THE SUPERNATURAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 917, 14 February 1882, Page 3

THE SUPERNATURAL.

It will be news to most people that Mr J. N. Maskelyne, the well-known expqser ot spiritualistic and kindred frauds, is a believer in ghosts. Yet he writes to the Daily Telegraph which has lately been filling its columns with descriptions of apparitions in various parts of England :—“ It may surprise pome of your readers to learn that I am a believer in apparations. Several

; similar occurrences to those described b; many of your correspondents have takei place in my own lamdy, and in tin families of near friends and rela ives. The most remarkable one happened tc ray wife’s mother some years ago. Lau one evening, whilst sitting alone busily engaged with her needle, a strange sensation oame over her, and upon looking up, she distinctly saw her aged xnothei standing at the end of the room. She rubbed her weary eye?; and looked again, but the spectre had vanished. She concluded it was imagination, and retired to rest, thinking nothing more of the-vision, until the next day brought the news that her mother, at about-*the same time the apparition had appeared. had fallen down in a fit and expired s *; I will also relate a circumstance which happed to myself, as it may thro w some light common a- hoy and learning to «ot o’ut of myj^ e pth| and was very - insensible when taken out of the My sensations were similar to those which often been .described by others. After the terrible feeling of suffocation I fell into a pleasant swoon, and a panorama of all the principle incidents ot my life passed before me. The last thing I could remember was a vivid picture of my home. I saw my mother, and could describe minutely where she sat, and what she was doing. Upon returning home I kept the secret of had happened from her. She, Mm>vever,i questioned me and ;said she felt strangely and anxious about me, and thought some accident had befallen me. I am convinced that had it been might-time, and my mother alone, with little to occupy her attention, she would have seen my gjiost, sad perhaps the ghost of the water which closed over my head, as plainly as I saw her ghost and the ghost of the room in which she was sitting. In after years, when pondering oyer these and other facts, I came to the conclusion that it was quite possible for one mind occasionally to influence another, no matter how great the distance apart, especially where ‘ two hearts beat as one ’ or, more correctly speaking, where two brains vibrate in unison.”