Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-03-29
DO GHOSTS EXIST?
Rev. DIR. Minot j. Savage In Certain
That They DO.

That They DO.
1.-THE history of the world is full of
reported apparitions or ghosts" says
DR.. Minot J. Savage In Ainslee's. do
such things as ghosts exist? l am
perfectly certain that they do. This
does not mean that | feel that l am
yeady to explain their origin or nature.
| simply recognize the fact. Whether
they are purely subjective or whether
they represent some objective reality
this is a question to be settled in each
particular case. have many in
stances in my notes. but they must be
omitted for the present.
"There is one case. however, which is
Of Il very extraordinary kind. 1t oc-
Cured about couple of years ago
here In the immediate vicinity Of New
York. There was a certain young man
who had been studying abroad. lie
had been at Heidelberg university He
was of anything but an imaginative
temperament. Tall and stalwart In
build, he had reputation as an ath-
lete. His favOrite studies were mathe-
NAUTICAL. physical and electrical. He
had returned home from abroad and
SO far as anybody knew was in perfect
health. He was at the summer home
of his mother. 1t was his habit after
dinner to go out on the piazza ana
walk up and down while smoking his
pipe. One evening he came quietly In
and without talking with anybody
went up to bed. The next morning he
went into his mothers room before she
was I'D and laid his hand on her cheek
In order to awaken her quietly. Then
he said: Mother. | have something
very sad to tell you. You must brace
yourself and be strong to bear it. OF
course she was startled and asked him
what he was talking about. He said:
Mother, | mean just what l am say
ing. am going to die, and very soOn.'
when his mother. startled and trou-
bled, pressed him for an explanation, he
said: Last night when was walking
up and down the piazza smoking
spirit appeared and walked up and
down by my side. | have received my
call and am going to die The mother
OF course was seriously troubled and
wondered whether anything might be
the matter with him. She therefore
sent for the doctor and told him the
story. The doctor made careful ex-
animation. said there was nothing the
matter, treated the whole thing as a
bad dream or an hallucnatiOn, told
them to pay no attention to II and said
that within a few days they would be
laughing ut themselves for letting such
a thing worry them. The next morn
Ing the young man did not seem quite
as we'll as usual, and the doctor was
sent for second time. Again he said
there was nothing the matter and
tried to laugh them out Of their fears.
The third morning the young man
appeared In still poorer condition, and
the third time the physician was sum-
mOned He now discovered q case Of
appendicitis. The young man was
operated on and died in a couple Of
days. From the time of the vision
until his death not more than five
days had gone by. Some time after
this experience the mother visited
psychic here in New York. She made
no previous appointment, but went as
q perfect stranger and waited her turn.
The son claimed at once to be present
and told his mother whole series OF
very remarkable things which by no
possibility could the psychic ever have
known. Then in answer to the Ques-
ton. who was it that you saw that
night? Ghe question being purpOsely
so framed as not to seem to refer to
anybody out of the body, he at once
replied, 1t was my father The
father had been dead for some years,
and the mother had been married
again."