Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
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| Have YOU ever seen BHOStF
A good many people believe they
have, and you might be surprised to
| learn who some of them are.
! DR.. Walter F. Prince, Boston's dis
tinguished investigator Of ghostly incl
dents. has been making q record Of
"supernormal" experiences of people Of
education and distinction. He went to
I who's Who" for his subjects, and he
uueried 10000 of them.
OF the 2;263 who replied, 430 testified
that they or persons In a trusted re-
latiunship to them, had experienced in
applicable apparitions, visions, Fremont
tions, coincidental dreams or similar
| happenings.
These $50 include followers Of the
+, most skeptical sciences, biology, psy-
chology. medicine, chemistry. physics.
DR.. Prince. who has never seen a ghost,
publishes this testimony, with the COM
ment that 1t proves a belief in the
existence Of "supernornnal facts" is dis
tributed among all cultivated classes.
visual HalIucination."
Robert MacDougall, long professor of
| psychology at New York University,
gives a laconic outline OF what he labels
a visual hallucination."
II met q farmer or workman as I
was riding a bicycle on country road
a little after sunset" he said. 81 al
most ran him down, turned to apollo
gize and there was no one there"
Prof. Percy H. Boylton, dean at the
University Of Chicago, relates an ex-
perience at North Scituate, Mass. He
!! was bicycling down sandy road near
q salt marsh.
"I saw before me man leaning
against the fence with his back to the
road, looking out across the marsh"
he said. II rang my bell in the hope
he would draw near enough to the fence
to let me pass. As came quite near
spoke He didn't move, and to avoid
him swerved out into the road. The
bicycle skidded, and I took a tumble.
LAS / picked myself up, turned to
speak to the man, but there was no
one there and, no tree or shrub behind
which he could have been concealed.
This was In the early afternoon OF Q
bright June day. The appearance OF
the man did not suggest any one OF my
acquaintance"
Editor Has GhOssly Visitor.
Miss Florence Converse of wellesley
College, editor and author, relates an
experience she had In Boston.
The room in which / slept was never
quite dark at night as the electric light
on Brookline avenue gave some light"
She said II was awakened suddenly
to a consciousness that something was
happening in the room. ] had an I'M
preston Of disturbance. as between two
people in the left-hand corner.
And then little old woman walked,
or moved, directly past me as lay
petrifed, and vanished through the
closet door (which was SHUT at the
head OF my bed. All the doors OPEN
ing into the hall were closed. saw
the apparition In profile, o little gray
figure, rather dumpy, with hands folded
and her hair drawn back In small
knob. I had feeling that she had
been caught unawares and was an
noyed at being seen. She had walked
by without looking at me-
II had also had an impression OF
another person In the corner who had
gone out II I may 50 express It,
without passing by. had inter-
rupted something, that was the. effect
upon me-"
Sees Face Of Dead Father.
Mrs. Josephine 8. Simpson, Mime
apolis, eminent in social service, cried
out: 'Oh. father, how glad I am to
see you" she relates, when she saw
the face of her dead father as she lay
in a hospital. Her father had been
dead some years, and was 70 when he
died, but her vision Of him was exactly
as recall him in my early childhood.
a man Of about IS. could see him
distinctly clad in shining black broad
cloth, his Sunday attire. could even
count the buttons on his vest. With
the entering Of my nurse into the room
his figure disappeared"
Mrs. Andrew c. Mclaughlin, sister
of DR.. James r. Angel, president Of
Yale, and wife of the longtime head
81 ftA ~ of htQfnPu al he
University Of Chicago. describes see
ing her son Rowland in vision
fortnight after he had been killed in
the World War, but just before she
received word of his death.
II. was lying in bed" she relates
mot asleep, but. am quite sure, con-
scious Suddenly my sons head and
face appeared, looking at me with a
most beautiful smile, as II reassuring
seeing his body or attitude, Just the
feeling that he was there with me-"
Two days later news came OF Rowland's
death.
Experience Of CartOOnist.
Edward w. Kemble, cartoonist, awoke
to see the face of his uncle, brightly
illumined, pass slowly before my eyes
and out through the window. His eyes
were fixed upon me and he smiled his
old familiar smile. Just then clock
struck 4. I said, Uncle Henry Is dead
Next morning the telephone rang, and
Uncle Henrys nurse said: Your uncle
died last night / asked the hour and
the answer was, Just o'clock"
The day before the incident Mr..
| Kemble had received word from his
| that his nephew would come to see
him. Mr.. Kemble had planned to go
| the following day. His uncle's illness
| therefore was uppermost in his mind.
chemist, Horace G. Byers. who has
been q bureau chief in the United
States Department Of Agriculture, de-
| scribes a similar incident. One night,
| three days before the birth of a child,
Mrs. Byers walked her husband by cry
ing, Grandmother" Mrs. Byers de-
scribed an apparition she had seen Of
her grandmother standing beside the
bed looking intently at her. The next
morning a telegram announced the
death Of the grandmother.
| Mrs Byers explains that she always
| regarded the incident as mental telep-
athy. Her relation TO the grandmother
had been unusually close. The grand
| mother was not known by her to be Ill.
Mrs. Marie C. Oemler, an author, de-
scribes an experience that occurred
| WINE Sne was III u uoSPltaA. Ole haA
an old blind dog. Mac. AS she lay In
bed she heard scufing sound, and saw
the dog. He was dripping.
Dog Had Drowned.
"Instinctively dropped my hand
over the side of the bed" she said.
The dog ran to the bed and thrust his
cold, wet nose into my palm and was
4 gone" Mrs. Oemler called him. fearing
he would not be safe, in his blindness,
II he ran out Of the hospital. A porter
answered. No dog had been seen. Mrs.
Oemlers husband. calling that night
told her Mac had been drowned that
day, apparently at about the time she