Place withheld · 1883-03-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
June, 1885. (309) On the evening o£, I think, March 23rd, 1883, I was seized with an unaccountable anxiety about a neighbour, whose name I just knew, but with whom I was not on visiting terms. She was a lady who appeared to be in very good health. I tried to shake off the feeling, but I could not, and after a sleepless night, in which I constantly thought of her as dying, I decided to send a servant to the house to ask if all were well. The answer I received was, ' Mrs. J. died last night.' Her daughter afterwards told me that the mother had startled her by saying, ' Mrs. Bettany knows I shall die.' I had never felt an interest in the lady before that memorable night. After the death, the family left the neighbourhood, and I have not seen any of them since.
January 9th, 1884. If anything I can say to you will be of any use, I will willingly give my testimony to all my husband has said. I remember perfectly ten years ago my visit to my mother's,…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
I have never before or since suffered from any experience of the kind [i.e., had any visual hallucination]. I cannot give you the date, it was so long ago. Still, the past days are often pre…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
The Vicarage, . December 9th, 1884. In reference to the subject of your note, I am able to say that I had 394 SUPPLEMENT. [chap. no means of knowing that the lady in question was ailing or e…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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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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