NINE TIMES "DEAD"

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 15

NINE TIMES "DEAD"

AMAZING EXPERIENCES

ENGLISH DOCTOR'S FEAR

To be pronounced dead nine tunes and once actually placed in his coffin, is the remarkable experience of Dr. Mclvor-Tyndall, who, after an absence of 45 years, has returned to England. In order to prevent any similar future calamity he always carries a letter to guard against the possibility of his being buried alive while in a trance.

The letter reads: "If at any time during or after an experiment in thought-reading, telepathy, or clairvoyance " I should become entranced, please take care not to hold an autopsy, or post-mortem, until at least seven days have elapsed, or until all known tests have been tried, proving that death nas taken place."

Dr. Melvor-Tyhdall is known in nearly every country in the world for his psychological power. and thought transference demonstrations. At Market Harburough,. his. native; town,. he told.•:the story of,his nine "deaths" and of his experiences when, he found himself in a coffin prepared for burial. "The trances to which I am subject leave no injurious effects," he said. "A medical authority has told me that their effect on me was rejuvenating. FEAR OF PREMATURE BURIAL.

"There is, of course, always one great dread—that I might. be buried alive. This nearly happened to me when once I was in a trance. Suddenly I was released from my catalepsy and, to my horror, I found I was lying in a coffin, ready to be buried.. No one can imagine the reactions of a sane and healthy person to such an ordeal. It was only natural that Ishould visualise the terrifying experience I should have endured but for my release from the trance—the possibility of my awakening to find myself suffocating in a tomb." -,

Demonstrations of Dr. Mclvor-Tyn-dall's thought transference powers have been given before the police-auth-orities all over the world. While in New York he was brought closely into contact with the famous Lindbergh murder case. "I feel Hauptmann is absolutely:innocent," he stated. "Before the trial commenced I expressed that opinion and, in my mind, it is a case similar to that of the famous Dreyfus trial. The American nation has spent nearly £250,000 to prove the man guilty." •

AIDING THE POLICE. ,

:. At Los Angeles the doctor was sought to help the police unravel the msߣry of a man, who had been arreMfl and sent to prison, but had rem^ped silent for a "week. Dr. MclvorTyndall interviewed the prisoner. "I hypnotised the man, and in few moments received a mental impression that another man was concerned in the case," he said. "A description was given and the story told of how certain premises, were entered. The place to which the stolen booty was taken was also revealed. The goods afterwards were found on the premises, and the stolen property . recovered."

Another case instanced was that of a man accused on a murder charge. He was unable to account for his whereabouts on the day ' the murder was committed. "As a! result of my powers," continued the doctor,' *T dis-i covered that Sthe man' w^s miles rawayj in. San^ Francisco at the: time 'of the' crime. The informationl was verified, and:,the real criminal arrested."' "