I was killed in a hotel fire 17 years BEFORE I was born & was reincarnated as a boy named Luke… and I ‘proved’ it

A YOUNG boy has claimed he was reincarnated - and even knows how he died in a past life.

In a bizarre series of interviews, five-year-old Luke Ruehlman insists that he lived a past life as Pam Robinson, an African-American woman killed in a fire at Chicago's Paxton Hotel in 1993.

Little Luke's mum, Erika, said her son began spooking her out at just two when he started talking about a mystery woman named Pam.

Confused, she asked him who Pam was before the tot replied with a truly spine-chilling answer.

"He turned to me and said, 'Well, I was,'" she told Fox 8. "[He said] 'Well, I used to be, but I died and I went up to heaven.

"I saw God and then eventually, God pushed me back down and I was a baby and you named me Luke.'"

They also insisted that their son told them he travelled by train in Chicago.

The Ruehlman family, who live in Cincinnati, Ohio, were left baffled. They had never taken their son to Chicago, and they didn't know anyone named Pam.

Erika did some research and was stunned to discover a Pam Robinson was one of 19 people who died in a hotel fire almost 30 years ago.

Luke claims he can remember leaping from the burning building to his death in 1993, before being reincarnated after he "met God".

Erika insisted her son would often come out with other eerie details that he "remembered" from his past life.

"He used to say, 'When I was a girl, I had black hair' or he would say, 'I used to have earrings like that when I was a girl,'" she said.

According to Erika, she can back up her son's extraordinary claims with facts he couldn't possibly have learned himself.

After revealing he used to be called Pam when he lived in Chicago, Luke's mother discovered an old news story mentioning a Pamela Robinson who died in a fire at the city's Paxton Hotel in 1993.

I saw God and then eventually, God pushed me back down and I was a baby and you named me Luke

Luke Ruehlman

Producers of a paranormal investigations TV show "The Ghost Inside My Child" also investigated Luke's remarkable claims.

In footage from the show, Luke was shown a page full of pictures of black women in their 30s, one of whom was the late Pamela Robinson.

When asked to pick out Pamela, the footage claims, he chose the right picture first time.

This was enough to convince Erika to reach out to Pamela's family to find out more about her.

She said they told her more about her personality, with certain eerie similarities to her son.

For example, Erika said her son shares Pamela's love for Stevie Wonder, as well as an enthusiasm for playing the keyboard.

However, Pamela's family declined to comment on Erika's claims when approached by Fox8.