A woman from Colorado named Virginia Tighe claimed to be the
re-incarnation of Bridey Murphy- a woman from Ireland who lived in
the 19th century - Upon investigation - it was discovered that
records of 'her life and death' were non existent -
It was determined however - that that an Irish immigrant named
Bridie Murphy Corkell lived across the street from Tighe's
childhood home in Chicago and this was just a memory of her
long-forgotten childhood...
Anastasia was the daughter of a Russian Tsar Nicholas II. She
was presumed to have been murdered with her family by the Bolshevik
secret police...
Rumors surfaced that she escaped - for two bodies were missing
from the mass grave found of the family...
Although remains were later found that were thought to be the
charred remains of the missing two - many have claimed to be the
missing Anastasia- the most popular was Anna Anderson...DNA tests
upon her death revealed this not to be the case...
I personally have not found any reference to Bridey Murphy being
categorized as the 'Poor Man's Anastasia' but can only theorize
that the correlation between the two stems from the claim that
Bridey Murphy experienced re-incarnation?
