EERIE SPIRIT VISIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 601, 1 March 1929, Page 9

EERIE SPIRIT VISIT

DEAD AIRMAN COMES BACK STRANGE STORY BY WIFE (Australian and N.Z. Press Associa(ion) LONDON, Thursday. The widow of Captain Hinchcliffe who, with the Hon. Elsie Mackay, was lost last year in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic, told a gathering of women she had received an eerie night visit from her husband’s spirit. Mrs. Hinchcliffe said that she and three friends, one of whom was a medium, were awakened by the sound of heavy footsteps. It was just the same sound she used to hear when her husband left the house on early morning flying duty, wearing his heavy flying boots. At a subsequent seance, said the widow, she was in communication with her dead husband and asked him about that visit. He said he had been in the house on the night in question. He added that he had been very busy trying to impress the people on earth with the value of aviation and instructing them. Mrs. Hinchcliffe remarked to her audience that already she noticed several flyers had taken up spiritualism. That, she attributed to her husband. The widow went on to say that at the seance Hinchcliffe said he had met many of the “old crowd” again who had been killed in the war. He had manifested himself holding a large torch, the light of which fell on the faces of the sitters, who saw him and signed a certificate to that effect.