Place withheld · 1885-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
Voices
I clearly remember, in 1874, my mother in her dangerous illness seeing my dear grandmother come up to the foot of the bed. My mother has often told me since that her mother was wearing a certain crimson shawl she was very fond of, that her spectacles had dropped, and she looked over them at my mother, with sad inquiring eyes. My mother gazed at her for a minute, and then cried out when the apparition vanished ; and when the nurse came in, having heard her cry, my mother insisted on being told the truth about her mother ; for she said she knew that she had come to tell her she was dying, which was indeed the fact, though she lived long enough to enable my mother to see her before she died. In reference to (B) and (C), Mrs. W.'s sister writes : — On one occasion I received an anxious letter from my sister inquiring if anything had happened to me, as she had dreamed of a serious carriage-accident in which I was in danger. This letter was received by me before I had informed her of the danger in which I had been placed, 1 This slightly differs from the version given at the top of the next page, where there is no mention of the special person who was in need. VOL. II. 2 H 466 SUPPLEMENT. [chap. and the serious consequences which }nercifully were averted by the presence of mind of my coachman. On another occasion my sister was awakened by a voice which said distinctly, ' Rise at once. You have no time to lose. One you love is in sore need.' She did rise from her bed to pray for me, and afterwards knew that my child had passed through the crisis of diphtheria at that very time, and that her life was in imminent danger.
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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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