The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-11-08
STORIES OF SPIRITS.
STRANGE CASES OF MANIFESTATIONS
BY SPOOKS.

Investigated by the Society For Psychical
Research, They Are Presented With
Strong Backing Examples Furnished
by Widely Separated Countries.
Reverting to the lore of the Psychical
Research society, here is case in which
apparitions of the dead and the living
were commingled. A lady doctor says that
in 1869 she was living in the family of q
retired naval officer, Mr.. R., and his wife,
two miles from seaport town. Mrs. r.,
| who was the sister of the British consul at
Cadiz, married her husband, q widower,
in that city. When, after the marriage,
they came to England, her husband was
| unable to find the nurse with whom his
youngest child had been left. After vain
| search they came to London. One night
| Mrs. X. saw the sitting room door open.
| A beautiful lady came in, followed by O
| common looking woman, carrying child
about a year old, dressed in yellow pc
! lisse. The lady came up to the bed and
said, pointing to the baby: "This is John
ny. You will remember johnny She
smiled and Mrs. r. was just going to an
swer when the vision was gone. Her hus-
band said she had exactly described his
| first wife, and that the child's name was
| Johnny. Some days after, returning from
| Westminster abbey, they lost themselves
| in a narrow congeries of streets. Suddenly
| Mrs. r. saw the common looking woman
of her vision carrying the baby with yell
low pelisse. She told her husband, who
| spoke to the woman. After discreet in
quiry it turned out that she was the nurse
that was wanted, and that the baby was
the missing child.
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manifestation by the living is the conscious
severance from the body and foretaste of
| deaths mystery. DR.. Wiltse of Skiddy
Kan whose case was first published in
the ST. Louis Medical Journal in 1889, ap-
parently died of fever. he was declared
to be dead by the physician who attended
him. To make assurance doubly sure
needles were thrust deeply into the flesh.
This was done many times. The doctor
who pronounced the patient dead subse-
quently said, 81 observed his symptoms
closely, and If there are any symptoms
marking patient in articulo mortis that
were not present in his case l am ignorant
of them" Meanwhile, the spirit of the
man alleged to be dead had, according to
his own story, discovered itself from the
body. The disembodied spirit even con-
templated the dwelling of clay it had just
Quilted The liberated DR.. Wiltse was
conscious of two weeping ladies In the
room (his wife and his sistcr) and of two
gentlemen Mt the door. With ono of these
gentlemen he came into contact and, very
much to his SURPRISE perceived that the
other party was unconscious of the COLI
sion. II now attempted to gain the atten-
ton of the people with the object of COM
forting them as well as of assuring them
of their own Immortality. l bowed to
them playfully and saluted with my right
hand. passed about among them also,
but found that they gave me no heed.
Then the situation struck me as humor-
Gus, and l laughed outright" Going out
of the house, he noted the redness of the
soil and the washes that the rain had
made. Presently he found himself in the
air, borne along by pair of hands till he
cam0 to where We're three prodigious
rocks which, his conductor told him, was
tho road to the eternal world, whence he
could no more return in the flesh. He at
tempted to pass but his path was barred
by black cloud, and he Knew he was to
be stopped. The cloud thcI touched his
face. When he rcgained consciousness, he
found himself at home in his bed very i'll.
Now there Is abundant evidence to prove
fall a-weeping until he was pronounced
dead; there is evidence that tho soil and
tho rain washes were rs he described i'm
mCGiatcly he found uttorancc, though they
must have been very different the last
time lie saw them with his bodily eyes;
there is evidence that he told all these
things as soon us he could speak and as
often as he was permitted.
Tho Rev. l.. J. Bertrand, Hugucnot
minister OF Neuilly, Paris, writing in
1919, gives strange experience that befell
him in the Alps so years previously. The
sleep of death had como upon him as he
crouchcd il the snow upon ledge of
prccipice. Ills mind continued active
though his body was bcnumbed. Tho ap-
proach of death was not painful till tho
last, when there was a dreadfully acute
pain OF momentary duration. "Thcn," he
SAYS, "my life went out" His spirit scared
above his body, to which, however, it was
still attached by a kind of elastic string
With the spiritual eye he saw the remain
der of his party and their guide in posi-
ton where he could not possibly have seen
them from the place where his body lay.
He saw that tho guide had disobeyod in
structionS as to the route to be traverScd.
He saw the offender take a sly pull at the
percipients own Madeira and eat the alb
stractcd leg of fowl. Still more wonder
full, he saw his wife, who was always nerV-
Gus about him when he was alpine climb
ing going to Lucerne till the following
day. "Wcll, wife, he soliloquized, ~ am
a dead man. Goodby." Suddenly he felt
shock, realized that his party had re-
turned and that the guide was rubbing
him with snow to rcanimate him. His
first attempt at speech was to reproach the
guide "If you had simply cut the string!"
he pcevishly exclaimed. By and by he
taxed the guide with his small misdeeds,
and the delinquent ran off in dismay.
When he reached the inn, the guide be-
came delirious, being convinced that the
esteemed pastor was the ID. 1t afterward
appeared that Nine. Bertrand had set off
for Luoerne exactly under the circum-
stances her husband had noted with the
spiritual eye.-Illustrated Modern Art
and Literature.