Place withheld · 1886-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
I am sorry to say that I did not mention the subject of the apparition to any one at the time I saw it ; indeed, not till many months ^ after our friend's death. There is nothing at all inconsistent with the supposition that the time of the ' vision ' corresponded with the time of death. I always thought it probably did so. The dress was a suit and cap I knew well,i but he died in bed. I have never had a hallucination. [Here the coincidence is of course doubtful. It would remain a remarkable one, even if the interval exceeded the 1 2 hours' limit laid down for the cases in this book.] (553 and 554) From Mrs. Forsyth Hunter, 2, Victoria Crescent, St. Helier's, Jersey, who sent us the accounts in 1882. 1 See Vol. i., p. 540. 2 This seems to be a mistake : see the Additions and Corrections at the beginning of the volume. 512 SUPPLEMENT. [chap. Mrs. Hunter had had a friend from whom she had parted in coldness, and whom she had not since seen or corresponded with.
My father's death occurred when I was in my seventh year. It was the subject of conversation between my mother and myself from time to v.] VISUAL CASES. 511 time till her death in 1866, so t…
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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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