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Reflections such as these may strike the reader as flippant, but they were among the natural results of the…

Date of account: Published 1920
Source: True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural
Reference: True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural · selected passage 49
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Reflections such as these may strike the reader as flippant, but they were among the natural results of the circumstances

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Reflections such as these may strike the reader as flippant, but they were among the natural results of the circumstances. There was something so personal and intimate in these mid-day visits of the apparition, it was itself so seemingly tangible and even human, and in its expressions of thought and manifestations of emotion seemed to have experienced so slight an essential change from the conditions with which the living man had been acquainted, that there was little to excite horror in the event, after all. If the phantom had imparted to us no information, it had at least given us a hint that there was progress in the realms of the hereafter, and had awakened a vague belief that at the end of all there might be pardon.

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