Tag: American Society for Psychical Research
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Mrs. L. E. Bates’s Daughter
Date: March 16, 1907. Location: Undetermined [Perhaps New York State], USA. Note: This case is only included due to the reported incidents of the Mrs. Bates’s daughter at the time of death rather than the general focus of the letters on Mrs. Bates herself and her claimed “premonitory” dream. The following case is interesting as…
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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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Death of a Nine Year Old Boy
Date: May 14, 1906. Location: Undetermined, US. [Below: Comments by Dr. James H. Hyslop (1907, A.S.P.R. Psychologist & not the doctor attending the boy.)] The mother confirms this narrative and inquiry brings out the following facts. The boy had never known his grandmother who had died twenty years ago. His sister had died four years…
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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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“Aunt” Louisa Browning
Date: October 28, 1883. Location: Bracknell [Berkshire], England. The following letters came into my [Editor, Journal of A.S.P.R.] possession as I shall describe. The letter to Capt. Ericsson, the inventor of the [U.S.S.] Monitor, was sent to the editor of The Open Court and by him to Mr. David P. Abbott, the author of “Behind…
The Katabasis Project 