One highly memorable case history excerpted from one of Dr Stevenson's studies on children.

This is the kind of story that shows perfectly well a body of high-probability data which could not be subjected to rigorous laboratory replication; instead it is gathered the way sociologists collect their data, or anthropologists. It is fairly clear from the narrative that (assuming it is a truthful report) the correlations leave mere coincidence in the dust as an explanation.

That makes it no less persuasive, as a single story; the presence of a large number (I think over 3000) of similar stories in various variant patterns certainly adds to that persuasiveness.

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