Tag: Death
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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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Mrs. F. Shepherd
Date: Undetermined. (Prior to 1934). Location: Undetermined. A correspondent, Mrs. F. Shepherd, sends un an account of the following out-of-the-body experience. “I had had a severe shock,” she writes, “when I suddenly noticed that I was breathing in a strange way, and with the last conscious breath I found myself slipping out of the top…
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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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Mr. William Crowell Edgar
Date: Circa 1923. Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA. This is the true story of an operation for cancer. The writer, Mr. W. C. Edgar, of 1208 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis, is a well-known journalist. The incident described took place five years ago: since then he has had no return of the symptoms, and may be considered…
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Jean Vitalis
Date: Undetermined (Pub. 1921)Location: Undetermined (France?) [Translated from French] Dr. W.C., of Seranyn, in his work: Contribution to the Study of certain unacknowledged cerebral faculties, reports the following fact, which he personally observed during his long medical career: Jean Vitalis was a robust, stout, sanguine man, married, childless, enjoying perfect health. He must have been…
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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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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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Captain Gilbert Nobbs – Left on the Battlefield
Date: July, 1916 (Battle of the Somme) Location: Trônes Wood, Somme, France I was wounded! I was blind! But the moments that followed are clear in my memory. The brain shocked by a blow works quickly and actively in its excited effort to hold its own. I was quite conscious and thinking clearly: I knew…
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Ms. A.B.C.’s Experience
Date: Undetermined (Prior to 1914) Location: Undetermined (Probably England) One morning, about 11 a.m., after seeing my child off for a walk with its nurse, I lay on the sofa resting and reading, when suddenly, without any warning, a heart attack came on. As on many previous occasions, the pain, which was negligible, gave way…
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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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Mrs. S. B. L.
Date: January 19, 1909Location: New Smyrna, Florida Prof. James, Dear Sir:— Seven years ago in the Castle grounds at Marburg an old student of yours, during conversation, remarked, “I don’t want to die, I want to be alive.” I looked at him in amazement (he was studying theology) and replied: “Why, don’t you know that…
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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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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…
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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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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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John Huntley
Date: Circa, 1906. Location: Undetermined. About five years ago I woke from sleep to find “myself” clean out of the body, as the kernel of a nut comes out of its shell. I was conscious in two places—in a feeble degree, in the body which was lying in bed on its left side; and to…
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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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James Moore
Date: Circa 1903.Location: Detroit, Michigan It was about four o’clock, and the dawn for which he had been watching was creeping in through the shutters, when, as I bent over the bed, I noticed that his face was quite calm and his eyes clear. The poor fellow looked up into my face, and taking my…
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M. Constant Savy
Date: Cirac Early/Mid 19th Century.Location: Undetermined A modern writer, M. Constant Savy, relates an extraordinary dream which he had when he was apparently at the point of death. “I felt very ill,” writes Constant Savy, “I had no strength, it seemed to me that my life was making efforts to resist death, but in vain,…
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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…
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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…
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Mr. J. A. F. “In Articulo Mortis”
Date: May 16th, 1896Location: Undetermined Light, (November 24, 1900), p. 558-560.
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Valley of the Shadow of Death
Date: Prior to 1896. Location: Massachusetts, USA [Likely] A man, a clergyman, occupying his pulpit with great acceptance, fell severly ill. Tho’ a clergyman, he had been a man of the world also, strong, alert, fond of mountain and stream, loving the interests, the activities, even the bustle and hustle, the fun and frolic of…
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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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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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S.P.R. Journal (January, 1891)
Mr. Pearsall Smith gave an account of a young man dying of consumption, sent to sea for the benefit of his health. In the excitement of a storm the invalid was forgotten, and seemed to die. He then perceived how the officer responsible for him began to be worried about him, and came down and…
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Did You See?
Date: Prior to 1896. Location: Iowa, USA. Several years ago I too had a similar experience and have long wanted some one of sense to see the same things I did that we might compare notes. I am not timid, yet I had not the strength to go over and over the story as I…
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Dr. Wiltse’s Account
Date: June 22, 1889Location: Wartburg, Tenn. The following, at time rather humerous, account of Dr. Wiltse is broken up into two parts and read before the Tri-state Medical Society of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, held at Chattanooga, on October 15th – 17th, 1889. The account was originally broken up into two parts and in two separate…
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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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She Knows Who I Am
Date: Circa. 1887Location: California, USA. The following case was given by Dr. Paul Edwards, and was published in the Journal “Light” for April, 1906: “While living in a country town in California (U.S.A.) about the year 1887, I was called upon to visit a very dear lady friend who was very low and weak from…
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Professor A. Pastore
Date: Prior to 1887Location: Genoa, Italy. I have been through a very severe illness. At the crisis, when I had entirely lost consciousness of physical pain, the power of my imagination was increased by an extraordinary degree, and I saw clearly in a most distinct confusion (two words which do not accord, but which, in…
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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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“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…
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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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Oh, Dear Mamma, There is Minnie!
Date: Prior to 1879Location: London In the case here abridged, the singing and voice of the unseen visitant were heard by the mother as well as by her dying child; and a cousin of the deceased child appears to have had a vision of the child and heard a premonitory intimation of her death. “Mrs.…
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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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Rev. Cyrus Hamlin
Date: Circa, 1874/5 Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D.D. of Turkey in Europe, Turkey in Asia, and Lexington in Massachusetts, entered the Massachusetts General Hospital for surgical treatment. “I had no remarkable spiritual exercises,” he writes, “I had time to review my life, to consider its close, and to look over to the…
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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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