“The Search for Bridey Murphy” was a film made in 1956.

Bridey Murphy is the name of a woman that U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (April 27,1923 – July 12, 1995) claimed to have been in her previous life.

In 1952, Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein put housewife Virginia Tighe of Pueblo, Colorado in a trance that sparked off startling revelations about Tighe’s alleged past life as a 19th-century Irishwoman and her rebirth in the United States 59 years later.

Bernstein used a technique called hypnotic regression, during which the subject is gradually taken back to childhood.

He then attempted to take Virginia one step further, before birth, and suddenly was astonished to find he was listening to Bridey Murphy.

Her tale began in 1806 when Bridey was eight years old and living in a house in Cork. She was the daughter of Duncan Murphy, a barrister, and his wife Kathleen.

At the age of 17 she married lawyer Sean Brian McCarthy and moved to Belfast. Bridey told of a fall that caused her death and of watching her own funeral, describing her tombstone and the state of being in life after death. It was, she recalled, a feeling of neither pain nor happiness.

Somehow, she was reborn in America, although Bridey was not clear how this event happened.

Virginia Tighe herself was born in the Midwest in 1923, had never been to Ireland, and did not speak with even the slightest hint of an Irish accent.

Cast: Teresa Wright, Louis Haward, Nancy Gates, Kenneth Tobey, Richard Anderson

Reincarnation

deletereply sanssouciblogs wrote on Apr 27, ’08 I never saw the movie but I read the book. I was a little girl when we were visiting Aunt Annette and Uncle Joe in Brooklyn and she was talking about it. I got a hold of it and read it. It’s kind of creepy but sooo fascinating. It is touted as non-fiction. Quite amazing. The video is awesome! You do some amazing things I haven’t thought about for a long time. Huggies, Lauritacita Linda

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Apr 27, ’08 I actually remember seeing the book on the shelf after you left to get married. I don’t remember if I read it, but the movie was great.

deletereply starfishred wrote on Apr 27, ’08 NEVER SAW THE MOVIE BUT LOKS AMAZING BUT THEN THE SUBJECT IS AMAZING Is there such a thing or isn’t there that is the question?

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Apr 28, ’08 It seems to be true.