Genial Ghost

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 9

Genial Ghost

Chats to Friends in Crematorium GRISLY SEANCE An amazing story of a seance in a crematorium is related in a letter in “Light,” from a Mr. Frank L. Gaines, of Indianapolis, where the seance took place. A few days before his death, writes Mr. Gaines, a man who was a member of a local Spiritualist church exacted a promise from Mrs. Murphy Lydy, a well-known voice medium, of Indianapolis, to hold a seance at the Indianapolis Crematorium during the hour when his body was being consumed by the flames. “About a hundred persons were present, and the mourners, during the incineration, sang cheerful Spiritualistic songs. “Presently, in the full light of the spacious chamber, the medium, Mrs. Murphy Lydy, held a trumpet at arm’s length, and a man's voice was heard issuing from it. “Her guide spoke first, briefly, and his words could be heard distinctly throughout the room. Then a much weaker masculine voice followed, which was recognised as that of the dead man. “Friends and acquaintances were called by him to come close to thetrumpet, in order that they might hear his words distinctly. “With them he conversed for, perhaps, 15 or 20 minutes, and all declared that they were fully satisfied that the intelligence behind the mysterious voice was none other than that of their deceased friend. “He spoke with joy, they said, of his triumph over death and of his reunion with his loved ones. He appeared to be himself in every respect, and jested with his intimates in his ! characteristic genial manner.”- __