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
"A few weeks later, about 11 P.M., Mrs. W. and I were playing
bézique in the dining-room. Mr. W. was out, and the servants had
gone to bed. The door of the room was open, and I was facing it.
I suddenly had an impression that some one was looking at me, and
I looked up. There was the same face, and the upper half of the
figure, peeping round into the room from the hall. I said, 'There's
the man again!' Mrs. W. rushed to the door, but there was no one in
the hall or passage; the front door was locked, and the green baize
door which communicated with the back part of the house was shut.
The figure had been on the side of the dining-room door nearest
to the front door, and could not have got to the green baize door
without passing well in our sight. We were a good deal frightened,
and we mentioned the occurrence to Mr. W. on his return. He went
all over the house as usual before going to bed, and all windows
were fastened, and everything in order.
"A few weeks after this, about 11.30 A.M., I was upstairs playing
battledore and shuttlecock with my eldest brother in his bedroom.
The door was open. Stepping back in the course of the game, I got
out on to the landing; I looked sideways over my shoulder, in
order to strike the shuttlecock, and suddenly saw the same face
as before, and my brother called out at the same moment, 'There's
a man on the landing.' I was startled myself, but to reassure the
child I said there was no one--that he had made a mistake--and shut
the door and went on with the game. I told my father and Mrs. W. of
this as soon as I saw them.
"Later in the autumn I was sitting alone in the dining-room one
evening, with the door open. Mrs. W. had been upstairs, and I heard
her coming down. Suddenly I heard a deep, melancholy voice say, 'I
can't find it.' I called out, 'What are you looking for?' At the
same time the voice was not the least like Mrs. W.'s. She then came
in and told me she had heard exactly the same thing. My father was
out at the time, but we told him of the circumstance on his return.
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