This is an account of the famous "Bridey Murphy" case, in which Morey Bernstein hypnotized Virginia Tighe (given the pseudonym of Ruth Simmons) in the early 1950's, and the Irish character of Bridey from 100 years earlier emerged, giving a detailed account of her life and circumstances. Skeptics, using unfair tactics, convinced themselves and the public at large that they had debunked it, but a careful study shows that they did not. This is a landmark work which deserves to be read first-hand, with a thorough knowledge of Dr. Ian Stevenson's work under your belt before you start. For example, "Bridey" was able to demonstrate an old Irish jig, sing parts of a song, and gave numerous geographic, linguistic and historical references which checked out. (Some of them were disputed by historians initially, only to be proven correct later on.) These are some of the same elements that Stevenson found in his cases.
The Bridey Murphy case is a perfect example of a genuine case "hushed" unfairly by debunkers. The fraud was in the debunking, not in the case. They found, for example, that Virginia Tighe had had an Irish neighbor as a child who had talked about the "old country" to her. However, if you read the book carefully and objectively, the idea that she got all the details of life in Ireland 100 years ago as a child talking over the fence with her neighbor stretches the imagination much further than reincarnation and past-life memory. This is a must-read for anyone interested in reincarnation studies.
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