I'm pretty sure that no reasonable scientist has tried to say that memory is stored anywhere except in the memory centers of the brain. I remember some really good old sci-fi involving evil hands and so forth, but I think that's about as serious as it gets.
There are always going to be cases that look really strange like that. I know someone who was always very shy around strangers as a child. At one point she was introduced to a stranger, an older woman, with whom she was totally comfortable. When her mother asked her why she wasn't nervous around that woman, she said, at the age of like 6 and totally straight faced "Because she used to be my mommy, before you were my mommy" I mean...you could easily take that as some kind of evidence for reincarnation, but anecdotes do not make science.
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