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A doctor, it seems,

backs my

GHOST

THEORY

TUST at the time when ghosts become a sea sonable fireside topic, aturtling support for Д theory which explains them scientifically has come from experiments carried out at Oxford University.

I

•

can best explain this theory and the new cvi dence for it by first describ- ing a recent "supernatural" experience.

If this

then Image

surgeo back to your brain to malce a

mental pleture thero in the normal way you would have no means of knowing whether were seeing something you

rcul or unreal.

This is the important point imaginary to grasp. A purely object "seen" by this process as reality would look as real itself.

How could this explain the phantom chest? In this way: about such 44 immediately before

1 was dreaming chest

T

awoke, and the image of it in subconscious mind WAS my

retinas of projected on to the my eyes.

FERDINAND

In a Hurry to Park

By MIK

Cape, day Vine Fuatwa Syadenia, de 11/11

THE STRANGEST LAND IN THE WORLD

Living On Marshall

Plans For a Century

HE

T:

I was sleeping in the attic bedroom of an old country

of chieftains inn. Opening my eyes

Liberia are holding around midnight I was as-

Immediately I awoke light

high festival in the tonished to

a huge from real objects also 820

palaver houses. For chest on the floor my retina. So I saw not only Wooden beside the bed. There had the phantom chest but the real 350 miles along the swelter- been no chest in the room when I went to sleep.

Only the vague outlines of the familiar furniture the bedside chair, the old

CHAPMAN

an

vanished.

those

fell on

onc

to eye is theoretically impossi- lack of cash keeps us here", ble because of a series of one-echo the wags. way valves in the optic nerves.

By

*

L. W. Phelps-Orion

even the

Water People

of

Sold in Irons

The

of a

responsibilities seriously. first Bottlers cleared space in the jungle, planted small farms and pacifted the hostile tribesmen. In the main plaza of Monrovia a statue of to this day there's There's a law against touch- and some of the native dancing Matilda Northcott, a negress who furniture, too. Then, the i.g West African crest, the person in an altercation, girls are perfect artists. false image faded, the phantor jungle drums beat a new and

The idea of the native Kru knocked out her clay pipe on a and heavy damages are exacted

to give warning cannon ecstatic rhythm. Just over from offenders. When the wife women in Monrovla is to be as cannibal attack and thus saved This sort of explanation 100 years ago a boatload of at a Firestone oficial upbraided unlike their coal-black jungle the republic.

for throwing sisters as possible, and so they ghost

Gradually, however, the negro could cover all

woke hymn-singing freed negro some children

themselves with white settlers found they could hire reports which begin: "I

stand- slaves navigated the sand- stones, one of the urchins chal- daub

world's lenged, "Hit me! Please go on cah-dust and polild clay. Scom- nutives to do the work and the with a start and there,

the and ing at the foot of the bed... bars

and hit inc! I'd like some of ing bronze jewellery they de- rot set in. The educated class for the It could also account

corate themselves with deep built themselves mansions like negro republic Firestone's money, too!" ex strangest realistic hallucinations

blue incisions cut with broken those of their old southern mos- perienced

alcoholics by

and was born.

Cynics aver that roads would not have been built glass from neck to stomach- ters and lived like gentlemen. sick people.

spread to Finding labour fashion unlikely to

beneath their "Love of Liberty Brought but for the necessity of squeez Paris or New York!

dignity, they nevertheless had PINCHER digs out

So far there has been

But come with

me down

to find a means of ralɛlng money overriding scientide objection Us Here", saya the national ing food, fines and taxes in kind "And rice, cassava, chickens, cattle

Water Street, Monrovia's Plc aside from foreign loans....and The back-firing motto of Liberia. old party trick to the theory.

Saturday

so these freed slaves resorted to of nervous signals from brain

of the hinterland. Deep within afternoon. The street is maca- slave-trame.

from the 2,000,000 aborigines cadilly Sun the fever-ridden forests are damed for a yard or two, but probably the most backward

the tar gave oul, and the work- men gave up. Barefooted, the

Natives were driven out of Wedged on the rump of Africa, peoples on earth... But now there is hard ex-

customers throng in and out

lashed and sold in the stores and warehouses, the bush, perimental evidence that it can this fantastic land generally es- occur. Dr Larry Welakrantz, a capes world attentlun. Back in

There are native women balan- irons and sold at £76 a head in young American scientist, dis-the days when the abolition of

Here are the Water People, cing sacks of meal in place of North Africa. It took a League covered it accidentally while slavery occupied men's

scilled who worship the Sacred Catfish headgear; students even balance of Nations exposure to stamp American parson

on their heads. out the revolting trade. Re- working at the Institute of Rx- an

snails; with perimental Psychology in Ox- 40.000 square miles of territory and dress their children's hair their books

fantastic Perhaps a unit of the 759-man newed U.S. diplomatic recogn with the aid of a $500,000 loan, Snake People who befriend ford.

en Frontier Force marches smartly tlen demanded higher principles With its dust-daubed beauties and worship snakes, feeding by. On festive occasions a band from the coloured Liberian arts- and its

war the palm wine, Its cotton and

its bizarre sinuous 10-foot monsters like plays in the weed-grown plaza. tocracy. During the You try-

trees and coca-cola,

pets at their doorsteps. The

Alles built the first deep-water Banana People blend of iive and jungle, Liberla

once made

an air base and access sacrifices to the human

roads and the goods of western Tes

banana trees and may do so understand his expert-has lived on a long-term series a

Or maybe the two houses of civilisation began to pour in. first look for 80 of Marshall Plans ever since.

still when the District Commi3-

assembling. The now Liberian Corporation seconds at the black and white!

sloner is engaged elsewhere with legislature

Frock-coated senators and of has 80-year concession rights to drawing (above). Then switch

coffee planta- tax trouble.

exeltement runs high. Liberia oil plantations, your gaze to the ceiling. You will see negative "after-

cabinet ministers paid off all white where image"

there

The new ethnologists and ex- Is proud of its free elections. In tlens, jungle trading posts and

Ten per hack their way

one region, so the opposition other enterprises..

are to be was black and vice versa. You previous loans with a $1,700,000

international loan. This in turn plorers who done it

trails claims, the "True Whig' govern cent of all earnings the overgrown

to medical and have probably

was wiped out with a $2,500,000 through times as a party trick.

loan stage-managed by Fire- return, on the other hand, to ment got into power again with turned over

only of the primitive 243,000 votes though there are educational enterprises, but ten This illusion

to thirty years may pass before Is due to the stone, the US. rubber king... tell not

now U.S.-Liberia Kriaus and Golas but also of the only 15,000 qualified voters] Д fact that the

of any and now image

Fortunately, Liberia has a big any dividends materialise. Come object seen by the eye remains Corporation plans to spend $10,- Mano and Dan tribes with high-

developed native cultures, reform programme copied in to happy but hapless Liberia! stood still in on the retina for a short time 000,000 in developing everything ly

home part from British achievements Time has nearly They wear picturesque before fading.

spun clothes; native craftsmen in Nigeria and signs are that this forgotten land for a hundred beat out bronze jewellery akin the native politicians are at last years, and

our own Bronze Age products, shunning graft and taking their years are just beginning!

-and gives it much greater importance

fashioned dressing table, and the grotesque wardrobe were visible in the dark- ness. But the intricate carvings which covered the chest were glowing with a green fluorescent light.

To reassure myself that the phantom was just an hallucination, 1 carried out a couple of quick experi- ments.

many

Rubber King

minds,

the

port, Big Reform

arc

In 1912 the ducky frock-conted a fresh outbreak of disease of cials kick through the dust and develop fisheries, mining, palm

from cashew nuts to cocos.

While Weiskrautz was carry- "Send them ashore We'll ing out experiments on this pluck 'em!" Liberia traders used "image persistence" he asked to gibe as the ships brought several men and women to fresh batches of negro immi- So many newcomeru imagine a black square on a grants. It moved... .

white background and to con- were poisoned, particularly with centrate on this purely mental crocodile gall, that it became picture,

compulsory by law to bury the galls of all captured crocodiles FIRST, I shut my eyes.

To his astonishment one The chest disappeared.

woman, 24-year-old Mrs Ann in the presence of a policeman. still get a When I opened them I saw Batchelor, reported

Today new arrivals that, after

shock when they land at Roberts it again. This proved that doing this, she the phantom was something definite after-image before hor sirfeld. more than a purely mental eyes a white picture.

turned

;

could

seca

square on a

black background."

No system of transport con- nects with the capital, Monro- Mrs Batchelor's clot

was via, nearly 50 miles distant. "No repeatedly proved in tests trains? No taxis?" sold an ex- Then I

over and peered into the darkness of the which ruled out any possibility port salesman. "Let me use the the 'phone and I'll call up the Gov- bed. of the other side

The false after-image lasted for 58 ernment House." chest suddenly materialised seconds. there. Then it vanished, and I could not conjure it up again.

of trickery.

In one case

I

The snag

A

"No telephones!" he was told. What's more, there are no 'buses, there's no sanitation, few hos pitala or schools. Sent to help û United clean up Monrovia, This eerie experience might

collected 800 TN my view this can only mean Nations official

for ro- have been frightening but for

that flow of nervous truckloads of garbage into Une the fact that it fell

back-ared from Mrs moval and stuck little red flags which I signals with a ghost theory

Two years later in the piles." Batchelor's braid to her eyes, Daily had put forward in the

nga Express four Christmases

phantom to explain a Seep.

this

I had

theory, According to seeing a ghost is simply due to of of the

process a reversal ordinary vision, which happens abnormal circum- In certain stances.

In spite of the one-way valves, the piles were still wailing col- loction. There were no trucks.

(19

Cardinal Low

never

Look hers; and leam without a lectarra Our siple of pillage architecture.

the next hundred

The houses cease, and here commences

A stretch of road between two fences.

TV PUTS ON SHAW'S

negative cardinal law of this negro re- Do

LAST WORK

lo snapshots and simple rhywa

n

frustrated

moteris

The false after-images seen by Mrs Batchelor were always

be tours the village be loved negatives of the pictures, aho visualised. Some of the fleeting White men' have phantoms reported by waking settled for long in Liberia. A

OWN on a recent London. Shaw took all the pictures him- was may also be people

furiously-a to own TV programme was a self in his village of Ayot St. He loved to drive a car, and - which after-images

would public torpids whites

Lawrenco just before his last drive it fast and ghosts and. Firystone has to lease Bernard Shaw curio his iness, and composed the mildly hobby which only ceased long explain why so many

after he and his wife had settled arc described

"malatyovery-yard of his 70,000-acre

into the house at Ayot St, Law- wraiths."

rubber plantations. Though he last completed work, in fact. mocking inscriptions in verse

It was, of course, the per- TV filled in the gap in the race. But it reversed vision does has bullt 9,000 houses for an In normal vision (8£a diagram)" Ught from an object falls on occur, positive falso images in army of 27,000 native workers, to the sensitive screen of your full colour could also be pro- every brick and every rusty linfect professional job of a book by inserting a few film roof-uile will revert to the gov-man who had always taken Interviews with his house- eye-the retina-and makes an jected.

ernment. To open up the high- his radio performances ser. keeper, his chauffeur, the village post-mistress, and the gardener. is This Imago Image there.

the Bomi lously. For, both the pic Their prepared statements, It theory плаз therefore grade iron ores in lato nervous then converted

the explain every type of ghost, Hills, group of American busi- signals which pass along

banshee, and hallucination as men, began building a rail-tures and the text were they reveal nothing else. optic nerve to the back of

combine to except one. It would not way. So far they've completed ready to put slap before the phasised, the awe in which they belleve'a, great mind never tires,

unaltered. brain, where they

account for a case where the only 500 yards of track, bogged cameras same ghost was seen by two down in. Land disputes with sarandlumond-pinned native alter-

neys.

form the picture you "see"

In reverse

your

.' Our

or more people at the timis.*

But ofter

four years

.of

+

t

The book, hardly big enough to notice beside most of the author's other impressive works, At the ramshackle police court is a personal snapshot album. (HAT would happen if this search I have been unable to incidentally, it's alongekle a WHAT suddenly back find any really convincing evi brand-new prison!-foreignore

process

pleture dence that this bas over hop fired? Any imaginary

brain at the tume,pened, in your

down into would be broken:

which would norvous signals then run forwards to the cyo

Image make -an

on the and

retina,

If you can do this, too, Wetekraniz and I would be Ahterested to hear about. 4.

arg

often fined on fantastic charges, A motorist who killed a bitch dog was charged domages for all the puppies she might have delivered had: she lived

BRAIN

IMAGE "OPTIC NERVE:

VALVE®

PICTURE

back-fired a

*** IN NORMAU VISION light from an objeci ar puses, as kūnervosa alguéh to the brain, if thje mechi

aipture, would be projects

her full spen, Aplore-keepe who, surrendei-; ed his lense Was sued by the three emi- ployers he tits- charged be- cause distoissa Chili legally, con-.

charkater

The book is called, simply, "Bernard Show's Rhyming Guido to Ayot St. Lawrence" (Leagrave Press, price is.).

Not a purchase for those who held the old man; the nearest to but acceptable to gentler readers

cm-

human revelation that came

out of this quartet of nervous who allow an old man at the end of his life to. "doodle" in voiced by reminiscents was

verse beside the are... Shaw's chauffeur.

LEONARD MOSLEY

It turns out that

Shaw

The hall the Meñor foure: ta-called, Rdward the Sixth, deford. Installed.. No ford cm: now, affordifo diell there And guarantee the "building's "weitgre.