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
"I reside with my husband at 15 Lupton Street, N.W. This
afternoon I was lying on the sofa, sound asleep, when I suddenly
awoke, thinking I heard my husband sigh as if in pain. I arose
immediately, expecting to find him in the room. He was not there,
and looking at my watch I found it was half-past three. At six
o'clock my husband came in. He called my attention to a bruise on
his forehead, which was caused by his having knocked it against
the stone steps in a Turkish bath. I said to him, 'I know when it
happened--it was at half-past three, for I heard you sigh as if in
pain at that time.' He replied, 'Yes, that was the exact time, for
I remember noticing the clock directly after.'
"The gentleman who appends his name as witness was present when
this conversation took place.
"LOUISA E. HARRISON.
"Witness: Henry Hooton, 23 Bunhill Row, E.C."
This account was sent to the S.P.R. by Mr. Harrison on the day of the
occurrence described. In an accompanying letter he writes: "Everything
happened exactly as stated."
In the cases which follow, with one exception, the dream impression
was of a well-marked visual nature. In the first three narratives the
dream had reference to the death of the person represented. The mode
of representation, however, it will be seen, differed in each case. In
the first, the associated imagery was in part of a fantastic nature,
and the dream, though sufficiently exceptional to leave a feeling of
fatigue on the following morning, and to induce the percipient to write
an account of it to his friends, resembled in other respects the motley
crowd which throng through the gate of ivory. In the second case the
surroundings of the central figure were such as the waking imagination
of the dreamer would naturally have conjured up in picturing the
deathbed of his friend.
No. 55.--From MR. J. T.
This case is recorded at some length in the _Proceedings of the
Am. S.P.R._ (pp. 394-397) by Professor Royce. Professor Royce
explains that Mr. E., the agent, died after a short illness in
New York City, on Tuesday, February 23rd, 1886. Mr. J. T., who,
though an acquaintance of Mr. E., had heard nothing of him for some
time, and, as indeed appears from the letters quoted, knew of no
special cause for anxiety, was on the day of the death, and for
some time afterwards, in St. John, New Brunswick. In consequence of
severe snowstorms, no mails had been received in St. John from the
South for some days, and at the time when the letter, an extract
from which we give below, was written, it was not possible for
the writer to have known of Mr. E.'s death. The original letter,
written by Mr. J. T. to his wife, and dated Wednesday, March 3rd,
1886, on paper headed Hotel Dufferin, St. John, N.B., has been seen
by Professor Royce:--
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