In 1957, the quiet Yorkshire town of Hexham, England, was shaken by a tragedy that devastated the Pollock family.

Eleven-year-old Joanna and her younger sister Jacqueline, aged six, were struck and killed by a car while walking to towards their school gates.

Their parents, John and Florence Pollock, were heartbroken. John, deeply spiritual and a devout believer in reincarnation, became convinced that his daughters would somehow return to him.

Florence, more skeptical and grounded in her Catholic faith, struggled to reconcile her grief with the possibility of such an extraordinary event.

Yet just a year later, she gave birth to twin girls, Jennifer and Gillian, despite doctors having detected only one heartbeat during her pregnancy.

As the twins grew, strange and compelling signs emerged. Jennifer bore birthmarks that matched Jacqueline’s scars, including one above her right eye and another on her waist.

Even more unsettling, the girls began to exhibit behaviors, preferences, and knowledge eerily similar to their deceased sisters.

They recognized landmarks and town features from Joanna and Jacqueline’s lives, even places they had never visited, and spoke of events and toys with uncanny familiarity.

Their play often mimicked scenes of their sisters’ deaths, and they showed an intense fear of moving cars, sometimes exclaiming, ‘The car is coming to get us!’ These episodes startled even their mother, who had never supported John’s belief in reincarnation, but began to question what was truly happening.

Since their daughters’ deaths in the road accident in Hexham, the Pollock family had moved to a faraway town. They couldn’t bear the thought of frequently passing the spot where their daughters had perished.

For this reason, the growing twins had no knowledge of the town where their previous but dead siblings had lived.

One day, after the most painful memories receded, Mr. and Mrs. Pollock had no choice but to revisit Hexham. Their car journey took them past the school fronted by the highway where their deceased daughters had perished.

As the family car approached the school, Jennifer and Gillian, sitting quietly in the car’s rear seat, exclaimed: ‘Are we going to our old school, mummy?’

By the time the twins reached age five, many of these memories began to fade, mirroring patterns documented in other alleged cases of reincarnation, where past-life memories diminish with age.

Dr. Ian Stevenson, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia known for his work on reincarnation, studied the case and considered it among the most persuasive he had encountered.

Still, skeptics argue that the twins’ behavior could be attributed to subconscious cues from their parents or sheer coincidence.

Nevertheless, the Pollock twins’ story continues to stir debate and wonder. More than six decades later, it remains one of the most mysterious and compelling accounts in the study of life after death.

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