Show A REAL GHOST STORY STRANGE experiences OF A RE SPECTACLE BUSINESS MAN three time in coure of lift lie U seen tho shade of dead siotha anil kach time ablio seemed t be trying to warn allm of danger there are more things in haaven a earth horatio it camo to the knowledge of a report ci quite by accident that in nn eminently respectable house lying between madison and fifth avenues on nn eminently respectable street bep known in circles lias experienced what may bo called on lach of a bucter vord v ord visitations the reporter learned whilo tho gentleman was quito unaware of his connection with the press thanksgiving evening blieu conversation turned on mesmerism and other occult subjects from talk to experiment afao step was easy when it was discovered that the man in question was an almost perfect sensitive tc hypnotic the discovery was probably surprise to most of u in the room tho man is perhaps forty civo years old under thu medium height stout and inclined to baldness fond of the good things of life shrewd business man yet ho was absolutely sol at tho beck and call of an amateur of tolerably developed hypnotic power when after somo grotesque manifestations the subject was restored to consciousness the company with one accord pressed him to explain his feeling while under tho influence you are asking impossibilities said tho man good humo for while in the hypnotic state my waking self is submerged and I 1 real I 1 abo ego of the metaphysicians am what is called unconscious although something Bom ething that auit be a second I 1 or alter ego is obediently active it id all ae great a marvel to mo as it can be to any of you I 1 am not a weak willed man or ono easy to influence by ordinary methods yet 1 have always been keenly susceptible to psychic influences this caused a stir of expectancy in tho little company 1 I do not often speak of these things went on the man after a lattio pause such a nature as mine must uncanny to others and to be frank in a business way 1 could not afford to be known as a sensitive but I 1 think I 1 am bafo to speak under this roof 1 I can remember when quite a small boy eeling my uncle drive toward the country homo choro I 1 then lived while be was yet far off and neither face bor attitude could have borne to me any visual hint I 1 knew that hia son my cousin william was dead I 1 ran and sobbed in my mothers lap oh mammal williee beadi williee dead she eluded me tor my folly as she believed in a long two minutes my uncle drove up looking ashen gray and sad and the questions my mother would have put died upon her lips it was true my cousin had died unexpectedly after the briefest illness I 1 lave been more than abc old and had never hoard of occult art of any sort for oura were old fashioned country folk As I 1 grew up experiences of this kind were more common I 1 was a stupid bullet headed fellow in the main but in this special bense as I 1 must think it 1 and am extraordinarily gifted to this I 1 attribute tho fact that on three occasion I 1 have seen the ghost of my mother who died very soon after the incident which I 1 have just related A stir of incredulity caused a rustic in tho room and one festive chap a bar of over the fence Is out oh I 1 dont expect you to believe it resumed tho narrator easily in a way I 1 dont it myself that is I 1 cant account for it and my mind a against accepting any thing against my reason yet I 1 am brought face to face with the fact thrice in my mature life while wide awake fully clothed and as much in my right mind as I 1 am at thia minute I 1 have seen tho shade ghost or aura of my dead mother beem ing not worn and thin as I 1 remember her but young and fairer and here is the curious part of it she was clothed as in tho days before my birth thero older children than I 1 in dress which I 1 had never seen or heard described and of which no picture is in existence yet by my description of the dress I 1 baw it my oldest sister recognizes it perfectly what did the ghost to you ashod one of tho party nothing yet in each cass tho visit camo before some misfortune which was in n sense avertable it seems to me as if the wraith of my mother was trying ineffectually to warn her favorite and youngest child the set face the mournful air all indistinctly seen might convey that impression all tho visit at night twice the vision camo alien I 1 was alone the last timo my wife was with me I 1 said nothing to her at the time not wishing to alarm her but she can testify that I 1 was wide awake the room in which we batia large and was at the time lighted only by a well shaded lamp which left the farther end of tho room in but the figure interpenetrated with a light of its own it did not move or beckon it simply was and then was not an odd thanksgiving night tale was it not 1 I dont want my business associates to suspect ino of seeing visions tho gentleman concluded but thia is my story and I 1 would like to know what you mako atit new N york re border |