A story on reincarnation, from the Golan Heights.

3-year-old identifies past life murderer, finds body.

In a shockingly surreal incident, a three-year-old boy has not only revealed the details of his murder in his past life but has also recognised his killer. The boy, who belongs to the Druze ethnic group in the Golan Heights region near the Syrian and Israeli border, has a long, red birthmark on his head and claims that he was murdered with an axe.

According to Druze beliefs, birthmarks are related to to past-life deaths and when the boy was old enough to talk, he told his family that he had been killed with an axe blow to his head. 

It is customary for Druze elders to take a child at the age of 3 to the home of his previous life if he remembers it. The boy already knew the village he was from and upon reaching the village, he also remembered his past life name.

Village locals told the elders that the man who the boy was claiming to be a re-incarnation of, had gone missing before four years.

The boy also remembers the full name of his killer, who upon confrontation, turned white and refused to admit to the murder. 

The three-year-old then claimed that he could take the elders to where the very spot where the body was buried.

On reaching the spot, they not only discovered the skeleton but also the wound to the head, which is strikingly similar to the boy's birthmark. They also found the axe that had killed the boy in his previous life.

My take

Life's most enduring secret. What happens to the soul of the deceased, at death?

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