Place withheld · 1886-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
My cook, to whom I had not mentioned my presentiment, remarked to me on the same morning : 'I have had such a horrible dream about Mrs. J., I think she must be going to die.' She distinctly remembers that some one (she does not know who, and I think never did) told her in her dream that Mrs. J. was dead. The following is the first-hand evidence to the dream : — January 11th, 1886. I remember that some one in my dream said ' Mrs, J. is dead.' I do not remember the rest of the dream, but I know it was horrible. I told Mrs. Bettany at the time, and she then told me about her presentiment about Mrs. J.
The date of the dream was firmly fixed in my mind, because it came the one night that I passed at the house of Mrs. Paine's father. I well remember telling Mrs. Paine the dream in the mornin…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
I beg to state that I perfectly remember my daughter telling me all about her dream within a few hours of its having occurred . It afterwards struck us all (her father as well as myself and …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
My friend Miss P., who was with me that night, I have lost sight of for years. Yes, I often dream, but I have not realised a death in an illustrated form except that once. [One rather distru…
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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