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
Does not know how long he remained in this situation. He was
much alarmed. Thomas Harris disappeared. Nothing was said. He felt no
weight on his shoulders. He went back to Collins’s, and got a young man
to go with him. After he got home he mentioned it to the young man. He
had, before this, told James Harris he had seen his brother’s ghost.
“In October, about twilight in the morning, he saw Thomas Harris about
one hundred yards from the house of the witness; his head was leaned to
one side; same apparel as before; his face was toward him; he walked
fast and disappeared: there was nothing between them to obstruct the
view; he was about fifty yards from him, and alone; he had no conception
why Thomas Harris appeared to him. On the same day, about eight o’clock
in the morning, he was handing up blades to John Bailey, who was
stacking them; he saw Thomas Harris come along the garden fence, dressed
as before; he vanished, and always to the east; was within fifteen feet
of him; Bailey did not see him. An hour and a half afterward, in the
same place, he again appeared, coming as before; came up to the fence;
leaned on it within ten feet of the witness, who called to Bailey to
look there (pointing toward Thomas Harris). Bailey asked what was there.
Don’t you see Harris? Does not recollect what Bailey said. Witness
advanced toward Harris. One or the other spoke as witness got over the
fence on the same panel that Thomas Harris was leaning on. They walked
off together about five hundred yards; a conversation took place as they
walked; he has not the conversation on his memory. He could not
understand Thomas Harris, his voice was so low. He asked Thomas Harris a
question, and he forbid him. Witness then asked, ‘Why not go to your
brother, instead of me?’ Thomas Harris said, ‘Ask me no questions.’
Witness told him his will was doubted. Thomas Harris told him to ask his
brother if he did not remember the conversation which passed between
them on the east side of the wheat-stacks, the day he was taken with his
death-sickness; that he then declared that he wished all his property
kept together by James Harris, until his children arrived at age, then
the whole should be sold and divided among his children; and, should it
be immediately sold, as expressed in his will, that the property would
be most wanting to his children while minors, therefore he had changed
his will, and said that witness should see him again. He then told
witness to turn, and disappeared. He did not speak to him with the same
voice as in his lifetime. He was not daunted while with Thomas Harris,
but much afterward. Witness then went to James Harris and told him that
he had seen his brother three times that day. Related the conversation
he had with him. Asked James Harris if he remembered the conversation
between him and his brother, at the wheat-stack; he said he did; then
told him what had passed. Said he would fulfil his brother’s will. He
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