The times., 1898-11-27
FEATURES OF THE SPOOKS
Sensations of Men Who Died
and Came to Life Again.
STRANGE STORY OFA DOCTOR
Some Startling Experiences Graph
icnlly Described-A ST. Louis Irish
MANS Visit to the World BeyoEd-
The Live Man as He Appears to
the Ghost.

strange experiences" said the professor to
the writer. as he sat with party chat
ting over after-dinner cigars. IF you care
to hear 1t | viii tell you how it seems to
die. My uncle, DIR. ]. S. Long. one OF the
prominent physicians OF st. Louis. told
ne the story years ago. The man that
died was an Irishman named Patrick
Flaherty. My uncle did his best to save
him. but one night said he could not live
TIL morning sre his utter amazement he
found the Irishman alive and on the road
to recovery The next morning. In repy
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 l came
to life again. And they held a wake over
me, but 1 came back and scared the life
out of most of them. About o'clock
last night l fell back on the bed utterly
exhausted and soon became unconscious.
How long / remained so / don't know.
but the next thing I knew l felt myself
falling ON the floor, which ! struck with
a bound. | looked toward the bed and
saw that my body lay there stiff and ap-
it crying. l glanced at my new body and
saw IL was shaped and clothed like my
old body. | did not feel bit sorry to see
the old man lying on the bed and never
felt so well in my life as | did then. Just
then Mrs. Maginnis. one OF our ne.SEbors.
came In and she tried to console my wife.
She said: well, wen have the wake to-
night. I'll have my man get the pip,
and tobacco, send Tom johnson after the
whiskey and my boy will go round and
give the invites. And SO she started the
ball a-rolling and in less than two hours
we had packed house and the loom full
of smoke.
Before the people came in | floated
up and took my seat on one of the cross
beams. watching the proceedings. l no
ticed that | was still attached to my old
body by something which looked like a
string. Several times called out to Brid
get to cut the string and let me go. but
she did not seem TO hear me. What SEEM
ed more curious to me, l did not want
any of the whisky nor TO smoke, and IL
made me mad when Tim Cragan 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 uncOn-
scious again and the next thing I remem-
ber was when l opened my eyes and
looked around, asking the one nearest to
me for a drink. When they saw that l
was alive the people fell over each other
In trying Ia get out OF the house. Soon
Bridget 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 lIishmans story. but
II you like / viii tell you OF another man
who had similar experience. which it
more satisfactory, because he was intell-
gent enough TO watch the changes and re-
port them when he returned to conscious
ness. This incident happened to one DR..
Warren, a physician of Columbus, o..
about twenty years ago l viii give you
the facts as they Were related to me by
one Of the members of the Society for
Psychical Research DR. Warren, when in
fuIl possession OF his faculties, appeared
| to come TO the moment of death in the
last stage of typhus fever Before the
final lapse into Inconsistencies he dis
cussed with-his friends the question of
Immortality. His voice failed and his
strength weakened, and a last effort,
he stiffened his legs. He lay for hours
as dead. the church bells being rung for
mis- death. a needle was thTus, into va
rious PARTS of his body from the feet to
.
was pulseless for long time. and for
nearly half an hour he appeared absolute
ly dead While his body was lying in
this dea ath-like trance his soul was olsen
"a ging itself from its earthly tabernacle.
This is the account he gave of his sem
satlons:
~ woke up out of unconsciOusneSs
into a state of conscious existence. and
discovered that the soul was in the body,
but not of 1t. With all the interest OF n
physician ] beheld the wonders of my
| bodily anatomy, intimately interviewer
with which. even tissue for tissue. was
T. the living soul of that dead body |
learned that the epidermis was the ous-
side boundary of the ultimate tissues so
| 10 speak. of the soul. | realized my con-
| dition, and reasoned calmly thus: I have
! died. as men term death, and yet | am
| as much a man as ever. l am about to
get out of the body / watched the in
| terestlng process of the separation of soul
| and body.
| by some power. apparently not my
| own, the ego was rocked 10 and fro.
| lateralIy. as cradle is rocked. by which
| process its connection with the tissues of
| the body was broken up After little
| time the lateral motion ceased, and along
| the soies of the feet, beginning at the
| toss, passing rapidly to the heels, l felt
| and heard as it seemed, the swapping CT
! innumerable small cords. When this was
| accomplished | began slowly to retreat
| from the feet toward the head, as rub
| ber cord shortens. / remember reaching
| the hips and ying to myself. Now there
| Is no life below the hips" / can recall no
| memory Of passing through the abdomen
or chest but recolect distinctly when my
| whole self was collected in The head.
| T thing 7 all in tho
head now, and / shall soon be free. l
| passed around the brain as II l were
| hollow compressing 1t and Its men,
| branes slightly on all sides toward the
| center, and peeped out between the su-
| lures of the skull. emerging like the
| fattened edges of bag of membranes. I
! recollect distinctly how l appeared to
myself something like a jellyfish as re-
| CARDS color and form. AS emerged from
| the head floated up and down, and lat
| terally like a soap bubble attached to the
bowl of pipe, until l at last broke loose
| from the body and fell lightly to the floor,
| where ! slowly rose and expanded into
the full stature of a man. l seemed TO
| be translucent, of blush cast.
~ fled toward the partially opened
door. but upon reaching the door 1 turned
and faced the company. AS 1 did SO NY
| left elbow came in contact with the arm
OF one OF TWO gentlemen Stanulhs III ire
door. To my surprise. his arm passed
| through mine without apparent resist
ance, and severed parts closing again
| without pain as air reunites. 1 looked
| quickly up at his face to see II he had
| noticed the contact, but he gave me no
| sign-oniy stood and gazed toward tie
| couch 1 had Just left. / directed my lze
| 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
by my left side. and l knew that they