Place withheld · 1884-08-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
At or about the time in question, and on more occasions than one, I have imagined that I heard people calling me, but, I may add, this experience is now seldom or ever happening to me. 1 By a slip, Mrs. Fagan has called her nephew by her son's name — Christopher, instead of George. xviii.] COLLECTIVE CASES. 175 Major Collis writes to us on August 2, 1884 : — 3, Barton Terrace, Dawlish. In reply to the questions you ask, I have never had experience of any other auditory hallucination : neither have I ever had any hallucinations of the senses whatever.
Sitapur, August 25th, 1883. So far as my memory serves, the statement of Major Collis is correct as to the curious coincidence of which he has told you. He was certainly staying in my house …
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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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