Born again

 

 

This particular occurrence alone can lay to rest all distrusting theories of reincarnation. Unbelievable are the juxtaposed visages of Jeffrey Keene, retd. Assistant Fire Chief in Connecticut and John Gordon, a Confederate Civil War General, separated in lifetimes by over a hundred years! Add to that, the synchronised chronology of events in the lives of the two, and there’s all the material ready for an eerie case study on souls and their atavistic activities.

Chronicling his past life recollections in the book “Somebody Else’s Yesterday”, Keene’s version of his acquaintance with his doppelganger, Gordon, is one comprising evidence beyond facsimiled faces. Apart from ditto birthmarks and similar dressing sense, Keene even claims to have experienced terrible fits of anxiety at The Sunken Road in Maryland, a site where General Gordon is proved to have been severely wounded in the Battle Antietam. When will nature cease to surprise man…