Place withheld · 1885-04-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
The Rectory, Long Melford, Suffolk. April 5th, 1885. I well remember Miss Martyn telling me that a feeling of horror and an indescribable dread came over her on Sunday evening, March 16th, 1 884, while we were in church, and she was alone in the drawing-room ; that she was unable to shake it off, and felt very restless, and got up and walked about the room. She did not refer to anyone, and could give no cause for this peculiar feeling. I am under the impression that she told me the same evening (Sunday), and before she heard of the death of her cousin, bnt I am not certain whether it was Sunday or Monday that she told me about it. « Anna m Mason. We have verified the date of the death in two local newspapers. The day was a Sunday, which is in accordance with the evidence. § 4.
19, Berkeley Square, W. April 7th, 1885. I have asked Miss Marty n whether she had told anyone about her feeling of horror on March 16th, before she heard of the death of her cousin. She tol…
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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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