Place withheld · 1885-03-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
Voices
March 18th, 1885. In regard to the voice which I heard call my name on the 19th February, 1882, I recognised it instantly as being that of my mother. It was very loud, sharp, and impetuous, as if frightened at something Our house is detached, very quiet, and the only inmates of the house beside myself were two gentlemen, aged respectively 58 and 37, and a widowed daughter-in-law [of the elder gentleman] who had lived with them five years ; and not one of them knew my Christian name. I was thunderstruck, and ran out of my room to see if I could account for the voice. / told the lady the same morning. I never saw anything I thought supernatural, and only once before had anything like a similar hallucination. [This other experience took place 1 2 years previously, when Miss Burrows and her mother heard some sounds which seemed to them unaccountable.] My father and mother were not superstitious people, and a healthier family could not possibly be than ours. In answer to inquiries, Miss Burrows adds : — I heard the voice call my name on the Sunday morning at 8. My mother was dying, and quite unconscious, from the Saturday night (the night before) until the Monday at 8 a.m., when she died. We find from an obituary notice in the Bury Guardian that Mrs. Burrows died on Monday, February 20, 1882. Mrs. Griffiths, of 31, Rosaville Road, Fulham Road, S.W., confirms as foUows:— March 25th. I am very glad to be able to corroborate the statement made by Miss Burrows, about hearing herself called by name at the time of her mother's death. I cannot remember the exact date, but it was a Sunday morning in February, 1882, and when I came down to breakfast she told me about it, and said that a voice called ' Lizzy ' distinctly, and it sounded just like her mother's. The next morning she had the news of her mother's death ; and she had not any idea that she was ill before, so that it could not have been fancy.
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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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