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The Boy Who Lived Before

  • 27-05-2013 11:44PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭


    This is mad. Kinda scary. The kid in the video reckons he was alive years ago, in a place called Barra, and can remember everything.
    Ever since he was two years old and first started talking, Cameron Macauley has told of his life on the island of Barra. Cameron lives with his mum, Norma, in Glasgow. They have never been to Barra.

    He tells of a white house, overlooking the sea and the beach, where he would play with his brothers and sisters. He tells of the airplanes that used to land on the beach. He talks about his dog, a black and white dog.

    Barra lies off the western coast of Scotland, 220 miles from Glasgow. It can only be reached by a lengthy sea journey or an hour long flight. It is a, distant, outpost of the British Isles and is home to just over a thousand people.

    Cameron is now five, and his story has never wavered





    What d'you make of it?


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    He's messed up in the head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    This isn't the first time I've heard of incidents like this so I'm inclined to believe it. Such experiences are actually quite widely documented, I know I've come across them before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭kingcobra


    For a young child he can talk about a lot!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    I'm sceptical. I always assume his mother, or somebody, has him prepped on what to say.


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    *creepy British accent*
    "We know all your secrets"





    "I hope that's cottage pie in my knickers"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,499 ✭✭✭jarvis


    Scary sh1t.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,235 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    "He tells of a white house, overlooking the sea and the beach, where he would play with his brothers and sisters. He tells of the airplanes that used to land on the beach. He talks about his dog, a black and white dog."

    Wow, with a story this in depth and detailed it must be true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Tordelback


    Since age 2 my son has maintained that he came from another planet, complete with descriptions of architecture, economy and language. On being informed that I witnessed his arrival, and there was no spaceship involved, he claimed that he had been de-aged for his mission and placed inside his earth-mother's tummy. As soon as his little sister could talk her got her in on the act, as his superior officer no less. I think the Barra story is about as likely.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,235 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Tordelback wrote: »
    Since age 2 my son has maintained that he came from another planet, complete with descriptions of architecture, economy and language. On being informed that I witnessed his arrival, and there was no spaceship involved, he claimed that he had been de-aged for his mission and placed inside his earth-mother's tummy. As soon as his little sister could talk her got her in on the act, as his superior officer no less. I think the Barra story is about as likely.

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-653T_YCtAfI/UBLGabdhoDI/AAAAAAAAAN0/KxmPgZemXTU/s1600/tumblr_l6gjs71SSp1qzmu29o1_500.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Child with imagination and who enjoys the attention..... nope, seems legit.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I can barely remember my childhood in this lifetime, how the fluck could anyone remember one from another?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    He tells of a white house, overlooking the sea and the beach, where he would play with his brothers and sisters. He tells of the airplanes that used to land on the beach. He talks about his dog, a black and white dog.

    He thinks he was one of The Famous Five.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Couldn't be arsed waiting for that video to load, did anyone think of checking if planes actually landed on the beach in barra what ever year he was supposed to be there. That's if he remembers the year :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    No harm in a bit of sceptically, no need for the cynicism though.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Prodigious wrote: »
    No harm in a bit of sceptically, no need for the cynicism though.

    Scepticism is the minimum feeling someone should hold towards the claims.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 854 ✭✭✭dubscottie


    His story sounds a bit like the Isle of Sula books I read as a kid (being Scottish).. Kelpie was the publisher. Dont know if you can still get them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭donegal_road


    I watched this film 2 years ago after hearing a guy on rte radio insist that his 5 year old daughter was reincarnated from a girl in India, accurate descriptions of life there etc.
    I have watched some clips on regression through hypnotherapy where a person is sent back in time before they were born, and they assume the life of someone else years previously. A bit like Astral Projection, where your spirit is supposed to leave your body... if you believe in that sort of thing!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭JD DABA


    Natural to be sceptic. However, theres a Prof Ian Stephenson of Virginia university whos studied it and said it is worthy of further investigation.
    He also seems to have support from the university from what Ive seen.

    So not to be outlined unconditionally.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    That's awful creepy, swear to god. Even the historian wasn't sure of the name at first although the child insisted it was true, he got the plane right, the house, the name and the dog.

    Sware if any child of mine started spouting that sort of creepy stuff, be shipped out to the nearest orphanage. Would not be able. Am sleeping with the light in the corridor on tonight anyway


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Prodigious wrote: »
    This is mad. Kinda scary. The kid in the video reckons he was alive years ago, in a place called Barra, and can remember everything.





    What d'you make of it?


    If he remembers everything so well, why doesn't he speak Scotts-Gaelic like everyone else who's ever lived on the Island?


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,907 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Seaneh wrote: »
    If he remembers everything so well, why doesn't he speak Scotts-Gaelic like everyone else who's ever lived on the Island?

    Because in 2006 Channel 5 couldn't afford subtitles.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    "He tells of a white house, overlooking the sea and the beach, where he would play with his brothers and sisters. He tells of the airplanes that used to land on the beach. He talks about his dog, a black and white dog."

    Wow, with a story this in depth and detailed it must be true.

    Is there a summary of the similarities contained in the video?

    I mean it's 45 minutes long and it has to be more than those detailed above, but it would not surprise me in the slightest if there isn't, and I don't want to wate 45 minutes to find out myself.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,235 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Kettleson wrote: »
    Is there a summary of the similarities contained in the video?

    I mean it's 45 minutes long and it has to be more than those detailed above, but it would not surprise me in the slightest if there isn't, and I don't want to wate 45 minutes to find out myself.

    I watched about 20 minutes and got nothing more than that. Everyone kept saying how the story was so detailed and that it had to be true because he told it the same every time but that was it. I got bored and turned it off after that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    I think it would suck to be reincarnated 200 miles away from where you lived before.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    I think it would suck to be reincarnated 200 miles away from you lived before.

    And in fecking glasgow...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Don't let the Bene Gesserit get a hold of that kid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    I watched about 20 minutes and got nothing more than that. Everyone kept saying how the story was so detailed and that it had to be true because he told it the same every time but that was it. I got bored and turned it off after that.

    Thanks,

    I wasted 40 minutes watching a programme about sleep paralysis that channel 4 had bigged up as having supernatural content and a clip of a crusty old priest talking bollix. Never again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Like all crap TV documentaries, just skip 5 mins from the end and you'll get a synopsis of what they discovered.

    For those too lazy to do that. The childs story about there being a white house on the island on the beach near some rock pools checks out. The family name he give also checks out.

    However the name he gives of the father doesn't, nor how he dies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    The kid picked one of the most common names (Robertson), had the most common type of dog around, and lived in a house the same colour as every other house on the beach in Barra.

    Nothing else matches up. I'm not even sure how they managed to squeeze 45 minutes out of this, but I want my 45 minutes back.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    The kid picked one of the most common names (Robertson), had the most common type of dog around, and lived in a house the same colour as every other house on the beach in Barra.

    Nothing else matches up. I'm not even sure how they managed to squeeze 45 minutes out of this, but I want my 45 minutes back.

    Oh dear, don't go watching channel 4 documentary 'The Entity', I felt equally mugged. Mind you, the Priest at 24 minutes or so is a gas.


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