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Place withheld · 1882-12-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive

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December 7th, 1882. I am not sure whether it was a dreain or that Mrs. Draper thought she saw Mrs. Wilson ; but if the former, Mrs. Draper must have awoke at once, as I know she looked at her watch and remarked the hour, and afterwards, when she heard of Mrs. Wilson's death, she inquired particularly at what hour she died. We at first thought the time was different, till we calculated the difference of Lausanne and Jersey time.

 

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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.