A Boy Named James Remembered Being Shot Down Over Iwo Jima — Before He Could Spell His Own Name

Añadido: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]At age two, James Linegar woke up screaming every night, grabbed his throat, and said he was burning inside a plane. Then he named the aircraft carrier, the squadron, and the dead pilot, a man no one in his family had ever heard of. He named his wingman, Jack Larson. His ship, Natoma. Both real, neither famous, not digitized anywhere in 2000. His father, a Christian skeptic, spent two years in the national archives and found James McCready Houston Jr., the VF-3 squadron, USS Natoma Bay, killed March 3rd, 1945.

[00:00:38]James then corrected his father on the plane's drop tanks. A surviving squadron member confirmed the correction. The cryptomnesia argument collapsed. Those specific records weren't publicly accessible when James spoke. Then Houston's sister and Baron met James. He described a small figurine Houston gave her before deployment. She had never told anyone, ever.