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There is no question that there is an unseen world, The
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problemis, how far is it from m*dto-,%,n and how late is i'
opcn?
. Unexplainable events occur constantly. One man
will see spirits. Anot@er wili hear voices. A third wili v@ ake
up and find himself runni.,,g in the Preakness. How nian-Y of
us have not at one time or another felt an ice-cold hand on
the back of our neck whilc we were home alone? (Not me,
thank God, but sonic have.) What is behind these 6xPeri-
ences? Or in front of them, for that niatter? Is it true that
some men can foresee the futu-c or com-inunicatc with
ghosts? And after death is it still possible to take sh(-)-@vcrs?
Fortunately, these questions about psychic phenoinena
are answered in a soon to be published @ook, Bo,,)!, by Dr.
Osgood Nlulford Twe"gc, the noted parapsychologist and
professor of ectoplasm at Colunibia University. Dr. Twelge
has assembled a remarkable history of supernatural inci-
dents that covers the whole ran c of psychic phenom ena,
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from thought trars;'crence-to the bizarre experience of two
brothers on opposite parts of the globe, one of whom took a
bath while the other suddenly got clean. What follows Is but
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a sampling of Dr. 1%velge's most celebrated cases, with his
comments. SPIRIT DEIPARTURL
APPARITIONS-5
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On March 16, 1882, Mr. J. C. Dubbs awoke in the middle
ofthe night and saw his brother Amos, who had been dead
for fourteen years, sitting at the foot of his bed flicking
chickens. Dubbs asked his brother what he was doing there,
arid his, brother said not to worry, he was dead and was only
in town for the weekend. Dubbs asked his brother what it
was like in "the other world," and his brother said it was
not unlike Cleveland. He said he had returned to give
Dubbs a message, which was that a dark-blue suit and
Argyle socks are a big mistake.
At that point, Dubbs's servant girl entered and saw
Dubbs talking to "a shapeless, milky haze," which she said
reminded her of-Arnos Dubbs but was a little better-lo,,@king.
Finally, the ghost asked Dubbs to join him in an aria from
Eaus,l which the two sang with great fervor. As dawn rose,
the ghost walked through the wall, and Dubbs, trying to
follow, broke his nose.
This appears to be a classic case of the apparition
pherionienon, arid if Dubbs is to be believed, the ghost
returned again and caused Mrs. Dubbs to rise out of a chair
and hover over the dinner fable for twenty minutes until she
dropped into'sonic aravy, It isintere:@Llng to note that spirits
have a tendency to be mischievous, which A. F. Childe, the
Brit;sh inystic, attributes to a marked fteling of inferiority
they have over being dead. "Apparitions" are often associ-
ated with individualsxho have suffered an unusual demise.
Amos Dubbs, f'or instance', had died under mvsterious
6rcurnstances @,vhcn a f'arnicr accidentally planLLd him
along with sorlic tL11111PS.
Mr. Albert Sykes reports the following experience: "I was
sitting having biscuits with some friends when I felt iny
spirit leave my body and go make a telephone call. FoT*
some reason, it called the Moscowi,tz Fiber Glass Comparly.
My spirit then returned to niy body and sat for arlothcr
twenty minutes or so, hoping nobody would suggest cha-
rades. When the conversation turned to mutual funds, it ',cFl
again and began wandering around the city. I am'con-
vinced that it visited the Statuc of Liberty and'thcn saw the
stacre show at Radio City Music Hall. Following that, it
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went to Benny's Steak House and ran up a fab of sixty-cight
dollars. My spirit then decided to return to my body, but I,
was impossible to get a cab. Finally, it walked up F' ft 'I I
Avenue arid reJoined mcjust in tinic to catch the late ric%%S.
I could tell that it was reentering my body, becau@,,c I felt a
sudden chill, and a voice said, 'I'm back. You v,,ant to pass
me those raisins?'
"This phenomenon has happened to me severall tinics
since. Once, my spirit went to Miami for a wcckcrid, and
once it was, arrested for trying to leave Macy's -,N,I[hout
paying for a tic. The fourth time, it was actually my bodly
that left my spirit., although all it did was get a rubdowi di
and conic right back."
Spirit departure was very common around igio, whcri
many "spirits" were reported wandering airrilessly around
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India searching for the American Consulatc.Thc phenonic-
non is quite similar to transubstantiation, the process
whereby a person will suddenly dematerialize and reniaterl-
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lize somewhere else in the ivorld. This is not a bad way to
tra%',cl, although there is usually a half-hour wait for
lu-,age. The most astonishing case or transubstantiatiOll
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@@Ir Artlhm- Nurntw, vdio va@ilshcd,wlill -tri
audible pof) wlidc fie .%:as taking a bath and su(Jdcnly
appcarcd In the, s(rinc'- scction of the Vicuna Symphony
Orchestra. Fic -,iavcd on as the first violinist for twenty-
seven years, althou-h he could only play "Three Blird
X11cc," and vanished abruptly one day during Mozart's
Jupiter Symphony, turning up in b@d with Winston
Churchill.
PRECOGNITION
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Mr. Fenton Allentuck describes the following precognitive
drcana: "I went to sleep at midnight and drearned that I
was Pli-tying whist With a plate of chives. Suddenly the
dream shifted, and I saw my grandfather about to be run
over by a truck in the middle of the street, where. he was
waltzing with a clothing dummy. I tried to scream, but
-,-hen I opened my mouth the only sound that came out was
chitrics, and ny grandfatner was run over.
"I awoke in a 0sweat and ran to my grandfather's house
and asked lilin if fie had plans to go waltzing with a
clothing durnnny. Fie said of course not, although he had
contemplated posing as a shepherd to fool this encn-Aies.
Relieved, I walked hon-ie, but learried later that the old
man had slipped on a chicken-salad sandwich and fallen off
the Chrysifer Building;"
Precognitive dreams arc too common to be dismiss--d as
pure coincidence. Here a man dreams of a relative's death,
and it occurs. Not vve"Vone is so lucky. J. Martinez, of
M;iinv, (licamcd he the Irish S-,,%,cep-
W@"vn lic avo,kc, kis 1,cd lt,A tlo,ilcd oul to sea.
TRANCES
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Sir Hugh Swiggles, the skeptic, reports an interesting s@ance
experience:
We attended the home of Madame Revnaud, the noted
mediurn, where we were all told to sit around the table. und
join hands. Mr. Weeks couldn't stop giggling, an(] Nlladafnc
Reynaud smashed him on *,he head with a Ouija boa;-d. The
lights were turned out, and I'viadame Reynaud attempted to
contact Mrs. Marple's husband, who had died at the OTJcra
when his beard caught fire. The following is all exact
transcript:
MRS, MARPLE: What do you see?
MED;um: I see a man with blue eyes and a pinwheel hat.
MRS. MARPLE: That's my husband!
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MEDIUM: His name is . . . Robert. No . . . Richard . . .
MRS. MARPLE: Quincy.
MEDIUM: Quincy! Yes, t-hat's it!
MRS. MARPLE: What else about him?
MEDIUM: He is bald but usually keeps some.leaves on his
head so nobody will notice.
MRS. MARPLE: Yes! Exactly!
MEDIUM: For some reason, he has an object a loin of
pork.
MRS. MARPLE: My anniversary present to him! Can you
make him speak?
MEDIUM: Speak, spirit. Speak.
QUINCY: Claire, this Ais Quincy.
MRS. MAR?LE: Oh, Quincy! Quincy!
QUINCY: How long do you keep the chicken in wl@en you're
trying to broll it?
'@IIRS. MA%PLE: That voice! It's hirn!
MZDIUM: Everybody concentrate.
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NIRS. NIARPTX,: Qlliliuy.ar(l they ireating you okay?	In @964, Ile was call(A in to ald police in caI)iII11"151 @;Tw
Qvmcv: Not bad, except it takes four days to get your	Msseldorf Stranq!er, a fiend who alwavs left a hakod
cleanin- back.	Alaska on the chests of his vicurns. N14crely by sniflill.'r ;I
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QUINCY: Huh? 0h, er, sure. Sure, kid. I got to be	man at a school for deaf turkeys, who said he was the
going. . . .	strangler and could he- please have his liandkcrehief
Nimnum: I'm losing It. fie's fading. . . .	
I found this s6ance to pass the most stringent tests of	Londos is just one of many people with psychic po,,,,@ers.
credulity, with the minor exception of a phonograph, which	C@ N. jerome, the psychic, of Newport, Rhode Island.
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was found under Madame Reynaud's dress.	claims
tic can guess any card I)cing thOUght of by a @cluir-
	rel.
There is rio doubt that ccrtain events recorded at s6ances	
arc genuine. Who does not recall the famous incident at	PROGNOSTICATION
Sybil Seretsky's, when her goldfish sang "I Got Rhythm"-	. . . . . . . . . . . . .
a favorite tune of her recently deceased nephew? But	
Finally, we come to Aristonidis, the sixteen th-century cotim
contacting the dead is at best difficult, since most deceased
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whose predictions continue to dazzle and perplex even thc
that do seem to hem
are reluctant to speak up, and those	most skeptical. Typical examples are:
and haw before getting to the point. The author has	"Two nations w
ill go to war, but only one will win."
actuailv seen a table rise, and Dr@. Joshua FliEagle, of
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Harvard, auci-ided a s@ance in which a table not only rose	ti
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	"A man in Istanbul will have his hat blocked, and it will
CLAIRVOYANCE	be ruined."
. . . . . . . . . .	(In i 86o, Abu Hamid, Ottoman warrior, sent his cap out
	to be cleaned, and it came back with spots.)
C,nc of the most astounding cases of clairvoyance is that of	-
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I see a great pcrson, who one day invent for
the noted Greek psychic, Achille 1-ondos. Londos realized	mankind a garment to be worn over his trousers for
he had "imusual powers" by the age of ten, when he could	protection while cooking. It will be called an 'abron' or
lie in bed and, by concentrating, make his father's false	Caprone."'
teeth jump out o@ his mouth. After a neighbors husband	(Aristonidis meant the apron, of course.)
had been missing for three weeks, Londos told them to look	"A leader will emerge in France. He will be very short
in the stove, where the man was found knItting. Londos	and will cause great calamity."
could concentrate on a person's face and force the image to	(This is a reference emither to Napoleon or to Marcel
come out on a roil of' oi-chnary Kodak film, although he	Lumet, an eighteenth-century midget who instigated a plot

gcl anybody to sn,.ile.
Could 11cver sucin to	
to rub b@arnaise sauce on Voltaire.)
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