Tag: Paranormal
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. A’s Out-of-Body Experience
In June 1857, Mrs. A., residing with her husband, a British Army colonel, and their infant on Woolwich Common near London, experienced a surreal event. Waking suddenly, she felt as if observing her own lifeless body beside her husband. Initially believing she had died, she contemplated the impact on her loved ones before feeling herself…
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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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To See Her Children
Date: Circa. 1854 Location: Egypt A lady and her husband (who held a position of some distinction in India) were returning home (A.D. 1854) after an absence of four years, to join a family of young children, when the former was seized in Egypt with an illness of a most alarming character, and, though carefully…
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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…
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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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Admiral Francis Beaufort
Date: Circa. 1825Location: Portsmouth Harbour, England The following letter, addressed by Admiral Beaufort to Dr. W. H. Wollaston, giving an account of the feelings of the former when apparently on the very point of death from drowning, was originally published in the Life of the late Sir John Barrow. It will well repay perusal: The…
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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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Old Man Westburn
Date: Circa 1757-1758 Location: Undetermined (Most likely near Edinburgh) Sir Bernard Burke, in his book entitled Family Romance, thus describes the dream and death of Westburn, about 1757 or 1758. Westburn, who was an elderly man, and not in very strong health, was in the habit of reposing during an hour after dinner, and his…
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Mrs. Birbeck of Cockermouth
Date: 1739 Location: Cockermouth, UK. In 1739 Mrs. Birbeck, the wife of William Birbeck, banker, of Settle, and a member of the Society of Friends, was taken ill and died at Cockermouth, while returning from a journey to Scotland, which she had undertaken alone—her husband and three children, aged seven, five, and four years respectively,…
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Johann Schwerzeger
Date: 1733Location: Undetermined. UK? In the year 1733 Johann Schwerzeger fell into a state of trance, after an illness, but revived. He said he had seen his whole life, and every sin he had committed, even those he had quite forgotten—everything had been as present to him as when it had happened. He also lamented…
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Mrs. Goffe
Date: June 3rd, 1691 Location: Rochester, England The case of Mrs. Goffe is also of remote date, 1691, but it taken from a contemporary report made by the Rev. T. Tilson in a letter he addressed to the famous divine, Richard Baxter, who published it in a book he wrote. The case is given in…
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Er of Pamphylia
Date: Prior to 375 BCE.Location: Pamphylia (Modern-day Southern Turkey) Well, I said, I will tell you a tale; not one of the tales which Odysseus tells to the hero Alcinous, yet this too is a tale of a hero, Er the son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth. He was slain in battle, and ten…
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