THE DREAM HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 114, 9 November 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE DREAM HOUSE.

-, ♦ . A correspondent, who signs his letter "Beta," supplies to the {Spectator "the following curious story : — Some years ago my wife had repeated dreams of a house, the interior arrangements of which she described minutely, although no idea as to its locality was conveyed to her. Subsequently, in the year 1883, I hired for the autumn, from Lady B , a house in the Highlands, with' shooting and fishing ; my son, who .was in Scotland at the time, arranged the matter, neither my wife nor I having seen the place. When I went (without my wife) to make final arrangements for taking possession, Lady B was still living in the house, and she told me that if I did not mind she purposed putting me^for the night into a- bedroom 4 which she herself usually occupied, and which 1 for pome time past had been haunted by "a little lady," who continually appeared in it. As I was somewhat 'sceptical upon such matters, I replied that I should be delighted to make the acquaintance of her ghostly visitor, and I accordingly slept in the room, but no such visitor appeared to me. Subsequently, upon my wife's arrival at the house, she, to her great astonishment, found it to be the counterpart of her dream house, and on inspecting it from hall to attic, every detail appeared to correspond.' But on descending again to the hall, she said, "No, this cannot be the house after all, as in my dream there was another suite of rooms on that side, which is missing here." She was at once told that there was such a suite of apartments, not approached from the hall, and on being taken over them she recognised every room. She, however, said that a bedroom in this suite appeared in her dream to be a sitting-room, and it appeared that this had been the case, but that the arrangement had just been altered. A day or two after, my wife and I met Lady B , and I introduced the two ladies to each other, as they had not previously been acquainted. Instantly Lady B exclaimed, "Why, you are the lady who haunted my bedroom !" I have no explanation to offer, nor had my wife during the rest of her life, as . to what some might call a remarkable coincidence, and which would be called in the Highlands a case of ' second sight." Certainly my dear wife was the last person in the world to give undue 1 license to her imagination, and, further, I can vouch for the fact, and so can other members of my family, that she did undoubtedly describe accurately a house which had some rather remarkable arrangements, and this long before she or any other members of the family were even aware that such a house really existed. You are at liberty to give my name to any one seriously interested in psychological investigation who may be desirous of obtaining further information, and I enclose my card for that purpose.