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
Mrs. McAlpine's husband and his son corroborate as follows:--
"_April_ 1892.
"I was at Barrow on the 25th of March of last year (1891), and
distinctly remember the incident of the following Monday night. I
can bear testimony to the statements made by my wife and son.
"ROBERT MCALPINE."
"GARSCADDEN HOUSE, _April_ 4_th_, 1892.
"I was living for several months in the Furness Abbey Hotel, at
Barrow-in-Furness, and I remember father and mother coming for
a few days in order to see the launch of the _Empress of China_
on the 25th of March 1891, and on the following day (Thursday)
Mr. Bryce Douglas (who was then in his usual health) left with a
party of friends on the trial trip of the _Empress of Japan_. I
also distinctly remember that the following Monday night (30th) my
father and I were sitting at the drawing-room fire after dinner,
and mother came in looking very pale and startled, and said she
had been upstairs and had seen Mr. Bryce Douglas standing at the
door of his sitting-room (he had used this sitting-room for nearly
two years). Both my father and I felt anxious, and after some
discussion we sent a telegram to Mr. Bryce Douglas's residence at
Ardrossan asking how he was, and the following morning had the
reply, 'Keeping better, but not out of danger,' or words to that
effect. I can assert positively that no one in Barrow knew of his
illness until after the receipt of that telegram.
"ROBERT MCALPINE, JUN."
Letters corroborating the above account have also been received from
Miss Caldwell, sister-in-law to Mr. Bryce Douglas, to whom the telegram
was sent, and who writes: "I was very much surprised at receiving it;"
from Mrs. Scarlett, the wife of the proprietor of the Furness Abbey
Hotel, and from Miss Charlton, of Barrow-in-Furness, both of whom were
cognisant of the circumstances at the time.[118]
Mrs. McAlpine has had several other apparently telepathic experiences,
one of them a vision coinciding with the death of the infant child of
her brother.
In the next case the vision occurred about two hours after the actual
death.
No. 75.--From MISS MABEL GORE BOOTH.
"LISSADELL, SLIGO, _February_ 1891.
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