Tag: Dead

  • Clifford Jenks

    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…

  • Mrs. Alexander Taylor

    Mrs. Alexander Taylor

    Date: August 9, 1899.Location: Near Wheeling, West Virginia. News from Wheeling, W. Va., tells of a Mrs. Alexander Taylor, a widow, thirty-five years old, residing at Toronto, near Wheeling, who has been slowly dying of consumption. On the 9th inst. she became unconscious. A doctor pronounced her dead and funeral preparations were begun. About midnight…

  • 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…

  • Emily Ainsworth

    Emily Ainsworth

    Date: Circa 1870’s. Location: Near Chicago, Illinois, USA. The following case is entirely second hand and very old. It must pass for what it is worth. The man who reports it is an intelligent person and, with the two instances in his own family briefly mentioned in a later letter, it may have a place…

  • Dr. Passavant’s Account of a Peasant Boy

    Dr. Passavant’s Account of a Peasant Boy

    Date: Undetermined (Probably mid-19th Century [~1850])Location: Undetermined (Probably in Pennsylvania, US) Dr. Passavant relates the case of a peasant boy, who after a short but painful illness, apparently died, his body being perfectly stiff. He, however, revived, complaining bitterly of being called back to life. He said he had been in a delightful place, and…