A STRANGE STORY
. TO THE EDITOR Of THE PRESS Sir, —The story related by a correspondent in your issue of Saturday has been going the rounds with various embellishments for the last month to my own knowledge. The person from whom I first got it heard it from someone who was told, he alleged, by one of the passengers in the car that picked up the “psychic.” This version was that the car was travelling south towards Geraldine, and that it was at Geraldine the car was stopped with a request that a man who had been injured in an accident should be conveyed to the hospital. The man died in the car, as predicted by the "psychic.” The next version I heard was that the whole incident took place outside of Auckland. The credulity of the average human being is proverbial. No doubt the story was invented by some wag who was doing some “leg-pulling” by way of amusement. It had the air of mystery and the supernatural and was for that reason the more readily swallowed. • You’S, etc., A,W.A. December 26, 1938.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22594, 27 December 1938, Page 14
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184A STRANGE STORY Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22594, 27 December 1938, Page 14
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