Category: Fragments

  • Miss Dallas

    Date: Prior to 1926.Location: Undetermined My friend Miss Dallas has sent me some cases of Visions of the Dying which occurred to persons she knew. In one case the face of her friend’s mother, just before death, suddenly lighted up with an intense brilliancy. When this had passed away, the dying woman opened her eyes…

  • Harrison Clark Jr.’s Wife

    Date: Prior to March, 1907. Location: Perhaps New York, USA? The following incident came from one of my former students, now a lawyer, an intelligent man. His special interest in the matter was not awakened until he lost his wife and at my request he reported the present incident, after narrating it to me personally.…

  • Mrs. Keller’s Brother

    Mrs. Keller’s Brother

    Date: Prior to 1907. Location: Undetermined, USA. April 14th, 1907. I have another incident which may or may not have an interest for you. A cousin of mine has just died, and a sister who watched by his side the night previous to his death, said that all night he spoke of the woman in…

  • Rev. Dwight L. Moody

    Rev. Dwight L. Moody

    Date: December 26, 1899. Location: Northfield, Massachusetts, USA Professor Bozzano, in the Annals of Psychical Science, gives twenty-two cases in all, three of which are found in this discussion… [James H. Hyslop] The first instance is taken from the life of the Rev. Dwight L. Moody, the celebrated evangelical preacher of the United States, written…

  • Esther Stanwood

    Date: Prior to 1896. Location: Undetermined. Esther Stanwood, a shy, sturdy, quiet little maid four years and eight months old, lay in the long last stupor of scarlet fever. Suddenly her eyes opened wide and bright, and she pointed into a corner of the room, asking eagerly, “Who’s all them?”—and died. Gail Hamilton, X Rays (Hamilton: Mass.,…

  • Gail Hamilton’s Family

    Date: Undetermined, Prior to 1896. Location: Probably Falmouth, Maine, USA. My sister tells me that my mother when dying suddenly spoke in a glad tone of surprise and recognition, and called by name my father, as if she saw him in her immediate presence, he having been dead a dozen years or more. Gail Hamilton, X…

  • Falmouth Parishioner

    Date: Prior to 1896. Location: Falmouth, Maine, USA. In my pastorate in Falmouth, Me., I went one dark, dreary afternoon in November to call on one of my parishioners, a very devout woman, one of the saints of God on earth, who was then in her last sickness. While sitting by her bedside conversing with…

  • Valley of the Shadow of Death

    Date: Late 19th Century (years prior to 1896) Location: Minnesota I was once in that “valley,” but returned to remain a little longer on this side. Before I entered it I heard the sweetest music. The voices that I heard were those I used to hear in prayer meetings in my father’s house when I…

  • Up, Up!

    Date: Late 19th Century (“Years Prior” to 1895) Location: Illinois Years ago, when I was a lad, my father, while engaged in operating a circular saw, was struck and knocked senseless by a bolt catching on back of the saw. He was carried into his home, near by, and placed on a bed. It was…

  • The Merchant of Dharapuram, India

    Date: Undetermined Location: Dharapuram, India [In Dharapuram] a rich merchant of some celebrity died. A few years after, a friend of the deceased also appeared to die; but, as in the above case, he revived. As soon as he was able to speak, he said he had a message from the deceased merchant to be…

  • A. of Hyderabad, India.

    Date: Circa, 1884 Location: Near Arnee and Hyderabad India. About three years ago an oilmonger died within the vicinity or Arnee, whom I will call, for the sake of convenience, A. Sometime after his death, a kinsman, or friend of his, whom I may name B., also appeared to breathe his last. But the latter,…

  • The Hinkel Family

    Date: Circa, 1876. Location: New York, USA? The following incident was not dated in the informant’s reply and as it was not a new incident its interest has to rest on the authority of the informant. He was one of the ablest physicians in his city and himself attached some value to the facts, tho…

  • Hudson Tuttle’s Tale

    Year: Published, 1871. Location: Hartford, Connecticut. An impressive incident occurred years ago in Hartford. The man who related it was so profoundly impressed with the reality of the supra-mortal meeting and recognition that he never forgot it. He is still living in a Western State. On this occasion he was a watcher at the bedside…

  • Lloyd Ellis

    Lloyd Ellis

    Date: January, 1870. Location: Undetermined. Mr. Lloyd Ellis had symptoms of lung disease at the time (of his father’s death), but not to a degree to lead his friends to expect a fatal termination soon. But his health declined rapidly towards the end of the year, and in the month of January, 1870, he was…

  • Pittsburgh Vision

    Pittsburgh Vision

    Date: Before September 13th, 1852. Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Some few days ago, we noticed the fact of a young lady, residing in this city, being in a trance, since the previous Saturday. At first we have inclined to treat the rumor as a hoax, but we have since made inquires about the case, and find…

  • Henry Clay’s Alledged Experience

    Henry Clay’s Alledged Experience

    Date: June 29, 1852. Location: Washington, D.C., USA. When the dissolution of the body is gradual, it not unfrequently occurs that in proportion as the external senses are obscured, the soul experiences an immortal quickening; so that the forms of departed spirits are rendered visible, and the other life becomes a present occurrence, and tangible…

  • The Headache

    The Headache

    Date: Prior to June 19, 1852. Location: NY, USA? We have given a new title to the following article from the Sunday Dispatch. Such things are of daily occurrence, and secular papers publish them approvingly, so long as they are labeled Pathological Phenomena.—Ed. Singular Pathological Phenomena.— A case presenting features of a most strangely intereseting…

  • Charles Hamlin Phelps

    Date: September 29th, 1849. Location: Ohio, USA. Charles Hamlin Phelps, was born here in my home, and since his mother died has clung to me. Within the last three years he had several attacks of inflammatory rheumatism, and on April 5 the end came. His father was supporting him in bed, but he could not…

  • Peter the Monk (via Gregory the Great)

    Peter the Monk (via Gregory the Great)

    Date: Prior to 590 A.D. Location: Perhaps Spain? A certain Slav was a monk and lived with me here in this city in my monastery. He used to tell me that when he lived in the wilderness he knew a monk named Peter, who was born in Spain. He lived with him in the vast…