A BIOGRAPH BRAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 53, 26 October 1912, Page 2

A BIOGRAPH BRAIN.

Psychologists in Missouri arc greatly puzzled over an extraordinary case of supernormal powers of vision, hearing, and other senses possessed by a girl of 22 named, Bessie Stewart, daughter of a farmer of Wellsville. The girl spends much of her time in a peculiar state of semi-trance, when she seems oblivious to all that is going on, and yet “senses” scenes which are being Enacted miles away. On one typical day, according to the doctor’s report (writes the New York correspondent of the Daily Express), she began with ordinary girlish acts, such as singing and dancing, to some twosteps played by a friend. When, however, the friend played “Home, Sweet Horne,” Bessie, instead of singing, acted the meaning of the song in graceful pantomime. She sat down with the family to a meal, and then rose suddenly, dashing off in long strides to obtain a man’s pipe, which she smoked. After a while, however, the fit wore off, and she returned to do some more charming recitations. When in the evening she picked up a bundle of pictures to look at tiro doctor determined to test her alleged powers. The light was turned out, until the pictures were, to the normal eye, invisible, hut the girl continued to describe them accurately and she also read a letter through in the dark. On another occasion described to the doctor the girl declared that an old woman living ten miles away was tending her chickens. She described oven the woman’s dress, and inquiry proved that the woman had been wearing just such a dress, and at the time had been doing just as the girl said. Instances were also mentioned when the girl, though in bed, had named various people who has visited the house and were talking in the rooms below, and had accurately recounted their conversation.