it, she explained.

Cyndi said in the programme that his descriptions were so “extensive” and “detailed” that it could not be made up by a child. As a Baptist, she did not believe in the idea of rebirth. Hence, she never told anyone of her son’s experiences - not even her husband. However, she shared that she checked out many books about Hollywood in an effort to gain more insight into the problem.

She told TODAY that she realised that Ryan was telling the truth when one day she flipped the page of a book to a picture of a 1932 movie, “Night After Night,” starring Mae West in her film debut. Ryan immediately pointed to it and said, “that’s me, that’s who I was,” she shared.

Ryan was pointing to an extra in the film. She approached Dr. Jim Tucker, M.D., an associate professor in the Bonner-Lowry Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He has 10 years of experience as a child psychiatrist. In his book, “Return To Life,” Tucker wrote about a few American cases including Ryan’s situation.

He calls Ryan's case “incredible” because he provides great detail. Moreover, the child remembers himself as a famous person as opposed to the typical case with most children who claim to be average people in their previous lives. With research, Tucker found that the man Ryan claimed to be was Marty Martyn, who was initially just an extra in Hollywood but later became a powerful Hollywood agent. He died in 1964.

In the movie, “Night After Night,” Martyn has no lines, hinting to this Tucker states, “If you look at a picture of a guy with no lines in a movie, and then tell me about his life, I don’t think many of us would have come up with Marty Martyn’s life. Yet Ryan provided many details that really did fit with his life.”

Tucker was able to contact Martyn’s daughter and they found that 55 details provided by Ryan were correct. Ryan said he had two sisters in his past life, a fact that Martyn’s daughter did not know but was found to be true.

Tucker explains that the memory will fade as he grows older.

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