Extraordinary People - The Boy Who Lived Before

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. He talks incessantly about his Barra family, his Barra mum and Barra dad. His Barra dad he explains was called Shane Robertson and he died when he was knocked down by a car.

He has become so preoccupied with Barra and is missing his Barra mum so badly that he is now suffering from genuine distress.

Norma considers herself to be open-minded, and would like to find out if there is any rational explanation for Cameron's memories and beliefs that he was previously a member of another family on Barra. Her first port of call is Dr. Chris French, a psychologist who edits The Skeptic magazine which debunks paranormal phenomena. Not surprisingly, he discounts any talk of reincarnation mooting that a child's over-active imagination can be fed by the multitude of television programmes available and the easy access to the Web. Norma is not convinced, she does not believe that Cameron has ever watched programmes that could have provided this information.

Norma's next step is a visit to Karen Majors, an educational psychologist whose speciality is children and their fantasy lives. She considers that Cameron's accounts are very different to normal childhood imaginary friends.

It has become clear to Norma that there are no easy answers to the questions thrown up by Cameron's memories. Cameron has asked, persistently, to be taken to Barra. Norma has finally decided to make that journey.

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[Isabel Dejesus]

Is it me or the backround music is just plain creepy

[ZeroGravityGaming283]

mabye it is like assassin's creed they are genetic memorys

[Tim Co]

the school system rewired his brain by now

[april8tals]

I wonder how's he now...

[ShalenaRene7]

You guys need to go study astrology . There is a lot of information in birth charts that could reveal things about past lives and connection to people you might feel here.

[ThaDreamer18]

and by the by, past lives have been observed, identified, studied, backed up against evidence and thus have been explained for many years. And what is the defintion of science? I think you will find that it is the obtainment of KNOWLEDGE through the systematic means of which I have just listed. there is more to science than just Physics biology and chemistry my friend, there's an entire universe of information, laws and so much else out there just waiting to be discovered by you! get seeking!

[ThaDreamer18]

Science today is not ADVANCED or sophisticated enough to prove everything! someday it might get close. so if you dismiss everything based on the fact that today's 'science' cannot prove it, you will remain ignorant for a long time to come.

[shdecourcyh1]

was idly watching this and chris french is my lecturer! i go to goldsmiths! hahar how odd

[Sandra Matsunaga]

And haha, I am so spoiled by current technology. Since the beginning of this video I'm like, "Check Google Earth! Look for the white house!" Lol, it was so tough to investigate in the past, you had to actually go and see for yourself.

[Sandra Matsunaga]

I don't know about Cameron, but when they did the little story about Gus I got chills! So weird! Who knows what's going on, but the human mind is an incredible thing. Whether it's a sixth sense or maybe some strange savant ability or reincarnation, who knows? But it IS incredible whatever is going on!

[kleash]

More like the boy who lied.