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May 1960 35C TRUE STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND THE UNKNOWN American Report: Is There Life On Mars? FATE Ednors e o oak a 27 Poltergeist Evicts Couple !n Millville, lowa Compiled bý UPI 2 42 Psychic Warnings of Pelee Eruption Alson J. Smith — 3 ee ól You Can Use Your Subconscious Trebor H. Tims 0. 76 Dead Man Sits For Psychic Portrait Fred Archer 2 90 gous 16 0, 6G 24) Miracles Were My Father's Business Edgar Evans Cayce . 8) 30 The Witch Doctor Who Made A Monster Guillan ‘Hopper 1220 50 f The Magicians’ Secret e Herman Yerger se 72 i The Bones That Walked AJ By Wace ooon oe = 80 Florida’s Pool Of The Dead... Latest News... The “Spirit Guide” Struck Oil . . . My Proof of Survival... Prophecy Of The Blank Page... Books

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A Soe by the Papers... QUOTE OF THE MONTH Si taajabuni, waana Adanu, mambo yalio duniani (Do not wonder, O sons, of men, at the things which are in this world) —From the Swahili, quoted by Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans in On the Track of Unknown Animals. HAT WOULD YOU do if your three-year-old daughter insisted that she remembered being born at the hospital, told you who was in the room at the time, and how her body wasn’t the first she ever had? This situation recently was faced by Mrs. Maxine Farnum of Tuc- son, Ariz., whose daughter Jannene told her this and reported confi- dently that in a previous life she had been killed by a car while crossing a street in a rainstorm. Jannene says—she remembers that her previous name was C. C. but she doesn’t know whether she was man or woman, child or adult. Jannene Farnum was born in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Houston, Tex., on July 5, 1956. Recently Mrs. Farnum returned with Jannene to Houston to check the files of the Houston Post to see if she could record of fatal accidents prior to Jannene’s birthday. The file indicated that it had indeed rained that day in Houston but there was no report of a fatal ac- cident in the city. “The accident could have hap- pened anywhere,’ Mrs. Farnum commented. “Even if I find an ac- cident here and take Jannene to the spot and she recognizes it, peo- ple will say it is silly. “We live in a time where other people look askance at this. But I believe my daughter’s story.”

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don. It is not documented for obvious reasons. There is a well-known scientist in Britain who must remain name- less. We ourselves do not know his name, but the Society For Psychical Research refers to him as “Dr. Johnson.” One thing we do know about “Dr. Johnson” is that he had a distinguished war record. It happens that one evening “Dr. Johnson” was mounting the stairs of his home when before him sud- denly appeared a luminous little man, about five feet, three inches tall and heavy-set. His body seemed to be composed of lumin- ous ribbons, with a mass of rib- bons wrapped around his head like a shawl. Even though the little man himself was incandescent, he did not illuminate any of the area about him. Now since “Dr. Johnson,” like so many other distinguished sci- entists, knows definitely that there is no such thing as a ghost he concluded that he probably had seen nothing at all. The next night he again saw the luminous apparition plodding up the stairs after him, and he saw it several additional times too. “Dr. Johnson” continued to be- lieve he had seen nothing, although perhaps he may have had a suspi- cion that he was _hallucinated. Nevertheless, he was too concerned FATE about his reputation to mention the apparition to any one. But one night “Dr. Johnson’s” wife was climbing the stairs to her bedroom and she saw the luminous little man just ahead of her. She uttered an exclamation and the apparition turned around. She noticed deep-set eyes and ob- served that although the feet did not touch the stairs the knees were bending as though it required physical effort for the man to climb. “Dr. Johnson’s” wife does not share the inhibitions of her hus- band. She mentioned the appari- tion to him and he confessed for the first time that he had been seeing it as well. They confided in close friends. Even so it took about a year to persuade “Dr. Johnson” to sign an affidavit as to these facts—and then he did so only under the pseudonymn of “Dr. Johnson.” <e TWO LITTLE CASE HISTORIES DE JOHNSON’S” apparition is the kind of thing that people have been seeing since there were people to see. Recently the Straits Times in Singapore reported that the “ghost” of a Japanese soldier is walking the corridors of the military forces headquarters there. The appari- tion appears in full military uni- Saas

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12 Working under a US. Air Force contract, Dr. Rudolpho Margeria, of the University of Milan, in Italy, has done a great deal of experimental work with homing pigeons. He has discovered that the pigeon’s built-in sextant apparently is centered in the cere- bellum, that primitive portion of the brain under the cerebrum. Dr. Margeria has found a specific type of brain wave from this area. When he placed birds in a cen- trifuge and whirled them rapidly so they could have no conscious knowledge of their orientation in space, he noted outbursts of elec- trical activity from the cerebellum. Each burst lasted as long as 20 seconds and Dr. Margeria con- cluded that the “geodetic center” was trying to set the confused bird on a straight line by extra- ordinary activity. Such a direction finder may exist in the human brain, but if it does either it never developed fully or has deteriorated from lack of use. al ANOTHER TALKING DOG GROUP OF British news- paper reporters swear that this is true, although they admit that it took place on New Year’s Day. There’s a talking dog in England! His name is Corky and he’s owned by Tony Ounsworth of FATE Drighlington in Yorkshire. Ouns- worth’s family runs a tavern called “The Spotted Cow” and he claims that Corky invariably greets guests with the words “Good Morning.” Several reporters: vouch for Corky’s ability but one of the most unusual interviews of which we’ve read took place between a re- presentative of the Yorkshire Post and Corky: Reporter: “Good Morning.” Corky: “Good Morning.” Reporter: “Are you a smart dog?” Corky: “I am a clever lad. Very clever. Very clever.” Reporter: ‘“Where’s your pal Carlo?” (Carlo is a Labrador who also belongs to the family.) Corky: “He’s gone.” (As a matter of fact, Corky lied. Carlo had gone off to fetch his collection box. The reporter left and was not believed until he had produced two independent, honorable and completely sober witnesses. ) They say Corky has a voice a little like Louis Armstrong’s—Louis’ singing voice, that is. Corky can’t play a musical instrument, how- ever. o POSTSCRIPT ECENTLY WE described the trials of Daniel O’Connell, the hungry alcoholic, who had been

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Meee es ee UNITED STATES REPORT: Here are the latest discoveries and conclusions of U.S.A. science regarding life on Earth’s neighbor planet. Ree eee Compiled by Fi Cis N 1931, FOREST RAY Moulton, a world-famous astrophysicist, stated categorically that mankind would never venture into Space: “Many a story has been written of some miraculous journey to the moon or Mars,” wrote Moulton in his textbook Astronomy. “There is no hope, however, that such a wish will ever be realized. The difficulty of escaping Earth’s gravity is insu- perable; the problem of directing a journey through celestial spaces and that of descending gently to rest on the surface of another gravitating body are equally formidable. Only 27 those who are unfamiliar with the physical forces involved believe that such adventures will ever pass be- yond the realms of fancy? Times have changed. The crack- pot rocketeers of yesterday are the respected scientists of today and the conventional men who believed that there could be nothing new un- der the sun have had to back down another step. Few men doubt today that man- ned space ships will one day cross the black distances between the Earth and Mars and our own Moon and eyentually venture into the

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28 spaces between the stars. And what will they find there? They will find life. Many author- ities agree on this, including Harlow Shapley, astronomer emeritus of Harvard; Thomas Gold, astronomer of Cornell Unversity, and Hermann J. Muller, the Indiana University Nobel prize winner. These men have arrived at similar conclusions even though they speak from differing viewpoints. Shapley goes up and down the country outlining his theories. They also are explained in his book Of Stars And Men. His viewpoint is based on the everwhelming statis- tics of Space. For on the basis of chance alone there have to be hun- dreds of millions of inhabitable planets. And if planets are inhabit- able, in his view, there is over- whelming chance that they are in- habited. “Probably life got started also on Mars, Planet No. 4,” writes Shap- ley. “The chemical make-up of the Martian atmosphere and the cli- matic conditions are considerably different from ours; but there the urge to evolve is as likely, or at least was as likely, as here on No. 3. The oxygen shortage, however, keeps Martian organisms (if any) in low estate.” N A COMPANION article last month, “Russian Report: Is There Life on Mars?” Fatr’s edit- FATE ors quoted G. A. Tikhov, a corres- ponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the: U.S.S.R. Tekhov photographed Mars through colored heliofilters, observed the changing colors throughout the seasons, and concluded that they parallel the changing colors of the evergreen taiga in Siberia. He also discovered the hitherto unknown fact that if vegetation exists on Mars, it need not and does not show chlorophyll but photographs white. The same is true of Earth’s Arctic plants. Now our own American Astron- omer William M. Sinton of the Low- ell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., has added to the evidence that life exists on Mars. Like Tikhov, Sinton came to his conclusion by analyzing the light reflected from Mars. He established a standard of what passage through the Earth’s atmosphere has done to sunlight and compared this with the reflection of sunlight from Mars. He worked with infra-red light because some of its wave-length bands are absorbed: by organic-mole- cule plant life and he used the giant 200-inch telescope of Palomar Ob- servatory with super-refined instru- ments. Sinton discovered that reflected infra-red from six regions of Mars all showed that part of the light in these bands had been absorbed in Mars. The amounts varied from re- gion to region. They were small in

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7S mE ey OG aT TS rsi ps x Fa ni ek p- 3 ase ied, | a IS THERE LIFE ON MARS? the light-colored areas (which are assumed to be deserts) and large in the dark areas, which may contain vegetation. The wave length patterns fit very closely those which Earth’s own or- ganic compounds—especially plants —give off in the infra-red spectrum. One wave-length band in the re- flected infra-red from Mars was an enigma at first because it never had been found in any plant on Earth. Later, however, it was found in one variety of algae on Earth, and the wave-length was produced by the carbohydrate molecules of the algae. Now all this scientific language Says in essence that the most re- fined tests man has been able to develop indicate there is life on Mars. Astronomer Sinton doesn’t go quite that far, saying only that Mars probably contains the same big organic molecules of which liv- ing things on earth are composed, and also carbohydrates which are the kind of molecules that feed earth’s animal life. Sinton’s observations were made during the close approach of Mars in October, 1958, and which was announced to the general public only last November. For all his cautious scientific language he declared that “Growth of vegetation certainly seems to be the most logical explanation for the appearance of organic molecules on » Mars.” aay 29 HOR there are plenty of other reasons for believing that life exists on Mars. The most impor- tant is the conclusion that life exists throughout the universe—even in Space itself. What are the reasons for this conclusion? First of all, Dr. Melvin Calvin of the University of California re- cently reported the discovery in meteorites of molecules which re- semble the basic constituents of genetic material on earth. From this he concluded that conditions favor- able to the development of living forms exist in space. These chemical forms are prim- itive, it is true, but they are the basic molecules or structural units of nucleic acid, the stuff of which the heredity-transmitting genes are made. He believes that these primitive chemical forms probably existed at one time on earth before biological forms arose. He and other scientists theorize that simple chemicals like carbon and hydrogen were joined together into progressively more complex molecules by the energy of cosmic rays, ultra-violet light and electrical storms. Eventually nu- cleotides evolved, then the nucleic acids and the chromosomes, car- riers of the genes. The heterocyclical pre-biological forms as such no longer exist on earth, having long since been used up in the formation

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30 of the more complex biological mole- cules. The existence of such chem- icals in meteorites suggests that the same process which Dr. Calvin be- lieves took place on Earth now goes on in Space. In other words, life is inevitable. AYBE EARTH’S life did not begin on Earth but somewhere out in space. Maybe the earth was merely “seeded”—and maybe the “seeding” was deliberate! This science-fiction concept comes from no less an authority than Cor- nell University’s Astronomer Thomas Gold. Maybe, suggests Gold, life was even brought to Earth by Space ships! Maybe it existed outside Earth for billions of years. Maybe it always existed. The Earth, we know, is at least several billions of years old. Life, as far as we know, has existed on it for only one of those billions of years. It began as a microscopic- sized particle and developed slowly —to the point where now the de- scendents of the original microbes will soon be visiting the planets of other solar systems—and possibly seeding them. Why do this? “Most of the planets will have unsuitable conditions for us to live there freely, but if they have no life on them, it is still possible that FATE they can be contaminated with some form of micro-biology brought along by the space travelers,” says Gold. “Low forms of life are adaptable to a great variety of conditions, and so it is likely that they will stay on the planets while the space travelers will not.” After a billion years or so, the seeded planet itself will have de- veloped life forms advanced to the point where they too can travel in space and advance the work. And meanwhile new planets in new gal- axies will have formed to receive the new seed. Such planets may not have existed when the original seed was cast upon the planet that is now colonizing. “Space travelers,” says Gold, “may have visited the earth a bil- lion years ago, and from their aban- doned garbage forms of life have proliferated so that the microbe will soon have another agent cap- able of spreading them farther afield.” HETHER GOLD’S theory is correct or not, more and more astronomers are coming to agree that life must exist elsewhere in Space. Dr. Otto Struve, director of the new National Radio-astronomy Ob- servatory at Green Bank, W. Va., recently declared that new discover- ies have forced scientists to revise their thinking. For if the conditions

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IS THERE LIFE ON MARS? of life exist elsewhere, then life exists elsewhere. And the chances are that some of this life is more advanced than man and some is less advanced than man. Struve believes that other Halse live in space and that although they may not know of our existence as a fact, they suspect it just as we suspect their existence! Struve told questioners after his speech at one of the Karl Taylor Compton lectures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology last No- vember that if a distant observer has the necessary intelligence and technology he would be aware that Earth is today emitting waves of radiation that it did not emit 50 years ago! He also believes it might be possible to detect atomic ex- plosions set off far above the Earth by observing fluctuations in the Van Allen radiation belt. There are few stars within 20 light years of us, but there is a chance that they have planets with life on them. As a result, Prof. Phillip Mor- rison and Giuseppi Cocconi of Cor- nell University have proposed that we should try to record artificial radio signals from these other stars to see if we are being signalled. Cocconi and Morrison declare that “a reliable estimate of the probabilities of (1) planet forma- tion, (2) origin of life, and (3) evo- lution of societies possessing ad- 31 vanced scientific capabilities sug- gests that stars of the main se- quence with a lifetime of many bil- lions of years can possess planets, that of a small set of such planets, two (Earth and very probably Mars) support life, that life on one such planet includes a society cap- able of considerable scientific inves- tigation...” Since such societies might main- tain themselves for ages, they con- clude, that “near some star rather like the Sun, there are civilizations with scientific interests and with technical possibilities much greater than those now available to us.” They believe that to the residents of such a planet, our own sun must appear as a likely place for a new society to evolve and for science to develop. “We shall assume that long ago they established a channel of communication that would one day become known to us, and that they look forward patiently to the answering signals from the Sun which would make known to them that a new society has entered the community of intelligence.” Cocconi and Morrison expect that radio communication would be car- ried on at 1420 megacycles because that is the characteristic emission line of neutral hydrogen. And as a matter of fact, the Green Bank radio-telescope under Dr. Frank B. Drake will begin the search this Spring. It is of 85-foot diameter

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i 32 and can detect signals beamed into space from any star within 8.6 light years, which is twice as far as Al- pha Centauri, our nearest star- neighbor. HE BIOLOGISTS and the as- tronomers are in agreement, then. Life is not only possible in Space, it is virtually inevitable. Dr. Herman J. Muller, the dis- tinguished Nobel Prize Winner and biologist of Indiana University, has drawn up one of the best reasoned arguments for life existing else- where in the Universe. Dr. Muller begins with the as- tronomical evidence that some 10 per cent or more of stars, according to present theory, have families of planets. On such planets there is all kinds of evidence that where there is a distribution of elements like those in our solar system, organic com- pounds are produced in the gaseous and liquid envelopes: of moderately warm, moderately-sized planets by the action of ultraviolet, cosmic and gamma rays and electric discharges on the pre-existing hydrides. Some of these compounds inter- act to produce more complex mole- cules which serve as raw material for the replication of nucleotide chains, which represent the back- bone of life as we know it. From this point proceeds the first faint beginning of protoplasm as we FATE know it. Differential selection and multiplication of the rare mutants that happen to be most advan- tageously constructed will cause “these primordea of life to evolve into increasingly diverse types.” These become ever more effectively and complexly organized for sur- vival and multiplication under the varied conditions existing on a given planet. Whether compounds other than nucleotide chains can be a basis of life, Dr. Muller doesn’t know. No other forms of life have been found to be established on Earth, how- ever. But even if life is restricted to these materials, it is “prohibitively impossible” that the same steps in the evolution of life would be found on other planets as exist on Earth. Life on other worlds would have a different biochemical structure for its protoplasm and metabolism than our own plants and animals. “It is therefore highly unlikely that it could serve us for food or vice versa.” “However, if based on nucleo- tides and protein its life operations, like ours, would be confined to a temperature range between the freezing and boiling points of water. And it would eventually have to derive its energy from light.” Dr. Muller expects that plant- like and animal-like types would both develop in a life system on an-

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IS THERE LIFE ON MARS? other planet. But they would be totally different from our own. “It is absurd to imagine other worlds with organisms classifiable as grass- -es, insects, molluscs, fish, reptiles, birds or mammals, and to suppose that human beings evolved there is about as ridiculous as to imagine that they speak English. For evo- lution is compounded of both con- sequentialism and accident.” Nonetheless, anologies to earth’s forms will have developed because only a few main types are feasible. Learning would arise independently in diverse kinds of animals. ‘“How- ever, our earth’s history shows how rare a combination of evolutionary circumstances is required before in- telligence becomes great enough, and aided by enough communica- tion and symbolization to allow cul- tural evolution, civilization, and sci- ence. Thus it would be only on a small percentage of planets with as old and ample a biological evolu- tion as our earth’s that beings pos- sessed of scientific knowledge have appeared. “However, so explosively rapid is the development of science that, on the vast majority of planets on which it has appeared ii would be far beyond the stage of that tender seedling which we science teachers have in our own charge on earth.” Dr. Muller lists factors which would cause planets with scientific cultures to be scattered at enormous 33 distances from one another. But even this difficulty would hardly have been enough to have kept be- ings far more advanced than our- selves from ever having reached the earth if Space travel, according to Einstein, were not limited to the speed of light. He concludes therefore, that “it is likely that the spread of man through space will for eons remain unchallenged by other intelligent beings and that we will not meet them before we ourselves have evolved to a far higher level. Never- theless, it is to be anticipated that even the restriction set by the Ein- stein formula will not prevent us from a step by step expansion, across the light years. And long be- fore we come across our peers or betters we shall have discovered and subjugated a wealth of forms of di- versely evolving life which, even though not as advanced as ours in intelligence, can nevertheless in- crease enormously the richness of our experiences, our understanding, and our control over our own do- main of existence.” Dr. Muller, in a sweeping vision, has synthesized the current scien- tific view of life in Space. It exists because it is inevitable. Many forms are undoubtedly more intelligent and scientifically advanced than man. But because of the vast reaches of space, it is unlikely that we will encounter such life soon. Certainly,

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34 though, it is not impossible. As for life on Mars specifically, all evidence indicates that it exists. But if Dr. Muller’s reasoning is correct, the overwhelming chance is that it is not highly developed— at least it has not had a chance to develop a scientific culture. FATE Dr. Otto Struve’s view is slightly different. He grants that we have “neighbors.” He believes them to be “distant.” He believes they know we exist. But he asks, do they think enough of us to bother to get in touch with us, or are they convinced it wouldn’t be worth their time? ade THE “SPIRIT GUIDE” STRUCK OIL BRAM JAMES, one of the most successful operators in the early days of the oil busi- ness, credited his strikes to the help of a “spirit guide’ whom he affectionately called “Lalah.” According to a story told about James, “Lalah’s” first oil strike was made in the year 1867 in a farmer’s field about midway between Titusville and Pithole, in Pennsylvania. While engaged in a peaceful conver- sation with three friends, James suddenly jumped from the car- riage in which he had been sit- ting, leaped a fence and raced to the northern end of the farm field, where he was seen to jerk convulsively and then to fall to the ground. When his friends reached him, they found him lying pale and rigid. He recovered after sev- eral minutes and explained that he had been seized by his “spirit guide,” who had led him to a spot where oil was to be found. James had marked the place by thrusting a penny into the earth. Although his friends scoffed at his “spirit guide” story, James borrowed money and built an oil well at the spot he had marked with the penny. A short time later oil from Har- monial Well No. 1, as James named it, flowed in at the rate of 130 barrels a day. During the years that fol- lowed, James often claimed to have been visited by ‘Lalah,” his spirit guide. Each time he went through a spasmodic dance and fell to the ground, marking the spot with a penny—and each time he found “black gold.” His only known failure was an 1800-foot dry well costing $6000. uit

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The late Edgar Cayce, of Virginia Beach, Va., was famed as a clairvoy- ant healer. While in trance, he gave medical advice, or “readings,” which reportedly benefited many hundreds of ill persons all over the world. MIRACLES were my Father’ Business IRGINIA BEACH had a few modern houses in 1926 but the one we could afford was the other kind, with no central heating. My morning ritual in wintertime call- ed for a dash from my warm bed to the fireplace in the living room. The particular November morn- ing I am speakng of was a frigid 35 / y edgar Pe Cayce A; fold fo Vaughn Shelton one, so I backed up to the hearth while waiting for Mother to bring my clothes. I must have gone too close, or perhaps an exploding pine knot fired an ember at me. There was a sudden wave of pain, flames curling round my legs and someone screamed and screamed. It didn’t seem to be me—but it was.

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36 Mother smothered my flaming wool pajamas with the shirt she’d been bringing. Father came run- ning and they carried me back to bed. Soothing words quieted my sobs and an unguent dulled the edge of the pain. When the little oil heater was brought from the kitchen I even stopped shivering now and then. But it was serious. My whole back was burned; my left leg was char- red and blistered from ankle to but- tocks. Among the anxious whispers I heard the word “doctor.” At eight you can sense an ulti- mate emergency. Before it had al- ways been someone else—my broth- er’s burned eyes, my mother’s “in- curable” tuberculosis, some rela- tive’s distant, academic distress. Now it was I, sheathed in pain and awfully afraid. “No, no! I want Daddy to sleep for me! I want to get better!” “Hush, dear. Hush and lie quiet.” They slipped out of the room and I strained to catch the whispers in the hall. Mother came back and picked up my hand and kissed it. “Lie very still now and think of God. Daddy’s going to give a reading for you.” She was gone again and I lay very still the way she said and my fear drained away with a kind of magic. But it wasn’t magic; I guess you'd call it faith. My fa- ther was Edgar Cayce. FATE Just what a “reading” was, I couldn’t have said. I knew my fa- ther could lie down and put him- self to sleep; then Mother would ask him questions and he would answer in a calm, faraway mono- tone. His secretary, Gladys Davis, who lived with us, would sit near- by, listening intently and making strange symbols in her notebook. I didn’t need to understand. I was only eight and I judged all things by their results. And the re- sults were always good when Fa- ther went to sleep for someone. Even at eight, despair and hope were very real to me. I had seen the former so often in the faces of people who had been ringing our doorbell as long as I could re- member. People came to see my father when there seemed to be no other source of hope. Sometimes they’d talk with him. Mostly they’d just follow him to his study where the big leather couch was, and Mother would be there to speak for them. The door would close and Pd idle out by the gardenia bushes near the front porch and wait, very curious. When they came out their de- spair would be gone and it usually took them a long time to say good- bye. They’d wring Father’s hand and say “thank you” over and over. The women often cried, but in a happy way- These were the ones I saw. There

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MIRACLES WERE MY FATHER’S BUSINESS 37 were many, many others who did not come to our house, but wrote or wired their appeals to Father. He’d give the readings and Gladys would type up the pages and mail fat envelopes addressed to places all over the world. However, it wasn’t so much the changes wrought in strangers that convinced me, but the many things that happened in our home. Some of these I remembered. Oth- ers had been retold so often by visiting relatives that I thought I remembered them. When the family lived in Selma, Ala., where Father had his photo studio, there was a terrible accident. My older brother, Hugh Lynn, had exploded a whole tray of flash pow- der in his face. The doctors said he’d be blind for life, at least in one eye. One proposed that the worst damaged eye be removed in hopes of saving the other one. Hugh Lynn, like me, had begged for a reading. Father’s sleeping voice prescribed a poultice which a local pharmacist who believ- ed in Father had made up and they used it. When my own crisis came I remembered this, and knew that my brother’s eyesight was perfect and he wore hardly a trace of scar. Mother’s sickness before I was born had been just as grave. It was tuberculosis, too far advanced for a cure before it was detected, so they said. A reading described a course of treatment and she recov- ered completely. At different times, both my parents had had appen- dicitis. Readings told one to have an operation and the other not to —and both had enjoyed full and final recovery. With only a vague idea of what the word meant, I knew my fa- ther was “clairvoyant” when he slept, and that he was different from the fathers of my playmates. I was rather proud of the differ- ence. I hadn’t yet realized what a burden and responsibility it was. Father hated the difference. He wanted to be just like other peo- ple. All his life he had worn his differentness like a hair coat. I’ve often wondered if he fished and gardened with such zeal because he liked to—or if it was his way of trying to prove to the neighbors how normal he really was. But his efforts to conceal the many psychic faculties he had, even while awake, were futile and everybody knew. The tall, slightly stooped gentleman with a Kentucky accent and the mild manner of a country clergyman was pointed out as “Doc Cayce,” a very strange duck. Father could see lights around peoples’ heads—an aura that told him all about them. For his chil- dren, this was a built-in lie detec- tor, revealing the state of our con- sciences at a glance. We never tried

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Ba to deceive him about anything. Once I remember he was quite worried about a neighbor lady who had no aura. A day or so after he mentioned this to Mother the lady died. Another time he passed a woman he didn’t know on the steps of the post office. He paused at the top of the steps, then turn- ed and hurried after her. Touching her elbow he said, “Please don’t go on an auto ride today!” She just stared at him and he retired in embarrassment. But that evening she rang our doorbell. She said she had been directed to the house from her description of Father. Because of his warning . she’d cancelled a date to go rid- ing with a friend that day. The friend had gone alone and had a serious accident. The woman was puzzled but grateful. Father’s relationship with God had to be a close and constant one. Every time he gave a reading on someone’s critical ailment he risked disaster—misapplication of the information and blame for the consequences. He read the Bible through each year and, I suspect, prayed oftener than most people. As a result, his Sunday School class at the Presbyterian church was the most popular one at the Beach. Since he never set a price on his readings and gave many with- out mention of payment, we lived FATE a rather hand-to-mouth existence, seldom more than moderately com- fortable. From the strange way the things we needed were provided when we needed them, I was sure Father had some sort of special arrangement with God. One particular winter was mark- ed by extreme cold and a short- age of funds. Most days we wore our overcoats around the house. I remember a shivering breakfast when I squinted up during the blessing to watch the smoke-like vapor of Father’s breath. He was asking God for some firewood. Toward the middle of the morn- ing there was a knock at the door. It was a light company foreman. He said his crew was going to cut down an old wooden pole out front. Tf we could use the kindling they’d be glad to saw it into fireplace lengths and stack them on our lawn. The faculty which Father took the greatest pains to conceal from everyone but Mother was his oc- casional ability to see people who weren’t visible to others. He had experienced this phenomenon since early childhood and felt it branded him as a freak. A loud rapping at the door one night wakened the whole family. Father went down to answer it and we could hear the murmur of his voice. Hugh Lynn peeped down the stairs and there was no one

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MIRACLES WERE MY FATHER’S BUSINESS 39 else there. Next morning Father told Mother that a young lady who had worked at his studio in Selma had died. Presently a letter from Alabama brought official word of the sad event. Every now and then a research psychologist or other professional investigator would make a pilgrim- age to Virginia Beach to expose Father as a charlatan. He wel- comed them even when they in- sulted and denounced him in front of his family. He always said that if it were all a fake he wanted to be the first to know. They’d investigate for days at a time, ob- serving a number of readings and asking hundred of questions. Then they’d leave with puzzled faces and admonitions to “keep up the good work no matter what the skeptics say.” Some of our visitors were on the exotic side. Late one stormy evening a dark, courteous gentleman rapped at the door and said he had come all the way from India to see Father. He had developed the formula for a new antiseptic for internal as well as external use. It wasn’t perfected to his satisfaction and he wanted a reading to find the flaw. The one that was given pointed out the missing elements in the formula and suggested some other improve- ments. Shortly afterward the inven- tor put his revolutionary antiseptic on the market. For many years it sold in drug stores throughout the country under the trade name of Atomidine. A friend of our family owned an articulate and rather sophisti- cated parrot. When he went on a trip the bird stayed with us and had the run of the house. About dusk one day a couple of men who had heard some remark- able things about Edgar Cayce came to call. They were ushered into the living room to wait for Father. They had just seated them- selves when a hollow voice from the shadows across the room said, “Hello. What do you want?” Father caught up with them at the front gate and explained about the parrot. Living in a summer resort be- fore the days of television, our family spent many of the winter evenings playing games. Father joined in, but only in the ones where winning was a matter of pure luck. One time, when Hugh Lynn irritated him by insisting that he play bridge, he demon- strated how he could read every card in an opponent’s hand with- out seeing the faces of them. This was the sort of thing I thought about as I lay there with my back burned to a crisp waiting for my reading. Presently Mother came back and kissed me again. She said the read-

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40 ing had been given and everything was going to be fine. They put cooling, healing dressings on through the day and night, and changed them often for many days and nights. Even at that it was several weeks before I could get up and move around. At intervals, check readings were given on my . condition, for the shock to my system had been profound. This happened in 1926. I still have some of the scars, but the healing was complete. The use of my critically burned left leg wasn’t impaired and I played football, baseball and basketball in high school and tennis in college. Throughout my youth I thought of Edgar Cayce as a very special and unusual father who could do almost anything because of his lifelong, personal arrangement with God. Much later I came to under- stand that he was an example of both conscious and subconscious psychic ability developed to a re- markably fine point and complete- ly dedicated to the service of man- kind. His accomplishments went far beyond the taken-for-granted household miracles I had lived with. With only nine years of ordinary schooling, he had the mind of a master physician when he entered that trance-like state I thought of as sleep. In that state he could discourse authoritatively on any FATE subject—history, pre-history, ge- ology, electronics, philosophy, cre- ation, life after death,—even on the future. In trance he could speak a score of foreign languages fluent- ly—although he spoke only Eng- lish while awake. His information, so the readings said, was derived from attunement to the universal mind, of which all individual minds are a portion. In the realms ex- plored by his articulate subcon- scious mind there were no myster- ies. The sum total of Father’s work is a vast file of nearly 15,000 transcribed readings and their case records, now in the custody of the Edgar Cayce Foundation at Vir- ginia Beach—a mother lode of documentation for students of that mystery of mysteries, the human mind, and a towering testimony to the transcendence of the human soul. In 1943, Father’s first biography, There Is A River by Thomas Sug- rue, was published. Shortly after- ward a national magazine carried an article on Edgar Cayce and his readings. More than 25,000 pieces of mail descended upon him in a period of weeks, mostly from peo- ple appealing for his help. He tried to help them all and soon readings were scheduled for more than a year ahead. The mental, physical and spiritual strain of ro or 12 readings a day (two a day

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MIRACLES WERE MY FATHER’S BUSINESS 4I was normal) broke his health at the age of 67. In December, 1944, I had just been transferred to Florida after a two-year tour on Trinidad, build- ing Army radar installations, when the word came. I obtained compas- sionate leave to fly home. Hugh Lynn was in Europe with the fast- traveling XX Corps of General Patton and couldn’t be notified. On January 5, 1945, I stood with the others under a glowering winter. sky and wasn’t surprised to see how many mourners there were. He had slept for me so many times. He had slept for so many, many others who had no hope except in Edgar Cayce. Just then the intellectual signi- ficance of his life and work seem- ed unimportant compared to his demonstration that service is full and sufficient reason for living, that God is the rewarder of those who try to do His work. To Edgar Cayce, He was the Friend who had trusted him with the keys to the kingdom of the mind—and who also supplied the firewood. THERE IS ALWAYS A BORELLI By Dr. W. E. Farbstein Flying artificially has been attempted in all ages. In Greek mythology Daedalus attached wings of wax to the body of his son Icarus... Archytas is said to have made an artificial flying dove about 400 B.C.... Friar Bacon, in 1273 A.D., maintained it was possible for men to fly and predicted flying would be in general practice... Bishop Wilkins said, in 1651, that in the future it would be usual to hear a man call for his wings as one now heard him call for his boots . .. but Bor- elli, about 1670, showed the fu- tility of all these expectations! (Haydn’s Dictionary Of Dates, 1841.) Se WIND AT WORK R. AND MRS. Mose Bellanger of Neenah, Wis., were amazed at what happened when a sudden wind tore a storm window from their attic. The window was carried around a corner of the house and stacked neatly with a pile of other storm windows in the family garage.

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Compiled by United Press 0D tational All photos by U.P.!. evicts couple in Millville, Iowa A house is home even when humble—but not when haunted, according to an elderly couple who fled theirs. N A NARROW, tree-studded, rocky valley at the end of a winding branch off Split-Level Road sits the “ghost house” of Millville, Ia. Strange, unexplained happenings began in this house about Thanks- giving time (1959) and within three weeks drove elderly, crippled Wil- liam Meyer and his wife from their life-long home. Meyer, bedfast since July, 1959, 42 when he broke a hip in a fall, said an unoccupied chair rocked of its own accord, small objects in the house were hurled across the room as if thrown by unseen hands, dust appeared from nowhere, furniture toppled. Unable to find a natural cause for the phenomena, Meyer and his 77-year-old wife took refuge from the “spooks” at the home of Mrs. Meyer’s sister, Mrs. William

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Blume, in Guttenberg, Ia., ro miles away. When Meyer observed his 83rd birthday on January 2, 1960, it was the first time in his life he had been away from home on his an- niversary. “T built that house with my own hands. I lived there and that’s where my two children, Elmer and Mildred, were born . . . and where Mildred died. It was home. But TIl never go back. I don’t want to die there.” Meyer was born in a crude log cabin only a few yards from the spot where the house stands, along a meandering creek between two sharp, rocky bluffs where he later built the house to which he took his bride, Anna Marie Kickbush, after their wedding May 6, 1903. Meyer felt secure in the remote, rugged valley three miles back from Towa Highway 52 that winds its way along the Mississippi River and through the foothills north of Dubuque. Atop the gorge in which Meyer and his father, Christ, before him built their homes, sprawls 80 acres of level farmland which responded to the “green touch” of the sturdy German family and provided am- ply for their frugal wants. - The first hint that something was amiss in the Meyer household came when Meyer,*bedded down in the cramped living room, was show- 43 ered with a fine, powdery dust. _ “Tt came from nowhere. It spread a thin film over everything in the room. There was no vibration, no noise . . . just a cloud of dust that spread through the room and set- tled on everything.” Mrs. Meyer, working in the > kitchen, was unaware of anything unusual until her husband called her to his bedside. “There wasn’t any dust in any of the other rooms . . . only in the one where William was,” the genial woman recalled. “We weren’t scared then. But we were curious about where that dust came from, and why it appeared only in the one room.” ‘The events that followed «soon

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44 convinced the elderly couple that “haunts” had taken over their home. On December 17, 1959, they surrendered occupancy and “let the ghosts have it.” The “spooks” made their pres- ence further known by hurling a fresh egg across the room and splattering it against an outside doorway at the foot of Meyer’s bed. Pills from a medicine bottle inside a kitchen cabinet were suddenly showered across the floor of the adjoining living room where Meyer lay. Mud was splattered against a window of the room ... at a time when the ground outside was frozen. The crowning blow that decided Meyer to give up his life-long home came December 17 when a heavy electric refrigerator on a porch-pan- try toppled over with a loud crash. However, their departure did not end the strange goings-on at the Meyer house. Their son, Elmer, locked up the house . . . but the doors refused to stay locked. Once when he was in the house a stick of stove wood slammed against a window, shattering the glass. Several times groups of neigh- bors, determined to disprove the “shost story,” tried to spend a night in the house but none had the cour- age to stick it out. One group placed a water glass on a flower stand and laid a pencil across it. As they watched, the glass suddenly shattered, spilling FATE water on the floor. The pencil broke. Another time, a ship captain de- cided he would “lay the -ghost” once and for all. With several friends he went to the Meyer house to spend the night. A 265-pound hunk of man, Cap- tain Patrick Livingston sprawled on the bed which the invalid Meyer had vacated. His companions clus- tered in the kitchen. “I was lying there peacefully, certain that this ghost stuff was all the bunk, when suddenly a wooden kitchen chair did a skid- bounce about eight feet across the floor,” Livingston said. “T yelled to the others but by the time they came in all was quiet. “T accused them of having strings attached to the chair to make it move, but they denied it. And there was no evidence of any strings.” Things quieted down and Liv- ingston was again left alone in the room. “The next thing I knew I was on the floor with the mattress on top of me. The bed never moved . . . the mattress just flopped over and threw me with it.” Livingston, who captains a tank- er on the Great Lakes but lives in Guttenberg, said he “felt a little vibration at first” then he was un- ceremoniously dumped off the bed.

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POLTERGEIST EVICTS COUPLE IN MILLVILLE, IOWA 45 “No one else in the house felt any vibration and nothing else in the house was disturbed . . . just me and the mattress.” Livingston and his friends left the house after that. They return- ed a couple hours later “after we got our fortitude back.” They stayed until about 1:30 A.M. but nothing more happened. Of the moving chair and the flop- ping mattress, Livingston said, “I saw it happen... and I felt it . .. but I still don’t believe it.” Sheriff Forrest Fischer was called down from the county seat at El- kader, 20 miles away, shortly af- ter the strange events started at the Meyer home. At first he thought the whole thing was a hoax. Later he reserved comment and assigned two special deputies to watch the unoccupied house con- stantly for evidences that the “ghosts” were receiving human as- sistance. The guards saw nothing to indicate that anyone was in or around the house except those au- thorized to make investigations by the Meyer family or the sheriff. Fischer, himself, was startled on one visit. He accompanied a news reporter and photographer to the house. After letting them in he returned to his car for a flash- light so they could probe the dark, damp basement. As he threaded his way back across the crudely terraced, weed grown yard, past a tangled raspberry bramble, Fischer said an empty syrup bottle seemed to “jump” out of a cardboard car- ton and shatter on the porch step. Fischer and the men inside the house accused each other of “play- ing tricks.” That’s when Fischer’s disbelief in the supernatural was shaken. He was anxious to clear up the “ghostly mess.” It was beginning to have political repercussions. The Meyer “spooks” became the main topic of conversation at Mill- ville taverns and around the wood- fired stove at the grocery store and around the more modern oil- burning space heater at the service station.

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46 One 76-year-old man blew the “head” off his stein of beer and remarked, “I’ve voted Democrat all my life . . . and I voted for Fischer all six times he ran for sheriff .. but if he’s going to be- lieve in ghosts I won’t vote for him again.” Fischer was beseiged with long distance telephone calls from news- papers, radio and television stations, with scientific investigators of the supernatural, and with curiosity seekers. “Some days I hardly had time to eat for answering the telephone and listening to ‘ghost’ questions. This thing ‘took «up most of my time and ‘there was other work «a sheriff should ‘be doing.” Prof. J..Gaither Pratt, a special- ist in abnormal psychology and ex- tra-sensory perception at Duke Uni- versity, asked for permission to visit the Meyer house. Fischer dis- couraged the professor, hoping that a natural explanation would turn up. Fischer did grant the request from four University of Iowa psy- chology and sociology students and another group of physics majors from Upper Iowa University to spend a night at the “haunted house.” The Upper Iowa students set up geiger counters, an oscilloscope, an electrometer and an ionization chamber in the house. They meas- FATE ured atomic radiation, atmospheric electricity, earth vibration and oth- er natural conditions which, if out of balance, might explain the Meyer “ghost.” The University of Iowa students were interested in the possibility of a poltergeist or some other ab- normal psychic cause. Their work was conducted under the watchful eyes of a group of newsmen and women making up a party of about — 25 in the cluttered house. Until nightfall the work went smoothly. — Scientific gadgets were read every I5 minutes and the results record- ed. The psychology-sociology ma- jors interviewed members of the Meyer family and neighbors. But word of the students’ “Op- eration Ghost” spread rapidly through the little town of Millville and the surrounding countryside. A crowd of spectators gathered. They shot off firecrackers, made weird ghostly noises that echoed through the rock-rimmed valley, shouted disparaging remarks at the students and their “scientific gadgets,” and uttered obscenities about the three women news reporters. With the assistance of a deputy sheriff, and threats to call the State Highway Patrol, the crowd of men and women, some with babes in arms, finally dispersed at 3 A.M. Through all the commotion, the students maintained the 15-minute readings on their instruments.

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Mia Le eee oe ee A eo POLTERGEIST EVICTS COUPLE IN MILLVILLE, IOWA 47 When quiet finally settled over the valley, lights in the house were turned off and conversation limited to essential comments about the scientific equipment around which the Upper Iowa students clustered in the kitchen. The poltergeist-seekers from the University of Iowa retired to the litter-strewn upstairs bedrooms to watch and wait for abnormal oc- currences. Outside a full moon cast an eerie glow into the valley, throwing weird shadows off the craggy rocks, the bare-limbed trees and occasion- al gnarled pines. The air was crisp and cold. It was a perfect setting for ghosts and goblins. One student, looking up the roadway that winds across a narrow bridge over a rock- bottomed creek, remarked, “It wouldn’t take much imagination to believe I saw the headless horse- man galloping by.” By daybreak, nothing unexplain- able had occurred and the scientific equipment showed no unusual fluc- tuations. Jack Lorenz, Assistant Professor of Physics at Upper Iowa, summed up the night’s research his way, “There were no unusual physical phenomena and no psychic phenomena observed.” The psychology-sociology majors from the University of Iowa failed to find a poltergeist but did have a first-hand lesson in mob psy- chology. One described the events of the night this way: “It was a great ex- ample of restraining with restraint.” He referred to the calm manner in which the investigators and observ- ers inside the house responded to the antics of the crowd outside, ranging from the atmosphere of an hilarious chivararee to the belliger- ence of an alcohol-inspired mob. The next weekend, Sheriff Fisch- er estimated that 2,000 persons drove back into the hilly woodlands to see the “haunted house.” A road- block was set up a half-mile from the ramshackle house with its peel- ing white paint that had catapulted Millville into a national promin- ence. But most of the tourists, some of whom had driven hundreds of miles, left their cars and walked the remaining distance. Later, Professor Pratt sent a Northwestern University research- er, Stanley Krippner, to the house for an on-the-scene inspection. Af- ter several hours of observation us- ing a variety of scientific equip- ment, Krippner decided the Meyer house may have been “haunted” by living persons. He said “the unconscious force of living people” might have caused furniture and small objects to shift about. Just who possessed the unusual power was not determined. Krippner scoffed at the “ghost theory” and said the “supernatural”

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48 happenings were the “result of some intelligent motivation.” A similar explanation was given a few years ago following an in- vestigation of a “haunted house” on Long Island, N. Y. Most of the incidents occurred when only Meyer and his wife were in the house. At other times their grandson, Gene, 16, was present. But on no occasion did anyone in the Meyer family actually see any- thing occur. They just saw the re- sults after being attracted by sound or movement. The only exception was Seaman Livingston’s experience with the “bouncing” chair and the “flying” mattress. And he was the only ac- tual witness to those events. But the 125 townspeople of Mill- ville put little faith in his story. They say he was either drunk or looking for publicity, or both. He got publicity. He denied being in- toxicated. Members of the Livingston party admitted, however, that they “had a couple of drinks” before going to the Meyer house the first time and they built up their “fortitude” for a return trip at a Millville tavern. In Millville homes and business- es, strewn for a half-mile along the leeward side of Iowa Highway 52 between a high bluff and the Missis- sippi River flat, townspeople give little credence to the ‘Meyer FATE ghost.” They remain calm. There is no fear or concern that “goblins” may have wandered down from Spook Cave, a mysterious un- derground river a few miles north. But they are bewildered by the na- tionwide interest taken in what they believe to be a hoax, the result of overactive imagination, or sim- ple coincidence. Some advanced the theory that Mrs. Elmer Meyer might have had a hand in driving the elderly couple from their home out of vengeance or in hope of moving into the house herself. The Elmer Meyer family lives in a tumble-down, added-to shack about a half-mile from the William Meyer home in the same valley. By comparison the parental home is substantial, even though it lacks any modern conveneince ex- cept electricity. There were reports of a long- standing feud between Mrs. Elmer Meyer and her mother-in-law. Another theory advanced by the townspeople was that young Gene Meyer was “having sport” with his invalid grandfather and nearly- deaf grandmother. But Gene staunchly denied any complicity in a “ghost scheme.” Winter weather closed in on the craggy, ravine-slashed Millville area shortly after the University students’ “Operation Ghost.” That ended the parade of curious tour- ists. Sub-zero weather and road

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POLTERGEIST EVICTS COUPLE IN MILLVILLE, IOWA 49 blocking snow drifts took over as the chief conversation piece across the bars and around the pot-bellied stoves of Millville. In the Meyer house the sad, soft eyes of Mrs. Meyer’s parents, Carl -and Fredericka Kickbush, still sur- vey the shambled rooms from their oval-framed portraits on the living room wall. Those 50-year-old portraits of a man and wife long dead were the only objects in the Meyer house to maintain their poise and equilib- rium through all the strange events. that drove their daughter and her husband away. Through the ensu- ing weeks the house was probed, prowled and pillaged by hundreds of scientific investigators, curiosity seekers, souvenir hunters and van- dal-minded invaders. Upstairs in one of the hurriedly evacuated bedrooms, in a clutter of old letters, farm records, drying beans and rodent defecation lies the ornately framed birth certificate of Anna Marie Kickbush written in German script, and the license for her marriage to William Mey- er decorously framed in faded ar- tificial flowers . . . discarded rem- nants of nearly 57 years of life in the hand-fashioned house from which they were driven by fear of ghosts. PROPHECY OF THE BLANK PAGE OW a blank page in a diary apparently predicted the death of Andrew Verdie, a noted British publisher, has emerged as one of the strangest stories of the great bombing raids over London at the threshold of World War II. Andrew Verdie, 70, was killed on May 10, 1941, when London’s famed Alexandra Hotel, of which he was a resident, was struck by bombs in one of the heaviest air raids the city ever had experienced. Some weeks after the tragedy Andrew Verdie’s son, James, made a chilling discovery. James Verdie was director of a firm, owned by his family, which produced a trade diary. In go- ing through his late father’s effects, he came across his fath- er’s copy of the diary. He found that the page for May 10— the day on which Andrew Ver- die died—was completely blank. It lacked not only entries and print but even the date. Verdie ordered a check made of every available copy of the diary. All were found complete and correct. Only his father’s copy evidently had contained a blank page for May 10—a day that proved tragic.

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Members of the Wanyiramba Tribe in Central Tanganyika, Africa, hud- dle together for safety after mys- terious attacks on tribe by “lions.” the WITCH DOCTOR who made a MONSTER The man wanted a lion, or at least a good substitute— and the witch doctor knew exactly how to furnish one. By Guill fan ar 50 GREAT STRETCH of what is known as lion country lies to the west of Singida in Central Tan- ganyika south of the great African lake, Victoria Nyanza. The area is fairly well populated by two tribes, the Wanyiramba and the Wasuku- ma. There is no love lost between the tribes because the Wasukuma are invaders who gradually have as- sumed dominance in the region. At one time during my 15 years

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as District Commissioner of the “Southern Lake” district an un- usual number of persons began to fall prey to lions. In 12 months at least 50 people were taken by lions under circumstances which seemed highly suspicious. In the first place, they were confined to a small area despite the fact that similar lion country lay to the north and south. Added to this was the fact that 95% of the victims were Wanyiram- bas. Tanganyika is United Nations trust territory so, of course, the au- thorities gave orders for the matter to be investigated. In three cases the remains of the ‘victims clearly showed knife wounds. Yet the surrounding sandy soil was peppered with lion pug marks. Whenever there is a mystery in Africa one must first seek out the witch doctor and in this case I very soon discovered that a strange ma- gician, one Ketyuka, had been brought into the district earlier on by one of the local headmen, a man named Asumani. I learned too that the lion killings had started on the very day of the witch doctor’s ar- rival in the district. And, although the strange nganga had since re- turned to Sukumaland, from whence he had been brought by Asumani, the lion killings continued. So I journeyed up to a little vil- lage outside Nzega where I soon ran down the witch doctor. SI He wore the usual fantastic head- dress composed of a pair of horns set in the mane of a lion. He had the customary dawa belt—a leath- ern thong hung with small buck horns carrying medicine. There were rattles on his ankles and he was dressed in a kilt of baboon skin. “Ketyuka,” I said to him. “I have followed the trail of a lion which killed a young herdboy in the country across the Wembere river and that trail has led me to your hut.” He screwed up his rather mon- keylike features, his eyes glittering calculatingly, “Yet, Bwana, there is no lion within my hut and I do not see its trail?” “Still, I can smell the lion,” I replied. “Why did you go into the country of the Wanyiramba peo- ple?” “Ts it their country in truth, Bwana? Surely there are as many Wasukuma as there are Wany- iramba living there? Shall the Wa- sukuma be denied our medicine which is far superior to that made by the Wanyiramba ngangas?” “Medicine is one thing and mur- der is another. Do you know what Serikalithe Government—do with murderers, even though they appear as lions? They hang them by the neck until they are dead!” A grey tinge appeared under his black skin. A little while later he began to tell me in the usual ramb-

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52 ling African style a little story which showed me the very tricky problem I was facing. “Bwana,” he began. “Once there was a man who came to his nganga with 100 shillings (about $15 U.S.) in his hand saying: ‘Wise one, I would like a lion which would obey me and protect me from my ene- mies. I would pay this money for such an animal.’ “Now as you know, Bwana,” said the witch doctor, “100 shillings is a great deal of money. With it one might -buy two cows—two cows such as those.” He nodded across to where two scraggy-looking native cows were grazing by his hut. “Now the training of a lion can be done,” he went on. “But it is a long task. One has to catch simba when he is a baby and before he is trained the man might have spent the 100 shillings. In the center of wisdom, in Zanzibar, where I have been and where ngangas are taught many things, a man can learn how to change men into lions .. .” For more than an hour he re- lated to me one of the strangest stories I have ever heard in Africa which is the home of all things dark and mysterious even today. It was obvious to me from the beginning that old Ketyuka was telling a story about himself. In Zanzibar, where there is a “college” for witch doctors, there he had been taught the art of hyp- FATE nosis. Indeed, before we parted company, he demonstrated on one of his own tribesmen by causing the man to believe that he was a ba- boon. The subject of the experi- ment jumped around like a baboon, barked like a baboon and chewed up a number of raw ears of corn. To earn his 100 shillings Ketyu- ka had hypnotized one of his ap- prentices into believing that he was a lion. He caused the youth to walk around on all fours, to eat raw flesh and to pounce on and kill live goats. In short the boy be- came a lion-man and a dread men- ace. He was equipped with heavy steel “paws” and led around by Ketyuka on a lead with a collar about his neck. Then the day came when the lion man was handed over in exchange for 100 shillings. The purchaser, I discovered later, was a man named Muhandi who dreamed of becoming the Feuhrer of the Wasukuma people. Knowing that across the Wembere River his fellow tribesmen were at logger- heads with the Wanyirambas thith- er he went, leading his lion man. In the Singida district he sent out his pet monster on bloody for- ays which accounted for the deaths of dozens of Wanyiramba men, women and children. The moment man-eating lions be- come active in a district the first person to hear about it is the Government Game Ranger who at —— A

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THE WITCH DOCTOR WHO MADE A MONSTER 53` sulted by the son of the first mar- 1 riage whose name was Gomo. It ap- © once starts an investigation which usually leads to the sudden death of Simba the Lion. But on this occasion there was a difference. For one thing the attacks had all been made during daylight which is rath- er uncommon. The Game Ranger made a report which must surely be one of the queerest documents ever to find a home in a govern- ment archive. He suggested a number of theo- ries including the following: 1. They may be genuine lions operating under the control of some person or persons. I do not infer “magic” but just a bit more than any of us understand. The African has lived for generations much closer to lions than we have. 2. Tame lions, possibly cubs brought up in captivity and allowed to run wild to a certain extent, and which, trained to behave like savage dogs, still obey their master and are under control. 3. I may have been fooled by the tracks and the whole thing is done by witch doctors dressed up as lions, who even eat the flesh! Whilst the authorities were con- sidering this fantastic missive Mu- handi was approached by two women from a village far to the southwest, a place called Kipala, near Dodoma. These two hags had a domestic problem. One of them, Gio, had married for a second time. Her husband Zama had been in- SSS SS peared that Gomo had flung his stepfather’s bow and arrows out of the hut—an extreme insult. The two old women were willing to pay 100 shillings to have Gomo dealt with by the lion man. So Muhandi moved, with his gruesome pet, to within striking distance of Kipala. At this juncture Zama died and under African tribal custom the two women now became dependent on Gomo so his death was out of the- question. Yet he must be made to suffer and the ancient fiends de- cided that his little daughter, five- year-old Mwajuma, must die. Once again the lion man struck during the day but the child hap- pened to be with her mother who saw her little daughter carried off into the bush. She gave the alarm and tribesmen followed the lion man’s trail. They caught him and found the remains of the child’s body. Then, for some unfathomable reason—probably they were afraid —they released the lion man who made off into the bush. This time the authorities acted swiftly. The two old women were arrested and they denounced Mu- handi as the owner of the lion man. All three were solemnly tried and sentenced to death. And the East African Appeals Court decided that “a lion man obeys the behest of the person or persons in control of

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54 it at the time. Therefore, a lion man’s keeper is responsible for all acts the beast might do however long after it might be separated from him.” The final act of the drama was played out in strange surroundings. Muhandi appealed to the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, whose learned judges, Lord Reid, Lord Denning and the Right Honourable L.M.D. de Silva, met at the office in Downing Street, London, near FATE the Prime Minister’s residence at No. 10. But they too decided against Muhandi who at last, to- gether with the two old hags, met his end on the gallows. Thus ended the great lion man scare in Tanganyika. The lion man himself, that mys- terious unknown, is still at liberty somewhere in the wild country west of Singida. His creator, Ketyuka, the witch doctor, still dispenses his charms in the foothills near Nzega. ee eee FLORIDA’S POOL OF THE DEAD HE fossilized bones of hun- dreds of persons reportedly have been found in Little Salt Spring, about 10 miles south- east of Venice, Fla., a small community near Sarasota, and five miles from the Gulf of Mexico. William Royal of Venice, 55, is credited with exploring the spring and discovering the bones early in July, 1959. A former Air Force colonel and an ama- teur archaeologist and skin- diver, Royal estimated that the spring contains the remains of more than 1,000 persons. Royal said he found most of the bones on the sloping sides of Little Salt Spring, about 25 feet below the surface. Other bones were scattered in caverns more than 75 feet down. He described the spring as funnel- shaped, roughly 300 feet in di- ameter at the top and narrow- ing downward for 50 feet to a point where its diameter is about 100 feet. Hearing of Royal’s discovery, a number of anthropologists and geologists conducted underwater explorations of the spring and the caverns. One of the in- vestigators, Dr. John Goggin, Associate Professor of Anthro- pology at the University of Florida, said he considers the spring to be the site of one of the most important archaeolo- gical finds ever made in Flor- ida. He estimated that the bones in it are over 500 years old. He pointed out that the spring— hidden in high grass and palm- etto range country—is located in a part of Florida about which little is known. Some authorities, he said, believe an- cestors of the hostile Caloosa Indians inhabited the region some five centuries ago.

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True Mystic FATE will pay $5 for each True Experience published. EXPERIENCES Storie should be less than 300 words and typed (double-spaced) on one side of the paper. They should be sent to the TME Editor, FATE Magazine, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Ill. and the author's address must be given. They must be signed by author Manuscripts will not be re- turned unless accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. HEALING BY MIND POWER By Gudrum Whitfield B AU A MOTHER’S deep- est feelings are brought into ac- tion when anything concerns one of her children this is the time she is most apt to experience a demon- stration of the power of the mind, perhaps to the bewilderment of in- terested onlookers. When my son, Carlyle, was four years old a consultation of three doctors resulted in the decision to remove his appendix immediately and I was asked to which hospital I wished to take him. Now, normally I do exactly as the doctor directs but this time without volition on my part, these words popped out, “No hospital. Pm taking him home.” I surprised even myself. Reaching home, I put an ice pack on the boy’s stomach and read to him after explaining that it was time for a nap, that the ice pack would make him more comfortable and that when he awakened he would feel well. The doctor had stipulated that the laboratory technician must come to the house and take the boy’s blood count every two hours. He came only twice because he found everything normal both times and now after 25 years my son is a healthy, husky young man who has! never had an attack of pie since that long-ago day. When Carlyle was six years elds: in 1936, he fell off the high appara- tus in Walla Walla, Wash., Pioneer SEE ass GUDRUM WHITFIELD

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Fe eR = a ng a a A 56 Park, landing flat on his back. We dashed him to St. Mary’s Hospital where the doctor told us that the distended stomach, high tempera- ture and other symptoms indicated serious internal injuries and he stayed with us until midnight. I had done a lot of praying, thinking and visualizing since the minute of the accident. In other words, I had tried desperately to contact Universal Mind. So now, before my son fell asleep, I ad- monished him to thank his Creator for his strong, healthy body and to know that he would wake up in the morning to go home. It takes real will power to put your troubles in the hands of Divine Providence and forget them. We both slept. The nurse and doctor checked and rechecked in the morning. “There is no explaining this sud- den change of conditions,” they de- clared. We went home for break- fast and by 9:00 o’clock the young rascal was in the top of the Syca- more tree. Again it took self-con- trol to keep from crying out that he should stay on the ground but it is wonderful that he never has had the slightest fear of high places. It was in his eighth year that I took Carlyle as a lone back seat passenger when I was driving my mother to see fabulous Coulee Dam. I caught glimpses of him in the rear-view mirror as he ate the FATE orange I had peeled and segmented for him and then bent down to pick up the wax paper he had dropped on the floor. Then I saw the car door fly open and the boy sail out as if he had sprouted wings. I came to a sud- den stop and ran back to find him on the gravel shoulder of the road, bleeding and unconscious. With the help of a passing motor- ist and the State Highway Patrol we got to the hospital in Wenatche where the surgeon sewed up seven big head gashes and then studied the X-ray showing a skull fracture that even I could see. “Get the boy’s father here,” he said. “There is very little hope.” Again I disobeyed the doctor, and put my subconscious to work. The result was that both the doctor and the nurses could only exclaim that medical science could not ac- count for Carlyle’s recovery, that God performs wonders in different ways. Carlyle grew up safely and healthily to serve seven years in the Air Force, from which he was dis- charged with the rank of First Lieutenant —Montclair, Calif. IDENTICAL DREAMING By Bob Lee Austin ARL KEYS had had a number of disturbing dreams in his life, but none as disturbing as the dream he had during a night in E

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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES January, 1949. In this dream Earl and an unknown man were walking in a graveyard when suddenly two specters came from two separate graves. One of the specters looked exactly like Earl; the other one looked exactly like the stranger walking with Earl. In other words, the two men had come face to face with their ghosts. In the dream the four of them were to participate in a fight. Earl was to fight his own ghost, and the unknown man was to fight his ghost. The losers were to return to the waiting graves. So, regardless who lost or won, Earl and the un- known man with him would soon be in their graves. It wasn’t so much the direness of the dream that upset Earl as it was the vividness. It seemed real. And Earl slept no more that night. When six o’clock came Earl rose, ate breakfast and told his wife about the dream; then he got in his car to go to work. But the car wouldn’t start. He had to catch the bus which meant he would be late for work. Every seat on the bus was occu- pied but one. Earl sat down, still thinking about the dream. About 10 minutes later another man boarded the bus. This man’s name, it was learned later, was Woody Collins. The only vacant seat was beside Earl. Woody sat down. The two men rode in silence for about 57 five minutes; then Earl asked Woody if he knew what time the bus arrived at the Hudson Body Company (Detroit, Mich.) Woody said no, that this was the first time in two years he’d ridden to work on a bus. “And I wouldn’t be riding it this morning if my car had started.” “Yeah? That’s the same reason I’m here. My car wouldn’t start either. Besides that, I only got two or three hours sleep last night.” He laughed mirthlessly. “I had a bad dream last night, and wasn’t able to go back to sleep.” Woody stared at him, dumb- founded. “No kidding? I had a bad dream last night too, and I couldn’t ` go back to sleep either.” Then Woody Collins described his dream to Earl Keys. ' Earl couldn’t believe what he was hearing, for the man sitting beside him had dreamed a dream identical with his own. Woody Collins had been the un- known man in Earl Keys’ dream, ~ and Earl Keys had been the un- known man in Woody Collins’ dream. Both men worked at the Hudson Body Company; both were from the same county in Kentucky, but they had never met before. —Flint, Mich. THE WITHERED TREE By Ada Belle Flenner HEN MY FATHER, William Orr Bain, passed away in

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58 Oakland, Calif., during the night of December 17, 1928, many strange and peculiar things hap- pened to some of his close friends and relatives. I will relate one phe- nomenon which baffled all of us. In California we have many beau- tiful flowering shrubs and trees. One of these is the Abutilon which comes in red, yellow and white. It grows outside in this climate and most of the year, including Christ- mas time, is covered with beautiful bell-like flowers. My father was very fond of this tree-like shrub, having had one when we lived high in the mountains. There it grew in a small wooden tub and was our most prized indoor plant. In Carson City, Nev., the climate is cold in winter and hot in sum- mer and the Abutilon must be grown indoors there also. My father’s closest friend of a life- time, Charles J. Rulison, lived in Carson City. Father decided to send him a very nice Abutilon, well rooted, strong and healthy, for Christmas. The Rulison’s placed the plant in their home in a large re- ceptacle in good clean, vitalized earth, watered and kept it well for about three years. It bloomed pro- fusely and they were very proud to have it constantly covered with yellow bells. Many people came to see it and it grew to the ceiling, filling their bay window. They were always very careful to have the FATE room at an even temperature es- pecially in the month of Decem- ber. Extreme care was given this plant, so what happened to it after three healthy years was not due to anything that anyone was able to think of. On the morning of December 18, 1928, the Rulisons arose as usual. When they went into their living room their huge Abutilon, which had been in full bloom, lay pros- trate, bent over on the floor abso- lutely dead. They could not believe their eyes because the night before it had been perfectly healthy, stand- ing green and lively in the corner. Now the leaves were dried; when you picked them up in your fingers they fell to dust. The main stalk also was dry and withered. They tried to revive it by watering it, but to no avail. They took it out of the tub and examined the roots but they were dead and dry too. They put it into a large pan of water in the sink; they tried every- thing, but finally decided it was dead. About noon the next day, Decem- ber 19, they received a telegram telling them of my father’s death and they made immediate plans to come to Oakland to the funeral. They told us about the Abutilon shortly after their arrival. And it is true, this large tree-shrub died the very same night my father died. —Oakland, Calif.

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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES HAND ON MY HEAD By Chester E. Hall THE FIRST OF seven times I cheated death was during the war-to-end-all-wars. On July 14, 1918, (French National Holiday) at 12:10 A.M. we of the Rainbow Light Field Artillery were in sacri- fice position near Chalon-Sur- Marne off the Suippes Road, in an abandoned trench system. We were to hold down the German at- tack which was known to be due through the daring and heroic ef- forts of several French officers and one private who had penetrated deep inside German lines and fought their way back with storm troopers as prisoners. These pri- soners broke and gave valuable information. _ As Corporal in the horse section of Light Artillery it was my duty to bring up ammunition. At 11:30 P.M. it was found we did not have sufficient—so harness and hitch— mount up and go get 10 caissons full of shells. Just like that! Go get them! Where? Oh! Back there! Really it is not more difficult to buy mink coats at Woolworth’s with Confederate 10 dollar bills than to convince the guard at an ammo dump (when you find one) that you are who you are and Colonel So-and-So said, “Get shells.” But we got a load—10 caissons 59 —then we got lost and somewhere in the dark we passed the German infantry moving up. We whispered, “Wie gehts” and swallowed hard. To the many answers to our greet- ings we kept still, turned around, and at 3:45 P.M. pulled into the revetment. By this time tempers were short and those fortunate not to have drawn this detail were tucked in their fox-holes. We had no holes and the German artillery fire was searching every gully, road, and inch of ground that four years of fighting along this same line had taught them existed. My assistant stumbled over some baled hay and sacks of oats left by the supply regiment for our horses. We piled this up as a bar- ricade and lay down behind it. At least it provided some shelter from a direct hit. The fear was draining out of our throats somewhat by this time and decided we could grab a few moments of precious sleep. I took off my pistol belt which was loaded with two canteens, one extra in case, a first aid box, cart- ridges, a musette bag. All this just did not allow one to assume a prone position. As I bent forward to put the heavy belt on the baled hay I felt a hand on my head. This hand pushed me down so hard the rim of my helmet went more than an inch into the hard chalk soil. And at that exact moment ~ shell

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60 tore through my service belt, cut the handle of my 45, took one canteen away with it, and explod- ed a few yards behind us. If that hand, or force, or you name it, had not pushed me very forcibly down my head would have been completely severed from my body. When I got my heart back down out of my mouth and could talk I turned to thank my assis- tant. To my surprise he was not there. He told me later he had gone to tie up a loose horse and then couldn’t bear to come back for he had seen the shell explode and he was sure I was dead.— Los Angeles, Calif. VANISHING HAY RICK By Inez M. Weijo THE WINTER of 1924 I was returning from a logging camp with four friends when we all saw the same apparition at the same time. It was just dusk and the daylight was going fast when our car stalled in the new fallen snow near an old country school house out of Em- barrass, Minn. This school house has since been torn down. Eino Erickson, who now lives in Duluth, was the driver of the car and he got out to look for a shovel to clear away the snow. Eino’s two sisters who still live in Embarrass, and I FATE also got out to help clear the road by kicking a trial some distance ahead to make travel possible. Suddenly we all saw a load of hay coming towards us. Mrs. Erick- son, who still sat inside the car, saw it too. Two men sat on top of the hay load. As it came abreast I jumped aside on my side of the road, Martha jumped to the other side of the road. Just as the team drove between us it disappeared. Whereas Martha and I had been unable to see each other from the sides of the road because the hay rick was in the way, we now stood facing each other in amazement. “What ever happened to the team of horses? Where did it go?” Eino and Ailie came running to us out of breath. Mrs. Erickson called these same questions from the car. To say the least, we all were stun- ned and could think of no possible explanation for a hay rick that had vanished from before five pairs of eyes and almost within reach of Martha and me. When we had recovered some- Se oa what we looked for a trail to show © us where the wagon had been, but we found none. To this day we are just as puz- zled as we were when it happened. The only proof of this strange hap- pening is that four of us are still alive to report it as a true fact. —Ely, Minn. —— EEE —___

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at The old Volcano did not menace the city, experts said—but there were many omens of disaster. T 7:51 A.M. on the morning of r May 8, 1902, a clerk in the ‘post-office at the capital city of Fort de France on the island of Martinique was talking by tele- phone to a clerk in the post office at St. Pierre, the island’s largest city, some 15 miles up the coast. Finishing their discussion of a mis- -laid mail pouch, they talked in a desultory fashion about the weather and the diminished activity of Mt. Pelee, the supposedly-extinct vol- ‘cano which had been spraying the countryside with ashes for the past two weeks. Suddenly the clerk at Fort de France heard two distinct thuds and a gasp of surprise from his colleague at St. Pierre. Then the line went dead. The clerk at Fort de France waited for a minute, 61 shrugged, and put the receiver back on the hook. All attempts to re-establish com- munication with St. Pierre failed. The next news the outside world had of St. Pierre came on the fol- lowing day. Early that morning a ghostly vessel drifted into the har- bor of Castries, Santa Lucia. At first glance she appeared to be covered with snow. But that could not be, for these were tropical waters. As she drew closer it became obvious that the gray-white mantle was not snow but volcanic ash, inches deep on the deck. Here and there the ash had blown away to re- veal a charred hull and superstruc- ture. About the deck lay the fire- blackened bodies of men. ` Other men, terribly burned, sat propped

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62 against the pilot-house. As the stricken vessel entered the port, the harbor-master grabbed a megaphone and called, “Who are you and where do you come from?” A broken, weary voice replied, “I am Captain Freeman. We are the British ship Roddam, and we come from hell. You may cable the world that St. Pierre no longer ex- ists.” Thus did a shocked world receive the news of the greatest disaster of modern times. A gay, proud city of 40,000 had been incinerated in less than a minute’s time by a single fiery blast from Mt. Pelee. Com- pared with Pelee’s 40,000 cremated victims, other and better publicized natural disasters fade into compar- ative insignificance. The Johnstown flood took only 2500 lives; the Gal- veston tidal wave 5000; the San Francisco earthquake less than a thousand; the Chicago fire only about 300. The eruption of Vesuvi- us which buried Pompeii and Her- culaneum in 79 A.D. killed between -800 and 1500. Only the man-made cataclysms of Hiroshima and Naga- saki and the explosion of the crater of Krakatoa in the Straits of Sunda in 1883 (36,380 dead) are compar- able to the destruction of St. Pierre. The St. Pierre holocaust was pre- ceeded by a variety of psychic signs and warnings, any one of which, if heeded, could have saved the lives of the entire population. A few did FATE obey their daemons and saved them- selves. But not many. St. Pierre was undeniably a gay city, so much so that when news of its destruction reached a former | U.S. consul to Martinique, Col. Jul- ius G. Tucker, his first reaction was that “it was simply ‘the history of Sodom and Gomorrah repeated”. St. Pierre proudly called itself “the Paris of the Antilles”, and its street life was a kind of a perpetual carnival, with flashing-eyed bequets (light-skinned girls) on their high balconies flirting with strutting young bloods in the narrow streets below and, after dark, making love more or less openly in the savanes : (parks) and on the beaches. The . beguine at the Bal Lou-Lou was uninhibited and shocking to Eng- lish and American eyes. At the gal- lodrome, the betting on the nightly cock fights was feverish. And the principal industry was the making of rum—the city boasted an even 100 distilleries—which did nothing to diminish the gayety. Lafcadio Hearn was enchanted by St. Pierre, calling it le pays des revenants—a place of dreamers to which one in- evitably returned. To writer Alec Waugh, it was “the loveliest city in the West Indies”. But the town had a solid side. If pleasure was the chief pursuit of its 30,000 island natives, busi- ness was the almost-sole concern of its 10,000 French colonists. It had

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et The city of St. Pierre, Martinique, was a scene of desolation for many years after the `~ eruption of 1902. U.P.I. photo shows a view of ravaged city as it appeared in 1929. four banks, a splendid Lycee, a theatre, a public library, a good hotel, a military hospital, a con- vent, two orphan asylums, many churches, and a magnificent cathe- dral. It was indeed a lovely place, stretching for a mile along a cres- cent of beach and extending back from the azure sea up a slight in- cline towards the 4500-foot heights _ of Mt. Pelee. A colossal white stat- + ue of the Virgin Mary towered over the city from the escarpment of the Morne d’Orange, a tall cliff at the southern edge of town. From the blue sea and white beach pink and lemon-colored stucco houses with red tiled roofs marched in ir- regular terraces towards the green mass of the mountain. Water from | A | mountain springs flowed in the gut- ters and bubbled from fountains in the savanes, keeping the city pleasantly cool. St. Pierre was beautiful and so was the mountain which was forg- ing its destruction. “Grandfather Pelee”, the citizens of St. Pierre called it indulgently. It had no no- ticeable volcanic cone, and its an- cient crater was now filled by a deep, cool body of water called Lake Palmiste. The lake was a favorite picnic site for the young men and women of St. Pierre’s two social societies, Les Intrepides and Sans Souci. The volcano itself was considered extinct; not since 1851 had there been any activity. The predominant jungle green of Pelee’s

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64 slopes was colorfully broken by gray-green tamarind, blood-red hi- biscus, scarlet tamarisk, blue obelia, and brown banana plant. Little wonder that the people of St. Pierre loved picturesque and friendly “Grandfather Pelee”. The first eerie premonition of what was to come came from the snakes. The poisonous little fer-de- lance had been deliberately intro- duced into Martinique many years before by French planters who had released them on the heights of Pe- lee to dissuade their slaves from escaping into the mountains. The bite of the fer-de-lance was almost invariably fatal. About the middle of April, planters on the outskirts of St. Pierre were amazed to find their fields suddenly invaded by the vicious little snakes which custom- arily confined themselves to the old lava beds and crevices near the top of Pelee. Terrified field hands re- fused to work. Snakes by the hun- dreds were killed not only on the plantations but in the streets and on the lawns of St. Pierre and its suburbs, Precheur, Ste. Philomene, and Fonds St. Denis. At the same time, hikers and picnickers around Lake Palmiste, at the top of Pelee, reported that there were no snakes to be seen up there. The snakes, impelled by some strange extra-sensory perception, were deserting Mt. Pelee. But why? Nothing seemed amiss. There were FATE no smoke streamers, no volcanic rumbling—nothing. In St. Pierre the sophisticated citizens shrugged off the snakes’ sudden abandonment of Mt. Pelee and went about their business as usual. The priests in the churches, the learned professors at the Lycee, the smug governmental authorities preparing for an election paid no attention to the snakes. They were above such nonsense. Things were different in the back country. Here Catholicism was only a thin veneer over a primitive com- bination of Cuban nanigo and Hai- tian obeah. The black obeah doc- tors, grasping the deadly little fer- de-lance firmly behind the head, held the wriggling snakes aloft in the flickering fire-light deep in the © rain forests on the lower slopes of Pelee, and earnestly tried to learn just what it was that the snakes knew. And while the rada-drums beat in mournful cadence, the obeah-men solemnly told the circle of anxious black faces what the snakes’ flight from Pelee meant: “There is a curse on the mountain and it will be destroyed!” A day or so after the snakes” abandoned the top of Pelee, pic- nickers who climbed the mountain suddenly became aware of a strange silence on the heights. Finally they realized what it was. There were. no birds, although this was the northern migration season and Mar-

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rat See 3 F PSYCHIC WARNINGS OF PELEE ERUPTION tinique was squarely athwart one of the busiest flyways. Not a bird- song, not a twitter, not the rustle of a wing broke the uncanny silence. Like the snakes, the birds had abandoned Pelee. In the back coun- try the obeah-men noted it and re- peated their previous warning: “There is a curse on the mountain and it will be destroyed!” Heeding the obeah-men, many natives left their ramshackle homes on the mountain’s flanks and shuf- fled into St. Pierre, carrying their belongings in bundles on their heads. Behind the three-foot-thick walls of the city, they thought, they would be safe from whatever awful fate awaited the mountain. St. Pier- re became clogged with refugees, to the vast irritation of the authori- ties and the sophisticated city- dwellers. The snakes, the birds, and the obeah-men were not the only ones to feel a strange apprehension about Pelee. Early in April, even before the fer-de-lance departed from the heights, an American tourist in St. Pierre, Mrs. C. M. Craig of New York City, had a terrifying dream. One night, after many sleepless hours during which she was filled with a vague, nagging apprehension, she fell into a troubled sleep. She then had a vivid dream in which she “saw” her husband and brother, who were vacationing with her, standing in a rain of fire which 65 seemed to be coming from a black cloud over Mt. Pelee and finally being killed by two half-crazed na- tives who were trying to find shelter from the fire. When she awoke, bathed in perspiration, Mrs. Craig told her husband and brother about the dream. They laughed, but Mrs. Craig insisted that the dream had spoiled the vacation for her and suggested that they leave St. Pierre at once. They protested but finally gave in, and the Craigs sailed for New York in mid-April on the last trip north of the Quebec Steamship Company’s Roraima. On April 15, a pretty, feathery plume of white smoke began drift- ing up from the summit of Pelee. Professor M. Landes of the Lycee went up to investigate and reported that the smoke was coming from one of the old craterlets of the 1851 eruption. To a naive tourist who asked if maybe the smoke didn’t indicate that the volcano was about to become active, a city of- ficial replied tolerantly: “No, Grandfather Pelee is our friend, not our enemy. We have nothing to fear from him. Maybe he smokes a little. Is it such a crime for an old man to smoke?” Meanwhile, half a world away in the Transvaal, a young British of- ficer by the name of J. W. Dunne had just come off trek and was en- camped with the Sixth Mounted In- fantry near the ruins of the town

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66 of Lindley. One night he had a vivid and unpleasant dream. In it he seemed to be standing on the upper slope of a mountain, looking towards its summit. A curious white formation covered the ground. Up towards the summit were numerous fissures, and from these a gray- white vapor spouted and hissed. In his dream Dunne said to him- self: “It’s the island! Good Lord, the whole thing is going to blow up!” Frantically he tried to save the 4000 people (the number was very definite) who were in danger. He went to the French authorities (that too was definite) and begged them to round up ships to remove the 4000 potential victims. They paid no attention. He saw himself clinging to the heads of the horses drawing the carriage of Monsieur le Maire (the Mayor) and shouting at the official: “Listen! Four thou- sand people will be killed unless—” At that point he woke up. For days the dream nagged at him. A vol- canic explosion on a French island was going to cause a terrible loss of life, something within him kept insisting. But there was nothing he could do about it. (This dream is one of the many recounted in Dunne’s book An Experiment With Time, published in 1927.) By mid-April, sailors in the smoky waterfront cafes along St. Pierre’s Place Bertin were com- menting uneasily on some bad FATE omens. At sea, large ground-swells were appearing suddenly in clear weather, out of a calm sea. There were many waterspouts—always a sign of danger—and the water was unaccountably warm. On April 23 the trans-Atlantic cable broke and the French Cable Company sent the grappler Pouyer Quartier to find the break. The grappler re- turned with the astonishing news that the cable-break had been caused by an inexplicable drop of more than 1000 feet in the ocean floor about eight miles off St. Pierre. To the vague apprehension and pre- monitions of disaster of the snakes, birds, and obeah-men could now be added the uneasy feeling of the sailors that some unnameable evil was lurking in the vicinity. None of these things, however, made much of an impression on the vast majority of St. Pierre’s citi- zens. An election was scheduled for Sunday, May 11, and the city blos- somed with colorful election post- ers. Thursday, May 8, was a fete du jour, Ascension Day, and the two social societies, Les Intrepides and Sans Souci, were busy making floats for the parade that would be a principal feature of the fete. True, the feathery plume over Pe- lee had thickened to yellow and occasionally a fine ash fell on the city. It was treated as a joke, like snow in Florida. Bequets sprinkled the ash in their dark hair, and one

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PSYCHIC WARNINGS OF PELEE ERUPTION 67 French lady enclosed some in a letter she mailed to Paris, along with the information that no one in St. Pierre was in the least fright- ened by Pelee. (Arriving several days after the fatal eruption, it had an effect quite the opposite of the one intended! ) From April 25 on, however, Pe- lee insisted on at least being no- ticed by the fun-loving citizens of St. Pierre. Towards evening of that day the yellow streamer over the mountain turned to black and, with a thunderous roar, leapt 1000 feet into the air, where it fanned out into a mushroom-shaped cloud that blotted out the stars and rained ashes on the city. A continuous dull roar came from deep within Pelee’s throat. From then on the mountain was mantled in a black haze, and on several days the street lights in St. Pierre had to be turned on at noon. The ash-fall was so great that no one could venture into the streets without a handkerchief over nose and mouth. The city was filled with refugees from the country who needed no obeah-men now to tell them that there was a curse on the mountain. They crowded the churches, chanting Hail Marys and begging for- absolution. A couple of hundred people left the city, but for every one who went 10 came in from the country. On the night of April 28, a Satur- day, Pelee erupted with a roar that was “like a naval battle at sea”, and an inky-black cloud with a dull red glow at its center shot 10,000 feet into the air, its dark- ness illuminated by the explosion of huge electric stars of volcanic lightning. The churches were thrown open and jammed with ter- rified crowds of country folk. All night long the priests performed weddings and baptisms, heard con- fessions, and granted absolution. Incredibly enough, it was only the refugees from the country who showed any signs of panic. The priests, the professors, the author- ities, and the politicians all pooh- poohed the idea that the city was in any real danger. The daily paper, Les Colonies, printed almost noth- ing about the volcano, devoting most of its columns to the coming election. It did run a brief editorial chiding the panicky refugees and their “alarmist” obeah-men: “Mt. Pelee is no more to be feared by St. Pierre than Vesu- vius is feared by Naples. We confess that we cannot under- stand this panic. Where could one be better off than at St. Pierre?” Governor-General Mouttet took two steps to allay the apprehension of the refugees. First, he ostenta- ` tiously moved his own residence from Fort de France to St. Pierre, taking quarters at the hotel, sec- ond, he appointed a Scientific Vol-

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68 cano Expedition, consisting of army engineers and professors from the Lycee, to go to the top of Pelee and make an estimate as to the danger to the city. The expedition reported the eruptions were coming from a new, small cone which had thrust itself up through a dry lake bed about 600 yards from the summit. The old main crater was still se- curely plugged by Lake Palmiste. The worst was over. St. Pierre was in no danger in any case, because the arrangement of valleys was such that any lava flow from Pelee would be channeled off into the sea before it could reach the city. Not a single person had yet been injured by the volcano’s recent activity, the Ex- pedition pointed out. The only vic- tims had been a few horses, over- come by sulphur fumes. The report of the Scientific Vol- cano Expedition reassured almost everybody except the refugees. The obeah-men had consulted their dark oracles again and now they stated ominously: “There is a curse on the city as well as on the mountain and it also will be destroyed!” At this information, the refugees began to stampede out of St. Pierre. Governor-General Mouttet was be- side himself with anger. “Who are you going to believe,” he raged at the frightened country-folk, “our learned scientists and engineers, or your ignorant, savage witch-doc- tors?” The refugees answered by FATE packing their pitiful possessions and thronging the roads out of town. The Governor-General ringed St. Pierre with troops and forced them back into the city, although some escaped. An edict was issued: no one could leave St. Pierre ex- cept by official permission. The Governor-General sought not only to avoid panic but to insure a large turnout for the election on May 11. Pelee, as if concurring in the re- port of the Scientific Volcano Ex- pedition, calmed down. But heavy rains drenched Martinique and the old dry lake bed through which the new volcanic cone had been thrust filled with water. On May 5 one side of the lake bed gave way and a wave of mud and boulders 20 feet high roared down the valley of the Riviere Blanche, just north of St. Pierre, burying a sugar mill and killing 30 men. St. Pierre was shocked but the Scientific Volcano Expedition immediately pointed out that the tragedy was due to the rains and not the volcano. On the evening of May 5 the Italian bark Orsolina dropped an- chor in the harbor and began load- ing sugar for Le Havre, France. Her captain, Marrino LeBoffe, looked hard at Pelee; he was from Naples and he had great respect for volcanoes. Pelee, however, was on good behavior by this time, a thin, yellow plume of smoke drift- ing lazily from the summit being

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PSYCHIC WARNINGS OF PELEE ERUPTION 69 the only indication of recent ac- tivity. But Captain LeBoffe could not sleep that night. He was filled with ‘a nameless, oppressive dread. All during the day of May 6 Captain LeBoffe’s sense of immi- nent, appalling danger grew. He never had experienced anything like it. It was a feeling definitely asso- ` ciated with Pelee and St. Pierre, and yet it was not a mere healthy fear of a volcanic eruption but a kind of a psychic sickness that suf- fused his entire being. By the morning of May 7 he could stand it no longer. He went ashore and informed the shippers that he was sailing at once. They protested. The Orsolina wasn’t half loaded. No matter, the Captain said, he was sailing anyway. They assured him that St. Pierre was in ~~ no danger. He shrugged. The ship- “pers became angry and said clear- ance papers would be refused him and he would be arrested when he reached Le Havre. Unmoved, he returned to the Orsolina and issued sailing orders. Two French customs officers boarded the bark and threat- ened him with arrest if he tried to ‘sail without clearance papers. Look- ing significantly at his watch, Cap- tain LeBoffe replied: “Gentlemen, I’m going to sail from this port in less than an hour. If you want to go ashore, now is the time. If you stay with me, I assure you I will take you to France!” Twenty-four hours later the Or- solina was on the sea-trace for Le Havre; Captain LeBoffe’s feeling of nameless dread was gone; and the ‘shippers and customs officers lay dead in the ruins of St. Pierre. The last hours of the doomed city were pleasant and lively. Except for a comparatively mild eruption at 4:30 A.M. on May 7, Pelee was subdued, mantled in white ash that gave it the appearance of a snow- capped peak in the Alps. The sun shone brightly, the sea was ealm, and the air clear and warm with just a faint odor of sulphur in it. It was the eve of a feast day, peo- ple were in good spirits. Les Intrep- ides and Sans Souci put the finish- ing touches on their colorful floats. The priests and nuns decorated the churches and prepared the altars. The theatre was crowded and so was the Select Tango. Only the refugees detracted from the pre- holiday gayety. They clustered gloomily about the churches, squat- ted dejectedly in doorways, roamed the streets aimlessly, and schemed to circumvent the soldiers and get away from the city the obeah-men told them was doomed. Whatever anybody was doing, it was for the last time! May 8 dawned bright, warm, and clear. The great bells of the cathe- dral pealed out the call to 8:00 o’clock Mass. The Roraima arrived in the harbor from New York and

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e ee ee ee a Á = 70 the passengers lined the rails for a curious look at white-mantled Pelee and the colorful awakening city decorated for its fete du jour. What the tourists lining the Ro- yaima’s rail actually saw was one of the most grisly sights ever be- held by human eyes. At exactly 7:51 A.M. there was an earth-shaking explosion. Every face in the city and aboard the 18 ships in the harbor turned instantly towards Pelee. A great, livid tear had appeared on the face of the mountain about 500 feet below the summit. As thousands watched in fascinated horror, the tear length- ened and widened into an ugly red mouth that reminded some of the muzzle of a giant howitzer pointed directly at St. Pierre. Only three or four seconds after the first ex- plosion there was a second and mightier blast, a thick black cloud glowing with fiery particles of gas shot out of the spreading fissure, spread almost instantly to a width of five miles, roared down the val- ley of the Roxelane River, pounced on St. Pierre, incinerated the city and everyone in it in a flash, and howled out to sea, destroying 17 of the 18 ships in the harbor and filling the boiling water with wreck- age and bodies. Only the Roddam, partially shielded from the full im- pact of the cloud by another ship and with steam already up, was able to limp out of the shattered FATE roadstead. Five of her crew of 17 survived. For three minutes the blackness was so impenetrable that one crew- man on the Roddam could not see another standing right next to him. _ Then the veil was lifted and the ~ blasted city could be seen. It was a silent, blackened tomb., _ There was only the crackling of ` the flames and the occasional ex- plosion of a rum cask. St. Pierre was dead. Not a soul in the city proper escaped—not a human, not a dog, not a mouse. There were no injured. There was one temporary sur- | vivor, although he, too, would even- tually succumb to his burns. He was Auguste Ciparis, a drunk and a thief, who was the sole occupant of the jails underground solitary- > confinement cell. à Five of the Roddam’s crew sur- vived to tell the awful tale, and some 30 persons were rescued from the harbor later in the day by the French cruiser Suchet. About a week after the tragedy, ` copies of the London Daily Tele- graph arrived in the Transvaal, and Lieutenant Dunne read the front- page headline: VOLCANO DISASTER IN MARTINIQUE Town Swept Away AN AVALANCHE OF FLAME Probable Loss of Over 40,000 Lives ; His dream had been wrong in

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PSYCHIC WARNINGS. OF PELEE ERUPTION 71 one respect. There were 40,000 vic- tims, not 4000. He had been off by one digit. Days later the eminent volcano- logists came from France and the United States to investigate. They told the world that the explosion which wiped out St. Pierre had been caused by steam, created when the ocean floor dropped and permitted millions of gallons of sea water to rush into the base of Pelee, where hot viscuous magma millions of years old seethed and bubbled like a gigantic witch’s cauldron. Pelee had become a great overheated boiler with its safety valve—the an- cient crater—securely plugged by Lake Palmiste, the charming picnic site. The new cone thrust up through the dry lake bed had been inadequate. When the pressure be- came intense enough the steam had simply found a weak spot in the mountain wall and had blown it out. Along with the steam burning clouds of gas particles had been emitted from the volcano—bits of hot lava surrounded by an emul- sion of gas. This emulsion had made the black cloud practically friction- less, enabling it to spread almost instantly to a width of five miles -and to attain a speed of 125 miles an hour. These fiery particles, heated to a temperature of 1100 degrees centigrade, had been the killers, literally burning out the lungs with a single intake of breath. For years the ruins of St. Pierre were uninhabited. Gradually a few fishermen came back, erecting make-shift shanties in the corners of the old walls. Today there are some 4000 people there, mostly fishermen and their families. There is a Volcano Institute, a Select Tan- go, and quite a few bars. The ca- thedral has been restored. But the cruise ships do not stop for the harbor has never been completely cleared. The jungle has grown back, and it is only from a plane that one gets a true idea of the immensity of the tragedy. From there one can see block after block of ruined walls, cobbled streets, and broken fountains that the jungle has re- claimed. And one can see the great gray scar down the valley of the Roxelane which marks the fiery cloud’s course from Pelee to sea. And yet—this greatest tragedy of modern times was clearly previ- sioned. Mrs. Craig “saw” it and saved herself and her family. Dunne “saw” it, although he was unable to do anything about it. The skip- per of the Orsolina felt it and saved his ship and his crew. Even before the drop in the ocean floor that let the sea into Pelee’s base the snakes and the birds had deserted the mountain. The obeah-men made an uncannily-correct interpretation of the activity of the snakes and the birds. The army engineers and scientists were wrong.

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MAGICANS’ SECRET dy Mamar Yerger Here's the never-before-told story of a series of weird incidents centering around photos of the late Houdini. 72 HE MAGICIANS’ secret con- cerns the late Houdini, ac- knowledged peer of all the Modern Magi. This secret has been shared by a select few over a long period of years. The very fact that we were magicians prevented our divulging the secret: (a) The public would have said no matter how thin we sliced it, it is still baloney,—be- cause we practice trickery. (b) The press, if they wrote the stories at all, would likely have claimed we were trying to cash in on Houdini’s publicity, seeking to hitch our wa- gon to a star. Our secret concerns the famous agreement Houdini had with his wife, to contact her, if possible, in the event that he died first. Millions remember Houdini as the man who proved that Spiritism is pure bunk. Many thousands of “Spiritualists” hate him because his many exposes of fraudulent medi- ums brought their religion much un- favorable publicity. Nevertheless, Houdini believed in spiritual immortality. His chief ob- jective was not to debunk mediums He desperately wanted to find a genuine medium to help him con- tact his mother’s spirit. Often, when visiting his mother’s grave he would prostrate himself on it for hours at a time, begging her to speak tc him, After his death the newspaper: made much over the fact that Hou

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=- dini, who was supposed to be an arch enemy of spiritism, had left a = secret code and message with his wife, as a challenge to any medium to prove the authenticity of spirit- ism. The magician’s secret is that a few of us believe Houdini did give some proof of life beyond the grave. Mr. X., a magician whose hobby is occult science, told a few of us this story: “Several of Houdini’s friends were visiting with me in my study discussing his illness. At that time we had learned Hondini was failing fast. A few hours after my friends had gone, I was looking at Houdini’s picture on my mantel shelf and thinking of praying a si- lent prayer for his recovery. At that instant Houdini’s framed photograph, sitting slightly behind a small mantel light, slowly moved out to the front of the shelf and crashed to the floor, shattering the glass in front of the picture into a = thousand pieces. At that moment, somehow, I knew that Houdini had died. “Almost simultaneously with the crash of the picture my phone rang. One of the magicians was calling to tell me that Houdini was dead. Later a check-up proved the time of his death and the crash of his picture were only minutes apart.” Despite the fact that, when per- forming on the stage, we magicians thunder about occult science, mys- terious forces and strange unseen powers, the majority of us are very materialistic. We loved and respected Mr. X. and believed his story, nevertheless, we felt that the picture episode was just a coincidence. Seven years later, those of us who were still alive learned of an- other picture episode that concern- ed Houdini, and this, too, occurred on a Hallowe’en night. (Houdini died on Hallowe’en night 1926.) Madame LeRue (not her real name) was a fake medium who specialized in visiting small towns and presenting what she called her Bombay Whispering Spirit Seance. This seance was conducted in a dark room. Madame’s luminous trumpet would float around and her spirit guide would whisper messages through it to the sitters in the circle. At one time, according to Ma- dame’s story, Houdini played her a dirty trick. She was about ready to lower the boom on a wealthy widow when the widow’s son induc- ed Houdini to visit her seance in disguise, for the purpose of expos- ing her. This he did by putting lampblack on the mouthpiece of her trumpet when the lights were turned out. At the completion of the seance, the black ring around Madame’s mouth gave ample proof that she had been taking the customers. 73

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74 Ske not only missed out on the big money deal she had cooked up, but she also had to fold up her cab- inet and silently steal out of the state. Madame nursed her anger at Houdini and kept it warm until his death. She then used another nom de plume, and circulated the story in the small towns where she play- ed that the famous Houdini was her spirit guide. To prove Houdini really was her guide, she allowed herself to be handcuffed and the key holes of the cuffs sealed before she went in- to her trance. At the conclusion her hands would be free, the cuffs would be lying on the floor, the seals on the locks still unbroken. (The cuffs were trick cuffs purchased from a magic supply house.) In this way Madame cashed in on Houdini’s publicity, satisfied her craving for revenge, and appeased her warped sense of humor. Im 1933, exactly seven years af- ter Houdini’s death, on Hallowe’en night, Madame was beginning her seance in Taylor, Texas. The com- mittee had placed the handcuffs on her and she entered cabinet. Before the little green light, burning in front of the photograph of Hou- dini, could be extinguished a loud crackling noise was heard and the picture of Houdini crashed face down on the bridge table. Then the little light winked out, apparently FATE of its own accord. At that instant Madame let out a shrill bellow, “Lights! Please help me—some- body!” The house lights were turned on at the main switch but even then the little green light remained un- lit. The extension cord to the green light was turned off although no one had been near it. Madame was lying in a crumpled heap just outside her cabinet, gasp- ing for breath. She told me some unseen something began choking her when she went into the cabinet. She told the spectators, however, that she’d had a heart attack. Next, for some unknown reason neither the handcuff keys nor the gimmick would open the trick cuffs. — They had to be sawed off with a hacksaw. Madame was so frightened she refused to accept a penny from any of her sympathetic friends for her appearance and refused to continue with the seance. The loud crackling noise had been the glass breaking in front of Hou- dini’s picture. And the break formed a perfect W—the first letter of Hou- dini’s real name, which was Weiss. All of this was too much for the Madame. That was her last seance. She spent the rest of her days managing a small side show in a carnival. She wanted nothing more to do with Houdini, vowing if he’d leave her alone she’d darn sure

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THE MAGICIANS’ SECRET leave him alone. She believed that Houdini’s spirit had punished her for her lies. Let me hasten to explain that neither of these episodes impressed me very much. I felt they could be coincidences that perhaps yet, may be explained by natural phenomena. But my own uncanny experience with a photograph of Houdini, a- long with the other two episodes, has given me food for thought. Many of us professional magi- cians would couple a Houdini seance with our magic show on Hal- lowe’en night because it was a draw- ing card and assured us a packed house. Seven years after the Madame’s memorable seance, I decided to pre- sent my 14th Houdini Hallowe’en seance and magic show in Austin, Tex. It was my custom to devote only about 10 minutes to these seances and then give a magic show, the seance being just a drawing card. I placed a small trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, and a picture of Hou- dini on the table and introduced the local medium who was to con- duct the seance. All lights were cut off with the exception of a 25 watt green light in front of Houdini’s photograph. The Medium was talking when suddenly a loud clap of thunder, followed by flashes of lightning, ushered in one of those freakish 75 electrical storms. Lights went out, women screamed. Then almost as suddenly as it began the storm was over. When the lights came on, every thing appeared normal to every one but me. I was standing near the table and when I looked down I saw that the picture of Houdini had been torn into little pieces and stacked neatly in a small mound in the center of the table. With light- ning flashing momentarily it would have been impossible for anyone to approach the table without my see- ing him. Pm no mathematician, but it seems to me that the odds are stag- gering against these related picture episodes being mere coincidences. A few magicians are inclined to believe that Houdini’s picture and a small light must have been in some way connected with Mr. and Mrs. Houdini’s secret pact. Many friends of the late Mrs. Houdini told us that she kept a small light burning in front of her husband’s picture night and day until she died. Remember, each time Houdini’s photograph was involved in a mani- festation, a small light was burning in front of it! Now, since Mr. X. and Madame LeRue are both dead, and I have retired, I see no reason for with- holding this, perhaps, final link in the chain of Houdini mysteries.

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Poe ae EING A NOVICE in ESP and Metaphysics, I have hesitated to make known the results of my experiments in the use of the sub- conscious. However, I have decided to add my evidence to the grow- ing accumulation of knowledge on these subjects. _ A number of years ago, my wife and I attended a series of lectures given by a prominent metaphysician and learned her formula for utilizing the subcon- scious to accomplish ends desired for oneself or others. After some experimentation we succeeded in locating a stolen watch, collected a long past due business account, found a husband for a young lady friend of ours and best of all re- ceived a letter from a woman in a distant city, who testified that af- ter trying out the formula she had been able to resume her household duties after being bedridden for several years. We had another personal demon- stration of the powers of the sub- conscious mind in which I was most concerned. My wife was raised in Germany and has attempted, several times, to teach me her native language but finally, discouraged at my in- difference or perhaps ignorance, she gave up her attempts. So, af- ter 30 years of marriage to her I still know only four or five sen- tences. One day my wife looked up from a book she was reading and remarked, “My I wish you could read this in German. Here is a poet who teaches that even a crea- ture as small as a bird may use its subconscious mind to delve in- to its previous existence!” I expressed my surprise and 76

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“Das Voglein auf dem Weinachisbaum” ("The Bird in the Christmas Tree”) Das Yégtein auf dem Weihnastssaum, 3 Hatt’ cin Voglein, das war twiutdergahur, Dah es vont Munde mir das Futter nahm. E3 flatterte bei meinem Muf herbei Und trie der muntern Kurztveil bielerfei, Drum ftund da3 Thürden feines Kerters auf Den gangen Tag au freient Fug und Lauf, Im Rifig war e3 aua dem Gi gefhlüpk, War nie durd) Gras und grünes Laub gebiipft, Unb Hatte nie ben duntlen Wald gefhant, Wo jein Gefchledit die Leichten Mefter baut, Und wie ber Winter wieder tam ins Land, Das Weifnadtzbänmhen in der Stube ftand, Da janb mein jainudes, zahmes Vagelein Neugierig. bald fih in den Stcigen cin. Wohl trippelt e3 behutfam erft und fher Dent Ratjel qu, fo Lodend und fo nen, Dod) bald war's in dent grinen Reich gu Hans, Wie priifend breitet e3 die Flügel aus: So freudig ftieq und fiel die Heine Brut, QS fdjwellte fie der Tannenduft mit Luft. Und wie er nie vom Stijig nod) erflang, So froh, fo fhmetternd tonte fein Gefang! Bum eftenntat, beranfdt vont neuen Brie, Rebhrt e8 gu feinem Hanfe niht zurig. Hart an dax Stänmdhen dudt eg ftill und tein Und jadlummtert in der grünen Dämmrung cin. tind finneub fah ic} lang beg Lieblings Nuh, Wie erjt deni Spiel, dt zierlid) Heitren 3t... 213 durch des Vogels Leib mit eincmmal Gin jeltiam Bittern wunderbar fiğ ftagl; Das SKopiden mit dem Fittig gugethan, Hing es geheim und fip an gwitidiern an: =. samt Traum geidjah’s ... wd Wold wid Waldesweh'n. Sien ahimgsvoll burd dijet Traum ju geh’n, a.. Unb feltjamt iiberfain's mih bei dem Lant? Was nie das Lierdhen lebend noch geichiut, Deg freien Wolbers freie Gerrlihteit, Mun lag cs offen da vor ihn wd weit... Mid aber mahnt ¢3 einer andern Welt, lind mander Frage, jweifelnd oft geftellt, Und dices Leben deudte mir cin Traum, Wie der ded Vogleins auf dem Weihnacdtsbaum! Hermarm SaHntib, bf THE BIRD IN THE CHRISTMAS TREE I had a little bird that was so tame To partake of food from my mouth, it came And fluttering playfully at my call, Played hide-and-seek about the hall; So the door of his prison stood open a space For freedom of flight about the place. Having been born from an egg in the cage He had never dwelt in the green foliage— Had never seen the deep forest shade Nor the airy nests his kind had made. One day when Winter spread o’er the land, A Christmas tree in the room did stand; Then my sweet birdie in wonder was seen To perch himself in the branches so green. But carefully first and shy did gaze About the strange and welcoming maze; Then soon felt at home in that kingdom of green And spreading his wings his feathers to preen, His littie breast vibrantly rose and fell As though breathing his fill of the pine-tree’s smell. And never before from his throat had come So joyous a song as he now sung, And as though o’erwhelmed by some potent spell He did not return to hig prison cell But crouched ‘gainst the trunk, so small and quiet And slept in the arms of the green twilight. Then as I watched him, thinking of the day— Meditating on his happy, cheerful play— A strange vibration shook the tiny thing. And from the darling’s throat hid ‘neath his wing Came sweet twitterings, mysterious and low. Then in sub-conscious vision, seemed to go The dream yision of the birdie, in my mind: The flight through mighty forests with his kinds The sky so blue, the air so fresh and clear; The mountains tall, the flowers so dear; And freedom of life to him was opened wide As through his mind this vision seemed to glide, And strangely was I moved by the scene That never this birdie in his life had seen: The sheen of waters, the meadows so green— Yet hid in his mind the picture had been. It recalled to my mind another life—_ Another sphere free of sorrow and strife And the sweet tender song my birdie had sung Aroused thoughts of the better world yet come And my pre-existent state appeared to me As the dream of the bird in the Christmas tree. Hermann Schmid to Poem in German is shown with Author's English translation. He says he lacks knowledge of German, but obtained the translation in experiment with harnessing the subconscious. © interest and asked her to give me a quick translation in English, which she did. I then told her that I was really sorry and wished I had the knowledge necessary to put 77 the poem into English and still keep the style of rhyming each two lines as was done in the Ger- man poem. My wife explained that even if I could translate the ver-

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78 ses it would be extremely difficult to keep the meaning and the thyme, as German grammatical arrangement is in reverse of Eng- lish. The poem was entitled, Das Voglein auf dem Weinachtsbaum. In English this is The Bird in the Christmas Tree. The story tells how a tame canary owned by the family often was permitted to leave its cage and flit about the room for a short time. A few days before Christmas a pine tree from the forest was brought into the house to be trimmed in the usual way for the holiday season. Although the canary had been raised from an egg in a nest in the cage and never before had experienced the presence of a tree, yet it persisted in. roosting in the pine tree, cud-. dled up against the branches and went to sleep there. With its head tucked beneath its wing, it uttered a faint twittering as if it was en- joying a dream of flying in the forest with others of its kind. My wife suggested that I try out the formula for harnessing the subconscious to get a rhyming translation, and I knew what I was up against for often I have teased her by repeating a supposed speech, in broken English, by a German farmer who, looking out of an upstairs window, saw his iron-gray mare escape from its FATE tether and called to his son, “John, John, look the window out, run the backstairs down, see the gray- iron mare tied loose mit the stable out.” This always brings a tired look of disgust from my wife, and I only repeat it as an example of reverse grammatical arrange- ment. Another example is the title of a recent song, Throw Mamma From The Train A Kiss; instead of “throw Mamma a kiss from the train.” The upshot was that I arranged a quiet evening, making the usual preparations for a relaxed sleep by taking a bath, doing a few - simple exercises—I retired to my den. I placed the open book of poems by my bedside, with a pad of paper and a pencil. Then, com- fortably settled in bed, I com- menced the usual concentration of commanding my unconscious mind to get me the translation with rhyming at the end of the lines like the German copy. I gave my- self this instruction time after time, concentrating upon the de- sired result, until I fell asleep with the words of command still on my lips. The next morning when I awoke my first thought was, “How have I succeeded?” Looking at the pad, I found two pages filled with my hand-writing. Upon showing this to my wife and comparing it with the original we were delighted to

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v YOU CAN USE YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS 79 find the translation was fairly good and that each two lines rhymed. However, my translation was not complete, it was only for half of the poem. The next night I followed the same routine, except that I com- manded my inner mind to give me the rest of the translation missing from my first night’s try. I may have used a different wording than before, I do not remember. But when I awoke the pad was blank. However, ringing in my ears were the words of the first line of the missing stanza. This I immediately wrote down, and the other lines followed in sequence, until finally the poem, translated into English, was com- pleted as I had commanded my subconscious. I have furnished a photostat of the original poem from the book entitled, Himmelan, by Herman Schmid. Also, please read my translation into English as it was written on the scratch pad at my bedside. Anyone familiar with Ger- man may make his own comparison. You may judge this experiment and its results for yourself. QUEERLY ADVANCED AGE By David Gunston Charles Charlesworth (1829- 1836) was a physical rather than a mental prodigy. Born in a tiny Staffordshire village in England he was a normal child until the age of four. Then he suddenly began to seem much older and before long had the appearance and manner of a man of 70. His face grew long whiskers, first grey and then white, and his voice became cracked and croaky after the manner of the aged. By the time he was actually seven years old he was in every way an old, old man. His hair was white and falling; his lit- tle features were wizened and wrinkled; his tiny hands were knotted and gnarled. He walked painfully; his posture was bent and his movements creaky. Perhaps this phenomenon was caused by some strange glandu- lar maladjustment that could be put right medically today. But in 1886 knowledge of such things was scant and poor. Charles Charlesworth died, look- ing like an old man over 80, when he was actually only seven. <

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A British archeologist reports that during the excavation of an an- cient Mycenean tomb he and his men found, inside the chamber, HE SAINTS IN Greece oc- casionally have curious epithets. In Attica all know St. John the Hunter. In Naxos there is St. George the Drunken and in Thes- saly you will find St. Nicholas the Murderer. Now too in Argolis you will hear of St. George the Vam- pire. The little church or rather shrine dedicated to that saint is in a kind of open cave which is really the entrance to a Mycen- aean rock cut chamber tomb and it lies on the outskirts of the vil- 80 he ONES hat WALKED B, ANT Wace eprinted by permission from ANTIQUITY lage of Thymari at the base of the tangle of hills at the western foot of Mount Arachnaeus. If you go to the village and visit the shrine you will probably be told fantastic tales of the Vampire and the English archaeologist who was afterwards killed fighting the Bul- garians. The exact circumstances of the case you will probably not be able to discover. Even those of the village most closely connected with the events which led to the dedication of the shrine have al- lowed more freedom to their

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imaginations than they should. The village priest Athanasios nowadays is in his dotage and his cups, and not competent to give a credible or even a coherent version of what really took place and the part he played. Evesham himself is dead, because as you know he was killed on the Salonika front in r917. Our foreman (for it all happened when Evesham was excavating the Mycenaean site he had discovered at Kastraki near Thymari) died of diabetes some five years later. Of the two watchmen one was killed while serving in the Serres Division on the Macedonian front in 1918 and the other was lost somewhere in Asia Minor in the disastrous retreat in 1922. I am therefore the principal survivor for I was the only other archaeologist with Evesham at the time unless you count our technician and men- der Spyros, but his mind was al- ways far more concerned with dressing up so as to make an impression on local damsels. So it is, I think, desirable that I should put on record as soberly and straightforwardly as I can all the various happenings. Then those who think it worth their while to read what I have written can judge for themselves and adopt any explanation they please. I propose therefore, in what follows to put down without prejudice the events as they occurred and as I observed 81 them at the time. I have refreshed my memory by my note book. As I have written elsewhere, Evesham discovered the important Mycenaean settlement on the hill of Kastraki round the chapel of the Panagia Makrembolitissa in the spring of 1911. Kastraki itself lies in the plain, surrounded by vineyards. dotted with fruit and olive trees slightly separated from the foot of the main ridge on which the village of Thymari it- self stands. Below Thymari towards the base of the slope and opposite Kastraki Evesham found, when he began his excavations, a cemetery of Mycenaean rock-cut chamber tombs the existence of which he had suspected when he first ex- plored the site. The excavation it- self was carried out during June and July when the fine, dry weather made the work go easily. The expedition consisted of Eves- ham, myself, Jack Stuyvesant, a . travelling student from Yale and a distant cousin of Evesham, and David Jones, a Welsh architectur- al student from Cambridge, as sur- veyor and draughtsman. After the excavation had been in progress for about a month and we had cleared half a dozen tombs in addition to our exploration of the inhabited site and the Cyclo- pean walls on Kastraki we found one day the entrance passage of what promised to be a large, rich,

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82 and important tomb. The passage, cut straight into the rock of the sloping hillside as an open gallery, was wider than the rest. There were also other peculiarities which we noticed as we proceeded. Usual- ly, in the soil, fragments of pottery and occasionally small objects are found which have been thrown out of the tomb on some occasion when the family vault was reopened to admit a fresh tenant. Here, how- ever, we found literally nothing at all in the soil we dug out, sifted, and observed with special care. Further, the work was impeded by great masses of large stones and heavy rocks, which looked almost as if they had been deliberately placed there by the ancients to annoy any archaeologist of times to come who might try to violate the sepulchre. Finally, in front of the door of the tomb itself the whole width and height of the entrance passage was blocked by a solid mass of stone. I remarked to Evesham that it had probably been purposely built up in this manner by the original owners of the tomb to protect their ancestors and their treasures from the investigations of any Schliemann of the future. Old Manoles, our most experienced workman, expressed the view that the ancients had done this to pre- vent “them” from getting out, but he did not specify what he meant FATE _by “them”. He did, however, one day call my attention to the fact that on the surface of the hillside above the chamber of the tomb there was no vegetation. True, on a barren rocky Greek hillside like that little does grow except Greek sage, thyme, spurge, and similar plants that can resist the summer drought; but here even such herb- age was absent. After some days of hard work we removed the mass of stone and then found before us the doorway of the tomb. This again was most securely walled up with gigantic cyclopean blocks of the hardest limestone, tightly fitted together with great skill and with all the joints carefully packed with yel- low clay. When they saw this our workmen and even our foreman rubbed their hands and said we were bound to find great treasures of gold inside, for only to protect gold or “ivory statues with diamond eyes” would any man ever have gone to such trouble. When the heavy job of removing these great blocks had gone on for two days Stuyvesant, badly stung by a scorpion which came out of a crack between two boulders, had to return to Athens for treatment. He was accompanied by Jones whose spectacles had been shattered by a splinter that flew off one of the rocks when he was testing it with a crowbar, and he could not

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THE BONES THAT WALKED continue his work without procur- ing a new pair. Our workmen began to specu- late and even to bet on what we should find in the tomb. Gold was the dream of all, and our foreman who had absorbed a little knowl- edge of antiquities suggested, to tickle our archaeological palates, bronze mirrors with carved ivory handles, sculptured steatite jars, engraved sealstones, golden tablets with mysterious signs. Old Manoles, however, with a dry chuckle fore- told that there would be nothing in the tomb but the bones of a donkey, and put forward the theory that it was all a great prehistoric practical joke devised by Odysseus for the discomfiture of tomb rob- bers and resurrectionists. Finally one Thursday we re- moved the last stones and were able to enter the chamber which, owing to the solidity of the block- ing wall in the doorway, had less than half a metre of fine soil on its rock floor. To our surprise and to the dismay of all the workmen except old Manoles, there was no gold visible. No vases even of clay, ` still less of precious materials, and - no objects of any kind were to be observed anywhere. Indeed there was only one skeleton and that lay against the center of the back wall, flat on its back, with its head - to the west. It was too late that - afternoon to begin to remove the 83 soil from the tomb and sift it in search of small objects or jewel- lery. So we picked out one of our trusted men and appointed him watchman to sleep in the doorway of the tomb that night to prevent unauthorized interference. We had rented for our head- quarters a large new stone-built house with a fine first floor bal- cony on the edge of the village. Evesham and I shared a room and in it kept the boxes containing the more important finds. Early on the Friday morning just before dawn we were awakened by a vio- lent knocking at our door and in burst the watchman. We hastily lit the lamp and saw him standing before us wild-éyed and all of a tremble. He asserted with many appeals to the Virgin and the saints that all had gone well till about half an hour before. Then he became aware of a rustling sound and a slight rattle as of bones. Evesham said it was some- one coming up the entrance pas- sage from outside making a noise to frighten him. The watchman denied this and said the noise was within the tomb. He had called out a challenge but received no answer. Then something touched his foot and he lost his nerve and ran to tell us. We summoned our foreman and the three of us, armed with good electric torches, went to the tomb. We could see no signs

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84 of any disturbance in the entrance passage and so walked carefully up it searching the sides with our torches. As we reached the entrance the first rays of “rosy finger- ed dawn” shot across the sky and at the same time we heard a cock crowing. We explored the tomb chamber itself in great detail but found no signs of disturbance ex- cept that the skeleton seemed to have been moved slightly and in the soft earth of the tomb there were odd marks as if a bird with curious feet or a peculiar reptile had dragged itself over the floor. The foreman bluntly expressed the view that the watchman had entered the tomb and had begun to rifle the skeleton, when some- thing interrupted him and so he had invented the story of some- thing mysterious and imagined he could prove his good faith by run- ning to tell us. The next day we carefully clear- ed out all the fresh earth from the tomb and sifted it thoroughly but without finding anything. We also cleaned and photographed the skeleton most carefully. On it and round it there was nothing, -but among its ribs was a curious bronze spearhead of a type which Evesham said had been found only at Mycenae itself, in Thessaly, and in Santa Maura. Evesham re- moved the skull from the skeleton which was in remarkably good FATE condition and said we must keep it safe for the craniological mu- seum in Athens. He also took the spearhead and put it gently into a stout cardboard box lined with cotton wool. The skull which was wrapped in cotton wool in a palm leaf basket, and the spearhead in its cardboard box we locked up in a strong wooden box with a stout padlock. It stodd between our camp beds and on it Evesham kept some of his personal belongings, such as an ikon of St. George and a New Testament in Greek which the Abbot of Stephani had given him not long before on his birth- day. 3 To guard the tomb that night we selected another watchman, for Evesham decided we would re- move and pack the rest of the skeleton the next day. This man had served in the royal Evzone bodyguard at Athens and had shot two wolves on Mount Arachnaeus. There was thus no fear of his cour- age and our foreman and the vil- lage doctor both guaranteed his absolute honesty. Further we knew him as a first-class workman and had great confidence in him. He took with him an old six chamber- ed revolver and a heavy cavalry sabre and set himself to watch in the doorway determined to make short work of any intruders. Towards four o’clock on the Saturday morning the whole vil-

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THE BONES THAT WALKED lage was aroused by the wild echoes of revolver shots and presently our fearless watchman came running with his story. He, like his pre- decessor, had heard a rustle and a rattle as of bones coming from in- side the tomb. He could see noth- ing either in the entrance passage or in the tomb itself. He challenged but could obtain no answer. So then he fired four times into the tomb itself and the last two shots down the entrance passage to clear the way. Then his nerve shaken by the reverberation of the explo- ‘sions and the flashes of the shots he had come to tell us. Again we went and explored the tomb. We found all in order, with the watch- man’s goat hair cloak where it had fallen from his shoulders and in the entrance passage his empty revolver and the cavalry sabre where he had dropped them in his flight. Only in the tomb itself we found the skeleton had disappeared and again we noticed the curious reptile-like tracks across the little soft earth still remaining on the floor. Evesham was puzzled. I thought the villagers were playing some game at our expense and suggested they were probably in collusion with the watchman to - rob the tomb and had found some secret hiding place of treasure. That day our foreman went to Argos to attend the weekly market and bring back some badly needed 85 supplies. Evesham and I spent most of the day in the tomb. We swept up the rock floor very care- fully and sifted all the earth and dust but we found nothing. Not even a potsherd rewarded our ef- forts. We had to work alone be- cause not one of our workmen would come into the tomb with us. We stopped work as usual about five o’clock because Satur- day was pay-day. Then after pay- ing the men and writing up our accounts and checking the results we sat down to our well-earned supper. It was sometime after dark and the moon now past the full had risen when our foreman re- turned from Argos. He handed to us his marketings, and we ob- served that he seemed rather white and nervous. So Evesham asked if anything had gone wrong. He re- plied that he had often heard tales of things that wandered about the hills after dark especially in the watercourses but he had never be- fore believed in such tales. We asked further why he was now in- clined to believe them. “Listen,” he said, “to what has just happened to me and my horse.” He was just approaching the village on his return and had reached the bottom of the slope up which the bridle path runs. This goes zigzag up the hill pro- tected on either side by a low stone

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= PERNT ES as Se ea nt ae 86 wall te keep a clear track among the dry herbage and passed not far from the Mycenaean cemetery we had discovered. Soon after it begins the ascent the bridle path crosses a dry watercourse. By the time he reached this the moon had risen. As he rode his horse across the watercourse it began to show strong signs of nervousness. It fidgeted, jibbed a little, and then displayed a desire to bolt. When he reined it in hard the horse neighed and then dropped its head and tried to kick. The foreman could see or hear nothing. He looked around and behind him and at the sides of the path but the moonlight revealed nothing, no living animal, no human being which might cause a horse to shy. After he had passed the water- course and was following up one of the zigzags his horse was more nervous than ever and fidgeted violently. He too himself then heard or thought he heard a rustle and rattle as of bones in the dry herbage behind the low stone wall at the side of the path. Still he could see nothing. Finally he be- came cross and turned in his sad- dle and called loudly to the un- seen. “Come out and show yourself!” he shouted, “I am not afraid of you. I have a gun. Don’t be so cowardly. Come out and show yourself! I am not afraid!” FATE Nothing appeared. There was no answer. Soon the path came abreast of a small chapel of the Virgin on the edge of the village. His horse became normal again and whinnied for its feed. There was no rustling or rattling. Still there had been something. What was it? Do such things really exist? Or are they mere imagination? Evesham suggested it was imagina- tion and that the horse had shied at shadows cast by the moonlight for horses are often frightened by moon shadows more than by sun shadows. “Don’t I know my own horse?” asked the foreman indignantly. “I know it felt or saw something. Though I never believed them be- fore, such things exist apparently.” After more conversation about the excavation and its affairs the fore- man bade us good night and we retired to bed. When we were in bed before I extinguished the light I asked Evesham if he did not think we had better lock our door and shut- ter the window. “Now, Cassius, don’t be a silly ass!” he objected. “Who is going to attack us here? We are far safer in this village than anywhere else in the world. You could not be safer in Piccadilly Circus sur- rounded by six of the biggest Lon- don bobbies. Also I tell you flat I am not going to have the window

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THE BONES THAT WALKED shuttered. Who would want to frowst on a gorgeous moonlight night like this?” The foreman’s story, however, must have told on my nerves be- cause I slept badly. I dozed fit- fully and did not seem able to sleep properly. My blanket slipped off, the mattress was lumpy, my pillow would not keep straight and the very frame of the camp bed seemed to find every bone in my body. I also had dreams, bad dreams, nightmares. I felt unseen danger was threatening me, threat- ening us, and I helpless and power- less could do nothing. Finally I seemed to be awake and thought I could hear the danger creeping nearer and nearer with a rustle and a dry rattle across the bare boards of the floor. I dreamt that in my despair I crossed myself fervently and called loudly on the Virgin in Greek. Then I really awoke and heard the echo of my cry in the room. I seized the elec- tric torch by my bedside and flashed around. I could see noth- ing except that the night breeze had apparently set our door ajar. Alongside me Evesham lay sleep- ing peacefully with his right arm outstretched just touching the ikon of St. George. Reassured I switch- ed off the torch and curled my- self up in the blanket and slept till day at last broke clear and sunny. 87 That day, Sunday, the church bells in the village were ringing all day to keep off evil spirits and all devils. The priest Athanasios after the morning service went in full form to Kastraki. He took the ikon of the Panagia Makremboli- tissa thence in solemn procession with chants and incense through and all round the village before returning it to its chapel where St. Narcissus is buried. In the afternoon he came and had a long private talk with Evesham who never told me what it was all about. I can only surmise from what followed. The next morning when we should have resumed work after breakfast at about half-past eight Evesham first bade the foreman summon all the men to the tomb. Then he went to our house and came back with the basket in which the skull was packed and the cardboard box containing the bronze spearhead. Accompanied by the priest he laid the skull as near as he could in the position in which he had found it and placed the spearhead where the ribs should have been. This done the priest withdrew to vest himself. He came back in ceremonial pro- cession accompanied by the priests of two or three neighboring vil- lages also fully vested. With them was a company of boys as acolytes bearing lighted candles, censers,

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88 crosses, vessels of holy water with sprigs of basil, and other ritual appurtenances. The priests went round all the tomb sprinkling it with holy water and censing it frequently while they intoned ap- propriate prayers. This done, led by Athanasios the service for the exorcising of evil spirits was chanted. Evesham and I with our foreman stood in the tomb just behind the priests and there were also in the tomb some of the bold- er spirits among the villagers in- cluding old Manoles. The more timid remained outside in the long wide entrance passage or else gathered on the hillside above whence they could peer down into the tomb. As the service reached its climax there was a sudden vio- lent gust of wind which swept up the entrance passage into the tomb. The candles, the sole il- lumination, for the sun was over- cast, flickered strongly for a few moments and then went out. We were plunged into complete dark- ness and in the sudden hush heard a rustle and a dry rattling followed by the sound of metal striking an object. The next instant there was indescribable confusion. All almost with one accord began to call loud- ly on the Virgin, the Almighty, the archangels and all the hosts of the saints and at the same time to rush madly for the entrance to escape. Our foreman, a tall and FATE powerful man, put one arm round Evesham and the other round me and propelled us by main force through the crowd and along the entrance passage into the daylight and open air. The whole tomb and its entrance passage emptied as if by magic in spite of the turmoil, As the congregation recovered its breath, quick excited talk began to enquire what had happened. “Did you see him? We saw him!” some of the acolytes cried, crossing themselves. They were asked whom they had seen. “The saint in armor on the white horse,” they replied in chorus. They declared that he, spear in hand, had dashed into the tomb with a rushing wind just be- fore the candles were blown out. Neither Evesham nor I had seen anything of the kind, but Evesham said he was going back inte the tomb to see. Ignoring the protests of the villagers and accompanied only by our foreman and by the village priest Athanasios we light- ed candles and re-entered the tomb. The floor was covered with fallen candles, ikons, crosses, censers, holy water vessels, springs of basil, service books, and all the ritual objects which the religious had dropped in their panic. We turned our candles to the center of the back wall of the tomb. There was the skeleton complete as we had first found it lying on its back

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THE BONES THAT WALKED with its head to the west. Sticking upright among its ribs in the region where its heart would be if a skele- ton could have a heart was the bronze spearhead. In front of it also, by some miracle, standing up- right was an ikon of St. George which someone had dropped. The priest and our foreman as they collected the fallen objects said that all would be well. The same afternoon the villag- ers under the leadership of Athan- asios and our foreman walled up the tomb again, but they left the ikon of St. George, the skeleton and the spearhead exactly as we had found them. When the walling of the doorway, which was done solidly and thoroughly, was satis- factorily completed a small niche with a half roof was made in the front of it. Another ikon of St. George was placed in it with a lighted oil lamp hanging before it. - St. George, they said, it must be, for he was the patron saint of Evesham himself and of the kings of England and of Greece and was 89 accustomed to deal with dragons and all evil things. When I revisited Thymari on my return to Greece in 1919, I found that the pious villagers had enlarged the little shrine in the entrance passage of the Mycen- aean tomb into a sort of small chapel which they were now call- ing St. George the Vampire. I lit two candles, one for Evesham and one for the unhappy soul within the tomb. Prof. Alan John Bayard Wace, the author of this fascinating true story, was born in 1879 and today at 81 is considered to be one of Britain’s foremost classical scholars. A decade ago Professor Wace was honored for 50 years of work in archeology and the magazine The School devoted r2 pages to a trib- ute to him. For many years Pro- fessor Wace was associated with the British School at Athens. It was during his archeological work in Greece that the events described here took place. r THE RETURNING CAR N Newark, N.J., Andrew Lindsey reported to police that his 1955 sedan had been stolen from in front of his home. Several hours later police found the car parked in another part of the city and it was towed to a parking lot. A short time later police investigated a car driven by two youths—and discovered that Lindsey’s sedan had been stolen again.

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Photos on this page show uncle of Steph- en Schloss, German journalist, as he ap- peared during life. On opposite page is a recent sketch of the dead uncle by England’s psychic artist Frank Leah. DEAD MAR By Jrd hehe Reprinted from PSYCHIC NEWS sits for PSYCHIC PORTRAIT Amazing proof of identity came after the psychic artist sketched the features of a dead man he never had seen. EFORE THE science editor of Das Neue Blatt, who writes under the name of Stephen Schloss, came here some months ago he wrote to ask my co-operation. He knew that Britain was the leading country in psychic matters and wanted to investigate medium- ship and other aspects of the sub- ject. I met him when he came and put him in touch with those who could go best help him. The result has been a long series of articles in his paper introducing German readers to the work of many British mediums. From this office Schloss phoned Frank Leah, to later receive an as- tounding psychic portrait. It is one of the most convincing examples of Leah’s remarkable mediumship that I have ever seen. Over the telephone Schloss sug- gested the artist should portray his

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dead uncle, a man he had not seen since he was eight years old. Leah went to work on the por- trait. “When I called on him later on,” wrote Stephen Schloss, “he showed me a portrait which clearly exhibit- ed the general features of my dead uncle.” “Well, how do you like it?” ask- ed Frank Leah with, says Schloss, “an undertone of pride in his voice.” “The similarity is surprising,” re- plied the journalist. The eyes in particular were exactly as he re- membered them: but he was not so sure about the forehead—it did not seem wide enough on the draw- ing. The chin came out well, so had the cheeks. Something was wrong though with the moustache—but the jour- nalist was not absolutely sure what exactly it was—he only remember- ed his uncle as he saw him when he was a little boy. “What he looked like in his later years, I have no idea. Really, I am rather uncertain,” he told Leah. “Tt’s always the same story,” the artist complained. “People come to me and say: ‘Please paint this or that dead relative of mine: I have no photo of him: naturally I know exactly what he used to look like, but still I would like to have a pic- ture of him.’ “Ves—and when I produce the first drawing, these people cannot remember anything at all any more.” Schloss told him he had had a funny feeling when he talked to him on the ‘phone. Leah seemed surprised. “That’s a new one on me,” he commented, “at any rate I have nothing to do with that. The only explanation I can offer is that your dead uncle wanted to show himself to you because you were thinking about him so strongly. “This portrait,” he went on, “is going to give us a lot of trouble, I can say that much already—your uncle has never tried to show him- self before. “And why should he after all?” Leah asked. “Just imagine you are already in the beyond. Most likely you would have other things in your head than to aid your nephew in his parapsychological experi- ments.” Over a cup of tea, Leah told Schloss that he had been unable to see his uncle distinctly: “I had just a few glimpses of him, like a person approaching you in a fog at a dis- tance of about six yards,” he said. Generally, however, he saw his subjects far more clearly and could rough sketch them “within a matter of seconds.” But he could not do this in the case of Schloss’s uncle. In fact it seemed to the journalist that Leah

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DEAD MAN SITS FOR PSYCHIC PORTRAIT 93 looked at him reproachfully. He asked Leah whether this particular case was giving him any physical discomfort. Leah, he said, gave a bitter laugh. He held out his hand. It was ice cold. “I die every time such a case crosses my path,” said the artist. “A spirit like this one won’t leave you alone once he’s made an at- tempt to make himself visible. They’re worse than women—they fuss and torment me all day.” He slapped his stomach with the flat of his hand, making a loud noise. “Here,” he said, pointing to his solar plexus, “there’s a tugging and a pulling—it’s almost unbear- able.” After that meeting, Schloss still wondered if Leah had really drawn his dead uncle’s portrait. Some of the features seemed to belong to him all right. Of others he was not so sure. They did not seem to be- long to the uncle he remembered from childhood. That evening, Schloss sent the following telegram to his mother in Germany: “Urgent. Send by express airmail all available photographs of Uncle Karl. Will explain everything later.” Twenty-four hours later he re- ceived several snapshots of his un- cle, including one small portrait. Some of the pictures showed his uncle shortly before his death. Looking at these later photo- graphs, Schloss understood immedi- ately what had happened. Leah had drawn the elderly man —represented in the later pictures —not the man Schloss remembered from childhood. “Tt was this elderly man—almost unknown to me, whom Mr. Leah had drawn. The psychic artist had made the impossible possible! “Frank Leah had, in fact, drawn a true, natural portrait of my uncle .. . There is no way the result of the experiment could be classified by modern science.” Could Leah have tapped his sub- conscious, wondered .the journalist? No, he could not have done so, for he had never seen his uncle late in life. Nor could there have been any trickery. “It was impossible for the artist to obtain photos of my uncle before he finished the portrait.” Co TRICKS OF THE TRADE CARPENTER named Preston L. Carpenter reported a theft with an odd angle to police of Little Rock, Ark. Someone, he said, had stolen his carpenter tools from his house on Carpenter Drive.

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MY PROOF OF SURVIVAL has talked with me many times and has helped me with my studies. He tells us that there is no con- fusion where he is and that he has been able to do much good. You can imagine the comfort I re- ceive when Jack comes to me and says, “Sis, all is so happy here! Keep on with your lessons. Keep on doing good and spreading love.” I try very hard. —Sarasota, Fla. MY UNSEEN COMPANION By Walter Davison As told to Michael Bruce ERTAINLY I BELIEVE in a life after death, said the Rev- erend Davison. And it’s not only be- cause I was a minister. If there isn’t a life after death, how do you explain this experience? Nearly 40 years ago, in 1920, I had a parish in the western part of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The city has -grown since then and boundaries moved; but it used to be a part of what is now Starbuck. I was there for some years and knew all my parishioners quite well, including a widowed Mrs. Parker and her two teen-age daughters, Eileen and Mary. Then I was moved to a neighbor- ing parish in what is now Rolland, about a mile from my old one. Na- turally, I was very busy with mem- bers of my new parish and was al- most completely out of touch with my former group. There were few ears or telephones then. One day in March, 1924, after I had been at the new parish almost a year, I heard a knock at the door and there stood Mary Parker. “Could you come at once, please, Mr. Davison?” she asked. “My sister Eileen is ill and wants to see you.” AURATAPE ‘The Voice of Hypnosis’ No books can explain as well as a "VOICE" teaching you the know-how of the art. After “many years of research and practice, AURATAPE has developed a new, modern, fool-proof way to learn hypnosis. Our com- plete course includes lessons plus an actual hypnotic trance conducted by a recognized hypnotist. Your tape recorder and AURA- TAPE is all that you need to.add “HYPNO- TIST” to your name! as Send $10 check or money order to: AURATAPE P.O. Box 504 Bayonne, N.J. D : B you z 3 Priceless Secrets of Success, Happiness, Personality, Wealth and Health revealed! Revolutionize your Lifei FREE BOOKLET, entitled, “An Amazing Secret”, p pages, sent to you upon request. No obligation. ATY CÓ.. 618 South Western, DT 189 Los Angeles. Free to WRITERS seeking a book publisher Two fact-filled, illustrated brochures tell how to publish your book, get 40% royalties, national advertising, publicity and promotion. Free edie torial appraisal. Write Dept. F-5 Exposition Press, 386 4th Ave., N. Y. 16 AN AMAZING BOOK NUMEROLOGY is an exact science. Let one of its greatest exponents show you how you can eliminate the element of chance and find winners of racing events with outstanding accuracy. Isidore Kozminsky, D.Sc., F.R.A.S., F.F.B.A., is the author of this as- “Racing and Win- tounding work ning,” based on 40 years’ experience of forecasting by Numerology. Packed with helpful examples. Write for your special edition to-day, price $2.00, ‘post free, to the publishers:— PHIPPS-COTON LTD. (Dept. F1) 51, Bowyer Road, Abingdon, Berkshire, England

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“ e o the techniques proven correct In actual practice . . . detailed exposition is excellent” . . . James Joule, D.D.S., Pres, AAEH HANDBOOK OF SELF-HYPNOSIS Almost 6 years in preparation, this book by a noted professional hypnotist is the ‘‘last word” on the Subject of self-hynosis. It tells you how to proceed towards Heveloping this ability; it guides you along step-by-step, helping you avoid the pitfalls, to ultimate success. You will -especially appreciate the detailed instruc- tion, Induction techniques, self-induction procedures, renewal and reinforcement formulas, examples of proper formulation of suggestions for reducing, ts the smoking and other habits, gaining self-confidence, etc., are given in word-for-word detail for easy understanding and usage. The author, who has been teaching hypnosis to doctors for many years, lays bare the full scope and potentialities — as well as the limitations — of self-hypnosis. ‘‘This book contains more on the subject of self-hypnosis than any other that I have ever read,” says J. J. Levbarg, M.D., noted New York Neuro-Psychiatrist, in the Foreword. HAVE YOU TRIED — AND FAILED ? The author specializes in self-hypnosis training. People come to him from all over the U.S. Many have tried other methods of self-hypnosis training — and failed. His theories and methods are a result of working — and often succeed- ing, with tough cases. You owe it to yourself to read his book and learn the difference in his methods. YOU MUST BE SATISFIED WITH THIS BOOK ... OR YOUR MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED WITHOUT QUESTION PARTIAL CONTENTS ® Suggestion: Common Denominator @ Practical Uses of Self-Hypnosis ® Three Methods of Self-Hypnosis ® Best Induction Method — In Word-for-Word Detail © Stages of Hypnosis ® Developing Post-Hypnotic, (Condi- tioned) Responses ® How Arons Method Differs from Others ® How to Install and Maintain In- stantaneous Waking Self-Hypnosis ® “Give Yourself Suggestion — Then Hypnotize Yourself” © Special Training Techniques ® How To Formulate Suggestions ® Applied Autoconditioning NJ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Harry Arons is Editor of HYPNOSIS Quarterly and author of MASTER COURSE IN HYPNOTISM, TECHNI- QUES OF SPEED HYPNOSIS and TRAINING CENTER and founder numerous magazine articles. He is Director of the ETHICAL HYPNOSIS and National Executive Secretary of the Association to Advance Ethical Hypnosis. He is also the original Chairman of the Guidance Clinie for Retarded Children, Essex County, New Jersery. POWER PUBLISHERS, Dept. F5 10 Washington Ave., Irvington, N.J. Please ship at once my copy of Harry Arons’ new book the HANDBOOK OF SELF-HYP- NOSIS. My remittance of $4.00 is enclosed, I understand my money will be refunded if I am not absolutely satisfied. Xo} Ko)

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THE ART OF SPIRITUAL HEALING, by Joel S. Goldsmith. Harper and Brothers, New York City, 1959. 190 pages, $3.00. Joel Goldsmith professes to prac- tice spiritual healing in much the same manner Christ did 2,000 years ago. In this peculiarly and power- fully written book, he attempts to pass on to the reader the art of spiritual healing as practiced through a Yoga-like method of at- taining “oneness with God,” less the physical rigors and disciplines associated with Hindu practice. With his method he incorporates a kind of faith-healing—a mind- over-matter technique—in which treatment is “a recognition of the nonpower of the condition (disease), but deals only with God and is on the level with God.” Accordingly, Mr. Goldsmith denies the existence of disease and discord as other than recognized nonexistencies. For in spiritual healing, he says, the cause of illness is a “universal hypnotism (which) strikes people unbeknownst to themselves, acting upon them so that when the world says it is rain- ing outside, thousands of people catch cold.” He defines the spiritual healer as one who deals not with diseases but with a misapprehension of reality—hypnotism and sugges- tion. He believes you must break this hypnotic spell to heal, Like the many books advising how to get rich doing one thing or an- other, this one may provoke a lifted eyebrow from the wary since the author is comparatively little known outside his own small circle, and since his own achievements are only a matter of accepting his word for them. (He claims many cures but gives no names or any other sub- stantiating evidence). He presup- poses a believing (or gullible) read- er when he sets up premises and proceeds to handle them as facts, basing his proofs on these “facts.” Any person who seriously wants to become a healer can do so, says Mr. Goldsmith, but he admits that not all cases can be healed. Some- times the patient must have a spir- itual awakening before the treat- ment is successful. Treatment is not complete until the healer achieves inner peace. Much of the book should be read with the heart and not with the mind. Like some metaphysical liter- ature, when read with the mind, it tells little that can be of value in objective consideration. Generally, this work cannot be IOI

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NEW BOOKS of this interesting, although rather casually written book, “Grapho An- alysis is the science of reading char- acter and personality traits from handwriting. It is akin to applied psychology—it has nothing whatever tò do with fortune-telling.” A distinction of long standing in our language describes art as a sys- ` tematic pratique, where skill of the operator rules, and science as rather “a recognized department of learn- ing, often opposed to art.” (Oxford Univ. Dictionary, p. 1806.) Here, of course, “opposed” is in the sense of “contrasted.” It is the hallmark of the purveyor of wares to overstate his case in the quest for recognition. - So viewed, it might be more modest, credible and factual, did Mr. Bunker style his craft but “an art”, which he might yet claim (as he does) to be guided by systematic rules drawn from experience, than to term it both an art and a science. Da Vinci was content to be an artist; Newton to be a scientist; but Bunker must wear both badges. This is not to decry all merit in this summary book of his experiments and ex- perience; rather, to suggest that restraint of statement best estab- lishes the scientific approach. M. N. Bunker has assembled, from his many years of contacts with celebrities and uncelebrated, dozens of writing specimens, which are re- produced, adding to the book’s ap- peal and value. For there is a dis- tinct contribution here to a research field from which interested persons have been turned away too often by unproven generalization. This is not to say that Bunker errs equally. Such reservations noted, Bunker makes a strong case for the idea that some personality traits are recorded in writing, and that he has 105 PROVE YOUR PSYCHIC POWERS WITH A PLANCHETTE! THE PLANCHETTE IS A MECHANICAL MEANS FOR AUTOMATIC Cee an AIDS PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS WHICH HAVE NO OTHER MEANS OF BECOMING CONCRETE. The result of an exhaustive search, our authentic planchette is hand-made from a special wood — an “‘alive’’ wood that magnetizes — and will absorb YOUR vi- brations. It measures about 6 inches in length. Smoothly hand-finished, it is pol- ished to a high lustre with a resin polish which, being a wood byproduct, will not interfere with the vibrations which the operator’s continued use sets up. HOW THE PLANCHETTE WORKS: Specially-fitted pencil forms one leg of planchette, the other two rolling free on ball bearings. These ball bearings permit the slightest indication of movement to take effect, the tiniest wisp of pressure transmitted through your hand. Only a superior product, an authentic psychic appliance, could have this expensive ballbearing feature. Complete instructions for use of the planchette, as well as its care and pro- tection of the vibrations, are included with this advanced psychic instrument. ORDER YOURS TODAY!I—ONLY $4.00 CLARK PUBLISHING CO, 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Ilinois Please send Me-------- planchettes at only $4.00 each. I enclose check.--., cash...., money order__--, Or a SSS NAME Se ADDRESS —W 222 cane wenn eeemnweens CITY & STATE...

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REPORT FROM THE READERS sat wp but saw nobody before me. My brother, Arthur, has said Mother appeared to him, brushing her hair and saying it was long and brown again; also that Dad has spoken to him and told him that his visien (in the last years of his life he was blind in one eye and had only 10% vision in the other) was restered.—Melville Woods, Toronto, Ont., Can. ESP—A SCIENCE? One reason science cannot accept ESP is that it is impossible to set up an experiment that can be dup- licated by any student. I believe that there is available scientifie equipment that records on a graph the minute electrical im- pulses of the brain. Has anyone tried comparing rec- ords of these impulses with a per- son’s ability to use a witching rod? It may be possible to say that a person with brain waves “A” can use a witching rod, according to the strength of waves emanating from area “X”, his ability varying ac- cordingly. A person with brain waves “B” may be telepathic. The ability ef the “B” types may vary with wave strength from area “X” also, or with wave strength from area “Y”’. If this approach worked, it might make ESP a science, accepted by the textbook writer—Albert MacGla- shan, Sault St. Marie, Ont., Canada. IONS VS. ESP In the August issue of FATE Mr. Carl Bergner related how a little dog saved the life of its master. Most persons will share Bergner’s opin- ion that the animal must have known III COIE OEEC OEE IOP EEEE EEO OEE EEO EEEN, REVELATION of CREATION 3500 years the world has waited for this, the Physio-psychological meaning of Genesis. God made The Mind and knows more concerning it than the mind of man has yet conceived. These Truths Moses concealed in Symbolism against the coming of this day in Time. Your two minds personified in Adam and Eve. Their children the same mind children born unto your minds. Their story that of Minds in Action. Is this the TEACHING the Master gave unto the Twelve? Is this to which Paul refers in his Letters? Is this the Wisdom ‘‘hidden from the foundations of the earth?” By this TEACHING do we attain Longevity, prepare for the 1000 years of Peace? Has the recent interest in Psychology prepared tho world for this Revela- tion? Price $3.00, AMERICA know THY DESTINY Who are these American People? What is this mixture of races, nationalities and bloodlines? Does the U.S.A. stand for UNITED SEED OF ABRAHAM? Is your very body the fulfillment of that promise “I will again unite Israel’? Have you actually been prepared for the Greatest Revelation of the Ages? Price $2.50. I SAW the END of TIME One retrogressed 26,000 years, saw the cata- clysm which destroyed the unworthy of that day. Lived with the worthy through the 1000 years of Peace which followed. Saw the rejuvenation and rechemicalization of their bodies by Power of Mind. Mind reversed the magnetic field of the body and took off into space at will, reversed the same of physical mass and transported this at will. Telepathic communication the world around, Saw the repolorization of the earth and the reason for the condition spoken of concerning the Flood of Noah. Do not miss the only ex- perience of this nature coming through in this day. Price $2.00, STUDENTS OF THE PLAN 332 S. MICHIGAN AVE. GLENDORA, CALIFORNIA

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REPORT FROM THE READERS friend in a country house and in talking of old Soho days she related this odd dream. Said the friend, “There used to be a Soho Bazaar somewhere around there, but I don’t know exactly where.” © Mrs. Syrett contacted Selfridge’s Query Bureau and learned that the Bazaar occupied the very premises that had adjoined the girl’s apart- ment; and that, founded in 1816, it survived until the early 20’s. Also there actually had been an archway, joining two parts of the shop, in the exact location seen by Mrs. Sy- rett. She concludes that her dream may be another example of the mystery of time and declares, “I have never had a dream, or vision, so clear, so life-like, and so real as that shop of a hundred years ago.”—D. W. Davies, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. NOT IN AGREEMENT The article “Essay on the Reality of Ghosts” is well written, but— with no reflections on Mr. Bott, as he is not the originator—it conveys - absolutely nothing and to my mind earries no weight. Mundane mathe- matics, least of all Planck’s Con- stant, do not enter into it. The reference to picture projec- tion at 16 frames per second is not correct. A 48-cycle flicker has to be introduced to give constant vision, the eye not being sensitive to this constant and beyond. The “O” structure does not work out either, or any reciprocal in- cluded. I must point out that these remarks are directed to psychism only. The whole theory explodes when we ask how ghosts create material phenomena—vide Borley Rectory, poltergeists, opening and shutting of doors and actual phys- Toy SPECIAL OFFER to FATE Gollectors 5 Back Issues $1.00 We have on hand a few copies of each back issue listed below. Check the ones you need and mail the list and coupon with your remittance as soon as possible. Our stock of these back copies is being exhausted rapidly — SO DON’T WAIT! SEND YOUR ORDER TODAY! CLARK PUBLISHING CO. (B) | 845 CHICAGO AVENUE | EVANSTON, ILLINOIS I Picase send me immediately the back issues I have onead at the special reduced price of Se guise issues available except No. 1, 2, , 20, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18,

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