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
“Mr. Grose went to see Mr. Shaw on the 2d of August last. As
they sat talking in the evening, says Mr. Shaw: ‘On the 21st of
the last month, as I was smoking a pipe, and reading in my
study, between eleven and twelve at night, in comes Mr. Naylor
(formerly fellow of St. John’s college, but had been dead full
four years). When I saw him, I was not much affrighted, and I
asked him to sit down, which accordingly he did for about two
hours, and we talked together. I asked him how it fared with
him. He said, “Very well.”—“Were any of our old acquaintances
with him?”—“No!” (at which I was much alarmed), “but Mr.
Orchard will be with me soon, and yourself not long after.” As
he was going away, I asked him if he would not stay a little
longer, but he refused. I asked him if he would call again.
“No;” he had but three days’ leave of absence, and he had other
business.’
“N. B.—Mr. Orchard died soon after. Mr. Shaw is now dead: he
was formerly fellow of St. John’s college—an ingenious, good
man. I knew him there; but at his death he had a college-living
in Oxfordshire, and here he saw the apparition.”
An extraordinary circumstance occurred some years ago, in which a very
pious and very eminent Scotch minister, Ebenezer Brown of Inverkeithing,
was concerned. A person of ill character in the neighborhood having
died, the family very shortly afterward came to him to complain of some
exceedingly unpleasant circumstances connected with the room in which
the dissolution had taken place, which rendered it uninhabitable, and
requesting his assistance. All that is known by his family of what
followed, is that he went and entered the room alone; came out again, in
a state of considerable excitement and in a great perspiration; took off
his coat and re-entered the room; a great noise and I believe voices
were then heard by the family, who remained the whole time at the door;
when he came out finally, it was evident that something very
extraordinary had taken place; what it was, he said, he could never
disclose; but that perhaps after his death some paper might be found
upon the subject. None, however, as far as I can learn, has been
discovered.
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