Place withheld · 1884-02-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
February 29th, 1884. I have been trying to ascertain the exact date of my dream about my friend's death, but cannot remember anything nearer than that it was some time in the spring of 1878. I had not seen him for nearly four years, and certainly had not talked or even thought about him for some time, I might say years. I don't remember ever having such a vivid dream before or after. The following corroboration is from Miss L. K. D.'s sister : — January 10th, 1884. With regard to my sister's dream about the person she knew as a boy in Bedford, I can remember distinctly that she told her dream to us all at breakfast, before we heard of the death.
November 17th, 1883. I quite remember my sister dreaming as she relates above. It made quite an impression on both of us when my brother mentioned Mr. 's death. M. H. Murray. In answer to in…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
No, I remember none. It was quite unique. But why call it a dream when I was wide awake 1 Had it been a dream I don't think it would have made the same impression on me. Miss Wilkinson's sis…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
I can perfectly well remember hearing the dream before we heard of the death. As he was a strong man, and as far as we knew in excellent health, we . did not for a moment suppose it was true…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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This is a witness statement collected in the 1880s by Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore of the Society for Psychical Research, and published in Phantasms of the Living (1886), the first large scientific collection of such testimony. Witnesses signed their statements and were often corroborated by others, whose statements appear as their own accounts. The book is in the public domain; the text is verbatim save for scanning artifacts, and the full volumes are at archive.org.
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