The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-26
GHOSTS PUT ON RECORD.
CASES REPORTED TO THE PsY-
CHICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE.


Case of JekyI and Hyde In Real
Life-A Fathers Strange Dream.
From the Philadelphia Times.
In their endeavor to draw the mysteries
of occultism within the category OF
science, learned men In all parts OF the
world are collecting ghost stories and tales
OF weird adventure. just as they gather
their specimens Of terrestrial nature.
The great medium through which these
inquiring minds receive most OF their teS-
umony is the London Society for PSYCHE
cal Research. which keeps posted on un-
usual occurrences in all countries. The
writer, an American associate of the So
Ciety, who has access to the records. has
selected several strange cases, recently
reported, which will be food for thought
during these long winter nights.
young lady of excellent connections
IN England was staying with her sister,
the wife of Lord --. one afternoon she
took photograph OF the lords library. IL
being an interior view, requiring "A long
exposure, she went out of the room for "a
few minutes. leaving the cap off her cam
era. Although no one was in the room with
her when the pictures was taken, upon the
development of the negative about year
afterward she was greatly surprised to
find that the head and body of an elderly,
bearded gentleman appeared In the pie
turc comfortably seated In an old high
back chair which belonged In the room.
One arm rested on the arm Of the chair,
but the other, as well as his legs were in
visible. The photograph was afterwards
shown to a lady, who recognized IL as re-
scmblng a near relative of hers, another
lord, who. strange TO say. once owned the
house in which the view was taken. When
asked when the room had been photo
graphed the young lady had forgotten.
on referring to her notebook. however,
she found "A new shade of mystery added
to the affair, for the date proved TO be the
date of the latter lords funeral.
Several well known psychic researchers
have examined the case. The young lady
is positive that the plate had not been eX-
posed before. The only men in the house
at the time were her younger brother,
butler and two footmen. all OF whom are
positive that they did not enter the libra
ry. All OF them, moreover, are young
men and beardless. The lady was not
aware that the old lord was being buried
on that day. On comparing the hour
marked in her notebook with that on his
funeral notice. 1t was found that the
plate was exposed later. But, strangely
again, IL was found that the funeral was
postponed to make connections with
special train. and that the hours exactly
coincided. This case came 10 nght only
Equally curious is a case occurring in
Morgan county, Tennessee. A doctor and
his wife were staying with the wires
parents at the latters farm. All -FOUR
slept in one large room containing two
beds. The women soon fell asleep, but
the men, being wakeful. lay talking Tor
some time. Suddenly there appeared at
the foot of the Doctors bed a strange pic
ture as though thrown there by ma"ic
lantern. The scene was landscape
which the doctor proceeded to describe TO
his father-in-law. the latter being unable
to distinguish anything except the pare
wall dimly lighted by a low fire IN an open
field upon one OF the banks lIs aettll ls
were mentioned by the doctor and his host
told him that il was a familiar CABIN
occupied by a colored man in the place
mentioned before. The old farmer was
surprised as the doctor continued. Each
scene appeared to the beholder to change
as soon as fully described. The cabin door
was closed. Next the doctor thought, ne
heard the muffied sound Of a gun inside.
The door flew open and a man rushed out
in great excitement. A man WITHIN was
staggering toward the door, with blood
trickling from his mouth. lie az ldst
stumbled out of the door. leaving a bloody
hand print on the facing. In the next
pictures the doctor said he could distln-
guish the form of the man lying pros
trate on the ground. while crowded around
him were several farmers with noes ana
pick-axes i'm their hands. Al TINS point
the strange visions ceased to appear. Inc
experience greatly surprised the two men,
and before they went TO sleep cOnciuueu
that something had happened or was
about TO happen at the house or the COL
Ored man mentioned.
Several days afterwards the farmer and
the doctor were driving TO neighDorlnB
town where they met this same man mem
toned who Immediately asked them II
they had heard of the tragedy when had
occurred at the cabin the day before. Ihe
COlOTe0
"A friend had come there, borrowed gun.
blown down the barrel and accidentally
exploded it, shooting himself through the
head Upon inquiry, every detall OF lHe
picture apparitions had been carried our,
even to the bloody hand-print. Further,
the testimony of the doctor and the fafm-
er have been given as well as that or
several other persons who had heard the
visions fully related before the tragedy oc-
Cured man who was In the house at
the time of the suicide, and VINO proved
TO be the same who in the vision ran out
of the door in great excitement atter the
gunshCt also corroborated the strange
similarity between the picture visions as
afterward told to him and the actual hap
The case of "Dr. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde"
is suggested by a Wyoming man described
by prof Slosson of Wyoming University
to Prof James of Harvard, as having an
alternating personality the person IN
question Is the illegitimate son Of young
man of good family and an Irish servant
girl. Like the creature of Stephenson, he
had two entirely different characters-the
good and the bad. In his "JekyP' state
he is described as conscientious, sober, In
dustroius and sedate. He is fond of reaC-
ing and a prominent member Of the
on every few months. lasting for week
or more, he is described as avaricious, inn
patient and subject of fits of anger. He
sings low songs. refuses TO go to church,
is exceedingly moody and bewails his fate
because he is poor.
In each phase he remembers only what
happened to him when in the correspond
ing condition before. In other words. his
life is in two parts, each composed of in
terrupted chapters, intermingled. One sum
mer day while in the III yde" phase he be-
gan moving grass. The next morning, al
though the moving was unfinished, he
awakened and found himself transformed
again into "Jekyll" He could not be per-
suaded that ne had begun the work What
he remembered as yesterday was the day
some months before. when he had gone
through his former transition. Although
assured that he had used his scythe the
day previous nc was unable to find It. It
remained lost until one cold day in the
late fall when he turned again into
Hyde" He then remembered the moving
as having been left half finished the day
before, and when he had found his 'scythe /
was surprised TO discover that the ground /
was frozen and the grass dead. This was !
only one of the idiosyhrTasies mentioned /
in his description.
An Episcopal clergyman writes that his |
father, when a schoolbOy had a strange |
dream which the former and his sister had |
often heard the old gentleman relate. In |
the dream he saw in the parish church a l
tablet upon which was inscribed his fun /
name the date of his birth and the day |
and month. but not the year. Of his death |
There was always some uncertainty in his |
mind about the month of his death, how
ever, that in the dream being either June
9 or January 8, he was never quite able /
frI, NIB he oil AMI