I Believe I’m a Reincarnated 1700s Clockmaker… Not Just Because of How We Look E! News UK

A MAN who claims to be reincarnated has vividly described his 18-year-old life^e watchmaker of the century.

Chuck McMurray of Chicago insists he lived a past life as John Harrison, a self-taught English merchant who lived between 1693 and 1776.

Chuck believed his journey to “discover his old self” began when he undertook a series of therapy sessions on the topic of “past life regression”.

According to practicing psychotherapists, the process is usually undertaken in pursuit of supposedly repressed past life memories.

Chuck claims that the sessions allowed him to access memories of his John’s life.

Although he had never traveled to England himself, the man recalled John’s stately home which “reminded him of British royalty”.

While he was able to describe the sights and sounds of the Stuart Dynasty era, including “hearing the sounds of horses’ hooves and the wheels of a carriage traveling on a gravel or brick paved road” .

Most notably, Chuck described witnessing John’s experience as a sick or injured boy who spent time in a hospital.

“I remember being a sick or injured boy who spent time in a hospital. I remembered the clothes I was wearing,” he wrote on an online blog.

“The clothes were loose and looked like cotton pajamas and I remember socializing with other children, as well as the nurses and caretakers.

“Later I learned that when John Harrison was young he fell ill with smallpox and was hospitalized.

“He was given a watch to amuse himself in his sickbed. Historians have written that it was this watch that led Harrison to a career in building clocks.”

Among his oddly specific memories, Chuck explained how he could not only recall memories from his old life, but also channel the emotions that John would have felt at the time.

Chillingly, it even included John’s own death, which Chuck could describe in startling detail.

“I saw myself waking up in the middle of the night with chest pains and having trouble breathing,” he said.

“I remembered seeing shelves of small clocks in my bedroom that night and felt that somehow I knew my time was up.

“A special clock on my bedside table was one of my most prized possessions and I remember setting it for the last time that night.”

Since starting “therapy sessions” in 2016, Chuck claims to have done extensive research on John.

John was best known as the man who invented the marine chronometer, a much sought-after device to solve the problem of calculating longitude at sea.

His solution has revolutionized navigation and considerably increased the safety of long-distance maritime travel.

Chuck believes there are matches between his life and that of the famous watchmaker in a way that goes beyond physical resemblance.

“In a way, I believe I was self-taught like John Harrison was,” he wrote – citing his own life growing up.

“I’ve always loved the way engines worked and relished the fact that I could make them perform better, much like John Harrison did with clocks and his invention of the marine chronometer.”

Over the past few days, we’ve shared how people remembered their “reincarnation stories” in amazing detail.

Yesterday we told how twins vividly described how their old selves were strangled by a mob and thrown into a well.

And on Tuesday we revealed how a five-year-old boy claimed he was the reincarnation of a woman killed in a fire decades before he was born.