Prominent behavioural characteristics feature strongly in some cases of past-life memory, as in the Sri Lankan case of Duminda Ratnayake. Duminda remembered having been chief monk in a famous...

List of thirty-one cases of young children in the Netherlands who spoke of having lived a previous life, mostly collected by Titus Rivas and Anny Dirven.

Accounts of past-life memories of European children, a phenomenon widely believed to be less common than in Asia but in fact less rare than is generally realized.

Experimental birthmarks and birth defects in reincarnation cases resemble marks or mutilations made on the bodies of deceased or dying persons with the hope that they will reappear on the body of...

Claims by people remembering the past lives of famous people are treated with caution by reincarnation researchers, but verification of details has been possible in a few cases. 

The first reincarnation case to be investigated in Sri Lanka, also notable for the child’s statements about a previous life having been written down before attempts were made to trace it.

Case of responsive xenoglossy, in which an American woman was regressed under hypnosis to a past life as a ninteenth-century German woman, and spoke German, a language which she had never learned. 

This  Lebanese case of a child's past life memories was one of the earliest investigated by Ian Stevenson, and also one of the most complex, arousing controversy.

In some reincarnation cases the subject has apparently reincarnated into a different culture, religion or ethnic group but continues to exhibit behaviours and characteristics typical of the former life. 

In this 1960s case, investigated by Ian Stevenson and two assisting researchers, two Turkish children remembered past lives as a married couple who, along with two of their five children, had been...