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STORIES OF TELEPATHY,

SOME EXPERIENCES..

KNOWLEDGE OF DISTANT

EVENTS.

Below are a few of the interesting replies which have been sent in for a "Telepathy' Competition, arranged by the London

Observer:

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He then requested me to 'phone to his Towards the end of 1918 I was severely wounded in action in France, and, two wife, who was staying at the Grand Hotel, about a quarter of a mile distant, days later, lay in hospital at Wimereux. and ask her to name the cards as they Seven weeks later I received a letter were being dealt out face upwards on a table. My friend requested a third per- from my father, in which he wrote:

Bon present to get a pack of cards, "I had an extraordinarily shuffle and deal them out and his wife The husband vivid dream about you last night, and would name each card,

neither touched the phone nor the cards, it has impressed me so much that I have but, nevertheless, his wife, a quarter of set myself to write to you at once. You a mile distant, named every card without rang me up on the telephone, and seemed a single mistāku.-H.L. F.

had the impression of having received the day before from the father himself. I have no knowledge of having slept in the train on the way down, and there would appear to be no reason for dreaming auch a thing.

A TELEPHONE CALL

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I was sitting at tea with my parents. at their house when the house-extension bell of the business telephone rang on my husband getting up to answer it, said That is Mrs. D mentioning Indy we had last seen in Canada, some

to say, as distinctly as if you were really } SIMULTANEOUS KNOWLEDGE OF Ave years before, and of whom we had

at home. Father don't worry; I am all right, Don't worry."

STRANGE CASE OF A LETTER. During a sen passage two of us were

I was in hospital in London at the exchanging desultory talk, when, during a lull, 'suddenly, but without astonish- date of the delivery of this letter, and Dient, became aware that a person, whose on comparing the actual date of the identity was clear, was preparing to letter, I found it to coincide exactly write a letter to me. Without realising with the date of my arrival in hospital any strangeness, I drew out my note in Wimereux, when I was distinctly try- book and commenced to write what, some-ing to send a message home to my people. how, I knew clearly was being written In Australia I was reported "Missing some nine hundred miles away. When believed killed," until the correction I had finished the writing, by friend' ac- appeared some three weeks later.-AI.F. cepted the draft and my explanation with nothing beyond a conventional re- mark on the strangeness of the whole thing. The draft was sealed, with the understanding that it was to be preserved until the mail arrived at the foreign station we were both bound for. When the mail eventually reached us the letter was amongst it. It was received, opened. and read in the presence of my former companion, and upon comparison my telepathie draft and the original agreed, excepting in several points of idiosyn- cratic spelling." SCAERT ASRCT."

A BISHOP'S DEATH. Chauncy Maples, having been con- secrated Bishop of Likoma, Africa, inį“ 1805, was on his way to his diocese. I was living in Oxford, and at the time Suddenly & mental vision was very before m The room vanished, and be fore me was Lake Nyasa with a vessel on it. upon the deck of which stood the Bishop, dressed in his cassock. As gazed, a storm arose, the vessel was swamped and sank, and the Bishop went down. I spoke of this to no one, but knew my friend was dead..

A cablegram arrived from Africa an- noupring exactly what I had seen. Fear- ing the shock of the news might harm me, they tried to break it to me gently by saying.There is bad news for you, but don't let it upset..you."" and at once I stopped them with, I know it: Chauncy Maples is drowned."-" Nigger."

A CHURCH STORY:

I awoke one Sunday morning with the memory of a vivid dream still clear-cut in my mind.

** I've had a strange dream, husband.

So have 1," he responded

Frold my

I dreamed I was in church ?? So did I.".

And a strange man

"Came into the minister's pew," finished.

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"Exactly a clean-shaven tall stranger. "He came in late and delayed the service."

Yes. How extraordinary- that we should dream slike!

We went to churgh, and into the manse pew, late, walked a tall clean-shaven stranger. The minister, about to begin, waited silently until he was seated.

That's "the "man-the very man,” we murmured simultaneously.

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MESSAGE FROM A SON.

Some years ago I had a vivid dream and saw my sailor son standing on deck with water pouring over him. I heard The dream was so him call, "Mother." vivid that in the morning I asked my sidest son to put it down, with the date, in his pocket book, and he did so.

The explanation came some weeks later. On the date of my dream, whilst round- ing Cape Horn in a terrific gale, he had heen washed overboard by one huge wave In his and washed hack by another. extremity he called out Mother." "MOTHER."

A FIRST SIGHT OF BOMBAY I woke suddenly early one morning to see very clearly a beautiful coast with a long low town, which appeared almost white in the intenese brightness of a tropical sun, and to hear in my sister's voice saying,Oh, I wish M- could see this." I afterwards found this was ex- netly what happened at that moment in Bombay Harbour-it being there about s am. My sister, walking on to the deck and seeing it for the first time, conveyed it to me. Later," when I took my first journey East, Bombay Harbour exactly as I had seen it through her eyes several years before:-M.M.

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A MOTOR ACCIDENT. Whilst living in London some years agu, we were expecting visitors motoring from X, about 300 miles distant. They were due to arrive late at night. During the evening an old Irish domestic in our employment entered the dining-room much perturbed stating that, while drink-

vision of the ex ing tea, she had seen pected car stranded beneath a railway bridge with a crowd round the back of the rar: that in her vision the car was pushed to a garage on the right of the road and then, to a second garage on the left of the road. The visitors did not" arrive until the next day, when they con- firmed the facts of the hallicination- the breakage of a rear axle beneath the railway bridge at Y. and the refusal of the first garage, to take the car in.*

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NOTE-The domestic was known to the visitors and believed by them to possess certain clairvoyant powers. It being too late to wire, and we not being on the telephone, they were unable to acquaint us of their plight, and being It seemed at the time strange and un much exercised over this wished strongly canny, yet in no way have we been con- that it might be made known to the do- scious of that man's influence on our livesmestic aforesaid.] at any points. He is now dead.-M.C. HORROR OF THE 'GUILLOTINE. Many years ago, as a schoolgirl, I was one of a party crossing Paris for the first time, in charge of a French governess on our way to school. We were driving across an open space when I was and denly seized with the most awful feeling

THE SCEPTICAL DOCTOR.

A patient in Cheltenham, desirous of seeing her doctor, one morning (not urgent), her nurse sent a telepathic mer sage for him. Neither patient nor doctor believed in telepathy. The doctor arrived an hour after the message was sent.. On entering, nurse said, “Dr. — do you believe in mental telepathy?" He shrug- My face must have betrayed myged his shoulders (he was Scotch). He feelings, for the governess asked if I was was then asked, "If you do not believe feeling ill. I stammered out, if here in it, why did you come this morning1 is the guillotine 1"

It was not your visiting day." He an-

of sheer terror.

She said, in a surprised tone, There swered, Well, now na you have asked is no guillotine here. It is the Place de a question, I must answer it. I was on la Concorde!

How I had never even seen a picture of the Place de la Concorde, and could not have recognised it. But it was there that the guillotine stood during, the Revolution, and "surely something of the agony and fenrs of that terrible, time. must have influenced me telepathically Mrs. 6. W.

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my way to when something seemed to say to me you are wanted at, and, without knowing why. I turned my cyclé round and came on." (Names given.)—L.

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IN THE HOTEL METROPOLE,

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During the war I was working in the Ministry of Munitions at the Hotel Metropole in Northumberland-avenue A friend of mine worked in the same room.

WRECK SEEN IN A DREAM. During 1919 vessel carrying men returned from the Army was lost off

One day I was rummaging for some Stornoway. At the exact moment the disaster happened I dreamt I stood papers when I suddenly kaew precisely what he was thinking about. I look up. watching the incoming vessel, and, to my horrer, for no appareat reason she sud-He was looking out of the window with denly diverted her course and went on his back to me. to the rocks; I saw men struggling in the water, and all the détails later re- lated in the papers. I asked my hus- band the time, and so was able to verify that my dream must have been dreamed at the exact time. of the wreck.

On going down next morning I related my dream to my children's old nurse, almost word for word as it appeared in the newspapers a day later.-E.E.8.

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A "WAR MESSAGE.

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"Yes," I said, “' so shall -I.” "So shall you what?" he asked.

Come and stay at this hotel after the war, in this room, to see what it feela like...

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Good Heavens," he said, "how on earth did you know, what I was thinking about 7"

I couldn't tell him. There had been no conversation, no possible indication of his trend of thought either then or at any previous time. It simply felt that for a second his thoughts became almost physically visible to my mind, if. auch a thing were possible." PATTYRAM."

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A CARD EXPERIMENT.

I left Australia. early in 1815 on service abroad with the Australian Imperial Force. Before leaving, I arranged with my father, who was greatly interested in thought transference and cognate sub jects, that, whenever possible, I should try and send him a telepathic message at

We were sitting in the moking room the hour in the Northern Hemisphere approximating to 10 p.m. in Australia of the Auckland Club when the conversa- i.c., at about 8 a.m., his theory being tion turned to telepathy. Some present that the early waking hours and the of the party said he would prove to 128. believed in it, others doubted, until one night watches were those in which the that it was possible to telegraph his Bubconscious mind would be most likely thoughts to a person at a distance, to the active.

AN ACCIDENT, Arriving one Sunday at the house of a business aéquáintance, I asked him how his son was progressing after his ac- gilent. To my surprise, the question There is no danger I was told, and he is in caused some bewilderment. bed. But how did you know about it

Surely you told me yourself yester. day." I answered.

"Hardly! As we only called in the dinctor this morning, about the time you would be leaving Euston."

"Are you certain 7" I enquired, rather fatuously in the circumstances

I understood that your boy fell in the garden, and a wooden stake entered his eye."

heard nothing since. None of us had any idea that she was in England. or did we ever speak or think of her. It proved to be the lady I had spoken of, ringing from the local P.O. telephone to my par ents' address on the off-chance of learning whether we were in England or not. Mrs. H.

A LECTURE INCIDENT.

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I used to attend the paychology lectures. of Dr. James Ward at Trinity. Being young. I took copious notes and grew.co. he very quick at that One day, in the i course of his lecture, he said. Let us take a number of figures at random by way of illustration, 4, 7, 2, 8 and so on, very rapidly, writing them down on a blackboard as he spoke. The That is exactly what happened, but student next to me, who was slow, look. it all occurred about two hours ago, anded over my shoulder to copy something I cannot see how you can know anything she had missed, and ejaculated in a about it."

startled whisper. "Good Heavena Fou're Nor could I There was no way in writing duen the figures before he says Made aware of this fent, I found which I could have known, and yet I was them." in full possession of the facts, which If I could not continue it.-H.M.S..

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