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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
Read record →“Some years ago,” he said, “that house had the reputation for being very badly haunted, and not by one ghost, but by dozens
Read record →“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
Read record →“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
Read record →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
Read record →“A fairly satisfactory case,” I replied, “because I think this stone affords a clue to part of the mystery at least
Read record →Whilst some can apparently reveal themselves at will, others can only do so by stealing vitality from human beings or animals
Read record →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
Read record →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
Read record →I am often asked if I am a consistent medium
Read record →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
Read record →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
Read record →With regard to automatic or spirit writing, there is, I believe, just as much fraud practised
Read record →Snobbishness is responsible for much
Read record →If there are any places in London that should be more haunted than others, assuredly those places are the parks and commons
Read record →The property, Miss Carmichael informed me, passed to a distant relative, who, after trying in vain to let it, pulled it down
Read record →“You may laugh—so did I years ago, afore I took to this sort of thing
Read record →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
Read record →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
Read record →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
Read record →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
Read record →He looked at me searchingly, and then said: “I used to be a keeper here many years ago
Read record →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
Read record →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
Read record →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
Read record →I am acquainted with an old lady, who tells me that she often talks with Charles Dickens, Napoleon Bonaparte, Cardinal Newman and other eminents
Read record →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
Read record →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
Read record →The following week I had another rather strange experience in Liverpool
Read record →“This is hardly the house you would expect to see a ghost in, is it?” he remarked to me after luncheon
Read record →In a very famous haunted house in the West of England, during my investigations which were spread over a period of nine, not uninterruptedly consecutive, nights, manifestations took place twice, and on both occasions I stood up and spoke, but in neither case w
Read record →Hence, I am of the opinion that one can learn more from one spontaneous ghostly manifestation in a haunted house than from a thousand lectures, or a thousand books
Read record →“I made certain the Germans had got hold of me
Read record →I awoke Tanaka, and we went out into the garden
Read record →r two men—sometimes there were little taps, as though a tobacco pipe were being emptied of its ashes, but more often a curious noise was heard which sounded like ‘putter putter.’ About this time, an account appeared in all the Japanese newspapers of a bridge i
Read record →His argument was that, even were the spirits ‘laid,’ no one now would rent the house, and so he would not spend any money on it
Read record →My last experience occurred only a few days ago, as I was sitting on the stairs of a haunted house near Ealing
Read record →ssages of an intelligible though rather recondite character from "Myers" began to reach me indeed a week or two before the death of my son; and nearly all the messages received since his death differ greatly in character from those which in the old days were r
Read record →Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here
Read record →And when the method of communication is purely mental or telepathic, we are assured that the communicator 'on the other side' has to select from and utilise those ideas and channels which represent the customary mental scope of the medium; though by practised
Read record →In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less
Read record →To understand the intelligent tiltings of a table in contact with human muscles is a much simpler matter
Read record →I may state, for what it is worth, that as a matter of fact normal clues to identity are disliked, and, in so far as they are gratuitous, are even resented, by a good medium; for they are no manner of use, and yet subsequently they appear to spoil evidence
Read record →To comfort her my wife took her up to London to call on Mrs
Read record →The first message came to us through a recent friend of ours in London, Mrs
Read record →Ultimately I was able to take her anonymously and unexpectedly to an American medium, Mrs
Read record →There is some one here with a little difficulty; not fully built up; youngish looking; form more like an outline; he has not completely learnt how to build up as yet
Read record →Kennedy desired Lady Lodge to try with a different and independent medium, and therefore kindly arranged with Mr
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