Place withheld · 1886-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
Hooded
My sister has always, when I have talked of the vision, said she saw it so likewise, and she reiterated that only last summer, but she is not equal to write about it. I quite see the weak point, if the church was not searched inside. I can't say it tvas, nor can I say it was not. Old George, the man, was most fond of his master, and may have gone into the church; but I can't say. I only know we were all so terribly frightened. The vision was sudden, so true to life, and even to the particular long cloak, all gathered in to a collar clasped at the throat. I ought to have said that the figure seemed in the act of going in by the vestry door : we did not see him enter, as we drove on in great fright to the house. My father was then under medical treatment at Northampton. Mrs. R. gives details, showing the absolute impossibility that her father 210 COLLECTIVE CASES. [chap. could really have left Northampton, being a dying man, so to speak, when admitted, and come to the spot where he was seen, unknown to all his friends. Then, again, she adds, the church was always kept locked, the keys at the parsonage, supposing for a moment that we saw a living figure. I recollect that inquiry was made of the villagers as to any strange gentleman having been seen about, and the answer was ' No.' Asked whether she or her sister have ever had a hallucination of the senses on any other occasion, Mrs. R. says, I can emphatically answer 'No,' for both of us. Her sister was about 19 at the time, and she herself 11 — - a fresh young child with perfect nerves.
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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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