Place withheld · 1884-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
January, 1884. (95) My husband and I often find our thoughts occupied by the same subject, though there has been no apparent direction given to our thoughts by surrounding circumstances, and the subject of our thoughts may be distant in time and place. This rather curious incident occurred 12 years ago. In the middle of the night I awoke, and remaining awake I tried to recall one of Tennyson's poems, but was puzzled as to the first word. Was it ' Home they brought,' or ' Back they brought her warrior dead ? My husband had been soundly asleep, but suddenly turned round, and on my saying ' Are you awake 1 ' he replied, ' Yes, and I awoke with the words on my lips, '
January 19th, 1884. I have a distinct recollection of the incident, reported to you by my wife, referring to Tennyson's lines, - Home they brought her warrior dead.' On my awaking from sleep…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
August, 1884. (96) I mentioned to you my husband's awaking from sleep and repeating the line from Tennyson which I had been trying to remember. That seemed to me a brain- wave, and it was im…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
I was in my bed beside my Husband and i got that horrible feeling, something was trying to lift me up and get me, it grabbed my arms, i tried to wake up but could not i was thinking to mysel…
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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