AnomalyI beg to say that at no time, except on the occasion referred to by me in my previous letter, have I woke from sleep with the impression of having been called In fact this was the only occasion in my life in which I heard or saw anything unusual. The collective character of these two experiences is clearly very doubtful ; they may not have been due to any agency on the 178 COLLECTIVE CASES. [chap. part of Captain Battersby's father, or connected with each other. But considering that the accidental coincidence of the two unique experiences would be most improbable, and that a hypnotic rapport probably existed between Captain Battersby and his patient, it is a reasonable supposition that his mind was either the source or the channel of a telepathic communication to hers.
Place withheld · 1886-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
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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.