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Topics: Film and TV, History, Titanic, US News, Weird, Community, Documentaries
Ella Scott
Topics: Film and TV, History, Titanic, US News, Weird, Community, Documentaries
People are all saying the same thing after hearing from a family who believes their son was the reincarnation of a man who died onboard the RMS Titanic in 1912.
Have you ever had a childhood obsession with something that you’ve continued to carry with you over the years?
Maybe your lifelong fascination is with Greek Mythology or Adolf Hitler’s various invasions during World War II - but for Wisconsin college student Jamey, it’s the sinking of the Titanic.
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The US residents have concluded that he was one of the 1,517 passengers who died on April 15, 1912, when the vessel sunk just four days into its maiden voyage.
Jamey’s mom has opened up about her son’s supposed reincarnation during an episode of LMN’s Ghost Inside My Child.
During the programme, titled ‘Disaster Deaths’, the woman claimed Jamey was the Titanic’s architect Thomas Andrews in a past life - but fans aren’t as convinced.
According to the mom, her kid was ‘always very happy and joyful’ growing up and had a ‘great attention span for learning things’.
"Everybody in my family loves to swim, we all love the water so we had a swimming pool,” she explained during the first season of the docuseries.
“Jamey would never go down past the stairs of the pool and even if I would pick him up and take him out into the water, he would completely panic, practically choke you, begging you to take him back into the shallow part. He was terrified of the deep end of the pool.”
It’s stated that Jamey began experiencing night ‘terrors’ and - after watching the second half of James Cameron’s epic 1997 Titanic movie - started drawing pictures of the sunken ship.
“Within the first two weeks, he had probably painted 50 pictures,” his mom confessed. "He knew the ship by heart. You can't learn that by watching the movie. The movie was actually more about the love story.”
According to the interviewee in 2013, Jamey was ‘completely distraught’ that the workers in the boiler room were the first to die, feeling as if it were ‘his fault’ that they were trapped.
“He started talking about the accident itself and how it shouldn't have happened, that there were mistakes, there were corners cut and the men in the boiler rooms should not have been trapped. He would even cry about it.”
Jamey’s ‘creepy’ pictures depicted the ship with more than 100 windows, while others showed steam billowing from the Titanic’s various smokestacks.
The Ghost Inside My Child episode also contained testimony from Jamey himself.
The 19-year-old said: "I would like to think that I was probably Thomas Andrews, just because of the personality traits and what he did is what I would've done.
"He gave himself up to let others get off the ship. It was a horrible tragedy in history and I'm just very at peace with it knowing I died on the Titanic."
People online had their fair share of things to say.
One wrote" "I'd have believed this more if he started talking about Titanic BEFORE he watched the second half of the movie.”
Another typed: “You can 100% figure what the Titanic looked like inside by watching the movie... I do believe people remember their past life. But sometimes watching something so traumatic at a young age can really make an impression on you.”
“Titanic is rated 12 for a reason,” remarked someone else. “Snuck in with my Mom to see it age 9 & even at that age seeing a ship snap in half & people clinging on for dear life is way too traumatic to watch for someone so young so god knows how he felt watching it. Poor kid got traumatised.”
A fourth commenter argued: “He sounds like a normal Titanic kid. We all get the interest in a very early age, all drew a bunch of Titanic drawings and most of us have a one point in time believed we were a reincarnation of one onboard.”
But someone else has sympathised with the child by penning: “When I was a child, after watching the movie Titanic, I started drawing the Titanic every moment too, and imagine me living that moment too, just like the child.
“The movie is amazing and I still love it. The fact that he drew the Titanic doesn't mean he lived the moment in a past life.”
What do you think?