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'When I woke up, I was a baby and you named me Luke': Mom claims her five-year- old son remembers his past life as a Chicago woman who died in a house fire

Erika found an old news story about a woman called Pamela Robinson who died when the Paxton Hotel in Chicago caught light in 1993. Tragedy: Pamela Robinson died in a house fire in Chicago in 1993. Her Internet digging eventually brought her to an article about a fire that devastated Chicago's Paxton Hotel, and claimed the lives of 19 people in 1993. At least 15 people died and another 30 were injured Tuesday in an early morning fire that raced up stairways in a hotel for transients that housed about 130 people near this city’s downtown. This evening 15 residents of the hotel, known as the Paxton, were still unaccounted for, said Sal Marquez, a Fire Department spokesman. Cord to Space Heater The roof and several walls of the.

• Luke Ruehlman, from Cincinnati, Ohio, made claims about his past life

• Mother says he 'remembered' being Pam, 30, before he was born

• Later pieced together than he was referring to real woman from Chicago

• Pamela Robinson died when the Paxton Hotel caught fire in 1993

• Said he recalls meeting God and being 'pushed back down' as baby boy

• According to his mother, Luke's story can be verified by the facts

A five-year-old boy is convinced that he was a 30-year-old black woman in another life - and claimed to remember dying in a fire.



Luke Ruehlman, from Cincinnati, Ohio, thought he was once called Pam and lived in Chicago - until he leaped from a burning building in 1993.

The child claims he was then reincarnated and - remembers being named Luke by his parents.

Though the recollections have since stopped, Luke's mother Erika told local station Fox8 how from the age of two Ruehlman would make references to his apparent alter ego.

At first, she said, he would simply name things Pam and seemed fixated with the name. Later, she said, he would start making references to his apparent past life as a female.

She said: 'He used to say: 'When I was a girl, I had black hair'’ or he would say, 'I used to have earrings like that when I was a girl.'

She added that when confronted about who Pam could be, he said that he in fact used to be her, and said he remembered a bizarre process of reincarnation when he was 'pushed back down' to earth as a newborn.


He said: 'Well, I used to be [Pam], but I died. I went up to heaven, and I saw God, and he pushed me back down and when I woke up, I was a baby and you named me Luke.'

According to Erika, her son's claims were supported by facts he could not possibly have learned by himself.

After revealing that in his 'former life' as Pam he lived in Chicago, Erika found an old news story which mentioned a Pamela Robinson, who died when the Paxton Hotel in the city caught light in 1993.

An investigation by a paranormal investigations TV show also claimed to prove the veracity of Luke's story.

In footage for the show The Ghost Inside My Child, Luke was shown a page full of pictures of black women in their 30s, only one of which was the dead Pamela Robinson.

When asked to pick out Pamela, the footage claims, he chose the right picture.

It was enough to convince Erika, who reached out to Robinson's family and said they told her more about her personality which seemed to match Luke.

As examples, Erika said her son loves Stevie Wonder, as did Robinson, and also shares an enthusiasm for playing the keyboard, though her boy's was a children's version.

When contacted by Fox8, however, they declined to comment.
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An Ohio boy's family are starting to believe their child was a Chicago woman in a past life, after he started sharing specific details. Courtesy: Fox 8

Luke Ruehlman, pictured as a toddler, told his mother he was a woman named Pam who died in a fire. Picture: Screengrab/Fox 2Source:Supplied

WHEN Luke Ruehlman began talking about a woman named Pam, his mother Erica assumed it was just an imaginary friend.

She had no idea where her toddler son had picked up the name or why he was so obsessed with it.

The Ohio woman said she initially didn’t think it was strange, other than the fact that the family didn’t know any Pams.

But things became really strange when she quizzed him about where he had got the name from and why he liked it.

The then-two-year-old told his parents he used to be Pam, a girl with black hair, he said.

Erica Ruehlman said her son became obsessed with the name Pam at just two years old. Picture: Screengrab/Fox 2Source:Supplied

“I said, ‘what do you mean you were?’ He was like, ‘Well I used to be, but I died and I went up to heaven and I saw God and eventually God pushed me back down. When I woke up I was a baby and you named me Luke,” Erica Ruehlman told Fox 2, St Louis.

She pressed him further, asking him how Pam died.

“He looked right at me and said, ‘Yea it was fire.’ And at that point he made like a motion like his hand he was jumping off a building,” Ms Ruehlman said.

Luke went on to explain Pam had died in a tall building and travelled on the train in Chicago.

The curious mother was baffled, since the family had never visited the city, nor mentioned it to the youngster.

A quick internet search revealed a fire had killed 19 people in 1993 at the city’s Paxton Hotel, including a woman in her 30s called Pam Robinson.

By now the family, including Luke’s grandmother Lisa Trump, were convinced there was more to the story than just coincidence.

Chicago woman Pam Robinson died in a fire in Chicago in 1993. Picture: Screengrab/Fox 2.Source:Supplied

They later appeared on a show called Ghost Inside My Child and to test Luke, they spread out a series of photos and asked the now five-year-old to pick out Pam’s picture. He did it on the first go.

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“He goes, ‘Well, I don’t recognise anybody. But, I remember when this one was taken. He pointed to the correct one,” his mother said.

The Ruehlmans, who say they haven’t received any money from their story and are not religious, said while Luke no longer connects with Pam, the story is a positive one that transcends race and gender.

It may sound far-fetched to some, but children who say they live past lives are not uncommon, according to Jim Tucker, a medical director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

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An internet search revealed a woman called Pam did die in a fire. Picture: Screengrab/Fox 2.Source:Supplied

Professor Tucker, who is renowned for his work with young children who recall their past lives, released a book in 2013 called Return to Life, which reveals the extraordinary stories of children all over the world who believe they have been reincarnated.

Among them is five-year-old Ryan, who remembers life in Hollywood in the 20th century, and his death in a hospital bed in 1963..

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Also featured in the book are a three-year-old golfing prodigy who believes he’s the reincarnation of 1930s golf star Bobby Jones and a two-year-old boy whose father-son visit to a flight museum triggered memories of the battle of Iwo Jima.