Strange Happenings : Scientists Baffled

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 11

Strange Happenings : Scientists Baffled

Mysterious . Drug and Second Sight

What is the explanation of telepathic vision, that psychic problem which many great scientists have vainly tried to solve? Under the influence of a mysterious drug Colombian Indians are able to make drawings illustrating European cities and current events with great wealth of detail. This and many other remarkable cases of telepathy are described in a recent “Sunday Chronicle.”

A YOUNG woman who was busy , • buying goods in one of the , " largest Btores in Novara suddenly dropped the piece iof cloth she held in her .hand and cried out:, “Grandpa’s burning I Oh, help him! He’s burning!”

She was assisted home, and arriving there found that her grandfather, who was paralysed, had fallen on to the fire and was, indeed, burning. This , strange case of telepathic vision has created quite a sensation on the Continent, and, is indeed, a remarkable instance.

When the Magicians’ Club put the Zancigs to the test last year, a newspaper reporter blindfolded- Mrs Zancig and then placed a black bag over her head She was seated with her back to the audience. Her husband, sat in full view of the audience, but hidden from his wife by a screen. The vice-president of the club had

prepared a secret pared! and this lie handed to Mr Zancig when all was ready. No words; were upo'seii till his wife began to 'describe! first a package in brown paper tied' with string; then a yellow box tied with white tape; then three envelopes one inside the other; and finally a piece of paper on which were the words, “Madam, frankly, yon have me beat.” A well-known English author who produced a bodk which was one of the best sellers of the autumn season possesses a strange gift. He does not like the fact known, but recently, to convince a. sceptic, allowed, a, card .to be hidden in his drawing room during his albsenro and then-went to find it: Before walking-to the hiding place, he turned round three times,, a fiact which- puzzled him. But this very act convinced his sceptical friend than anything else, for he admitted that he had been humming, sarcastic-

ally to himself: “Here we go round the mulberry bush 1” AMAZING TEST . ’ The little-known Carijonas Indian* of the Caquetcb region of Colombia possess, a drug called yage which render* its "addict open to receive telepathic communications. Under its influence they have described European music, cities, and current events with euch a! wealth of detail . that they have to make drawings in order to express themselves, their dialect being unequal to the description of the things seen. The stuff was actually tested bv 3 Dr Rayon on his colleague. Colonel C, Morales, who immediately became conscious of the death of his father and the illness of his sister, who were separated from him by at least.-a thousand miles of impenetrable forest. Ai month. later a courier reached them with letters which confirmed thi« straDge, drug-induced telepathic vis. ion. FLOATING HATS Professor Richet quotes a most unusual case of telepathy in whiel} ai woman saw two girls drowned through the carriage in which they were riding falling into a lake, only their hats floating on the surface to give, a hint of the tragedy. ' "Weeks later the news reached this woman in England that her niece, whom she-had never- seen, and a girl friend had been drowned in Australia , under identical circumstances,- even to the floating hats, at the very moment of her vision.-