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
Three young men at Cambridge had been out hunting, and afterward dined
together in the apartments of one of them. After dinner, two of the
party, fatigued with their morning’s exercise, fell asleep, while the
third, a Mr. M——, remained awake. Presently the door opened, and a
gentleman entered and placed himself behind the sleeping owner of the
rooms, and, after standing there a minute, proceeded to the gyp-room—a
small inner chamber, from which there was no egress. Mr. M—— waited a
little while, expecting the stranger would come out again; but, as he
did not, he awoke his host, saying, “There’s somebody gone into your
room: I don’t know who it can be.”
The young man rose and looked into the gyp-room; but, there being nobody
there, he naturally accused Mr. M—— of dreaming; but the other assured
him he had not been asleep. He then described the stranger—an elderly
man, &c., dressed like a country squire, with gaiters on, &c. “Why
that’s my father,” said the host, and he immediately made inquiry,
thinking it possible the old gentleman had slipped out unobserved by Mr.
M——. He was not, however, to be heard of; and the post shortly brought
a letter announcing that he had died at the time he had been seen in his
son’s chamber at Cambridge.
Mr. C—— F—— and some young ladies, not long ago, were standing
together looking in at a shop window at Brighton,—when he suddenly
darted across the way, and they saw him hurrying along the street,
apparently in pursuit of somebody. After waiting a little while, as he
did not return, they went home without him; and, when he was come, they
of course arraigned him for his want of gallantry.
“I beg your pardon,” said he; “but I saw an acquaintance of mine that
owes me money, and I wanted to get hold of him.”
“And did you?” inquired the ladies.
“No,” returned he; “I kept sight of him some time; but I suddenly missed
him—I can’t think how.”
No more was thought of the matter; but, by the next morning’s post, Mr.
C—— F—— received a letter enclosing a draft, from the father of the
young man he had seen, saying that his son had just expired, and that
one of his last requests had been that he would pay Mr. C—— F—— the
money that he owed him.
Two young ladies, staying at the Queen’s Ferry, arose one morning early
to bathe; as they descended the stairs, they each exclaimed: “There’s my
uncle!” They had seen him standing by the clock. He died at that time.
Very lately, a gentleman living in Edinburgh, while sitting with his
wife, suddenly arose from his seat and advanced toward the door with his
hand extended, as if about to welcome a visiter. On his wife’s inquiring
what he was about, he answered that he had seen so-and-so enter the
room. She had seen nobody. A day or two afterward, the post brought a
letter announcing the death of the person seen.
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