Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-12-24
A REAL GHOST STORY.
STRANGE EXPERIENCES OF A re-
SPECTACLE BUSINESS MAN.

SPGC ABLE BUSlfESS MAN.
Three Times in tho Course of His Life
He n,s Seen tho Shade OF His Dead
Mother, and Each Time She Seemed To
BE Trying to Warn Him OF Dnngcr.
There are more things in heaven and
earth, Horatio"
1t came to the knowledge of II reporter
quito by accident that in an eininently
respectable house lying between Mad
ison and Fifth avenues, on i'm eminently
respectable street, gentleman we'll
known in business circles las repeatedly
experienced what may he called, on lack
of better word, visitations. This the
reporter learned, while the gentleman
was quite unaware Of his connection
with the press, Thanksgiving evening,
when conversation turned onmesmerisn
and other occult subjects. From talk
to experiment the step was easy, when
it was discovered that the man in ques-
ton was an almost perfect sensitive 10
hypnotic influence.
The discovery was probably surprise
to most Of those i'll the room. The man
is perhaps forty-fvc years old, under til.
medium height, stout and inclined to
badness, fond of the good things of life.
q shrewd business man, yet lie was alb
solutely at the beck and call of an anna
teur of tolerably developed hypnotic
power. When, after some grotesque
manifestations, the subject WAS restored
to consciousness, the company, with ono
accord, pressed him to explain lis feel
ing while under the influence.
, "You are asking inpossibilities, said
the man good humoredly, "for while
in the hypnotic state my waking self
is submerged, and I-real l, the ego
Of the metapAysicians-ala what is
called unconscious, although something
that must be a second l, CT, alter ego, is
obediently active. It is I'll as great
marvel to me as it can be to any Of you.
am not weak willed man or one easy
to influence by ordinary methods, yet
have always been lleenly susceptible to
psychic Influences
This caused stir of expectancy in the
little company.
II do not often speak of these things"
went on the man after q little pause.
Such nature rs mine must seem I'M
Known q q Sensitive, But think arr
safe to speak under this roof.
~ can remember when quite small
boy seeing my uncle drive toward the
country home where then lived. While
he was yet far off, and neither face nor
attitude could have borne to me any
visual hint, I knew that his son, my
cousin William, was dead. l ran and
sobbed in my mothers lap: oh, mann
ma! Willie's deadI Willie's dcal:' She
chided Inc for my folly, as she be-
lieved. In long two minutes my uncle
drove up, looking ashen gray and sad,
and the questions my mother would have
put died upon her lips. Itwas true. My
cousin had died unexpectedly after the
briefest illness. l couldn't have been
moro than six years old, and had never
heard of occult art Of any sort, for ours
were old fashioned country folk.
Gas grew up experiences OF this kind
were more common. was n stupid,
bullet headed fellow in the main, but
in this special sense, as must think it,
I was and am extraordinarily gifted.
To this 1 attribute the fact that on three
occasions have seen tine ghost of my
mother, who died very soon after the
incident which l have just related"
A stir of incredulity caused rustlein
the room, and one festive chap whistled
o bar of lover the Fence Is Out
..Ob, don't expect you to believe it"
resumed the narrator easily. "Ina way
| don't believe it myself. That is, l
can't account for it, and my mind re-
volts against accepting anything against
NV reason. Yet an brought face to
face with the fact. Thrice in my mature
life. while wide awake, fully clothed
and as much in my right mind as | am
at this minute. have seen the shade,
ghost or aura of my dead mother, SEEM
ing not worn and thin, as | remember
her, but young and fairer. And here
is the curious part of it. She was
clothed AS i'll the days before my birth
there were older children than lin ::
dress which had never seen or heard
described, and of which no picture is III
existence. Yet, By my description OF
the dress as saw it, my Oldest sister
recognizes it perfectly
"What did the ghost say to YOU
asked one Of the party.
Nothing. Yet i'll each case the visit
came before some misfortune which was
in a sense averrable. 1t seems TO me as
if the wrath of my mother was trying
Intellectually to warn her favorite aad
Youngest child Thes face, the ln'urn-
full air, i'll so inlistinctly seen, might
convey that impression. All the visits
were at night. Twice rhe vision came
when | was alone. The Lust time my
wife was with me. l said nothing TO
her at the time, not wishing TO alarm her.
s.Bat she can testify that | was wide
awake. The room in which we sat IS
large. and was az the time lighted only
by we'll shaded lamp, which left the
farther end of the room i'll seulioi,scnriiy.
But the figure seemed i'ircrpenetrated
with Il light OF its own. ltdid not move
or beckon. Ii simply was and then was
not"
An odd Thanksgiving night tale, was
il not? u don't want my business asso.
ciates to suspect me OF seeing visions,
rhe gentleman concluded, but this Is
nv story, and would Ike to kno"
what YOU make OF it."-New York Re
corder.