CURIOUS EXPERIENCES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 129, 24 July 1911, Page 6

CURIOUS EXPERIENCES.

Some curious experiences have been . related by correspondents in the columns of the “Spectator” under the heading “Phantasms of the Living.” The correspondence was started hy a Mr Alfred Church, who stated that one Sunday in March last, he was surprised to see in the chancel of the church at which he worshipped, tlie figure of the old verger, who, he understood, was at that moment lying ill. He found out afterwards that the ,o!d man really was ill, and in the infirmary; nine days later lie died The story is not very convincing, foi Mr Church admitted that he caught only one glimpse of the verger, am church light is deceptive. A mucli more remarkable experience was related by a lady, who said that a feu years before she had awakened one afternoon to see her son, a boy rf thirteen, by her side. She said: Why, Tom, why have you come home?” She thought ha answered, “I did so want to come home, mother: I feel so ill.’’ His form then gradually became -fainter, and vanished. The boy was at a boarding school some distance away, and the phantasm so impressed his mother that she immediately wrote asking him if he was quits well. He replied that on the day in question he had suffered from a. sick headache,/ and had, lain down and gone to sleep in his dormitory. As he had gone upst lira to Ho down, he wished he were with his mother. A master avioLo to tell of two similar experiences—of having seen in the school playing grounds a boy Avho, lie aftehvaffds ascertained, had been ill in lied at .the time. Another correspondent told how, many years before, Avhen he was a boy, be had stained in' the house of a boy friend. One afternoon his friend AVent off'for a ride, and lie lay doivn on a sofa in the hall, to read. When he had been reading for twenty minutes, there were sounds of a horse’s hoofs outside, and his friend entered, smiled at. hinf, and ran upstairs. An hour later the boy returned again, rmich to the astonishment of his friend, Avho had not seen him go out. It Avas explained that the rider had not returned Avhen he Avas supposed to have done so„,fmt had been riding all the time. Our readers may amuse themselves thinking of natural explanations of these happenings