"CAN ANIMALS SEE GHOSTS ?”

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 7

"CAN ANIMALS SEE GHOSTS ?”

HORSE STOPS SUDDENLY AND the driver is startled by AN APPARITION. j. "Can animals see ghosts ?” is a question that has been raised in the London press, and some curious stories are related. All London is discussing them. One story is that of a parson's experience with Ids horse and an alleged ghost. He was driving along a country road when the horse suddenly stopped, pricked up its ears, and looked straight .ahead as if startled At the same time the parson saw the apparition of a man. Had the same ghostly figure been apparent to the horse? Later, the clergyman learned that other persons had seen the apparition at tlie same spot, and that a man had committed suicide there.

The following is related in one of Canon MacColl’s books : A young woman who possessed a dog o i which she. was very fond, left home on a visit to friends at a distance; One day, during her absence, her dog, chancing to look out of a drawingroom window, uttered a bark of joy and rushing out upon Iho lawn, where it begun leaping and barking on one spot, as if in recognition of a friend standing there. Then, suddenly stopping, it looked up, uttered a howl of terror and rushed back trembling into the house News soon after arrived that at that eery time the absent owner of the dog had died. Rider Haggard’s experience in this connection is worth retelling. He dreamed that his daughter’s retriever dog was lying among some brush wood beside water, and Mr. Haggard realised in his dream that it was dying. It was afterward discovered that the dog had been rim over by a train on the night of the dream and its body was found in a neighboring river.