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
was satisfied that witness had seen his brother, for that no other
person knew the conversation. On the same evening, returning home about
an hour before sunset, Thomas Harris appeared to him, and came alongside
of him. Witness told him that his brother said he would fulfil his will.
No more conversation on this subject. He disappeared. He had further
conversation with Thomas Harris, but not on this subject. He was always
dressed in the same manner. He had never related to any person the last
conversation, and never would.
“Bailey, who was sworn in the cause, declared that as he and Brigs were
stacking blades, as related by Brigs, he called to witness and said,
‘Look there! Do you not see Thomas Harris?’ Witness said, ‘No.’ Brigs
got over the fence, and walked some distance—appeared by his action to
be in deep conversation with some person. Witness saw no one.
“The counsel was extremely anxious to hear from Mr. Brigs the whole of
the conversation of the ghost, and on his cross-examination took every
means, without effect, to obtain it. They represented to him, as a
religious man, he was bound to disclose the whole truth. He appeared
agitated when applied to, declaring nothing short of life should make
him reveal the whole conversation, and, claiming the protection of the
court, that he had declared all he knew relative to the case.
“The court overruled the question of the counsel. Hon. James Tilgman,
judge.
“His excellency Robert Wright, late governor of Maryland, and the Hon.
Joseph H. Nicholson, afterward judge of one of the courts in Maryland,
were the counsel for the plaintiff.
“John Scott and Richard T. Earl, Esqs., were counsel for the defendant.”
Here, as in the case of Col. M——, mentioned in a former chapter, and
some others I have met with, we find disclosures made that were held
sacred.
Dr. Kerner relates the following singular story, which he declares
himself to have received from the most satisfactory authority. Agnes
B——, being at the time eighteen years of age, was living as servant in
a small inn at Undenheim, her native place. The host and hostess were
quiet old people, who generally went to bed about eight o’clock, while
she and the boy, the only other servant, were expected to sit up till
ten, when they had to shut up the house and retire to bed also. One
evening, as the host was sitting on a bench before the door, there came
a beggar, requesting a night’s lodging. The host, however, refused, and
bade him seek what he wanted in the village; whereon the man went away.
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