A QUAINT COMPACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 274, 19 November 1927, Page 31

A QUAINT COMPACT.

WHISPER OF "I AM DEAD."

GHOST BROUGHT BACK BY TEIiEPATHT.

MOTHER'S VOICE,

A peer made a compact with a friend to the effect that whichever of the two died first he should let the other know. Time passed, and the peer had almost forgotten the compact. Then one day he was startled by hearing a voice which he identified at once as that of his friend. It whispered in his ear: "I am dead." Later he received news of his friend's death. He had died at the very moment the peer had heard him. This is only one of the thousands of instances that can he cited that seem to show that it is possible for two minds separated from one another by any length of distance to communicate without any external apparatus, writes Elliott O'Donnell in the "Weekly Dispatch." Here is a very ordinary yet extraordinary occurrence which almost everyone often experiences. Some stranger is walking in front of you in the street, or perhaps is seated with his back to you in some public place. He glances round at you, apparently because you have been regarding him fixedly for a few seconds. Haunted House VigiL

j I not infrequently amuse myself experimenting in- this fashion, and in nine cases out of ten I succeed. The person I am victimising almost invariably turns to look inquiringly at me. I am, therefore, convinced myself that whatever else may be the explanation of this phenomenon—telepathy or what not—mere chance and coincidence must be ruled out.

One experiment I made went far to [convince me of the truth of telepathy. A lady living in a house in Wellington Square, Chelsea, which she declared to be haunted, invited me to hold a vigil there one evening. There were four of us, the lady and her sister, another man, and myself. We sat in the dark.

I-resolved to perform a little experiment in telepathy. I accordingly concentrated very intensely on my person assuming some frightful shape, rising from the chair and springing on the lady opposite. Presently the lady gave a loud scream. On my asking what was the matter, she exclaimed: "Don't, don't. Keep away from me."

"I am not doing anything," I said. "I'm in.my chair." "You were not when I called out," she replied. "I saw you suddenly assume a frightful shape, and rising from your chair look as if you were about to spring on me." I had through telepathy conveyed to that one person present just what I wanted her to conceive.

His Mother's Voice.

I myself witnessed a very good case of telepathy some years ago in Bournemouth. I was out boating one day with an old sailor and a visitor in the town, Mr. Marshall. After we had been sailing some distance from the shore Marshall suddenly exclaimed, "I am very sorry but I must ask you' to land me. I believe my mother is very ill and wants to see me immediately. I'm sure I heard her whisper in my ear, 'Come home at once, I must see you.'" We forthwith made for the beach.

When I next met. Marshall he told me he had taken the first train to London and found his mother ill in bed but very surprised to see him back. She had, she said, filled in a telegraph form asking him to come a't once, but had not sent it, as she had suddenly taken a turn for the better. She had written the form at half-past eleven, which was exactly the time that he thoaght he heard her whisper in his ear. , Woman in White. In the twenties of the last century Herr Wesermann, of Dnsseldorf, a Government official, determined .to Sjee if he could make a particular friend of his, "A. 8.," dream of a woman who had been dead several years. Accordingly, at half-past ten one evening, he sat alone in his room, concentrating with all his might on making •A. 8.," who was many miles distant, see the woman.

Now, it so happened that at halfP® 8 * .OB this particular evening A 8.," instead of being in bed as usual, was sitting in his parlour entertaining a brother officer. two men were talking together, when the door opened and they both saw a woman in white, with a black kerchief round her head, standing on the threshold. She nodded in a kindlv way, then left. y

The following day Wesermann communicated with -A 8.," telling him of his experiment, and asking him if had produced any ; resnlt. ~T h® description Wesermann gave of the dead woman he had willed "A B " to dream about tallied minutely with the figure A. B." and his companion had seen. ' "■ ™

Out of the unexpected result there arises the question; Was the figure seen by two men subjective (that is to say visualised in the brain through telepathic communication) or was it a u*' f x