Shanti Devi (a name meaning "Goddess of Peace") was born in Delhi, India on 11 December, 1926. During her early years she did not speak a lot, even though young children are generally plaguing their parents with all manner of questions, Shanti Devi did not. However, at the age of four she began to talk a lot more, not so much about her life and experiences, but rather of the memories of another life.

She talked of how her real home was not in Delhi, but was rather 150kms away in the city of Mathura (earlier known as Muttra). It was also here that she stated her husband lived.
Although many believe she was discouraged by her parents from speaking of this "other life", they rather told their daughter that her other life was in the past, and that the now is what mattered, and to leave the rest behind. This did not sit well with the young girl who ran away from home at age six in order to travel to Mathura, and her real home.

She was eventually caught and taken back to Delhi, but the experience did little to dissuade her and soon she began to speak of her other life at length at school. The headmaster (some sources say "uncle") was intrigued by the details that this young girl was able to recall, details that seemed to take her story from that of an overactive mind to something more interesting. It was when she gave the names of her husband, children and the details of her death that the headmaster was able to locate someone important to the story.
Shanti Devi claimed that her husband Kedarnath Chaube (some sources say Kedar Nath) was a merchant and that she herself had died nine/ten days after giving birth to a child. With this information her headmaster was able to locate a man named Kedar Nath who had lost his wife, Lugdi, nine years earlier and ten days after giving birth.

Having found a man who seemed to be linked to the girls story the headmaster arranged for Kedar Nath to travel to Delhi. Shanti Devi was able to recognise him immediately on site as her husband, and was able to recognise "her son". It did not take long for Shanti to convince this man that she was, in fact, his wife for she knew details that were intimate and secret within the family.
Mahatma Gandhi was soon informed about what was happening with the "supposed" reincarnation and set up an enquiry to study the girl and the story. With stringent conditions imposed on the commission, and Shanti Devi herself, they travelled to Mathura where the story gets even more amazing.

Shanti herself found the family home, recognised members if the family, and even knew the old layout of the furniture and possessions (there had been a refurbishment since the wife's death). She recalled family member's secrets that she, as the past wife, could only know in confidence. She also immediately began speaking in the local dialect.
Finally, and most interesting of all, Shanti Devi was able to tell her husband that he had failed to keep several promises he made to his wife on her deathbed.

After the visit and returning home the commission came to the conclusion that Shanti Devi was irrefutably the reincarnation of Lugdi Devi. Several other people (from all over the world including an award winning Swedish journalist) made their own independent investigations, and came to the same conclusion, although many skeptics say otherwise, that there must have been elements of luck, coincidence and outright fraud to this event.

Shanti Devi passed away 27 December, 1987. She never married. Although she talked about her past life as Lugdi many times, she only did several formal interviews. She also went under hypnotic regression where she gave details of her death and what took place between, that event and her reincarnation… but that you can look into for yourself, there's much more to this story than what is presented here, and all of it makes for interesting reading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7IK6OoU6SI#t=14

Interesting read, Moe!
There are many more cases like this and absolutely believable.

And I always did believe I had a past life too, and if I were ever put through a hypnosis session, all would be revealed! But then again, it would have served no purpose.

very odd, and there are more cases like this, but this is one of the most read and truthful cases in history..

another weird case


Dorothy Eady was a toddler just like any other. She ran, played, and laughed all day, and was a treasure to her doting parents. Then, the unthinkable happened. One morning, Dorothy was running down the stairs at her home near London when she slipped and fell. So severe was the fall that the three-year-old was pronounced dead on the scene.

But then something very unexpected happened: Dorothy woke up. For another four years, her parents had their beautiful daughter back. In 1908, however, everything changed.

On a regular outing to the British Museum, Dorothy’s parents first became aware that the girl was behaving strangely. As soon as they reached the Egyptian section of the museum, Dorothy was transfixed. She couldn’t get enough of the artifacts and sat with a glass-enclosed mummy for a long time, refusing to go home with her parents. Her parents even caught a glimpse of her running around the statues and kissing their feet.

After this incident, things took a turn for the worse. Dorothy became almost depressed and would stare at photos of ancient Egypt insisting that the country was her home and she needed to return to it. A picture of the “Temple of Seti the First at Abydos” got her especially excited one day. She rushed to her father and shouted that this place was her former home.

Before she found the picture of the temple, Dorothy had dreams in which she saw the buildings and greenery of ancient Egypt. Her interest and love for Egypt skyrocketed, and she joined study groups to learn more about reincarnation and spirituality.

She finally moved to Cairo after marrying an Egyptian man and gave birth to a baby that she named Seti. She herself would now be known as Omm Sety. Omm’s marriage didn’t last. Her habit of going into a trance and scribbling random hieroglyphics at night about her spirit guide completely freaked her husband out.

Her writings eventually amounted to around 70 pages and detailed Omm’s life in ancient Egypt. It stated that she was a priestess at the Kom El Sultan temple and had a child by Pharoah Seti at the young age of 14. However, she had broken a priestess vow by losing her virginity and took her own life to prevent the Pharaoh from being punished for this crime.

The hieroglyphics also contained accounts of spiritual encounters with Seti and plans to reunite with him in the Egyptian underworld.

This fantastical story has been discarded by many as the ramblings of a crazy person, up until the day that Omm Sety helped archaeologists find the exact location of the Temple Garden. She also led them to an undiscovered tunnel at the north side of the Temple. Omm Sety died in 1981, after having lived the rest of her days at the Temple of Abydos. No rational explanation for her memories, dreams, and knowledge of Egypt has been offered, and many skeptics find themselves wondering if Dorothy Eady was in fact the reincarnation of the ancient Egypt priestess, Omm Sety.