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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1986.

DR. SOAL, THE MATHEMATICIAN, TURNS DETECTIVE IN A SEARCHING PROBE OF THE UNEXPLAINED

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A voice burst from the darkness

THE DRAMA OF

THE SCIENTIST AND THE MEDIUM....It goes to the heart of the question that faces every investigator of the Unknown

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CAN TELEPATHY

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EXPLAIN IT ALL?

DIM. chill evening evening Few cases throw a more in late November.

vivid wight on les question with Finir schoolboys are

wharb the list part of this making their

Inquiry ended; What happens way when through

medium, the

apparently fog which prompted by the detud, blurts out wogs the streets of Brent- eta which ha postal mis woud, Essex.

could never lay head on

visit to Wentwort help 201 answer that question? Let us bok back

Suddenly a stranger stoja ip to thank out of the gloom. He puts a peculiar question. Whereabouts, he asks,

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he ind

PART 2

How clors Soul's

can

1921. Seal had recently lost younger brothe! Frank, and

his he

lined with

trets when the houses are

a road

lurgish and

their

pared dark red 7

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This stronger is a small, shy- looking man, but in manner he is oddly excited And he rowg more excited still when the boys Instantly know which Pont he They watch him patter

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of egun into the fox.

The stranger was the mathe malician Dr Sumuel 0 Scal, new one of the world's leading experts in the scientific study of psychic research.

THE TEST

THIS week

I visited the university laboratory in Lou- don where Dr Soul is working. sistant wns warning over cards from a specially designed pack. In another room, cut off by a system

vi contrvis, student was Trying to guess which cards had been tuned up. Using intricate statistics Dr Soal pieced together the result Yet lew Cast from Soal's doaster are ever ikely to be more remarkable than the case he was beginning to piece to gether on that foggy November

by ROBERT PITMAN

prepared to

In order

go to 1 test

any the

was lengths Spritualist claim that he could sul contact him.

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one sice he has Cpu's extended hand.

to grasp Mes With

us free hand he takes notes in the darktress.

Fur Soul's scientific mind Itsame preliminaries were not impressive. But

drama which polowed was sensational uy any sundurɖɔ. It sheds its luence on all later research.

This drama was presented in three acts of mounting tension,

At the rst scance y man's voice, cluming to be Frank Soal. burst from the darkness.

had

It was at like Frank's voice Ds Sout remembered it.

Yet speaking in rapid snatches-with long intervals of silence the Vore tecailed di fragments of events which Soal himself had long forgotten: how he burned is hand one Sunday and how the day previously the brother had gone out into the rain-wel Avida to shoot hars; how they had built a brick fire- place in a little hut; how Frank had buried

a disc of metal in the In's mud floor. Later Soul travelled back to his old coun

die beneath the ruin of the hut,

Thus, a few weeks before his rescurch strangely

became linic ed

road in Essex, we and Soal the with that tree-lined

mathematician in a seance room N the at the top of a large house near Holland Park in West London.

box

in

one corner accompanies

the

IN CHECK

anyone

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CAN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS LIKE THIS EXPLAIN THE MEDIUM'S POWER↑ MANY SCIENTISTS BAY YES, HERE A GIRL DEMONSTRATES TELEPATHY BY NAMING CARDS A DISTANT EXPERIMENTER 18 LOOKING AT.

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But he ΠΟ one

It begins, "remember Davis- Gordon, from R-R-Roch...." The volce stutters unintelligibly. But Soul remembers. Twenty years ago he knew anothe schoolboy named Gordon Davis,

who lived at Rochford. After The war Soal learned that ho had been killed in action.

Now, it seems he has returned

to talk to Soal. He passes on

the usual messages to his wife. Later the voice of Nada speaks for him. "He says something about a funny dark iminel," she whispers. It's to do with his house He says there're live or Eix steps and a half... Where

this house?

A

sreet

which seems to be only half a

street," says Nada:

The

ume? All Nado can see is that

It begins with two "E's.

street's

Then

she goes into great detail about

The rooms in the Davis house.

CHANCE CLUE

SHAT

present in- quiry is so significant in these Gordon Davis revelations?

Three years after the seances, Soul learned by chance thai Gordon Davis had runt, after all, been killed in the war. He learn ed that Davis,

Whose spirit ho had heard imploring him to con- tact his bereaved family, was actually alive and running successful estate agent's business In Southend.

Mrs Cooper

Sun-

Soal promptly

set off for Southend, only to be amazed by what he found there. He found that Davis was ilving with his family is a street called Eastern Espitnade. But it was only half #slivet, for the houses on one side were faced by nothing ex-

the try home and actually found this voice in the darkness, with all ness. Was it possible that John question. He was told, "Inquire been noticed by Soal himselt back to the front of each house. sea. A tunnel-lika covered weed-covered Its snatches of sudden dotali, was this boy's brother?

ed passage rata from the really the bico of his brother? Without a word from Soal the his own mind Soal pondered.

for Ethol. Ethel is the link" In during his Brentwood visit.

The Dayis house had six steps, Or Was is merely the empty next scance provided startling Ethel?

Then began a fantastic ad- but the lowest was only a thin echo of his own memories?

Was sho

perhaps venture conarmation. Alded by whispers servant girl who

of detection. At this point came the second from Nada, the volee of John road and worked in the other?

The slab. And every detail in the lived in are delective Soal, the shy little rooms mirrored the words Soal act of the drama

Ferguson gasped out

that

mathanalicion. The suspect: a had heard three years before. The whispering vold of Nada father used to help Lace of such evidence suddenly introduced the "spirit" maps and

help soldler with The

next

John Spirit of someone who might be evening

nothing more compasses. Where? Ferguson stuttered out another imagination. almost

than

THE MOVE his own but Soal of pomeone Soal had never "Boom, boom," interjected Nado plece of information about his would have been convinced. heard of; and at once Soal saw in her baby talk, "the

Soal paid two more visits Bui

to BUT that was The medium is Mrs Blanche

his

in

all scientific

Brentwood. "Ethel Highland Avenue. He consulted

Tho train- hope that his dilemma would be would break all the windows Lloyd," his dern voiced whezzed, reference boots, he spoke to the place in January. Yet Davis did Gordon Davis svances toolt Cooper, dainty little

ing kept emotion in check. Ho solved. For clearly this un- big guns in the xen," woman with wkle blue eyes. She is after each seance.

cupied จน meticulous

Was this the young person in Warescoft toeni notes known spirit-unlike "Frank" Shoeburyness her 30's. Unlike many modern along university

with Its coastal Road-maid to the family in covered that

not move to Southend unit) (ho ght could never be built from the guns?

postmaster. He brought

dis- following teeniber, Highlands went there to help Ferguson had ever lived there.

called he mediums she durkness.

colleagues to fragments of his own thoughts.

Admittedly requires complete the sittings so that they could Nado's whispers died away, and

first looked D EXCITED

every day...."

his future musical

house during With

ene exception the houses the scances

the period Then suddenly a raw dilemma were still occupied by their first But this cannot explain the de- when he chock these notes. And all the from Mrs Casper's throat a sance with its slow, twanging time he

deep resonant volce announced; COAL was now really excited. pieces were fitting together. Yet fain

were taking place. kept in mind the theory f

descended on Boal Certainly the owners. The exception? A. Cap- melodies. And Mrs Cooper

that

successful liable to add to the effect by pathic powers, that when they all top room a few more facts had described another road with the highly individual spirit of COAL, juweru, zasad that "She even mentioned "a black

mediums 10-

John Ferguson Jim's He decided on brother he variably have astonishing tele-

a visit to was

Cartwright, R.N.R., who talla which it possible that they were had moved elsewhere. Brentwood. The voice had men- Atting much too well?

plied

about his singing "Abide With Me"

On following evenings in the toned a "Wescott Road." And it the room near Holland Park was making her sitters join in.

Here in

descrfired the pictures and un- HIS LETTER to be passing on detalis

usual vases in one from the dead they may he about the newcomer

roon, the brem candlesticks in another. She does

emerged, dark red gales and a double row Jcha Ferguson. In the darkness not sink into

He gloaning information

had died subcon.

in 1912. trance, but her lips hum as her

His of trees. Ils name sciously from "guide"-a spirit called Nadu-

the minds of the

brother Jim was still living, voice, as if

Krasping"

voice gasped and stuttered.

CA DEUS Lacher muy dickie bird on the at memories Was it possible that this spirit have mes Cartwright m They were both connected with diving.

plano"--an begins to talk through them to a

-began with an

Snue object which Soal found to be two streets in Brentwood. Soal was

really an was therefore left with

Now we can see why Soal be- built up by Mrs Cooper from the nave

empty shadow buryness, that the boys girlish whisper. As for Soal, on this lingering dilemma: was this

dark ching black china base.

kingfisher on came 50 ogitated when the vaguest surmisca in Soal's own friend. And at the next beance Fraud or deception is out of the xinolboys directed

him to mind? Highland Avenue, and when,

the voice of Ferguson put in a question. For Mrs Cooper would Soal consulted near by, he found a street of Vividly he saw that, apart from his notes. COAL had only passed through working-class

word

confirmation. The not cottages

house Brentwood by train. He had was named Wescott Road and from the details of two Brent-

which the name John Ferguson, apart know

which

deliberately destroy her the Fergusons reputation by presenting a living never met any John Ferguson, locally

in Highland Avenue, man as a spirit. Nevertheless

pronowiced "Wescott." wood roads, he

Soal began

said the voice, belonged every fact in the

was for Yet what was

to a to the only conclusion. All theso wonder. Many years ago ho lud between

the connection Ferguson

story had been naval man. His these two roads,

name? "A stance communications known

the foreshadowed Д bay

were cathed James one

hiz rather grand,

own funny name," Nada interposed.

derived not from the dead but the Ferguson, whose father was an decidedly humble?

other thoughts. Even two oddly- "Cartwheel.

from the army schoolmaster at Shoebury-sance

At the next shaped gaslamps mentioned, by

Soal sent off a letter to Cap Blanche

storehouse of Mrs Soal openly asked this the garrulous spirit had already

Cooper's tain Cartwright

subconscious 10 bo for mind. And she evidently had warded from his old address, the power to all this sterehouse And Cartwright replied. He had not only from what her sitters never known any Ferguson, he were thinking, but also wrote, never

from employed a servant people miles beyond and even

from the unborn future Itselt. named Ethel

Further detalls in the Fergu Jun story were also proved utterly false. At the веллеся

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seem

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What can be the explanation?

EVIDENCE

John Ferguson did not speak DOES this incident-together again. Punctured, the talkativo

with others like it reported shade collapsed into nothing case for Spiritualism? By no by expert observers wreck the

ness.

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For Soal the case proved this means. No evidence in the world WAS pleased to In Mrs Vernon's case,

miraculous agility of a medium's could prove that most scance, how- "That's why President Eisen-mind. The spirit of Fergus dead But now it is almost as hear about General ever, I had decided that the hower may restrict some of his was

encssages do not derive from the Eisenhower,"

pain she occasionally suffered duties. So that the other good from Soal's private guesses, said from was due to too little blood arteries won't have to

being stitched together dimoult Mra

to think of evidenc Vernon. "Coronary feeding the heart muscles when work."

Over- the resulting

Yet which could prove decisively character thrombosis can't be too bad, the heart was very active.

dramatised.

as subconsciously

that they do evidenco after all. If he is ready to

which Cooper "I haven't had any more of

by Mrs I i had arranged for

also be was to this pain lately, anyway," Mrs convincing. "Week after week

amazingly not

kind of super-normal power take

explained by the on again all that have a special test done to Vernon remarked, worry and

the heart waves

he appeared at each sitling," Dr possessed by Mrs Cooper's ors work as electro-cardiogram,

"If you do," I said, "you'U

Seal fold me

mind, President of the United call it and it

the power which scientists as doctors just pince those capsules I gave strong,

me recently. "He was confident. had been

Ho

now culi ESP

(Extrasenory States, I think I can manage nitely decided that she, unlike will and the pain

de you under your tongue and you ficted with what he had al-

made statements which

Perception-the con-

ability to per my household duties, don't had a coronary thrombosis.

President Elsenhower, had not very quickly."

facts without ald from goes away ready said. He always had

celve the five senses). you, doctor?”

But I wasn't going to

leave subtle answer ready for any af Can the dead talk to the the matter like that. Some tempt to trap him. But once the come a matter of private faith,

living? The question times anginal pain is the result bubble was pricked, hadi And its pince in the twilight has be- But Mrs Vernon hadn't had a "What's the difference ben

other conditions. coronary

appeared as suddenly as he had thrombosis. True, tween a she'd had some

thrombosis and un

have had patients who have come.”

world is being taken by a new anginal That is to say, a pain behind

pain. angina?" asked Mrs Vernon.

had "angina pectoris during

adventure-the adventure ADVENTURE "In a thrombosla one of the the course of scute Infections, the breast bone that radiated up heart

harnessing the power of ESP, of arterios 19 to the left shoulder and down whereas in your case the vessel pain because of an over-active top room was not yet over, uncovered in living man

blocked, thers who had suffered the PUT the drama in that small "second aight" which has been the inner side of the left arm. is only

constricted, but tho

hyroid gland. blood

The third act was silt to come, Again, gallstones through" ол sometimes

What is this power? Can it be Return there now after the treated as an accepied, scienti blocked," said Mrs Vernon, But Vernon to go into hospital forced into silence.

can closely mimic the pales due "It must be bad if a vessel to angina. So I wanted its voice of John Ferguson has fit fact? Next week explained that after n

our in- other arteries feeding the hears

time a check-up. •

quiry takes you to the univer The voice in Mrs Cooper's alty laboratorics where throat now

the have become wider and this sort of pains have nothing work. It's like Ave men work. Don't feel as if I nood mora voles which claims to be his

do more

becomes precise, answers are being discovered. fastidious, citer, Unlike the

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General Eisayaccountably familiar. harder and, after a time they ower right now". become stronger.

It had come

after exertion (coronary throm bosis often comes on during rest, or even sloep).

But most people who

wrong with their hearts.

Rather it is the result of wind, indigestion, or "nerves"

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