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July 1962 A0c THE UNKNOWN Two Midwest Poltergeists: In Jackson, Michigan Raymond V. Meagher, UPI ..... 24 In Indianapolis, Indiana Frank “Edwards= = 33.3% a5. 25 Those Lost Soviet Astronauts Fronk Edwards 2] 22 3c AS The Goiden Fireflies Of Space John CG Ross: 23 69 The King’s Musician And The Haunted epinct Pauline Saltzman ............ The Psychic Warning That Stopped The Train Julie C. Crawford ............ él The Restless Sexton " Lilian: Ghapman vias stisik-s sates» 74 Prof. William James’ ‘One White Crow” Alsons: Smith oe ee eae 78 Hypnosis Healed The Warts... Latest News... The Customer In The Cemetery . . . New Books FEATURES My Proof Of Survival... The Earth—A Vast “Bell” TRUE STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND aoe
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iULyY : Vol. 15—No.7 1962 C.. len L 5 Issue No. 148 Publisher: CURTIS FULLER | Assistant Publisher: PAUL FOGHT Editor: MARY FULLER Managing Editor: CHESTER S. GEIER CO Foreign Editor: MIR BASHIR Art Director: SYDNEY BARKER | TRUE REPORTS ON THE STRANGE AND UNKNOWN Two Midwest Poltergeists: In Jackson, Michigan Raymond V. Meagher, UPI 24 In Indianapolis, Indiana Frank Edwards 25 Those Lost Soviet Astronauts ..........:...cccscesce seceeseeseeseeseeeee Frank Edwards 48 The Golden Fireflies Of Space -............::c2sccscssssseseseeeeeueoee John C. Ross ~ 69 DBAMATIC ACCOUNTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCES The King’s Musician And The Haunted Spinet Spare Pauline Saltzman 39 The Psychic Warning That Stopped The Train .... Julie C. Crawford 61 “Phe Restless=Sextomssec. osc ctse anit scsesctaos casniemee Lilian Chapman 74 Prof. William James’ “One White Crow”... Alson J. Smith 78 NEWS AND NOTES ON UNUSUAL TOPICS I See By The Papers “Phe=Barth AsV astes Bell! saeco ee ee ee ee Hypnosis Healed The Warts 220.....020...ccccccesscsccseecesleseseeeeeess Vince Molloy 54 distiter ViivstiGe bap erie DCCs ei cuatrestee afc este, eee The Readers 55 The Customer In The Cemetery 20.00.0000... J. Mortimer Sheppard 73 Myatt oof OitsS tat ya va een eee Leen Sere The Readers 87 New Books Report From Tie Readers ...... The Readers 105 Published every month by CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Mli- nois. Second class postage paid at Evanston, Illinois, and at additional mailing offices. We do not accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manvscrijits, photographs or artwork. Subscribers should notify us of address changes 30 days in advance, givinr both old and new address. Copyright © 1962, CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY 4 , Me ——
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8 lums — no longer be Seen gyrating or bending over midds underground “streams? We doubt it. i The new miethod “may be a little surer but it also Sounds more complicated. More» now. let-us» costly, too. But the inevitable con- test between the two methods — the old and the new — will be some- thing to watch. CO SOME ASPECTS OF HEALING T IS TYPICAL of our confused ~ times that even science is not helping much to resolve present-day controversies over. healing. On the other hand, the United Lutheran Churches with 2,500,000 members have’ issued an official report calling healers “religious quacks” who “care more for money and powerthan a ee : The Lutherans. al- as as “those who, claimu.,. , S- sess or convey spiritual powers that heal the sick, distort the gospel by trying to direct the power of Christ into a miraculous act of bodily healing.” The committee advised its people to have nothing to do with such faith healers. It was less critical of the healing ministries of Christian churches or groups of Christians tied to traditional Christian church- es, but still advised Lutherans to exercise “caution and discretion.” At the sarie time, the committee tout that “mir- acles of 3 ealng” are ne ments. This is cont aD 2 cialist in diseases of the ‘bones was reviewed by Harald To = Hyman, M.D;, himself a “distin- guished physician. sae Dr. Hyman_ points out.that.Dr. = -Swaim is “connected with every dis-_ = tinguished medical institution in his _ native Boston.” See The book is called Arthritis, Medicine and the Spiritual Laws or pecs Science, and Dr, 72x. yman says, “I must confess that J I should never have read this4 ee if I ce not know Swaim ana%, tae ' wor. Briefly, Dr. Swain bathed” —— how, as an interne 5U 4.4." RN me he was impressed with the ¢ ect ON gy the mind on the body. In his work with arthritics he became dissatis- fied with results of approved treat- ment methods and felt something was missing. , He underwent psychoanalysis hoping to find the missing factor there. He was disappointed. Dr. Swaim then became convinc- ed that medical care must be sup- plemented by spiritual laws. To bring this about he led his patients in a two-way prayer “to an under-
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS standing God as a reality, not just a Power.” He taught them, “not just how to ask for what they wanted, but also how to listen to find out what God wanted and to accept His wisdom and guidance.” Where he was successful in con- veying this spirituality to his pa- tients, the disease ee Dr. Swaim states... So, on the one hand a Church disavows Spiritual Healing. On the other, a famous physician recom- mends it. GO COMMERCIALISM AND QUACKS OMEHOW, IT SEEMS to us, there must be a compromise here, a marriage between faith and medicine. Physicians must recog- nize that in many cases faith works more wonders than drugs. And the healers must recognize that the doctor is often indispensible. There may be “religious quacks” among faith healers; there are also “medical healers” among doctors. James Wilkie, a Canadian healer, proposes one difference between the “legitimate healer and the quack”. He says the difference is the “quack puts money first.” Tt strikes us that this is mislead- ing. Are healers to be paid? If not how are they to make a living? How wrong this restriction is can be emphasized by reversing the question. Are doctors to be paid? oO Metaphysical © Self-Help Occult @ Inspirational FREE — BOOK LIST ON REQUEST — DeVORSS & CO. 516 W. 9th St., Los Angeles 15, Calif. BOOKS ON YOGA NEW ® USED © OUT-OF-PRINT WE HAVE THEM ALL WILLIAM SLATER 80 East {ith St. e New York 3, N.Y. INTERESTED IN HYPNOTISM? Send for free illustrated catalog of over 400 books, aids, records, tapes, sleep-learning equipment. Wilshire School of Hypnotism 8721 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood 69F, California SUTRA TTT BRITISH RADIESTHESIA ASSOCIATION New members welcomed. $3.00 a year. Journal, Diploma, ete. World-wide membership. BRUCE COPEN, N.D. “The Lodge,’ Brantridge Forest Balcombe, Sussex, England SE iM AMATTS T lolololatatotosolalatetoselatetetotelalatotek : FOLLOW THE STARS Chart erected—No Interpretation .. $1.00 Chart and Interpretation ............ 5.00 Progressed Chart—(One Year) ...... 5.00 Fastrotogy taught by mail, 1.00 Give Month, Date, Year, Hour and Piace of Birth. oe MARGARET MURDOCH 237 E. Leafland Ave. Decatur, Illinois FOO YO YI. Bach TeSSOM mcscccacscccnssesesceveccasevecs ; FAARIAKAKK IKK
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10 If they are not, etc.... Do we assume that there is some- thing more sacred in the way a healer works and that, therefore, even the mention of money is wrong, whereas doctors have a nat- ural born right to be commercial? We raise this question, not in search of an ultimate answer but to demonstrate flaws in our ways of looking at the matter. If the whole man is to be treated, body and spirit, how can we dif- ferentiate between the two in im- portance or between the physician who treats the body and the faith healer. CoO WHAT IS_ INTELLIGENCE? (15 OW CAN I explain a re- tarded child who can pick up a journal on my desk (American Journal of Mental Deficiency) and read from it perfectly?” This question was recently asked, rhetorically, by Ashley Mixson, psychologist of the Kentucky Chil- dren’s Home at Lyndon, and he was referring to a 10-year-old boy named Bobby who has been in the Home since 1957. Bobby is a bright-eyed, blonde boy who was born by Caesarian section and may have suffered brain damage in the process. When Bob- by arrived at the Home at the age of five he couldn’t feed nor dress himself — :ll he could do was walk, FATE sleep, and read. “Read .. . can you imagine that?” asked Mixson. Bobby has demonstrated that he can read Latin, French, German, Spanish. Once a university student from Turkey visited the Training Home and wrote in Turkish script on the blackboard. The script was completely foreign to Mixson, but he asked Bobby to read it. The boy did, and his accuracy was confirmed by the Turkish visitor. “Flow can I explain Bobby when he can read my French book and pronounce the words better than I can? And I had French in college?” asks Mixson. Bobby has been observed dood!- ing in Old English script. He may be a genius. - “His po- tential must be way up here,” Mix- son told a reporter, Thomas Tom- izawa, “but he’s functioning down at this level.” Mixson indicated his knees. Bobby is uncommunicative most of the time. Various intelligence tests indicate he is “mildly retarded” or “borderline.” In 1960 he scored zero in an arithmetic test, yet his teacher says he does well in arith- metic. He’s only average in spell- ing. He scores average in verbal in- telligence tests. Bobby’s case demonstrates what an elusive thing intelligence really is. Bobby draws well. He can call out the make and year of nearly any car on the road. He can name
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12 the capita! city of every state. But it is only in reading that his results are spectacular. How much does he understand of what he reads in foreign languages? It’s hard to say. But although he reads many foreign languages with letter perfection, officials at the school, after all these years, still don’t know whether he understands all of it or any of it. CO WHO WINDS THE CLOCK? eX FEW MONTHS ago Govern- ment archeologists dug up some centuries-old skeletons in the foundations of the clock tower in the little highland community of Abernethy, Scotland. Since then, townsfolk say, the old clock is being wound by some un- known peison or power. The oniy key to the clock and the only ley to the tower door are in the hands of Eric Stevenson, a town official. He told the town council: ‘I don’t know who “is winding the thing.” He didn’t say: “Or what.” co RHYTHMS HOSE PERSONS GATHER- ing evidence of the reactions of humans and animals to the rhyth- mic movements of Earth, planets and solar system, take note: One species of sand flea can di- rect itself to the sea on the basis FATE of the moon position —an all but incredible. bit of navigational com- putation. It has been suggested that engineers use sand flea brains in de- signing advanced miniaturized guid- ance systems. Moonlight (so a study team from Yale’s Osborn Zoological Labora- tory solemnly reports) increases the romantic, amorous activity of Le- murs. io a) NOW IT’S WHALES HE BOTTLE-NOSE porpoise may not be the only member of its family able to talk. Recently the United States Navy recorded three killer whales in what may have been a three-way conversa- tion, They sounded a little like Swiss yodelers, the Navy experts report, and there was sufficient variation in the sounds they made to indicate they could be conducting a kind of animal conversation, Furthermore, only one “talked” at-a time, and then another would come in as though replying to the first. The Navy is studying the mat- ter and plans further tests to de- termine whether a code or speech pattern can be detected in the whale recording. One Antarctic explorer already has reported evidence that the fierce killer whales are intelligent and do communicate. In one case a fleet of
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18 SI Na alleabertiags —' ot FFI INSPIRED - NOVELS URING the past hundred years a select number of men and women haye written books obviously inspired from a source far beyond the powers of the greater masses of human be- ings to contact. After years of searching we have assembled a collection of books which reveal the truth, foretell the future, and inform us of the hidden reality of our life and destiny. They are made available to you in economy form, books that ordinarily sell for $5.00 and up, for only $2.00 in single copies, or $1.50 each in subscription form by the year (4 books per year, published quar- terly.) J*irst in the series is Marie Corelli’s A ROMANCE OF TWO WORLDS (available by re- turn mail) and coming next is THE SOUL OF LILITH by the same author. Don’t miss this op- portunity to own and read the most wonderful library of inspir- ation on earth. Subscribe now! Order from: RAY PALMER AMHERST, WISCONSIN eee eee, Ce ee ey FATE sometimes high, sometimes low. It has been chased by automobiles at speeds up to 60 m.p.h. but never has been caught. One young man said he saw the light sitting on the hood of his car. Another heard the faint tinkle of a bell. When the light appeared the bell began to ring like mad. Another fellow got so excited when he saw the light he jumped into the car and locked all the doors —leaving his wife outside. CoO THE MAN WITH THE MAGIC TOUCH OOK IN THE London, Eng- land, telephone book and you will find the name “Charles Brook” and after his name the profession, “Tmpulse Changer.” “When I change impulses they stay changed,” says Mr. Brook, who was trained as a lawyer but gave it up for his present profes- sion. And what is an Impulse Changer? Here’s how Brook explained it to Robert Musel of UPI. He believes bad habits are pro- tected and perpetuated by the nervous system and can best be eradicated by altering the nervous impulses. Mr. Brook does this simply by placing his finger tips against a client. He is mostly interested in human clients but people keep asking -him to change the impulses of their an-
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS imals—their horses and greyhounds. Naturally people put Mr. Brook down as just another nut when he advertised his new profession but they stopped laughing after he used his fingertips on the horses of the British Olympic Team in 1956. The horses he treated, including one of Queen Elizabeth’s stable, won the gold medal in the team competi- tion. Another of the Queen’s hors- es, Aureole, was difficult to handle until Brook laid his hands on it. Aureole went on to become a big money winner and one of the most valuable horses now at stud. Pas Seul had not won a race in months when Brook was asked to give the horse some attention. The “impulse” he transmitted in this case were designed to keep the horse’s attention from wandering. Since then—up to the first of March that is — Pas Seul had won 16 races and $59,590. Late in February Pas Seul stum- bled in a race. Mr. Brook thought he might have to give it another treatment. oO BACK, BACK, BACK Bs IN THE DAYS when gi- raffes were the size of donkeys and elephants the size of cows, there was a creature halfway be- tween man and ape roaming the hills and valleys of Africa. Two halves of its upper palate and a 19 Remains of 14-million year-old sub-hu- man creature were discovered in Africa by Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, shown with wife. U. P. I. photo tooth recently were discovered by famed paleontologist L. S. B.. Leak- ey. The discovery is so new that the animal has not even been given a hame. This animal lived 14 million years ago, give-or-take a few hundred thousand years—and it was like man in that its canine teeth pro- truded only slightly, whereas in apes the protusion is decided. Like- wise, it had a depression in its cheek bone that is found in man, but nev- er in apes.” What else it looked like will be difficult to say until more bones are found. Dr. Leakey believes that
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20 % may be soon, since the site, at Fort Ternan in Kenya, barely has been scratched. oO WHEN IT ALL BEGAN HINGS WERE pretty simple on Earth until about 600 mil- lion years ago; after that compli- cations arose. At least, this is the theory of a Canadian scientist, Dr. J. R. Nursall, of the University of Alberta. For years paleontologists and others have wondered why so few fossils — and none of them com- plicated —-are over 600 million years old. Now Dr. Nursall has sug- gested an answer. Up to about 800 million years ago, he suggests, the earth’s atmos- phere was oxygen-reducing. What oxygen was present combined with other elements in the earth’s crust and was lost from the atmosphere. This had een going on for a thou- sand million years and the only kind of life that could exist in this atmosphere was a simple form, such as algae, which could live without oxygen. ; But gradually a form that learned to utilize light it its chemical pro- cesses developed. This photosyn- thesis caused it to form carbohy- drates anc excrete oxygen. That’s how vegetable life works today. Photosynthesis supplied the oxy- FATE gen and more complicated forms de- veloped which were able to use oxy- gen supplied by the simple plants. These life-forms evolved rapidly and all animal life stemmed from the fact that the atmosphere had come to contain oxygen. io a) THE ROMANTIC SIDE IGGING UP OLD bones never 4 has seemed to us half as ro- mantic as digging up ancient cities: In June, a British Royal Air Force team of 20 skin divers and scientists from the University of Singapore proposes to explore a Ma- layan lake which may cover a lost city. The lake is known as Tasek Chini. It is in the state of Pahang and covers about 10 square miles. Aerial photographs taken near the lake show several squares appearing to be 500 yards on a side. Only fragmentary artifacts have been found; but the area is little explored. If the archeological search should fail, the searchers can always go monster hunting. Aborigines and Malay. fishermen believe there’s a monster there, with a long neck. Haji Shepherd, director of Malay’s national museum, believes there’s an amphibious monster in the lake but doubts there’s a buried city. oO PREMONITION ARY BUSCH, reservations clerk at Vancouver’s Bay-
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Twro Midwest IN JACKSON, MICHIGAN... The ordinary poltergeist tires quickly, according to authorities. But the Lincolns’ spook is oddly long-lived. By Raymond V Meagher United Press International 1G bee AMERICAN polter- geists, like other modern Americans, seem to be enjoying much longer lives than their pio- neering ancestors. The Victor Lin- coln family of Jackson, Mich., be- lieve they have one that is now in its third year of activity. For more than two years the Lin- coln family thought they were the target of malicious prowlers. Fre- quently, on returning home to an empty house they found lamps over- turned, bottles and light bulbs strewn about, water running and doors that had been shut tight open. Georgine lincoln, 13, rights mysteri- When Jackson police failed to ously over-iurned lamp in home where - ° turn up anything the Lincolns put gud: . meng pe see ee double locks on their doors, but (Continued on page 33) 24
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Glassware in the Beck home was smashed mysteriously. | hen an invisible “bat bit the three female occupants. = Poltergeists : » IN INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA [ea OTTLES SMASHED, tempers flashed, ash trays shattered, and police arrested one of the principals for creating a disturbance. But when it was all over one fact re- mained — America’s latest polter- geist case was still unexplained. The uproar began in Indian- apolis on Sunday night, March 11, 1962, a few minutes past 10:00 P.M., according to 32-year-old Mrs. Renate Beck. Mrs. Beck, a divorcee and her widowed mother, Mrs. Lina Gemmecke, 61, and Mrs. Beck’s 13-year-old daughter, Linda, all live together in a huge two story house at 2910 North Delaware St., in Indianapolis. There had been noth- ing unusual about the day for them until 10:37 P.M. when they heard a resounding crash upstairs. “For a moment,” said Mrs. Beck, “T thought it must have been burg- lars who had slipped upstairs while the three of us were all in the down- 2) \
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26 stairs kitchen. There’s been a lot of burglary in this city lately and that was the first thing I thought of. But when we went upstairs to look we found that a piece of crys- tal that we had brought from Ger- many was lying on the floor about four feet from the bookcase where I had kept it — and the crystal was broken to pieces. I don’t see how it got off that bookcase in the first place — nor how it landed four feet away.” The disturbed trio had little time to ponder that problem before they found themselves faced with an- other. About 45 minutes after they FATE heard the crystal smash to the bed- room floor a heavy ash tray was flung violently against the wall of a downstairs room. Half an hour later still another piece of crystal was broken while the three. women were all huddled fearfully in the kitchen. By midnight this series of events was too much for the ladies and they moved to a hotel to spend the night there, unharried by the sound of breaking glass. Although they could escape the sound of shattering crockery, it is possible that they could not evade the sounds of their own family strife. Here is an introduction to Damage to furnish- ings in Beck home reportedly ‘show a strange selectivity. First- only glassware was smashed,. next only chinaware. Then phenomena involved, in turn, only cut- lery and furniture. UPI; Photo
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POLTERGEIST IN INDIANAPOLIS 27 the members of the family: The mother is Renate Beck, 32, divorced wife of a former U.S. Em- bassy officer whom she married in her native Vienna. Mrs. Beck is well educated and speaks English fluently, although with an accent. Presently she is not talking at all, however, on advice of her attorney. “Already too much trouble,” she says. The daughter is Linda Beck, 13. Shy and nervous, she is uncommuni- cative when the subject of the strange doings of the “poltergeist” are mentioned. The grandmother is Mrs. Lina Gemmecke, 61, mother of Mrs. Beck. The moderately well-to-do widow of a newspaper publisher in Kassel, Germany, she came here three years ago, following the death of her husband. Friends and neigh- bors tell me this has not been a tranquil or happy relationship — at times, they say, it has been quite noisy and seemingly unpleasant for those directly involved. The fourth and fifth members of the cast are Mr. and Mrs. Emil Noseda, friends of the Beck family. Noseda, 64, is a respected Indian- apolis businessman who for many years operated the Sheffield Inn, one of the city’s best-known hostelries. - When the phenomena began at Mrs. Beck’s home she made two tele- phone calls—to Mr. Noseda and to the police —in that order. Mr. and Mrs. Noseda are very important to our investigation be- cause they are the only credible witnesses willing to go on record with a report of phenomena they have personally observed. The No- sedas are, however, not the only re-
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28 liable observers who have probed the Indianapolis situation. Dr. Wil- liam G. Roll, project director of the Psychical Research Foundation, Durham, N.C., lived in the Beck home with the family from March 16 to 22. His reports, unfortunate- ly, will not be made public im- mediately Until this article appears in FATE, the public’s knowledge of the In- dianapolis poltergeist will have been limited tc newspaper stories based on police reports. I am going to recapitulate those police reports for you, hut I give you this warn- ing —the police reports vary dra- matically from the eyewitness re- port made to me by Emil Noseda. The Indianapolis police first en- tered the case on the second day. After a restful night at the hotel, the three women had gone home about 1:30 Monday afternoon. They found nothing amiss, but within 30 minutes of their arrival glass was breaking again, upstairs and dowrstairs. The three women ran from room to room to find bowls ard vases broken. When Mrs. Genmecke arose from her chair in tie kitchen and opened the door of the refrigerator a coffee cup which had been lying in the sink across the room smashed against the wall above the chair she had just left. Bewildered and badly frightened now, the women called police. Ser- FATE geant John L. Mullin came on the double quick. He investigated, found three nervous women and a house littered with broken glass and crockery. Sergeant Mullin ventured the opinion that the dam- age had somehow been done either by a hi-fi record player or some sort of pellet gun. Both hypotheses had to be discarded. The house contained only one small record player which was not plugged in and had not been used for weeks. And since the storm windows were all intact, the pellet gun idea was untenable, Patrolman Ray Patton was pres- ent Monday night when the silence was broken by the sound of some- thing falling in Linda’s bedroom. He found a green glass figurine of a swan, broken in several pieces, lying in the center of the room. Other police officers soon arrived, bringing high frequency sound gear. By the time they got there the house .was surrounded by hundreds of the curious. Other police had to be dispatched to keep the ster open for traffic. The listening gear detected riot ing out of the ordinary and was re- moved from the premises. During the time that the gear was in use, and while the several officers were probing and prodding and postulat- ing there was no recurrence of the phenomena. Mrs. Beck noticed that her valise, containing $125 in
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POLTERGEIST IN INDIANAPOLIS 29 cash the operating fund of the small restaurant she recently had opened near her home, had van- ished. Police and reporters all scoured the house for some trace of the valise. They came up empty hand- ed. Now police found themselves with a new angle of this strange case — bites —or punctures—began to appear on the hands and arms of the girl, her mother and her grand- mother. In each case the “bites” consisted of three tiny punctures, like those made by a bat, according to one police statement.* But there were no bats flying around Indiana in mid-winter—not even in a house where glasses and fishbowls were flying. One of the most baffling aspects of the Beck case in Indianapolis was that which occurred about 8:30 Monday night, March 12, shortly after Patrolman Ray Patton ar- rived as an observer. He accom- panied the women on a tour of the house, which was still littered with broken glass and pottery. Mrs. Beck showed him a smashed mirror, heaped on the floor where it had fell after being knocked from the wall by a heavy ash tray which Mrs. Beck said had sailed from her *Authors note: For other instances of attacks of this type, see the Clara Vil- laneuva Case reported in FATE October 1953 and January 1954. more recent case was reported by FATE in October ‘glass. night table and into the mirror. She then showed the officer a set of three matched glasses. There had been six of them only 48 hours be- fore — but something or someone had broken three over the weekend. For safekeeping, Mrs. Beck ex- plained to Officer Patton, she was keeping the remaining three glasses under her hat on the dresser in her ‘room. That’s where they were when Patton last saw them to- gether. As the officer went through the hall one of the glasses which had been hidden under the hat struck him in the back and broke into several pieces. A moment later came the sound of more breaking Patton ran back into Mrs. Beck’s room and found another glass broken on the floor. He raised the hat where the three glasses had been concealed — only one remain- ed. When the phenomena subsided, the house on North Delaware was littered with fragments of mirrors, feathers from torn pillows, broken pottery and dented walls and wood- work where the violently-thrown objects had struck. Mrs. Beck, her mother and 13-year-old Linda be- gan cleaning up. But the house at 2910 Delaware was still not out of the news! The missing valise returned, minus part of the money. Mrs. Beck told police that her mother
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30 had found the valise, after she felt it nudging her leg. In it, only $35 remained of the $125 it had con- tained when it disappeared. The money was still unaccounted for on the night of March 25, ex- actly two weeks after the glassware first began to fly at the Beck home. On March 26 police were again called to the house at 2910 Dela- ware “to investigate a lady.” The call was evidently placed by one of the neighbors. The officer found Mrs. Gemmecke lying on the floor, apparently only semi-conscious. As he paused on the landing where the stairway makes a turn, the police- man said that he saw Mrs. Gem- mecke throw a heavy smoking tray against the wall and saw her upset a piano bench. He arrested her as a disorderly person. Mrs. Beck said that her mother, a diabetic, was suffering from shock and neeced medical care. She was taken first to the hospital, then after having been examined, was sent on to the city jail for the night. Next cay in court the judge pro- posed to hold her for a mental ex- amination but agreed to dismiss the case if Mrs. Gemmecke returned to Germany within 10 days, as the court was told she proposed to do. She was released on bond in the custody of Mrs. Beck. Newspapers immediately express- ed the belief that the poltergeist ac- FATE tivity at the Beck household could all be explained by the very phy- sical actions of Mrs. Gemmecke. The papers were aided in reach- ing their conclusions by some fas- cinating research conducted by Lt. Francis J. Dux of the Indianapolis police. Lt. Dux reported to the papers that he had, “. . . tried to get the spirits to come out and play, but they wouldn’t.” It appears that Lieutenant Dux sat everybody down in a room at the Beck house for a whole hour and a half. Nothing happened, he said, and he thereupon announced his conclusion that the phenomena happen only when one member of the household is out of sight and away from the others. This charge, based on 90 minutes of observation, is briskly and thor- oughly answered by Emil Noseda. Mr. Noseda bases his position on the fact that he was present, virtu- ally day and night, for the entire 16 days of the occurences. It is worth noting that the newspapers stopped reporting on the case after the sixth day. This may be in keep- ing with the conventional attitude toward such matters—“If you can’t explain it —ignore it!” Noseda’s account of the phe- nomena, obtained from his friends at the house and from his own per- sonal observations, differs from that hastily concocted and published in the Indianapolis papers.
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POLTERGEIST IN INDIANAPOLIS 31 He says that the activity began on the night of March 10, not with the breaking of a piece of crystal upstairs, but with the sudden and noisy movement of a heavy glass beer mug which left its position on the kitchen sink and fell behind a flower pot. Both women were in the kitchen at the time. Neither of them was within reach of the mug when it moved, says Noseda. A few minutes later, the crystal broke upstairs, while the three mem- bers of the household were down- stairs. This second event prompted Mrs. Beck’s calls to Noseda and the police. Mr. Noseda says that the phe- nomena developed selectively: First, only glassware was affected; then the activity was transferred to chinaware. When most of the chinaware in the house had been reduced to bits, brushes, cutlery and glass jars came in for attention. Finally, he says, furniture began moving about, ofttimes violently. “While all of us, including my wife, were sitting in the living room,” said Mr. Noseda. “A pin-up lamp fell off the wall several times. I got up and drove a larger nail in the wall. Pretty soon the Jamp came down again when nobody was near it. This time it broke.” “Could any of the persons in the house at that time have induced the actions of the lamp?” I asked. “They could not. We were all sitting right there together. No- body was within reach of the lamp. Nobody touched it. And we were all sitting in that same room to- gether when we heard a racket in the kitchen. We went out there and found three steak knives lying on the floor in the form of a cross. They had been in a drawer about three feet from where we found them. We put them back into the drawer and all of us went back into the front room. A few minutes later we heard the sound in the kitchen again. The knives were back out of the drawer, back on the kitchen floor in the form of a cross again. I have never seen any- thing like it — never!” Newsmen mentioned that the wo- men had complained of suffering tiny bites of some sort. Mr. Noseda says of such bites, “Yes. I saw them and so did many other per- sons who were present. One day Mrs. Gemmecke was sitting on the couch and all of us were discussing the case and the damage that had been done. Suddenly Mrs. Gem- mecke grabbed her throat and gasped, “They’re choking me!” A policeman and I grabbed her hands and pulled them down. On the lady’s throat were two sets of tiny punctures. They looked like tiny teeth marks jabbed in the form of a little triangle—on each side of her throat. They did not bleed and were given no medical attention.
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32 “Altogether,” says Mr. Noseda, “Mrs, Gemmecke was bitten nine times and Mrs. Beck was bitten twice. The flesh around the bites, or punctures, turned black and blue. But the women said the injuries caused no pain and they had no after effects.” Mr. Noscda says that he sent an eight page airmail letter describing the weird activities to his sister in Switzerland, who he describes as a very devou: woman. “She got my letter on March 25 and took it up with her parish priest. Next morning he and my sister and several other members of that parish held a lengthy prayer session, at which they repeatedly asked that the Becks be delivered from this trouble. We did not know about this at the time, but we did notice that the phenomena at Mrs. Beck’s house stopped on March 26, just 16 days after it began. It FATE stopped on the same day that my sister attended that prayer session in Switzerland. We wrote and thanked her and the others for what they had done.” Mr. Noseda further says “The phenomena had stopped before the police arrested Mrs. Gemmecke. I know from what I saw and heard, and from what my wife saw and heard, that neither Mrs. Gemmecke nor anyone else in that house could have done all the things that took place. There was something else involved—some force that de- liberately broke up things in other parts of the house while we were all, including Mrs. Gemmecke, seated together in one room. “T don’t know what it was or how it operated but I saw it in ac- tion and I can’t explain it. I never want to go through such experi- ences again and neither does any- one at that house!” WHAT IS’A POLTERGEIST? 'No cne knows what a poltergeist really is— But researchers have a number of well-defined theories regarding the phenomena. There are three theories based on the hypothesis that poltergeists are asso- ciated wiih living personalities: @ The poltergeist is the human psyche operating outside the body. © Foltergeist phenomena are examples of psychokinesis—the movement of objects or matter through mental power, at a distance. @ Foltergeist phenomena are associated with an unhappy or emotionally disturbed adolescent. A fourth theory is that poltergeist phenomena result from forces originating in personalities no longer living. This theory harks back to the original mean- ing of the German word polfergeist: racketing ghost. A fifth theory, favored by some conventional psychologists, is that ia poltergeis: exists only in the minds of the paranoid victims, A sixth and ever-present explanation is fraud.
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POLTERGEIST IN JACKSON (Continued from page 24) still they occasionally found their house had been partially vandal- ized. Since last October 30 the Lin- colns have been convinced that the intruders are not the type police can do anything about. In Vic Lincoln’s own words, the house is “spooked.” Dishes and bottles suddenly hur- tle through a room, moans come from the basement, heavy footsteps sound throughout the house, doors swing open by themselves, water and gas jets turn on for no explain- able reason and books transport themselves from bookcases to chairs and beds, he reports. In a word; the Lincolns believe they have a poltergeist. Except for the long span of the activity, the Lincolns would have an almost per- fect case history, an absolute paral- lel to a dozen previously document- ed. reports. However, the report of phenom- ena occuring over more than two years is very unusual. Dr. Nandor Fodor, noted psychoanalyst has had this to say about the “‘life” of a poltergeist, “The lifetime of a pol- tergeist is always limited. The ag- gressive energies that manifest themselves are spent in a few weeks, or in two to three months at best, and quiet returns to the house where everything went bump be- fore,” 33 The stretch-out of activity at the Lincoln home already has attracted two experienced: researchers from the privately endowed Psychical Research Foundation of Durham, N.C. The researchers are Dr. Wil- liam G. Roll, project director of the Psychical Research Foundation, and his associate, Dr. John Free- man. Dr. Roll spent four days in the house, living with the Lincoln family, in December and returned for a week-long visit late in Janu- ary. Dr. Freeman spent three days there in December. A complete report of their find- ings is expected at a later date, but they did leave Mrs. Beatrice Lin- coln with the impression that they believe “someone’s memory has im- pregnated itself in the house.” “TJ don’t know exactly what it means but from my talks with the doctor I gather that he believes that somehow the memories of a former resident of the house have remained here after the resident’s death,” she said. The “former resident” is likely to have been a member of the Lincoln family since the home has been oc- cupied by several generations of this family since 1912. The house is now for sale and some observers wonder if the poltergeist might be protesting the impending loss of his family, since the phenomena are reported to have intensified after the house was put up for sale.
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34 FATE Vietor Lin:oln examines window shai- tered’ by »bject hurled without appar- ent agenc’. Such inexplicable happen- ings, he says, “We still can’t fake.” The present generation living in the house consists of the senior Lincolns end the three youngest of their six children. These include two sons, 15 and 22, and a daugh- ter, Georgine, 13. It is evident that the houseliold does not lack for the teen-agers often considered to be central fissures in poltergeist phe- nomena. At 13, Georgine is exactly the same age as Linda Beck, of the Indianapolis family currently hay- ing polterzeist problems. Victor |.incoln is a machinist, and the oldest son, John, is now looking Mrs. Lincoln. demonstrates how she lay on living room couch, alone in house; when paring knife from. kitchen drawer flew in and nicked her in the leg, for employment. He was discharged from the Army last August and has been living at home since then. On the night of October 30 John and his mother were seated in the living room reading, Suddenly they heard a noise as though a very heavy person was walking up the basement steps which lead both to the kitchen and to a bedroom occupied by John and his brother Thomas, 15. “The footsteps stopped but all at once we heard a sound as though someone was pounding terrifically hard on a door and Thomas came
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POLTERGEIST IN JACKSON 35 Thomas Lincoln, 15 (above), straightens up his room after if was struck by mysterious vandalism: Strain of long-continu- ed disturbances has led Lincolns to offer house for sale (below)—which reportedly has caused phenomena to intensify.
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oy running from his bedroom shouting that someone was trying to break in,” Mrs. Lincoln recalls. By now Vic Lincoln was up and had his shotgun. With the dog, Jackson, he opened the basement door and went into the cellar. “As soon as I opened the door the pounding stopped and there was nothing there. I didn’t notice any- thing peculiar in the cellar but ap- parently Jackson did. His hair went up on end and he wheeled around and bounded up the stairs, whining all the while,” Vic says. From that day on the Lincoln’s have known little peace. “We’ve gotten so used to hearing steps and moans everywhere at any time that we are learning to live with them. But we still can’t take these bottles whizzing through the house for no apparent reason, breakinz windows and dishes,” Lin- coln savs. Thus far no one has been injured seriously but Mrs. Lincoln was nicked in the leg by a flying paring knife that she says had been in a drawer in the kitchen. At the time Mrs. Lincoln was the only one in the house and she was lying on a couch in the living room which is separated from the kitchen by a dining room. Last Christmas was particularly harrowing for the Lincolns. Mrs. Lincoln reveals that the family had their Christmas tree for FATE only two days during the holidays. “Christmas Eve the entire family was in the living room when the lights suddenly flew off the tree and scattered about the house. That was enough for us and the tree came down,” she says. Harry Kellar, a Jackson County probation officer who was not pre- viously acquainted with the Lin- colns visited them after he heard about strange doings in the house. He says, “Everyone was sitting in the front room talking when Mr. Lin- coln said he heard water running. We went into the bathroom and water was pouring from a tap. “A little later while we were back in the front room, someone smelled gas and we discovered that the gas jets on the stove had been opened, although there was no flame.” Kellar recalls that he went to the Lincoln house a skeptic and ad- mits he’s still not certain that there is no reasonable explanation of what . happened. “But I do know this. I was keep- ing track of everyone and we were all in the living room when the water went on and the gas jets opened,” he says. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gingras, friends of both the Lincoln’s and Mr. Kellar, recall water and gas Were mysteriously turned on while they were in the house in December. On another occasion they were at °
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POLTERGEIST IN JACKSON the Lincoln’s waiting for Kellar to join them there. “My husband had just talked to Harry and he said it would be about 15 minutes before he would get over. About five minutes later, while my husband and I were seated on the living room couch and all the Lincolns were in the room with us, we heard footsteps on the porch. “We both heard the steps at the same instant because we each turned to the other and remarked that Harry had arrived sooner than we had expected. “But when Vic and my husband went to the door there was no one there. And though the porch was covered with new snow there were no é£otprints. Both my husband and I are positive we heard foot- steps on that porch and we heard them at the same instant,” Mrs. Gingras says with conviction. When Kellar arrived a short time later, footprints in the snow marked his path across the porch. Despite these presumably impar- tial observations there are many in Jackson who insist that the Lin- colns’ “haunted house” is either a hoax or that the family has been collectively victimized by overwork- ed imaginations. I have spent approximately 10 hours in the Lincoln house on three separate occasions. On two occasions — both during daylight hours — nothing happened. 37 But during an evening visit, last- ing from about 7:30 P.M. to short- ly after midnight, a number of things did. occur. There were four of us, including .a young woman, along with the Lincolns and four of their children in the house that night. Jn the first hour nothing happen- ed as we sat around the dining and living rooms, talking and watching television. Suddenly, though, Mr. Lincoln said he heard water running. Every- one immediately dashed into~ the bathroom where water was running, in fact, pouring from a tap. It is certain that everyone in the house was in either the dining or living rooms when the water turned on. Sometime later, while all were in the living room, someone reported they smelled oil. Again everyone made a mad dash, this time to a rear bedroom where, indeed, a strong odor of oil was coming from a space heater. I had been in that room a short time before and, out of curiosity, had checked the heater. It was not on. There was no odor. I am rea- sonably sure no one had entered the room between the time I check- ed the burner and we al! rushed back to check on the oil odor. After this had been investigated (the odor disappeared shortly after we all crowded into the bedroom) and we were moving back toward
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38 the living room, something smashed against a metal closet in the bed- room, This turned out to be a small glass bottle which was found on the floor beside the closet. While we were examining the bottle the lights in the house went out. They came back on when Mr. Lincoln replaced a fuse in the base- ment box Were unnatural forces responsible for these occurrences? Perhaps. But I recall that several years ago, whil: living in an apartment im a rather old building I was plagued with a bathroom tap that kept turning on by itself. A de- fective tap, rather than an unna- tural force turned out to be the cul- prit on that occasion. In any evaluation of what oc- curred while I was in the Lincoln’s house a rumber of things should be kept in rind, Each time something happened, except when the lights went out which was apparent to everyone FATE simultaneously, it was the Lincolns who first reported that something was going on. And each time they gave the re- port there was a great deal of com- motion with everyone, the Lincolns in the lead, rushing to investigate. With the rushing to and fro, the milling about, and the general com- motion it was impossible to keep a close check on everyone. For example: When the bottle smashed against the closet in the bedroom everyone was moving from that room toward the living room. No one saw the bottle in the air and it would have been a simple matter for someone to toss it behind him unobserved. I do not say that is what hap- pened, I say only that is what could have happened. Are unnatural forces at work in the Lincoln house? The Lincolns insist they are. You’ve heard the evidence. What is your decision? CLUES TO A CONTINENTAL LINK Wee supporting the theory that Australia, New Zea- iand, South America, South Africa and India once were linked toge her in one huge continent around the South Pole re- port:dly has been found by a New Zealand survey party in Ant- arctica. The men announced discovery in the Miller Range of metamorphic rocks and granite similar to those in New Zealand’s Fiordland and Nelson areas. At the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Alexandra ranges, they said, they found glacial morain, previously recorded in Australia, South Africa, South America and India.
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the KING'S MUSICIA is and the HAUNTED SPINET The spirit communicator claimed a king had given him the spinet—and he could prove his claim. By nine Salonen EON BACH, young-man-about- Paris and ardent antiquarian, browsed among the mélange of art objects, curiosities, and bric-a-brac in the little shop. It was May 4, 1865. Bach had found and fallen in love with a priceless collector’s item. It was an old portable spinet of remarkable beauty. Crafted of oak, with a remarkably well preserved finish, and ornamented with delicate carvings of gilded arabesques, the musical instrument was encrusted with turquoises and literally show- 39 ered with fleurs-de-lis. It was ob- vious to the young man that this had once belonged to a person of consequence. Léon Bach chuckled. He had found the perfect gift for his father, - the composer, pianist, teacher, and great-grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach. He asked the dealer the history of the instrument but, unfortunate- ly, the old man knew almost noth- ing. “All I can tell you, Monsieur, is that it was brought here to Paris from Italy by the party from whom
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40 I purchased it a few weeks ago,” he said. Léon studied the spinet carefully. It was approximately five feet long by two feet wide, and had no legs. It could be packed away, like a violin, in a wooden case. This port- able- instrument could easily be placed upon a table or stand. The small keys were arranged in the order of those identified with the contemporary pianoforte but when touched 1 set of wooden hammers “as thick as a lady’s finger” moved; each hac a point which struck a corresponding wire. The antique was genuine, all right, clearly it be- longed to the French Renaissance. Monsicur Bach, senior, was 67 years old and in rather frail health, but he was in full enjoyment of his mental iaculties and his capacity for worl: would have daunted a much younger man. He had begun his highly successful career in 1819 when, as a pupil of Zimmerman at the Paris Conservatoire, he had been awarded first prize for piano performance. Even now N. G. Bach was acclaimed by critics as “one of our most esteemed teachers.” His son was right. Monsieur Bach wis thrilled, excited, and en- chanted with his gift. He spent most of the first day admiring the delicate. intricate traceries and try- ing its ‘ones. Delighted as a child with a new toy, he inspected the ‘mechanism for hours on end. And ‘FATE before the day ended Bach had made a discovery. On a narrow wooden bar which supported the sounding-board Bach detected writing. Two small blocks above the bar and between it and the sounding-board, entirely con- cealed a part of this writing. But by turning the spinet up and per- mitting a strong light to flood the room, Bach was able to distinguish these Latin words: “Jn Roma An- tonius Nobilis.” ‘There followed a blank probably caused by the in- tervention of one of the blocks, then the following words: “Brena Medislani Patrioe.” Another ob- structing blank intervened and then the words “Die xiy Aprillis 1564,” were followed by a sequence of im- perfectly formed words, cut off by the lanks — an O, the word, “soné,” and “A per.” Following this last blank was the word reducit. Ap- parently these words had been writ- ten before the spinet was framed. Thus, Monsieur Bach learned that his acquisition was more than 300 years old, that it had been manu- factured at Rome in 1564 by one Antonius Nobilis, who was evident- ly from the vicinity of Milan. The instrument probably had been com- pleted on April 14th of that year. Now, father and son had confirma- tion of their belief that the spinet was indeed a priceless relic of the French Renaissance. The hour was late but Monsieur
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THE KING’S MUSICIAN AND THE HAUNTED SPINET 4 Bach was too pleasantly fatigued even to eat dinner. Besides, it was time for bed. In his sleep he dreamed that, as was exactly the case, he was in bed fast asleep. Suddenly a handsome young man with a clipped beard, attired in the fashion of a bygone era, appeared before him. Bach recognized the costume as typical. of the French Renaissance Court: rich doublet with generous lace collar and close- fitting, slashed sleeves, trunk hose, low shoes decorated with rosettes. Doffing his high-pointed, broad- rimmed, white-plumed hat, the young man bowed and smiled as he approached the sleeper. His voice was clear although his French was archaic, like an echo of Ronsard’s verse: “The spinet you now have in your possession belonged to me. I played it often to amuse my master, King Henri. When my master was a young man, he composed an air with words; this he was fond of singing, and I played the accom- paniment. Both words and air were composed in memory of a lady whom my master loved greatly. When they were separated, he en- dured much grief. When she died, and in his moments of sadness, King Henri would hum this melo- dy.” The strange guest paused, then continued. “TI will play it for you now; then I shall take means to recall this melody to your memory.” . He smiled wistfully. “I happen to know your memory is poor.” He seated himself at the antique spinet and to his own accompaniment he sang the lovely, plaintive ballade. Bach’s eyes were filled with tears when he awoke. He lighted his bed- side candle and saw by the clock that it was 2:00 o’clock in the morning. He mused on his very realistic dream and eventually went back to sleep. When he awoke for the second time with the sun streaming —in through the window, it was without the slightest recollection of his dream. However, there was a sheet of paper on the bed. Bach examined it closely, and saw that it was a rare specimen of antique musical calligraphy. The notes were tiny, and the clefs like those found in an- cient musical manuscripts. He had seen enough of them in the mu- seums of Paris to recognize music and lyrics of the Renaissance, for here and there, Gothic “tails” were attached to certain letters, Clearly then, both words and music were of Renaissance vintage, probably of the 16th century! The experienced eyes of the com- poser ranged over the carefully formed musical notes. Could this possibly be the song of his dream, the memory of which now returned with startling clarity? Bach read the lyrics. Of course, he remem-
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42 bered thein now! He hastened to his piano and within seconds was convinced beyond doubt that here was the .ery music and lyrics his dream vis tor had played and sung! Monsieur Bach’s first feeling, fol- lowing his experiment, was one of troubled perplexity and alarm. What did all this mean? He took up the mystifyinz manuscript and reversed it. For the first time he saw that it was a ‘our-page sheet of his own conventicnal music manuscript pa- per. Two of the pages contained his own work, notes he had written just the day before. But someone had fille the two blank pages with the mysterious composition so typ- ical of a bygone age! Now i new though struck Mon- sieur Bach. Had he done this him- self? Was he a somnambulist? The thought that a supernatural agency had worked through him occurred to him, but Bach had no patience with this theory. But the more he studied the names, dates, and the music itself, the more bewildered Monsieur Bach became. The young man he had seen aid heard so clearly in his dream iad referred to his “master, King Menri.” Since the date of the spinet’s manufacture was 1564 he reasoned that, at this time, the famous musical amateur, King Hen- ri III, last of the Valois line, had been the Duc d’Anjou, and about 14 yeers old. It was logical then, FATE Bach figured, that the instrument had found its way from Rome to the French Court of the artistic young prince. French history cor- roborates the fact that the tragic, misunderstood Henri III was an amateur composer and patron of the arts. His talent had been genu- ine. The matter began to obsess Mon- sieur Bach and he related his story to everyone who would listen. Writers, artists, antiquarians, all converged upon his home to hear him tell his strange experience and to see for themselves the amazing musical instrument. Among these visitors were a number of sincere Spiritualists. For the first time Bach heard about automatic writ- ing, and the theory that his own hand might have written as he slept made a profound impression upon him. Public curiosity had to be satis- fied, so the Bachs consented to hav- ing the spinet lodged for a short period in the Retrospective Mu- seum of the Palace of Industry. Thousands of Parisians flocked to see the Renaissance piece, after reading about it in the newspapers. One afternoon, three or four weeks following the dream, Bach’s head suddenly began to ache. There followed a nervous trembling of his arm and it occurred to him that perhaps some spirit wished to com- municate through him in writing,
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THE KING’S MUSICIAN AND THE HAUNTED SPINET 43 possibly ‘to provide an explanation of the mystery that plagued him. The instant Monsieur Bach ap- plied a pencil to a sheet of paper he lost consciousness. He had no way of knowing that his hand was writing in the calligraphy of long- forgotten French: “King Henri, my master, who gave me the spinet you now pos- sess, once wrote a four-line stanza on a piece of parchment. This he caused to be nailed on the case (étui), when, one morning, he sent me the spinet. Some years after- wards, having to travel and take the instrument with me, I feared that the parchment might be torn off. For safe-keeping I place it in a small niche, on the left of the key- board, where it still reposes.” The communication was signed Baldazzarini. The stanza alluded to followed in this manner: “Le roy Henri donne cette grand espinette A Baldazzarini, tres-bon mu- sicien. Si elle n’est bonne ou pas assez coquette, Pour souvenir, du moins, qui’l la conserve bien.” Loosely translated, this quatrain reads: “The King Henri gives this large spinet To Baldazzarini, an excellent musician ; If it is not good, or not modish enough, At least,.for my sake, let him preserve it carefully.” The Bachs lost no time in re- moving the instrument from its temporary quarters in the museum. As soon as it arrived’in Monsieur Bach’s apartment father and son set to work hunting the piece of parchment. For hours they explored every nook and cranny of the ancient spinet, without result. They were about to give up the project when Léon reread what his father’s hand had written. They now raised the keyboard and removed some of the hammers-and, to their amazement, found, underneath on the left, a narrow wooden slit. This held a piece of parchment measuring 11% inches long by two-and-three-quar- ters inches wide. On this, written in a bold dashing hand were four lines similar to those Monsieur Bach’s hand had written automatic- ally, The quatrain was signed with the sign manual of King Henri IIT! Time had blackened the paper and father and son restrained their overwhelming excitement to take time to cleanse the parchment as carefully as they could. But they’d
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44 been right in the first place —it was indeed a four-line stanza, in slight variation to the lines Bach had written while entranced! “Moy le Roy Henri trois oc- tro.'s cette espinette A Baltasarini mon gay musi- Cien, Mais ;’ il dit mal sone, ou bien (ma) moutte simplette Lors pour mon souvenir dans Vestuy gardie bien. Henri” “T, King Henri III, present thi. spinet To Ealtasarini, my gay musi- cian: But f he finds it poor-toned, or else very simple, Still, for my sake, let him pre- serve it im its case. Henri” The news of this development spread. Intellectuals argued that in the tinie of the Renaissance, the French language frequently varied in nuatice, grammar, and especially spelling. : In the United States Monsieur Bach’s story found the sympathetic ear of Robert Dale Owen, one of the most enlightened men of his age. He wes the son of Robert Owen, the Welsh social reformer and phi- lanthropist. Robert Dale Owen had been -rought to America, together FATE — with his three brothers, in 1825. He had been school teacher, editor, and member of the House of Re- presentatives prior to serving as U.S. Minister to Italy. Asa champion of the emancipation of slaves and advocate of fairness to women in divorce cases he had sat in Con- gress and had helped draft the bill founding the Smithsonian Institu- tion. From the outset, Owen was in- tensely interested in the Bach case. From the pianist and his son he ob- tained a photograph of the spinet. This later served as an illustration to his version of the story, an in- tegral segment of his work entitled The Debatable Land between This World and the Next, published by G. W. Carleton & Company in 1871. Owen comments; “Amazed they must have been! Yet I doubt whether it occurred to father or son, as it occurs to me, that the evidence thus brought to light is vastly stronger on account of its peculiar character — is much more convincing because, while ab- solutely substantial in its coinci- dence with the promised stanza, it bears no stamp of literalism.” Spelling, semantics, nuance, all were involved. The interpolated “ma” in the discovered stanza great- ly puzzled the Bachs at first, but even this was subsequently explain- ed to their complete satisfaction. Here is Monsieur Bach’s statement
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3 THE KING’S MUSICIAN AND THE HAUNTED SPINET 45 pertinent to this fact: “No one could imagine the meaning of the word ‘ma,’ surrounded by lines... But one day my hand was again moved involuntarily, and there was written ‘Amico mio: The King joked about my Italian accent in the verse he sent with the spinet. I always said ‘ma’ instead of ‘mats.’ ” (Owen observed that Italians, when speaking French, frequently made this error.) The original, age-yellowed parch- ment that had been extracted from the spinet was taken by Monsieur Bach to the Imperial Library. There he compared it with other manuscripts written in the time of Henri III. The writing in Bach’s parchment verse and signature was found to correspond even in the most minute details to some ac- knowledged originals of the King’s handwriting. Expert antiquarians all pronounced Henri’s signature as genuine. Furthermore, the tiny holes vis- ible along the upper edge of the parchment gave evidence that- it had been tacked to a wooden sur- face. This sustained the statement that Henri had had it “nailed to the case.” On the lower edge it had obviously been cut off inside the nail-holes. However, the marks of four larger holes—one at each corner of the parchment — were distinctly visible. The rough cross above the quatrain comprised ad- ditional proof of authenticity, for a similar token of piety heads almost every specimen of Henri’s auto- graph. For weeks, the Parisian newspa- pers headlined the story, and news services throughout the civilized world followed suit. Everyone, it seemed, enjoyed a field day with Monsieur Bach’s antique spinet. On the whole, the story was thought fantastic and impossible; the con- sensus of opinion seemed to be that somewhere along the line there must be a logical explanation. But Bach’s reputation for integrity was excel- lent. The Paris correspondent for the New York Nation (June 12, 1866) referred to him in the most respectful terms. Monsieur Bach subsequently wrote his own arrangement of the ballade, which was published. No treble accompaniment had been evi- dent in the original, only the air with bass, and Monsieur Bach sup- plied the right-hand accompaniment. This he did with taste and delicacy. The lyrics were graceful and en- tirely in keeping with the senti- ments expressed in the bailades of the French Renaissance. (The En- glish version is by Robert Dale Owen himself.) Two special allu- sions are evident in the score: one is to the Royal composer as he ex- periences intense longing for the object of his love, “whom he had first met at a ‘distant hunt’ (chasse
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46 lointine): the other is to the lady. herself, v'ho had passed her last sad days in « cloister. Numerous research projects were launched. Archives of 16th Century were seiurched, to determine how far historical records bore out Mon- sieur Bach’s story. It was soon as- certaine! that the great love of Henri’s \ife was the Princesse Marie de Cléves. A diary kept in that passed era disclosed that she ac- tually had died in her uncle’s abbey. In the United States Robert Dale Owen l-arned much about the mu- sician who had appeared to Bach in his dream. But in spite of his vast erudition in many matters, in- cluding psychic phenomena, he was no’ musicologist. He found it next to impossible to verify even the ex- istence of Baltasarini of the many~- spellinzs. At last Owen found a brief reference at Boston’s Athen- aeum J.ibrary, in a French diction- ary of musicians. He found another very brief note by the Abbé Leng- ‘let-Duiresnoy: “In 1579, Baltaz- zarini, a celebrated Italian musician, came to France, to the Court of Henri III.” Had Owen known any- thing about musicology, he would have left no stone unturned to con- sult te definite work of the 18th- century music historian, Charles Burney, for A General History of Music carefully documents the en- tire career of Baltazarini who was actually a violinist: FATE “The violin seems to have been brought into favor at the Court of France before any honorable men- tion is made of it elsewhere, by the arrival of Baltazarini (died c. 1587), a great performer on that instrument, who, at the head of a band of violinists was sent to Cath- erine de Medicis (Henri’s mother) in 1555, and appointed by that prin- cess her first valet de chambre and superintendent of music. Baltaza- rini having contributed greatly to the amusement of the royal family and nobility, by his ingenuity in suggesting magnificent plans, ma- chinery, and representations, re- ceived the quaint title of Beaux- joyeux (interpreted as “gay mu- sician”!), by which he ever con- tinued to be called . . . In the pre- face of a Balet (ballet), Beaujoy- eux says, he had ‘blended together Poetry, Music, and Dancing in a manner, which if ever done before, must have been in such remote antiquity, that it may now well be called new.” This description tells us that Henri III bestowed the nickname, “Beaujoyeux,” upon the Italian Baltasarini, and thus proves the truthfulness of the dream manu- script. “What shall we say of Monsieur Bach’s story?” Robert Dale Owen asks. “The documents from which I have compiled it were procured for me by an English friend in
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THE KING’S MUSICIAN AND THE HAUNTED SPINET 47 Paris, This friend, having made Monsieur Bach’s acquaintance, ob- tained personally from him all the particulars, with corrections of the newspaper statements and answers to various queries of mine, suggest- ed by the documents as I first ob- tained them; also, through Mon- sieur Bach’s courtesy, the various photographs I possess, together with the following certificate, in Monsieur Bach’s own handwriting, appended to the facsimile of the original music, which he found on his bed: “ «This is a correct facsimile from the sheet of music paper which I found on my bed on the morning of May 5, 1865. The air and words are truly those which I heard in my dream. (signed) N. G. Bach.’ ” At Owen’s request, Monsieur Bach sent him this statement, which is dated March 23, 1867: “T attest the existence of the parchment still in my possession, containing the verses composed by the King and addressed to the cele- brated musician, Baldazarini; and that it was found in a secret com- partment of the spinet which the King had given him, and also that the communication announcing the existence of the parchment, and stating that it had been placed there, is, in every point, the exact truth. I add that the photographs of the spinet and of the parchment, and the reproduction of the auto- graph of the music and words, are well executed and perfectly exact.” The facts speak for themselves. The story of N. G. Bach’s antique spinet is one of the best documented stories in the history of psychic re- search. ee THE EARTH—A VAST “BELL” STUDY of prolonged re- sonanee effects which re- sult when the earth is struck a hammer blow by a major earthquake, indicates that the earth “rings’—and that, in fact, it is more resonant than the most perfectly cast bell. The discovery of the earth’s ‘ringing’ was reported by Dr. Gordon J. F. MacDonald of the University of California, in ° Los Angeles, at the recent an- nual meeting of the American Physical Society in New York City. Dr. MacDonald stated that the discovery grew out of an- alysis of shock waves from the Chilean earthquake of 1960. An earthquake of such pro- portions causes everything on the globe to bounee up and down for roughly a month. This bouncing motion amounts to only about a thousandth of an inch, but it registers on sen- sitive instruments as a simul- taneous rising and _ falling throughout the world. The en- tire planet expands and con- tracts in a 20-minute cycle for about 80 days.
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— ‘Those Lost Russian Astronauts Cea. The wraps are off a well-kept Soviet secret—the fate of its astronauts on ill-timed space attempts. HE WORLD was understand- ably shocked when Soviet Prime Minister Khrushchev angrily pounded on his desk at the United Nations with his shoe. And the world was puzzled when Mr. Khru- shchey suddenly flew back to Rus- sia a few days later, instead of re- turning ty the ship that awaited for him in }ew York harbor. Something very disturbing had happenec to provoke such actions — but what? Little by little the truth leaked out: Soviet scientists had promised to arranye a spectacular space shot which Kaorushchey would announce to the United Nations. It had been decided ihat they would launch the first mzn into space—and the selectee was their famed speed pilot and parachutist, Piotr Dolgov, whose most recent accomplishment had been a new high altitude para- 48 chute jump on June 3, 1960. Prime Minister Khrushchev met with Dol- gov, congratulated him on his a- chievements and personally nom- inated him to be the first man into space. The shot was timed for Oc- tober 11, 1960. If successful (and Khrushchev had been assured that it would be) Khrushchev was to take the floor at the plenary session of the United Nations on October 13, 1960—at which time Dolgov would telephone greetings to the members of the U.N., plus the news of the Soviet triumph in space. It was to have been Khrushchevy’s greatest moment. Instead, it be- came a moment of frustration, temp- er tantrums and shoe-pounding. _ What happened can be pieced to- gether from evidence gathered by monitoring and tracking stations with which we have friendly rela- tions. Here is the story:
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Famed Russian speed pilot and parachutist Piotr Dolgov (below) was chosen fo be first man into space. The shot, made on October 11, 1960, ended in silence after Dol- gov went into orbit. Among other Soviet astronauts miss- ing and unaccounted for is Wassikevich Zavodosky (right), sent up in 1961 space attempt. ~ After his meeting with Khrushchev Dolgov hurried to the launching base at Kapustan lar, near the Black Sea. Because the shot had been rather hastily conceived, there was little time for practice: the political urgency was regarded as more important than the scientific necessities. 49 On October 11, 1960, Khrushchev was at the United Nations. He had been in great spirits, had been mak- ing little speeches from the balcony of the Soviet Embassy where he was living. The hour of triumph was near at hand, the hour when Russia would show the world how to conquer space —and the hour when Khrushchev himself would in- troduce the first space man to the assembled United Nations. Tracking stations in Turkey, Japan, Sweden, England and Italy all picked up the launching of some huge device on October 11 from the base near the Black Sea. They re- corded the radio signals from the device as it went into orbit. There were a few mumbled words — and after 28 minutes there was only
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50 silence. I)olgovy was gone. He was not the first nor the last to lose h's life in a Russian space shot atteinpt. Dolgov died on October 11, 1960. On Nove nber 28 of that same year another, ind still unidentified, Sov- iet astronaut perished in space even as he frantically called for the help that cou'id never reach him. The record of his tragic trip was re- corded by a listening station in Tur- in, Italy, which picked up the sig- nals on a frequency of 20:006 mega- cycles at 1:43, 2:05 and again, for the last time, at 3:00 P.M. In Morse code the doomed astronaut was serding the call for help: “World -— S.0.S.—S.0.S. — World —§.0.S.!” Whoever he was, he sent his distress call over and over, until it became so faint that it lapsed into the silence of eternity. Prior to Dolgov’s ill-fated flight another noted Soviet pilot had lost his life in the same sort of venture, although his fate, like the other Soviet space tragedies, has been a . well-kept secret. His name was Terentiy Shiborin, and with a bit of luck he could have been the first man to make a space flight — in- stead cf the first man to die in space. Shiborin was selected to make the ‘space ride in a Lunik II type capsule in February of 1959. You may recall that the Russians had been launching animals into space FATE and recovering them over Russia by parachute prior to February, 1959. The evidence indicated ‘that it would be possible for a human being to survive the same trip, using the same equipment and ‘techniques. Shiborin took off from Kapustan lar in February, 1960. He reported by radio for several minutes and the reports were recorded at Upp- sala and Bochum, as well as in Hawaii. Then the signals ended suddenly, perhaps because the cap- sule plunged back into the atmos- phere and was burned up. After the tragic attempts which cost the lives of Dolgov and the other (unidentified) astronaut. in late 1960 the Soviets confined their activities to some routine test- ing of their equipment. The next Soviet space shot was first detected by the Turin listen- ing station at 9:55 P.M. on Feb- ruary 2, 1961. The Cordiglia broth- ers who operate the station prompt- ly flashed the alert to other centers. Eight minutes later Jodrell Bank confirmed the presence of an ap- parent booster and capsule in the sky. Several stations detected the radio emissions from the capsule. The broadcasts were done on two frequencies; one gave locations at 30-second intervals, the other broad- cast only fragments of words. Nineteen minutes after estimated takeoff the words ceased entirely and the only sounds heard were the
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THOSE LOST RUSSIAN ASTRONAUTS 51 labored breathing of the astronaut. The heartbeat grew faster and fast- er. Both breathing and heartbeats grew increasingly loud until both ceased suddenly and simultaneous- ly at 10:33 P.M., about 38 minutes after takeoff. The Turin tapes were submitted to a famed Italian heart specialist, Professor A. G. Dogliotti, for anal- ysis and he was able to identify the heart beats clearly up to the mo- ment of collapse. It was his un- official conclusion that the astronaut died of injuries suffered at takeoff. Moscow never mentioned thelaunch- ing or the loss of the astronaut, of course. The Soviet launching and re- covery of both Gagarin and Titov, marking the first successful flights of men in space, were such dramatic scientific accomplishments that they overshadow the failures. Gagarin was launched into space on April 12, 1961, secretly, in accordance with Soviet policy. Tracking stations outside the Soviet influence picked him up promptly and followed his flight. Turin, Jodrell Bank, Boch- um and Meudon, France, all cover- ed the trip. Soviet landing times and take-off corresponded with what we already knew and their claim that Titov actually had orbited the earth was accepted without ques- tion. Having successfully hit the moon with a missile and having success- fully recovered a man from orbit for the first time in history, the Soviet scientists tried for a grand slam — two astronauts into space ‘in the same capsule. The launching apparently occur- red at the space base of Baikonur, near the Aral Sea, on May 17, 1961. On that day — and for seven days thereafter — the tracking stations already mentioned recorded two voices from the Soviet capsule —a male voice and the voice of a wo- man. They were evidently orbiting the earth, for the male voice fre- quently reported: “Everything satisfactory. We are maintaining the prescribed alti- tude.” The climax to this venture came in the early evening hours of May 24, 1961. Exactly what happened may never be known, of course, for it is possible that the Russians themselves do not know what it was that brought these astronauts to their fate. The Turin, Bochum and Meudon listening posts all recorded the last broadcast from the doomed pair in the space capsule. After the conventional disclosure that conditions were good and the capsule was maintaining it’s pre- scribed altitude, there was a brief pause. Then the man’s voice: “We can read the dials. The sig- nals are not clear, however. We see nothing.”
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52 There jollowed a silence of about five seconds after which a woman’s voice interjected: “Ill make it and hold tight with my right hand! Only this way can we maintain - equilibrium! Look out the peep- _ hole! Look out the peephole! I . have it...” A few seconds later the male voice yelled: “Here! Here there is something! There is something! It’s difficult . . .” After a pause of several seconds he continued, “If we do not get out the world will never learn about it! It is difficult .. .” At that point a Soviet station cut in to announce that it was 8 P.M. Moscow time. When the Soviet station ceased transmitting the hour the transmissions from the space capsule had ceased and were not re- newed. From the study of their words and their voices, the scientists in the listening posts concluded that the man and the woman in that Soviet capsule, in the early evening of May 24, 1961, had seen some- thing that first startled them, then terrified them. Before they could re- port on its appearance or its na- ture, they were drowned out by a routine transmission from a Soviet station. After that—#it was too late! It came as no surprise to learn that the Soviets had launched a two-man capsule, for their seven- ton Sputniks had prepared us for FATE that. And we knew that 30 men and eight women had trained for many months in a special camp in the’foothills of the Ural mountains. They had been whirled in centri- fuges, swept across the ground on rocket driven sledges and kept for days in frigid and oxygen-venting cabins. Only a few of them sur- vived the training and of that small group several have paid with their lives for the adventure of a space trip: Terentiy Shiborin, 1959; Piotr — Dolgov, 1960; Wassikevich Zavad- osky, 1961. Missing and unaccounted for are two other graduates of that same space training institution, Gennady Mikailov and Alexey Belokonev. The German magazine Revue, published in Munich on November 24, 1961, says that Serge Ilyushkin, son of the famous Soviet aircraft, designer, was hospitalized after an abortive space shot in April, 1961, and was reportedly still undergoing treatment in November of that year. His present whereabouts are unknown outside the Soviet Union. Shiborin, Dolgov and Zavadosky, plus the man and the woman just described, all added up to five known Russian astronauts who have lost their lives in the Soviet space pro- gram. But they do not constitute the complete list, of that we can be sure. On the last day of September, 1961, the Moscow paper Pravda
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THOSE LOST RUSSIAN ASTRONAUTS 53 trumpeted the news of a Soviet scientific deed that was then being arranged. The headline said: “Nations! Listen to the signals!” The article beneath the headlines said: : “The date of October 17, 1961, will be recorded in history as the conquest of space accomplished in honor of the Great Party Congress and as a demonstration of our might. For on this date the first manned flight to the moon will be- gin. Two of our aces, cosmonauts Major Titov and Major Gagarin, will take off together on a flight to the moon. They will be back in four days!” This marked the first time that the Soviets had announced one of their space shots in advance. It was to be timed, according to Prav- da, so that it could be announced to the Party Congress meeting then in Moscow. Here, unmistakably, was a brazen example of Soviet political utilization of science. It would have been ridiculous for the Soviets to have risked both their space veterans on such a project — and they didn’t. Major Titov was conspicuously present, seated in a place of honor at the Party Con- gress. Gagarin appeared briefly and was flown to some unannounced destination. October 17th, the day which Pravda had boastfully set aside as another great day for Soviet science, came and went. Khrushchev again found himself facing an assembly with his plans down — instead of a trip to the moon he had to content himself with announcing the ex- ploding of a big hydrogen bomb over Siberia. There was no explan- ation for the cancellation of the highly touted round trip to the moon. Examination of the recordings at non-Soviet monitoring stations tells the story which Pravda dared not report: On the same day that Pravda headlined it’s proud boast of an- other historic Soviet space shot their moon capsule was already on its way. Monitoring stations in Alaska and Canada, at Jodrell Bank, Meudon Observatory in France, the German National Ob- servatory at Bochum, and the sta- tion in Turin, Italy, all recorded the frenzied activity on all four Russian space frequencies. The craft had been launched from the base at Baikonur on the Aral Sea. It contained a man and a woman. They repeatedly broad- cast on 19:995 megacycles and their code name for the base they had left was “hole”. “Moon calling hole! Moon calling hole!” Up- psala, Sweden, pinpointed their posi- tion in space and, like the other stations, monitored their transmis- sions for more than seven hours. — Then, for reasons unknown, the sig-
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54 FATE costing Soviet space program. Had they too encountered some- thing they had no time to report? nals stopped, finally and forever. The would-be moon voyagers be- came victims #6 and #7 of the life- Oe HYPNOSIS HEALED THE WARTS By Vince Molloy Alf an amateur hypnotist, I ani three years ago a fel- low einployee, Bob Faust, asked if I cculd remove warts through hypncsis. Informing him it had been done many times, I asked why je was interested. Bol) told me his wife had warts on both feet and that they caused her much suffering, par- ticulerly when she walked. He also said that for three years doctors had burned them off but that they had always returned. I iold Bob I would be glad to see what could be done, and a fev nights later he and his wife, Myrtle, came to visit me. Afte: Bob had introduced me to his young and attractive wife we sat and talked of hyp- nosis and of the various ways it wis being used to help peo- ple. We talked until IT felt that Myrvle was at ease in my pres- ence and had sufficient under- standing and confidence regard- ing the ability of the subcon- sciois to heal. I then questioned her about the warts, and she hesitantly removed her shoes, which had been made to order. I now fully realized what torment walking must have caused her, for she had warts not only on the top of her feet but also over the soles. I had not known that warts could appear in such great numbers on one particular part of a person’s body. Seating Myrtle comfortably in a chair, I hypnotized her and suggested that within two weeks the warts would dry up and fall off, never to return. Two weeks later her feet were un- blemished and healthy. This was three years ago, and she has not had a wart since then. I wish to emphasize that she was in a light stage of hypnosis and that I hypnotized her only once. Skeptics may say this is an unusual case, but I say it is not unusual for the following rea- son. We often have heard of children going to some old man or woman, known to be a “wart healer,” who performs some im- pressive act and tells the chil- dren that because of this the wart will go away—and, sure enough, the wart goes. This simply is faith. The children believe it will happen and the subconscious produces the de- sired results. J]
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Jace MYSTIC EXPERIENCES FATE will pay $5 for each True Experience published. Stories———'' 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. They must be signed by author and the author's address must be given. Manuscripts will not be re- turned unless accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. A SIGN IN BLOOD By Evelyn Carlos I HAD PRAYED for a sign from my departed mother, but I never expected it to be written in blood! It all began on December 5, 1960, the evening of the first anniversary of my mother’s death. I had been to visit my father in a private hos- pital near us in Victoria, B.C., and on arriving home found my hus- band and son had gone to bed. I turned on TV and lay on the chesterfield to view it, my German Shepherd dog lying on the floor beside me. The lights in the living room were off, but as the kitchen and living room led right into one another with no door. between, a patch of light lit up the front room and our TV set. I had not been settled long when I jumped up and went to the kitch- en, to make some tea. After this I resumed my position on the chester- field with my tea. The dog was still sleeping peacefully, not having moved. Had he moved I would have heard him, as he had very 55 long toe nails, which click on our linoleum floors. Besides I could have seen him moving around as the kitchen looks right on to our TV set. My attention was almost immedi- ately caught by a pool of liquid directly in front of the TV set. I got up to investigate, tested it on my fingers, and found it looked to be blood. I could only think that somehow it must be the dog, and I examined him from head to tail, looked down his throat and inspected his paws. My examination showed no injury or bleeding. By this time he was as interested in the pool of blood as I, and he proceeded to clean it off the floor by licking it up, stopping any further investigation. T next wondered about my son and husband and started to their bedrooms. While examining the floor on the way to their rooms, which were off a small hallway ad- jacent to the living room, I noticed what appeared to be small globules of blood, somewhat bigger than ‘a
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56 pin point. leading around the sofa, past the oil stove in a straight line through the hallway, to the door of my husband’s room, where they stopped. There was nothing wrong with either my husband or son and no blood on their clothes. My husband said it must have come from the dog, despite the fact he was never in front of the TV and the blood was a big round pool, with no smearing of paws or tracking. I would have let that explanation suffice had not a similar incident oc- curred the next day. This time the dog was outside and I was all alone in the house. We have an enameled oil stove in the kitchen next to the refrigerator. I had washed out a white undervest for my husband and one for my son and put them on top of the burner, side by side, to dry. A sudden impulse led me to see how the rabbit we keep in our yard was getting on. I literally rushed out the house, picked up the rabbit and carried it back in my arms. My feet led me right back to the oil stove. To my utter amazement, two round pools of what looked like blood confronted me, in the center of each undershirt. It wes so fresh it had not yet been absorbed by the shirts and the pools were identical, looking almost as if they had been poured from a FATE. cup. The rabbit was the subject of a very thorough inspection this time, but there were no traces of blood either on it or me. I next looked through the refrigerator for meat which might have dripped on the stove, though I had not had any out. There was nothing but solidly frozen deer meat in the freezing compartment and the refrigerator yielded no clues. I soaked the vests in cold water, as they appeared definitely to be blood stains and was just scrubbing the remaining stains with soap and water when my son came in from school. I showed him the stains before they finally reacted te the washing and disappeared. My husband was convinced, as I had tried to convince myself, I had - spilled blood from meat on the vests. A day or two later I thought I would make a test to satisfy my- self. I unthawed the deer meat and poured the blood on some snowy white cloths. The blood from the meat was a brownish color, totally unlike the other stains and didn’t form two perfectly round pools.. This satisfied me that I couldn’t have spilled the blood in a moment of aberration. Was the fact that this happened on the anniversary of Mother’s death the reason for this manifesta- tion? Or was this just a coinci- dence. I had often prayed for a sign that my mother is still near
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES me. Could this have been the an- swer? — Victoria, B.C. SOMETHING TOLD ME By Marguetta G. Brown M* MOTHER frequently blam- ed her misfortunes on not listening to what “something told me.” As I grew up I also learned a respect for “something told me.” That my respect was not misplaced was demonstrated in July, 1960. Occasionally I take off my dia- mond engagement ring and leave it on a cupboard shelf as I wash dish- es. Frequently I leave it there for several hours at a time. If I can’t locate it at a glance, I don’t worry because I know it is there. But one day I could see my dia- mond was not on the shelf and “something” told me it it was really gone. Fear flooded my body. “Something” told me that I must find my ring immediately. I began to tremble. I started toward the phone to call the police. But a new wave of urgency washed over me and made me run past the phone out the door. I ran blindly to quiet the fear within me. I found myself on my neighbors’ front porch so I rang her door bell. The “hurry, hurry, hurry” feeling recharged through my body and without waiting for her to answer the door I whirled and turned down the walk to her garage. There I met my four-year-old 57 daughter, who looked startled. “Do you know where my dia- mond is? I must find it right away,” I asked her. = She shook her head “no” and backed away. “T won’t spank you,” I coaxed. “She doesn’t know, but I do,” piped up a small voice behind me. There stood a little girl who rarely played in the neighborhood. “She gave it to me and I’ll show you where I put it,” she continued. The little girl took me into the garage and showed me my diamond ring lying on the bumper of the neighbor’s car. I thanked her, put my ring on my finger and started home. As I passed my neighbor’s front door she called to me, “I’m sorry I didn’t answer the front door right away. You see, when I heard the bell I was just going out the kitchen door to. get in the car. I have to go to the store.” It hit me then how very critical the timing was in the finding of my diamond. I was so shaken I nearly collapsed, but I did have enough strength to breathe a prayer of thanks for a mother who taught me to listen to “something told me.” — Ponca City, Okla. IN THE TEA LEAVES By Nellie K. O’Brien T WAS DURING World War II that an odd coincidence hap-
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58 pened while my daughter, Winifred, and I were working in a nearby mill during a period when my hus- band, Willam, was convalescing frem a serinus operation. William was of English descent and a great lover of tea. A pot of tea, contairing a brew of loose tea leaves, was usually on the stove. He often called our attention to what he saic! were pictures in the tea leaves in the bottom of his cup, predicting perhaps company, per- haps travel. or something else. We always jok:d about it but refused to take it seriously. The end-»f-the-year holidays were coming up and Winifred and I were making plans for Thanksgiving. After dinncr on this particular day my husband suddenly said, “Well, you won’t have to get a turkey. You are going to get one.” In the bottom of his cup was as perfect a form of a turkey as you would want to see. _ Two weeks later my daughter and I each got a fat, plump turkey from the firm where we worked. Another. similar incident occur- red a few years later. My sister, Mabel, in extremely poor health, was in a nursing home. I had been to see he: recently and she had seemed no worse than usual. At home, shortly afterwards, I picked up my tee. cup after dinner, along with other dishes I meant to wash, and to my amazement a huge 5 was FATE perfectly etched in tea leaves on the bottom of the cup. Hands couldn’t have done a better job of arranging the tea leaves. I attached no significance to it, however, and rinsed it out. Two weeks later I received a phone call that Mabel had passed away. The date? May (the fifth month) 5, 1955. I still wonder if both experiences were coincidences, or is there some- thing prophetic about tea leaves? — Bridgewater, Mass. WITH HELP FROM GOD By Clarence Benedict G GUIDED the great Aus- tralian nurse Sister Kenny when she discovered the compress treatment to relieve the symptoms of paralytic polio. Perhaps God guided my hand when I tuned my radio. to a dramatization of Sister Kenny’s life given over a Grand Rapids radio station in 1944. For it inspired me to try her treatment on a friend who had been paralyzed for 15 years. Doctors had said that Jack Pur- cell never would walk again and for 15 years he had remained in bed, paralyzed from the waist down. But just 20 months after my heav- en-sent inspiration Jack was walk- ing on crutches! The evening I heard the Sister Kenny story on the radio I went to Jack and said, “Maybe it’s a brain
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES storm, Jack, and I’m not trying to play God; but maybe, with prayers and the help of God, you could even walk on crutches.” That very evening I started. First I moved his toes, placing the eve- ning paper between us so he couldn’t see what I was doing. I would say, “Can you feel that?” as I moved first one toe and then an- other. And so it went from April into winter. For five months I saw Jack every morning before I went to work and every evening I would exercise him. The only payment I asked was what Jack maintain his belief in God. Eight months after we started Jack was able to sit up without aid, and in about a year he was using a wheel chair. My ultimate triumph came on a Christmas eve, 20 months after we started, when Jack’s brother-in-law drove him over in his car and I saw Jack get out of the car with his crutches. He had come to walk for me. — Grand Rapids, Mich. MESSAGE RECEIVED By Pauline L. Jensen CANNOT RECALL a time when we children and other members of our family were not aware that there was a mysterious means of communication between our par- ents. “Put the kettle on,” Mother 59 would say to one of us, “and warm up that meat in the ice box. I’ve a feeling your father will be home to dinner.” We never were surprised when, a little later, Father walked in, even though at the time Mother had made the statement he might have been in the next town on business. This strange power of communi- cation‘ also played a part in a far more dramatic incident. Because of poor health Father’s business partner’s only son, Paul, was being sent to Mexico where he would have the benefit of sun almost the year around. It was impossible for Mr. Boop to accompany him so Father volunteered to go. This was in 1906. Arrived in Mexico, Father got Paul established in the school where his father had registered him. He then planned to spend a few days sightseeing. On the third day as he was eat- ing lunch, Father told us later, he suddenly laid down his fork. “T had such a strange feeling,” he said. “It seemed as if your mother was trying to tell me something.” He arose, paced a few steps, and decided to go home that night! Father caught an evening train and said he seemed more relaxed once he was actually homeward bound. He was due to arrive in our home town, Gretna, Neb., late in the evening of the second day
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a 60 but he hac to change trains at Kan- sas City at 5:00 o’clock in the morning prior to that. There were no sleeper accomodations on the train to Kansas City so Father tried to make himself comfortable on a seat. He finally dozed off and while he slept he had a horrible dream in which Mother was beside him, wringing her hands and saying, “George, ‘seorge!” He told us that, at the time, he felt it wisn’t just a dream. He could see the agony on Mother’s face as ste said, still in his dream, “George i; gone.” He awoke in a cold sweat and looked at his watch. It was exact- ly 4:10 AM. He was frantic. When the train pulled into Kansas City Father pished his way through the crowd to the nearest telephone booth and calle | home. When the call was put through he spoke with Doctor Benson. Mother bad been given a sedative and she couldn’t talk. She had tried to reach Father by telephone the day before to tell him to come home at once. She wanted to tell him my brother George was very ill. Now the doctor told him, “George died at 4:00 o’clock this morning.” — Minneapolis, Minn. FATE TWO COLD HEARTS By Evelyn Carlos RETCHED WAS the word for the way I had felt the whole day long. By 7:00 P.M. I told my son that I had turned cold inside and had pains in my heart. He brought me hot tea, piled blankets on top of me, and still I didn’t warm up. I was shivering. Suddenly I announced, “Daniel, my heart has turned to ice!” ; It wasn’t long after this that my brother and sister-in-law walked in to tell me they had received a tele- phone message from Mother’s doc- tor, that she had died while sitting down to dinner at-our sister’s place, 300 miles away. We later confirmed that the time of Mother’s death coincided exactly with the time “my heart turned to ice” although in the grief of the next days I didn’t even remember I'd felt that way until my son re- called it to me. I was emotionally upset at the time with personal mat- ters and had thought my symptoms were caused by them. Perhaps they were. And, yet, my mother’s heart had gone ice cold almost at the exact time I announced to my son that my own heart was icy. — Vic- toria, B.C., Canada.
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PSYCHIC WARNING That Stopped the Train A wise railroad man listens when his “inner voice” whispers of danger—and this man’s spoke loud and clear. by Julie ‘is Gaa ord Be MEN who pioneered the Ca- nadian Pacific Railway through British Columbia had many hair- breadth escapes from sudden death and most of them attributed their survival to warnings, of one kind or another, they had received. Wherever a group of railway men gathered, sooner or later the con- versation turned to this subject and around some of these true warnings have grown up legends that persist to this day. 61 My father, Matthew Fulton Crawford, was a senior locomotive engineer who became increasingly interested in all things psychic as he got older. He had received sev- eral of these supranormal warnings during his career; three in particu- lar are still talked about by the older railroad men. My father died in 1954 at the age of 92. He was the last living person to have been present at the driving of the last spike on the
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ailway in 1885 75th Anniversary of was celebrated in No- £1960, a recording of his im- Sions, made in his 90th year, was broadcast coast to coast on the Canadian Broadcasting network. In Victoria I had the honor of cutting the Anniversary cake. - Father’s first psychic warning came while he was a young man, running between the town of Kam- loops and the divisional point of North Bend. It was in the spring of 1895, not far from the spot where the Thompson River empties into the mighty Fraser. The track there runs through a twisting ser- ies of curves that are still, at times, subject to mud and rock slides that come -hurtling down the hillsides after a rain or snowfall, blocking the track for yards and sometimes carrying it away altogether. On that night of the first warn- ing Dad was going west with a long freight. It was a rainy night. The pitch black outside the cab was only dimly pierced by the lo- comotive headlight of that day. He had been thinking of his young, dearly-loved wife who had died suddenly and tragically in child- birth. In the darkness she seemed very near to him. But along with these thoughts came another that made him un- easy. He called across to the fire- man who was placidly sipping tea FATE over on the opposite seat. “Tt’s a dirty night. There'll be slides somewhere along the line.” “Tt won’t be long till we get to the Bend, now,” the fireman re- plied. “After all we’re over the worst part of the road. Old Honey (the watchman) must have been over this bit less than an hour ago.” . Dad nodded. He knew Old Honey was a faithful and competent watchman who probably would make an extra patrol on a night like this. Still he couldn’t shake a feeling of apprehension. Then sud- denly a voice said in his ear, “Stop! Don’t go any further!” Dad looked back at the fireman, “What did you say? What did you see ahead?” “T didn’t see anything or say anything; because I wasn’t looking out of the window,” the fireman re- plied. “What’s the matter with you?” “But you said to stop!” “T said no such thing! Why would I? Don’t go getting pipe dreams, Matt.” As the fireman turned away Dad heard again the single clear command. “Stop! Stop right now!” He looked around him, then leaned out of the window but he could see only a few feet ahead in the rays of the headlight. He glanced at the fireman who had opened the firebox door to refuel. And, as he hesitated, once more the
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eae PSYCHIC WARNING THAT STOPPED THE TRAIN ~ 63 clear, loud command came. “Stop... Stop... aoLOml This time Dad obeyed. The train began to slow down. “Well! What do you think you’re doing?” the fireman wanted to know. “They aren’t going to like this back on the tail.” “Ym stopping the train,” Dad replied quietly. “And I don’t care whether they like it or not. Some- one or something told me to stop and I’m doing just that, till I find out what’s ahead.” “Wait till you hear the dressing down you'll get! Ha... ha!” “All right. If I’m wrong, I'll take it without a kick, but I’m going to see.” Father took the torch he used in oiling and was at the gangway as the conductor and brakeman hurried up, sputtering and swear- ing. “Where do you think you’re go- ing?” “To have a look up ahead,” Dad said doggedly. “Fe says he heard a voice tell- ing him to stop,” jeered the fire- man. The conductor paused and looked sharply at the young fire- man. “You're still pretty green about these things, ain’t you? Af- ter a while you’ll learn—maybe. If you don’t you'll be no use ona railroad. T’ll go ahead with you, Matt.” The two men plodded ahead through the darkness while the fire- man and the brakie watched deri- sively. A hundred yards ahead of the stationary engine the two men stopped and then beckoned the others with the torch. They came reluctantly, for it was very wet and the mud was heavy. But when they stood beside Dad and the conductor, their mouths fell open. “My God!” said the fireman fer- vently. “Look at that!” “Ves,” said Dad. “You should thank God, for certainly, but for that warning, we’d be in the Fraser now.” Just beyond where they stood a huge rock slide had carried away the track and the embankment for more than 100 feet. “We'd have been in the Fraser,” the fireman repeated slowly. “How did you know?” The conductor looked at him sternly. “Let this be a warning to you, my lad. When a seasoned railroader like Matt says he has a hunch to stop, he has a hunch! See you never forget what you’ve learned tonight—if you want to be a railroader. Bill, out with the flags and then back to Honey’s cabin so he can send out the word. Matt, you get the highball back into the sidetrack; it’s only a cou- ple of miles back, thank God. When the wrecker’s through they may let
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64 us go back to Lytton. And Matt... thank heaven you had that hunch.” eee | Maes SECOND warning oc- curred about a year later, in the spring of 1896, on this same section of the railroad, although this time he was going east to his home town, Kamloops. It was a night similar to the one on which he had received the previous warn- ing, and along where the road fol- lows the margin of Kamloops Lake in a series of sharp curves and passes through short tunnels. These curves and tunnels are still there as no way has been found to elim- inate them. This time Father’s fireman was his young brother-in-law, John Lad- ner, a blithe spirit, always good- tempered, and a good railroader. But on this night, for some reason, Jack was uneasy and kept saying to Dad, “I don’t know why I feel like this but Ill be glad to get home safely tonight.” Dad started to reply but sud- denly broke off as the gong that hung in the cab, in those days used to warn the engineer there was trouble somewhere along the train, began to ring loudly. This gong was connected with the ca- boose by a long cord running across the top of the train. When any- thing happened to break the train apart, which was frequently in those days of hand-brakes, both FATE the conductor and the engineer were alerted. Jack looked at Dad and whis- tled. “What would cause a break in the train just now? There’s no grade here to speak of. Maybe just a jar jerked the cord.” “Probably some brake some- where along the train just hasn’t held,” Dad replied, reaching for the throttle. The engineer slowed to a stop at the beginning of a long curve. “Well; better here! The Cherry Creek tunnel is around the corner.” The gong had only just stopped ringing when the conductor came up wanting to know what the mat- ter was up front. “We'd like to know what the matter is back there in the ca- boose,” Jack grinned at Sam Jones. “Did you get so excited back there arguing about elections that you pulled the cord by mistake?” Sam, who was known for his choice English when annoyed, re- sponded exactly as Jack had an- ticipated. But both Jack and Dad were too much concerned with finding out the trouble and getting started again to bait Sam further. After a minute or two Sam said “We weren’t talking politics ... and we were watching our language . . we took on Father La Jeune back there at Cherry Creek. I’ve a proper respect for the cloth . and what’s this about the ae ringing?”
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PSYCHIC WARNING THAT STOPPED THE TRAIN | 65 “Oh, it rang loud and long,” Dad replied. “So . . . unless the train has broken apart, you must have rung it.” “Tidn’t see any sign of a break as I came along and we sure didn’t ring the gong. We were cooking breakfast. If it was anybody else than you Matt, I’'d say that you were playing tricks. Are you sure itieeae ore “Ves, we both heard it. It rang for a couple of minutes steadily.” Dad and Jack answered together. The conductor looked at them soberly. “Tf I didn’t know that neither of you is a drinking man... You say the gong rang for about two minutes and IJ say it never rang in the caboose at all. You weren’t both asleep, were you?” “No, having tea,” Jack retorted. “Well, maybe a hobo somewhere. One of you go over the top of the train and I’ll see if there’s anybody riding the rods.” But in afew minutes both men returned without a solution to the mystery. It was beginning to grow light and the steady drizzle con- tinued. The conductor scratched his head. “T still say you’ve been hear- ing things. Let’s get going.” He hurried back to the caboose. Dad reached for the throttle. But no sooner had the train begun to drift around the long curve than the gong rang again, loud and in- sistent. At the same instant, Jack, who had his head out of his win- dow, drew it in to shout, “My God, Matt! The mouth of the tunnel is blocked with a slide. Shut her off and jump for your life! Quick! Before we hit!” In less time than it takes to tell it, both men had jumped through the cab windows since there was no time to-seek the usual way out of the stricken engine as she mount- ed the huge rockpile and lay there a broken thing, panting out great clouds of steam in the dawn air. Dad was the luckier one. He landed on the sandy slope of the lakeshore where he lay unconscious. The rest of the train crew, shaken but unhurt, carried Jack from the rock pile where he had lit and placed him beside Dad. Father Le Jeune volunteered to go back to Cherry Creek and wake the oper- ator there. Dad’s wrist was broken and he had received a cut from one eye- brow to his hairline. He carried the scar from this till his dying day. Jack had injured his back and was off the road for some time. However, if the gong had not rung and Dad had not stopped the train just before the accident, both of them would have been killed, for the train would have plowed into the rock pile going at full speed.
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66 Jack managed to get the gong from the repair crew and for years it hung beneath his window so that the call boy, summoning him in the middle of the night, needed only to pull the cord to wake him. In spite of his happy nature, my uncle had a very thoughtful side. On more than one occasion he said to Dad, “Matt, I’ve a hunch that one of these days [ll be going out in a hurry. When I do ll find a way to let you know.” See hie N January, 1904 both Dad and my Uncle Jack were working out east of Revelstoke. Dad had the passenger run from Revelstoke to Laagan through some of the most beautiful—and the most dangerous —scenery in the world. The Con- naught Tunnel was not yet built but smaller tunnels and snowsheds - made easier passage during the long winter in the Rockies. The track ascended to the summit by a‘series of loops and switchbacks, infinitely picturesque but requiring the use of an auxiliary engine, or pusher, to assist the trains to the top. The pusher jobs were monotonous but better paid and for this reason some engineers chose to spend their whole time in that capacity. Jack chose it because it enabled him to provide extra luxuries for his moth- er. His father, The Rev. Charles Ladner, was a pioneer minister toa given to open-handed generosity. FATE Dad had been- home for Christ- mas that year and on the night of January 21, as Dad was saying good-night to the Ladners at the parsonage, Grandmother gave him a pair of the warm wristlets she was always knitting to keep Jack’s wrists warm during the extremely cold Rocky Mountain winter. “Are you likely to see Jack on your run tomorrow?” she asked. “Tf you don’t would you leave these with somebody to give to him? He wrote someone had taken his.” “Pll probably see him at Field either going up or coming back. Sure, Ill take them,” Dad replied. “Thank you, Matt. I’ll beso glad when Jack is off the big hill,” Grandmother fretted. All the way east the next day Dad was glad his mother-in-law could not see the mountains as they looked in the intense cold, menacing, implacable. The track was in fair condition for the big rotary plough had preceded the pas- senger train and he was right on time when he pulled. into Field station at the summit at 6:00 o’clock. As soon as Dad was properly stopped, Jack swung easily into the cab with a cheery greeting. “Pity poor sailors on a night like this! Can’t be much colder at the North Pole. What’s this? O, good. Just what I need. And how’s my best girl?”
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PSYCHIC WARNING THAT STOPPED THE TRAIN 67 “Worrying about you as usual. Where are you going?” “Down the hill with a freight. Did you get your new watch, Matt?” Dad pulled his watch out for Jack to examine. “The case isn’t much but it’s 21 jeweled, the best works I could afford, and guaran- teed to keep perfect time.” They discussed the watch for some minutes and then Jack, not- ing the time was nearing for Dad’s departure, turned toward the gang- way. Dad followed him. “Jack, be ex- tra careful going down the hill. It’s a bad night and if you’ve got a heavy train you may have some trouble. It’s slippery now and the track’s getting worse all the time. Hold her tight.” “Thanks, Matt. You’re always looking out for me, but I’ve gone down the hill in a lot of blizzards this winter. I’m getting used to it. Besides, if the train starts to run away there’s always the safety switches. Nothing could happen once the train got in them. I'll be all right.” He turned just before he stepped to the ground and said, cheerfully, “But if I don’t get there, I'll find a way to let you know.” “Forget that! Just take care!” Jack swung into the cab of his own engine that stood headed west on an adjoining track and waved as Dad’s engine began to move east down the hill toward Laagan, the end of the run. It was good to sit in the dining room of the boarding-house, to enjoy the hot supper, and once that had been consumed the men began to ask Dad about his watch. With pride, Dad pulled it from his pocket saying casually, “It’s not much to look at because I did- n’t splurge on the case. But it keeps perfect... .” He stopped, looked at the watch more closely, then glanced up at the big clock on the wall. He couldn’t believe his eyes. The new watch had stopped at four minutes to 8:00... 1956 railroad time! The men began to make derisive remarks about the jeweller who had sold the watch and Dad’s gullibility in believing what he had been told. Dad did not hear them. He wound the watch carefully but it still would not go. Neither would the hands budge. He could not move them ahead of the hour at which they had stopped. He finally pushed back his chair and got into his outdoor clothes. - Paying no attention to the continu- ing jibes of his friends he went out into the cold and started for the station. Half way there he met the op- erator running. “Matt, I was just at the bunk-house looking for you.” “What’s wrong, Mike?”
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68 “Matt ... Matt ... My God, I hate to tell you this . . . Jack’s train ran away on the hill!” “But there were safety switches,” Dad _ protested. “She went clean through the safety switch and telescoped into that big rock at the end of the second . . . No sign of Jack or his fireman!” Thus a week of nightmare be- gan. Dad got an exchange engineer to take the train to Revelstoke the next day. He himself joined the wrecking crew until three days la- ter when Jack was found under the wreckage of the completely de- molished engine. When they did find him, kis watch too was stopped at exactly four minutes to 8:00—the same time as Dad’s. Nor was this all! The clock on the second safety switch that automatically recorded the instant an engine passed over it also stood exactly at the same hour and minute. All three clocks had stopped on precisely the same minute, _ But there was this difference. Jack’s watch ran again when it was wound up and his father carried it to his dying day. The clock on the switch, once it was released, also resumed its normal function. But Dad’s watch never would go again! FATE He took it to the jeweller who had sold it to him but Guy Barber could find nothing wrong with it. Later, when he went east on legis- lative work for the Engineer’s Lodge, Dad took it to a big jew- eller’s for examination. There was, they said, no reason why it should have stopped in the first place, nor why it wouldn’t go in the sec- ond, as it was in perfect working condition. After that Dad stopped trying to do anything about it. One of Jack’s very good friends gave Dad a watch to take its place and begged Dad never to change the other or to use it again. And he didn’t. It still is in the family; its hands fixed at the hour when my uncle left this world so tragically. Naturally, the watch was talked about for a long time wherever two tailroaders met and it was not un- usual to have perfect strangers come to the house and say: “TI work for the C.P.R. out of Cal- gary—or Moosejaw—or Brandon— We heard that you have the watch that stopped when your brother- in-law was killed. Can we see it?” And Dad would show it, and tell the story again. Coincidence? Maybe. But Dad said that Jack had kept his promise and had let him know the exact minute he had reached the end of his earthly run! ee
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Re GOLDEN FIREFLIES OF SPACE By adn G Ross What were the tiny luminous objects Astronaut Glenn saw swarming in space from his orbiting capsule? CC HEN COL. JOHN GLENN’S Atlas rocket lifted slowly from its pad at Cape Canaveral last Feb- © ruary 20 the people of the Free World could know for the first time some of the mysteries of space. What parts of the story remain un- told we do not yet know, but Colo- nel Glenn’s flight has revealed at least two unexplained mysteries. The orange lances of flame bore the shining rocket aloft in increas- ing and almost unbearable accelera- tion and it arched gracefully to- ward the east. America’s first As- tronaut was able to gasp prosai- 69 cally, “It’s a little bumpy along about here.” Six minutes after the 9:47 A.M. launching Glenn was already 100 miles up and weightless: “I feel fine,” he said. “The view is tre- mendous.” Fifteen minutes after liftoff he had nearly crossed the Atlantic Ocean; he could see the Canary Islands and shortly afterward the coast of Africa, the Atlas Moun- tains shining clear. Inland, Colonel Glenn could see huge dust clouds blowing up from the Sahara Desert, along its edges brush fire smoke.
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79 ’ His first sunset came over the Indian Ocean, where oranges, yel- lows and purples mixed in vast pro- fusion over a third of the horizon. The sun set 13 times faster than it would on Earth and in a few sec- onds the space capsule plunged into the thick darkness of night. And here Colonel. Glenn observed his first unexplained phenomenon. As the stars raced by and dipped be- low the earth, they shown steady and bright until they neared the horizon. Then they dimmed for a bit — but brightened again before they actually set. It appeared to Glenn that the stars were passing through a layer of haze about six to eight degrees above the earth and two degrees thick, At sunset there was an unex- plained bright band of orange and blue light over the horizon and it seemed to last for a long time after the sun had set. This was entirely unexpected, and the temporary dim- ming of the stars near the horizon may have been another expression of the same phenomenon. The space capsule completed three orbits of the Earth in four hours 41 minutes, and Colonel Glenn witnessed three sunrises and three sunsets during that brief time. During the. sunrises came the Strangest sight of all. His first dawn was over the Pacific Ocean. He was checking his instruments the , FATE and looked out the window. For a moment he thought he must have tumbled upside down and was see- ing a field of stars. But his instru- ments showed he was oriented prop- erly and he looked out again. There, spread as far as he could see, were countless tiny luminous objects, glowing in the sky like fire- flies. They drifted slowly by and Colonel Glenn later commented: “TJ was riding slowly through them, and the sensation was like walking backwards through a pas- ture where someone had waved a wand and made all the fireflies stop right where they were and glow steadily.” These “space fireflies” were greenish gold in color; they seemed to be only six to 10 feet apart and they obviously were also in orbit at about the same speed as Colonel Glenn. They drifted by slowly — he thought he was passing through the swarm at perhaps three to five miles an hour —a negligible differ- ence in speed compared with the space capsule’s 17,545 m.p.h. The nearest “fireflies” occasion- ally would move across Colonel Glenn’s viewing port as if the pas- sage of the capsule had disturbed their normal orbits. Apparently the objects were vis- ible only at sunrise because of the oblique angle of the sun at that time — but whether its rays were of such a value as to activate a lu- —
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GOLDEN FIREFLIES OF SPACE minous mechanism in the “fireflies,” or whether they were illuminated merely by reflection, remains unan- swered. Colonel Glenn observed the identical phenomena during each of his three sunrises. Since each sun- rise took place over a different area of the globe, and since there was a negligible difference in their speed, the conclusion is inevitable that the swarm was accompanying him on his orbit — although we are not implying that this: was more than by chance. Even though Colonel Glenn saw them at each sunrise it is also un- certain whether he was merely in the midst of a swarm of the “fire- flies” and they were orbiting the Earth together, or whether they were widespread everywhere at the altitude where he was flying — 100 to 160 miles above the earth. During his second sunrise Glenn turned the capsule around so he could look in the direction of the flow of the “fireflies”. Although he could see far fewer of them than when he had been facing the other direction, they were still there. This disproved any idea that they might have been from the exhaust of his control jets. He attempted to take photo- graphs of the objects with his 35- mm. hand-held camera, and these photographs were being analyzed as this is written, although there have 71 been no public announcements. Colonel Glenn discarded the idea that these tiny space objects were anything coming from his capsule. It crossed his mind that they might have been the lost batch of needles that the Air Force had tried to orbit, but he could think of no reason why needles would glow like fireflies. Later, Colonel Glenn explained. to his post-flight news conference that during his debriefing he had described the golden fireflies he had seen. A psychiatrist present asked him, “What did they say, John?” And well the question might have been asked. UFO fans who believe that fly- ing saucers have contacted humans on earth triumphantly pointed out’ that George Adamski, the No. 1 contactee of our time, has described an identical phenomenon. In his second book, Inside the Space Ships, first published in 1955, Adamski describes what purport to be his trips into outer space aboard giant ships containing humans from other planets. Adamski tells us under the heading, “My First Look At Outer Space:” “Firkon (a spaceman) motioned to me to come to one of the port- holes as he said: ‘Perhaps you would like to see what space really looks like.’ “T soon forgot my disappoint-. ment as I looked out. I was amazed
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72 to see that the background of space is totally dark. Yet there were manifestations taking place all around us, as though billions upon billions of fireflies were flickering everywhere, moving in all direc- tions, as fireflies do. However, these were of many colors, a gigantic celestial fireworks display that was beautiful to the point of being awe- some.” There is not really a discrepancy between Adamski’s description and that of Colonel Glenn. While Adamski_has the fireflies “moving in all directions”, his space ship during the period of his ob- servation was presumably in deep space. Under such conditions, if gravitational forces were reason- ably balanced, sentient objects pre- sumably could move in different directions. This would not be the case with John Glenn’s “fireflies”, however. If they were of physical matter, as seems likely, they would have to be orbiting the earth just as he was, and at the same speed, or they would fall to its surface. Just why they would all be going in the same direction, however, poses another mystery, since the earth could be orbited in any di- rection, though “fireflies” orbiting in the direction directly opposite to his space capsule would have to have a speed of 35,090 m.p.h. rela- tive to his own. It is doubtful that FATE he could see tiny objects at such speeds. Even if he could they would be only tiny instantaneous flashes of light. Colonel Glenn could not take much time to concentrate on his “fireflies”, however. There were many other things to do—man- aging his space capsule and its controls; scanning and operating instruments; communicating with ground stations; and withal, marvel- ling at the magnificent panorama of the earth unfolding below him. The sky was black overhead, even by day, and he could pick out a few stars in daylight. He was surprised that so much of the earth was covered with clouds —a great deal more than he had expected. The moon gleamed on the surfaces of the clouds as he crossed the Pacific Ocean three times during his flight, and he could see their tops etched brightly in the moon- light. Over the Indian Ocean he watched great thunderstorms to his left, and could see the lightning il- luminating them dramatically “as if they held bulbs which pulsed on and off,” He saw the entire state of Flor- ida in one view, outlined against the ocean as if it were a map, and communities as far apart as Perth, Australia, where the residents turn- ed on all ‘available lights to send him a greeting, and the Mississippi Delta were simultaneously visible.
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¥ GOLDEN FIREFLIES OF SPACE At 2:43 P.M. Astronaut John Glenn splashed down into the warm ocean near Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas. Eighteen minutes later the Destroyer Noa hauled his space capsule aboard. He was fine, in great physical condition, and had not suffered with disorientation or nausea which plagued Soviet 73 Cosmonaut Gherman S. Titov. But as will be true with other explorers in the developing space age, however many problems his flight has solved — and we do not know what these may be as yet —_ he probably has returned with more questions than he has been able to answer. a THE CUSTOMER IN THE CEMETERY By J. Mortimer Sheppard A STRANGE-LOOKINGman, dressed in black from head to toe, entered a furniture store in Foggia, the leading town of Apulia Province in Italy, and in a soft voice told the sales- girl, “I wish to purchase a sofa like the one in this drawing, but it must be black, made of _ebony and finished in black silk. The arms can be of silver or gold color.” The salesgirl, according to Italian newspapers which ran the story recently, explained that the store did not have such an article in stock. The pros- pective customer, however, in- sisted, “I am not in a hurry. I have waited for many years, and I can wait a while longer for my sofa to be built accord- - ing to my specifications. Here is my address.” He handed the young woman a sheet of paper. The girl accepted the paper and glanced at the name and address. When she looked up in a second or two, she found that the man had disappeared. Failing to see him either in the store or on his way out, she called to a boy who worked in the store and asked him to help her look. They searched dili- gently, but failed to locate the black-garbed man. When the owner of the store returned and had matters ex- plained to him, he examined the paper which bore a drawing of a sofa shaped like a coffin and also the name and address of the prospective customer: Fran- co Saverio Ricci, telephone num- ber 19629, third plot. The telephone book failed to reveal the man’s name and there proved to be no such number. But the word “plot” suggested a cemetery, and upon investiga- tion they found that the so- called “third plot” was reserved for bombing victims of World War II in Foggia. They visited the cemetery and discovered that plot number 19629 was the grave of Franco Saverio Ricci—the name of their would- be customer.
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THE RESTLESS SEXTON The garden path was made of tombstones—but only one particularly interested the little man with the spade. VWVEES MY COUSIN Jim re- tired from the Metropolitan Police Force he decided to buy a cottage in his home County, Som- erset, and so taking a furnished house at Taunton he set about finding what he thought would be a perfect cottage for himself and his wife. They had no children and a large place would be useless, but both are keen gardeners so a sizable garden was important to them. After much searching and many headaches for themselves and the house agent, they found what seemed just right in a small village near 74 Taunton. True, the cottage was sadly in need of a coat of paint and would have to be re-decorated throughout, but both Jim and his wife were prepared for more than a little “Do it yourself”. The gar- den was almost a wilderness, but buried beneath the tangled bram- bles there were good herbacious borders, a nice kitchen garden and beyond this a small orchard, and surely with the help of a job- bing gardener it could be licked into shape. The previous owner, Tom Bond, had been a very old man who according to village reports was a
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“queer one” who firmly believed in ghosts, witches, and hob-gob- lins and had often been heard talking “to them.” He would not allow anybody to touch his gar- den. Having bought the cottage, Jim and Helen worked at it for some months and then with the help of Bob, a really hard-working old gardener, they started tackling the garden. One of the tasks was clear- ing a paved path leading through the kitchen garden to the orchard. This path had become so over- grown with weeds and covered with soil that only a little of the pav- ing was visible. Having cleared a few yards, Jim was astonished to find that the stones were of curious shape, some broken and roughly put together, and some with very worn inscrip- tions and what appeared to be epitaphs. It soon became clear to him that they were ancient tomb- stones. He decided to ask Bob a few questions about them as Bob knew much of the history of the village. “Oh yes,” said Bob, “I remem- ber hearing that they were given by ‘Old Parson’ to Tom Bond when he was making a garage of the old coach house at the Rec- tory.” “Old Parson” had been dead many years, but even so the pres- ent Vicar was still known as 75 “Young Parson” and couldn’t be expected to know much about it. But according to Bob the stones had been stacked in the coach- house for a great number of years. Nobody knew where they had come from. Jim was rather proud of having such an unusual path in his gar- den, and after much labor the whole was finished and the fol- lowing summer my husband and I received an invitation to stay a few days with my cousin. At the end of the letter a P.S. said: “There is something very queer - going on in my garden!” Thinking Jim had raised a quite new species of plant we looked for- ward to an interesting weekend. Arriving at the Cottage on a Friday afternoon we were proudly shown around and I must say they had made it very attractive. How- ever, when I asked: “Where is the new plant?” Jim laughingly ex- plained that it was not a plant but a ghost, or at least a ghostly noise. Very often they had been awakened between 11:00 and 12:00 o’clock by something that sounded like a spade banging on stone and once he had seen a misty figure like a bent old man carrying a spade. Jim admitted this might have been a trick of the light but added, anyhow we might hear or see some- thing ourselves and he proposed that we all sit in the garden the
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76 following evening until after mid- night. This night as we were now rather tired after our long journey an early to bed seemed a good idea and so thankfully we were in our bedroom just before 11:00 o’clock. I think it must have been just be- fore midnight when I was awak- ened by a metallic banging, three sharp bangs, just like a spade on a stone, then three more, followed by silence. Our window looked over the kitchen garden and the path towards the orchard, but in the dim light I could see nothing. Thinking that Jim was playing tricks on us I returned to my bed and slept soundly until morning. At breakfast I asked Jim if he thought he had fooled: us with his spade banging, but he assured us he had done nothing, neither had he heard anything. The day passed pleasantly, a rare warm day and we were able to sit in the garden even after supper. At about 11:00 o’clock we decided to move a gar- den seat to a spot where we could get a good view of the tombstoned pathway. Jim fetched a large jug of Somerset cider; Helen and I donned our cardigans and so, for- tified within and without, we sat awaiting events. Just before midnight a blackbird whistled and flew out from a near- by bush, making us all jump and giving Helen and me an attack of FATE the giggles. A few moments later we all heard shuffling footsteps, followed by three distinct bangs of metal on stone. Looking along the path I could see, in the dim light, what appeared to be a misty figure of a little man with a spade raised in his hand ready to make three more bangs. These were then heard by us all, and were followed by yet another three metallic bangs. As I watched, my scalp feeling more prickly every moment, the figure just melted away. With a — gasp I said: “Did you see it?” Jim and Helen had seen nothing but had distinctly heard the bangs. My husband said, yes, he had seen it and described the identical fig- ure I,had seen. We all had been too petrified to move and now, shivering a little we went indoors where we decided, after much dis- cussion, that we would watch again the following night and that at the first bang we would all walk to- wards the figure which had paused to bang somewhere around the sixth paving stone from the orchard gate. We told ourselves we should then know for a certainty if it was somebody playing tricks. The following evening, a Sun- day, we again waited on the gar- den seat. Nothing happened and feeling rather foolish and still a little doubtful we decided to have a good look at the stones the next day. We had intended returning
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THE RESTLESS SEXTON home on Monday but Jim begged us to stay a few more days to try to solve this strange happening. We agreed not to discuss it with Bob or anybody in the village as we did not want to be bothered with ghost hunters or the press. After a rather late breakfast Monday morning we walked along the path towards the orchard gate, then turned and counted six stones. This sixth stone was one of the whole ones, very worn and with no inscription. Jim suggested that it would be a good idea if he turned it over so, fetching a couple of crowbars, he and my husband care- fully turned it. When they had cleaned away some of the earth they were able to read a little of what was left of the epitaph. The name, Thomas Green, was clear enough; the date of his death was not so clear, 1741 perhaps. Most interesting were the words, “For—years sexton of this Parish —Rest in Peace.” Poor Thomas Green apparently was not resting in peace and then suddenly I knew why. Surely he who had dug graves and erected 77 tombstones for so many was en- titled to his own grave and stone in consecrated ground. What had happened to his grave we could not say—but here, clearly. enough, was his headstone and he seemed to object to its remaining in this garden. Jim and my husband decided they must go and see “Young Par- son” about it and returning to the house they immediately phoned _ him for an appointment. After “Young Parson” had heard the whole strange story they all de- cided that the tombstones should be returned to the churchyard, where they may be seen to this day propped against the wall by the old yew tree. “Young Parson” never has dis- covered how the tombstones came to be in the coach-house. Even Bob has not been able to ferret out any information for us on this. One thing is sure. The restless little Sexton is now at peace and nobody has either seen or heard him or the clang of his spade again. My cousin now has a concrete path running through his garden. ed LUCK IN REVERSE FEW MINUTES after Mrs. Stephen Hayes of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, found a four leaf clover in her lawn, her hus- band’s car was struck by another, causing damage estimated at $500. The next day a five-ton truck loaded with cement rolled over and demolished the Haye’s picket fence.
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4 Abe ore P per Prof. William James" “ONE WHITE CROW" HE LATE PROFESSOR Wil- liam James of Harvard was one of the greatest psychologist- philosophers America has yet pro- duced. The son of a Swedenborgian clergyman, he was one of the found- ers of the Pragmatic School which holds that only those principles that can be demonstrated not only the- oretically, by deduction, but prac- tically, by use, deserve intelligent consideration—a far cry from Swedenborg’s “Heavenly Arcana.” Yet this unbending pragmatist was converted to a belief in the reality 78 of psychic phenomena to such an extent that he became one of the founders of the American Society For Psychical Research and a presi- dent of the Society For Psychical Research, London. The medium who accomplished this seeming mir- acle was Mrs. Leonore Piper of Bos- ton, who became to Professor James “the one white crow that proves not all crows are black”. In other words, she was the one honest medium whose mere’ existence re- futed the charge that all mediums are fakes,
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Professor James first met Mrs. Piper in 1885 when she had been practicing her mediumship for only a year. She had discovered her psychic ability quite by accident when she consulted a well-known Boston medium to have a medical problem (a tumor) diagnosed clair- voyantly and, for the first few months after the discovery, she practiced only in an amateur way with personal friends and members of her own family. Indeed, when Professor James first met her she was hardly more than a semi-pro- fessional medium, largely unknown even in Boston. Professor James’ first contact with Mrs. Piper came about quite casually. His mother-in-law, a Mrs. Gibbens, had heard about Mrs. Piper through friends and, since she had never visited a medium, she decided to satisfy her curiosity by making an appointment for a seance. On returning to the James resi- dence in Cambridge after the se- ance with Mrs. Piper Mrs. Gibbens was most enthusiastic. She informed Professor James that while in trance Mrs, Piper had told her facts about certain relatives, living and dead, which she could not have acquired in any normal, ordinary way. Professor James laughed at her credulity and called her a victim of mediumistic trickery. He gave a rather superior “explanation” of 79 how mediums accomplished their fakery. However, Mrs. Gibbens re- mained impressed by Mrs. Piper and the following week she attended another seance, this time inducing Professor James’ sister-in-law to accompany her. The sister-in-law was just as im- pressed by the seance as Mrs. Gib- bens had been and both women re- turned to Cambridge singing the praises of Mrs. Piper. Again Pro- fessor James tried to disillusion them, without success. They, in turn, challenged him to visit Mrs. Piper. Somewhat irked by the wo- men’s stubbornness in refusing to accept his “logical” explanations of the phenomena they claimed to have witnessed, he agreed. His wife made an. appointment for a “Mr. and Mrs. James” to see Mrs. Piper. On arriving at Mrs. Piper’s home where the seance was to be held Professor James was surprised to note the complete absence of the usual mediumistic props. There was no cabinet, no red light, no circle of chairs, no trumpets, no crystal ball. The sitters ——two or three others were present —merely sat wherever they liked in Mrs. Piper’s modest but comfortable living room. Mrs. Piper herself surprised him also by her quiet manner and con- servative dress. There was nothing garish or flamboyant about: her; she might have been a middle-aged Sunday School teacher. She polite-
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80 ly warned her guests that there would be nothing sensational about the seance, that she was not a ma- terializing medium, there would be no telekinesis, no levitations, no ap- ports, the lights would be dimmed, she would go into a trance and one of her spirit-controls, probably “Doctor Phinuit”, who in life had been a French physician, would then take over. There might or might not be messages— this was some- thing over which she had no con- trol. Professor James tells what fol- lowed: “Mrs. J. and I were, of course, careful to make no reference to our relatives who had preceded. The medium, however, when en- tranced, repeated most of the names of ‘spirits’ whom she had announced on the two former occasions and added others. The names came with difficulty, and were only gradually made per- fect. My wife’s father’s name of Gibbens was announced first as Niblin, then as Giblin. A child, Herman, (whom we had lost the previous year) had his name spelled out as Herrin. I think that in no case were both Chris- tian and surnames given on this visit. But the facts predicated of the persons named made it in many instances impossible not to recognize the particular individ- FATE uals talked about. We took par- ticular pains on this occasion to give the Phinuit control no help over his difficulties and to ask no leading question. In the light of subsequent experience I be- lieve this not to be the best policy. For it often happens, if you give this trance personage a name or some small fact for the lack of which he is brought to a standstill, that he will then start off with a copious flow of additional talk, containing in it- self an abundance of ‘tests’. “My impression after this first visit was that Mrs. Piper was either possessed of supernormal powers, or knew the members of my wife’s family by sight and had by some lucky coincidence become acquainted with such a multitude of their domestic cir- cumstances as to produce the startling impression which she did. My later knowledge of her sittings and personal acquaint- ance with her has led me ab- solutely to reject the latter ex- planation, and to believe that she has supernormal powers.” Professor James visited Mrs. Piper a number of times that win- ter and also sent strangers to her unannounced beforehand, in all about 25 persons reported. One half of these reported nothing worth mentioning. The remainder were
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-“QNE WHITE CROW” surprised, according to the state- ment of Professor James, at’ the communications. they received. All this Professor James reported in Proceedings of the ASPR for 1886. He concluded his report with this statement: “JT am persuaded of the medium’s honesty, and of the genuineness of her trance; and although at first disposed to think that the ‘hits’ she made were either lucky coinci- dences, or the result of knowledge on her part of who the sitter was and of his or her family affairs, I now believe her to be in possession of a power as yet unexplained.” Hypnosis was then popular as a technique_in the new science- of psychiatry (Freud was using it with considerable success in Vienna) and Professor James was curious about the possible relationship between the hypnotic state and the medium- istic trance. He engaged in a series of experiments with Mrs. Piper, finally coming to the conclusion that the two conditions bore no re- lationship to each other. Professor James continued his own sittings with Mrs. Piper and although now completely convinced of her integrity he realized that further investigation was desirable. At his request the ASPR sent its new Research Officer, Doctor Rich- ard Hodgson, to Boston. Doctor Hodgson, who had come to the ASPR from the faculty of 8r Cambridge University in England, was an exceedingly tough-minded investigator with legal training. He recently had returned from India where he had examined the famous Madame Blavatsky and had pub- lished a detailed report terming her a complete fraud. He came to Bos- ton with a snickersee well sharp- ened for Mrs. Piper. In his report to the ASPR on Mrs. Piper the destroyer of Ma- dame Blavatsky wrote: “My own knowledge of Mrs. Piper began in May, 1887, about a fortnight after my arrival in Boston, and my first appoint- ment for a sitting was made by Professor William James. Pro- fessor James had visited her about a dozen times during the previ- ous year and a half, and had sent a large number of persons to her, making appointments himself for most of these people, whose names were in no instance an- nounced to the medium. As a re- sult of his inquiries he became fully convinced that Mrs. Piper had supernormal powers. “T had several sittings myself with Mrs. Piper, at which much intimate knowledge, some of it personal, was shown of deceased © friends or relatives of mine, and IT made appointments for sittings for at least 50 persons whom I believed to be strangers to Mrs.
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82 Piper, taking the utmost precau- tions to prevent her obtaining any information beforehand as to who the sitters were to be. The general result was the same as in my own case. Most of these per- sons were told facts through the trance utterance which they felt sure could not have become known to Mrs. Piper by ordinary means. For several weeks, more- over, at the suggestion of one of the members, detectives were em- ployed for the purpose of ascer- taining whether there were any indications that Mrs. Piper or her husband, or other persons connected with her, tried to as- certain facts about possible sit- ters by the help of confederates, or other ordinary methods of in- quiry, but not the smallest indi- cation whatever of any such pro- cedure was discovered. My own conclusion was that —after al- lowing the widest possible mar- gin for information obtainable under the circumstances by or- dinary means, for chance coin- cidence and remarkable guessing, aided by clues given consciously and unconsciously by the sitters, and helped out by supposed hyper- aesthesia on the part of Mrs. Piper —there remained a large residuum of knowledge displayed in her trance state, which could not be accounted for except on the hypothesis that she had some FATE supernormal power; and this con- viction has been strengthened by later investigations.” During his work with Mrs. Piper a good friend of Dr. Hodgson’s died unexpectedly. His name was George Pelham, Boston-born and a Harvard graduate, but living in New York in bachelor quarters at the time of his death. He had been a member of the ASPR and Doctor Hodgson had known him very well. Like Hodgson, Pelham was a lawyer by training, although devoting himself largely to writing on philosophical and psychological subjects. He and Hodgson frequently had engaged in long, metaphysical discussions about a future life, which Hodgson had held to be conceivable but incred- ible, and which Pelham considered both inconceivable and incredible. They had agreed that whichever one of them died first would —if he could — “make things lively” enough to reveal his continuing ex- istence to the one still living on earth, Although Pelham had relatives in Boston he had been living in New York for three years and Hodgson had known him in that city, not in Boston. The obituary notice was carried in the Boston papers but that was a routine matter and it did not occur to Hodgson te tell Mrs. Piper that a friend of his had just died in New York.
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“ONE WHITE CROW” Weeks passed. Then one night, as Hodgson sat with Mrs. Piper, her control, “Dr. Phinuit”, sudden- ly announced that a “George Pel- ham” was there. The control then spilled out a torrent of information about George Pelham, most of which was unknown even to’ Hodg- son. “Dr. Phinuit” then reminded Hodgson of the pact he had made with Pelham to “make things live- ly” if either lived after death — something that Hodgson was sure he never had mentioned to Mrs. Piper. Later Hodgson brought some of the Boston relatives of George Pel- ham to the seances to confirm the details unknown to Hodgson of Pel- ham’s early life which continued to pour in through “Dr. Phinuit”. They admitted that all of the de- tails were correct and that they could have come only from Pelham himself. Pelham soon “made things live- ly” to such an extent that he fre- quently displaced “Dr. Phinuit” as Mrs. Piper’s control. Through “Pel- ham” she was able to develop auto- matic writing to supplement the voice automatism and often “Pel- ham” and “Dr. Phinuit” would manifest themselves together, “Pel- ham” writing while “Dr. Phinuit” talked. After an intensive three-year in- vestigation of Mrs. Piper, Hodgson turned in one of the few affirmative . 83 reports made during his career with the ASPR: “Tt may be that further experi- ment in the lines of investigation before us may lead me to change my view, but at the present time I cannot profess to have any doubt hut that the chief “communicators” are veritably the personalities that they claim to be, that they have survived the change we call death, and that they have directly com- municated with us whom we call living through Mrs. Piper’s en- tranced organism.” Mrs. Piper had passed her Amer- ican tests with flying colors, but the Vatican of psychical research in those days was in London, not in Boston. Professor James and Hodg- son were both members of the So- ciety For Psychical Research, Lon- don, and through them an invita- tion was obtained from that body for Mrs. Piper to come to England and subject herself to further in- vestigation by men like Professor Henry Sidgewick, Cambridge Uni- versity; Sir Oliver Lodge; Sir Wil- liam Barrett, Dublin University; F. W. H. Meyers; and Dr. Walter Leaf. These men were formidable in- vestigators — mathematicians, physi- cists, psychologists — and many a fraudulent medium had come to grief under their stern scrutiny. But Mrs. Piper did not hesitate to accept their invitation.
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84 For a considerable part of her stay in England, Mrs. Piper was a guest of the Lodges’. As she soon discovered, the word “guest” was a polite euphemism. Actually she was under a kind of house arrest to pre- vent her from obtaining any knowl- edge through normal means of her hosts and the others who were to sit with her. All her mail was care- fully inspected before being turned over to her. New servants, who wereentirely ignorant of the Lodges’ — antecedents, had been installed. All photographs and family albums were hidden, as were all reference books, dictionaries, and biographies. Mrs. Piper never was permitted to meet in advance any of those who were to sit with her and even their identities were kept secret. Two long trance sessions a day were scheduled, afternoon and evening. In spite of all these precautions and the tiring regime of two lengthy sittings a day, Mrs. Piper was able to produce an astonishingly accurate amount of trance testimony. At one of the sittings in the Lodge home Mrs. Lodge asked the con- trol, “Dr. Phinuit”, to tell her something about her father, know- ing that Mrs. Piper had had no op- portunity to learn anything about her father while in England and that there was no information at all on him in the United States. After Mrs. Lodge’s question about her father “Dr. Phinuit” “FATE made some rambling and incoher- ent statements, then said clearly: “We says you have got something of his. He says if you had this it would help him. He has difficulty in coming back. It’s a little orna- ment with his hair in.” Mrs. Lodge here ran upstairs to get the locket referred to. “He passed out long ago; she was but a little thing.” Presently his name, Alexander, was given and the statement that the father had given the locket to Mrs. Lodge’s mother and that she had given it to Mrs. Lodge. All this was correct, although Mrs. Lodge had not known that it was her father’s hair in the locket. Mrs. Lodge had been only a fortnight old when her father had died. There immediately followed a very striking message regarding his death. “Dr. Phinuit” said: “He had an illness and passed out with it. He tried to speak to Mary, his wife, and stretched out his hand to her, but couldn’t reach and fell and passed away. That’s the last thing he remembers in his mortal body.” The control added a statement about Alexander taking some medi- cine, and that something had hap- pened to his right leg, caused by a fall affecting the leg below the knee. It also was stated that the leg pained him frequently. The facts were that Mrs. Lodge’s father had had his health broken ‘
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“ONE WHITE CROW” by tropical fever and yellow fever, and his heart was weak. A severe illness on the part of his wife was a great strain on him. As she was recuperating he entered her room one day, quite faint, half dressed, and holding a handerchief to his mouth which was full of blood. He stretched out his hand to her, re- moved the handkerchief and tried to speak, then gasped and fell to the floor. Very soon he died. He once had broken his leg by falling down the hold of a ship, and the leg often pained him thereafter. “Dr. Phinuit” further stated that Mrs. Lodge’s father had had trouble with his teeth; that he wore a sort of uniform with bright buttons on it; that he traveled a good deal, and that he had obtained the locket which was now in Mrs. Lodge’s pos- session on one of his journeys. A little later “Dr. Phinuit” intimated that he had been a ship’s captain. The facts were that during his mar- ried life he had been troubled a great deal with toothache; he was a cap- tain in the merchant marine and traveled a great deal in the course of his work; and he kad obtained the locket on one of his voyages. Following weeks of the most in- tensive and searching investigation, F. W. H. Meyers summed up the reaction of the SPR London re- searchers to Mrs. Piper: “On the whole, I believe that all observers, both in America and in England, 85 PROVE YOUR PSYCHIC POWERS WITH A PLANCHETTE! now in VIBRANT colors The Planchette is a Mechanical Means for Automatic Writing. It Aids Psychic Manifestations which have no other means of becoming Concrete. The result of an exhaustive search, our authentic Planchette is hand-made from an ‘‘alive’’ wood. It measures about 6 inches in length. Smoothly hand-fin- ished, it is polished to high lustre with a resin which, being a wood byproduct, will not interfere with vibrations set up by your continued use, HOW THE PLANCHETTE WORKS: Specially-fitted pencil forms one leg of planchette, the other two rolling free on ball bearings. The bearings permit the slightest indication of movement to take effect, the tiniest wisp of pres- sure transmitted through your hand. Complete instructions for use and care of the Planchette are included with each instrument. Recently sensitives have advised us to make these instruments in colers to match personal vibrations. Thus the Planchette is available in either dark Vibrant Walnut stain or Magnetic Red natural stain. EITHER COLOR — ONLY $4.00 CLARK PUBLISHING CO, 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Hlinois Please send me only $4.00 each. Walnut Red 0. planchettes at Check color: I enclose check___-, order____, for $-_. cash__._, money ADDRESS CITY & STATE
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JUST HORSING AROUND? By Jesse L. Hicks WAS RAISED by my Aunt Mary Hicks, since my mother died be- fore I was two years old. Just the two of us lived there in an old, old farm house, out of La Follette, Tenn. Ghosts were the last thing we thought about I assure you. On a rainy summer night nearly 30 years ago, when I was 11 or 12 years old, we had gone to bed, as usual, about dark. In those days country folk didn’t burn kerosene to make a light when sleeping was cheaper. About 10:00 o’clock we were awakened by a horse. Not a horse in the house, but one walking around outside. Walking and snort- ing! We lay waiting for the horse to go away. There were flowers in the front yard and we knew the horse was trampling them. But it would- n’t go away, just kept snorting and stomping real close to the house. Finally I went outside to chase it away but I found nothing to chase. There was no horse anywhere around the house. It was dark of course but not too dark to see a large animal. 1 thought it had-wan- dered off while I was getting out- side. I looked around a little, then went back to the house. FATE will pay $5 for each story published in this department. Stories should deal with an actual experience proving spirit survival. They should be less than 300 words and typed (double-spaced) on one side of the paper. They should be sent to “Survival” Editor, FATE Magazine, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Ill. Manuscripts must give author's name and address and include a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. 87 A few minutes later with a snort and a stomp, old horsie was back. Again I went outside, again no horse! This time I didn’t look so long for I was beginning to think something wasn’t quite right. This horsey noise kept up for the next two hours or so, then all was quiet for the rest of the night. The next morning bright and early we went out to see how much damage our “guest” had done. No- where around the house, front or JESSE L. HICKS
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NEW BOOKS THE WORLD IS NEW, by Joel S. Gold- smith. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1962. 209 pages, $3.50 On page 74 of The World is New Joel Goldsmith says: “We may go to a teacher or to a book for guidance and help along the way, but we cannot go to a teacher or to a book for God. For That, we have to go to our own Soul, to the innermost depths of our own being. No man, woman, or book can reveal God to us. All any one of them can do is to show us the path along which we may travel until we get back into the kingdom of our own being, the kingdom of our own Soul, and there find God.” This route is long and tortuous for most of the persons who tread it, and they will no doubt be grate- ful that Goldsmith has presented them with a clearly-drawn map of the way he recommends. His is a path well-marked with signposts and cleared of the usual underbrush of verbiage which makes so many metaphysical books difficult to com- prehend. Some who have read the earlier writings of this popular author may have been put off by his ground- 95 JOEL S. GOLDSMITH work in Christian Science, although others may have been helped by it. Although his terminology still shows the Science and Health influence— he speaks of mortal mind, materia medica, error, supply, demonstra- tions, and practitioners—he has clarified the meaning of those terms so that one who is not a Christian Scientist can understand their use, and he uses them sparingly. What he does more often is to make state-
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NEW BOOKS this book: “The work of healing through the Spirit, however, is never the healing of a body or of any physical condition, even though it appears as the healing of the prob- lems of human existence. That is the result, but it is not the work. The real work is the spiritualizing of consciousness and of thought, and the opening of consciousness to God. “The Infinite Way does not teach that there are no human prob- lems: it teaches that in the presence of God there are no problems, and so when we stand in the conscious awareness of the presence of God, there is no poverty, sin, disease, or death to overcome .. . Healing is ac- complished through a spiritual state of consciousness.” We are told how to get along with our fellow men. The author also discusses tithing, prayer, solving individual problems, and spiritual freedom. But he in- sists that as we get deeper into spir- itual life the day-by-day vexations become of less importance to us. We “rise above them” as it were. As has been indicated, The World 4s New is not for those who are satisfied with their old world. Un- less you have an urge for improve- ment, a desire to go beyond the mere platitudes of most writers of “self- help books” and penetrate the depths of meditation, this book is not for you. But for one seeking deeper meaning, we do not need to have a single new idea added to our ex- perience. According to Goldsmith: “We have only to open our spiritual eyes to see the fullness and com- pleteness of God’s universe, which is already here and which is al- ready now—and then the world is new.”—Susy Smith. 97 “READING FORT IS A RIDE ON A COMET...” Maynard Shipley, NEW YORK TIMES Four complete books by Charles Fort — the cream of his work — are included in this massive 1150- page volume. Completely indexed. THE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT Charles Fort spent his life pains- takingly gathering the odd and strange facts of the world. Any library on ‘‘the strange, the un- usual, the unknown’’ must start with Charles Fort. Four OUTRAGEOUS Books THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED, WILD TALENTS, LO!, and NEW LANDS — all included in one vol- ume. Tiffany Thayer calls it “... one of the greatest books ever written . . . surely among the first ten.”’ FOUR GREAT BOOKS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! The Books of Charles Fort YOURS FOR ONLY $7.50! ORDER NOW! a VENTURE UES P.O. Box 671 Evanston, Dlinois Please send me THE BOOKS OF CHARLES WORT. I enclose $7.50. DD check, [J cash, (] M.O. Name See ee eveesecsevesees SER RSE ee eee City, State... reccccsccccccevcccsvvvgusceses Trt? ttt tt tt Se
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NEW BOOKS The book gives a fascinating pic- ture of the old temple disciplines of purification, temple-sleep and hyp- notice rest states. Drugs played a subordinate role in ancient theurgic ‘medicine. Bodily processes were stimulated and concentrated through inspiration and mental suggestion. Although the ancients lacked the refinements of modern science, their medical practices indicate that they were not without resources of their own. They possessed in. particular knowledge regarding the mind-body relationship of which healers of to- day have just come to recognize and which as yet they do not under- stand fully. - Dr. Jayne’s study first appeared in 1925, a time when medical sci- ence still looked wholly to the re- search laboratory for answers. Due to the impressive discoveries of Koch, Pasteur and those who followed in their footsteps, the physical the- ory of disease dominated medical thought. Dr. Jayne’s book has been reprinted now that there has been a return to older concepts, such as the belief of Hippocrates that the mind and body are a unity, one af- fecting the other.—Guy Archette. FLYING SAUCERS AND SPACE MEN, by Dr. John H. Manas. Pythagorean Society, New York, 1962. 124 pages, paperbound, $2.00. This is something of an oddity among books on flying saucers and their alleged passengers. It is chief- ly noteworthy for the author’s homely yet engaging style and for his views, which combine the phys- cal and the metaphysical in a rath- er confusing fashion. Dr. Manas, a native of Crete who emigrated to the United States when 99 ee x t x : x t x 8 x +*K . : 1962? 1963? ; t t 1964? YOUR YEAR OF DESTINY — which one? One of England's leading As- trologers will prepare a ‘full and frank statement of your destiny and give you many forecasts about your fate in 1962, 1963, and 1964. Document will come to you by AIR MAIL, if you send birthdate, name and address and $1.00 only. Dr. Theodore Van der Lyn 392 Strand, Dept. F t London W.C.2, England SOOO IYI I. FROG BO OOOO OOOO OO OOOO OO ROR OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO LI.
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NEW BOOKS strata of four ethers: the Chemical Ether, the Life Ether, the Light Ether and the Reflecting Ether, These constitute an etheric envelope extending approximately 205 miles into space. Above the Reflecting Ether is the astral plane, or region, which “ac- cording to metaphysical calcula- tions,” extends into space for 2,051 miles. Above the astral plane is the mental plane, or mental world, extending 929 miles into space. Above the mental region is the spir- itual plane, approximately 1,146 miles in thickness. The souls of all the departed, Dr. Manas asserts, “live in all these regions or worlds, each soul gravi- tating to the plane to which it vi- brates and radiates.” He expresses the opinion that, despite the optimism of the U.S.A. scientists regarding the ability of manned space ships to reach the moon and nearer planets, man never will be able to navigate interplane- tary space. The reason, he states, is that no human being can travel on the astral plane of space in the physical body. An astronaut could hope to do this only by abandoning his physical shell and traveling in his astral form or vehicle. If he could do this at all—which Dr. Manas contends is possible only for a trained occultist and metaphysi- cian—he would not need a cumber- some space ship to begin with. In this connection, Dr. Manas quotes Dr, Lee W. DeForrest, “the father of electronics,” who predic- ted that man never will reach the moon regardless of all future sci- entific advances. However, we are certain that Dr. DeForrest had purely physical obstacles in mind. 103 OAHSPE THE LONG LOST UNCHANGED FIRST EDITION THE 1882 EDITION OF THE WONDER BOOK OF THIS AGE, PHOTOCOPIED FROM THE ORIGINAL, NOT A COMMA CHANGED! In 1891 John Ballou Newbrough and Andrew M. Howland issued a ‘‘re- vised and corrected’’ edition of OAH- SPE. Because since 1885 the first edition could not be purchased any- where, the public has been unable to ascertain what these changes were. With this photocopied edition of OAHSPE the 1882 edition is once more made available. With the ad- vent of the Space Age, OAHSPE: is being vindicated, and proven to be one of the world’s important books. UNEXPURGATED This edition of OAHSPE contains 928 pages. It also contains nearly three quarters of a million words. The Book of Cosmology might have been written by today’s space scien- tists! Much of the science in OAH- SPE has only recently been ‘‘dis- covered’’. Today space satellites are discovering ‘‘how it is’’ out in space, while in 1882 OAHSPE contained the same information! As an_in- stance, the now famous Van Allen radiation belts. The reader is over- whelmed by the science of OAHSPE, $10.00 Order Your Copy From RAY PALMER AMHERST, WISCONSIN (Available Nowhere Else!)
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REPORT FROM THE ASTRAL JOURNEY Recently I ‘experienced what seemed to be an involuntary astral journey. As I dozed between sleep and wakefulness, I suddenly exper- ienced a dream-like sensation of flying over unfamiliar villages and landscapes. In my notes, made immediately afterward, I wrote, “Flying rapid- ly at great heights or moving slow- ly above the earth.” I had a feel- ing of complete safety and content- ment. My body passed through trees and walls like smoke. I felt secure that my invisible support would not fail. The scenes were in brightest day- light, also at dawn and again in blackest night. When I was in dark- ness, a russet colored light seemed to surround me, I felt neither heat nor cold. I saw few people, no automobile traffic, railroads or carriages. I did float slowly above an embarka-. tion point and watch columns of what seemed to be Australian sol- diers marching. I seemed to think this was during the Boer War in Africa. I also saw, from a distance, a night bombardment of old type cannon. I searched below me for signs and lettering along roads and on buildings, but passed so rapidly that it was difficult. With some amusement, I did see on a distant factory building in a rural district a large sign in blue and white with the words International Harvester. I approached in daylight a church with a square Norman tower. I read a numerical builder’s inscrip- tion on one of the stones in white paint. I seemed to recall this Eng- lish-type church from a long-gone time. I never have been in England. I then melted into the walls and found myself in a most interesting Victorian-type attic, with antique furniture and with many old greet- ing cards fastened to the walls. I attempted to read the names of the persons inscribed in old Spencerian handwriting, but I circled the room too quickly in my flight. I saw an old cowhide trunk, solidly stitched with heavy thread. It had no hinges, brads or ornamentation. I never had seen a trunk of this type be- fore. I then floated swiftly down to the main part of an old-fashioned room. It seemed to- be dawn, and there was an old four-poster bed, and drapes and a large round table and portiers. A man was asleep in the bed, which was covered with an expensive pea-green silken quilt with little checks, the like of which - I have never seen. Each check seemed to be decorated with a silken bow. . The man, who looked like a per- son of fashion of 100 years ago, with a large mustache and an out- moded hair style, seemed suddenly alarmed as though he sensed my presence in the room. I was glid- ing past him, about four feet from the floor. I raised my hand in an Indian gesture of peace to still his fears. He seemed reassured. 105
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REPORT FROM THE READERS Do you know of any persons or institutions who would be interest- ed enough to investigate? I would appreciate having them contact me. I have visited a spot not too many miles from this alleged secret loca- tion where a homesteader, while plowing a small beach area for a garden patch, discovered all sorts of artifacts (crude designs).—Mer- cedes B. Matter, Jackson, Mont. GHOST OR GESTALT? In the February, 1962, issue you published a story, ‘“‘With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm,” by Lawrence Stevens, describing an ap- parition of a beheaded soldier, car- rying his head in his arms, appear- ing in Seoul to announce the end of the Korean War in three months. This apparition possibly may have been a manifestation of a telepath- ically-formed “group-mind” or ges- talt of thoughts concerning the Ko- rean War. According to parapsy- chologists like Whately Carington, G.N.M. Tyrrell, H. H. Price and Nandor Fodor, groups of thoughts common to many minds may form autonomous, mind-like, conscious, active psychical entities, with tele- pathic, clairvoyant, precognitive and telekinetic powers. In this case we may assume that the psychical system consisting of thoughts connected with the Korean War determined the date of the end of that war through precognition and then used telepathy to appear in the form of a grotesque speaking apparition to the soldiers. A similar “group-mind” also may explain the dazzling silver-colored sword seen for two hours over Eng- land on the night of March 10, 1643 (see “The Silver Colored Sword,” by 107 SSUUCCTUCCUAEACULCA EA CCUEE ECU CCEA CECE EES = MIND READING SIMPLIFIED Another Exciting Gold Seal Publication By Farrar This is a Basic Working Guide for Modern People with a Flair for both Fun and Serious Discovery IN EVERYDAY ESP. $2 per copy from: AD, Box 1385, San Francisco 1, Calif. EU LUTEE eeUC CUCL CCU ecUeee UCU CULE CLAIRVOYANT Any four questions answered. Print name and address, enclose $1.00 bill and send to: K. KENNEDY 823 MAIN ST., ST. JOSEPH, MG. VACATION at unique cabin colony adjacent to famous Watkins Glen State Park, with swim- ming pool, tennis, archery, hayrides, square dancing. Serving natural foods grown on our own organic farms for best in taste and nutrition. Ses- sion on Deep Meditation and Heal- ing in September. Seneca Lodge, Dept. F, Watkins Glen, N. Y,. FALTER EU LEET ATED EATER TEE HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS And their application to extra-sensory perception Lysergic Acid Mescaline Psylocybin Trytomine Peyote Mushrooms By Bernard Copley The summary of a hundred personal experiences This booklet contains a definite method of control over the awe inspiring powers of these drugs. It is compiled from experiences among the Indian people and later work in conjunction with medical psychiatrists. Price $1.00 Hypnosophic Institute Box 428 Joshua Tree, Calif.
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REPORT FROM THE READERS “WONDERFUL ARTICLE” I must drop you a line to tell you that “Secret at the Heart of the Universe” in the April issue was a wonderful aricle. An atheist friend has been giv- ing me a hard time by quoting as fact things that still are but the- ories. That article jarred him to his heels. I now notice that he falls back on saying “I believe” instead of acting as Final Authority. My deep- est gratitude to you—Bertram W. Hanscom, Kennebunk, Me. ANOTHER TALKING DOG I was interested in the talking dog mentioned in “Report From the Readers” in the May, 1962, issue. In 1922 Miss Laura M. Saunders of Ottawa, Canada, had a little black spaniel she had rescued and kept. He learned to pronounce the words HAS LIFE 10g “Jes’ a crumb” very plainly after many ineffectual attempts during which he made terrific noises in his throat while sitting up to beg. He finally found that, by rolling his tongue up over his nose, he could speak the words more distinctly. When very excited he repeated the last two words several times. He was an old dog when he learned this new trick—Fred L. Ashworth, Heu- velton, N. Y. UNDERSTANDING HINDUSTANI In the article “Fraud Is Where You Find It,’ by James Crenshaw, we find the following passage: “In London, a Hindu control was con- founded when a member of the SPR committee attempted to speak to him in Hindustani. (Since the con- trol, one Abdul, was a Moslem from what is now Pakistan, this was not CONQUERED YOU? There lies within man the power to conquer life and its conditions, for man is potentially a SUPERMAN. But he cannot be made a Superman, he must become so by effort and knowledge. From age to age mankind has by many means sought UNION with his Divine Soul but has failed to awaken the DYNAMIC SOUL POWERS within himself to become a MASTER AMONG MEN. Such knowledge was previously given under veiled language to trusted pupils. For the first time the correct method of this attainment is permitted to he revealed publicly for all men. THESE SOUL POWERS ARE LATENT WITHIN YOU HERE AND NOW If you wish to develop your own Soul powers, send for these FREE Booklets which will show you how you can alter your whole life and open your Inner Doors to success, 2 “A CALL TO ARMS” and “ILLUMINATION—WHO, HOW and WHAT?” Send now for your copies, enclosing 20c to cover the cost of the postage to:— THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE PLEROMA 2450 SUMMIT DRIVE, Dept. F SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA, U. S. A.
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REPORT FROM THE READERS article is correct then this skull does not represent a skull of the Mayan Indian. The statement that priests worked on the skull for 150 years is absurd. Also the statement that the skull is 3,000 years old is based on a wild guess and on the circumstantial evidence of it being found in a grave which might be that old. It seems to me that the skull already might have been thou- sands of years old when it was put in the grave. The interesting feature of the skull is that apparently it has with- in it a temperature supply and regu- lator. It is unbelievable that science tor. It is unbelievable that science did not find the skull interesting enough to take a closer look into it. If the energy is supplied from with- in, the source surpasses everything IIit Use your phonograph re- corder or amazing new Electronic Educator end- less tape recorder. As- tonishing details, sensa- tional 300 items catalog FREE. Also free infor- mation on: Prayer Plant Experiments, Life-After- Death, Self-Hypnosis. SLEEP-LEARNING RESEARCH ASSN. Box 24-@ Olympia, Washington LEARN WHILE YOU SLEEP! Be Be vcky! Ye es, BE LUCKY with a “GUIDANCE CHARTE!” Send your name, birthdate, address, and only $5 to “LUCKY CHARTE,” P.O. BOX 491, SAN CLEMENTE, CALIF., and discover the goldmine hidden in your name! (Advertisement) Dr. Boris Sidis, associate of William James at Harvard, delighted in tak- ing failing students and making hon- or students of them ¢ ; with a unique for- mula. He applied the method to his son’s education, and Billy was able to read and write at the age of four. He skipped through school, and at eleven addressed the Harvard faculty on the Fourth Di- mension. Einstein ac- cepted a correction of a flaw in his Theory of Relativity which Billy found. At fifteen, he taught at Rice Billy Sidis Formula for Genius Used on Billy Sidis Revealed by Doctor Institute in Texas. The mother of Billy, also an M.D., has revealed this re- markable method and its application in col- laboration with Dr. Edward L. Kramer, founder of the Kim- ball Foundation of Personality Engineer- © ing. It is available to you in a 48 page illustrated manuscript called, “Formula for Genius,” from that Foundation. Just mail $1.00 to KIMBALL FOUNDATION BRENTWOOD 17, MISSOURI Dr. Kramer
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REPORT FROM THE READERS ture, I’ve seen faces of people. I don’t seem to have much trouble accomplishing this unique viewing of images -on the eyelids. In discus- sions with others, nobody else has admitted similar experiences. I am gratified to learn via your magazine that such experiences are shared by others throughout the world.—Jack Paxton, Fresno, Calif. A THREAT TO HEAVEN? I write this hoping that some in- fluential news commentator or re- porter may share my protest against what I firmly believe to be our greatest peril—the efforts of a ni- hilistic, “atheistic” scientific-indus- trial-military-political vested inter- est, or combine, to devise and test an increasingly “sophisticated” weap- onry, with not the least concern relative to the possible detrimental effects such devising and testing may have upon the welfare of the physical body-and-soul! The Argus nuclear space shots, conducted several years ago to sa- tiate the curiosity of one Nicholas Christofilos, a Greek scientist, may well have destroyed millions of de- fenseless human souls in that heav- en (now dubbed “outer space”) our forefathers held real and inviolate! No mortal—parapsychologist, priest or space scientist—knows the exact geographical location of “ heaven,” hence no one has the mortal right to endanger that realm, callously and arrogantly, by nuclear blast, missile or satellite. John Glenn observed small, globu- lar, yellow-green luminosities follow- ing his capsule. Although it was not mentioned in print, these were UFO’s, literally speaking. For all anyone knows, these flying objects 113 This is THE HUMAN AURA Diagram of normal aura based on W. J. Kilner, M.D. YOU CAN SEE THE AURA. Science confirms it exists—clairvoyants have seen it—mnow you can see it too! And Jearn its messages. New booklet THE HUMAN AURA reveals aura-vision train- ing technique successful with 90% of all students. Also answers these ques- tions: @ What is the aura? @ What does the aura look like? @ What secrets can it reveal? @ How can I see the aura? Read THE HUMAN AURA only $1,00 VALUABLE COUPON. With your copy of the HUMAN AURA you will receive a coupon redeemable for $1.00 towards the purchase of a pair of authentic Aura Goggles. Se eee ee, CLARK PUBLISHING CO, 1 ee Chicago Ave., Evanston, Ill. | | Please send me AT ONCE ..... Nierviers contenty of THE HUMAN AURA, and include the coupon ] worth $1.00 on purchase of Authentic Aura | I Goggles. " T enclose [] cash [[] check [(] money I baa L0r“Sicwecesictesces ecccncccce [ Address .........000-. seseee ais isia(eielsle ie’ sipielste I City Zone.... ’,
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REPORT FROM THE READERS of the body, and while ill have had the following dream containing sym- bols which should make it easy to interpret. I dreamed that I was working in an exclusive resort hotel of some kind on the shore of a long, curving bay. It was surrounded on all sides by snow and ice, and gave an im- pression of immaculateness, but the whole atmosphere was cold and harsh, the light harsh and without any softening color, absolutely with- out any feeling of warmthor softness. I had to deliver something to the “Bride’s Suite’ which was Room 16, off an almost indistinguishable al- cove. I could not get any response from the room and reported this to a man named Jimmy who, while senior to me, seemed to be not a su- perior but a co-worker. _ Suddenly some unremembered emergency came up. I had to travel hurriedly some distance all around the bay to the opposite side and was fretting about the slowness of the trip. Jimmy seemed to have “patent- leather” hair, a very white face, and was dressed in a severe black suit and white shirt, very immacu- late in appearance. He seemed a “cold” person and at no time did I feel any warmth in his personality. He said, “I’ll show you how to go. Follow me.” I had perfect confidence in him and followed without question even when he started to walk across the waters of the bay. I walked about five feet behind him. I noticed a huge wave coming at an angle to- ward me and faltered from fear. But I ‘decided that when Jimmy had said, “Follow me,” he seemed to know what he was doing. If the wave hit me or engulfed me, I nev- II5 Your future read by mail with deck of cards With a deck of ordinary cards, elim- inate 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Shuffle and lay out 8 cards in a row, 4 rows in all. Write down, from left to right, suit_and number of cards (H — Hearts, D — Diamonds, C — Clubs and § Spades). Also state birthdate and wish and send $3.00 to: ELAN P.O. BOX I!!, MT. VIEW, CALIF. DR. YOUNG, vo. “ABDOMINAL CONSTRICTOR.” Draws in waist “like magic.’’ No pills. No ‘‘belts.” No dieting. No apparatus. Men, women. $2.98. Sat. or re- fund, CLARION, Box 9309-T, Chisago 90. ‘PSYCHIC DOMINANCE How to RULE OTHERS with your THOUGHTS.” Full course, with stirring exercises. Illustrated. ae Only $3. No C.0.D. Satisfaction or refund, ARION, Box 9309-T Chieago 90, III. THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT By Louis C. Jones Haunted trails and phostly. tales... the inest and most com- prehensive book of ghost stories yet written in this coun- try... and by far the most entertain- ing. Contains over 200 stories of the restless dead . . . stories about haunted houses and the hungers that bring the departed back to their earthly haunts. CLARK PUBLISHING CO. 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Illinois Please send me--_--copies of ‘‘Things ne Go Bump in the Night” at $3.75 eac I enclose check.... cash-.._. money order__-_-_. NAME Ses aonendaproatepaenaanoeae serie! ADDRESSsaisropusacoaspocnedacadanms
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116 er saw it or felt it. I followed Jimmy. Apparently all went well and that is the end of the dream. I would have no problem in inter- preting the dream except for the fact of the coldness, the snow and ice, the lack of warmth, of feeling, of love, of a softening influence of any kind. All this-puzzles me. Can anyone interpret this dream?— Mary V. Reeves, Glendale, Calif. . SETTLING THE SOCT With regard to the soot fall on Tampa, Fla., mentioned on page 22 of your January, 1962, issue, a friend recently wrote me: “That smelly soot you mention was found to be from the Tampa Electric Company’s plant, I believe, though they had denied at first that it could be possible. The soot did not come out our way (North Brad- ford Avenue), and I believe most tormented the Davis Island’ folks. There has been a sort of smog in Polk County lately (though not in Lakeland) which has caused some accidents on the highways.”—Olive R. Imhof, Pittsburgh, Pa. ANOTHER “PROFANE” SPIRIT In the January, 1962, issue I read with interest the letter “Profanity Via Ouija,” by Sue Catranbone, of Lakewood, Calif. I too own and use an Ouija board and have had the same experience. I was, however, amused when Sue Catranbone said she finally quieted this “profane spirit” and talked to high spirits. The lady talked to only one—the same one. If she will pay careful attention to what the spirits say, she will agree. When her “Tim” is cussing away, she might take a small New Testa- FATE ment and lay it on the plaque, put her fingers on the book and watch what happens. The spirits seem ter- rified of a Bible for some strange reason I have been unable to de- termine. When my spirit threatens me, I have only to reach out for the New ‘Testament and she stops short. She will ery, “Take that hateful thing away! Stop torturing me!” Or she will plead, “Come on, let’s be friends!” This spirit I talk to says she lives in a nearby city, is Irish—or was. (I am Irish myself.) She is quick-tempered, blasphemous and tender by turns. She has “moved in” on me and tells me she will see to it that I talk to no other spirit. I enjoy our mental “fencing” and often trick her into giving me in- formation. Then she cuts loose with profanity. She tries to get me to surrender my mind to her, promising to make me wise and rich: My advice to users of this instrument is to be always on guard. Never surrender your mind or will to any ‘spirit, good or bad. And take any infor- mation with a “grain of salt.” —Bertram W. Hanscomb, Kenne- bunk, Me. LIVING TWO LIVES I am writing to you about certain events in my life to see if you or your readers have any knowledge of what has been happening to me. What follows may seem fantastic and to many unbelievable, but it is the truth. As I look back on the past, I find that I have lived two lives, one which took place in the daytime and one which took place at night.
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REPORT FROM THE READERS As a small child I recall that my earthly mother would put me into a small-bed with sides much like a crib. She would tuck the covers about me, for we lived in the north- ern part of Montana and the nights were cold. As soon as she left the room, a cloud would appear and out of this would step a woman in a sheer white dress. She would pick up and carry me into the cloud, where I entered a room filled with many wonderful things. I would be dressed in a white robe and set to play with many toys, not toys of this world but of past ages. Here I was loved and looked after by many persons I knew and trusted. I was happy and contented, but as the night faded into morning I found myself back in my bed with my earthly mother leaning over me. She would take me up and my day also would be filled with love and toys and happy play with my sis- ters and brother. The years passed with me living both in this earth world and in the dream world at night. Then one night I had an unpleasant experi- ence. The monks, whom I had learn- ed to love and who always were teaching me in the great building, helped me to kill and burn an un- known person who seemed to be in my way. From that time on I no longer was as happy as before, nor were there aS many persons near me when I entered the dream world. The great house and the servants were the same, but somehow a shad- ow had fallen and I felt it not only at night but in my daytime life as well. All: this time I said nothing about my experiences to my earthly 117 INSTANT MEDIUMSHIP Use your amazing psychic powers NOW! Why ‘‘develop’’ for years? MONEY? HEALTH? LOVE? NOTH- ING IS HOPELESS. Remarkable NEW APPROACH (demonstrated by Jesus) now verified by modern science. This simplified monograph teaches psychic secrets THAT WORK. How to avoid dangers. Send only $1.00 donation for ‘‘The Eleventh Re- velation’”’ and other Bible secrets to, The TRUE Church, P.O. Box 2, Station “‘G’’, Buffalo, N.Y. Dept. F. ASTROLOGER The science of astrology can help you. Life Chart and year’s directions, $10.00. For a finer analysis with the question of Karma, $15.00. Two charts compared, $20.00. Detailed direc- tions for one year covering more than 60 im- portant dates, $30.00. Give time, date and place of birth along with exact dates of four major events: births, deaths, marriages, etc. H. DOUGLAS MILLER 2414 Liddesdale, Detroit 17, Michigan Phone: WA 8-1837. Read: Why some prayers, Especially for Healing, Are Not Answered; also, How Healing is Accomplished; plus Thesis on ‘‘Laying-on-Hands,’’ which cured problems after ALL OTHER methods failed, written by Rev. F, Magiera, 20705 Vining, New Boston, Mich. Send $1.00. You too have Heal- ing Hands. Heal yourself, help others, HE ADVERTISED If what you have to sell is of interest to readers of the subjects covered by FATE, you'll gell more through FATE than through any other magazine in its field. FATE not only reaches Tore of these readers but the best of them. Write for an advertising rate card today! Advertising Director, Clark Publishing Co., 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Hil.
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118 'WHY DO MOST PEOPLE| in the world avoid shaking hands? Just cus- tom? Are ‘‘primitives’’ more aware of Aue ely harm? Are we spiritual barbarians? Can you pick up ‘“‘invisible’’ ills, vibrations, troubles, | pains? Don’t lose your energy! Order ‘‘The psychic dangers of shaking hands & how to | Tiprorect yourself,’” Guaranty enclosed, sbi] J dust $2 now. CALVIN COTTAM, Dept. OF | ! 1017 ARLINGTON, LOS ANGELES 19, CALIF. 5 in ee ee ee ee i ee ee ee ee ee ee 3 QUESTIONS ANSWERED—$1 Personal Problems — $5. Full Life Reading — $10. Send birth dates with large, stamped, self-addressed envelope, STAR, 153 Camellia, * San Antonio 9, Texas Give it a chance! Amazing MYSTIC EYE has the answer! Ask it any question about love, health, business, money — past, present or future! Determine the sex of unborn children! Find missing valuables! ‘'wo sets available: Standard Set with pendulum, reading board and _ booklet of instructions, $1.50 postpaid. Deluxe Set In ou-tarnishing Gold Pyroxylin-coated box. $3.25 postpaid. Order yours today. complete CLARK PUBLISHING CO. 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Illinois FATE mother. My teens were happy and in time I was graduated from high school and married a fine man. But each night I was taken to a land which was no longer green and beautiful, but misty and filled with” the unknown. I sat at the feet of teachers and learned things of value to me in my daytime life. I roamed the rooms of a large house which looked much like the buildings of India. Here I was happy until last year I sold my house. I walked out, entered a carriage like those of the 16th Century and went into the mist, to awaken in bed near my husband. At night now I find myself flying over the countryside with unknown persons. On these flights I pick up many persons who are just wan- dering around and seem to be lost and give them aid. But a feeling of something lost forever has settled over me. I feel depressed and lonely as if all that mattered to my life on this earth plane has gone from me.—M.L.N., California. NON-MYSTIC EYE? I noted the letter headed “Seen With the Mystic Eye” in the April issue. The principles of the “Mys- tic Eye’ or, better stated, the pen- dulum are camparatively old; there is not much mystery about it. It just will do what you want it to do. It does not matter whether the pen- dulum bob is an overcoat button, a piece of candy or a key; it will be equally effective as long as a pendulum is created. It will ex- press your thoughts by motion as they otherwise are expressed by speech. Hard concentration on the subject will induce the pendulum to act correspondingly.
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REPORT FROM THE READERS When the writer of the letter asked the question, “Are thoughts things?” he might have had a posi- tive opinion on the matter, but still a deep feeling of doubt. As this subject is somewhat difficult to conceive, the reaction of the pendu- lum was negative. On the other questions the operator was fully convinced of his opinion and the result was a positive answer. As for the difference in the pendulum motion between male and female, it is circular for the women and straight for all men. It has long been used to determine sex in eggs. It will be effective on articles handled by a woman or by a man. A most severe test disclosed the sex of an unborn child. But a pendulum will not respond when it is rigidly fastened, or is not supported by the hand. It seems that a connection of the string with the human body must exist to pro- duce results. I tried the pendulum just re- cently and found it will show the points of the compass with uncan- ny accuracy.—F'red W. Gawert, New York, N.Y. FLOATING—OR DREAMING In the March, 1962, issue I read the letter by Mr. Frank Sudlow of Victoria, B.C., Canada, in which he stated that he experienced a strange happening which he could not explain, He stated that he float- ed up near the ceiling of his bed- room, and that he felt comfortable and light. My theory is that he Was dreaming. I experienced the same dream about two months ago. I have the habit of returning to bed after I get my husband off to work, and 119 THE WHITE MAGIC BOOK By Mrs. John Le Breton For those who desire to develop the unused powers of the mind. Specially suited to per- sons who want to start at the beginning in learning the mysteries of the mind. Use it with your friends . . . over and over... with new results each time, Priee $2.50 VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671, Evanston, Illinois CHANGING YOUR ADDRESS? If you are a subscriber, FATE won't follow you to your new address unless you Motify us of the change 30 days in advance. Write us today listing both old and new addresses. Circulation Dept. CLARK PUBLISHING CO. 845 Chicago Avenue e Evanston, Illinois YOUR LIFE IS WRITTEN ON YOUR HANDS! Tew can read it but it is all there — your love, marriage, business career, hopes, success — and your future. Timely advice may make the differenco be- tween success and failure. By special arrangement with FATE, Mir Bashir, world-famed Indian palmist, will read your handprints, send you a detailed hand analysis for $10.00. Learn the direction where your success and happiness are greatest. handprints: Obtain tube of oil paint, Press out small quantity on wad of cotton or tissue. Dab evenly on each finger and palm, including one-inch space on wrist. Press hand on plain sheet of paper. Let prints dry. ‘To take Send prints of both hands to Mir Bashir, % FATE Magazine, 845 Chieago Ave., Evanston, Ill., with check or money order for $10.00. Be sure to enclose your name, Address and date of birth. Your reading will be sent to you air mail from abroad.
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120 this particular morning I dreamed that I arose from my bed while lying on my back, then floated into the hallway and into my two-and- a-half year-old son’s room, and then floated around his ceiling. In the dream I thought to myself, “What was he going to tell his fa- _ther that night about seeing his mother float around his ceiling?” He said nothing to indicate that I actually had done so, and I must assume it was a dream. Since I was a small child I often have dreamed I was walking on air, and in these dreams it seemed quite normal for me to do this. It never was an unpleasant experience and I look forward to my next dream.— Mrs. Patricia Verdugo, Lawndale, Calif. NOXIOUS EARTH RAYS I wish to point out that there seems to be a link between the ex- perience reported on page 48 of the March issue (“Devil Ring,” by Paula Jackson) and the paragraph on page 75 entitled “Link Cancer To Soil.” At the Congress of the British Society of Dowsers in Farnham, England, last June, we had quite a round-robin discussion of what we term “noxious earth rays” and their association with cancer. Many dowsers can detect these rays which seem to emanate from underground streams of water (par- ticularly where two streams cross) and from other underground sources. There is no question but that these rays are contributing causes not only of cancer but many other ail- ments as well. Many rays seem to affect only certain sensitive persons, while oth- FATE ers are so powerful as to cause a dwelling built over them to be completely unhealthy for any per- son living in it. Several methods have been de- veloped to screen out these rays and so render them harmless. Some- times the effect is so localized that the mere moving of the person’s bed to another part of the room will show a marked improvement in health. Many dowsers can walk down a street and tell you which are the “healthy” houses and which the “sick,” and the reaction to a “can- cer house” always is a violent one. I rather imagine that the damp soil referred to on page 75 would tend to support more of these nox- ious rays than the dry soil and hence be more unhealthy generally. —Robert S. Plimpton, President, American Society of Dowsers, Inc., Storrs, Conn. FROG RAIN THEORY I have a theory concerning the raining of frogs, although I won’t go so far as to say it doesn’t rain frogs, for I believe it is possible. But I do know that frogs will dig themselves into the ground during dry weather and come out after a rain. I am a native of Florida and made part of my living frog hunt- ing for several years. My father- in-law and I have gone out and hunted ponds at night after a big rain. Ponds which had been bone dry the night before will contain many, many frogs after the rain. I have felt thousands of holes in the ground where the frogs came out from dry weather hibernation. As for fish, here is something I =o)
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REPORT FROM THE READERS Saw once while working at Carl- strom Field in Arcadia, Fla., during World War II. We had asphalt ramps where we parked the air- planes. It had been very dry for over a year and all the small streams had dried up. But one day a cloud came up which resulted in an elec- tric storm and one of the hardest downpours I had ever witnessed. After the rain was over we all started out to the line to take the cockpit covers off the planes. One of the crew yelled and mo- tioned for the rest of us to come and see something on the ground. We thought he had run on- to a snake. But instead there was a space of about 50 feet up and down the ramp in front of the hangar that literally was covered with small fish. I venture to say there would have been at least a 10-quart pail full. They were mostly large minnows and small perch. Fif- teen other crew members saw this, besides myself, and if it didn’t rain the fish down I can’t see how they got there. — Paul Henderson, Dick- inson, N. Dak. SHIFT OF A SATELLITE In “I See by the Papers” in a re- cent issue of Fatr, Curtis Fuller mentions that “Astronomers, includ- ing Russian astronomers, have ob- served that Phobos (a satellite of Mars) is accelerating in its orbit. It is getting ahead of the path it would follow if it were moving only under the attraction of Mars ...” Astronomers theorize Phobos may be an artificial satellite of Mars. In the book, My Contact With Flying Saucers, by Dino Kraspedon (Saucerian Books, Clarksburg, W. (Continued on Page 129) FLYING SAUCERS America’s only Fact Magazine with complete coverage of the famous UFO. Flying saucers are a fact. A national poll has proved that one American in every four is aware of the truth of : that statement. In spite of this, FLYING SAUCERS Magazine is the only publica- tion devoted to presenting all the facts and all the latest news concerning uni- dentified flying objects. It is the only magazine wherein the public can pierce the fog in which official sources have shrouded a matter of vital and general public concern. Here is a magazine you can depend on to keep. you up to the minute on every development. More than 5000 sightings have been reported to the editors, and new sightings come in daily. Hundreds of these are from repu- table people, airline pilots, scientific experts, even clergymen. FLYING SAUC- ERS has a staff of experts who evaluate every sighting, subject every photo to exhaustive tests, analyze every theory presented, and who meticulously report the truth as they see if. Today Man is aiming his sights at the stars. He in- tends to fly to other planets, But are the inhabitants of other worlds already visiting us? It may be so, but even if not, this magazine is writing the daily history of the new space age! Published Every Other Month $4.00 for 12 ISSUES $6.75 for 24 ISSUES Subscribe Now — Order From RAY PALMER AMHERST, WISCONSIN
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