Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — Instances of Telepathy. [ARTICLE]

Instances of Telepathy.

The following examples of telepathic action are known to the writer, W. J. Colville, as authentic instances of the action of mind with mind without expectation or preconcerted plan. During the recent World’s Fair Mrs. A was frequently thinking of her nephew, Mr. Z , who was enjoying a few weeks’ vacation in Chicago, while she remained in Boston. On the 15th of August, 1893, Mrs- A attended evening service in a certain church, and during the sermon, feeling a sense of drowsiness came over her, suddenly felt transported to the fair grounds in Chicago. It wasa. little after 8 p. m. in Boston, and consequently about 7 o’clock in Chicago, when the electric illumination of the exposition garden and buildings was just beginning. The lady, dozing in the church more thau one thousand miles away, saw the great buildings lighted up one by one as if by magic, the whole scene appearing as an enchanted fairyland. In the midst of the brilliant spectacle she distinctly saw her nephew walking with two young men, to one of who he suddenly exclaimed, •‘Oh, Alfred, who I wish my aunt were here to enjoy this.” Two days later Mrs. A received an interesting letter from Mr. Z , in which he detailed his experience at the fair and included this sentence in the description of the brilliant illumination on the evening of Aug. 15, that being his first visit on the grounds after 6 p. m“I said to one of my companions, ‘Oh, Alfred, how I wish my aunt were here to enjoy this, ’ and as I spoke I felt you were close beside me and continued walking with me forat least ten minutes.” Whatever may be the solution of so strange a phenomenon, it seems incredible that the threadbare explanation conveyed in the term “conscience” should be proffered to account for so remarkable an occurrence. A few days afterward the same lady received from her nephew, then about to leave for Chicago, the following mental message while she was quietly engaged in household duties: “Don’t expect me till Thursday evening after 9 o’clock, as I have decided to leave on a later train than the one I expected to take when I last wrote to you.” Two days later Mrs. A received from Mr. X a postal card containing the words. The message had reached her mentally in Boston while he was writing it in Chicago.