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Show Whole Family Vouches for Seeing "Doubles" Quite amazing is a story told by Mr. Owen in a book called "Footfalls": Some years ago an Ohio farmer built a new house for himself, separated from the one he had occupied by a ravine. One afternoon, about live o'clock, his wife saw their eldest daughter, Rhoda, aged sixteen, holding the youngest, Lucy, aged four, in her arms, sitting rocking within the kitchen door of the new house. She called the attention of another sister to what she saw and was startled to hear that Ehoda and Lucy were upstairs up-stairs :ii the old house. They were at once sent for, and on coming downstairs they saw, to their amazement, their exact doubles sitting on the doorstep of the new house. All the family collected twelve in all and they all saw the phantasmal Uhoda and Lucy the real Rhoda and Lucy standing beside them. They were absolutely identical to the most minute particular of their dress. After watching them for five minutes, the father started to cross the ravine and solve the mystery. Hardly had he descended the ravine when the phnntr.smal Rhoda rose from the rocking chair, with the child in her arms and lay down on the threshold. There she remained for a moment or two and then apparently sank into the earth. When the father reached the house no trace could be found of any human being. |