The Stevenson Files

Two thousand children who remembered other lives, with birthmarks matching the wounds. Filed at a state university.

Ian Stevenson's University of Virginia research (1961-2007, continued by Tucker): ~2,500 cases of children reporting previous-life memories, with documented protocols — verification of stated details against deceased strangers' lives, birthmark/birth-defect correspondence to wounds (photographed, in 'Reincarnation and Biology,' 1997). Mainstream reception: methodological critiques (cultural expectation, information leakage) without allegations of fraud; the JAMA and psychiatric-journal reviews were notably respectful. The node is the survival thread's strongest academic file — a state university's fifty-year case archive, unexplained and unabsorbed.