The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-04
STARTLING PHENOMENA.
A QUARTET OF MOST REMARK
ABLE OCCURRENCES.
Were They Hailucinations?-A Woman
Sees Her Own Wrath-The Spirit
of Living Wife Visits Her
Mourning Husband.

The most familiar species OF halluci-
,ations-though not by any means
the only species-consists of the APP
partitions OF dying persons occurring,
simultaneously with the death, 10 r0I-
atives of friends at a distance.
Such apparition is, on the one hand,
clearly hallucinatory impression,
says the New Review. The percipient
apparently sees the clothed body OF a
human being occupying a portion Of
space which is. in fact, not so occupied,
at the Same time it is, in a sense, a
''veridical," or truth-telling impress
sion, since it suggests that something
remarkable Is happening to the human
being SO seen, and 1t afterward be
comes known that something remark
able and unexpected did in fact hap
pen to him at the time.
The question then is whether this
coincidence is merely accidental or
whether 1t indicates that the external
event, and the apparition are really
connected as cause and effect.
A lady relates a case as when she
was walking along a familiar road one
night in 1885, after spending the even
ing with friend. 1t was full moon,
and, as she approached cross with
which popular tradition associated un-
canny rumors but which she had often
passed at night without seeing any
thing, she saw, as she supposed, a
tramp sitting on stone opposite to 1t.
As she drew bearer she perceived that
1t was female figure, and, rs 1t was
bitterly cold, she wentup to the woman
to awake her. now give her own
words: .
with bewilderment recognized
the dress was myself wearing on the
creature on whose shoulder was about
to place my hand. At that moment it
raised its head, looked fxedly at me
with my own countenance and van
ished. An icy shudder passed over
me. VI
This lady had on previous occa-
sion seen figure of herself, which she
at first took for another person, till it
turned its face on her and vanished.
In neither case was there any external
event. simultaneous or subsequent
that the most ingenious superstition
could connect with the apparition.
Now turn to the coincideItal cases.
will first give well-atteste,3 speci-
men OF an apparition occurring within
few hours of the death Of the person
seen. give it in the percipient's own
words:
I'm the spring and summer OF 1885,
/ often visited a poor woman, calreL
Evans, who lived in our parish. She
was very i'll with painful disease, and
it was. as she said, q great pleasure
when went to see her, and frequent
ly sat with her and read to her. Tow
ard the middle of October she was
evidently growing weaker, but there
seemed no immediate danger.
Il had not called on her for several
days, and one evening l was standing
in the dining ROOM after dinner, with
the rest of the family, when saw the
figure of a woman, dressed like Mrs.
Evans, in la.ge apron and muslin cap,
pass across the room from one door to
the other where she disappeared. i
said, Who is thatp' My mother said,
What do you meanp' and said, That
woman who has just come in and
walked over to the other door, They
all laughed at me and said / was
dreaming. But felt sure it was Mrs.
Evans, and next morning we heard she
was dead"