“The next case was communicated to the S.P.R.1 by the Rev. J. A. Macdonald, who has for some years been a useful helper to the Society in the careful collection of evidence. Mr. Macdonald received it at first hand from Miss Ogle, who was the sister of the percipient. She writes as follows:
My brother, John Alkin Ogle, died at Leeds, July 17th, 1879. About an hour before he expired he saw his brother—who had died about sixteen years before—and John, looking up with fixed interest, said, ‘Joe! Joe!’ and immediately after exclaimed with ardent surprise, ‘George Hanley!’ My mother, who had come from Melborne, a distance of about forty miles, where George Hanley resided, was astonished at this, and said, ‘How strange he should see George Hanley; he died only ten days ago.’ Then turning to my sister-in-law she asked if anybody had told John of George Hanley’s death; she said ‘No one.’ My mother was the only person present who was aware of the fact. I was present and witnessed this.
(Signed) Harriet H. Ogle
In answer to inquires, Miss Ogle states:
J. A. Ogle was neither delirious nor unconscious when he uttered the words recorded. George Hanley was an acquaintance of John A. Ogle, not a particularly familiar friend. The death of Hanley was not mentioned in his hearing.
William Barrett, Death-Bed Visions (Green Point Books, 2023), 20–21.
- See: “Proceedings S.P.R.,” Vol. 5, p. 460. ↩︎
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