In My Haunted Era

Episode #17: The Pollock Twins Reincarnation/Encephalitis Lethargica


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This week, Jen takes us to England for the story of the Pollock Twins—a case that’s often called the best modern example of reincarnation. After two sisters were killed in a car accident, their parents later had twin girls who seemed to remember details of a life they never lived. Creepy coincidence or proof of something bigger?

Meanwhile, Em dives into encephalitis lethargica, the so-called “sleeping sickness” that left thousands of people trapped between waking and dreaming in the early 1900s. Some were frozen in place for decades, almost like living ghosts.

Two different kinds of hauntings—one rooted in memory, the other in the body.

 

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SOURCES:

 

The Pollock Twins Reincarnation

https://www.mamamia.com.au/pollock-twins/

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/pollock-twins-reincarnation-case

https://rtd.rt.com/stories/the-mystery-of-the-pollock-twins/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Cases_Suggestive_of_Reincarnation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Cases_of_the_Reincarnation_Type

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/pollock-twins-reincarnation-case#footnote5_6yjekg6

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/twin-sisters-who-family-were-27568945

https://vocal.media/journal/the-mysterious-case-of-the-pollock-twins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_yKp9t4xsg

 

Encephalitis Lethargica

  • Oliver Sacks, Awakenings (1973)
  • "Encephalitis Lethargica: The Sleeping Sickness Epidemic of the 1920s," Journal of Clinical Neuroscience (2015)
  • "History of Encephalitis Lethargica: An Overview," Neurology Today (2017)
  • “The Sleeping Sickness: A Global Medical Mystery,” National Institutes of Health (2020)
  • Wikipedia entries for Encephalitis Lethargica and Constantin von Economo
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