Category: Impossible Knowledge
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Tales of Mrs. L. Hemingway
Date: Undetermined, (Prior to 1935) Location: India. Your recent article in Light regarding Mr. Puckering, who “died” and recovered, and who, during that period, visited, he thought, the spirit-world, recalls a similar experience of mine. I was not “dead,” but all hope of life had gone, and during unconscious state I visited what I thought…
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The “Material Envelope”
Date: January 31, 1920 Location: St. Martin, Guernsey (Channel Islands, U.K.) H.I.M., who (with the concurrence of Miss Dallas) sends us the following striking narrative of the experience of a dying person, has furnished us with her name and address, but does not wish them published:— My sister, who was all her life a seeker…
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W. Martin
Date: Circa, 1911. Location: Liverpool, UK. Graphic and unusual details of an out-of-body experience are given by W. Martin of 107 Grove Street, Liverpool, in a letter published in the Sunday Express of May 26th, as one of an interesting series dealing with Reincarnation. “In 1911 at the age of sixteen,” Mr. Martin writes, “I…
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The Sunday School Teacher
Date: Prior to March, 1907. Location: Greeley, Colorado. The following case is a very important one, because the percipient did not know his teacher was dead. Unfortunately the mother took an unreasonable position in regard to narrating the facts. The state of mind of religious people on such a matter is incomprehensible, except on the…
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A “Life Experience”
Date: Undetermined,(Prior to April, 1906) Location: Undetermined The “Progressive Thinker” lately reproduced from the “Sunday School Times” a “life experience” written by a valued contributor who, in a letter to the Editor of that journal, said:— “I am dubious about offering this, even as my own enlightening and comforting experience, and yet, because we know…
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The Funerary Card
Date: June 24, 1894Location: Caracas, Venezuela “I am indebted to Mr. C. J. Hans Hamilton for the following case, which he translated from the Review “Psychica” of 1921. It was contributed by M. Warcollier, of the Institut Metapsychique, Paris, who says: My uncle, M. Paul Durocq, left Paris in 1893 for a trip to America,…
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Jennie and Edith
Date: June 8, 1889. Location: Near Boston, MA, USA. [Most Likely] I quote next a well authenticated instance on the authority of Dr. Minot J. Savage. He records it in his Psychic Facts and Theories. He also told me personally of the facts and gave me the names and addresses of the persons on whose…
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S.P.R. Unpublished Case #B-G-57-1893
B G 57. Transitional (or L) Visual. Date: When Mrs. B. was about 10. Recorded: 1886 3rd hand, good as 2nd.— Mrs. Beaumont heard her parents relate that their parents lay dying in adjoining rooms. The mother died, and her death was kept secret from the father. An hour after her death he remarked that…
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David Edward
Date: November 2-3, 1885. Location: Aspley, Hertfordshire, UK. On November 2nd and 3rd, 1870, I lost my two eldest boys, David Edward and Harry, in scarlet fever, they being then three and four years old, respectively. Harry died at Abbot’s Langley on November 2nd, fourteen miles from my vicarage at Aspley; David the following day…
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Seeing George Hanley
“The next case was communicated to the S.P.R. 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,…
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Colonel Z’s Wife
Date: February, 1874 Location: United Kingdom The following interesting case is an instance in which the dying person heard the sound of singing and also had a vision of a lady of whose death she was unaware. The case is taken from the “Proceedings S.P.R.” for 1885, and is as follows somewhat abridged: Mrs. Z,…
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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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The Parish Visitor
Date: Circa. 1869.Location: Yorkshire, England From Canon —, who does not wish his name to be given:— October 6th, 1888 Sir—At your request I send you the following account of a curious occurence which came under my experience nearly 20 years ago. In the year 1869 I had the care of a small country parish on…
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Daisy Irene Dryden
Date: October 8th, 1864Location: San José, California The following account of the last days of a little child was published in the “Journal of the American S.P.R.,” edited by Dr. James H. Hyslop (Vol. XII, No. 6), and a considerably abridged report was compiled by Miss H. A. Dallas, a summary of which is given…
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Sergeant-Major Albert Adams
Date: February, 1862. (Battle of Fort Henry, American Civil War) Location: Near Stewart County, TN, USA. April 22nd, 1884 I received my degree from Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill., at the close of the session 1857-8, and having said so much will proceed to give you as clear and complete a statement of the occurrence…
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Report of Dean Plumptre
In April 1854, a mother, lying on her death-bed, spoke in near-unconsciousness, unexpectedly naming her deceased children, including William, whose name had long been unspoken. She also mentioned Priscilla, who had passed away two days prior, unbeknownst to her.
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I Don’t See Out of my Eyes
Date: 1851 Location: USA A little lad, robust, fun-loving, free, until he was eight years old, began then to fail in body and to mature in mind, until his spiritual nature seemed to have absorbed mental and physical, in development for another world. One evening, as it began to draw toward the first day of the…
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Margaret Hangley
Date: September 20, 1849 Location: Bangor, Maine. The following communication refer to a palpable case of spiritual transit to the other world, and the prophetic announcements are among the facts which forever remain to puzzle and rebuke the skepticism of unbelieving men. [Ed.] To Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir: During the summer of 1849,…
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Meanwhile in India
Date: Circa. 1830 – 1840. Location: United Kingdom, India The following incident was sent to the “Spectator” by “H. Wedgwood” in 1882. He says: Between forty and fifty years ago a young girl, a near connexion of mine, was dying of consumption. She had lain for some days in a prostrate condition taking no notice…
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Christiane
Date: Circa, 1816. Location: Weinsberg, Germany In September 1820, my daughter Christiane, who was still overwhelmed by an unrelenting longing for her deceased brother, experienced a sudden episode while sitting quietly in the living room. She fell into a deep sleep. During this state, she later described the following vision: ‘I found myself walking along…
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A Young Lady and Her Soldier Lover
Date: Circa. 1807-1814 Location: Ross-Shire, Scotland. Dr. Macnish noticing the following case, which he says may be confidently relied on, is one of the most striking examples of identity between the dream and the real circumstances, with which I am acquainted:—Miss M— a young lady, a native of Ross-shire, was deeply in love with an…
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Thomas Say
Date: Circa, 1725. Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Vision During A State of Coma This case has a resemblance to this vision of Dr. Wiltse, in Proceedings, Vol. VIII. p. 180 (quoted in Human Personality, Vol. II. p. 315), and is still more interesting in that, if the statements given are to be implicitly trusted, the patient…
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