Meet the 10-year-old son of Baptist parents who has baffled experts with his vivid and accurate accounts of a past life dancing on Broadway and acting opposite Mae West
Ryan, 10, a boy from Muskogee, Oklahoma, with Baptist parents claims he has been reincarnated and was an actor and agent in a past life
He claimed he was Marty Martin, who was in the Mae West film 'Night After Night' and performed on Broadway, after seeing him in a movie still
Ryan began seeing Dr. Jim Tucker soon after, a highly respected child psychiatrist who works with children who remember past lives
Even Dr. Tucker was amazed by Ryan's story, and found that 55 of his details match perfectly with Martin's life
What's more, Martin is such an obscure actor that there were no articles of pieces about him at all, and it took a film archivist to even learn his name
Ryan also knew the year Martin was born, even though it was listed incorrectly on his public death certificate
He has acted opposite Mae West, tripped the light fantastic on The Great White Way and even partied with Rita Hayworth - and now Ryan is sharing his stories about life during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
The only problem is that Ryan is a 10-year-old boy from Muskogee, Oklahoma who was born to Baptist parents. The amazing life he describes belongs to actor and Hollywood agent Marty Martin.
Ryan says it was his past life.
His vast knowledge, vivid recollections and stunningly accurate descriptions of the era have convinced even experts that the young man may have in fact been reincarnated
It all began when Ryan was just 4 years old, his mother Cyndi told Today. She says he began having nightmares that neither she or her husband, a local police officer, could find a way to stop.
He would talk about his heart exploding and, more than anything, Hollywood, a place that was thousands of miles away from Oklahoma.
What's more, the reserved youngster would always speak in a matter-of-fact manner during these times.
Then, after a year of this, he finally sat down his mom.
'He said "Mom, I have something I need to tell you,"' said Cyndi.
'I used to be somebody else.'
Having been raised Baptist, Cyndi did not believe in reincarnation or past lives, and decided to hide her son's admission from his father.
But she slowly became curious and then somewhat convinced the more her son spoke of Hollywood, his five marriages, lavish trips to Europe, his old homes and how all his acting clients kept changing their last names, so she decided to start doing some research on Hollywood during the studio era and shared some of the books she found at the local library with her son.
Then, one day, Ryan had a breakthrough when he saw a still from the from the 1932 movie Night After Night starring Mae West.
'That's me,' Ryan told his mother.
Ryan was pointing to an extra in the film, a man with no lines that they later learned was bit-actor-turned-agent Marty Martin.
That is when Cyndi decided Ryan should talk to someone, and the family found Dr. Jim Tucker, a highly respected child psychiatrist from the University of Virginia who has spent time talking with and studying children who claim to remember past lives.
And even he noted there was something very special, and different, about Ryan.
Most remarkable to Dr. Tucker, besides Ryan's incredible detail, was how accurate his claims matched up with the life of Martin, a virtual unknown who neither Ryan's family nor Dr. Tucker knew anything about, even his name, until they reached out to a film archivist.
The film archivist gave them the name, and they then contacted one of Martin's daughters to ask about his life.
That is when they discovered that 55 of Ryan's statements matched up perfectly with Martin's life - including the street he lived on, how many children he had, how many siblings he had and those aforementioned five marriages.
The most shocking claim however came when Ryan told Dr. Tucker during a session one day that he wondered why God had him die at 61-years-old only to be reincarnated as a baby.
This seemed to clash with Martin's death report, that stated he was 59 at the time he died.
That is until Dr. Tucker looked through old census reports and discovered that the certificate, and not Ryan, was incorrect.
The certificate claimed Martin was born in 1905 when in fact he had been born in 1903 according to the census.
And so, Martin was likely 61 years old at the time of his death.
Ryan now says his memories of Martin are starting to fade, and as for Dr. Tucker, he has compiled Ryan's story and other like it in his book Return To Life.
Things that go bump in... the West Midlands! Police received 150 reports of ghosts, UFOs and witches over five years.
West Midlands Police received 152 calls reporting paranormal activity
Dozens thought they had seen UFOs, ghosts and witches in the region
One person was arrested in February 2010 as a result of one call
West Midlands Police received almost 150 calls reporting sightings of witches, ghosts and UFOs over the past five years.
Spooked members of the public contacted the force in their droves amid fears of paranormal activity.
While the majority required no further police action, one call, made in February 2010 over a reported witch, resulted in an arrest.
Spooked residents dialled 999 more than 40 times to report ghost sightings while around 30 calls were placed about UFOs.
Almost 80 different reports of witches or witchcraft were filed. Of all the calls made only eight were classified as hoaxes.
The rush in reports of paranormal activity was not to be mocked, said police who offered advice on dozens of the cases.
'While the figures can seem amusing, behind some of these 'supernatural' calls may be a deeply troubled individual or a person wasting valuable police time, which would be better spent preventing real crimes,' a spokesman said.
'West Midlands Police always take action against those found to be knowingly making false and malicious calls to the emergency services.'
Nick Duffy, leading light of West Midlands Ghost, believes the surge is down to the increasing popularity of supernatural-themed television programmes.
'When we started in 1989 we were the only one in the Midlands,' he said. 'Six years ago there were 70. I stopped counting after that.
'If you call a paranormal group, they will not come out of your house without something happening - and that is the real problem.
'These figure are also a by-product of Most Haunted and all the American rubbish.
'For people who experience things like poltergeist activity, the police have always been a go-to source.'
Among the cases Mr Duffy has been involved with was a woman who thought she had a polar bear or werewolf living in her back garden.
'She hadn't seen it, but had heard growling and scratching around the bins. I asked if it could've been dogs?'
'Ghosts' regularly running in front of cars have made a spooky Welsh road the most haunted in Britain.
FRIGHTENED motorists are being terrorised by "ghosts" on a spooky stretch of road thought to be the most haunted in Britain.
Terrified drivers claim to have seen a ghostly figure running in front of their cars on the creepy country lane.
Paranormal investigators say the A4076 in West Wales is haunted by ghostly human forms.
Luke Mayhew had to brake to avoid the phantom as he was driving home on the road known locally as "Clay Lane". He said: "I'm 100 per cent certain I saw a ghost while driving home.
"I saw it run right in front of me from one side of the road to another.
"I had to slam on my brakes.
"I have never seen anything until last night. It was as clear as day!"
Luke was driving to his home in Milford Haven when he spotted the ghost earlier this month.
Other drivers claim to have seen the "human shape with long arms and legs" near the tiny parish of Steynton.
The ghost has a "tall shadowy figure" has been seen in the early hours of the morning and in the evening.
Investigator Gavin Davies, who runs the Paranormal Chronicles website, said the road was the most haunted in Wales.
He said: "The road has been a hive of strange encounters.
"The road has witnessed some terrible and tragic accidents over the years. Local drivers are witnessing chilling and disturbing hauntings replayed in the darkness.
"It is certainly a very spooky story and has really captured the imagination in the county of Pembrokeshire. It's a paranormal epidemic."
Cops say they saw ghostly ‘soul collector’ standing amid 9/11 rubble, book claims.
A retired New York City police officer claims he encountered a ghostly figure while sifting through the rubble from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Retired Lt. Frank Marra said he saw what appeared to be a black woman holding a tray of sandwiches while he searched for human remains in the rubble taken to the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, reported the New York Post.
The former officer said he saw the woman, who was dressed like a World War II-era Red Cross worker, several times.
She always appeared to be more than 50 yards away, Marra said, and would vanish as he strained his eyes for a better look.
“But you could clearly see it was a person,” he said.
The 48-year-old Marra said he buried the memory of the ghostly woman until 2013, when he conducted interviews for a book, “Hallowed Ground,” with others who had searched the landfill.
“You ever hear the stories about the old Red Cross worker trying to serve sandwiches and coffee out by the sifters?” said one retired crime-scene detective.
The recollection triggered Marra’s own memory.
“It hit me like a ton of bricks — I had put that dormant – and it just reminded me that I remembered seeing her,” Marra said.
He said a psychic medium later explained to him that he and the other officers may have seen a “soul collector” who guides other spirits to the afterlife.
Marra said other law enforcement officers told him about shadows and “large black masses” they saw while sifting through the rubble.
The remains of more than 1,600 people killed at the World Trade Center have been identified, he said, but the remains of 1,000 victims were never found.
“How many had their ashes and remains uprooted and brought to this place?” Marra said. “Why isn’t their presence believable?”
Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky is one of the most famously haunted locations in the country.
Celebrity investigators from "Ghost Hunters," "Ghost Adventures" and tons of other shows have spent time within the walls of monstrous building, and have all captured evidence of spirit activity.
The original sanatorium was a two-story, frame building designed to comfortably house 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients. Once the disease hit epidemic proportions, the massive sanatorium thats stand today was built.
The building saw much death - approximately 6,000 - between 1924 and 1961 when it was shut down due to the discovery of an antibiotic that cured TB.
Later, the building was reopened as a geriatric facility, but closed in 1981.
The one aspect of Waverly Hills that has always fascinated me is the "body chute" - a 485-foot tunnel, built on a 45-degree angle, used to dispose of all those who died within the sanatorium.
With such a dark and haunted history, why wouldn't the current owners want to turn the sanatorium into a hotel and convention center.
According to an article on WLKY.com of Kentucky, a zoning application and development plan has been submitted and approved, and the plans are moving forward.
An article on examiner.com recently confirmed that the plans include a 3,050-square-foot restaurant, an 8,500-square-foot conference center, 120 hotel rooms and a museum focusing on the history of the hospital.Waverly Hills has long been a favorite destination for ghost hunters and is open regularly for tours.
With a paranormal reputation already in place, the owners are planning to promote it as a "haunted hotel."
So, would you stay at the Waverly Hills Hotel?
Personally, I've always wanted to investigate Waverly Hills and now that I can experience the activity and sleep in a cozy room, I think a road trip to Kentucky is definitely in order.
I wonder if there will be any rooms near that death chute?
'Ghost' captured on CCTV at former Nazi concentration camp blamed for making objects disappear.
A 'ghost' has been captured on CCTV in a 400-year-old Czech castle that was once used as a Nazi concentration camp. It has been blamed for the mysterious disappearance of objects from a closed exhibition, as the building is now used as a museum for local history. In this video, a shadowy figure appears to move in front of the camera when all rooms were locked and closed. It is also reported that no cleaners were in the room at the time. The 17th century castle in the Czech town of Ostrov was captured by the Nazis in 1939 and turned into a concentration camp for Czech resistance fighters and opponents to the regime. CCTV footage was reviewed after objects allegedly started to vanish, and the strange figure was seen on the 12th and 14th of last month. The story was published in local media after the matter was reported to police. The camera is in the exhibition room where treasures belonging to the former castle owners - the Schlick family - are stocked. Franz Joseph Heinrich Graf Schlik zu Bassano und Weisskirchen was born in 1789 in Prague and was the former owner of the castle. His family was a Czech-German noble family and his father Count Joseph Heinrich Schlick was an Austrian imperial ambassador to the Danish kingdom and in the German state of Hessen. Franz Heinrich served in the Austrian army, and later he became a general in the army fighting against Napoleon, playing a major role in Aspern in 1809 when Napoleon was beaten for the first time. The count lost his right eye in 1813 in the battle of the nations in the German city of Leipzig when he fought against Napoleon’s soldiers. He ended his army career in 1859. He died in the Austrian capital Vienna in 1862 in age of 72. The castle’s guide Jana Dvorakova told Czech TV Nova: "I would never go there alone, not now. "I must admit I never had a good feeling about the place and now I am afraid." Paranormal investigator Hana Mackeova, who was called to look into the matter, said: "I felt some negative zones in some rooms. "Something is definitely wrong there. "I was very weak, felt sick and I had to leave." Local council employee Zuzana Zelezna, one of those who have offices in the castle, said: "The ghost removes objects at night. "We know that nobody cleans the rooms affected." "According to family legends Franz Joseph Heinrich Schlik carried a silver box always with him, even at battles. "The silver box was a case for important documents and coins. "The legend says that he has been guarding his silver box even after his death." The Count is reported to have been a popular figure during his lifetime, introducing educational reforms and developing both local agriculture and the economy.
Is this spooky apparition the Grey Lady of Hampton Court? Schoolgirls claim to have captured ghost of servant who died of small pox after nursing Elizabeth I at the palace
Dame Sybil Penn died of small pox in Hampton Court Palace in 1562
Her ghost was seen by the Victorians when her tomb was moved in 1829
The palace is also haunted by Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife
She was dragged to her death through the palace accused of adultery
Two schoolgirls noticed the strange apparition on a visit to the palace
For nearly 200 years she is rumoured to have haunted the corridors of Hampton Court.
But now the ghost of the famous Grey Lady may finally have been captured on camera - by a schoolgirl and her iPhone.
Holly Hampsheir, 12, thought she was taking a fairly routine photo of her cousin Brook McGee, also 12, during a day out at the 16th century stately home.
But she appears unwittingly to have captured the spectral figure of Dame Sybil Penn who looms over the schoolgirl as her back is turned.
With flowing dark hair and a full length black gown the woman seems real enough in the picture.
But seconds later Brook turns around and the next image in the series shows no sign of the visitor at all.
The girls didn’t realise what they had encountered at the time and only made the terrifying discovery when looking through their photos of the outing a day later.
Miss McGee, from Hornchurch, Havering, told the Sun: ‘I was totally freaked out.
‘I didn’t see anything.
‘People say the room goes cold when ghosts appear but we had no idea.
‘We haven’t slept properly since.’
Dame Sybil died from after contracting smallpox in 1562.
A servant at Hampton Court to four Tudor monarchs she was the nurse of Prince Edward and also nursed Elizabeth I through the disease before succumbing to it herself.
Sightings of her ghost began to be reported in 1829 when the church at the palace was rebuilt and her tomb moved. Soon after strange noises of a person working a spinning wheel were apparently heard through a wall at Hampton Court.
They led to the discovery of a previously unknown chamber containing an antique spinning wheel.
Hampton Court, home to Henry the VIII has a long been famed for its ghosts.
Amongst them the most famous is Henry’s fifth wife Catherine Howard who was dragged screaming through the palace after being accused of adultery.
It is said that after being beheaded, her spirit returned to haunt the home she had shared with her husband.
Hampton Court Palace, home to British monarchs for more than 500 years, is said to house the ghost of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, who was executed on her husband's order in 1541.
