Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathyPodmore, Frank
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Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Podmore, Frank
Apparitions; Telepathy
"The night before last a curious case of what I cannot but call
telepathy occurred between myself and my sister. (We sleep in the
same room.) For the last two years the whole family have been very
much interested in some skeletons and flint instruments found in
a gravel pit in one of the fields. They have never been properly
excavated, and about ten days ago my sister and I had been amusing
ourselves pulling out, bone by bone, one of these 'palæolithic
men,' as we pleased to call them. He was a particularly interesting
one, as we found a flint arrow-head in his hip-bone, but we only
got to his ribs. On the night in question I dreamt that my father
was excavating in a more approved method, taking off the top mould
and leaving the bones in their original position in the brown
earth, so that you could see the form of the man to whom they
had belonged. In this way we lifted out the rest of the skeleton
at which my sister and I had been working, and behold! when we
got to the skull it had a snout. We were delighted to be able to
prove this extraordinary fact respecting palæolithic man, and
the doctors crowded down from town to see the creature; but my
sister was nowhere about, and in my anxiety to tell her of our
discovery I woke myself and nearly woke her. I stopped myself just
in time, thinking what a shame it was to spoil her night's rest
for a dream. Still wishing she were awake to hear, and thinking
again of the curious effect of the black, earth-filled skull, with
its projecting snout, and dreaming of my dream, I turned over
and dropped into another. Before I had got well started in this,
however, I was awakened by my sister trying to light the candle.
'What is it?' I said, 'what's the matter?' 'I've just had such a
horrid dream,' she answered; 'it haunts me still.' But I do not
think I need repeat her dream, which I believe she has written."
Miss M. Bidder writes as follows:--
"_June_ 9_th_, 1890.
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