The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-SeersCrowe, Catherine
Religion
The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers
Crowe, Catherine
Ghosts; Parapsychology
A person in Edinburgh, busied about her daily work, saw a woman enter
her house, with whom she was on such ill terms that she could not but be
surprised at the visit; but while she was expecting an explanation, and
under the influence of her resentment avoiding to look at her, she found
she was gone. She remained quite unable to account for the visit, and,
as she said, “was wondering what had brought her there,” when she heard
that the woman had expired at that precise time.
Madame O—— B—— was engaged to marry an officer who was with his
regiment in India; and, wishing to live in privacy till the union took
place, she retired to the country and boarded with some ladies of her
acquaintance, awaiting his return. She at length heard that he had
obtained an appointment, which, by improving his prospects, had removed
some difficulties out of the way of the marriage, and that he was
immediately coming home. A short time after the arrival of this
intelligence, this lady, and one of those with whom she was residing,
were walking over a bridge, when the friend said, alluding to an officer
she saw on the other side of the way, “What an extraordinary expression
of face!” But, without pausing to answer, Madame O—— B—— darted
across the road to meet the stranger—but he was gone: where? they could
not conceive. They ran to the toll-keepers at the ends of the bridge, to
inquire if they had observed such a person, but they had not. Alarmed
and perplexed—for it was her intended husband that she had seen—Madame
O—— B—— returned home; and in due time the packet which should have
brought himself, brought the sad tidings of his unexpected death.
Madame O—— B—— never recovered the shock, and died herself of a
broken heart not long afterward.
Mr. H——, an eminent artist, was walking arm in arm with a friend in
Edinburgh, when he suddenly left him, saying, “Oh, there’s my brother!”
He had seen him with the most entire distinctness; but was confounded by
losing sight of him, without being able to ascertain whither he had
vanished. News came, ere long, that at that precise period his brother
had died.
Mrs. T——, sitting in her drawing-room, saw her nephew, then at
Cambridge, pass across the adjoining room. She started up to meet him,
and, not finding him, summoned the servants to ask where he was. They,
however, had not seen him, and declared he could not be there; while she
as positively declared he was. The young man had died at Cambridge quite
unexpectedly.
A Scotch minister went to visit a friend who was dangerously ill. After
sitting with the invalid for some time, he left him to take some rest,
and went below. He had been reading in the library some little time,
when, on looking up, he saw the sick man standing at the door. “God
bless me!” he cried, starting up, “how can you be so imprudent?” The
figure disappeared; and, hastening up stairs, he found his friend had
expired.
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