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
"My feelings on seeing such a remarkable fulfilment of my dream can
be better imagined than described. Suffice it to say that on the
return from church of Messrs. Kaye and Scott I asked them to try
and recollect anything peculiar which had happened at luncheon on
the 1st December, when, after a few moments' deliberation, they at
once recounted to me the whole circumstances of my dream, as they
had heard them from my lips on the 1st December 1886. On seeing Mr.
Leeper a few days afterwards at his father's house, Loughgall, Co.
Armagh, he at once remembered all I had told him about the dream
on the 1st December, on my questioning him about it. I, of course,
can assign no possible cause for the remarkable facts related, as
apart from the difference of our standing in the service, the late
Major Hubbersty and I were in no wise particularly friendly to one
other, nor had we seen very much of each other. I had not seen him
for eighteen months previously. A very curious fact in connection
with the dream is that it occurred to me in the very same room in
the barracks as Major Hubbersty used to occupy when stationed at
Armagh, several years previously."
In answer to an inquiry, Captain Campbell writes, on February 29th,
1888:--
"I do not dream much, as a rule, and cannot recall to my mind ever
before having had a dream of a similar nature to that dreamt by me
about the late Major Hubbersty."
Mr. A. B. R. Kaye, Lieutenant Third Royal Irish Fusiliers, writes on
August 20th, 1887, from 62 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin:--
"I was stationed in the barracks, Armagh Depôt, Royal Irish
Fusiliers, in November and December 1886. On the 1st of December at
lunch there were present Lieutenant R. E. W. Campbell (2nd R.I.F.),
Lieutenant R. W. Leeper (2nd R.I.F.), Lieutenant T. E. Scott (4th
R.I.F.), and myself. During our conversation Major Hubbersty's
name was mentioned, and Campbell told us that he had a dream about
him the night before, how he had seen a vision of Major Hubbersty
looking very pale and seeming to be falling forward, and saying
something to him which he could not hear; also, he (Campbell) told
us he was sure we would hear something about Major Hubbersty very
soon.
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