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8 Without Feathers Examining Paychic Phenomena 9 Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96- 00787R000200080005- 9 “a sampling of Dr. Twelge’s most celebrated cases, with his comments. APPARITIONS Cr On March 16, 1882, Mr. J. C. Dubbs awoke in the middle of the night and saw his brother Amos, who had been dead for fourteen years, sitting at the foot of his bed flicking chickens. Dubbs asked his brother what he was doing there, and his brother said not to worry, be was dead and was only in town for the weekend. Dubbs asked his brother what it was like in “the other world,” and his brother said it was not unlike Cleveland. He said he had returned to give Dubbs a message, which was that a dark-blue suit and Argyle socks are a big mistake. At that point, Dubbs’s servant girl entered and saw Dubbs talking to “a shapeless, milky haze,” which she said reminded her of Amos Dubbs but was a little better-loaking. Finally, the ghost asked Dubbs to join him in an aria from Faust, which the two sang with great fervor. As dawn rose, the ghost walked through the wall, and Dubbs, trying to follow, broke his nose. ‘This appears to be a classic case of the apparition phenomenon, and if Dubbs is to be believed, the ghost returned again and caused Mrs. Dubbs to rise out of a chair and hover over the dinner table for twenty minutes until she dropped into some gravy. It is interesting to note that spirits have a tendency to be mischievous, which A. F. Childe, the British mystic, attributes to a marked fecling of inferiority they have over being dead. “Apparitions” are often associ- ated with individuals who have suffered an unusual demise. Amos Dubbs, for instance. had died under mysterious circumsiances when a farmer accidentally planted him along with some turnips. Spirit Derarrure ey Mr. Albert Sykes reports the following experience: “I was sitting having biscuits with some friends when I felt my spirit leave my body and go make a telephone call. lor some reason, it called the Moscowitz Fiber Glass Company. My spirit then returned to my body and sat for another twenty minutes or so, hoping nobody would suggest cha- rades. When the conversation turned to mutual funds, it left again and began wandering around the city. I am con- vinced that it visited the Statue of Liberty and then saw the . stage show at Radio City Music Hall. Following that, it went to Benny’s Steak House and ran up a tab of sixty-cight dollars. My spirit then decided to return to my body, but tt was impossible to get a cab. Finally, it walked up Fifth Avenue and rejoined me just in time to catch the late news. I could tell that it was reentering my body, because [ felt a sudden chill, and a voice said, ‘I’m back. You want to pass me those raisins?’ “This phenomenon has happened to me several times since. Once, my spirit went to Miami for a weekend, and once it was, arrested for trying to leave Macy’s without paying for a tic. The fourth time, it was actually my body that left my spirit, although all it did was get a rubdow n and come right back.” Spirit departure was very common around 1910, when many “spirits” were reported wandering aimlessly around India searching for the American Consulate. The phenome- non is quite similar to transubstantiation, the process - whereby a person will suddenly dematerialize and remateri- alize somewhere else in the world. ‘This is not a bad way to travel, although there is usually a half-hour wait for luggage. The most astonishing case of transubstantiation Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080005-9