Place withheld · 1886-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
I do not remember ever having a similar experience to the one narrated to you ; nor should I care to, as the sensation, together with the suspense as to the why and wherefore of the event, is the reverse of pleasant. In conversation, he has explained that he had frequently expostulated with his brother on the latter's habit of alighting from trains in motion ; and the automatic utterance of his name, on this occasion, might thus be accounted for by association. The agent's account of the matter is as follows : — Newbridge Road, Bath. November 16th, 1885. In the year 1879, I was travelling, and in the course of my journey I had to stop at Gloucester. In getting out of the train, I fell, and was assisted to rise by one of the railway officials. He asked if I was hurt, and asked if I had anyone travelling with me. I replied ' No ' to both questions, and inquired why he asked. He replied, ' Because you called out
Newbridge Road, Bath. November 16th, 1885. In the year 1879, I was travelling, and in the course of my journey I had to stop at Gloucester. In getting out of the train, I fell, and was assis…
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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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