# The Boy Who Was His Own Grandfather - Sam Taylor

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Podcast: [Mysteries at Bedtime](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-at-bedtime-7382671)
Published: 2026-06-30T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/mysteries-at-bedtime/episodes/the-boy-who-was-his-own-grandfather-sam-tayloe
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Duration seconds: 1713

## Resource

A young father in Vermont was changing his eighteen-month-old son's nappy when the little boy looked up at him and said something that no toddler should be able to say. Daddy, when I was your age, I used to change your nappies. His father searched his face for a smile. There was none. The little boy looked back at him with the calm certainty of a child stating a fact. And the strange thing was, his paternal grandfather had died eighteen months before the boy was born. The exact length of time it would take for a soul to return. In the months and years that followed, the little boy named Sam began saying things he could not possibly have known. About kitchen appliances. About cars. About a great aunt who had been murdered sixty years before. This is the story of one of the most studied cases of childhood past-life memory in modern science. Investigated, documented, and to this day, never explained. You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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