Okay, this one is either a brain bender or, as one of our readers noted, "the silliest thing I've ever seen in my life." In any case, there is a major story in the Los Angeles Times that is being mailed all over the place by people about Marilyn Monroe. Or, more specificially, the woman who claims to be Marilyn re-born.
The whole story has to do with reincarnation and, specifically, past life regressions. There is a woman, Sherrie Lee Laird, 43, who while under hypnosis seems to be Marilyn Monroe. At least this is the reality according to the doctor who hypnotized her, Dr. Adrian Finkelstein. He's written a book -- "Marilyn Monroe Returns: The Healing of a Soul."
Speaking as "Marilyn," the hypnotized Laird recalled love affairs with John and Robert Kennedy, including a tryst with JFK in the White House; she said JFK told her state secrets about Fidel Castro and Cuba; and she gave details about the actress' death at age 36 from a drug overdose on Aug. 5, 1962, dismissing conspiracy theories that Monroe had been murdered.
As it turns out, Sherrie Laird was born mere days after Monroe's death (time for a body jump?). Now that's pretty weird but it gets weirder. Dr. Finkelstein also believes that Sherrie Laird's daughter, Kezia Laird, is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe's mother, Gladys Baker (who died soon after Laird's daughter was born).
Let me say that again. The mother was reincarnated as the daughter and the daughter was reincarnated as the mother.
And I thought normal family relationships were messed up these days! I produced a TV series, "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven" that dabbled in reincarnation but our writing staff never would have tried that one. Who would buy that?
Laird's case is similar to the Bridey Murphy case which was all the rage in the 1950s. Back then, a 29-year-old housewife named Virginia Tighe, under hypnosis, became an Irish woman named Bridey Murphy who had been born in 1798, complete with an Irish brogue. Of course, Murphy wasn't a sex symbol like Marilyn Monroe (to the best of our historical knowledge).
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We report. You decide.
FWIW, though, I put the chance of this being true at approximately .00001 percent.
{Photo: LA Times, Peter Tym}
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