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
Stilling relates that a government-officer, of the name of Triplin, in
Weimar, on going to his office to fetch a paper of importance, saw his
own likeness sitting there, with the deed before him. Alarmed, he
returned home, and desired his maid to go there and fetch the paper she
would find on the table. The maid saw the same form, and imagined that
her master had gone by another road, and got there before her. His mind
seems to have preceded his body.
The landrichter, or sheriff, F——, in Frankfort, sent his secretary on
an errand. Presently afterward, the secretary re-entered the room, and
laid hold of a book. His master asked him what had brought him back,
whereupon the figure vanished, and the book fell to the ground. It was a
volume of Linnæus. In the evening, when the secretary returned, and was
interrogated with regard to his expedition, he said that he had fallen
into an eager dispute with an acquaintance, as he went along, about some
botanical question, and had ardently wished he had had his Linnæus with
him to refer to.
Dr. Werner relates that Professor Happach had an elderly maid-servant,
who was in the habit of coming every morning to call him, and on
entering the room, which he generally heard her do, she usually looked
at a clock which stood under the mirror. One morning, she entered so
softly, that, though he saw her, he did not hear her foot. She went, as
was her custom, to the clock, and came to his bedside, but suddenly
turned round and left the room. He called after her, but she not
answering, he jumped out of bed and pursued her. He could not see her,
however, till he reached her room, where he found her fast asleep in
bed. Subsequently, the same thing occurred frequently with this woman.
An exactly parallel case was related to me, as occurring to himself, by
a publisher in Edinburgh. His housekeeper was in the habit of calling
him every morning. On one occasion, being perfectly awake, he saw her
enter, walk to the window, and go out again without speaking. Being in
the habit of fastening his door, he supposed he had omitted to do so;
but presently afterward he heard her knocking to come in, and he found
the door was still locked. She assured him she had not been there
before. He was in perfectly good health at the time this happened.
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