A QUAINT COMPACT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 2 December 1927, Page 6

A QUAINT COMPACT

WHISPER OF “I AM DEAD” GHOST BROUGHT BACK BY TELEPATHY. MOTHER’S VOICE. A peer made a compact with a friend to the effect that whichever of the two died first he should let the other know. Time passed, and the peer had almost forgotten the compact. Then one day he was startled by hearing a voice which he identified at once as that or his friend. It whispered in his car: “I am dead.” Later he received news of his friend’s death. He had died at the very moment the peer had heard him. This is only one of the thousands of instances that can bo cited that seem to show that it is possible toi two minds separated from one another ty uny length of distance to communicate without any extreme up paratus (writes Elliott O’Donnell m the “Weekly Dispatch.”) Here is a very ordinary yet extraordinary occurrence, which almost everyone often experiences. Somo stranger is walking in front of you in the street, or perhaps is seated with his back to you in some public place. He glances round at you, apparently because you have been regarding him fixedly for a few seconds. I not infrequently amuse myself experimenting in this fashion, and in nine cases out of ten I succeeded. The person I am vicitimising almost invariably turns to look inquiringly at me. I am, therefore, convinced that whatever else may be the explanation of this phenomenon—telepathy or what not—mere chance and coincidence must be ruled out. EXPERIMENT IN TELEPATHY. One experiment 1 made went far to convince me of the truck of telepathy. A lady living iu a house in Wellingtou square, Chelsea, which sue daclared- to bo haunted invited me to hold a vigil there one evening. There were four of us, the lady and her sister, another man, and myself. Wo sat in the dark. I resolved to perform a little experiment in telepathy. I accordingly concentrated very intensely on my person assuming somo inghtful snape, rising from the chair and springing on the lady opposite. Presently the lady gave . u loud scream. Ou my asking what was Lite mattei, she exclaimed: “Don't, don’t. Keep away iront me.” “I am not doing anything," 1 said. “I’m in iny chair.” “You were not when I called out,” she replied. “I saw you suddenly assume a. frightful shape, and rising from your chair look us if you were about to spring on mo.” I had through telepathy conveyed to that one person present, just what 1 wanted her to conceive. I myself witnessed a very good case of telepathy some years ago xn Bournemouth. I was out boating one clay with an old sailor and a visitor in the town, Mr Marshall. After we had been sailing some distance from the shore Maishall suddenly exclaimed: “I am very sorry, but I must ask you to laud me. I believe my mother is very ill and wants to see me immediately. I’m sure I heard her whisper in my ear: ‘Come home nt once, 1 mast sec you.’ ” He forthwith made for the beach. When I next met Marshall he told me ho had taken the first train to London and found his mother ill in bed, but very surprised to see him back, She had, she said, filled jn a telegraph form asking him to come at once, but bud not sent it, as she had suddenly taken a turn . for. the better. rthe had written the form at halfpast 11, which was exactly the time that he thought he heard her whisper in his ear. DREAM OF A WOMAN. In the twenties of the last century Herr Wesernianii, of Duseldorf, a Government official, determined to see if ho could make a particular friend of his (“A. B.”) dream of a woman who had been dead several years. Accordingly, at half-past 10 one evening, lie sat alone in his room, concentrating with all his might on making “A. B. ” who was many miles distant, see the woman. Now, it so happened that at halfpast 10 on this particular evening “A. 8.,” instead of being in bed, as usual was sitting m his parlour entertaining a brother officer. The two meu were talking together, when the door opened, and they both saw a woman in white, with a black kerchief round her head, standing on the threshold. She nodded in a kindly way,' then left. The following day Wqsermann communicated with “A. B.” tolling him of his experiment and asking him if it had produced any result. The description Wcsennann gave of the xlead woman he had willed “A. and B.”-to dream about tallied minutely with the figure ‘A. B.” and his compaion had seen. Out of the unexpected result there arises the question: Was the figure seen by two men subjective (that is to say, visualised in the brain through telepbathic communication) or was it a phantasm of the dead, brought to the spot from The Unknown through Herr Wcscrnianifh exceptionally powerful instrumentality?