The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-18
GHOSTS OF LOWER ANIMALS.
DOGS SEEM TO EXCEL ALL OTHERS
IN THE STUNT OF WATERFALL
ZATION.
Invisible hut Tangible CANNES, and
Vice Versa-The Ghost of n Live
Dog in Distress Infrequent
Wraiths of other Brutes.

but Ndnl0tSs
Vice Versa-The Ghost of n Live
Dog in Distress Infrequent
Wraiths of other Brutes.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
Animal ghosts are very rare. Dur
ing the present revival of the "do-ani-
mails havesouls? problem the alleged
fact that the shades of departed beasts
do not return to earth has been offered
by few partisans on the negative side
of the question. The Society for Psych-
ial Research has succeeded in finding
but two or three phantasms in form
lower than that of man. This is the
most striking case:
Il was at Mentone, having left at
home with the gardener very facorite
black and tan terrier, Judy" reports
Mrs. Bagot, of The Palace, Hampton
Court, England. Il was sitting at the
table d'hote with my daughter and
husband, and suddenly saw Judy run
across the room, and 1 suddenly ex
| claimed, Why, there is Judy
There was no dog in the room or
hotel. but l distinctly saw her, and
when 1 went upstairs told my other
daughter, Mrs. Wodehouse, what 1 had
seen. The next letter from home told
me that Judy had gone out in the
morning well and had apparently pick
| ed up some poison, as she was taken
i'll and died in half an hour She was
almost a human dog, so wonderfully
| intelligent and devoted to me-"
| The diary of Mrs. Wodhouse, the
daughter of Mrs. Bagot, whom she
mentions, was resurrected by the
! psychic researchers. 1t reads:
Easter even, Mentone. Drove with
A. and picked anemones. Lovely,
bright day. But my head ached too
much TO enjoy it. Went to bed after tea
and read Hettner's Renaissance
Mama saw Judy's ghost at table
| dhote"
March 2s. Wednesday. Monte Carlo.
! Mamma and A. came over for the day.
/ Judy dead, poor old dear"
! The only animal Spooks of which
| there is any apparently definite record
! in psychic literature are those of dogs.
To those who really believe in 'materi-
alzations"of the dead this fact may be
! significant. 1t has been said that If
| the soul is to be sought in bestial body
it must be looked for, first, in the dog,
which, of all animals, lives nearest to
man.
Here is the ghost of a living dog.
Phantasms of living men in distress
are common. Last night Megatherium
a small Indian dog, was sleeping in my
| daughters ROOM" reports Mrs. Beau
champ, of Hunt Lodge, Twyfold, Eng
| land. Il awoke, hearing him run
around my bedroom. l knew his voice
so we'll My husband awoke too.
said. listen. He said, it is Meg We
lighted a candle. looked well, there was
nothing, and the door was shut Then
l had a feeling that something was
wrong with the dog. 1t came into my
head that he had died at this minute,
and / looked at my watch to see the
| time, and then l thought l must go
up and see about him. 1t was so cold
and seemed so silly, and while l was
thinking l fell asleep. 1t must have
| been some little time afterward when
some one knocked at the door, and it
was my daughter, in agony.
oh, mamma, Meg is dying" she
| cried. We flew up stairs He was lying
on his side like dead-his legs stretch
ed straight out like dead things.
When we found he had nearly stran-
gled himself-got the strap of his coat
somehow from under his stomach and
around his neck. He soon revived and
recovered when we got it Off 1 shall
always in the future go and see if l
have such a distinct feeling about any
one. There was no other dog in the
house that night, and l could not pos
sibly have heard Meg from the room
where he was, on another floor. and at
another end of our large, rambling
house"
Andrew Lang, in all of his ghost
hunting, appears to have found but one
animal spook. The circumstances We're
these A lieutenant of one of the Brit
ish gunboats was visiting a friend in
the country. Around a smoking room
fire sat several men and fox TERROR.
The heavy. stumbling footsteps of the
old dog and the jingling of his collar
were heard coming upstairs Here S
old Peter" said the lieutenant. "Old
Peters dead" said the host. The same
sounds were heard TO enter the room
through the closed door. The invisi-
BILE dog shook itself upon the hearth
rug. jingled it's collar vigorously and
lay down before the fire. as had been
old Peters custom. The fox terrier
hristled. growled and followed the
sounds Of the specter across the carpet.
That dogs see ghosts may be indi-
Gated also by this case reported to the
Society for Psychical Research. Aye
crofs Hall Is celebrated in England rs
a haunted house. In IL abides the
gaunt yhantasm of a woman, some
times white. sometimes black. IL dis
appears through doors and performs
other surprising feats.
'The appearance of this ghost has
been followed by death in either my
husbands family or my own in every
case" testifies Mrs. Dauntesey, Who
I dwels in this weird abode. Il had
a favorite fox terrier who used TO sleep
In my dressing room. She always went
up with me. and as rule made herself
omfortable AT once. But once or twice
she showed perfect horror Of the room,
and looked nxedly IN one corner OF ~,
trembling violently all the time. on
these occasions always took her away
10 another room, where she settled
down nt once"
A terrible dos spoke h frequently seen
| throughout EnRlnnd. u De- large. shay
80 ana black. with long ears and tail.
u Del looked upon as bad spirit. haunt
Ing scenes Of eYl deeds or future rn-
lamities nee steps sound like those ~
"a person walking in heavy shoes
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