We have had, of course, some cases of this type already. Such was the case of the apparition with the _red scratch_ (Appendix VII. B); such too was the apparition in the Countess Kapnist's carriage (Appendix VII. E). Such cases, indeed, occur most frequently--and this fact is itself significant--among the higher and more developed forms of manifestation. Among the briefer, less-developed apparitions with which we have now to deal, invasions by the phantasm of quite unknown territory are relatively few. I will begin by referring to a curious case, where the impression given is that of a spiritual presence which seeks and finds the percipient, but is itself too confused for coherent communication (Mrs. Lightfoot's case, _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. p. 453 [429 B]). It will be seen that this narrative is thoroughly in accordance with previous indications of a state of posthumous _bewilderment_ supervening before the spirit has adjusted its perceptions to the new environment. In cases like Mrs. Lightfoot's, where the percipient's surroundings are unknown to the deceased person, and especially in cases where the intimation of a death reaches the percipient when _at sea_, there is plainly nothing except the percipient's own personality to guide the spirit in his search. We have several narratives of this type. In one of these--Archdeacon Farler's, already referred to (p. 227), the apparition appears _twice_, the second appearance at least being subsequent to the death. It is plain that if in such a case the _second_ apparition conveys no fresh intelligence, we cannot prove that it is more than a subjective recrudescence of the _first_. Yet analogy is in favour of its veridical character, since we have cases where successive manifestations _do_ bring fresh knowledge, and seem to show a continued effort to communicate.[150] Then, again, there are _auditory_ cases where the phantasmal speech has occurred in places not known to the deceased person. (_Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. iii. p. 90, and vol. v. p. 455.) One specially impressive characteristic of apparitions (as has been already remarked) is their occasional _collectivity_--the fact that more percipients than one sometimes see or hear the phantasmal figure or voice simultaneously. When one is considering the gradual decline in definiteness and apparent purpose from one group of apparitions to another, it is natural to ask whether this characteristic--in my view so important--is found to accompany especially the higher, more intelligent manifestations.