Pamela Chicago Fire Paxton Hotel 1993

And now, a spooky story for you: Little Luke Ruehlman of Cincinnati, Ohio, claims to be the vessel for the reincarnated spirit of a woman named Pamela Robinson, who died in a Chicago fire in 1993—at least, that’s what his mother Erika said he told her.

“I was like ‘who is Pam?’” Erika Ruehlman told WJW earlier this month. “He turned to me and said, ‘Well I was.’ 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 and when I woke up I was a baby and you named me Luke.’”

So Ruehlman did some diggin, presumably after she stopped shrieking into a hand towel:

In an amazing twist Luke's mother Erika found a woman, Pamela Robinson, who died in 1993 when the Paxton Hotel in Chicago caught fire in 1993, matching Luke's description. 1) She said: 'Luke 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.' The fire at the Paxton Hotel killed at least 14 people, including three who jumped to their deaths rather than face the flames and smoke. Some of the 130 people registered at the Paxton remain. 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. 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.

Ruehlman said she was able to talk to Luke about Pam. She figured out Pam lived in Chicago and died in a fire.

“That’s when I came across the Paxton Hotel,” Ruehlman said. A woman named Pamela Robinson died in a March 1993 fire at the Chicago apartment building.

“I had found a picture of Pam, we had put it on a piece of paper with a lot of fake pictures,” Ruehlman said. “Luke goes, ‘Well I don’t recognize anybody, but I remember when this one was taken’ and he pointed to the correct one.”

WJW also reports that when Ruehlman contacted Robinson’s family, they were shocked to learn similarities between Luke and Pam, namely that they both like Stevie Wonder and “Luke played a toy keyboard, similar to the real instrument Pam played when she was alive.”

But apparently, Pam’s spirit could only stick around long enough for a local news story. “It was like he got it out,” Erika Ruehlman said. “He was finished and had nothing more to say about it.”

But Luke’s experience with the otherworldly will be told in full soon: He’ll be featured on a future episode of Lifetime Movie Network’s Ghost Inside My Child.

Luke’s mother says she wasn’t paid for her son’s story—she just believes “it was a story that needed to be told,” because “it’s a positive one. It is one of unification it is one of love.”

[H/T NY Daily News // via WJW]

'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

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.

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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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