Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-15

| Great Britain by Curtis BROWN
medium through whom the appearances
or materializations manifested themselY
The seances took place in the afternoons
and evenings, and lasted about two or three
hours
1t was in this room that certain appear
ances made themselves known, notably a
personality calling itself Bien Boa. This
parsonage presented all the attributes of
lie L have seen 1t leave the seance -cabi-
net. walk about, go and come; heard 1t
breathe and speak; I-touched it's hand sew
eral times; and through the drapery with
which the hand was covered, 1 felt the
wrist. the bones of the wrist and meta
carpus yielding to my hand-clasp
'One of the most remarkable manifesto
lions took place on Friday, September l.
Marthe and Aischa were in the cabinet
while in front of the curtain outside we're
the persons I have mentioned [ prepared
a bottle of clear baryta water so arranged
that by blowing into tube the expired air
would bubble in the water. The personality
bent forward. and after a number of irving
efforts made the water bubble In order to
preclude the possibility Of Marthe assum-
lag this form through fraud, I am able to
state that during the experiments while
Bien Boa was breathing into the tube [
distinctly saw the forms of both Marthe
and Aischa; while NJ. Delanne remarked
aloud 10 me that he could see the medi-
um's face and form. as well as that of her
companion, quite distinctly.
For some time the manifestation tried
frultlessiy to make the water bubble and
then finally succeeded. I heard the 'gIou-
glou' of the bubbles; and when I examined
the water IL had turned quite whfte-frorn
the natural pcecipitate of carbonate Of
baryta which had formed. My eyes did not
leave the tube during the time 1t was being
passed from my hands to Gen Noel, nor
while Bien Boa was blowing into II
From other experiments conducted dur
Ing various seances I am convinced that
the phantom. Ben Boa. has all the at
tributes of life. 1t walks, speaks. moves
and breathes like a human being. Its body
Is resistant and has a certain muscular
strength. II is neither lay figure nor a
doll nor image reflected from a mirror;
It is a living being; and there are reasons
for setting aside every other suppostion
than one or the other of these hypothesis:
that of phantom having the attributes OF
life. or that OF a living person playing the
part of a phantom. My rigid examination
OF the premises. and the precautions taken
TO exclude fraud, do not permit this latter
theory.
"On other occasions Bien Boa made his
appearance by manifestiHg a white light
on the ground outside the curtain. Ii was
Ike white luminous ball floating over
the ground then rising straight upward.
very rapidly, and developing into Bieu Boa.
lie seemed 20 De Jumping, could nor say
on this occasion whether he walked or
glided He went toward the entrance OF
the curtains and then without opening
them. suddenly sank down, disappearing
into the ground. AT the same time there
was the sound of a 'clac clac.' as If some
bones were thrown down. Three or four
minutes after this. at the very feet of Gen.
Noel. the same white bali appeared. rose
to the height of a man, and sank down
with the same strange noise On this oc-
casion the body in falling struck the gem
erals leg with some violence
Three times ! saw this appearance
plunge itself suddenly into the ground; and