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This leads naturally to the consideration of the power of the imagination in the blind
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Many of the dreams present no special differentiation from those of the seeing, but the most carefully recorded ones usually reveal some traces of a defective or peculiar apperception
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king the point at which the visual centre begins its life; this indeed occurs at a much earlier age, and this centre from the outset and continuously increases in complexity and stability
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Heermann's observations also enable us to trace the anatomical conditions underlying the power of dream-vision
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[16] A further interesting question regarding the dream-vision of the partially blind is, How much must they be able to see in order to dream of seeing?
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[17] That even a comparatively slight disturbance of vision, affecting only a small portion of the visual experience, can leave a permanent trace upon the sight-centre is made very probable by a case (recorded by Dr
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I am merely a ghost hunter; merely one who honestly believes that he inherits in some degree the faculty of psychic perceptiveness from a long line of Celtic ancestry; and who is, and always has been, deeply and genuinely interested in all questions relative t
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That was in 1886; I was then a small boy, and now—now only—after I had long left the house, and was back in Dublin, with the experience of the strangling ghost still fresh in my mind, I began to wonder whether these strange sounds and shadows might not have be
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Then I turned my attention to the house in Blackrock, and fared no better
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Nothing was said about ghosts, and nothing was further from my parents’ minds when they took possession
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Subsequently, my father made a thorough search of the house, but he found no one, and as all the windows were fastened and the doors locked on the inside, we could only come to the conclusion that the figure my mother and Teddy and I had all seen was a ghost
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“No one told him the house was haunted; it was decided he should find that out for himself
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I have heard the dying screams of a woman murdered beneath my window; I have heard on hill and plain the cries of coyottes, panthers, jackals and hyenas; and I have many times listened to the dismal hooting of night birds, when riding alone through the seclusi
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I felt that nothing but a spirit of unadulterated evil could have made such a noise, and that it had come to gloat over my misfortunes—to let me know how greatly it rejoiced at the cruel blow I had suffered
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I remember the passage well, for two of my fellow students were on board, and we spent nearly all the time on deck, telling ghost tales, and earnestly discussing the possibility of a future life
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I then went to Perth, and there, quite by chance, met a Mr
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“I don’t know whether that will do much good,” I observed
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It was in San Francisco that I had my first experience with an American ghost
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As I did not answer, she went in search of me, and finding me, as she thought, standing on the hearthrug of the parlour with my back to her, she touched me on the shoulder
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“Some years ago,” he said, “that house had the reputation for being very badly haunted, and not by one ghost, but by dozens
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“At the conclusion of this exhibition I managed somehow to get away, and was walking to the elevator, when I saw something slink past us
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“For goodness sake, don’t let on, sir,” he said, “because the boss has forbidden any of the staff to mention it, and if he found out I’d told you, he’d sack me at once
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I kept asking myself that question long after she had left me, and the echoes of her high-heeled shoes along the passage and down the stairs had ceased
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“A fairly satisfactory case,” I replied, “because I think this stone affords a clue to part of the mystery at least
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Whilst some can apparently reveal themselves at will, others can only do so by stealing vitality from human beings or animals
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During the year I was in York Road I thoroughly explored the East End, and in the coffee houses and restaurants of Poplar, Deptford, Tilbury and Whitechapel I heard many first-hand accounts of hauntings
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I mentioned my experience one day to an habitué of the place, and he quite casually informed me that several men who went there had had similar experiences, and he thought the landlord, if approached tactfully, might offer some sort of explanation
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I am often asked if I am a consistent medium
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In olden times, when people were really psychic, those versed in the art from their childhood upwards could only raise a ghost with great difficulty, and often, only by resorting to spells, many of which were of a very subtle and complex nature
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nmitigated humbug has only to describe the alleged presence with a little elasticity, and the description will surely fit—albeit somewhat loosely—one or another of our departed friends
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With regard to automatic or spirit writing, there is, I believe, just as much fraud practised
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Snobbishness is responsible for much
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If there are any places in London that should be more haunted than others, assuredly those places are the parks and commons
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The property, Miss Carmichael informed me, passed to a distant relative, who, after trying in vain to let it, pulled it down
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“You may laugh—so did I years ago, afore I took to this sort of thing
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The cinders of the volcano have been hot for some time—they are now burning hot—and the hour is fast approaching when they will arise mightily in a red conflagration
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We have never had one yet, but the hour may not be far distant when we shall demand one.” This is what the people of leisure might learn, if they visited the haunts I visit; and they might learn more beside
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Of course, it is not every mine that is haunted in this way, or every miner that sees such sights, for the Unknown confines its manifestations to the few, but I firmly believe such phenomena do happen, because as I state in my “Byways of Ghostland” (W
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count for it, the horse obviously has seen something, and it has only been by dint of the utmost coaxing and petting that the sagacious animal has been persuaded to continue its course
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He looked at me searchingly, and then said: “I used to be a keeper here many years ago
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I am very averse from any attempt to invoke spirits, either through the aid of spells or mediums, by table-turning, or by automatic writing
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I have met a good many professional mediums—so-called clairvoyants, aura tellers, psychometrists, materialising mediums, and the like, and none of them have convinced me that they can do all that they profess to do
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If a veteran actor were to say to me, “Look here, I have watched that woman very carefully when she was supposed to go into a trance, and to speak in an entirely different voice from her own, and I am convinced she is merely acting,” I should be inclined to be
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I am acquainted with an old lady, who tells me that she often talks with Charles Dickens, Napoleon Bonaparte, Cardinal Newman and other eminents
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In my holidays, which I usually spent in London or the Midlands, never in Cornwall—I always flew away from the precincts of the schoolroom the moment we broke up—I had often gone ghost-hunting, and I now determined to make use of my experiences
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On one occasion, in Brighton, I had taken advantage of a slightly open window to enter a tiny house I had been told was very badly haunted
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The following week I had another rather strange experience in Liverpool
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“This is hardly the house you would expect to see a ghost in, is it?” he remarked to me after luncheon
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