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This boy’s mother believes he’s Lou Gehrig reincarnated

Lou Gehrig died in 1941. But what if he came back?

Cathy Byrd believes that her son, Christian Haupt, is the reincarnated spirit of Gehrig. No, seriously.

Byrd wrote a book, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, laying out the case for why her son batted cleanup behind Babe Ruth. The evidence includes Christian, at the age of two, telling his mom “I used to be a tall baseball player.” Is that a toddler just talking nonsense as he experiments with language or did he really mean to say “I won the MVP award in 1926”?