{"id":24634,"date":"2015-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/two-year-old-boy-says-he-was-pam-in-another-life\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T00:00:00","slug":"two-year-old-boy-says-he-was-pam-in-another-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/two-year-old-boy-says-he-was-pam-in-another-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-year-old says he was &#8220;Pam&#8221; in another life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Two-year-old Luke Ruehlman believes he was a woman called Pam in another life.<\/h3>\n<p>Erica Ruehlman thought her two-year-old, Luke, was talking to an imaginary friend when he started mentioning a woman called Pam.<\/p>\n<p>What she didn&#8217;t know was why he chose the name Pam, and why he was so obsessed by it.<\/p>\n<p>But eventually, things got weird when she asked him about Pam &#8211; where he got the name from, why he liked it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Luke told her that he used to BE Pam &#8211; a girl with black hair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,\u201d Erica recalled the conversation to Fox 2.<\/p>\n<p>When Erica probed further, Luke continued\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pam Robinson\" title=\"BEST OF THE WEB\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/290802-03282f0c-b6fc-11e4-a05f-87b0515cbaed.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>This is Pam Robinson<\/h6>\n<p>\u201cHe looked right at me and said, \u2018Yea it was fire.\u2019 And at that point he made like a motion like his hand he was jumping off a building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke also explained how pam died in a tall building and travelled on the train in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Luke has never been to Chicago &#8211; neither has mum Erica.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s even more freaky?<\/p>\n<p>Erica jumped on Google to discover a fire had killed 19 people in 1993 at the Paxton Hotel in Chicago, including a woman in her 30&#8217;s\u2026 Her name? 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