The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-27
A GHOSTS SENSATIONS
TWO MEN WHO DIED AND
THEN CAME TO LIFE
AGAIN
LIVING SOUL AND DEAD BODY
Features of the SpOOIk State as They
Described Their Experfences-
The Old Body Seen From the
Viewpoint of the New-The Mar
rator In One Case "a Physi-
clan.

From the New York Sun
Speaking of strange experiences" said the
professor as the party sat chatting over their
after dinner cigars, IF you care to hear it,
will tell you how it seems to de My uncle
DR.. J. S. Long. one of the prominent physi-
clans of s. Louis, told me years ago. The
man that died Irishman named Pat
rick Flaherty. My uncle did his best to save
him, but one night said he could not live till
morning. To his utter amizement he found
the Irishman alive and en- the road TO ecov, ry
the next morning. In reply to his question
as to why he had not died during the night
as he should have DONE Pat said:
Sure doctor, l did die. but came to life
again. And they held wake over me. bu.
came back and scared the life out of most of
them. About O'Clock last night | fell back
the bed utterly exhausted and be-
came unconscious. How long l remained so l
don't know, but the nexc thing knew l felt
myself falling on the floor, which l struck
with bound l looked toward the bed ana
that my body lay there stiff and ap-
Parently 6aad, while my wife knelt beside it
crying. | glanced az my new body and
it shaped and clothed like my old body
did not feel bit sorry to see the old man
lying on the bed and never felt we'll in my
life as l did then. Just then Mrs Maginnis.
one of our neighbours, came in ard she tried
to console my wife. She said: We'll we'll
have the wake tonigh.. I'll have my man
get the pipes and tobacco send Tom Johnson
after the whisky and my boy viii go round
and give the invites" And 80 she started
the ball a-rolling and in less than two hours
we had packed house and the room full; of
smoke.
q" Before he people came In | foated I'D
end took my seat on one OF the crossbeams,
watching the proceedings noticed that
was still attached to my old body by some
thing which looked like string. Several
times l called ou7 to Bridget to cut the
string and let me 60 but she did not seem
to hear me- What seemed more curious to
me. did not want any Of the whisky nor to
smoke, and it made me mad when Tim Crlgan
tried to pour some whisky down my dead
throat and then stuck pipe in my mouth.
" Along toward morning / felt the string
pulling me toward the bed. When | had
reached the bed | became unconscious again
and the next thing | remember was when l
opened my eyes and looked around asking
the one nearest to me for drink. When they
saw hat was alive the people fell over ca
otner IN trying to get out OF the house Soon
Brloget came to me and acted just like a
woman whose husband had come to life. and
we've been waiting to see you.
That finishes the Irishman'5 story but IL
you like l will tell you Of another man who
had similar experience which is more salts
factory. because he was intelligent enough to
watch the changes and report them when he
returned to consciousness. This incident hap
pened to one DR.. Warren a physician of Co
lumbus, o. about twenty years ago. | will
give you the facts as they were related to me
by one Of the members of the Society for Psy-
chical Research Dr. Warren when In full
possession of his faculties appeared to come
to the moment of death in the last stage of
typhus fever. Before the final lapse into I'M
consciousness he discussed with his friends
the question of immortality. His voice failed
and his strength weakened and. last et-
fort. he stinened his legs. He lay for hours
as dead. the church bell being rung for his
death. A needle thrust into various
parts Of his body from the feet TO the hips
without having any effect. He pulseless
for long time, and for nearly half an hour
appeared absolutely hod AZ,
wss lying in this deathlike trance his sou,
was dlsengaging itself from its earthly taber-
satons:
4 woke up out of unconsciousnes into
state OF conscious existence and discovered
that the soul was in the body but not OF
1t. With all the interest OF physician, be-
held the wonders Of my bodily anatomy init
mateiy interviewer with which even tissue for
tissue, was |. the living soul of that dead
body l learned that the epidermis was the
outside boundary Of the ultimate tissues so
to speak OF the soul. realized my condition
and reasoned calmly thus: / have died as
men term death and yet l as much
man as ever. / about to get out OF the
body l watched the interesting process OF
tbc separation OF soul and body.
BY some power, apparently not my own.
the ego was rocked to and fro latterly as q
ton with the tissues Of the body broken
up. After a little time the lateral motion
ceased. and along the soles Of the feet, be-
ginning at the toes, passing rapidly to the
heels. felt and heard, as IL seemed the snap
ping of innumerable small cords. When this |
was accomplished l began slowly to retreat |
from the feet toward the head. as a rubber |
cord shortens. / remember reaching the hips
and saying to myself. Now there is no life
below the hips" can recall memory OF
passing through the abdomen or chest. but
recolect distinctly when my whole self was
collected in the head, when l reflected thus:
| am all in the head now. and | shall soon
be free. | passed around the brain as If I
were hollow. COMPRISING 1t and It's mem
branes slightly on all sides toward the cen
the skull emerging like the hattened edges
Of bag Of membranes. / recollect distinctly
how | appeared to myself something ike q
1e,lyfish as regards color and form. As l
emerged from the head l foated up and down
and latterly like a soap bubble attached to
from the body and fell lightly to the floor
where / slowly rose and expanded into the
full stature of man. | seemed to be trans
lucent of a blush cast
"I fed toward the partially opened door
but upon reaching the door / turned and faced
the company. AS / did my left elbow came
in contact with the arm OF one of two gen
tlemen standing IN the door To my surprise
his arm passed through mine without apDar-
ent resistance, the several parts closing again
without pain, air reunites. ! looked quick
ly up at his face to see II he had noticed the
contact, but he gave sign-only stood and
gazed toward the couch ! had Just left IL
rected my gaze in the direction OF his, and
saw my own dead body
% I saw a number OF persons sitting and
standing about the body. and particularly no.
ticed two women, apparently kneeling by my
left side, and knew that they were weeping
l have since learned that they we're my wife
and my sister. but l had no conception CT in
dividualty. Wife. sister and friend were all