SPIRITUALISM

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1929, Page 5

SPIRITUALISM

A REMARKABLE STORY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 9.25 a.in.) LONDON, Dec. 2L A lively interest in spiritualism, owing to the presence of the world’s reputed best medium, Schneider Marjory, has induced the “Evening Standard” to invite readers to tell their otvii experiences.

Amidst a mass of truly remarkable versions, is one featured to-day, which is calculated to arouse a controversy and appears entitled to be ’regarded as the world’s most extraordinary ghost story. A letter from Dorothy Reeves, wife of the dirt track rider who was killed at Leicester speedway on 22nd September, three months ago states r

My husband was killed at 9.5 p.m. Three days afterwards I was drawn like a magnet to the Speedway with an uncontrollable desire to walk on thy track. 1 was accompanied bv my husband’s friend and former mechanics. Upon reaching the spot where he was killed I lost thought of my companions, because my husband was waiting with his own racing model. He smiled and nodded to me to mount the pillion. I miraculously was a ole to do so and we completed the course together, lie talking and laughing throughout, until reaching the paddock gate, he drove aff alone gradually being transformed into a ball of mist, Suddenly I returned to earth to find one mechanic sobbing heart brokenly, and the others pale and ill. The spectacle appeared at 9.5 p.m. To my intense relief the three men also witnessed it. Otherwise I should have thought myself insane. Prior to this I was a staunch disbeliever, pohoohing the spirit idea. Although my luuhancl was credited with great pliyehie powers, lie vowed that lie would convert me if it took a hundred years. During the I **tul race meeting he had a presentiment that he would die that day, but'n-nie could dissuade him from riding. Two months previously he chose and autographed the wood for his coffin. Though now convinced of the lire spiritual sphere, I do not understand why the material motor cycle could appear. This same machine was in a nearby workshop entirely di An untied, and was emphatically not the one used on the fatal night. Several times since I have both seen and felt him, but lost the power of speech at such moments.