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
"Thanks for your letter. I am sorry it was you crying. You don't
seem at all struck. I was very much so. It was a subdued sort
(_sic_) I heard, and thought H. was trying not to let it be heard.
I shall always be afraid now of hearing things."
The sound here was of an inarticulate kind, nor was it immediately
referred to the actual agent, and both these facts must be held to
detract from the evidential value of the coincidence. In the next case,
however, the voice, it will be seen, was at once recognised. The voice
in this case awoke the percipient, and the impression should therefore
be classed as a hallucination rather than as a dream, but it was of
the "borderland" type. The uneasiness caused to the percipient, as
attested by the letter and telegram sent, is sufficient proof that the
impression was of a kind unusual in his experience.
No. 69.--From MR. WILLIAM TUDOR.
"AUBURNDALE, MASS., _July_ 11_th_, 1890.
"Your favour[115] of the 30th ult., addressed to Mrs. Tudor, I will
answer, as the incident more directly concerned me.
"Late in the evening of Monday, March 17th, near midnight, my
nephew, Frederic Tudor, Jun., fell in front of an electric car
going to Cambridge, was dragged some distance and so badly injured
that for a time his life was in doubt, though he recovered with the
loss of a foot. My wife heard of the accident on Tuesday afternoon
and was much distressed all the night of Tuesday, and quite
restless and wakeful.
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