le me ee iy ys areca ato RU eet ee tem 9 eve Mihi! HAMS 6 ie Sab te oe reer ame nme 0s Ni te nc 9 na, nam chee RAM Rn tate a AeA igh aici AR ee in elo ae Na ine ony mae ta aes CN . Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080005-9 10 ; Without Feathers was that of Sir Arthur Nurney, who vanished with an audible pop while he was taking a bath and suddenly appeared in the siring section of the Vicnna Symphony Orchestra. He staycd on as the first violinist for twenty- “seven years, although he could only play “Three Blind Mice,” and vanished abruptly one day during Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, turning up in bed with Winston Churchill. PRECOGNITION Mr, Fenton Allentuck describes the following precognitive dream: “I went to sleep at midnight and dreamed that I was playing whist with a plate of chives. Suddenly the dream shifted, and I saw my grandfather about to be run over by a truck in the middle of the street, where he was waltzing with a clothing dummy. I tried to scream, but when | opencd my mouth the only sound that came out was chimes, and my grandfather was run over. . “IT awoke in a sweat and ran to my grandfather’s house and asked him if he had plans to go waltzing with a clothing dummy. He said of course not, although he had contemplated posing as a shepherd to fool his encmies. Relieved, | walked home, but learned later that. the old maa had slipped on a chicken-salad sandwich and fallen off the Chrysler Building.” Precognitive drcams are too common to be dismissed as pure coincidence. Here a man dreams of a relative’s death, and it occurs. Not everyone is so lucky. J. Martinez, of Kennebunkport, Maine, dieanied he won the Irish Sweep- | stakes, When he awoke, bis bed lisel floated out to sea. Examining Psychic Phenomena It  TRANcES Sir Hugh Swiggles, the skeptic, reports an interesting s¢ance experience: We attended the home of Madame Reynaud, the noted medium, where we were al! told to sit around the table and join hands. Mr. Wecks couldn't stop giggling, and Madame Reynaud smashed him on the head with a Ouija board. The lights were turned out, and Madame Reynaud attempted to contact Mrs. Marple’s husband, who had died at the opera when his beard caught fire. The following is an exact transcript: , MRS, MARPLE: What do you see? MEDIUM: I sce a man with blue eyes and a pinwheel hat. MRS. MARPLE: That's my husband! mepium: Hisnameis ... Robert.No... Richard... MRS. MARPLE: Quincy. MEDIUM: Quincy! Yes, that’s it! MRS. MARPLE: What elsc about him? MEDIUM: He is bald but usually keeps some leaves on his head so nobody will notice. . MRS. MARPLE: Yes! Exactly! MEDIUM: For some reason, he has an object . | . a loin of pork. MRS. MARPLE: My anniversary present to him! Can you make him speak? MEDIUM: Speak, spirit. Speak. quincy: Claire, this is Quincy. MRS, MARPLE: Oh, Quincy! Quincy! guincy: How long do you keep the chicken in when you're trying to broil it? - MRS. MARPLE: That voice! It’s him! MEDIUM: Everybody concentrate. . Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080005-9
12 Without Feathers Examining Psychic Phenomena 13 Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA- RDP96-00787R000200080005-9 MRS. MARPLE Quincey, are they treating you okay? quincy: Not bad, except it takes four days to get your cleaning back. MRS. MARPLE: Quincy, do you miss me? guincy: Huh? Oh, er, sure. Sure, kid. I got to be going. ... MEDIUM: I'm losing it. He’s fading. . . I found this séance to pass the most stringent tests of credulity, with the minor exception of a phonograph, which was found under Madame Reynand’s dress. _ There is no doubt that certain events recorded at séances are genuine. Who does not recall the famous incident at Sybil Seretsky’s, when her goldfish sang “I Got Rhythm”— a favorite tune of her recently deceased nephew? But contacting the dead is at best difficult, since most deceased are reluctant to speak up, and those that do seem to hem and haw before getting to the point. The author has actually seen a table rise, and Dr. Joshua Fléagie, of Harvard, attended a seance in which a table not only rose but excused itself and went upstairs to sleep. CLAIRVOYANCE oe # © 6 One of the most astounding cases of clairvoyance is that of the noted Greck psychic, Achille Londos. Londos realized he had “unusual powers” by the age of ten, when he could lie in bed and, by concentrating, make his father’s false teeth jump out of his mouth. After a neighbor’s husband had been missing for three wecks, Londos told them to look in the stove, where the man was found knitting. Lendos. could concentrate on a person’s face and force the image to come out on a roll of ordinary Kodak film, although he could never scem to get anybody. to smile. ‘ In 1964, he was called in to aid police in capturing the Dusseldorf Strangler, a fiend who always left a baked Alaska on the chests of his victims. Merely by sniffing a handkerchief, Londos: led police to Siegfried Lenz, hands man at a school for deaf turkeys, who said he was the strangier and could he- please have his handkerchief back. Londos is just one of many people with psychic powers. Cc. N. Jerome, the psychic, of Newport, Rhode Island. claims he can guess any card being thought of by a squir- rel. PROGNOSTICATION Finally, we come to Aristonidis, the sixteenth-century count whose predictions continue to dazzle and perplex even the most skeptical. Typical examples are: . “Two nations will go to war, but only one will win.” (Experts feel this probably refers to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05—an astounding feat of prognostication, considering the fact that it was made in 1540.) “A man in Istanbul will have his hat blocked, and it will be ruined.” (In 1860, Abu Hamid, Ottoman warrior, sent his cap out to be cleaned, and it came back with spots.) oT “T see a great person, who one day will invent for mankind a garment to be worn over his trousers for protection while cooking. It will be called an ‘abron’ or ‘aprone.” ” (Aristonidis meant the-apron, of course.) | “A leader will emerge in France. He will be very short and will cause great calamity.” (This is a reference either to Napoleon or to Marcel Lumet, an cightcenth-century midget who instigated a plot to rub béarnaise sauce on Voltaire.) Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080005-9
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