A BOY CLAIRVOYANT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 45, 16 November 1907, Page 14

A BOY CLAIRVOYANT.

All over Scandinavia great excitement and sensation has been caused by a thirteen-year-old Norwegian boy, John Flottum, who seems to be possessed of a: most extraordinary clairvoyant power . More than six months" ago somebody at Singass, where the boy..ie living, observed the remarkable ability which ho had shown in finding lost things and'per-

At first no special notice.was taken.of it, but some weeks ago a commercial ; traveller, living in the Ocsterdal Valley,.was missed. Someboly took';the opportunity -to . speak about the 'boy's remarkable power, .to the police, who for'nearly a weeki'liad tried' iu vain to trace, the missing traveller., John 'Flottum was appealed to,-and without hesitation the::.boy - indicated \. a ■•.river about twenty miles away, whoro the body was promptly found. The method adopted was as follows:—-A photograph of the missing man was shown to the .boy,.who closely examined it. After a short visit at the house where tho man had lived, the boy, escorted by two Norwegian policemen, started in tho direction which he instantly indicated.. After a short walk tho boy suddenly stopped, 'exclaiming, "Wo are on the right way. Here the man lately sat down.','

After ■ a few minutes' stay the boy continued his : walk. Though many people followed the boy. and the policemenji the boy did not take any notice of them. He followed rapidly the course which he had laid out, and, Although it was dark, he requested tho -, police to follow him until he had-found, a •tree where, he had seen that the man" should have lost a handkerchief. After, one hour's walk a tree was found, where a handkerchief, was lying. It was>the property of ing man. By'this-time the boy was so ex- - hausted that"he said it was necessary, to give, ■ up further walking that day. . ■ - Early next morning the boy arose and told the policemen that,in the night he had.seen the body of the man at the bottom of the. river which lie had.indicated. The boy went straight, to the:river, where a boat was at tho shore. He, together with the police arid, two fishermen, steered in.the direction which the boy indicated. Suddenly ho. criedj "Here, you are, ' and at the. bottom -of 'the ,' river where, tho boat .stopped tho body was,seen lying in about one and a half fathoms of water. ■ ' "■'■!..'■■■ John's school .teacher,' Mr. Morseth,.. sixty, years old, says:—"He is a phenomenal .clairvoyant; I havo already tried him with seve-. rai cases,,and nearly always John 'has had,a. complete success. Only in a few cases, when. ho was excited, tho experiments nave failed. But don't forget," added the old teacher, "that John is only a boy." - ■...,. .■.'■• •, Asked what sort of experiments, the teacher had made with John, Morseth' said: —"One day I asked John: 'Please, tell me what I have in mv purse." Instantly. John iiplied, 'A gold ring, some slips of'.paper, but no money.' That was quite correct. Another day I told.John that thirty years.ago, seventeen years before John was , born; I.lost a gold ring whon I, was playing, with the school , children in the field.. John held his hand, over his'\.eyes, and in "a few minutes r.aid, 'I see your'ring flying through-.the .air.. Many small hands are. searching for it'on the'ground, and many eyes aro looking for it There is a very thick and-fat,boy wjio;is very eagerly looking for it. ..But .with .his'one haiid he covers the ring for which.he is'so eagerly'looking." 'The teacher.now clearly recollected the fat. boy, who later died in prison. ' ■!;■■, ~ , '■' ' ' "Besides those experiments, ;ho continued, "many others could be mentioned',. but in thoso "cases I suppose'that it was merely thought reading. That it is real you may bo quite assured. In school John was a very intelligent boy, but he did not care for reading. He was not very industrious or clever, but showed remarkable common sensa nnd much ability at drawing. He was always interested in all sorts of pictures and photographs." .:"■■'.■_ I'astor Brisin, nt Singass, says:—'T com. narc the same with the same sense which wo learn in the Bibl"of many of the prophets.I cull your attention to the story of King , Raul, who went to Samuel and gbt'-'full information about, somn asses which hnd ; disappeared from his ■ father's stable. Quito so with the boy John." ' '

Pγ. Welfring, n well-known Christiariia norvo specialist, after close investigation; declares that lie does not.' deny that the boy possesses a sixth sense of which the. sciontifio world lias no acknowledgment. ■