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 spOOk State as They
Described Their Experfenees-
The Old Body Seen From the
ratOr in One Case q Physi-
clan.
From the New York Sun.

FROM the New York Sun.
Speaking of strange experiences, Said the
professor as the party sat chat ing over their
after dinner cigars, "if you care to hear it. l
will tell you how 1t seems to die. My uncie,
DR.. ]. S. Long. one of the prominent physi-
clans of 8. Louis. told me years ago. The
man that 6ded was Irishman named Pat
rick Flaherty. My uncle did his best TO save
him, but night said he could not live till
morning To his utter amlzement he found
the Irishman alive and en- the road 10 recov 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. 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
on the bed utterly exhausted and soon be-
came unconscious. How long remained so
don't know. but the mex. thing knew I felt
myself falling on the floor, which l struck
with bound. / looked toward the bed ana
saw that my body lay there stiff and ap-
parently dead. while my wife kneIt beside it
crying. l glanced al my new body and saw
it was shaped and clothed like my old body.
did not feel bit sorry to the old man
lying on the bed and never felt 90 wall in my
life as l did then. just then Mrs. Magfnnis,
one of neghbors, came in ard she tried
to console my wife She said: Vel we'll
get the pipes and tobacco. send Tom Johnson
after the whisky and my boy Will go round
the ball a-rolling and in less than two hours
we had a packed house and the room full of
smoke.
Before he people came in l hoated IN
end took my seat on one OF the cross beams
watching the proceedings | noticed that |
was still attached to my old body by some
thing which looked like a string Several
times l called our to Bridget to cut the
string and let me CO. 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 1t made me mad when Tim Cr1gan
tried to pour some whisky down my dead
throat and then stuck a pipe In my moYth.
Along toward morning l felt the string
pulang me toward the bed. When | had
reached the bed | became unconscious again
and the next thing l remember was when I
opened my eyes and looked around asking
ehe one nearest TO me for drink. When they
saw hat was alive the people fell over ca h
other in trying to get out of the house Soon
bridget came to me and acted Just like
woman whose husband had come to life and
We've been waiting to see you.
That finishes the Irishman's story. but If
you Ike VIII tell you Of another man who
mad 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 physician of Co
lumbus, o., about twenty years ago I will
give you the facts as they were related TO me
by one Of the members Of the Society for Psy-
"
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 as a last ef-
fort he stiffened his legs. He lay for hours
as dead. the church bell being rung for his
death. needle was thrust into various
parts of his body from the feet to the hips
without having any effect. He was pulseless
for long time. and for nearly half an hour
he appeared absolutely dead While his BODY
wss lying in this dsathlike trance his soul
was disengaging itself from it's earthly taber-
nacle. This Is the account he gave of his SEN
sations:
g L woke up out Of Inconsistencies into
state OF conscious existence and discovered
that the soul was In the body. but not Of
IL. With all the interest OF a physician | be-
held the wonders Of my bodily anatomy init
mateiy interviewer with which. even tissue for
tissue, was l. the living soul of that dead
body 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: l have died as
men term death, and yet / am much a
man as ever. | am about to get out OF the
body. / watched the interesting process OF
the separation Of soul and body.
By some power, apparently not my own.
the ego was rocked to and fro. latterly as a
cradle Is rocked by which process its connee-
ton with the tissues of the body was broken
up. After little time the lateral motion
ceased. and along the coles of the feet be-
ginning at the toes, passing rapidly to the
ping OF innunterabie small cords. When this
was accomplished l began slowly to retreat
from the feet toward the head as a rubber
cord shortens. l remember reaching the hips
and saying to myself Now there is no life
hslow the hips" | can recall no memory of
passing through the abdomen or chest but
recelleet distinctly when my whole self was
collected in the head, when / reflected thus:
| am ell in the head now and / shall soon
be free | passed around the brain as If I
were hollow. COMPRISING it and It's mem
branes slightly on all sides toward the CEN
ter, end peeped out between the sutures Of
the skull. emerging like the nattened edges
of bag Of membranes. reeoilect distinctly
how appeared to myself something Ike a
je1lyfish as regards color and form. As
emerged from the head fioated up and Down
and latterly like soap bubble attached to
the bowl Of pipe until | at last broke loose
from the body and fell lightly to the floor
where slowly rose and expanded into the
full stature OF man. 1 seemed to be trans
lucent, of blush cast.
"a 4 Aed 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 gea
his arm passed through mine without appar-
ent resistance the several parts closing again
without pain as air reunites. / looked quick
ly up at his face to see il he had noticed the
contact, but he gave no sign-only stood and
gazed toward the couch / had Just left / 81
rected my gaze in the direction Of his and
saw my own dead body.
81 Z saw a number Of persons sitting and
standing about the body, and particularly no.
ticed two women, apparently kneeling BY nay
left side. and knew that they were weeping
have since learned that they were my wife
and my sister. but had no conception of in
dividuality. Wife, sister and friend were all