"DEAR HODGSON,--Five minutes ago Mr J. F. Morse, who has all
his life had dreams which were more or less verified later,
came to my room and said: 'I believe my wife died last night,
for I had a dream of a most remarkable nature which indicates
it. I shall be able to let you know soon, for I shall get word
at my office when I reach there. I will then send you word.'
His wife is in a country place in Delaware Co. Pa. She is ill,
but he had no idea she would not live for months, as the
enclosed letter of July 15th will show; but she was ill, and
would be likely to decline slowly and gradually. I will get
this off or in the mail before I hear any more.
"Mr Morse in his appearance looks like one who had just lost a
dear friend, and is in a state of great mental depression, with
tears in his eyes....
"M. L. HOLBROOK."
On the evening of the same day a telegram was received announcing the
unexpected death of Mrs Morse at 9.15 on the evening of Friday, 16th
July.
A prominent Chicago journalist, Mr F. B. Wilkie, reported that his wife
asked him one morning in October 1885, while still engaged in dressing,
and before either of them had left their sleeping-room, if he knew
anyone named Edsale or Esdale. A negative reply was given and then a
"Why do you ask?" She replied: "During the night I dreamt that I was on
the lake-shore and found a coffin there, with the name of Edsale or
Esdale on it, and I am confident that someone of that name has recently
been drowned there." On opening the morning paper the first item that
attracted his attention was the report of the mysterious disappearance
from his home in Hyde Park of a young man named Esdale. A few days
afterwards the body of a young man was found on the lake-shore.
This case was carefully investigated and authenticated by Dr Hodgson,
and bears some unusual features.
Of dreams that may be reasonably regarded as telepathic the following is
a striking example. It is contributed to "Phantasms of the Living" by a
Mrs Hilton--a lady engaged in active work, and not in any respect a
"visionary."
"234 Burdett Road, E.
"April 10th, 1883.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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