Psychic Stories
From Psychic Research. 30 indexed articles.
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BY GAMBIER BOLTON Ex-Pres. The Psychological Society, London, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., etc. CHAPTER I "A single grain of solid fact is worth ten tons of theory." "The more I think of it,...
A pupil of Anton Rubinstein, the great pianist and composer (1829-1894), tells this story. It may be found in Harper's Magazine for December, 1912, under the title A Girl's Recolle...
The tests given to me and to my fellow-investigators through the six sensitives who so ably assisted us during our seven years of experimental work in this little-known field of re...
These are related on pages 69-72 of Recollections of Elizabeth Benton Fremont, Daughter of the Pathfinder General John C. Fremont and Jessie Benton Fremont His Wife. After describi...
Serjeant William Ballantine (1812-1887) was one of the foremost lawyers in England, noted for his skill in cross-examination. He was counsel in the Tichborne claimant case, one of...
BY GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS A silent, grass-grown market-place, upon the uneven stones of which the sabots of a passing peasant clatter loudly. A group of sleepy-looking soldiers in...
This incident is related by the famous explorer, Sir Henry M. Stanley, in his autobiography edited by Dorothy Stanley (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909), on pages 207-208. Stanley, then...
BY LAFCADIO HEARN I Perhaps the man who never wanders away from the place of his birth may pass all his life without knowing ghosts; but the nomad is more than likely to make their...
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE "And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will prevading all things by nature o...
We are now ready to see what happens at a typical experimental meeting for these materializations, at hundreds of which I have assisted, having the services of no less than six sen...
BY NIZIDA "Life is one all-pervading principle, and even the thing that seems to die and putrefy but engenders new life and changes to new forms of matter. Reasoning, then, by anal...
BY KATHERINE RICKFORD They were sitting round the fire after dinner--not an ordinary fire--one of those fires that has a little room all to itself with seats at each side of it to...
BY WM. T. STEAD "Millions of Spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep." --MILTON It was during the South African War that my father obtained o...
BY AMBROSE BIERCE I ONE DOES NOT ALWAYS MARRY WHEN INSANE A man and a woman--nature had done the grouping--sat on a rustic seat, in the late afternoon. The man was middle-aged, sle...
This eminent dramatist, contemporary of Shakespeare (1573?-1637), visited the Scottish poet, William Drummond, who took notes of his conversations which he afterwards published in...
The Very Rev. Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester, England, was not only an effective preacher and popular lecturer, but likewise the author of fascinating books, composed of r...
BY MME. HELENA BLAVATSKY Our kind host Sham Rao was very gay during the remaining hours of our visit. He did his best to entertain us, and would not hear of our leaving the neighbo...
BY WALTER F. PRINCE, PH.D., Official Investigator American Society for Psychical Research It does not necessarily give an occult incident more weight that it was experienced or rel...
BY HEREWARD CARRINGTON [Footnote 17: By permission of the author.] History abounds in cases showing the apparent intrusion of spiritual help in time of trouble, and in the annals o...
We are told that the entity wishing to show himself to us passes into this shapeless mass of dough-like substance, which at once increases in bulk, and commences to pulsate and mov...
In a few moments our clairvoyants both report that the force or power is issuing from the side of the sensitive, if a man (or from the pelvis, if a woman), in the form of a white,...
BY ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS, "THE SEER" When the hour of her death arrived, I was fortunately in a proper state of mind and body to produce the superior (clairvoyant) condition; but, p...
By Fiona Macleod SIN. Taste this bread, this substance: tell me Is it bread or flesh? The Senses approach THE SMELL. Its smell Is the smell of bread. SIN. Touch, come. Why tremble?...
That under certain known and reasonable conditions of temperature, light, etc., entities, existing in a sphere outside our own, have been demonstrated again and again to manifest t...
BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It was curious--that sense of dull uneasiness that came over him so suddenly, so stealthily at first he scarcely noticed it, but with such marked increase aft...
By ELSA BARKER [Footnote 5: By permission of the author of War Letters of the Living Dead Man and Mitchell Kennerley.] Passing yesterday along the line where the great French army...
BY JACK LONDON I He was a very quiet, self-possessed sort of man, sitting a moment on top of the wall to sound the damp darkness for warnings of the dangers it might conceal. But t...
BY ST. JOHN B. SEYMOUR When Mrs. Seymour was a little girl she resided in Dublin; amongst the members of the family was her paternal grandmother. This old lady was not as kind as s...
BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Sometimes, in a moment of sharp experience, comes that vivid flash of insight that makes a platitude suddenly seem a revelation--its full content is abruptly...