The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-10
GHOsTOLOGY's NEW ERA.
Tales Told. Not I'm the freight, But
in Public Halls, Under Brilliant
Lights.
IRON the New York World

From the New York World.
The modern method of telling ghost
stories differs from the old hreside manner
in that the art of terrorizing is now scien-
tifc-wears the big name Of psychical re-
search. The audiences gather in places of
learning. like Hamilton Hail. Columbia
College. The teller Of the ghoulish yarns
Is professor of repute who talks of spir-
its as if they were already catalogued
under Latin designations, properly
grouped in species and held in order under
subdivisions. Their appearance and
strange antics are called phenomena and
the instructor saves himself from being
ridiculous by seeming to cast doubt upon
the singular doings of the spirit world,
explaining that many of the cases can be
traced to thought transferance.
The entertainer at last Wednesday
nights meeting of the Society for PSYCHE
cal Research was Prof. Hodgson of Bos-
ton.
Prof. Hodgson did not introduce many
American spirits to his audience but dis
played a fine lot of imported shades that
had won their distinction in England. He
read extracts from a paper by a British
woman, designated as Miss C.,swho seemed
very familiar with spooks and visions.
Here are some of Miss C.'s stories:
A dear friend, in the language of the
spirtualists, had passed. She and her
friends were discussing a recent literary
work and wondering who could have writ
ten it. Instantly in red letters across the
page there was written in the handwrit
ing of the departed the name of Henry
Roberts. The facts were, however, that
Mr. Roberts was not the author, and the
spirit was evidently of the wicked, for it
had deliberately lied. Miss c. warned
those having communion with the dead to
beware of spirits who fb and send false
messages
Miss c. was introduced to a great phil
osopher She was not surprised, after her
many singular experiences, to see stand
ing by him with his hand on his Shout
der a prince of India, who seemed to own
the distinguished thinker. As she ap-
preached the man from the east faded
away.
She was visiting a friend who had been
recently married to a man supposed to
be a most splendid specimen of the Bene-
dict. To her establishment, on being intro
duced to the gentleman, she saw imme-
diately behind him the figure of a boy,
who was crouching in horror, with his
eyes wildly staring and his hands ex-
tended as if to ward off a great danger
A few months later it developed that her
friend had married heavy villain, who in
his school days had been made to run the
gauntlet of his fellow-students for a mis-
demeanor.
The experience of the Rev. DR.. Moses
were even more exciting than those of
Miss c. He had a way of leaving his
own body with a spirit friend be called
the prophet, He saw the hereafter and
described it as a great country with
landscapes similar to those on earth, but
everything was brighter, the waters clear
er and the trees and turf greener.
He knew Of a lady whose spirit often
left her body Her soul would go out
through the top of her head and she
would 90 back into her earthly prison
feet foremost as one does in getting into
a dress.
Prof Hodgson cited the case Of Michael
Walters, who was in Kansas regiment.
He was taken i'll and refused to 20 to the
hospital until DIR. Chandler promised him
that he would bring him out alive. The
man grew worse and died, but the doctor
continued to work over him. He pried open
the mans jaws, poured in spirits Of am
monia and the mans soul came back. He
said that he had been sitting on the man
telpiece watching the physician and con-
sidering whether he would go back to his
shell or not. He did not want to dlsap-
point the doctor, so he returned to his
body.
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