Place withheld · 1886-02-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
Voices
February 15th, 1886. With reference to the time of the death of my father, it was on the 21st November, 1855. He was found dead in the fields between Llantrissant Station and Lanclay House, Llantrissant, where he had for many years resided as house-steward to Lady Mary Cole. [In conversation Mr. Hutchins has explained that his father was last seen alive, walking from the station, and apparently in perfect health, about 6 p.m., and that his body was found soon after 9 o'clock the same evening.] My mother was in our cottage — Rose Cottage — near Penrice Castle, where we usually resided during summer. She was preparing to leave just preparatory to closing the place for the winter. My father left her on the morning of the day of his death, [having been requested to superintend some work at a distance]. At the time when I wrote to you, the circumstances were more vivid in my memory than at present ; consequently I cannot actually say whether my mother said, 'Your father appeared to me,' in connection with his voice. But this I distinctly remember : my mother said, ' I heard your father call me by my name, Mary, Mary, and then I went to the door ; and I have not been in bed since.' In conversation, however, it appeared that Mr. Hutchins is morally certain that the experience was visual as well as auditory. 112 FURTHER AUDITORY CASES [chap. In a later letter, Mr. Hutchins expressed some doubt as to the year of the occurrence ; and we find from the Register of Deaths that the death took place on November 21st, 1853, not 1855.
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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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