"On July 5th, 1887, I left my house in Lakewood to go to New
York to spend a few days. My wife was not feeling well when I
left, and after I had started I looked back and saw her
standing in the door looking disconsolate and sad at my
leaving. The picture haunted me all day, and at night, before I
went to bed, I thought I would try to find out, if possible,
her condition. I had undressed, and was sitting on the edge of
the bed, when I covered my face with my hands and willed myself
in Lakewood at home to see if I could see her. After a little
while I seemed to be standing in her room before the bed, and
saw her lying there looking much better. I felt satisfied she
was better, and so spent the week more comfortably regarding
her condition. On Saturday I went home. When she saw me she
remarked: 'I don't know whether I am glad to see you or not,
for I thought something had happened to you. I saw you standing
in front of the bed the night (about 8.30 or before 9) you
left, and as plain as could be, and I have been worrying myself
about you ever since. I sent to the office and to the depôt
daily to get some message from you.' After explaining my effort
to find out her condition, everything became plain to her. She
had seen me when I was trying to see her and find out her
condition. I thought at the time I was going to see her and
make her see me.
"B. F. Sinclair."
The foregoing is corroborated by Mrs Sinclair. She states that she saw
her husband, not as he was dressed at the moment of the experiment, but
"in a suit that hung in a closet at home." The apparition caused her
great anxiety, so that her husband's view of her improved appearance was
not really true. The son, Mr George Sinclair, avers that in his
mother's vision his father's face was "drawn and set, as if he was
either dead or trying to accomplish something which was beyond him."
Another case investigated by the Society is also striking. The date is
1896.
"'One night, two or three years ago, I came back from the
theatre to my mother's flat at 6 S---- Street; and after I had
been into her bedroom and told her all about it, I went to bed
about one A.M. I had not been asleep long when I started up
frightened, fancying that I had heard someone walk down the
passage towards my mother's room; but, hearing nothing more,
went to sleep again. I started up alarmed in the same way three
or four times before dawn.
"'In the morning, upon inquiry, my mother (who was ill at the
time) only told me that she had had a very disturbed night.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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