Case file · High strangeness
Omm Sety, priestess reborn
In 1956 Dorothy Eady, an English woman known as Omm Sety, settled at Abydos convinced she had been a priestess in Seti I's temple in a past life. She lived there until her death in 1981.
1956 CE · 26.18, 31.92 · status: account
The account
After a fall at three she said she wanted to 'go home'. She worked for the Egyptian Antiquities Department, and archaeologists respected her detailed knowledge of the temple. She claimed to have pointed out the site of a garden later found by excavation.
The sceptical view
Her knowledge came from decades of study. The garden claim is anecdotal.