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"There is an old Manor House in this district which is locally known as the 'Haunted House.' The original mansion was, according to Hasted, one of the homes of the Colepepers
Read record →It came walking along in close proximity to his feet
Read record →Mr Spence and two other gentlemen came down to my house in the afternoon to hear my detail; but, sir, could I account for these noises from natural causes, yet, so firmly am I persuaded of the horrid apparition, that I would affirm that what I saw with my eyes
Read record →en minutes to twelve we both heard a noise, as if a number of people were pattering with their bare feet upon the floor; and yet, so singular was the noise, that I could not minutely determine from whence it proceeded
Read record →"What I have thus tried to describe in many words, I saw at a glance
Read record →On the whole I can find no class of occult phenomena of greater antiquity and persistence than that of haunting
Read record →About two years since, during an exceptionally dry season, it became absolutely necessary to obtain a further supply of brewing water; hence several boring experiments were made on the property
Read record →These physical phenomena consist chiefly of table rapping, table moving, ringing of bells, and various other manifestations for which a normal cause is not apparent
Read record →Hall, the present Earl of Dunraven, Earl of Crawford, Dr Hawksley, Mrs Nassau Senior, Mr P
Read record →He has various explanations for other of the phenomena, but he confesses that there remain a few manifestations which the hypothesis of simple trickery does not seem to fit
Read record →"I was sitting with Mr Home and Lord Adare and a cousin of his
Read record →He was a clergyman and a scholar, an M.A
Read record →Mrs Speer tells us that they sat in the fire-light, and that the seances were held in more or less complete darkness
Read record →All physical occurrences are normal that are capable of being produced by a clever conjurer; and there is no doubt that with due preparation such a one could achieve table rapping, introduce flowers and move furniture
Read record →Most of the phenomena discussed by Dr Maxwell were obtained through the mediumship of Eusapia Paladino
Read record →In the same way as certain psychical phenomena, such as automatic writing, trance, "controls," crystal vision, and so forth, in which an intelligence seems to be present independent of the intelligence of the medium, can be shown beyond dispute to be merely ma
Read record →A number of English scientists, interested in the reports of her seances, induced her to come to England and repeat them at Cambridge
Read record →It is one thing to exert consciously or unconsciously, as Home, Cook, Paladino, Moses and other mediums have done, in the presence of scientifically trained witnesses, unknown and supernormal muscular power
Read record →He pointed out that there were two classes of so-called materialisations: (1) forms with flexible features, commonly bearing a strong resemblance to the medium, which move and speak
Read record →ou will be bound in honour to accept all the rules laid down by our Spirit controls, and by the leader of the meeting, as to the conditions under which the meetings are held, such as the darkened room, the holding of hands so as to form a strongly magnetic rin
Read record →So long as spiritualists, as I have before remarked, maintain this attitude, so long must they meet with incredulity on the part of official science
Read record →"First, several faces, one after another, of great beauty appeared, and in amazement we saw--and as I was standing close up to the medium, even touching him--I saw most plainly, several times, a perfect face and form of exquisite womanhood partially issue from
Read record →Not till ten years later did a photographer named Hudson succeed, with the aid of a medium, in producing spirit pictures
Read record →A conviction of fraud having entered the minds of the sceptically inclined, the exposure of a certain Parisian photographer, Buguet, shook the faith of the credulous
Read record →One of the most curious instances of a ghost photograph occurred in the summer of 1892
Read record →Another ghost picture described by Mr Podmore was probably caused in a similar way
Read record →To this cult has been given the name of spiritualism (or spiritism, as some of the newer devotees prefer to call it)
Read record →If, unknown to a living soul, your wife or sister accidentally dropped half-a-sovereign down a deep well, and whilst she was still continuing to hug her little secret to her bosom you were present at a clairvoyant sitting where the medium in a trance informed
Read record →But it is in 1892 that her real history begins
Read record →"It is Helene's extra-planetary experiences, however, which have excited most attention, and which furnished to the attendants at her circle the most convincing proofs of her dealings with the spiritual world
Read record →Flournoy, in spite of his long investigation, can find no explanation of the supernormal to fit the case
Read record →Of Stainton Moses I have already spoken
Read record →"That Mrs Thompson is possessed of knowledge not normally obtained I regard as established beyond a doubt; that the hypothesis of fraud, conscious or unconscious, on her part fails to explain the phenomena seems to be equally certain; that to more causes than
Read record →Almost alone amongst mediums of note, Mrs Piper of Boston has never resorted to physical phenomena, her powers being entirely confined to trance manifestations
Read record →"As you remember, I came to the meeting with my wife; when Mrs Piper entered the trance state Mrs Shaler took her hand
Read record →"I cannot determine how probable it is that the medium, knowing she was to have a sitting with you in Cambridge, or rather a number of them, took pains to prepare for the tests by carefully working up the family history of your friends
Read record →She made so many correct statements at many individual sittings, and the proportion of successful sittings is so high, that it is very difficult to attribute fraud to her
Read record →His report contains the verbatim record of seventeen sittings, and no pains have been spared to make the record complete
Read record →he testimony concerning coincident dreams, hallucinations, mediumistic manifestations, materialisation, and clairvoyance might mystify, it was all capable of normal explanation--there was nothing supernatural about it
Read record →But I carefully guarded myself from conviction until I had read the evidence--even to a resume of this medium's utterances last year in London under the auspices of the Society for Psychical Research--and I assert with confidence that no metaphysical theory ha
Read record →True, miracles do not happen: but there are events of frequent occurrence in this age, as in all ages of which we have a record, which are miraculous in the sense of their being supernormal--for which science offers no consistent explanation
Read record →In its first part this book deals with the exposure of all kinds of trickery resorted to by fraudulent "mediums" in producing alleged spiritistic phenomena--slate-writing, sealed letters, materialisation etc.,--and explains clearly, by description and illustra
Read record →Every excuse she could think of, to save herself, she made
Read record →In a few minutes he heard his big spear fall down
Read record →Witchcraft.--The lesson which witchcraft teaches with regard to the validity of human testimony is the more remarkable because it was so long and so completely misunderstood
Read record →Mesmer.--Again, the latent possibilities of "suggestion,"--though not yet under that name, and mingled with who knows what else?--broke forth into a blaze in the movement headed by Mesmer;--at once discoverer and charlatan
Read record →But in the midst of this long series, and in full analogy to many minor cases, occurs the exceptional trance-history of Emmanuel Swedenborg
Read record →We gradually discovered that the accounts of apparitions at the moment of death--testifying to a supersensory communication between the dying man and the friend who sees him--led on without perceptible break to apparitions occurring after the death of the pers
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