Place withheld · 1885-12-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
Vanishing suddenly
December 28th, 1885. I remember quite well the circumstance you allude to. Mrs. Alfred Wedgwood told me about it the same evening, when she was sitting with me at Meadowbank, but I think she said she saw this vision of a man looking at her, not in a dream, but on suddenly awaking from sleep, and that he vanished as she looked at him. She told me that she particularly noticed a stud or breast-pin he was wearing, and that during the short time the figure was visible she saw other figures in the background, like Zulus with their spears passing behind him. This, at the time, made us wonder if the room at the West CliflT Hotel she was then using had been at any time occupied by someone who had died in the Zulu War. Sometime after this, Mrs. Alfred told me she had seen an officer at Shornclifie who resembled the man of her vision, and that he was wearing a pin just like the one she had observed, and she wondered who he was. I do not remember that after this we ever spoke of the matter again ; and I never heard that she had afterwards met him to speak to, or that he had told her that he had had a corresponding vision or dream of her.
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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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