The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-03-28
DO ANIMALS SEH Ghosts?
AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION ON SUBJECT AUTHORITY
ON MATTERS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CONSCIOUS GHosTIY VISITORS

DIR. Isaac X. Funk, in his book, THE
Widows Mite, and other Psychic Phe-
nomena," relates some very mysterious
occurrences which might come under
the head of either "spirtualsm,"
"spiritism," psychic force" magnet
ISM" or any Of the other latter day
"isms" when are supposed to include
the strange phenomena discovered in
the course Of psychical research that
oUparently fy natural laws.
Perhaps nc most interesting section
of this RENE rkabie book is that which
lie devotes TO ghosts and animals"
and this ckal Ter will naturally br'ng
up the question:
Can animals see ghosts or spirits
where human beings cannot?"
The question may seem silly, but it
has been asked and investigated by
some eminent modern scientists who
have taken up the study of psychic
force and psychic phenomena.
Alfred Russell Wallace, the eminent
scientists, who is quoted by Dr. Funk,
and who was the contemporary discov-
erer with Darwin of evolution, has
made extensive Investigations along
this line in the realm of psychic pheno-
mena, and cites some strange cases in
which dogs and horses apparently saw
and were scared by things which hui
man beings could not see.
Some of the instances cited by Alfred
Russell Wallace in his Effects of Phan-
tasms on Animals" give one a kind of
ttns.a g,f
the EXAMPLES be ciIes:
In the remarkable account of a
haunted house during an occupation Of
II months by a well-known English
church dignitary the very different
behavior of dogs in the presence of real
and phaEtasmal disturbances is point
ed out. Wren an attempt was ma lie
to rob the vicarage the dogs t.ve
prompt alarm, and the cle-Gymal was
accused by their fierce pd k'ns
During the mysterious noises, how
ever, though these were mucn louder
ami more disturbing, they new = bark
ell at all, but were always found COW
ering in a state of pitiable terror They
were more perturbed than any other
members of the house, and If not shut
up below, would make their way to our
bedroom door, and lie there, crouching
and whining as long as we would allow
them.
In the account of haunting in a
house at HammeTsmith, near London,
which went on for five years where
steps and noises We're heard and a
phantom woman seen, the dog whined
necessarily during the disturbance, and
the dog was evidently still afraid OF
the room when the morning came.
called on him to go into it with me,
and he crouched down with his tail be-
tween his legs, and seemed to fear en-
tering it,"
Mr.. Wallace next cites the strange
case of General Baxter, c. B., in In
Ola. He says
I'm the remarkable account by Gene
raj Barter, b. c.. of the phantasmal
pony and rider with the two native
grooms seen in India, two dogs which
Immediately before were hunting about
in the brushwood jungle which covered
the hill came and crouched by the Ge-
nerars side, giving low, frightened
whimpers; and when he pursued the
phantasm the dogs returned home,
though on all other occasions they were
his most faithful companions.
Another interesting case which Mr..
Wallace cites is related by the great
Methodist, John Wesley
$50 in the disturbances of Epworth
Parsonage, on account of which by the
eminent John Wesley, after describing
strange noises, as Of iron and glass
thrown down, he continues
soon after our large mastiff dog
came, and ran to shelter himself be-