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Show :1 GHOSTS CAN SPEAK AND GROAN, ASSERTS WRITER 9y BY IXt L BRBV STEK EnternaUonai News ScrAlcc staff Correspondent Cor-respondent - 2 LONDON, Sept. 25 Mur.lererf v0- afiKjjS luptuarles and sensuallsls ..f the most BbS abandoned description are belli Fed bj PBt many modern spiritualists to become. KK-fgJ at death wolves, vampires and hideous BrfjS'fS half-human half animal creatures." j.;; says Elliot O'Lonnel) in his new book on spiritualism entitled "SpirttuaUsm I tif--jPJ Explalneir." 1BStii:d Defining a ghost, he says It cin KjS'' 9 speak, and make a .iriet- of sounds, Btf' such as crashes, knocks screams, K9 cries and groans. ' it ran also Impai t i all kinds of sensations, a by no means 8 j uncommon one being that of choking HEJ and .strangulation. HS "Wraiths have been said lo Bfl travel thousands of miles in a very Rl few seconds There r.re plenty of, SfilR Instances of ghosts passing through ; Jg such opaque structures aw granite v. ..ii-, f fM and loci.- u .md bolt; d s.,',. LwL door? yfj j "Ghosts have been known to over- tj 1 turn the heaviest articles of furniture. rk In short, there would seem to be no f limitations to the powers of ghosts ' V3 saving to enter Into an intelligent or j ' i. ' r rsa t Ion " The English statesman W. E. Glad-' y j stone, it is said, has a perfect mania V J I for materializing, and anion); the mi st persistent spirits who come In with Jf the dead friends and relations of slt- V T ters at seances are Charles D'ckens. j'k -J Thomas Carlyle and Longfellow. |