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
"Helen Alexander (maid to Lady Waldegrave) was lying here very
ill with typhoid fever, and was attended by me. I was standing
at the table by her bedside, pouring out her medicine, at about
four o'clock in the morning of the 4th October 1880. I heard
the call-bell ring (this had been heard twice before during the
night in that same week), and was attracted by the door of the
room opening, and by seeing a person entering the room whom I
instantly felt to be the mother of the sick woman. She had a brass
candlestick in her hand, a red shawl over her shoulders, and a
flannel petticoat on which had a hole in the front. I looked at
her as much as to say, 'I am glad you have come,' but the woman
looked at me sternly, as much as to say, 'Why wasn't I sent for
before?' I gave the medicine to Helen Alexander, and then turned
round to speak to the vision, but no one was there. She had gone.
She was a short, dark person, and very stout. At about six o'clock
that morning Helen Alexander died. Two days after, her parents and
a sister came to Antony, and arrived between one and two o'clock
in the morning; I and another maid let them in, and it gave me a
great turn when I saw the living likeness of the vision I had seen
two nights before. I told the sister about the vision, and she said
that the description of the dress exactly answered to her mother's,
and that they had brass candlesticks at home exactly like the one
described. There was not the slightest resemblance between the
mother and daughter.
"FRANCES REDDELL.
Frances Reddell fortunately described her vision to her mistress, Mrs.
Pole-Carew, of Antony, Torpoint, Devonport, within a few hours of its
occurrence, and before her encounter with the original. Mrs. Pole-Carew
writes as follows:--
"31_st December_ 1883.
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