PROPHETIC DREAMER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9419, 15 April 1909, Page 7

PROPHETIC DREAMER.

New York, February 20. -Dr. James H. Hyslop, former Professor of Logic and Ethics at Columbia University, and now editor of the Journal of the American Society for Physical Research, is at present investigating the case of Mrs Harry H. Shipley, of Columbus, 0., who has had remarkable dreams for many years which in every case oame true. Professor Hyslop went to Columbus to see Mrs Shipley, and to hear from her own-lips what she had to say about her dreams, and he has returned much impressed by what be learaedi Mrs Shipley is a deeply religious woman, 48 years-old—a kindly, gentle, home-loving American woman—and she has bad prophetic dreams since' she was 8 years old. When a dream impresses her she “rises, makes a careful note of the time, and writes cut the dream, afterwards making a type-written copy of it. She is careful; too, to tell one or more of her intimate friends the nature of the dream as soon as possible in the morning. The dreams are usually premonitions of the deaths of friends,' and in some oases of . parsons she has never seen, but some of them touch the little things of every-day life. Mrs Shipley has so many dreams of death now that come ’true, that she no longer tells them for fear of alarming those most concerned. * The following are gome typical oases, duly attested by witnesses:— September, 19 03. Dreamed that a Miss Tanner was being burned to death. Miss Tanner was burned to death three years later. October 25th, 1903. Dreamed that a Mr Smith Spencer, a relative, came to say gcod-bye, and kissed her. Mr Spencer died at' the very hour at which the dream occurred. February, 1907. Dreamed that she saw a Mrs McKeever in a coffin travelling on a railway line. Mrs McKee vei*'died the same morning, and her body was removed by rail. *