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Ms. K. E. Dodd’s Sister
Date: Undetermined, (Prior to 1928.) Location: King’s Heath, Birmingham. The following is a record of a vision experienced by a lady a few hours before her death. It is sent us by Miss K. E. Dodd of King’s Heath, Birmingham, who says that her sister, the lady in question, was so impressed with her experience…
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Mrs. Brown & Mr. Auchterlonie
Date: Circa. 1918Location: Undetermined, UK. “Some interesting cases of visions seen by dying persons are given in a little book by Mrs. Joy Snell, who was a nurse in a large hospital, and the cases she narrates are her own personal experiences, and not narratives related at second-hand. Mrs. Snell seems to be a careful…
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Clifford Jenks
Date: October 19th, 1906. Location: Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The following case is more complex than the others. It is less evidential. The pastor who first reported the facts asserts that the young man was not under the influence of opiates or anaesthetics [sp.]. One would infer from this statement, tho he does not directly assert, that…
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Infinite
Date: Undetermined, Prior to 1896. Location: Undetermined, Probably East Coast USA. When I read the words of that minister [Gail Hamilton] and others, I recalled my strange journeyings into infinite space, with the vividness of yesterday, though it is now twenty-three years since. I was well, I was in the world and in the body,—suddenly…
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John (Jack) Britton
Date: Circa. 1872.Location: Leeds, UK. The following case appears to point to a hallucinatory origin of the music heard. It is an interesting case and worth quoting in an abbreviated form. It is printed in the “S.P.R. Journal,” Vol. IV, p. 181. Here the subject was a deaf mute, John Britton, who was taken dangerously…
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Mr. F. W. Thurstan: An Anglo-Indian’s Experience
Date: Circa. Early 1860s.Location: Near Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka It was, perhaps, only a dream, but [I] felt it was more than that, and while all other dreams of [my] childhood have vanished, this one forever remained as a real vision of another world to influence [my] career in this one. It came about in…
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Mrs. Watress’s Rose
Date: Prior to October 25, 1852. Location: Worchester, NY?, USA?. Mr. Editor:— While visiting at Mrs. Bassett’s, in Worchester, a married sister of hers, Mrs. Watress, related to me a succinct account of a wonderful and remarkable vision, which she was favored with a few months previous to my visit. One Sunday afternoon, feeling an…
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The Vision of Drythelm
Date: Circa 696 – 699 A.D. Location: Cunningham, Northumbria (Modern day Northern England and Sourthern Scotland) About this time, a noteworthy miracle, like those of olden days, occurred in Britian. For, in order to arouse the living from spiritual death, a man already dead returned to bodily life and related many noteable things that he…
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Vision of Salvius (6th Century Monk)
Date: September 10th, 584 A.D. Location: Modern-day France. Although I am fain to continue this History from the point reached in the foregoing books, a feeling of veneration bids me first say somewhat on the death of the holy Salvius, who died, as is well known, in this year. As he himself used to relate,…
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