An account

My late husband was alone, at his old home in Norfolk, when he heard the moaning I told you of. He was shortly after (the same afternoon, I think) telegraphed for to go to Dieppe to see his mother. He was quite unaware, till he got the telegram, that she was ill. He returned to Selhurst, where we were living, and where I was, on his way to Dieppe, and then told me about this noise. On his return from Dieppe, after his mother's death, he said, ' You remember my telling you of the moaning I heard at D. The first sound I heard in the house at Dieppe was the same, and it was my mother making it.' He further added that he was told she had made it for a day or two. I am perfectly clear about his hearing it first at night in the house, and on the following morning in the shrubberies, which were a little distance from the house. I never heard either my husband or his father speak of ever hearing sounds, or seeing anything before or after the occurrences I have mentioned [^.e., this case and case 1921. They were both matter-of-fact men, and very free from superstitious ideas. I was a young woman at the time these things took place (I am only 41 now), so my memory of them is very clear and good. Six weeks or two months after my husband heard these sounds, we were together at D., and he showed me the spot in the shrubbery where the sound had been loudest. [If the percipient's experience had been confined to the moaning heard in the night, the incident would not have been worth attending to, for reasons to be immediately adduced. But the continuance of the sound during the day, and out of doors, makes a decided diflference.] I 6. We now come to a few specimens of the non-vocal soundphantasms — the mere noises or shocks — which are the parallel among auditory hallucinations to the rudimentary visual hallucinations which were considered in the last chapter. But the auditory cases need a far more jealous scrutiny, before we are justified in regarding them as even probably telepathic in origin. Odd noises, especially at night, are very common phenomena ; and though the particular cause of them is often hard to detect, the physical conditions of our indoor life are prolific of possible causes- Most of us are in constant proximity to wind that may blow through crevices, and rattle or flap or dislodge loose parts of our windows and walls and chimneys ; and to water in pipes or cisterns that may leak, or burst, or may contain bubbling air; and to slates that may fall ; and to wooden furniture and floors that may crack and creak. And if