A Ghost
BY LAFCADIO HEARN I Perhaps the man who never wanders away from the place of his birth may pass all his life without knowing ghosts; but the nomad is more than likely to make their acquaintance. I refer to the civilized nomad, whose wanderin... A Premonition Of Sir H M Stanley
This incident is related by the famous explorer, Sir Henry M. Stanley, in his autobiography edited by Dorothy Stanley (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909), on pages 207-208. Stanley, then a private in the Confederate Army, was captured in the battle of S... A Witch's Den
BY MME. HELENA BLAVATSKY Our kind host Sham Rao was very gay during the remaining hours of our visit. He did his best to entertain us, and would not hear of our leaving the neighborhood without having seen its greatest celebrity, its most inter... Ben Jonson's Premonition By Apparition
This eminent dramatist, contemporary of Shakespeare (1573?-1637), visited the Scottish poet, William Drummond, who took notes of his conversations which he afterwards published in the form of a book. One incident which Jonson related and Drummond re... Coincident Experiences Of General Fremont And Relatives
These are related on pages 69-72 of Recollections of Elizabeth Benton Fremont, Daughter of the Pathfinder General John C. Fremont and Jessie Benton Fremont His Wife. After describing a terrible experience of her father and his men in 1853, while ... Ghosts In Solid Form
BY GAMBIER BOLTON Ex-Pres. The Psychological Society, London, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., etc. CHAPTER I "A single grain of solid fact is worth ten tons of theory." "The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, th... Incidents Related By Dean Hole
The Very Rev. Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester, England, was not only an effective preacher and popular lecturer, but likewise the author of fascinating books, composed of reminiscences and shrewd and witty comments upon men and affairs. He m... Incidents Reported By Serjeant Ballantine
Serjeant William Ballantine (1812-1887) was one of the foremost lawyers in England, noted for his skill in cross-examination. He was counsel in the Tichborne claimant case, one of the most celebrated in the history of the English courts, and in the ... Joseph: A Story
BY KATHERINE RICKFORD They were sitting round the fire after dinner--not an ordinary fire--one of those fires that has a little room all to itself with seats at each side of it to hold a couple of people or three. The big dining room was pane... Ligeia
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE "And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will prevading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself t... Nature-spirits Or Elementals
BY NIZIDA "Life is one all-pervading principle, and even the thing that seems to die and putrefy but engenders new life and changes to new forms of matter. Reasoning, then, by analogy--if not a leaf, if not a drop of water, bu... Photographing Invisible Beings
BY WM. T. STEAD "Millions of Spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep." --MILTON It was during the South African War that my father obtained one of his best authenticated spirit photographs... Phychic Tests
The tests given to me and to my fellow-investigators through the six sensitives who so ably assisted us during our seven years of experimental work in this little-known field of research--the tests have been so numerous, and were of such a varied ch... Precautions Against Fraud
We are now ready to see what happens at a typical experimental meeting for these materializations, at hundreds of which I have assisted, having the services of no less than six sensitives placed at my disposal for this purpose. I will endeavor to de... Previsionary Dream By Charles Dickens
This incident in the experience of Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is to be found in the standard biography by Forster, III, pp. 484-5 (London, 1874). On May 30, 1863, Dickens wrote: "Here is a curious case at first-hand. On Thursday night in last wee...
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