It’s not just ‘new age’ flakes who take these possibilities seriously. Dr. Ian Stevenson, who founded the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, spent decades studying children who appeared to have memories of past lives:
As a “graduate” of Art Bell’s Coast to Coast, I do believe in the possibility of past lives. However, what are the chances that one of mine would be as a wealthy Egyptian Pharaoh, one who commanded the biggest Navy in North Africa? I’m more inclined to lend credibility to a story where someone was just another working stiff trying to avoid the Taxman, or a horde of Wild Boars.