Some Strange Ghost Stories.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 23 May 1890, Page 3

Some Strange Ghost Stories.

' » The Rev M. J. Savage, tin ad-" vanced Unitarian, describes his experien^og with the Spiritualism in the Forum. He boMs the sor^nd view that the world is perhaps a little too free with its theories as to what can happen and what cm". not happen. He hods that th« <' scientific method 1 ' is -the,, only method of knowledge, and. his in* , vastigations he says he has ruth .. lessly set aside* everything that b»& «»emed to occur where the con ditions were such that he coald not feel snre of bis fasts. But certain things to Jim inexplicable have oc* curred, and he submits snme speci . ment, frprn which we •' the Beview of Reviews " extract three :— • . - TELEPATHY EXTBAORDINABY. A merchant ship, bound for New "York, was on her homeward voyage i3h« was in the Indian Ocean. The. was engaged to be married bo a lady living in New Enulandr One day, early in the afternoon, he came, pale and excited, to one of his mates and exclaimed : " Tom, Kate haaj st died! I hive seeu h^r ditf!" The mate look edat him in amazement, not knowing what to make of such: talk But the captain and, described the whole seene — the room, her appearance, how the die j, and all the circum* Btances. So real was it to him, and each was the effect on him of hie grief that, for two or three weeks, he was carefully watchei lest he should do violence to himself. It was more than 150 days before the ship reached her harbour. During all this time no news was received from home But when at last the ship arrived at New York, it was found that Kate dM die at the time and under the circumstances seen and described by the captain off the coast of India. A TELI/TALE Sl'lltlT. At a sitting with a psychic friend there purported to be present the '• spirit of a lady I had known for years. She told me of a sister married and liviug in another State. She said : •' Mury is in a grent deal of trouble. She is passim? through the greatest so i row of her life. I wish I could make her know that I care. I wish you would write to her." As we talked the matter over, she explained it to me, tel ing me at first vaguely, a» though shrinking from speaking plainly, and then mpre clearly, making me understand that the husbind was the cause of her sorrow. I had not seen the husband more than once, and had never dreamed that they were not not happy. And the psychic had never heard of any such people. In this case, also, I wrote to the lady. I tod her I would exp'ain afterward, but for the present asked her only to let me know if she was in any special troub c ; and provided she was, and the nature of it was such that ihe could pr. perl.v do so, to te 1 me what it wa«. I received a reply '• private auA confidential," confirnr ing •vervtfeing tuut had been told me in prifacy etmy own study. Anil she c o»ed by asking me to bum the letter, adding th»t «h« would not for the world have have husband kuow that she had written it. AN AVNT ANNOUNCES HER OWN • DEATH 4 1-dy and gontlemai 1 vbUed a psychic The lady had an aunt who was ill in a city two or three hun. dred mi es away. "When the psychic had become entrat ced, the lady aslced hrr if she any impression as to the condition of her aunt. The reply was, " No." But, before the sitting was < vpt, the psychic exclaimed; "Why, your aunt is hire ! ' She has already passed away" " This cannot be true," said the lady ; " there must be some mistake. If, she bad died, they wou d te'egraphed ub immediately/ " Tut," the psychic insisted," sh* ia here And explains that she died about two o'o'ock this morning She also says a telegram has been sent, and you will find it at the house on your return." Here seemed a c:«arc«sefor a te*t. So. whi c ..the lady started for home, her brotberiu-law called at the house of a friend and told the story. While there, the husband came in. H nviug be«u away for some hours he had act heard of any telegram. But the friend no -ted himself at his <J> sic nnd wrote ort r. carehil account, ■wlicli aH three sig- ed on the spot Whoa they reached home. — two or