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STfiANGE THINGS
AMONG US.
H. SPICER,
SECOND EDITION.
WITH ADDENDA.
LONDON:
CHAPMAN & HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1864
The Right of Translation is reserved.
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WITH COMPLIMENTS,
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BY
THE AUTHOR.
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A VERY small portion of this work has been
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already before the public in the pages of All
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CONTENTS.
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The story of Power of Magnetoid
Old Nell."
Currents on Material Substances. Phenomena of
the Death-chamber. The Silver Knell. The late
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CONTENTS.
amples. Lady S .
Captain N .
Hypothe-
ses. Extraordinary Eecent Instances. Mrs. D .
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STRANGE THINGS AMONG US.
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INTRODUCTORY. 3
B 2
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does one error launch the best-told tale, with all its
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A SHORT STOKY. 5
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brief comment, / saw him."
" into which we should
This is the " how inquire ;
and even were the extra -natural occurrences not
demonstrable to every understanding, and should
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THE INQUIRY LEGITIMATE. 7
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subject." (Protoplast.}
The writer inclines to the opinion that super-
natural appearances, occurring in close relation to
passing events, have their origin, indeed, in the un-
healthy action of the brain, but are used by the
Omnipotent for a manifested purpose and a special
end. In this manner he conceives the disturbed
brain of the guilty Saul produced an image of
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THE SUBJECT INEXHAUSTIBLE. 9
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depth."
With this persuasion of the restricted character of
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INDIFFEEENCE OF PROFESSORS. 11
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MESMERISM. 13
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magnetism alone !
physician.
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MESMEEISM. 15
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MESMERISM. 17
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TABLE-TURNING. 19
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THE MAGNETOSCOPE. 21
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stander-by.
Concerning the adaptation of the magnetoscope to
the purposes of phrenology, it is necessary to speak
with more reserve. True, the doctor affirmed that to
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KEMAEKABLE EXPEEIMENTS. 23
* The writer has since been informed that this society has
ceased to exist.
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MAGNETIC PHENOMENA. 25
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tended " spirit- writings " may have had their origin
in this morbid characteristic ? Persons, whose truth-
ful lives forbid the
very idea of a sensible deceit,
* Morell's " Mental
Philosophy."
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SPIRIT-WHITINGS, HOW PKODUCED. 27
very hands.
Is it not an admitted fact that, in the electric
" Such
knowledge by no means a necessary
is
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" Left an
orphan at an early age, I was brought
up under the care of a kind-hearted friend and
godmother, who could scarcely have cherished me
more had I been her own offspring. She resided at
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CASE OF COLONEL M . 29
"
Hardly had the ball quitted my hand, when, a
second time I heard my name pronounced in a soft
and plaintive tone, but fainter than the former.
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tained.
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AFFINITIES OF DETACHED FORCES. 31
tivity.
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CONJECTURAL EXAMPLE. 33
name.
In a treatise intended to be little more than hypo-
thetical, it would be vain to discuss psychologically
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OLD NELL'S MUKDER. 35
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OLD NELL'S MTJEDEK. 37
occasions, whatever it
may appear to the confused
visionary, does not often exceed a few seconds
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PHENOMENA OF THE DEATH-CHAMBEK. 39
pass away.
A faithful servant of the writer's family, who
attended its two most cherished members in their
last illness, declared that the decease of ooth was
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ALLEGED OMENS. 41
peach time.
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A HAUNTED AMBASSADOR. 43
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* At the
moment of writing, a local journal announces :
"Incredible as it
may seem, it is said that experiments have
established the fact that
intelligible signals may be exchanged be-
tween distant stations without the intervention of artificial
any
conductor whatsoever, and with
equal success, whether the in-
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SINGULAR EXAMPLE. 45
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Lady S '&
curiosity was sufficiently aroused to
induce her to summon her maid, who slept in an
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ME. G .
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"
What, Edward, you here ?"
The figure immediately disappeared.
News shortly arrived that the young man had
perished at sea on that wild November night,
between the hours of twelve and two.
The late Mr. G ,
a gentleman of large property
in Norfolk, used to vouch for the following anec-
dote :
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opened.
One evening, as Mr. G sat at his fireside,
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CASE OF CAPTAIN N . 49
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HYPOTHESES. 51
complete.
It is utterly impossible to resist the conviction
illustration, Mrs. D ,
is a lady well known in
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REMARKABLE EECENT EXAMPLES. 53
A
minute had scarcely elapsed, when the door
apparition.
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''
By-the-bye, have you had any recent news from
the north? A rumour has reached us, I hardly
know how, that Mr. "W. D is dangerously ill
ing friends.
As quickly as news could reach Brighton, she
received intimation of Mr. D 's death, at the
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EEMAKKABLE EECENT EXAMPLES. 55
Lady C ,
from whose lips the former received
it:
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REMARKABLE EECENT EXAMPLES. 57
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THE BROTHERS. 59
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THE BROTHEKS. 61
before me.
" I had
not, as I have said, seen. George for ten
years. The once familiar face was again before my
eyes, showing just the change that period must have
made. The faint halo which seemed to encircle the
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CONFLICTING FEATUEES. 63
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THE VISION AT P D .
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Upon Mr. M
's return, a few days later, he
It was the face that had gazed upon her from her
chamber window.
As a companion -picture, we will cite the following,
communicated by a friend of the writer :
p
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obligations.
"
Nevertheless, the headstrong Squire, Mr. Bur-
nett, as I \vill call him, not only completed the
mesalliance, but determined to make, on behalf of
his lowly bride, a post-nuptial settlement, which
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THE LINCOLNSHIEE SQUIEE. 67
enveloped in a cloud.
'' ' '
How/ inquired the Squire, could you recognize
" '
was the exact image of
It his portrait in the
'
dining-room/ was the answer, but with a very
stern
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expression/
Of a similar character, but much more extraordi-
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APPARITION OF YOUNG EDGE WORTH. 69
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OTHEE INSTANCES. 71
pired.
In the following additional example, the names of
those concerned have been supplied to the writer
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Lord C. A ,
the duchess's second son. This lady
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A SPECTRAL SNUFF-BOX. 73
''
Pray, Mr. H , what, when you left the room,
did you do with your chair ?"
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"
I put it back, sir, there, by the wall."
" But are
you quite sure of that ?"
"I
am, sir, and for this reason. When I put back
the chair, there was, lying by the wall, a volume of
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THE LITTLE OLD LADY. 75
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HOLLY LODGE. 77
acquainted."
It subsequently appeared that this lady died about
Miss M. F ,
while on a visit to some
friends was one morning in
at a country house,
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unten anted.
Certain that whoever of mortal mould had gone
into the apartment could not have quitted it again in
that brief interval unnoticed, Miss M. F was
induced by the strangeness of the circumstance to
mention it to Dr. H
, a physician,
then staying
in the house, who pronounced it to have been an
optical illusion.
That evening, as the young lady sat by the fire in
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ANOTHER INSTANCE. 79
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by Queen Bertha,
zealous is at this time a venerable
church. But to the story :
girl's blood with horror. She lay thus, with her lips
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THE MONK OF PAYERNE. 81
" >}
Why did you scream ?
" Did
you see him ?" was the rejoinder ; and the
younger went on to relate that she had closed her
eyes for an instant, when, opening them, she beheld
a figure in a monk's frock, with a countenance too
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A TEAGEDY REVEALED. 83
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A TEAGEDY REVEALED. 85
paling.
Caroline uttered a piercing shriek, and fainted.
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A TEAGEDY REVEALED. 87
own.
When the last corroborative testimony reached
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TEANCE-VISTON. 89
effectual ?
open, and the chamber was filled with a bright light, as of day.
In the midst ofthis, there entered a handsome young man, in the
undress uniform of the French Navy, having his hair dressed in
the peculiar mode a la Titus.
room became dark and still, but a low soft voice uttered^ these
"
words :
Say an ave Maria for his soul."
The young lady had fallen back, not insensible, but in a far
more painful state a kind of cataleptic trance, and thus re-
mained fully conscious of all she imagined to have occurred, but
unable to move tongue or hand, until seven o'clock on the follow-
ing morning, at which hour her maid, in obedience to orders,
knocked at the door.
Finding that no reply was given, the maid went away, and, re-
turning at eight, in company with another domestic, repeated her
summons. Still no answer and again, after a little consultation,
the poor young lady was delivered over for another hour to
her agonized thoughts. At nine, the doors were forced and,
at the same moment, the power of speech and movement re-
turned. She shrieked out to the attendants that a man had shot
himself there some hours before, and still lay upon the floor.
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A SCOTTISH GHOST. 91
my maid.
" Mrs. M's maid," was the answer.
but
" Oh ma'am," she exclaimed, " you've seen some-
ject.
" On
my friend appearing, I immediately related
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inclinations.
" It so happened that the girl, though liking both,
had no especial preference for either, and, in conse-
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THE STOEY OF CATEEINA. 95
spring called
(
La Mizza Velada '
(the Hidden
Fountain), since become our property through an
exchange of land.
" thirst with the sparkling water,
Having slaked his
Giovannico fell into a train of sombre, and, it must
be added, remorseful thought. That kind of myste-
rious awe which sometimes visits us in woodland soli-
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THE STORY OF CATERINA. 97
"A
desperate struggle ensued for the possession of
the knife, in the course of which the unfortunate
Battista wounded his own person so severely with
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MODEEN INCANTATIONS. 99
captured the whole party, with all (to use the words
'
of the report) their attrizzi infernali' (diabolical
apparatus.)
Other members of the fraternity escaped to the
mountains, but the three captured gentlemen are at
this moment working out a fifteen years' penalty for
their infraction of a law which has, I believe, no
"
Captain Morgan, a gentleman of the highest
honour and veracity, and who certainly was not
over-gifted with ideality, arrived in London, one
evening in 18 ,
in company with a friend, and took
up his lodgings in a large old-fashioned house, of the
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EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF MR. B . 103
won.
The immediate authority upon which we give the
Mr. B ,
a gentleman of German descent, was
possessed of considerable property, both real and
personal, in this country ; but nevertheless resided,
for the most part, in one of our West Indian
colonies. At the period of the strange occurrence
about to be narrated, this gentleman had formed an
intimate personal acquaintance with certain of the
officers belonging to the regiment which composed
the garrison. Among these were Colonel Hutchinson
and Captain Stewart.
It happened, one morning, that the two last-
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EXTEAOEDINAEY STOEY OF ME. B . 105
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A HAUNTED BARRISTER. 107
head.
Few of those who must have noticed the twitch
or toss of the head peculiar to the late eminent
counsel, Mr. B ,
were aware that it was engen-
dered by a perpetual vision of a raven on his left
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MOEBID QUICKENING OF THE SENSES. 109
diplomatist.
A friend of the latter had herself a beloved
^
and
attached friend, who died after a brief but severe
interval of suffering. A short time after, the spirit
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called the
" German Luther." To him, accordingly,
she preferred her request. The good man consented,
and redeemed his promise with characteristic promp-
titude and fervour.
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journey.
On the third night, the spirit appeared to stand, for
''
Woman woman \" he exclaimed, " what have
!
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away.
Of such, it
may be, is the brown lady whose
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CAREIAGE-WHEELS. 113
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A BANSHEE. 115
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the last agony, but such was the effect of the circum-
stance upon those who stood around that their atten-
rily:-
" What a voice she has ! That is the Banshee."
As the last note became inaudible, the child's
Again :
"
The wish has but
Escaped my lips and lo once more ! it streams
In liquid lapse upon the fairy winds,
That guard each slightest note with jealous care,
And bring them hither, even as angels might
To the beloved to whom they minister."*
"
Gothe." A new Pantomime. A work of marvellous, but
undisciplined power; tender and daring, exquisite and lamentable.
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human curiosity.
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THE MYSTERIES OF W . 119
tication.
explain.
The great drawing-room upstairs, is a singularly
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THE MYSTERIES OF W . 123
W ,
in 1660, was iu the possession of Mr.
Rickard. This gentleman was lying on what was
following prophecy :
" In the
year 1665, more than ninety thousand
persons will perish in London of one disease.
" In the there will occur such
succeeding year,
a fire in London, that the lead on the roof of Paul's
will pour down like rain.
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THE MYSTERIES OF W . 125
* As the
family tradition differs, in some slight degree, from
"
that contained in one of the editions of Hutchins' History of
Dorset," we append the latter. In this version, the hero is
described as Mr.
" Sadler." It seems that the estates of W
had passed into the hands of this family during the Common-
wealth, but that the Restoration re-conveyed a portion of them
to the former owners, or their assigns a circumstance which
preyed upon Mr. Sadler's mind, and induced the mental trouble
about to be referred to :
" This
gentleman (Mr. Sadler) being, the year after the Kesto-
tion, under some distemper of mind, kept his chamber, and had
his servant, one Thomas Grey, of the same place (W ), to at-
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had written true, and then caused us to set our hands to the
paper, saying
he (theman) would not be gone till he saw that
done and when we had done it, said, Now he is gone.'
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;
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THE PASSING-BELL. 127
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A SECOND-SIGHTED JUDGE. 129
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S PLACE. 131
France.
That there are most extraordinary noises in the
house is indisputable, and few that have visited it
K2
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our generation.
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I was visiting, about two years ago, at a friend's
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THE HAUNTED COEKIDOR AT B . 135
a fleshly source.
" The
family at B happened at this period to be
from home, but authority having been given us
to make any arrangements we pleased, K and I
out!
" We dined and in order to
early, at five o'clock,
make certain of the clearness of our heads, drank
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WATCHEES DISCOMFITED. 137
walls !
<c
How K and I looked as the sounds advanced
as it were to storm us, I will not pretend to say. I
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" As for
making any use of our revolvers or life-
preservers, the idea never once occurred to either of
us. There was not even a shadow at which to strike ;
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ADVENTURE OF LADY P . 139
terror."*
cognizable.
Lady P ,
in her youth, was visiting with her
(then Miss B )
was one evening awaiting in a
kept.
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nevertheless, Miss B ,
who was a child of re-
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ADVENTURE OF LADY P . 141
force.
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inscrutability.
The dwelling in question is neither large nor
gloomy, owns neither dungeon nor corridor, and
against its ancient reputation tradition has not a
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AN OLD HOUSE IN WILTS. 143
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" brownie."
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A WOMAN IN WHITE. 145
the '
Field of Forty Footsteps/ No matter how
luxuriant may be the herbage, or grain, for the field
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THOEOTJGHLY HAUNTED. 147
cumstance.
A day or two after, a medical gentleman who
occasionally visited the neighbourhood, called upon
the new comers, and, in the course of his visit,
B ,
a man of (as was openly alleged) the most
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THOROUGHLY HAUNTED. 149
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one night, to see that all was safe, when they beheld
the figure standing by the fire.
since in the
occupation of a gentleman highly
esteemed by an extensive circle of friends, and
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AN OLD PRIOEY. 151
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EMBRACING A GHOST. 153
by a small bridge.
One evening, the young lover having already waited
more than an hour watching the bridge, happened to
glance across some fields which stretched in the op-
posite direction, and there, to his astonishment,
beheld, as he thought, the figure of his tardy mistress
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DKEAM-VISION. 155
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"And it is
expressly mentioned that she got well
to sea," was the rejoinder.
Hurrying in with a mind much relieved, Mr. N
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DEE AM FULFILLED. 157
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succeed.
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DEEAMS PEOPHETIC. 159
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DEEAMS PEOPHET1C. 161
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FOREWARNED, FOREARMED. 163
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IMPULSE AND IMPEESSION. 165
study.
There was a calmness and consistency about the
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CASE OF CAPTAIN MATTHIAS. 167
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no element of justification.
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CALLED TO THE RESCUE. 169
Starcross) upon,
an errand of which he knew nothing.
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you."
The ferryman had, it appeared, received his
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spectators.
The case just commencing seemed to create
unusual excitement. The prisoner at the bar, who
was in the dress of a carpenter, was arraigned on a
capital charge. The chain of evidence against him,
replied :
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CALLED TO THE RESCUE. 173
remembrance.
He had gone, some months before, to pay an early
visit to a friend at M . The latter was from
home, but, wishing particularly to see him, D had
decided to await his return, and, for that purpose, had
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thoughtful.
This thing is then, at the outset, sure, that the
enveloped.
It is not necessary that we should be restricted to
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light.
In a morbid condition of the mind, the inward
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being.
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THEOEIES OF DE. LEGEE. 181
power.
If it were possible to follow the earnest philo-
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MAGNETIC THEOEIES. 183
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man is established. We
have two eyes, two ears,
two nostrils, a tongue, larynx, and pharynx, each
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MAGNETIC THEORIES. 187
between.
It is therefore no unwarrantable supposition
that, in some of the innumerable vicissitudes to
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investigation.
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CASES THAT DEFY ANALYSIS. 189
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OPINIONS OF THE FATHEES. 193
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spiritual certainties.
The foregoing brief remarks conduct us not in-
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ITS UNWISE TREATMENT. 197
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FEENCH SPIKITUALISM. 199
truth.
ff
dismissed) has been given the name of perisprit."
It is assimilated to the human form, a fluid
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THE "PEBISPEIT." 201
dilemma :
loved.
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INSUFFICIENT INVESTIGATION. 203
tice, as it
unquestionably is in those of humanity
and truth, to let the accused be heard.
Had the spirit-rappers generally received this
measure of justice, it is more than possible, more
than probable, it is, in short, quite within rational
source, him,
could, to than seem nothing less
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INSUFFICIENT INVESTIGATION. 205
material quelconque; Ik ou il
n'y a rien a gagner,
il
n'y a nul interet a tromper." (" Spiritisme Ex-
perimental^ par A. Kardec.)
Take for granted an " honest " medium, and note
the impediments that lay before him. If he proposed
to utilize his power, as men do other natural endow-
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wind is
by the changing currents that, with every
" I took an
opportunity of calling upon Mr. Foster,
and was shown into his parlour, a large apartment,
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A MEDIUM ME. FOSTEK. 207
went upstairs.
" Determined to satisfy myself, if possible, once
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precision.
" from
Having heard that, constant habit of
'
observation, a
e
medium can sometimes detect the
almost imperceptible pause made by an inquirer when
his pencil reaches the required letter, I endeavoured
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Mr. F afterwards varied his experiments
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explanation.
Within a short time of the above-mentioned
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Why, then
On past ages cry out
'
Shame !'
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IDLE INQUIEIES DEPRECATED. 213
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mencing thus :
"
Sperrits will be good enough to speak up, 'cos of
the 'busses."
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SEANCES, EAST AND WEST. 217
being.
" Same as I did on dearth/' was the guarded
reply.
" And what was that ?" some still
persisted
unsatisfied person.
" Hair."
requisition.
This question was shaped and put with the utmost
" Air."
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"Excellent."
" Hah !"
(thoughtfully.)
" The best hands these six weeks.
Bessy Power
was with us, however."
" Cela Gloved the hands ?"
suffit.
" Both One had a fine cinque-
gloved and bare !
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"
Oh, Charlotte, Charlotte !" cries an animated
young person, rushing from the inner drawing-
" Have
room. yon heard about Mildred's
cockatoo ?"
" Mildred's what ?"
" Cockatoo. But here she is herself."
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&c., &c.
Another young lady, with more system and fore-
sight, has come provided with no less than six
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"SPIKIT"-PHOTOGKAPHS. 223
* Mr. W. "
Howitt, in his interesting work on the Super-
natural," has (Vol. II., p. 234) the following note :
" Whilst
going through the press, a phenomenon of a
this is
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study.
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Some weeks
elapsed, and then a strange mysteri-
ous whisper went abroad that Eulalie (the little girl)
and Flore had reappeared in the public walks and
gardens. The rumour quickly narrowed down to the
restrial appearance.
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perience.
The advertisement in which she had set forth her
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THE BIKD-WOMAN. 229
ter aspect, and the girl, as she rang the bell, was
sensible of a kind of misgiving for which she could
not account. A timid person might have hesitated.
This girl possessed unusual firmness and courage,
and, in spite of the presentiment we have mentioned,
she determined, at all events, to see what she would
be called on to encounter.
A lady-like person, the mistress herself, opened
the door, and, conducting the applicant into an
adjacent apartment, informed her in a few words that
the service that would be required of her was of a
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you !"
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lady.
The latter took her into another room, did all in
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CONCLUSION. 233
attained.
THE END.
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SCEPTICISM ON THE SUBJECT. 241
read better if B. C ,
of C Hall, Esq., would
allow it to be frankly told that he was Mr. Benjamin
Cleaver, of Cleaver Hall ; but it is extremely ques-
tionable whether the announcement would stifle all
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CONCLUSIVE TESTIMONY. 243
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A REMARKABLE STORY. 245
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THE EX-QUEEN OF ETEUEIA. 247
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twenty-four hours.
On that fatal morning, the 16th of April, her two
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APRAXIN AND DOLGOROUKI. 251
peared.
Some years elapsed before the latter portion of
his promise was fulfilled. At length Apraxin, still
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THE "WYNDHAM" GHOST. 255
he (J )
was dead, to write to Mr. Enoch, who,
for old friendship's sake, might advance the money
for his funeral expenses, and indemnify the writer
for what he had done for him. This sad executor-
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gentlemen named M
(uncle of the writer's in-
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PHANTASM AT BALING. 257
the inquiry.
W House, Hants, was formerly the residence
of General H , a name known in English history
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EXTRAORDINARY APPARITIONS. 259
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PHANTOM OF LADY DOEOTHY. 261
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THE BROWN LADY. 263
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''
I would have sent you an account of my first
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A SINGULAR VISION. 265
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A NIGHTLY VISITANT. 2G7
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TEADITION OF S HALL. 269
On first
approaching the bed, the figure had raised
its hands, clasped together, in a beseeching manner.
Mr. and Mrs. G next took possession of the
haunted room, but saw nothing. It was subse-
quently tenanted by several other parties, almost all
of whom are stated to have seen the
figure before
described.
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story.
The girl's grandfather had resided upon a small en-
tailed estate, which had descended from father to son
for several generations. Upon the old man's death,
ithad devolved upon his eldest son, who, however,
holding some office or appointment at Plymouth, con-
tinued to reside at the latter place, giving up the
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"UNCLE JOHN." 273
replied :
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plete picture."
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CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE AT BADEN. 275
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they described.
The following year, while in London, Mrs. N
chanced to meet a family of her acquaintance who
had passed some years abroad. In the course of the
conversation, Mrs. N
alluded to Baden-Baden,
and also mentioned the house she had occupied. Her
friend smiled.
" We had that very house," she said, " in 18. I
shall never forget it. It was there the children saw
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THE OLD MONK. 277
observing
"O if you mean the old monk, madam, you
need not mind him. He never hurts or frightens
that's all."
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" At
length, however, it became a familiar house-
hold affair, and little notice was taken of it, except
on occasion of some particular performance. Two of
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NOCTURNAL DISTURBANCES. 279
" ( CUe?>
(Who is
there?)
For answer, there was a repetition of the sum-
mons ; but, not feeling quite at ease on the subject,
I said :
" (
O rispondi, o non apro.' (Reply, or don't come
in.)
" A footstep was now distinctly heard, crossing the
middle room ; room opened and
the door to the east
closed again and the same thing occurred with re-
;
dwelling-rooms .
" At the
top of the stair we met the old house-
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A WAEMNG CONVEYED. 281
ghost.
" The old
woman, in addition to her little piratical
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PHANTOM AT A GLASS. 283
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FREAKS OP NATTJEE. 285
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