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THERE'S A GHOST IN DETROIT MAE WEST'S PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES COULD THE ANCIENTS SOFTEN STONE? LADY WONDER, THE PSYCHIC HORSE _ HYPNOTIZED—SHE SPOKE RUSSIAN , A NEW THEORY OF SPOOKS
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Y FIND EXCITEMENT, PROSPERITY AND SPIRITUAL VIGOR IN THIS LIFE AND THE NEXT THROUGH CONTROLLED REINCARNATION More than half of the world’s population agrees that you will live another life . . . right here on earth! Study of Druidism reveals how you will be reborn into enone body (you can choose how that body shall look and how great shall be its mind). Are you the reincarnation of a great person in history? Does the eternal know- ledge of some great leader lie waiting in your soul? Druidism shows you how to develop the powers and talents that lie buried under the many layers of your subconscious. Learn about C.R., finding a Soul Mate, Sun Worshipping and col- lecting the much talked-about Druid Stones. Send for FREE INFORMATION today! For free information mms MAIL THIS COUPON == mmme i i THE DRUIDS, P.O. Box 153-K , on how you can improve 1 Wheatridge, Colorado 1 4 . Please send me free information on 4 this life and plan ' Druidism and Controlled Reincar- 4 your next: Send in p> ' nation by a Druid Arch-Priest. 1 this coupon to: UNamex, (iveneiursiocsssttnestencerison cates i THE DRUIDS BAddrSdal sy, tsecs a aagese ov-tcoe se en eae 4 =. : CIty o> cae sie wicisiclvinse eisiia Staten sccm srs i P.O. Box 153-K, Wheatridge, Colo. 2 oe
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FEBRUARY Issue No. 155 1963 Fe ten bs Vol. 16—No. 2 Publisher: CURTIS FULLER Assistant Publisher: PAUL FOGHT Editor: MARY FULLER Managing Editor: CHESTER S. GEIER CO Foreign Editor: MIR BASHIR Art Director: SYDNEY BARKER | ARTICLES... | TRUE REPORTS ON THE STRANGE AND UNKNOWN Can Hypnosis Break Through The Language Barrier? ........ Stanley V. Mitchell 34 Could Ancient Sculptors Soften Stone? ~.............-... .. Ivan T. Sanderson 45 An Atomic Theory Of Apparitions —....................... James Crenshaw 59 Prayer And: My Canvasbacks —- ne Henry Marak 8&2 | STORIES .. «| DRAMATIC ACCOUNTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCES There’s A Ghost In Detroit .....-------------------------- Cornelius Sheehan 26 Mae West’s Psychic Experiences -.........--.-------------------- Danton Walker 40 Lady Was A Wonder ..... sew. Jack Woodford 66 I Knew Death Was Coming .. eee ~Darothy ous 76 | FEATURES . . . baa AND NOTES ON UNUSUAL TOPICS T6ee (By: i hé Papers ee ee a Curtis Fuller 6 *TETERC IN CURIA ICS, 5 cecesceteo se ag 33 The Hoodoo Mummy Case .............. Gr. Tench at The Miracle-Working Negro Saimt: 2.2 .c-accncncoecsnsnenceeenceseeeeeseoneee 52 True Mystic Experiences -.............. .. The Readers 53 Pera rici9 EB AGORA ok Ee WN RUB eo csc ea ee ee 65 Bringing The Bible Up To Date -........ Alson J. Smith 74 ‘The, Shepherd= With. Ueslmo Wanile 79 Hingers Of Pate 255 — ee ee ee Harold Helfer 80 Peat Carried oP te a Se ae er pea 88 My Proof Of Survival .... Report From The Readers at ee Saas ne The Readers 109 Published every month by CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 845 Chicago Avenuc, Evanston, Illl- nois. Second class postage paid at Evanston, Illinois, and at additional mailing offices. We do not accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited mavuscripts, photographs or artwork. Subscribers should notify us of address changes 30 days in advance, giving both old and new address. Copyright © 1963, CLARK PUSLISHING COMPANY 4
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, j +? J See by H,. HeKRI QUOTE OF THE MONTH “Criticism is not being its own true, humble, scientific self if it introduces a priori “presumptive” principles that miracles do not hap- pen ... The a priori rejection of miracles is really a claim that in the universe God has less leeway than we have ourselves.” Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey Archbishop of Canterbury. IS GRACE the 100th Arch- bishop, in purple cassock, black academic robes and red vel- vet cap, stood before a Chicago audience one day last October, and discussed the problem of miracles. While Biblical narratives may contain exaggeration and fables may have been elaborated, yet wholesale eradication of miracles by scientific principle “is, I believe impossible,” said the Archbishop. “Miracles are signs showing light on the existence of God.” They must be looked at, he said, within a broad framework of supernatural events which simply means “the free activity of the creator. “For God is free to act in in- explicable ways” including the sa- craments, mysticism and grace. “The Gospel describes no more and no less than God using his own By Curtis Fuller freedom,” continued the Arch- bishop. “The glory of Christianity through the ages is shown in acts that are miraculous.” He believes Christ gave up His healing miracles at their height and suffered and died because “Jesus knew that while a miracle helps on the way, in the end suffering helps still more.” CO CASES IN POINT? HAT IS A miracle? How is a miracle defined? What qualifies it? Last September Test Pilot George Aird was nosing his supersonic Lightning jet fighter in for a landing at Hatfield near Lon- don.
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bao) lieve that psychic abilities are not a result of evolutionary develop- ment but an atavistic remnant of ancient abilities which men are in the process of losing. io a) “JUST LIKE ANOTHER MAN” [= IN JUNE, Trawlerman Brian Smith left his home in Hull, Yorkshire, on a fishing cruise. He spoke with a broad York- shire accent but knew a smatter- ing of Norwegian. At sea Smith was hit on the head by a swinging tackle and was land- ed at Vardo, Norway, for an emer- gency operation on his fractured skull. He lay unconscious for two days. When he recovered, he spoke Norwegian fluently but only broken English. A month later Smith was back at his home in Yorkshire, learning to write English again with the help of his wife Barbara. “It’s just like another man coming home to me,” she says. oO IN THE CAVES LMOST UNKNOWN is the dis- covery, over the past 10 years, of one of the world’s great- est network of caves in the moun- tains of Venezuela. A decade ago only 40 caverns were known to ex- ist. Today 670 more have been dis- covered and 180 have been partly explored. FATE Largest of the known new caves is Guacharo Cave in the Caripe Mountains. It has been explored to a depth of four miles. It is named after the Guacharo birds which spend their nights there. So huge is the cave system that whole new classes of animals and reptiles have been found living in them. Hitherto unknown, they are now being classified. Meanwhile the search for more caves continues. oO EARTHQUAKE MYSTERY ERE’S A MYSTERY that seismologists and geologists can’t understand—there are no earthquakes at the South Pole. Some of the world’s best earth- quake observation stations are spread across Antarctica but no earthquake epicenters ever have been located there. Why? No one knows. oO A NEW LOOK AT HYPNOTISM 4 ke CAREFUL souls, in- cluding ourselves, who have approached hypnosis cautiously because of its possible dangers need to take another look. At least that’s the view of Dr. William S. Kroger, a Los Angeles physician. “The incontrovertible fact is that no one ever has died of hypnotism. Can the same thing be said about shock therapy, which is used by psychiatrists primarily for symp-
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS As to the Red Sea crossing, Dr. Orlinsky explains that new his- torical and archeological knowl- edge has led scholars to conclude that the Israelites crossed over an area where the Suez Canal is to- day. The Hebrew text gives the name of the area as Yam Suf, mean- ing sea of reeds. Today it is sandy desert but at the time it was a marshy, wet area. The Third Commandment states in part, “Thou shali not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ” The scholars conclude that it is a mistranslation to regard this as an injunction against profanity which is not sufficiently impor- tant to be one of the 10 command- ments. ““A more accurate reading,” Dr Orlinsky told Lewis Funke of the New York Times, “reveals it to be a commandment against per- jury.” The new translation reads: “Vou shall not swear falsely by the name of the Lord your God: for the Lord will not clear one who swears falsely by his name.” The new Bible has made some other major changes, even in Gene- sis. Among the numerous changes were from: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,’ to “When God began to create the heaven and the earth.” Dr. Orlinsky says that his com- “YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT" There is a secret of Success: ‘You can have what you want; you can be what you want to be; and you can do what you want to do if you learn to use the power that lies within you.”’ WRITE NOW FOR A FREE BOOK- LET containing information about this remarkable course of training for personal development and self- improvement. ACT NOW: This may very well be the stepping-stone to the achievement of your desires. FREE BOOKLET - WRITE TO: H. G. CARRUTHERS FDN. P. O. Box 2907, Dept. L Orlando, Florida _ AN AMAZING BOOK NUMEROLOGY is an exact science. Let one of its greatest exponents show you how you can eliminate the element of chance and find winners of racing events with outstanding accuracy. Isidore Kozminsky, D.Sc., F.R.A.S., F.F.B.A., is the author of this as- tounding work ‘‘Racing and Win- ning,’’ based on 40 years’ experience of forecasting by Numerology. Pack- ed:with helpful examples. Write for your special edition to-day, price $2.00, post free, to the publishers :— PHIPPS-COTON LTD. (Dept. FR3) 51, Bowyer Road, Abingdon, Berkshire, England
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14 PROPHECIES ON WORLD EVENTS BY NOSTRADAMUS Translated and interpreted by Stewart Robb In 1566 Nostradamus predicted the rise and influence of great gorermments in lands still unexplored. In this book the great scholar Stewart Robb shows how history has fulfilled Nostradamus’ forecasts of the course of world events and thus proved beyond any reasonable doubt the sceuracy of thess incredible pro- phecies. The past is proof, but the future of your and of the world in your time, has country, Read it also been foretold by Nostradamus. now! This is new material resulting from a world- famed scholar’s continued research into the treasure-trove of the famous prophecies. ONLY $1.60 postpaid VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671 Evanston, Il. Lose weight Be thr NO drugs wm Relaxist Long Playing Record N Similar to Hypnotism CxerCISE Send $5.00 for Record. Money back guarantee or write for free information. HEALTH RECORDS CoO. 2538 Mission Street © Pittsburgh 3, Pa. FATE mittee feels that in the content of the meaning of the Bible, the bet- ter translation is “When,” not “In the beginning” and that recent dis- coveries clearly show that other stories of creation in the New East begin with the word “When”. “We do not know when eternity began,” Dr. Orlinsky says, “nor was it so intended in the Bible.” oO NASHVILLE POLTERGEIST Ste SEEMS to be more pol- tergeist-like activity these days than at any time in recent years and one of the most interest- ing cases at this writing is in Nash- ville, Tenn. It started early in October in the John Hawkins home at 1627 Ninth Avenue. “I heard a knock- ing at the front of the house and I thought it was one of the kids,” Mrs. Hawkins told Larry Daugh- tery of the Nashville Tennessean. “T went to answer the door, but no one was there. It continued un- til morning. The second night we got guns. “My husband thought I was imagining things. He took off from work and stayed here one night. That’s when he started believing me.” The knocks come from front and back doors and the sides of the house. They start as early as 6:00 P.M. and stop as late as 5:00 A.M
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS and continue for hours at a time. The police have been there, of course. One night they really staked the place out but they couldn’t catch whatever or whoever was making the noise. Once when the taps came on a window pane a member of the Hawkins family fired through the window. Didn’t bother the polter- geist a bit! It just moved down the wall and kept on tapping. Another night more than 20 North High School football players sat on the front porch listening to the knocks. They couldn’t catch anything either. This had been going on for more than a month at last report. The knocks didn’t hurt anyone but the family was upset by them. “The ghost doesn’t really bother us,” Mrs. Hawkins said, “But the noise is so loud that none of us- can sleep. We’re all about to go crazy.” Mr. Hawkins was formerly a Davidson County sheriff’s patrol- man and someone suggested the noises might be made by an enemy. Mrs. Hawkins doesn’t believe that for a minute. “If it’s human it ought to be dead,” she says. “We've killed it enough times.” io 2) HAUNTS IN PHOENIX ON DEDERA, a columnist for the Arizona Republic, re- 15 PUTT ie Search MAGAZINE In this great free America we have an advantage over half the world, in that we can do our own thinking and our own talking. We can exchange ideas, we can challenge old ones, we can devise new ones without fear of being clapped in a dun geon or ostracized as a heretic Here knowledge and research is the recognized realm of activity of every person. That is why we have published the magazine called SEARCH, which we first introduced in November, 1953. The articles in SEARCH are thought-provoking, challenging typified by an upward-looking pirit of inquiry, ranging from the lowliest investigator, the child who asks “Mommy, where did | come from?”, to Dr. Rhine of Duke University, who is engaged in a scientific search for the soul SEARCH asks many such ques- tions, and as the answers are orthcoming, brings them to its readers honestly, competently and accurately. Published Every Other Month $4.00 for 12 ISSUES $6.75 for 24 ISSUES Subscribe Now — Order From RAY PALMER - AMHERST, WISCONSIN PLE CCUUECCSCUCOEECCOEOCAAMAAENAUTOSAECAN EAA UE AO UA AU AS EOE TEESE EEE A CREPE EERO EERE eee CEROUUTEORDEDEEEEAUSU AEST EATON IAT COULD ee CE CeCe LECCE CULL CCLEELCCCUCCULL LCC LUeLLLoss TOUTES x
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16 cently told an all but unbelievable story about a haunted house in Phoenix. Bob, Dorothy, Fred and Amy Young had turned their house back to the mortgage company, he wrote, because it was haunted. Early in 1961, Dorothy, who is Mrs. Young, turned a corner into the hallway and saw a faceless something, tall, eerie and white, floating right through a door. After this initial encounter she saw the figure many times,-usually in the hall. “At first I didn’t tell anybody. People think you’re crazy for say- ing things like that.” But one morning four-year-old Amy announced that she had seen “that man” again last night. He had come into her room and taught her some new songs. Forthwith Amy began to sing them — songs her parents never had heard be- fore. Seventeen-year-old Fred was sure his mother and sister were imagining things until he saw it too. And then Bob, a metals com- pany inspector, stepped into the bathroom only to find it was al- ready occupied. A dim figure leap- ed up and past him, right through the closed door. Bob said it made an audible “whoosh.” Anybody want to buy a nice old gray brick haunted house? Cheap? FATE TOMBSTONE IMAGE N THE CEMETERY of the Musgrove Chapel Methodist Church in Fayette, Ala., is the tombstone of Robert L. Musgrove, a railroad engineer who was killed in a two-train head-on collision in 1904. Robert Musgrove was engaged to be married to a beautiful girl from Amory, Miss., at the time of his death, and W. L. Moss, a pioneer resident, still remembers seeing her kneeling at the grave, praying. Today, on Robert Musgrove’s eight-foot tombstone, turning dark with age, is gradually forming what appears to be the nearly snow-white image of a woman. It is even visible from the road that passes by the church. The dress of the image resembles a bridal gown. Features are clear, even to eyelashes. Hair is freshly coiffured and curled. Hands, some- what indistinct, appear to be hold- ing something. FATE readers in that vicinity may find church and cemetery by turning West at Earnest’s Grocery Store, about three miles south of Winfield on Highway 43. o ) “THIS WILL KILL ME” HAT’S WHAT Myles Moore said about his job on a huge gravel silo under construction in Vancouver, B. C., the last time he
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS Kinnaman were both stricken but recovered, Dr. Hollenbeck then re- ported. In recent years Dr. Hollenbeck spent much of his time on tour, speaking before clubs and giving details of his hair-raising experi- ences and of the dread curse of King Tut’s tomb. Here and there dissenting voices were raised. “Why wouldn’t most of the men on the expedition have died?” they asked. “After all, the King Tut dig was 40 years ago.” One archeologist declared there was no inscription over the en- trance to the tomb such as Hollen- beck had claimed: “Cursed be those that disturb the rest of a Pharaoh. They that break the seal of this tomb shall meet death by an un- namable disease which no mendi- cant can diagnose.” Still other skeptics said they could find no record of Dr. Hol- lenbeck ever having been on the ex- pedition and stated he was not known in archeological circles. Nonetheless, Hollenbeck went about the country telling his stories and who could know what was truth and what was fabrication? Dr. Kinnaman, apparently, but who was he? According to reports he had died September 8, 1961. Hollenbeck told of the curse in eerie detail. He described reports of the ghosts of guards dedicated to 19 INSPIRED NOVELS URING the past hundred years a select number of 1 men and women have written 1 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.) First 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 Qe
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20 TN a a oF A ! HYPNOTISM AND YOU ! TA revealing and provocctive new book # on the Theory and Practice of the Hypnotic Art Tells how you can use self-hypnosis for a richer, more constructive life. a @ Gives exact steps to follow in hypnotiz- ing a subject or attaining self-hypnosis, @ Explains the influence of new drugs such as sD—the ‘‘hallucinogen’’ drug—on hyp- Written by a noted instructor of hypnosis —who wrote book partir while hypnotized. Send $2.65 for your copy today to: NORMAN SCHNEIDER 1038 So. Robertson, Los Angeles 35, Calif. t i 1 t 1 i 1 J 1 1 nosis. le t 1 1 i 1 | * Ped COLOR HEALING FILTERS Indestructible. Size 10x 12”. Set of 7, Price $5.00. Catalog Free BRUCE COPEN, N.D. “The Lodge,’’ Brantridge Forest Balcombe, Sussex, England NAUASRNORD OED LOSANEETADEESAADENASUEROAAUEETACLECOOEPEOOUSSENAAEEEETEEELO UT EL PED EOE EE SUBLIMINAL CONDITIONING Hypnotic Gray Sound Tapes & Records. Free Information AUDIO-SONIC LABORATORIES Rt. 10, Box 614-1A Fort Worth, Texas SCC Cen Mi ahatataatisainustonelae THE END WILL COME By Edgar B. Welch A book that gives the reader a new view concerning many Mysteries. More and more persons are cogniz- ant of and interested in FATE, PRE- DESTINATION, MYSTICISM and MYSTERIES, including those related to Great Bible Prophecies. As start- ling events happen, the Hand of Fate seems more noticeable. Order ‘“‘THE END WILL COME” and read an inspired interpretation that unravels prophecies which in centuries past were positively beyond one’s comprehension. 130 pages, $1.00. RO-BA-HOUSE PUBLICATIONS Vii Bonita Drive Vista, Calif. FATE revenge the despoilment of the tomb. Yet when seriously question- ed about the King Tut curse he answered reasonably enough: “That which you believe and ac- cept to be true has power over you.” This is a profound statement and it is perhaps the best epitaph that could have been devised for Dr. Carleton J. Hollenbeck. He was found dead in his room in a San Francisco hotel on August 2, strangled by a mysterious and un- known assailant. Equally mysteri- ous was a mound of ashes from burned papers found in the center of the bath tub. Police said they had been sifted and could not be recovered. oO THE PHARAOH’S CURSE ORD WESTBURY died in July, 1961, at Geneva, Switz- erland at the age of 46. No cause of death was given. His father, Capt. Richard Bethell, also died suddenly at the same age. In fact, Lord Westbury was the fourth mem- ber in his British family to die un- expectedly since 1929. All these deaths are said to be the result of the legendary curse of the Pharaohs. Captain Bethell had a hand in excavating the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1923. Bethell died six years later. His _ father, who had kept relics from the tomb in his home, committed
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22 suicide the next year. Bethell’s widow killed herself five years ago. Lord Westbury is survived by a brother and a sister who reportedly do not believe in the curse. oO HERE WE GO AGAIN 1959 MODEL black-and-white TV suddenly burst into beauti- ful color for about 20 minutes on July 25 in Covington, Ohio. Mrs. Fred Coghill, of Russell St., her husband, a Pinkerton guard, and their two children all saw it. They were watching a WCPO movie named Scarlet Street and appropri- ately, Mrs. Coghill says, the red hues were fine. WCPO can’t explain it — the sta- tion can’t originate color broad- casts in the first place, the film wasn’t in color in the second place, and the Coghill TV set can’t show color in the third place. oO THINGS TO KNOW @ After winning 100 pounds in a lottery a Melbourne man decided to spend it taking a vacation in his native Marton, New Zealand. While there he bought another lottery ticket and won 10,000 pounds. @ At Sullivan, Ind., recently, more than 40 homeowners complained that their entire houses were dis- colored or smudged by an unknown agent in the atmosphere. @ Russian whale hunters near the FATE Kurile Islands, recently killed a whale that had “legs” — two twin projections with underdeveloped hip bones. Scientists reported it was a recurrence of ancestral char- acteristics. @ The Soviets also tell us that by inserting two electrodes in the bark of a pine tree their foresters are able to gauge the state of its health. Professor Y. Kashiro deduces that the information is based on the ability of tree sap to conduct elec- tricity. oO THE SALT LAKE UFO Wee J. HARRIS of Salt Lake City is a real estate and insurance salesman and also a veteran pilot. Last October 2 Harris was at Salt Lake City’s Utah Central Air- port preparing his plane for take off, warming it up and going through his checklist. He first sighted what he thought was an- other airplane when he turned onto the runway for his take-off run. When he was airborne, however, he was surprised to find that the object was still in the same posi- tion as when he had first observed it. He decided to investigate. “T changed my heading and flew toward what appeared to be a large disc hovering with a rocking mo- tion at an altitude of between 6,500 and 7,000 feet,” he said. He radioed
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS that it was a controlled craft from its performance during my observa- tion.” Virgil S. Redmond of Salt Lake City had just landed at the airport and had not seen the UFO while he was airborne. “It wasn’t there when I flew in,” he said. However, once he was on the ground Redmond, with other persons around the air- port, watched the object through binoculars they shared. Redmond said that “whatever it was seemed to be rocking while hovering almost stationary just south of the field. At times, as it turned, it almost looked like a zep- plin.” Winds at 10 A.M., shortly before the UFO was sighted, were only two m.p.h. from the southeast. At 4:00 P.M., when the next weather balloon was sent aloft, winds at the 7,000 foot level were five m.p.h, from the northwest. Investigation teams from Hill Air Force Base questioned the wit- nesses. Federal Aviation Agency said its radar scopes hadn’t picked up the object. The long range search radar at Hill Air Force Base reported nothing unusual, although its range usually does not extend into the sighting area. In Washington, according to the Associated Press, the Air Force command post said it had not heard of any sightings of UFO’s. — Curtis Fuller FINEST QUALITY EXPLORATORY PENDULUMS FOR DIVINERS, DOWSERS, RESEARCHERS The EXPLORA- TORY PENDULUM Is an instrument long used for div- ination. It consists of an indicator sus- pended from a thread held in the hand. The indicator swings—or chaniges direction—in an- swer to questions. Words and senten- ees may be spelled out by hoiding the EXPLORATORY = PENDULUM over the middle of a cir- ele on which the alphabet has been written. KENNETH ROBERTS WRITES ON THE PENDULUM PRINCIPLE The principle of the pendulum is “quite the same as that of auto- matie writing, conversations on a Sue. Board and other analogous acts. THE WORLD’S FINEST QUALITY PENDULUMS Rare IVORY and EBONY These Pendulums come in two de- signs: spherical-shaped and torpedo shaped. Both designs have a cavity to be used for samples of the sought-after mineral, material or object. The spherical-design (round) is crafted from deep-grained eb~ ony; the torpedo design is wrought from rare whale ivory. Both styles are precision- made and are imported by the Clark Publishing Co. for ex- clusive sale in the U.S.A. EBONY — $5.95 IVORY — $6.95 CLARK PUBLISHING CO. 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Ill.
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Time-worn frame house in Detroit, Mich., stands empty after terri- fying experiences in it caused the William Adams family to flee. THERE’S A® Ghost IN DETROIT Visits from a hag-like phantom turned the back bedroom of this old house into a chamber of horrors. HE GRAY FRAME house at 5508 Martin St., in Detroit, Mich., looked out with empty win- dows on the quiet neighborhood. The cold light of a street lamp cast moving shadows across the stoop. Inside, a blue light from a table lamp in the front room added an eerie touch to the small house from which, only hours earlier, a family of seven had fled in terror. 26 by ame Sh Shan Dirty dishes still were piled in the sink in an old-fashioned kitchen. A cake with one slice missing sat on a shelf over the stove. Beds, from which the five children of Wil- liam and Lillian Adams were hast- ily snatched in a hysterical flight from what has come to be known as “The Horrid Hag of Martin Street,” were rumpled and unmade. Adams, 29, is a sensible, soft-
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spoken southerner with a strong trace of his Atlanta, Ga., birthplace in his speech. He met his wife, Lil- lian, 28, while he was a soldier sta- tioned at Fort Wayne, in Detroit, and they were married nine years ago. About a year ago, Adams moved his family into the old home. It is in a comfortable but declining neighborhood on Detroit’s west side. Its residents are predominantly Pol- William Adams (left) and Shirley Patter- son gaze at bed in back bedroom of old house, scene of the strange expe they have reported. ish, and they’re good neighbors, Adams says, and good neighbors are important to a family man who works the midnight shift in one of Detroit’s automobile plants. It was one of the big reasons they picked that neighborhood in which to rent. Despite its age, the house is com- fortable. The old wooden floors creak a little more than they should under the worn linoleum. Plaster walls show the scars of repeated re- Mrs. Lillian Adams fur coat described and his cousin, $ having been worr by each of the = 27
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28 pair and the entire story-and-a-half structure has a tired, weather-beat- en lean that is hardly noticeable. Nor was there anything about the tiny back bedroom that seemed strange to the Adamses. It was a room without personality. The flat paint had faded on the drab, blue- green walls. There was no room for furniture other than a bed and the only other things that broke up the stark lines of the room were a case- ment window high up on the back wall overlooking the rear yard, and a closet which was built in one corner of the room, It was simply “the back bed- room” to the Adamses in the early months of their tenancy. But that bedroom now is forever a part of the life of Bill and Lillian Adams. It has been seared on their brains by the white hot terror of being confronted with something they will never be able to explain. In retrospect, small incidents about that back bedroom come flooding back to the Adamses. Their small terrier, the family pet, avoid- ed the room—carefully. The Adams children — Jimmy, eight; Deborah, six; Johnny, five; Laurie, two and one-half, and Tammy, one and one-half — always managed to find someplace else to play. Ap- parently there was something repel- ling about the back bedroom that only the dog and the children sensed at first. FATE But about three months ago, Adams noticed a strange and unex- plainable effect the room had on him. “T often chose the back bedroom to sleep in,” he explained, “because it was in a part of the house where I wouldn’t be troubled by the noise of the children during the day. Even after years of working the midnight shift, I still have trouble, sometimes, sleeping in the daytime. “Sometime during the early sum- mer I started having the most hor- rible nightmares you can imagine. I never had been troubled with bad dreams before but now they were plaguing me,” he said. “They were nightmares that would leave me limp with fear be- cause they were so real. I would find myself sitting in the bed screaming till my throat was sore. And then wondering if it had been a dream at all. “One of the dreams was when I found myself opening a door and a mutilated body fell out,” Adams said. “It got so bad that one day I told my wife, ‘if this doesn’t stop I don’t know what I'll do. I’m about ready to see a psychiatrist.’ ” The dreams, Adams said, occur- red, strangely enough, only when he slept in the back bedroom. In August, 1962, another inci- dent took place that was prelimin- ary to the horror which was hover- ing over the Martin Street house.
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THERE’S A GHOST IN DETROIT “My grandmother came to visit us from Georgia,” Adams said. “We gave her the back bedroom to use during her stay but said nothing to her about anything strange in the room.” The first night she spent in the room was her last. She came to breakfast the next morning shaken and upset. “She told us that there were strange sounds in the room all night,” Adams said, “and that it sounded like someone was trying to get in. She told us she wasn’t going to sleep in that bedroom again. Then she cut short her stay and went back to Georgia.” Uneasiness about the room set- tled over the Adams’ home. There was never much discussion about it, no attempt to explain the unex- plainable incidents that took place in the room. Just a quiet, heavy fear that becomes deafening in its silence became part of their lives. Bill and Lillian Adams moved about in this tense atmosphere, afraid to believe what they feared. Some- thing — that was all they could call it was moving in on their here- tofore unencumbered existence. When he arrived at the Adams house on October 27, Shirley Pat- terson failed to notice the tension that gripped the home. Patterson, 27, was married to Adams’ cousin and the two were friends in their home state of Georgia. 20 Patterson was in Detroit to pick up a new car for delivery down South. He planned to spend a few days with the Adamses before head- ing back to his home in Decatur, Ga. Without mentioning the strange events of the past weeks, Bill Adams told Patterson that he could use the back bedroom during his stay. It was, perhaps, a final effort on Adams’ part to prove to himself that there was nothing strange about that back room. Giving it to a person who had no reason to fear a night there might explode all worries and anxieties, all the foolish fantasies that were cer- tainly only in their minds. Patterson, whose eyes widen when he tells of his first —and only — night in the room, speaks with a heavy southern accent. His words trip over each other in excitement as he relates his story. He pauses fre- quently, puzzled at his own words, apologetic for telling a tale he is sure no one will believe. It’s a tale he’s not even sure he believes, al- though he knows, as sure as he breathes, that what he saw was real. “T didn’t know anything about the room,” he said. “There was no reason for me to suspect anything. No reason to be afraid. “On Saturday night (October 27) Bill went to work at about 11:30 P.M. and it wasn’t but-a few min-
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30 utes later that I decided to go to bed,” Patterson said. He went into the back bedroom, undressed, and climbed into the bed after putting out the ceiling light. Lillian Adams was in the bathroom setting her just-shampooed hair in curlers. “Tt seems I was in the bed for just a few minutes. I don’t know whether I was asleep or not. I was facing the wall and then I felt something turn me over. Don’t ask me to describe the feeling. All I know is that it rolled me over and then I saw it standing outside the bedroom door,” Patterson said. “At first I thought it was Lillian but I started to tremble. It was a woman with long hair and she had her back to me looking into the kitchen. She was wearing a short fur coat and a kind of blue dress,” he said. “As I was laying there shaking in the bed it seemed as though some part of me had left my body and walked across the dark room toward this thing. This part of me —call it my spirit if you want — was try- ing to turn the strange woman around —so I could see her face. “But every time she turned,” Patterson said, “her back was al- ways to me. It seemed like she said something to me about why I was standing there in my shorts and all the time, I was in the bed, not able to make a sound. FATE “Then this part of me that had left came back to the bed and I screamed as loud as I could and jumped out of bed and ran across the room toward the thing. At that minute every light in the house went out.” Patterson ran to the kitchen where he met Mrs. Adams. The lights went on as suddenly as they had gone off. Patterson, numb with fright, stood shaking in the kitchen, unable to move. Next to him, speechless from fear, stood Mrs. Adams. As they stood in the quiet kitch- en, afraid to move, they heard a frightful wail —a part human, part animal sound that made their scalps tingle and turned their knees to water. “Tt was like nothing I’d ever heard before,” Mrs. Adams said, “and then there was an awful smell that made both of us sick. It was coming from the room where we heard the moaning.” Still standing in the kitchen, Pat- terson and Mrs. Adams said a heavy trap door in a utility room —a room through which you must pass to get into the back bedroom —raised several inches and then fell back again into place. The trap door opens on a set of shaky wooden stairs that lead to a partially dug out basement. The police were called and searched the house, the small attic a
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THERE’S A GHOST IN DETROIT and the basement. nothing. When Adams came home from the Cadillac plant early Sunday morning, October 28, Patterson and Mrs. Adams were sitting up, wait- ing for him. They told him what had happened and he made a de- cision. “Ym not the kind of guy who believes in ghosts — at least I didn’t then. I’m a grown man with a family. I’ve been in the Army. I just couldn’t convince myself that there was anything to it,’ Adams said. “I had to try again and see what would happen.” That Sunday night, at about 7:30 P.M., Adams went into the small back bedroom and lay down on the bed. The room was dark. Only a pale gray light from outside filtered through the casement window. Patterson and Mrs. Adams sat silently in the front room; a small table lamp there was the only light in the house. “T don’t know how long it was. I was still awake. I. heard a noise in the room. I thought it was Lillian and I was going to tell her she would have to leave the room if we were ever going to get this thing settled,” Adams said. “I turned over to look and the face was inches away from me. It was the most horrible thing I have ever. seen. The eyes stared past me and the mouth moved to talk They ‘found 31 but only a hissing noise came out —and a terrible stench,” he said. Adams described the thing as a formless hag with the cold, staring eyes of death. Gray hair hung like decayed Spanish moss over an in- describably horrible face. Adams ran screaming from the room. When he got to the front room he was pulling handfuls of hair from his head. Patterson caught him with both arms and tried to wrestle him down. “He got a hold of me around my middle and my ribs still ache from it,” Patterson said. “We finally had to get a blanket and wrap it around him and throw him in a chair. He was about hysterical.” The same stench that has been present the night before now drifted through the house. Adams saw only the face of the hag. Patterson saw no face but saw the clothing it wore. When he de- scribed it, Mrs. Adams recognized it as a fur coat and a blue dress she owned. She got the articles of clothing from a closet and showed them to Patterson. They were, he said, the same clothes the “thing” was wear- ing when he saw it standing out- side his bedroom door. The two pieces of apparel were permeated with the same horrible stench they associated with the apparition. An hour after Adams had seen the face the old house on Martin
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32 Street was empty. The Adamses and Patterson had fled with the children. They took nothing with them and ran to a neighbor who kept them for the night. Mrs. Adams sobbed hysterically in her bed all night. The next morning they moved in with Mrs. Adams’ mother and fa- ther who live in nearby Dearborn, a Detroit suburb. “All I could think of the next day,” Adams said, “was that if the bedroom door had been closed that Sunday night I would have killed myself beating against it to get out.” In the week that followed Adams, in the company of friends and rela- tives, made several daylight visits to the house to retrieve personal be- longings. In a week, all his furnish- ings had been moved out and he started to look for another place to rent. : One night during the week Mrs. Adams’ sister, Virginia Sanocki, 19, and her brother, Leo Sanocki, 34, visited the deserted house to see for themselves whether or not there were strange goings on there. “T stood in the kitchen and Leo said he was going to go and lie on the bed for 10 minutes in the dark,” Miss Sanocki said. “A few minutes later I heard this awful groan come from the bedroom. If it was Leo I have never heard him make a sound * like that before. “Then he came rushing through FATE the door into the kitchen with the most horrible look on his face, like he was scared out of his mind,” she said. “I asked him what he saw but he wouldn’t tell me anything. He just wanted to leave that house.” Leo Sanocki still refuses to dis- cuss what —if anything —he saw that night. But his family said he was unable to sleep that night, finally resorting to the front room floor where he spent a fitful night and awoke many times trembling. The police searched the house twice more and found nothing. Their explanation that the family may have been frightened off by some kind of animal, was never given any credence. A story about the house being abandoned to the apparition appear- ed in the Sunday, November 4, 1962 Detroit Free Press and crowds of the curious flocked to the house, necessitating that a police guard be on duty around the clock. The owner of the house from whom the Adamses rented turned down hundreds of offers from per- sons who wanted to spend the night there. Dozens of others offered to rent the house for a week or a weekend and set up housekeeping and wait for the apparition. Electronics engineers from the re- search laboratory of one of the auto corporations wanted permission to rig the bedroom with electronic equipment to get a “sounding” on
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THERE’S A GHOST IN DETROIT anything that broke a beam. The owner refused to let anybody but the police inside the house. The police said there was no re-occur- rence of any “visions” in the time they spent there. No clue or plausible explanation has been given to date. One woman called the Detroit 33 Free Press which carried the story and told them her grandmother had lived in the house for 68 years and had died there 10 years ago. She was the only person who ever had died there, she said, but she was a sweet kindly old lady. So she hardly fits the description “Horrid Hag of Martin Street.” ate THERESE NEUMANN DIES HERESE NEUMANN, the Roman Catholic mystic who was world-famed for her re- ligious ecstacies during which she displayed stigmata, or wounds, similar to those suf- fered by Christ on the cross, died of a heart ailment on September 18, 1962, in Kon- nersreuth, Germany. She was 64 years old. Miss Neumann was born in Konnersreuth on Good Friday in 1898, the first of 10 children of a Bavarian tailor. According to published accounts her life was normal until the age of 20 when she was afflicted with paralysis and blindness. In 1925 she suddenly recovered, stating that the Holy Ghost had ap- peared to her and assured her she would be well again. The blood which oozed from what appeared to be wounds in Miss Neumann’s palms, feet, forehead and side reportedly first began during Holy Week in 1926. Since then, with the exception of 1951, she appar- ently entered a trance on Good Friday every year and dis- played the stigmata of Christ. Thousands have passed through her home on Good Fridays to see her unconscious on the bed with blood trickling from her wounds. Villagers claim that, except for Holy Communion, Miss Neumann took practically no nourishment during the 386 years of her mystical afflic- tion. The Roman Catholic Church never has issued a formal pro- nouncement in connection with Miss Neumann’s’ mysterious wounds. In 1956, however, a Vatican official reportedly stat- ed that her case was under ex- amination. ?
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Can Break Through the Language Barrier? The Russian girl obeyed the American hypnotist’'s commands —although neither spoke the other's language! By Stanly V. Mitchell, Ps. D. N JULY, 1958, while touring Europe I conducted various hypnosis experiments and demon- strations in the countries where I visited. I was much interested in seeing the progress and uses made of hypnosis in Europe and behind the Iron Curtain, especially in the field of therapy. In Russia I visited three clinics or institutes. At Ganushina Psy- choneurological Clinic I met Doc- tor Vojutsko and his assistant, two men in their 40’s who spoke Eng- lish fairly well. They were friendly and seemed as interested in what we in the United States were doing with hypnosis as I was in their work in this field. They took me on a tour of the institute and explain- ed the various types of cases with which they work. I was tremen- dously impressed. In no other single place have I seen so much fine equipment devoted to hypnosis and allied fields. There was a machine using electrodes to show the patient his own heartbeats in bright lights. The subject concentrates on these flashing lights and is told that as they slow down, his heart is slow- ing down and he is falling asleep.
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High frequency oscillators, blinking colored lights, spinning discs, re- volving mirrors and crystals, strobe lights working on controlled fre- quencies, tape recorders, phono- graphs, earphones, pillow-speakers, weird music and other strange sound-producing devices, all were there, designed to induce the state of hypnosis and to facilitate hypno- tic therapy. I couldn’t help envying them and wishing all of these facili- ties and equipment were available to me here in this country. Probably the most impressive ap- pliance was a device with a com- bination of colored lights, blue, yel- low, red, placed at intervals on a spinning disc. The purpose of the machine is to fix the subject’s at- tention on the disc. As the disc starts to spin the colors appear to blend and the eyes of the subject watching them gradually close in a hypnotic state, the doctors ex- plained. “Do you,” they asked, “have aids like this in your country?” “Yes, many hypnotists in the United States use similar devices,” I replied, “although I must admit they are not as elaborate as the equipment you are showing me here.” They pride. I did tell them my own practice does not demand complicated de- vices. Patients come to my’ offices smiled with justifiable 35 voluntarily and the induction of hypnosis is accomplished with as little mystery as possible. I explain- ed that I like to have the subject sit erect in a straight chair. The subject not only knows everything that takes place during the hypno- sis but is in a position to accept or reject any of the suggestions I make. Thus, the subject remains in a position where he is able to help himself and suggestions will only be effective if they are consistent with what the subject really de- sires to accomplish. The Russian doctors seemed rather skeptical of this technique, which we call “mo- tivational hypnosis.” They appear-
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36 ed to think it would not work well in their country. “Could we have a demonstration of this technique?” one of the doc- tors asked. I asked which of them would like to volunteer as the subject but, since they both wished to witness the demonstration, they called in a young nurse. The doctor explain- ed to her, in Russian, what I was going to do. She nodded, as if it were a common occurrence and sat down in the chair I indicated. I stood in front of her and took a deep breath, held it a few seconds and exhaled. I motioned for her to do the same, to assist her in relax- ing. Snapping on my per-light I held it slightly above her head— not beaming it into her eyes—but, nevertheless, holding her gaze in focus. When I said, in English, “Your eyes are becoming very tired. Your eyelids are getting so heavy all you want to do is to close them. . .” she closed them and went promptly into a state of hypnosis. When I suggested, in English, that heavi- ness and limpness was felt through- out her body she responded, even to letting her head drop forward. It is true at this point I touched her head, but I used no pressure as the Soviet doctors could see. I raised her arm and it dropped back into her lap. Then I said, “Your arm is ris- ‘ FATE ing; it is becoming lighter, lighter, slowly rising upward as though some magnetic force is drawing it up.” There was no great reaction at first. However, as I repeated the suggestions and emphasized the de- sired action her arm slowly rose until it was outstretched at her shoulder level. Next I suggested her arm would become rigid “as a bar of steel” and then would be numb, without feel- ing. I asked for a needle and prick- ed her right hand. She showed no reaction whatsoever. When I prick- ed her left hand she immediately responded by withdrawing it. I then suggested that her right arm would become normal and drop back into her lap when I snapped my fingers. As soon as I snapped my fingers her arm dropped limp- ly into her lap. Finally I suggested, “You will feel refreshed and ener- getic when I count to five and you will be wide awake.” At the count of five she opened her eyes and I felt the demonstra- tion had been a success. I turned to the doctors but they ignored me completely and, instead, began questioning the nurse ex- citedly in Russian. After a few mo- ments they turned to me looking puzzled. They explained that the nurse did not understand one word of English. It was my turn to be excited and
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CAN HYPNOSIS BREAK THROUGH LANGUAGE BARRIER? 37 puzzled. Had I known the nurse did not understand, English I never would have dreamed of attempting the demonstration. For several hours thereafter these two Russian doctors and I discus- sed all the possible explanations for what had occurred. Our question was, had we leaped the language-barrier through some form of telepathy. Perhaps the nurse’s subconscious mind had un- derstood my words even though her conscious mind could not. Or, perhaps, something similar to the “gift of tongues” mentioned in the Bible could explain it. We even considered the possi- - bility of reincarnation—that in some previous life the nurse had spoken English. However, no sug- gestions had been given to regress the subject. After considering all sorts of pos- sibilities, some of them weird, we ‘recalled the nurse and questioned her as to why she had carried out the suggestions I had given her. Throughout a long, detailed inter- rogation—translated for me by one of the doctors—she shed very little light on the matter. She said she had not understood any of the words I had used but had seemed to understand what was expected. This may have been due partly to the surroundings; a room filled with hypnotic devices where hypno- sis was regularly performed; as well as the doctor’s statement of what I was going to do with her. This could explain the initial in- duction of hypnosis. However, even the doctor was unaware of what I was going to suggest to her. The nurse told us that as she heard my voice her eyes became heavy, felt as though they wanted to close and did so. She then began to feel as though she were floating down through space, but she was not asleep and could hear the sound of my voice at all times. Her body became limp and the sensation of complete relaxation was pleasant. It seemed it would have required too much effort on her part to hold herself erect. Her right arm began to feel light and it seemed to her I was displeased with her. How- ever, after her arm began to rise it seemed I again was pleased with her. She had no idea why her arm became rigid but assumed after- wards it was because it was being held in a strange position. She said she felt amused when I pricked her right hand with the needle but that her left hand involuntarily with- drew when I pricked it. Because of her previous experience with hypnosis she said the tone of my voice and the fact that she could tell I was counting was enough to signal her awakening. * * * INCE MY RETURN from Rus- ’ sia I have worked with subjects
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38 who understood very little English yet seemed to understand what was said to them when they were under hypnosis. One of the most memor- able of these is a Polish woman I met in Warsaw in 1958 on that same trip. She came to this coun- try to visit relatives about 18 months after I returned. While she was in Chicago she asked one of her relatives to contact me because she felt the effects of the sugges- tions I had given her in Warsaw were wearing off. She did not havea good enough command. of the Eng- lish language to use the telephone nor were we able to conduct any- thing resembling a conversation. The first time I hypnotized her, in Poland, it was by accident rath- er than by design. Several members of our party were sitting in a hotel room. She was present, visiting a member of our party, her cousin from the Chicago area. A 17-year- old student wanted to satisfy his youthful curiosity about hypnosis and asked me to hypnotize him. The Polish woman was sitting be- hind him and as he went into a state of hypnosis she did also. Af- ter I had given both of them a number of generally helpful sug- gestions I awakened them. The woman was amazed at what had happened to her and later sought me out. Through her cousin she explained that she had been having trouble sleeping and, as a FATE result, was very nervous. We went to my room and I placed her in a state of hypnosis. I found it more difficult this time, however, and I now believe it was because I was aware of the language barrier be- tween us, which I had not been when she went into hypnosis acci- dently. After I had given her sug- gestions to remove some of the ten- sions that were preventing her sleeping I awakened her. Then, with the assistance of her cousin, I explained a technique that she was to employ to help her go to sleep every night. Eighteen months later, when she came to my office, she told me that these suggestions had worked very well for her. And now, since she was here in Chicago, she thought it would help to have these sugges- tions reenforced. To give her as much assistance and confidence as possible I suggested she attend my weekly class in self-hypnosis on the following evening. My intention was to have our medical director, Dr. R. S. Ziehn, who speaks Ger- man, which she also speaks, give her the suggestions while she was in a state of hypnosis. She came to class the following evening and was hypotized by him. Upon awakening she told him, in German, that she had not felt the sensations he had suggested as in- tensely as she had felt them when I placed her in a state of hypnosis
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CAN HYPNOSIS BREAK THROUGH LANGUAGE BARRIER? 39 in Warsaw, and on the previous day in Chicago. He asked how I had made these suggestions and she told him she had not understood what I had said but she had felt the physical suggestions I had given to her strongly. I hypnotized her on several other occasions before she returned to Poland and my last re- port from her indicates she is sleep- ing well. * * * HAVE EXPLORED many theo- ries in my attempt to explain what occurs in these cases. There is a valid theory that telepathy and other extra sensory abilities can be increased through hypnosis. It has been said that we think in words, but in this case these subjects had to understand my words. I believe that in hypnosis rap- port and projection are two of the most important elements. I have had subjects tell me, upon awaken- ing, that they felt the sensations I was about to suggest while I was forming them in my mind and be- fore I put them into words. I have witnessed demonstrations by students wherein their intention was to produce one type of reaction but their words actually suggested the opposite. The subjects, how- ever, carried out the intention rath- er than the worded suggestion. This occurred when the rapport between subjects and student-hypnotists was excellent. I have observed, during these and other incidents, that when the hypnotist believes unquestioningly and feels intensely the need to pro- duce a certain phenomenon the sub- ject reacts more rapidly and in all ways more favorably. The hypno- tist’s chance of success is increased in direct proportion to the intensity of his belief and feeling. You will recall that I mentioned having some difficulty placing the Polish wom- an in a state of hypnosis only after I discovered she understood very little English and this then affected my own confidence and feeling. We work with many executives and salesmen whose chief problem is one of communication. Our in- tention, in teaching them to hyp- notize others, is not to make hyp- notists of them but rather to help them develop their ability to com- municate. Many of these subjects have earned promotions and in- creased sales and have achieved a greater pride and satisfaction in their work because of their in- creased ability to establish rapport and the projection of their ideas. My strange experiences with hypnosis and language barriers show that hypnosis can play an impor- tant role in increasing understanding between peoples. And in an age when communication is important, understanding is needed to keep us from destroying each other and our mutual world.
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SR BOUT THE LAST person you would suspect of having an in- terest in psychic phenomena is that spectacular and very tangible personality, Mae West. But Miss West is deeply interested in spirit- ualism and makes no bones about it. Far from being evasive in dis- cussing such things, she is eager to spread the word—to the right peo- ple—about something that has an- swered a spiritual need for her and given her a deep inner satisfaction. I had gone backstage to inter- view Miss West at the Latin Quar- 40 From SPOOKS OE LUXE. by Danter Walker, copyright 1956 by Dantes Walker, published by Frenklin Watts, Ine. A celebrated personality of show business, noted for spectacular performances of her own, relates how her sitting with a medium “brought down the house.” By PY kon Walker Mae West is a stage and screen star and a popular nightclub entertainer. : feats 2 ter night club on Broadway, where she was playing to packed houses in a highly amusing and slightly ri- bald act involving eight young ath- letes whom she called her “muscle men.” In the course of our conversa- tion, I asked her if it was true that Mr. Ralph Pressing had given her a demonstration of trumpet medi- umship, as he claimed. She nodded assent. “Then you are interested in spir- itualism?” I inquired. “Definitely,” Miss West replied.
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Sensing a story, I asked: “How did it come about?” “T first became interested in spir- itualism several years ago, when I was at the peak of my success as a movie star in Hollywood,” Miss West answered. “This may seem an odd way of putting it, but I was satiated with success. I didn’t become interested in psychic phenomena because of any personal tragedy; it was from a completely different angle. “T had proved my ability as a playwright on Broadway, after a long and successful career as an ac- tress, and had made a great name for myself—as well as a great deal of money—as a movie star. I had acquired most of the things that usually satisfy a woman’s desires, but it wasn’t enough. “What, I kept asking myself, ‘is beyond all this? Is there a here- after, and what proof do we have that there is?’ I felt that religion could possibly give the answer, and I did discuss these things, many times, with preachers, priests and AI rabbis. Perhaps they themselves were too highly developed to get their ideas across to a mere begin- ner, but somehow I derived little satisfaction from what I was told. “The possibility of life after death continued to fascinate me. When I read in the Los Angeles papers that there was to be some sort of spiritualistic convention there, to which the public would be welcome, I determined to in- vestigate. “T couldn’t very well attend one of these meeting personally, with- out causing a lot of talk, so I asked my manager and long-time friend Jim Timoney, to do so. Jim con- sented to go to one of the meetings and bring back a first-hand opin- ion on whether he felt it was the real thing, or just a lot of phony showmanship. “Jim did attend, and he took along with him one of his prize- fighter protégés, a young man whom we knew only as Mickey. - Like so many boys who grow up in that atmosphere, Mickey was a sort of ‘dese, dem, dose guy’; a diamond in the rough, with very little edu- cation or cultural background. “Presiding over that particular session of spiritualism was a man from Buffalo, the so-called ‘Rever- end’ Jack Kelly. At one point in the proceedings, Mr. Kelly looked in the direction of Jim and Mickey, who were sitting in the second row,
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42 and said, ‘I get the name of S.,’ and he rattled off a long and practically unpronounceable name that might have been Russian or Polish. Mick- ey turned to Jim Timoney and whispered, ‘That’s my family name!’ Jim was completely surpris- ed, because he had always thought Mickey was of Irish descent. They were both in for further surprises. “<The father of this man S. is here, with a message for his son. He wants his son to know that he was killed — murdered — and _ his body thrown into the water after- ward.’ (Mickey told Jim later that his father’s death had always been ascribed to drowning.) * * * ¢¢ FIM AND MICKEY were both so impressed with what went on at that meeting that I de- cided to learn something about spir- itualism for myself first-hand. I asked Jim if he could arrange a private sitting for me with Jack Kelly. “<Tf he’s that good,’ I said to myself, ‘I’ll share him with others.’ So I invited a dozen or so friends and relatives, including my sister, Beverly West, and we had a meet- ing—I suppose you might call it a séance — exclusively for us. Lest he be suspected of trickery in singling out the persons for whom messages might be intended, Mr. Kelly asked that he be tied to a chair and com- pletely blindfolded. FATE “Some of the things he told us at that meeting were absolutely as- tounding—things about which he could not possibly know in ad- vance, and some of which would be decidedly embarrassing to cer- tain people if made public. “The most interesting and sig- nificant revelations that evening, however, weren’t along personal lines. They were Jack Kelly’s ans- wers to some questions I wrote and placed in a sealed envelope. This took place, I forgot to mention, in the fall of 1941, when war clouds were beginning to hover over our country and everyone was curious about how we might become in- volved. “To my first question, ‘Will we be in the war?’ Kelly’s answer was, ‘We will have a surprise attack in Hawaii within three months.’ “To question number two, ‘How long will the war last?’ the answer was ‘From five to six years.’ ‘To this answer was added something I hadn’t asked about, namely, ‘. . . and President Roosevelt will not live out his fourth term.’ “My third question was, ‘Will we win the war if we do get into it?’ Kelly answered, ‘Yes. Ameri- ca and England together will win the war.’ “There were many other ques- tions and answers—these along dis- tinctly personal lines—that convin- ced me that whatever the ‘Rever-
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MAE WEST’S PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES 43 end’ Kelly’s power was, it was real. “Sometime after this, my sister Beverly was visited at her ranch in the San Fernando Valley by a man from Brooklyn who had known both of our parents back East. Something Beverly didn’t know, of course, was that this man—Berk- man, we'll call him—was at that very moment wanted in the East, under suspicion of having done away with his wife. There were newspaper mentions of it and stor- ies on the radio, but Beverly learn- ed nothing about it—for the very good reason that while Berkman was at the ranch, he had contrived to keep the papers out her sight, and had also managed to keep the radio turned off. Beverly told us later that he had been a very agree- able house guest, making himself useful around the place, et cetera. “The Los Angeles police learned of this man’s whereabouts and came to see me, asking me to co- operate with them in getting him into custody. I went with them to the ranch to question Beverly. She could only tell them that he had left a day or so before leaving no forwarding address. They were stumped. Since there was nothing else to go on, I decided to call on the services of Jack Kelly. “T put in a phone call to him at Buffalo, where he lives, and got through almost immediately. I started to tell him the whole story of Berkman, and how we—my sister and I—happened to be mixed up in the case. He interrupted me to say ‘The man they’re looking for was arrested 20 minutes ago.’ “T told this to the detectives. ‘It certainly seemed a slim clue to go on, but they didn’t scoff at the idea. Instead, they immediately phoned Los Angeles headquarters and asked if there had been any news of Berkman. And the answer was ‘He was arrested in San Diego half an hour ago!’ “T learned later that quite a few crimes have been cleared up with the aid of mind readers or psychics. “Having become interested in spiritualism as an observer, I de- cided to delve into it deeper. I made the acquaintance of a well- known practitioner, a woman, in Los Angeles, and asked her how to go about developing such powers. I offered her whatever sum of mon- ey she might ask for giving this in- struction. Her answer was that money couldn’t buy such know- ledge; it had to be attained only by meditation and serious study. “She taught me, first, how to go ‘into the silence’; how to blank my consciousness and let the inner voice come through. I then became aware that, to some extent, I had been doing this all my life. I re- member once sitting at a prize fight and having the entire plot of a play come to me, out of nowhere.
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44 “Tt is that ‘inner voice’ that tells us what to do at times when out- side aid or advice can be of little or no help. The discovery has given me tremendous confidence and a wonderful sense of peace. It may not be the answer to the life-after- death problem that I was once seeking but it is, in itself, enough. I suggest you try it. “T could tell you many more in- teresting things, and some rather amusing ones, that came about as a result of that first meeting in Los Angeles that Jim Timoney and his protégé, Mickey (of course that isn’t his real name) attended. Jim, my good friend—a good man, and FATE a good Catholic too—passed on some time ago. And I have an inner conviction that some day he may try to contact me, from the other side. “Jim’s protégé, Mickey, now has his own stable of fighters. Inciden- tally, Mickey learned later that what Jack Kelly had told him at that first meeting—about his fath- er’s death—was correct. And Mick- ey has developed into quite a suc- cessful medium himself. He gets messages by ‘spirit writing,’ in lan- guages that he doesn’t understand, spelled out in words for which he has to go to the dictionary to learn the meaning!” ES THE HOODOO MUMMY CASE By C. V. Tench HISTORY of weird events reportedly exists in connec- tion with a mummy case listed as Exhibit No. 22542 in the -British Museum, London. Of the three men who discovered it in Egypt, one disappeared over- board from a boat on the Nile, one was shot in the arm, and the third lost his entire fortune in a bank failure. Two porters carried the case upstairs in the museum. One fell and broke his leg. The oth- er died of a heart attack the next day. And a photographer who took a picture of the mum- my case went home, locked him- self in his bathroom and shot himself. Hearing of all this, Brian W. Legg, of West Ealing, Lon- don, recently scoffed aloud. To demonstrate that he did not be- lieve in ancient curses, he went to the British Museum and took several pictures of Exhibit No. 22542. At the time he enjoyed good health, had a lovely wife, children and a good job. Since taking the pictures, a news story stated, he has had a nervous breakdown, was threat- ened with the loss of his job and, because in desperation he began to drink heavily, his wife and children left him. Accord- ing to last reports, he was in serious family and financial trouble. He declared that never again will he scoff at hoodoo legends.
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Could Ancient Sculptors Soften Stone? By RS | Swacliion LL OVER THE world tourists are invited to come and look at “the giant’s footprint.” I have visited dozens of these, on five con- tinents, and have found them, on the whole, dreadfully disappointing. Often they are obvious frauds, sometimes so crude that the chisel marks are left, unabashed, for all to see. But others are truly re- markable. Fossil footprints of dinosaurian reptiles and other extinct creatures are a commonplace and there is nothing mysterious about them. The creatures walked over some soft surface which later was covered by 45 silt, sand, or some other sediment which in due course dried out, got buried and compressed into rock. Human footprints have been found similarly preserved. They are usu- ally in dried mud or clay, such as on cave floors, but occasionally they have turned up in what we definite- ly call “rock.” A famous example was found on the banks of the Co- lumbia River late in the last cen- tury by the well-known hunter, guide, and surveyor, Capt. Joseph Walker. This was in extremely hard sandstone and caused quite a stir at the time. ; But there is no real mystery
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46 about this type either, for certain sands mixed with some clay can harden to rock-like consistency in a matter of hours and may be bur- ied under dozens or scores of feet of silt or other material in a matter of a few dozen hours in a flood. Then, if dried out correctly and, of course compressed by the weight of the material above, they will pro- duce a true sandstone just the same as any piece of such rock formed a couple of hundred million years ago. I assisted in chipping a “fos- silized” car tire track out of a solid sheet of limestone on behalf of a police department in Mexico; and bloody hard work it was too, even with a heavy hammer and a set of cold chisels. So, there ought not to be any- thing mysterious about these al- leged giants’ footprints. But wait! First in Cornwall, England, near a place named Tintagel; then in Switzerland near Martigny where the Rhone rushes through a narrow gorge on its way to the Lake of Geneva; and finally at several places in Central and Western South America, I stumbled upon some- thing quite different. These were human footprints (or a very fair semblance thereof) in non-sedimen- tary rocks. The significance of this needs a word of explanation. Rocks (meaning all solid sub- stances on and in the crust of the PATE earth) may be divided into three basic types. These are called sed- imentary, nonsedimentary, and meta- morphic. The first were laid down under water or air: fhe second were formed within the earth, either due to volcanicity or other fundamental geophysical processes; the third are just what they are called, namely sedimentary strata that have been changed to unstratified masses by heat and/or its equivalent, pressure, so that they look and actually are more like nonsedimentary rocks. Now, fossils —including fossil- ized footprints and other impres- sions — cannot survive this mreta- morphosis and, what is more, you manifestly cannot impress any- thing into already solidified rock of any kind, however much pressure you exert. The old idea that foot- prints could be so impressed, pro- vided the impresser was big enough is, of course, complete nonsense. If you picked up the Queen Mary and dumped her on a couple of acres of granite you would not get any im- print of the ship’s keel. So how come “footprints” in non- sedimentary and metamorphic rocks? The first obvious answer — and the one that I personally jumped to in Europe — is that said footprints were fakes, or at least man-made with hammer and chisel; and it is quite possible that those in Corn- wall and Switzerland were. In Neo-
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COULD ANCIENT SCULPTORS SOFTEN STONE? : 47 lithic times men seem to have had a tendency to record all sorts of things on rock faces by means of what are called petroglyphs, for re- ligious and other purposes. Our own North American “Indians” even left enormous maps on the sides of can- yons out West. These rock carvings were often most miraculously and meticulously executed so that one would at first swear that some of them must be imprints. De me rneok N THE TROPICS we find quite another set of enigmas. The pre-Columbian inhabitants of Cen- tral and South America were ap- parently equally addicted to goug- ing pictures on rock-faces and on boulders, flat stones, and such. They continued this practice right up to the last phases of their great in- digenous civilizations, such as those of the Maya, Inca, Quiché, etc. However, here as elsewhere, these gougers started at a very early date to develop and elaborate upon their works. They took to gouging around their depictions, so that these stood- out rather than sank-in. Thus they developed bas-reliefs. Instead of having, say, an apparent imprint of a dead fish, they got what looked like the fish itself, in the round. The next stage—and this too was, of course, almost universal — was to cut under said fish until it was all but perfect, in bulk, and attached by only a sort of stem. But here’s the rub. In the Maya city of Chichen Itza, in Yucatan, Central America, you may look at a building called “The Nunnery.” It’s an eerie struc- ture with bas-reliefs that sprawl all over it. After studying these bas-reliefs for half an hour or so I guarantee that you’ll find it hard to remember that the men who built this had no metal tools, and there are no hard rocks within 200 miles. You may well begin to ask yourself how they executed these acres of intricate carvings, some of them not just bas-reliefs but very nearly in the complete round. Try chipping a thousand figures out of a block of limestone with, presum- ably, another bit of limestone, from behind, with about an inch of space in which to do it. Did the Mayas really chip out these bas-reliefs with stone hand- axes, picking away day after day? Let us examine the possibilities here by asking an apparently simple question. What is concrete? Look it up in an encyclopaedia and you may get a bit of a sur- prise. It’s “a mixture of stone, sand, water, and a cementing ma- terial.” What we invariably over- look is that, by the purely mechan- ical mixing of four substances, we create a solid rock of great dur- ability. We can make rock! Let us now consider the obverse: Can we unmake solid rock?
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48 Of course we can, by two simple methods — pulverization or heat. However, both procedures involve the expenditure of great energy. It takes enormous temperatures to liquify most rocks. But consider: if we can so simply make a rock (concrete) by using inherent chem- ical energy, why can’t we unmake rocks by a similar method? The answer is, of course, we can! Given the correct agents or re- agents in sufficient concentration we can dissolve at least one component of any rock (most of which are mix- tures of several kinds of substances in crystalline form). There is noth- ing odd about the procedure. It oc- curs in nature all the time, though usually at a much slower pace than in our laboratories. Yet, it is only within the last couple of centuries that we (in our current, “Western”, scientifically-oriented culture) have learned to unmake rock in our lab- oratories. But could other peoples in the past have learned how to do just this by other means? One is always stumbling across unorthodox and unauthorized ob- jects “stuck into rocks,” and I am referring here to man-made objects, not fossils. The most extraordinary are metal bars seemingly “fused” into large, homogeneous, and seem- ingly undisturbed masses of rock. These are seen in monumental buildings of many cultures when FATE they are taken apart or fall apart. Tiahuanaco in Peru and Veddic temples in India both had silver in- ternal pinnings; predynastic Egyp- tian monuments had similar copper cramps. (I would like to know how you get a double-ended-double-ex- panded cramp into two blocks of stone at once!) Then there is something else. Everybody, even architects and archeologists have wondered just how sundry ancient peoples — most notably those of the high Andes — managed to shape their vast blocks of building stone so accurately that they fit together, without mortar, and so that you cannot “insert a knife-blade between them.” When the rocks are of no precise form, with bulging sides of varying num- ber and all manner of curvatures, how could anybody figure out in advance just what counter-curves would be needed so that several hundred thousand, formless blocks would fit together to make a per- fect mile-long wall such as is to be seen today in Cuzco, for instance. Any engineer, architect, or mathe- matician living today will tell you frankly that he does not know how it was done and that nobody else knows either. But what if these particular an- cients knew of a way to soften stones so that, like bags of concrete that we lower underwater when building dams today, these stones
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COULD ANCIENT SCULPTORS SOFTEN STONE? 49 automatically took on the appro- priate contours of all the stones next to them—and then, be it noted, bulged out where there was no containing stone, just as is seen along the faces of the walls in Cuz- cor Further, if these particular stone- softening ancients wished to put a bit of decoration on their walls, why spend the summer picking away at a bit of rock when they could soften up the surface of the block until it — was of the consistency of plasticine and then, in an hour or so, mould their favorite god in all his pristine perfection? But, was there ever a way of so softening massive stones — such as granites, basalts, diorites, andesites, and other non-sedimentary rocks? Nobody can say for certain, but there are many de los Indios who state positively that there was once such a process. And these indi- genes may be encountered from the uplands of Chiapas in southern Mexico through Central America, and again in upland Colombia, Ec- uador, Peru, and Bolivia. But this is not all! There was a very remarkable man to whose works I find myself in- creasingly referring. His name was Col. P. H. Fawcett. He was a British Army officer who took up surveying and was commissioned by various South American govern- ments at the beginning of this cen- tury to explore and define their political boundaries. He prosecuted this work on eight major expedi- tions. From the last of these he never returned, thereby giving rise to all sorts of fabulous and fan- tastic fables as to his demise or continued whereabouts. Fawcett disappeared with his eld- est son and an English assistant. His second son, Brian Fawcett, later published his dairies which give de- tails of his previous seven trips. This book is packed with extra- ordinary information. Colonel Faw- cett was an extraordinary man. He won a Gold Medal from the august Royal Geographical Society of Lon- don for his accomplishments, and the South American governments for whom he worked for so many years heaped honors upon him, In a way, Fawcett was a mystic in that he firmly believed there had been many great civilizations other than the Inca in South America and he constantly sought evidence of the previous existence of these. He never really found any concrete evidence of such but he did find many other strange things that are, one by one, being rediscovered to- day. Among these was the matter of the birds. It seems that in the upper forest- ed slopes of the Peruvian and Bo- livian Andes there is a little bird, looking somewhat like a kingfisher,
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50 that nests in small perfectly spher- ical holes in rock faces above moun- tain torrents, streams, and rivers. Such holes occur only where these birds are found; and they are found in all sorts of rocks, both sedimen- tary, metamorphic, and nonsedi- mentary, such as granite. Fawcett was fascinated by this and enquired how such nice little holes always were present just where the little birds seemed to need them most. The answer he got, not only from the locals but from Europeans who had lived for over a half century in the areas concerned, was invari- ably the same. The birds made the holes. Fawcett watched and in due course saw the little birds arrive on the rock faces where they clung like chimney swifts or swallows. Each bore a leaf in its bill and with this it rubbed the rock with a cir- cular motion until the leaf crum- bled. Then it flew away presently to return with another similar leaf and continued the process. After about four such trips the bird start- ed to peck away at the rock and, believe it or not, the rock then crum- bled away, in a steady cascade. In due course a perfectly circular hole was thus produced —a hole large enough for the bird to enter, make a nest, lay its eggs, and- raise its young in. At first this seems to defy most of what we have been led to believe FATE about rocks, leaves, and birds. But is it really so illogical? You can dissolve some rocks with a bottle of dilute hydrochloric acid; there are some plants that produce by no means dilute acids (and alkalines). Who is to say that some bird did not long ago find some plant that did not dissolve the keratin of its bill but did render granite plastic like putty? Colonel Fawcett records two other items bearing upon this fantastic subject. The first is an account of a man who made a five mile trek through virgin forest along the Py- rene River in the province of Chun- cho in Peru, wearing large Mexican- type spurs. He was fetching his horse that had been crippled the day before and left at a neighbor- ing ranch. When he arrived at his destination he found his spurs com- pletely corroded away. Amazed, he showed the stumps to his host and the latter got very excited, asking him if he had walked through a dense patch of low, fleshy-leafed plants with red leaves. He said he had. The rancher said that was what had “eaten” his spurs and went on to remark, “That's the stuff the Incas used for shaping stones.” Fawcett’s other report is even more remarkable. It appears that an Englishman, a long time execu- tive of a mining camp at Cerro de Pasco, in central Peru, told him the following story:
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COULD ANCIENT SCULPTORS SOFTEN STONE? 51 He, together with some other Europeans and North Americans, had taken a Sunday off and gone looking for ancient burial grounds. ‘They took along a local man to do the digging and, it seems, some local and potent alcoholic refreshments. They found some apparently undis- turbed graves and set to work, stop- ping the digging every now and then to take a libation. One of the party soon got fairly plastered, whereupon he started chiding the local laborer. At the end of the day they had nothing to show for their efforts but one large earthenware jug. This was carefully sealed and, as ascertained by shaking, still con- tained some liquid. This they de- cided to open. It contained a thick, black, vis- cous, and somewhat. unpleasant smelling liquid. The inebriated member of the party decided it should be sampled and picked on the luckless local to do the sam- pling. The party unstoppered the jug and held it out to the wretched man. The latters’ reaction, after one sniff, was instantaneous and vio- lent. He blanched, recoiled, and tried to flee. However, the boorish gringoes grabbed him and tried to force him to drink (this was about 1915, circa half a century before our present somewhat better under- standing of racial relations). The poor man fought like a maniac and finally broke away, running for the bush. Meantime, in the scuffle the earthenware jug was knocked over and broke and its contents formed a pool on the rock where it had been set. The leader of the party, who told the story to Fawcett, was amazed to see that the liquid was gone and in its place was a pool covering the entire center of the large rock with a sort of clay-like putty. The liquid had gone and so had the entire sur- . face of the rock! Together they had formed a sort of dough which could be kneaded and shaped as one desired just like plasticine or warm wax! So is there, or are there, plant juices that can dissolve solid rocks —eyen granite? And did the an- cients, notably in the New World, know of these long ago, manufac- ture their extracts in volume and thus soften the rocks with which they built their incredible forts, temples, and other structures? Did they use the same or similar prod- ‘ucts to soften the stones they used to ornament the fronts of these buildings, softening and then mould- ing their exquisite, grotesque, fan- tastic, and otherwise altogether in- comprehensible mazes and masses of bas-reliefs, sculpts, and other de- signs with their fingers in a jiffy, rather than chipping them out by months of labor? Were the Amerinds of Central
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52 and South America the only ones to discover this technique? Or are there little birds in tropical Asia that also make their own holes in granite cliffs? And did the ancients soften up y FATE rocks in order to record for poster- ity the footprints of their “leading ladies” just as we record in soft concrete at the entrance to the fa- mous Chinese Theater in Hollywood the footprints of our “stars?” \y v THE MIRACLE-WORKING NEGRO SAINT N MAY, 1962, Pope John XXIII elevated to saint- hood Martin de Porres, a mu- latto whose life is an amazing record of miracles. Born in Li- ma, Peru, in 1579, St. Martin was the son of a Spanish knight and a Negro woman, both of whom neglected him. He spent his early years in poverty and loneliness, but by the age of eight he already had established his reputation for holiness and charity. As a Dominican lay brother in Santo Domingo monastery in Lima, St. Martin was believed to possess the power of biloca- tion—to be in more than one place at the same time. Visitors to Peru told of having been taught and healed by him in lands to which he could not have gone except through some supernormal ability. Two Dominican monks left accounts stating that as young novices they left the monastery without permission one day and feared to return lest they face dismissal and disgrace. They claimed that St. Martin, who had been questioned regarding their whereabouts, suddenly appeared to them in a distant house, took their hands and miraculously transported them back to their monastery cells. He is said to have perform- ed many miracle healings, one in connection with the arch- bishop of Mexico who on a vis- it to Lima fell ill and was on the verge of death until St. Martin came and cured him with a touch. When the Rimac River in Lima went on a ram- page in 1634, St. Martin re- portedly threw three pebbles into the water in honor of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, after which the flood subsided. As the first lay so- cial worker in the New World, he distributed food and gifts to the poor, founded hospitals and orphanages and supported needy missionaries. ©
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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. VISITING SPOOK By Eileen Rutherford ewe YEARS ago my aunt and uncle, Charles and Winona Highsmith, who were liv- ing on a farm out of Mt. Vernon, in southern Illinois, became the host and hostess to an uninvited and in- visible guest. Without any warning the guest first called one summer evening, on or about the year 1930, after the family had retired. Suddenly the back door screen, which had been firmly latched at both top and bottom, opened and closed with a loud slam. A man’s footsteps echoed across the linoleum of the kitchen floor. They continued into the dining room where our ghostly visitor clumsily stumbled into the table, setting the table rocking and the china and silver clattering. After a few seconds he continued across the dining room, out the front door screen, which also was doubly locked, and into the darkness. Although my aunt and uncle were wide awake when all of this hap- pened neither of them made the slightest move to light a lamp or to meet their unknown guest — until the front screen slammed. Then they both jumped out of bed. They checked the front and rear screens and found them still securely lock- ed from the inside. The dining table was in perfect order. No one was to be seen in the open yard around the house nor on the road in front of the house. The guest EILEEN RUTHERFORD
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54 simply had walked through the house and disappeared. During the next two weeks the ghost, or spook as they called him, paid nightly visits. He always made the same tour, through the back door, across the kitchen, into the dining room, never failing to walk into the table and to set the china and silver clattering, and on out the front door. We did a little experimenting with our mysterious guest but we never outguessed him or caught a glimpse of him in all the four years he spent passing through that house. We tried waiting in the ad- joining room fully dressed and arm- ed with flashlights, but he would not be heard until we finally gave up and went to bed. Then, within 10 minutes, he would open the doubly locked back door screen and tour the house. A flashlight was focused on the kitchen one night as he walked through but the beam showed nothing whatsoever. His nightly visits would continue for two weeks and then he would leave for 10 days, only to be back again and up to his old tricks for another two weeks. He never varied his route but there were small in- dications that he was in the house during the day. He seemed to like to wind up the spring of the Edison record player and then to release the spring with a loud whirr. This he did many times. I have watch- FATE ed the player being wound while standing in the same room. He also hid an invisible alarm clock in the linen closet. It ticked so loudly it could be heard in the three adjoining rooms. It would tick for two or three days, then suddenly stop. No mistake, the sound came from inside the small linen closet — a small storage space about four feet by four feet be- tween the bathroom and the kitch- en. One day I took everything out of the closet to find the clock. I stripped that closet to the bare shelves and the clock continued to tick loudly somewhere behind the wall. I didn’t find it and the next morning it had stopped. Any door between the kitchen and bedroom or between the din- ing room and living room which was bolted the night before always would be open the next morning. The spook got to be a regular member of the family and even visiting relatives accepted him al- though he seemed a little shy and seldom walked on the first two or three nights of their visit. Then quite suddenly, just as he had come four years before, he left and never paid another visit as long as my aunt and uncle lived in that house.—Phoenix, Ariz. BUSHY TAILED VISITOR By Ora Beck Harper i HAD BEEN a damp miserable morning with off and on show-
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES ers. I had gone to the kitchen to prepare a belated noon meal when I heard the excited laughter of my three young sons as they approach- ed the house. But I was unprepared for the big, red shepherd dog that came bouncing toward me through ‘the opened screen door. “Look Mom,” said my eight-year- old all out of breath, “Tippie’s lost, can we keep him?” “Wipe the mud off your feet,” I said and, before I could say more, the dog ran off down the hall to my bedroom. By the time we caught up he had piled himself comfortably on my bed. After the boys got him out into the back yard it come to me that they had been calling him Tippie. “How do you know his name?” I called through the open window. My eldest pulled a-collar out of the thick fur and read me his name and a telephone number. I dialed the number and asked if they had a dog named Tippie. The lady assured me that they did and why did I ask. After I explained everything, she said it couldn’t be right. For their Tippie was right there, and too old, too crippled up to move out of their yard. She had no ex- planation for the dog at my place, although the descriptions exactly matched. We figured the distance to be about 10 miles from her place to mine. 55 When I went outside to recheck name and phone number on the collar, Tippie had disappeared.— Covina, Calif. THE FACE IN THE MASK ; By A. M. Antkiewicz HEN I WAS a child of 12 a strange thing happened in my family. One evening in October, 1935, after supper, we were all, except Father, seated around the fire- place in the parlor. My father was sitting in the kitchen just finishing a late supper. The lamps were not yet lit, al- though it was dark. We sat in the firelight in our home in Bradford, England. My mother was singing to my baby brother who was half- asleep on her knee. My other broth- er and I played on the rug. Mother’s singing stopped abrupt- ly. I looked up to see her gazing intently into the fire. Her face bore an expression of utter amazement. Instinctively my brother and I looked too. There, outlined by flames, deep in the red heart of the fire, was the face of a man ob- scured by some kind of a mask he was wearing. “Bill,” my mother called over her shoulder. “Bill, come and look at this face in the fire.” There came a disbelieving laugh from the kitchen but no father. I jumped up, “Mom, Dad’s just
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56 got to see this, I'll bring him.” But no amount of pleading would induce Father to come into the parlor. He just laughed. When I got back to the parlor the face was gone. Three weeks later my father was admitted to hospital, dangerously ill from blood-poisoning. In spite of all the extreme efforts to save his life he died. While he was in hospital the skin on his face erupt- ed and, under doctor’s orders, a mask was made from white gauze, satur- ated with medication and placed on his face. He died with that mask still on his face—Clifton, N. J. OUIJA PREDICTS By Val Spires OFTEN HAVE played with the Ouija board and had a lot of fun getting answers. One day, how- ever, it wasn’t quite so much fun. A friend of mine, John Cotrell, was asking some questions. He had been offered a choice of positions and was wondering which one he should accept. “Would you help me with the Ouija board?” he asked. We al- ways had had great success work- ing it together and we made ar- rangements to try it that evening. The board was quite active when we started but we quickly found that any time we asked a question concerning Johnny or his work we always received this same answer, FATE “Dead” — or “will die.” John had a patient who was dy- ing and we thought it concerned this patient, but were rather dis- gusted because we couldn’t get any other. answers. We tried all sorts of questions but the answer was the same, “Dead” — “will die.” Suddenly I looked at Johnny and he was beginning to look haunted, so I suggested we stop this non- sense. This was on July 10, 1955. A week later we had dinner to- gether at the Strata Room and watched the planes coming and go- ing. “There is nothing I would rather do than spend the rest of my life flying,” Johnny said, looking wistfully at the soaring planes. “Have you decided which job you are going to take?” I asked. I knew he had to decide shortly or lose both opportunities. “Somehow, it doesn’t seem im- portant any more,” he said. “Not important?” I exclaimed, shocked. “Why, Johnny?” “T don’t know why —” he re- plied with a smile. “It just seems unnecessary for me to make up my mind about it.” “Perhaps the answer will come,” I said knowing that he believed in guidance. “Tt would be wonderful — flying around in those beautiful clouds,” he said, changing the subject. I let the matter drop. The very next Sunday John was
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES invited to fly with an outstanding ' captain, John Gaines, in a small plane. They had been up for about one-half hour when suddenly, on the clear blue day of July 4, 1955, the plane was caught in a down- draft and crashed into the nearby foothills. Both men were killed in- stantly. The Ouija board was right when it predicted “Dead” or “will die” to all John’s questions. And I be- lieve Johnny knew it meant him and that is why he ceased to worry about a job decision. The Ouija board had told him. — Boise, Idaho. LADY OF THE ROCK By Norma Jeffries WAS IRONING in the living room of our apartment when one of the most startling phenome- non of my life occurred. I can only relate this true event as I know it. IT love to iron in the living room where one complete wall is made up of windows and the sun shines bright and cheery lighting the task. On this summer day in 1951 the radio was playing a popular song and I was humming along with it. Suddenly the music broke off. There was no sound from the radio at all. I wondered if a tube was gone, if the station was having trouble, or whether the electricity was momentarily out. Checking my iron I found the electricity was all right. 57 VAL SPIRES It was then I noticed the room had begun to grow dark. Carefully I sat the iron in a safe place and flicked it off. What was happening? Was I about to faint? No. I felt perfectly well. Was there a storm coming, hiding the sun? No. I had been outside just a moment before and the sky was cloudless. What, then, was happening? The room turned a dark grey color. I backed a few feet away from the ironing board my eyes adjusting to the peculiar light. There in the center of the room was what appeared to me as a large rock. A feeling of awe came over me and I watched with fascination. My vision seemed glued to the spot.
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58 Then the room radiated with a bluish glow emanating from just above the rock on the floor. In the wink of an eye a woman stood upon the rock. She was the most beau- tiful creature I ever have seen. As my eyes traveled from the stone, to her bare feet, along the graceful draping of her white and blue dress to the serene features of her face, an enormous sense of peace filled me and I fell to my knees. “Ave Marie,” I said. She smiled down at me, at the same time extending her hand palm downward, “Dominus Vobiscum,’ she said. Again words came from my mouth in Latin, “Et cum spiritu tuo.” A warmth descended upon me penetrating every fiber of my be- ing. Then the woman and rock were gone, the room returned to its sunny self and the radio was audi- ble, still playing the same song I'd been humming. Everything about me was unchanged. I picked myself up off my knees and returned to my ironing. My forehead and the palms of my hands were wet with perspiration. For several days and nights I mulled over the event in silence, afraid to mention it to anyone for fear of being called crazy. The fact that the Lady was trying to tell me something to help me never enter- ed my mind. I was busy wondering FATE why I had used Latin words, wheth- er I was crazy, why did she come to me of all people, etc. True, I had a working knowledge of Latin from the ninth grade and prefixes and suffixes from medical termin- ology, but I couldn’t translate what she had said nor what I had said. A quick trip to the library for an English-Latin dictionary satisfied that curiosity. I had said, “Hail Mary,” to which recognition she had said, “The Lord be (is) with you,” and I had responded correct- ly, “And thy spirit.” I went to a psychiatrist I had worked for and asked “Am I crazy?” He laughed and replied, “The very fact you come here and ask me that question makes me answer no. What is your problem?” I explained. “Well,” he said, “I know things of that nature do occur. If you were a highly religious person I would say your imagination ran away with you. Why it happened— and I’m certain knowing you as I do, that you are not lying about it —I’m not qualified to say. Per- haps some day you will know. Meanwhile, I'll give you some sleep- ing capsules and you get some rest and forget about it.” But I can never forget my beauti- - ful “Lady of the Rock” nor stop my yearning to see her again. — San Diego, Cali}.
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A concept that atoms have “ghosts” may explain how it is possible for ghosts to be objective and tangible. By james (Coanshew James Crenshaw is a Los Angeles news- paperman and a psychical researcher. RYING TO ANALYZE the stuff that ghosts are made of might seem to be as potentially un- rewarding as attempting a chemi- cal analysis of a dream. Yet there are facts and clues which not only make this search worthwhile, but which hint at the very nature of the universe. Many modern psychical research- ers, or parapsychologists, claim that ghosts are mainly subjective psychological manifestations with- out objective reality. But a consid- erable body of evidence now sup- ports the view that haunts do have an objective substantiality. For example, repeatedly stories have been told of apparitions which occur either in night time or in full 59 an atomic theory of apparitions daylight, whose appearances fulfill all of the sensory requirements of time and space and whose disap- pearances confound the senses. The retired mayor of a Canadian city has told me of such an experience. He said he was approached on the street one day by a woman in costume. At least, she was dressed peculiarly. Perhaps she was a native of some colony where the women dressed unconventionally by urban standards. She obviously was poor, and she begged him for money. He handed her a Canadian half-dollar, for which she thanked him profuse- ly. Then in an instant she had dis- appeared, half-dollar and all. It was daylight. They were on a pub-
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60 lic street and were near no object or building where she could have hidden. She and the coin had sim- ply been swallowed up into the ether. Or was it into a etheric world? There have been too many oc- currences of this general sort to ig- nore or cast aside as inexplicable. The natural explanation, however, may lie above and beyond the usu- al trite theories based on hoax, hal- lucination or misinterpretation of the facts. * x * NE CURRENT scientific view is that ghosts manifest only in the presence of an observer cap- able of furnishing psychic power. Whatever vibratory impressions have been stamped upon an en- vironment or situation are somehow amplified and made _ perceptible with the help of this psychic power. Here one recalls the old argument as to whether there is any sound when a tree falls in the forest if there is no ear to hear it. According to this idea, the phan- toms are no more real in the living sense than a photograph or a movy- ing picture is living and no more solid than the glow of light in a dark room. To support this con- tention, it is asserted that ghosts leave no tangible evidence of their transitory presence —no_ physical traces, no lasting mementos. There are numerous credible case FATE histories which seem to refute this theory—cases where tangible, phys- ical evidence has been produced. Two such case histories have come to me first hand. The first concerns a friend who, while walking late on a moonlit night in Philadelphia, unexpectedly encountered another man in the middle of a lonely square. The man held out a cigarette for a light, and though my friend cannot now re- member what words, if any, were exchanged, the flare of the match made it possible to observe the man’s face perfectly. It had a strange, blue-gray color, hardly life-like. The man wore no hat, and there was something odd about his hair — meticulously combed, as though it had been carefully dressed by another person for public exhi- bition. He wore a dark suit. Cupping his hands to shield the lighted match still held by my friend, the stranger paused just long enough to make sure the cigarette was burning and then turned away. My friend did likewise. He had walked only a step or two when something prompted him to look back. The man and the cigarette had disappeared. The square was empty, again lonely and soundless. Yet only a few seconds had passed. There were no buildings nearby. The en- counter had occurred near the cen- ter of the intersection. There had been no sound of running nor even
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AN ATOMIC THEORY OF APPARITIONS 6x walking, despite the fact that foot- steps at that hour echoed up and down the empty streets with unnat- ural loudness. But contradicting the assertion that ghosts leave no trace, my friend was startled to see, in the bright moonlight, curling up from the spot where he and the stranger had just been standing, a wisp of smoke. It hung tentatively in the air, a little cloud such as a smoker would have exhaled after the first deep puff. My friend had not been smoking—nor drinking. His comment upon the experience was this: “It is strange that at a time like this you realize some- thing is not quite right. At first you accept it without question. Then la- ter you start to wonder...” The other true ghost story was told to me by one of Mexico’s lead- ing artists. Dr. Atl, who has become something of a national hero in the republic. After attempting unsuc- cessfully to reconcile differences between President Carranza and the forces of General Obregon in 1920, he took refuge in an old mon- astery in the Mexican capital. Billeted there following the revo- lution was an army colonel and his orderly. The only other persons in the ancient “convento” were a caretaker and his family. Rumors that the place was haunted by a monk of giant stature had been cur- rent for years, though Dr. Atl knew nothing of these before he began living temporarily in one of the old cells. However, the orderly claimed to have seen the ghost, and the colonel on several occasions fired his pistol at the something he thought lurking among the colonnades around the open patio. At dusk one day, the colonel and his man returned from some mission. Soon afterward, Dr. Atl heard shots. He ran to a bal- cony in time to see the colonel drop his gun and begin to struggle with something unseen in the open plaza below. Very slowly the officer’s body was bent backward. He gasped for breath and with his hands tore fran- tically at whatever was grasping his throat. Writhing and groaning, he was gradually forced back onto the ground. By the time Dr. Atl reached him, he was still and life- less. Police found huge finger marks on the colonel’s throat, and a plas- ter cast of these helped clear all others in the monastery of any sus- picion of murder. The orderly, who had fainted during the death strug- gle, on being revived made a state- ment to incredulous police that he had seen a shadowy figure, a giant- sized phantom, attack the officer. The occurrence received consider- able attention in the Mexican press, according to Dr. Atl, so much so that he had to secrete himself to
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62 avoid harassment and annoying cross-examination. by mystery mon- gers. Ghosts then, it would seem, oc- casionally do leave physical traces, and whether or not the traces are produced by extruded telepathic embodiments of a force drawn from living subjects, as some parapsy- chologists maintain, it appears that bona fide physical energies are at work, pons ES HAT IS the force that does the work of producing ghosts and ghostly effects? Is it some new kind of powerful radiation, new in the sense that it has not yet been analyzed by science, or is it simply an extended manifestation of old atomic principles? There are indications that the answer involves both. For instance, Dr. Gustaf Stromberg undertook in his book, The Soul of the Uni- verse, to correlate physical and bio- logical data in support of the idea that organizing fields of energy de- termine structure in both organic and inorganic matter. In the atomic and subatomic world, he noted that the distinction between particles and their fields has tended to disappear. Particles are regarded as the cores of energy fields, as points of energy concen- tration, rather than independent en- tities. Dr. Stromberg subscribed to a theory of “autonomous fields;” FATE that is, fields of force which are not to be pictured as having their ori- gin in particles or caused by par- ticles but representing independent, preexisting patterns of “emergent energy.” Particles, he said, are merely na- ture’s “evanescent indicators” of the fine structures of the preexist- ing fields, associated in turn with the emergence from another dimen- sion of definite amounts of energy into the physical world of space and time. Can it be said that this source world, this other dimension (or di- mensions), is the proper domain from which the manifestations we call ghosts emerge and into which they recede? This concept begins to strike us as sensible as we continue to examine Dr. Stromberg’s reason- ing as applied to the world of phy- sics and biology. In living bodies, significant fields take over the direction of structural growth and development, as seen in the almost miraculous directive pro- cesses of mitosis or cell division. An invisible organizer appears to move and reform elements of the dividing cell structure. Dr. Stromberg envisaged all au- tonomous fields as being “rooted” in dimensions of the cosmos other than the space-time continuum, a transcendent non-physical world of organizing forces which become identified with the emergent energy
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AN ATOMIC THEORY OF APPARITIONS 63 we perceive as tangible particles. His studies led Dr. Stromberg to the conclusion that matter and con- sciousness both are rooted in the non-physical world and that the elements of consciousness, including memories, are capable of existence independent of matter (as we know matter). However, aside from these scientific intimations of immortal- ity, it is in the basic theory of emer- gent energy that we find palpable clues to the origin of ghosts. Sak “esa EMERGING and receding behavior of Stromberg’s “cores” isa perfect parallel to the behavior of both apparitions and materiali- zations. Each type of phenomenon appears to be made up of the same general kind of transitory, emer- gent matter. It appears and disap- pears, can sometimes be seen and felt before disappearing, occasional- ly moves objects and leaves mate- rial traces. It behaves like ordi- nary matter but still has no perma- nent existence in the framework of our conception of space and time. In fact, after its transitory mani- festations, it seems to be absorbed back into another dimension or di- mensions, such as the sources of emergent energy postulated by Dr. Stromberg. How can this be? Possibly the answer lies in the nature of matter itself. Solids are no longer regarded as solids at all and have not been for many years of this century. They are arrange- ments of complicated wave patterns, with little left of the old concept of individual particles except the cores or focusing points representing in- tricately complex bundles of energy waves. Electrons, protons, positrons, neutrinos, mesons—the whole im- posing array of subatomic “parti- cles” turned up by modern physics —prove to be little more than con- gealed wave patterns, a kind of co- agulated vibration complex of dif- fering frequencies that achieve par- ticle-like -characteristics somewhat in the same way that wave patterns in tones and overtones produce characteristic sounds. * * x a ee KEY TO the entire mys- tery of the reality of matter— including ghosts — may well be the repeated assertions of psychic com- municators themselves that their world — to be regarded by many as a ghost-world — is not entirely non- physical at all; that it is in its next dimensions a greater world or worlds which envelops and interpen- etrates our own. Of greatest impor- tance is the reiterated statement from the communicators that the transcendent spheres and planes of their world have perceptible aspects of substance and form. Simply be- cause they are not perceptible to our ordinary senses does not war-
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64 rant our regarding them as any less real. The supposedly non-tangible fields which apparently become per- ceptible energy, momentum and mass only when they emerge into the three-dimensional earth world are rather continuously tangible after all—to those attuned to the “vibra- tions,” as they call them, of the be- yond world. If this beyond world is not actually non-physical but only seems so to us on this “earth plane” of grosser vibrations, then it must have form and mass appro- priate to its own dimensions, This is precisely what the com- municators report. They say they have bodies, buildings, articles with many forms, substantial environ- ments and tangible being in a ser- _ ies of dimensions or “degrees” which we cannot perceive with our ordi- nary apparatus or sensitivity. The sensitivity of the residents of the so-called higher dimensions, it is said, is tuned to a more atten- uated kind of matter, yet a kind of matter which is thoroughly substan- tial in its own right. Just as in the case of our recognizable electro- magnetic frequencies, the range of perception is entirely dependent up- on the range of attunement. This concept is reported over and over, in many places and through innu- merable channels. Moreover, those who so report frequently speak of the same kind of atomic building FATE blocks—use, for example, the term “atomic energy” as pertaining to their world—and refer to the same kind of energy patterns as we are attempting to dissect in our world. Theirs is a world of molecules and atoms too. Theirs is not so much a different kind of world as a different degree of worldliness, the spiritual quality being inherent in all degrees but perhaps less eas- ily unfolded in the so-called “lesser” degrees. Aside from the considera- tions of pure spirit, the same kind of vibrating energy, the same kind of dancing wave patterns that we encounter here are to be found there. Only the wave lengths, the incredi- bly rapid rate of vibration—fre- quencies of high orders - unimag- ined in our world—appear to be different. The condensation of en- ergies into the particles we call mol- ecules and atoms becomes percep- tible on the ghosts’ own frequency levels and takes on shells or lay- ers of a lower frequency only un- der circumstances yet to be ex- plained and explored. Ordinarily the higher levels of frequency pat- terns are no more perceptible in other “degrees’—ranges of fre- quency—than is one radio or tele- vision station perceptible to a per- son or receiver tuned to another frequency band. * * * WE ARE NOW armed with a valuable tool to be em-
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AN ATOMIC THEORY OF APPARITIONS 65 ployed in understanding the nature of apparitions and, for that matter, the whole gamut of psychic hap- penings exhibiting physical effects. The. tool is our discovery of what may be called “the ghost of the atom.” For if ghosts indeed are composed of quasi-physical units or wave patterns, and their perceptible forms emerge from and are ab- sorbed into other vibrational dimen- sions, then we must concede that each unit and particle has its “ghostly” counterpart beyond our perceptive range. The “ghosts” of atoms and par- ticles, therefore, can help us for- mulate some concept of what hap- pens when someone or something beyond our five senses suddenly “materializes” before us. The atoms which motivate the materialization are already there. In some way, as- sociated with particular persons or environments, their vibrations tem- porarily condense; their constituent wave bundles somehow, for the mo- ment, draw to themselves earthly shells, and their preexisting forms break through from what Dr. Stromberg perhaps erroneously calls a non-physical world. VT FRANCIS BACON AND THE WARTS RANCIS BACON (1561- 1626), famed English states- man, scientist and philosopher, was not, as a rule, the type of man who entertained supersti- tious ideas. Yet a remarkable wart cure he experienced as a youth impressed him for the rest of his life. In Sylva Syl- varum (1626) he wrote: “T had, from my Childhood, a Wart upon one of my Fin- gers: Afterwards when I was about Sixteen yeeres old, be- ing then at Paris, there grew upon both my hands a number of warts (at the least an hun- dred) in a Moneths Space. The English Ambassadours Lady, who was a Woman farre from Superstition, told me, one day; She would helpe me away with my Warts: Whereupon she got a Peece of Lard, with the skin on, and rubbed the Warts all over, with the Fat Side; And amongst the rest that Wart, which I had had from my Child- hood; Then she nailed the Peece of Lard, with the Fat towards the Sunne, upon a Poast of her Chamber Window, which was to the South. The Successe was, that within five weekes space, all the Warts went quite away: And that Wart, which I had so long endured, for Company. But at the ‘rest I did little marvell, because they came in a Short time, and might goe away in a Short Time againe: But the Going away of that, which had staid so long, doth yet sticke with mee.” >
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“Lady Wonder,” shown in her stable near Richmond, Va., in 1956, was famed for her demonstrations of psy- chic ability. She operates her special “typewriter” to predict Eisenhower would win presidency. She died in 1957 at the reported age of 33. UPI photo. olady WAS A WONDER BB, Sack Whodford I hated the “mind-reading horse” and she hated me. But she told me what not even my friends knew! FIRST HEARD of “Lady” years ago in a fan letter I got from England, from an English writer named Shaw Desmond. He wished to know what I thought of Lady. Although I lived in Rich- mond, five miles from Lady at the 66 time, I never had heard of her. I hate horses. Next to politics they constitute the most vicious racket in America. Besides, they bite, kick, smell, and are inclined to knock your eye out with their tails when they switch flies. In this
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frame of mind I approached Lady. I never found out about Lady although my investigation covered a period, off and on, all told, of about 30 years. Dr. J.B. Rhine also investigated Lady and never found out about her. Her owners never did. Psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, priests, ministers, rabbis who came from all over the world to have a look at Lady never found out about her either. Hollywood tried in vain to im- port Lady. Her owners would have no part of it. The owners, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Fonda, never made any money out of Lady. They were sim- ple, country, “God Fearing” people. They never exploited Lady. They never put up so much as a Neon sign to point out Lady’s location on Ruffin Road between Petersburg and Richmond, Va. So, about 30 years ago I went out to see Lady for Shaw Desmond, whose novels in England got ex- cellent reviews and, respectably enough, not much money. I had a dickens of a time finding Lady. When I did I saw a sway- back, tattered horse who looked old. Nobody seemed to know how old she was even though when she died on March 19, 1957, the papers said she was 33 years old. If this is true then she was eight when I saw her. She looked older. She was in a small yard with a tumble-down fence. She had a leaky 67 roofed old stable. The house of the owners was a small house and they never moved from it. The whole as- pect was one of poverty. Hollywood would have paid the Fondas 100 grand at any time and it cost me a quarter to interview Lady. She was the most loathsome-look- ing horse I have ever seen, before or since, and I detested her and was enraged with Shaw Desmond for getting me into such a mess of mud. The horse looked me squarely in the eyes. I avoided her gaze. But I could feel—and Mrs. Fonda told me— Lady had taken an instant dislike to me, a dislike which in- creased through the years. This was mutual. “Do you want to come inside?” the woman asked. We went into an untidy stable where there was a curious contrap- tion with the alphabet on it. It look- ed as though it had been bought second-hand from a vaudeville ani- mal act. If the horse nosed one of the letters it stood up. Lady was brownish, mottled and spotted. The woman was unfriend- ly. The horse hated me. I hated the horse. The surroundings were mon- strously uncongenial. There was no place to sit. “What do you want to ask the horse?” Mrs. Fonda asked me. “What’s my name?” The horse knocked down four letters: “J-A-C-K.”
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68 I nearly fainted. The lady couldn’t possibly have known who I am, if anybody. I was dressed in nondescript fashion; my hair was uncombed. I looked worse than the horse. I had made up my mind to go see the horse only half an hour before. And I’d never even heard of her before that. When I recovered I snarled, “That’s not my name.” (And it isn’t! Not really!) I figured the horse was trained to knock down common names like Jack and Dick, and if it made a mistake the woman would double- talk the horse out of it somehow. The woman gave me a suspicious look. The horse gave me a con- temptuous one. The woman said to the horse, “Try again.” This time the horse knocked down four more letters: “J-O-S-H.” I asked the woman, “Is there a chair here?” T honestly felt dizzy. The woman grudgingly brought me a chair. I sat down. I tried to collect my thoughts. The name I am usually called is “Jack,” although it is not my name. One person on this earth ever called me “Josh,” my grand- mother, since that is what she af- fectionately made out of “Josiah,” which is my legal first name. And my grandmother was dead. For some reason I was shaking all over, as though I’d seen a ghost. “What’s the matter,” the woman FATE asked, “you sick?” “T guess so,” I told her. She showed no sympathy. And what she now told me she told me many other times in later years, “Lady wants you to leave.” Lady was knocking her front foot on the floor. And Lady didn’t want me to leave one-tenth of one percent as much as I wanted to leave. I got up and went out. Far off I could hear the traffic on the Dixie Highway. It was a comfortable city sound. Born in the middle of Chi- cago I am always disoriented in a small place. I went out to the car and sat there and tried to think like an in- tellectual. There was bound to be some explanation I told myself. But coincidence, chance, none of those would fit. Not with those two names, Jack and Josh. It oc- curred to me that Shaw Desmond might have tipped off the woman and described me, or some such. But that wouldn’t fit because Desmond didn’t know about Josh. Nor did anybody in the whole state of Vir- ginia. Not even my daughter knew about that; nor my wife. So I thought of the British So- ciety for Psychical Research and I thought of the theories of te- lepathy, with no pleasure whatever. I don’t believe in telepathy from one human mind or animal mind to another. I think there is something
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LADY WAS A WONDER there but I don’t know what it is. Eventually I felt better and drove home. T never told Shaw Desmond a thing about it. I never told anybody anything about it — until this min- ute. * Ok OF HEN YOU interviewed the horse you stood close enough to it to touch it easily. There were no props of any kind. The stable was just a stable. There was nothing’ in it (except the board on which the horse could knock down answers) that wouldn’t be found in any ordinary stable. There were several windows. There was bright light. You could see under and over and all around the horse. I watched the woman out of the corner of my eye (when I went back there again later). She had no possible connection with the horse. She yelped orders at it if it were.dilatory. Otherwise she said nothing, did nothing. She’d look off out the window with an ab- stracted expression. Her feet were motionless on the floor. Nobody else was in or around the stable. There was nothing under it, noth- ing over it. Her hands remained motionless; her body remained mo- tionless. Her breathing was reg- ular, She seldom even looked at the horse. There were no sounds of any kind, only dead stillness. I discussed this from time to 69 time with various vaudeville people who were acquainted with animal acts. We considered the whistles that can’t be heard by the audience, all that sort of thing. Two of these experts, who I knew, went out there to have a look. They told me they couldn’t for the life of them figure out how it was done. They were enormously impressed. Chiefs of Police consulted the horse concerning crimes. They were always reporting to the newspapers that the horse solved the crimes. Numerous persons told me that the horse was bewitched but they would never tell why they thought so. I suppose they couldn’t without exposing family skeletons. Finally one day I found Mrs. Fonda outside raking leaves. “How do you account for it?” T asked her. She looked up at me wearily, “I don’t know.” “Do you consult the horse about your life?” “Of course not. I consult God.” “Then doesn’t it seem to you pass- ing strange to let other people take what would appear to be a rather faithless attitude toward their own destinies and God by consulting the horse?” : “Tf God didn’t want it, it couldn’t happen.” I was tempted to ask why not considering some of the things that would appear to be fairly inimical
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7O to God that did happen but I re- mained silent and she added, “God has let Lady live a happier and a longer life than I ever heard of any other horse doing.” “How old is Lady?” “T don’t know.” “How old do you think she is?” “T have no idea.” You will think (and so have I) of lots of other things I could have asked her. But this woman was a bit irascible naturally, and she had been plagued by questions for decades. And I knew she viewed me with some antipathy because all Lady had to know was that my car was coming down the road to start being untractable. Often, when I was waiting my turn to get in, or after I had come out, I talked to people standing around. Many of these had been coming for years, one of them from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. These people heard about Lady through articles in newspapers and magazines written by persons who had visited Lady. These articles usually made preposterous claims. The woman in charge of Lady never did. Confronted with some of these tales she always said they were not true or they were exag- gerated. However, some claims she would substantiate. Natives from around the South came to consult the horse about illnesses. I heard that the FATE horse often made some simple diag- nosis that would turn out to be ac- curate as later proved clinically. Mrs. Fonda recited one of these and gave me the doctor’s name. I called him up. He confirmed it. The local papers never went over- board about the horse. But they often reported cases of lost persons being located by the horse. These Mrs. Fonda confirmed and several occurred at times when I was in Richmond. I checked on three of them. All three reports tended to show something supernatural or preternatural had occurred. e £8 DIDN’T SEE Lady or her mis- tress again for 10 years. By that time I supposed the phenome- non, whatever it was, would have been exposed somehow. It wasn’t. It was going stronger than ever. I checked Lady’s mistress care- fully until I had satisfied myself she was obviously incapable of trickery of any kind about any- thing, with anything. Whatever it was went on between her and this confounded nag, she thought God did it. Soon after that I left Richmond again, still unable to put the horse out of my mind. When I returned to Richmond to stay briefly another 10 years later I got a letter from a minor official in Washington who told me he would be down for one day, for one
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LADY WAS A WONDER purpose only, to see Lady The Wonder Horse. He wanted me to fix it. I explained to him there was no fix necessary so far as I knew. (I hadn’t seen the horse since com- ing back) and that Richmond was not a place where everything had to be angled. So he came on down one morning with his pretty wife. Still there was nothing but a nondescript wooden sign, practical- ly unnoticeable from the Dixie Highway. The sign was weather- beaten; the road to the corral was dirt, very narrow and uncomfort- able to negotiate. Nothing was changed. We were the only visitors. I wanted no part of the horse and I knew the horse wanted no part of me. When the Washington- ians saw the set up they lost some of their interest. How could any- thing that wasn’t expensive be any good? J sat outside while they went in to interview the horse. But I was extremely uncomfort- able. I had a hunch something was going to happen. I hadn’t wanted to go; now I wished I hadn’t. The farm was small. There was no other stock except dejected-looking poul- try. You couldn’t see any other house from it, just trees and rolling country. Virginia creeper vines ran all over everything. Now, out came the Washington visitors, into the car. They said nothing, not a word. 71 As I drove back toward Rich- mond I forced a conversation about other matters since apparently they didn’t want to talk about the horse, and I didn’t either. Evidently they’d had a rough time. I knew that Lady’s mistress could be plen- ty rough with people she didn’t like. Now my guests wanted to catch an earlier train than they had planned on back to Washington. At the Broad Street Station I started to go into the station with them but the woman went on ahead without saying goodbye and the man detained me. “Tt was damn cute of you,” he said, “to tell the Old Bag to tell the horse all about us. I suppose you did it because you wanted us to have a good show :. . but I don’t think it was so damn funny to tell her we aren’t married!” Then he walked off. I stood there, stunned. I had told the horse on them? How would I know they weren’t married? I didn’t know anything at all about her and all I knew about him was that, like everybody else in Wash- ington, he wanted to write a novel exposing Washington. I got to wondering in savage, manic-depressed fashion, what was the worst they could do to yeu for shooting a horse in Virginia and drove home so deep in thought that I liked to got killed in traffic. kK Ok
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72 OUELLA, MY DAUGHTER, had wanted terribly to go see the horse when she knew I was taking them, but had decided against it since it would mean miss- ing school. But I had promised to take her tomorrow! And I never broke a promise to Louella in my life. She adored horses and every other liv- ing thing. After a rain it was hell to walk down the street with her, being careful not to step on worms that had come up for a bath. I tried to trade Louella out of it but it was strictly no deal. “Remember one thing,” I final- ly cautioned her. “The horse will have seen the Sunday Times Dis- patch. Your picture was in it. It says youre 13, and an arrived novelist. It says you’re Welsh. It says a lot of things.” “T won’t ask the horse anything it could possibly know. I'll ask it things neither you nor mother nor anybody else on earth could know but me.” “Good .. .” I said grimly. Saturday turned out to be the angelic sort of day Richmond has once a year, New York has twice a year, some years, and Hollywood has every day. I drove Louella out and parked as far away as I could get and let her make it alone. Although she was only 13 she al- ready had sold poetry, articles and short stories to magazines, besides FATE having a novel published. In her entire life I never had seen her any- thing but happy and ebullient. But she came back from her visit to the horse looking as though she had been stabbed. Her eyes were wet. I could see that she was near tears, so I didn’t speak to her. I sat and drove in silence, morosely trying to think of ways to assassin- ate a horse without getting caught at it. Later Louella said, “It’s the only horse I ever saw that didn’t like me. It didn’t like me a bit. It kept pawing the floor. I asked it a ques- tion mentally.” “What question?” “About the wish.” It was no use to ask her about the wish. Since she was nine every time she saw an early star she made the same wish. “What did the miserable creature say?” I asked. “Tt kept on saying nonsense until the lady spoke severely to it and then it said ‘No.’ ” “Surely you don’t think the horse is psychic?” I said. “All animals are psychic. So are all human beings when they are very young. Somebody tells us it’s all nonsense and then we no longer believe it and we’re no longer psy- chic,” Louella said. “What was the nonsense the horse said?” “Josh.”
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LADY WAS A WONDER I pulled myself up. “How did it come to write ‘Josh?’ ” “T don’t know. It started writing it right away when I came in. It puzzled the lady too, and made her mad. She was nice to me but she got mad at the horse. I don’t ever want to go there again. I felt queer.” “You didn’t feel any queerer than I did,” I told her grimly. “T’ll never go near that animal again either.” “Why should an animal hate me?” She wanted to know. “I love all animals. They usually know it.” “Tt wasn’t you it hated. It ap- parently knew I was with you; and it hates me because it knows I hate a2 Eventually, many years later, she told me what “the wish” was. She had asked the horse that day: “Will my father and I die at the same time?” eee 73 HE REAL REASON I never have written an article about Lady before is that I always had to ask myself before I wrote the article: “What do you believe about this?” T still don’t know. But I can tell you one thing about Mrs. Fonda. I know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that what always worried her was that she believed any horse could do what Lady did and she never could un- derstand why other people didn’t go get an alphabet and a horse and prove it. She never saw anything in the least unusual about the phenomenon. It didn’t even inter- est her. Her friends too thought that any horse could do it, but they con- sidered it irreligious to encourage such goings on. They thought people should go to God with their prob- lems, not to a horse. —— SS OXYGEN DISCOVERED ON VENUS XYGEN HAS BEEN discovered in the upper layers of the planet Venus, the Soviet news agency Tass reported recently. Tass said Vladimir Prokofyev, a scientist at Moscow’s Crimean as- trophysical observatory, made the discovery when the planet last made its closest approach to Earth. He used a large turret tele- scope and a special spectrograph. — ee ALARMED AMBULANCE T ST. MARY’S Hospital in Knoxville, Tenn., a small fire broke out in an ambulance which was the veteran of many mercy errands. The ambulance’s siren started screaming and did not stop until someone disconnected a wire and put out the blaze.
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Bringing THE BIBLE Healing of the Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate — From Acts 3:1-17 — 1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple, at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beau- tiful, to ask alms of them that en- tered into the temple; 38 Who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked an alms. 4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. 5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. 6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. 7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and im- mediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them in- to the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God; 10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beau- tiful gate of the temple: and they 74 were filled with wonder and amaze- ment at that which had happened unto him. 11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solo- mon’s, greatly wondering. 12 And when Peter saw it, he an- swered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holi- ness we had made this man to walk? 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Je- sus, whom ye delivered up, and de- nied him in the presence of Pilate, when he determined to let him go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murder- er to be granted unto you; 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. 16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the pres- ence of you all. 17 And no, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
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UP. TO: DATE In the Light of Parapsychology and Modern Knowledge N BIBLICAL times the sight of a blind, lame, or otherwise han- dicapped person begging at the en- trances to public buildings was a common one, and it is still common today in many parts of the world. To hundreds of persons in Jerusa- lem this lame man, sitting at the temple door with outstretched hand, was a familiar, daily sight. He had been sitting there begging for years. His instantaneous healing and subsequent leaping about and re- joicing must have had an electrify- ing effect on these people. When they turned with excited questions to the healers, Peter and John, Pe- ter answers them with a sermon and a reproof. It is God, through Jesus Christ who has accomplished the healing, he points out, and he also takes occasion to tell them that they (the crowd which demanded release of Barrabas rather than Je- sus) are the ones who are respon- sible for the death of Jesus. He wants them to understand that it is God (or the spiritual component, or whatever you want to call Him) who heals, and not the human in- strument or medium. This is a les- son that we, too, need to learn. This miracle raises a question about the role of faith in spiritual healing. This healing was instan- taneous and there is no indication 75 pa whatsoever that the lame man had any faith at all, even though later on in verse 16 Peter claims that he was healed through faith in the “name” of Jesus. There is some in- dication that the lame man did not even know who Peter and John were, for he asked alms of them. Yet, as they lifted him to his feet and bade him walk, he must have felt the charismatic power flow through them and unto him. They were subjecting him to a kind of shock treatment by boldly lifting him to his feet as though there was nothing wrong with him, and it worked. Although they told him that it was God who was heal- ing him, they made no appeal at all to him to “have faith.” Unlike most of the other people who were mirac- ulously healed by Jesus and the dis- ciples this man had no psychic or psychological preparation for what happened. This was a shock treatment, fol- lowed by an immediate remisson of the symptom (lameness). How necessary is faith in spiritual healing? The answer would seem to be that it is desirable, but—as this incident illustrates—not absolute- ly essential. We must not copy Peter by insist- ing that all spiritual healings are “faith-healings.”
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I Knew Death Was Coming Whence came the conviction that I although ill, would live —but that Rex, although well. would die? By Dorothy Aik EX GWYNN AND I were childhood sweethearts. We strolled to and from school together, studied together, danced together, flew into fits of jealous rage, kissed and made up. However, life never remains sta- tionary and Rex’s parents moved to a distant city. We did not meet again for many years. In the inter- im I had married, borne a child, and my husband had passed away. Chronic insomnia and devastating migraine headaches had turned me into a semi-invalid. 76 So one warm glowing day in Oc- tober when the door chimes pealed their message of a caller, I groaned inwardly and went wearily to an- swer the summons. Rex stood there. In an instant the years were swept away and once more we were en- gaged. I was young, strong, alive. Rex urged an immediate marriage but I resisted that temptation, for I was soon to undergo surgery, the outcome of which was very much in the balance. The surgery over, I lay for a few days and nights almost in a cat-
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. aleptic trance. I was perfectly con- scious of all that went on around me, but it seemed remote. I was completely without emotion, observ- ing life objectively and from a vast distance. Then about 3:00 o’clock one morning I was wide awake and heard a car pass under my window. It was not remote, not on some far away star. It was honking its way along the street where I lived. The milk man came to the back door, bottles rattling. He was no longer a mere robot, but a living, breathing man. I was going to live, and in- stantaneously with that knowl- edge came other knowledge—Rex would die. How did I know? I cannot tell, but I did know, unerr- ingly I knew, too, it would not be for several months. I grew stronger, and told my family what I knew of Rex’s ap- proaching death. They laughed good naturedly. ‘Why didn’t I tell Rex, himself? Well, one can hardly tell a strong, healthy man that he is to die, without a shadow of evi- dence to prove the truth of such a statement. Nor would it have done any good. Death would strike in its own good time, in its own way. I loved to walk and one evening Rex and I were walking together, and passed a mortuary. Rex said, “There is a light in the back room. Some one is being worked on there. Maybe somebody’s heart is break- ing, or maybe nobody cares.” Before I could catch back the words I said, “Someday, I will come to you in such a place.” Like my family, Rex laughed good naturedly. “What a morbid little thing you are. You have been sick too long. Tl have to make you well faster.” I knew the time was growing shorter, perilously shorter, and, be- cause we occasionally had talked of being buried close to each other, because I was still very sick, I told him that in case of my own death I thought we should plan exactly what we wanted. He was shocked, refused to discuss the subject, but finally was coerced into saying he always had liked the old cemetery with its great trees and rolling hills overlooking the drowsy river, he thought no hymn so hopeful, so full of solace for the forlorn as Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Thus I knew what he preferred for him- self, and I insisted that he tell his sister so she would be prepared when the time came. One afternoon I was sitting in ‘the porch swing. Rex had been out 77 of the city and I hadn’t known of his return until he ran up the steps. Before either of us could speak, a voice—inaudible to the ear of sense, but clear and distinct to the spiritu- al ear-—said, “This is the last day.” Still I did not tell him. Why
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78 should I? It would have changed nothing. That evening when Rex returned and we again sat on the porch swing, Rex said, “A few minutes ago I had the strangest experience of my life. I was crossing Water St., when suddenly the whole world changed. It became crystalline, translucent, shimmering with an in- describable quality for which I have no words. But with that came knowledge that I would never see you again after tonight. This is ab- surd, of course. I know I will, and yet somehow, I know even more that I won’t. I, a man of the world, a confirmed sophisticate, seem to have lost every physical emotion. I only want to sit and look at you, so that wherever I go, whatever comes, I will take that picture with me.” It was late on Friday night when Rex left for the last time. We had exchanged daily letters whenever he was away, but I expected none on Saturday as there would have been no time to write one, even if writing had been possible. No spe- cial delivery letter came on Sunday as was customary. There was no letter on Monday morning, nor did I expect one. The telephone rang instead and Rex’s sister asked, “When did you hear from Rex?” “T haven’t heard since he left on Friday night,” I told her. “You won’t hear,” said Rex’s FATE sister. “Rex is dead. He was mur- dered soon after his train reached Peoria early Saturday morning.” I asked no questions then— about how or why it had happened. Rex was dead. That was all that counted. “T am going to him,” I said. “If you care to join me I will be glad to have you.” So together with my daughter then in her early 20s we did go to Peoria. We went to the funeral home where Rex lay. I did not speak or cry. Then quite suddenly the funeral director picked me up, carrying me into another room, locking the door on death behind us.” “You have had enough,” he said. Rex apparently had left the train and started to walk to his hotel. He was seen by witnesses as he paused near a street light waiting for the signal to change. Stealthily a man crept up behind him, and struck. Rex fell striking his head on the curbing. The man started to go through his pockets but was frightened away by the startled wit- nesses. Rex had not moved. He never regained consciousness. Re- turning to see what had happened, the man was recognized by the wit- nesses, arrested, later tried and sent to prison. We took Rex home, into the house of his sister. I stayed all night; together his sister and I
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I KNEW DEATH WAS COMING kept the long vigil. During the funeral I was very tired, very sleepy. I laid my head on my arms across the casket. Somewhere in the far distance I heard the murmur of the minister’s voice, as he gently stroked my hair, 79 and somewhere far away, a voice sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Rex was buried as we had plan- ned, in a lot I owned in the lovely old cemetery overlooking the wind- ing river, where Rex and I had picnicked as children. THE SHEPHERD WITH HEALING HANDS N ATHENS, Greece, pa- tients, stream each day to the little stucco house where Athanasios Contogeorge, 80, known as Vlahos—the Greek word for “shepherd’”—performs healings which have brought him international renown as a wonder-worker. Vlahos, who believes that the power of God goes through his hands, re- portedly sees up to 60 patients a day, ranging from peasants to kings and statesmen. When King Paul of Greece broke his foot while skiing sev- eral years ago, he went to Vlahos, who cannot read or write. During a visit to Greece, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, suffering sciatic nerve pain, went to Vlahos for treatments. Among other nota- bles who have gone to Vlahos are the late John Purifoy, for- merly American Ambassador to Greece, and Sir Charles Peake, British Ambassador, Vlahos practices what is es- sentially orthopedic medicine, but his patients are convinced that he possesses powers which go beyond mere massage and manipulation. As a shepherd boy, he states, he learned to heal the injuries of sheep and when he was 20 he applied his knowledge to people. In 1941 Vlahos was summon- ed to court for a hearing after doctors charged that he was a charlatan, operating without a medical certificate or legal per- mit. A simple and inarticulate man, Vlahos argued his case by bringing a lamb to court, where he broke its legs and at once put the bones together again. Then he stood the small ani- mal on the courtroom floor and it walked about, apparently as whole as ever. Vlahos challenged the doctors present to do the same. If they could, he said, he would stop practicing. He won his case. ©9
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Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Radford of Jackson, Tenn., had been married 58 years. One morning recently Mr, Radford died. That afternoon Mrs. Radford died. They are buried together, side-by-side. e Science teacher Dante Fiore promised his Caldwell, N. J., physics class he would produce lightning. As he prepared to flick the switch on a high voltage coil to loose a miniature storm a real lightning bolt struck the building, tearing off part of the roof. e When Frank Wallace of Chicago suffered a heart attack his wife began massaging his arms to in- crease circulation. A minute or two after Mr. Wallace died, Mrs. Wal- lace slumped to the ground. She was dead too. Instead of taking her usual route home, Barbara Pietrasz of Cleve- land took a short-cut through an alley. This detour saved the life of a 19-month-old neighbor, Stanley Gonley. Barbara saw him clinging to the window sill of his second- floor apartment and rushed over in Fingers of FATE COE Em BYy Harold Helfer 80 time to catch him as he came fall- ing down. e@ A London coroner ruled that Walter B. Potts died of a heart at- tack as he was fixing a noose around his neck to hang himself. ® An older boy left his fishing rod to help nine-year-old Larry Simons of Clearwater, Fla., prepare his equipment. As he did so, a fish struck and his rig went sailing into the bay. He went home. Ten minutes later Larry hauled in his first catch. It was the older boy’s rod and reel and on the end of the line was a 15-inch trout. e When John Schuering of Brent- wood, N.J., ran inside to answer the telephone, his one-year-old daughter climbed into a small pool and drowned. The call was a wrong number, @ When his boss showed E. O. Har- tig of Phoenix, Ariz., the watch he had found at a swimming pool Har- tig asked, “Is it inscribed ‘Love to Bud?’” It was. “May I have my watch back?” Hartig said.
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Gladys Markle of Underhill, Vt., mailed a heart-shaped pin to her sister-in-law for her November birthday. Three months later the package finally arrived—appropri- ately on St. Valentine’s Day. ) At Talavera De La Reina, Spain, Juan Antonio Diaz got a prescription from his doctor for quinine tablets, took one and died. Pharmacist Jose Mendoza, who made up the prescription, swore to police his pills could not have killed Senor Diaz. To prove it he took one himself. He also died. € A windstorm at Neenah, Wis., tore a storm window from the at- tic of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mose Bellanger, swept it around a corner of the house, and stacked it neatly with a pile of other storm windows in the family garage. A man listening to a broadcast of Evangelist Billy Graham’s ser- mon The Love of God And Man, in a church hall at Katoomba, Aus- tralia, went berserk, stabbed a woman to death, critically wound- ed two others and escaped before anyone could learn his name. e Mrs. C. R. Thomas. of Gary, S. Dak., has one daughter living at Big Spring, Tex., another at Silver Spring, Md., and a third at Colo- rado Springs, Colo. 81 Although he tried hard to kill himself, W. May of Sarasota, Fla., just couldn’t do the job. He shot himself three times in the chest and once in the head, but the first three bullets passed through his body without hitting a vital organ and the other flattened when it struck his skull and was deflected. @ Nebojsa Ramoc of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is the youngest person to be wounded during World War II. He wasn’t even born at the time. His mother, serving with the Yugoslav guerrillas, was hit by a machine-gun bullet while she was pregnant. When her son was born there was a bullet wound on his left lee. He still carries the scar. 6 Leaping into his car, Elmer Stout of Logansport, Ind., sped down the street to report a fire in his home. His son, Kenneth, raced home in another car hearing of the fire. The two cars collided head- on at a narrow bridge. The father was killed. @ The wife of Dalip Singh of Mo- ga, India, refused to allow him in the house when he returned home drunk after selling their calf for $2 to buy wine to fortify himself against a cold wave. When she opened the door the next morning, she found her husband frozen to death.
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. “= bocks thrive in author's Los An- duck-breeding ponds. The freedom- loving species cannot be bred elsewhere. anvasbacks “All efforts to breed these wild ducks in captivity failed—until I found a way as old as faith.” By Henry Wiseak AM A “WANTED” man— wanted by scientists who think I am keeping from them a secret that can save the vanishing Can- vasback duck from extinction. These scientists want the secret of my ability to breed the elusive Canvasback in captivity — they need my secret because I am the only person in North America who ever has been able to do it. 82 In this article are my answers. I freely offer my secret to science although I am afraid few if any scientists will try it. You see, my “secret” is as old as faith itself; it is simply that I pray and that my prayers are answered. The Canvasback is the king of ducks, but its population is de- clining rapidly. As a result both United States and Canadian au-
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Henry Marak, who states that he always has loved nature and wild creatures, was born in Brunn, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, in 1894. At the age of 14 he left home, embarking on travels that took him to France, North Africa and South America. In 1909 he arrived in the United States, where he worked as a cowboy in Texas and Arizona. Later he became a coyote trapper and sheepherder in Wyoming and Montana. He married a Texas girl and has a grown son, Henry, and a daughter, Beatrice. In 1948 he purchased a home in Los Angeles, where he built duck-breeding ponds and raised several varieties of wild ducks. In 1958 he began raising Canvasbacks exclusively and now is considered an outstanding authority on this distinct wild spe- cies. He writes stories and articles as a hobby and is a student of metaphysical subjects. _ Author's flock produces 15 pairs of fepns Canvasbacks each year. 2B thorities are trying to breed these glorious birds in captivity, for re- lease. The earnest scientists have tried for years, but each year only the five ponds at my Los Angeles home are host to new-born duck- lings. Every year the scholars come to analyze my feeds, to study my methods, to examine my equip- ment, and to go away wondering at my “secret.” 83 I always have had a special feel- ing toward the wild things of na- ture and for much of my active and, to me, exciting life I have lived with nature. I started as a cowboy in Texas and Arizona soon after landing in this country in 1909. Later I worked as a coyote trapper and sheepherder in Wyo- ming and Montana. Always I have felt the pulse of nature near to my
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84 heart. Wild creatures always have been close to me and often I have made friends with them. I have been breeding wild ducks in captivity since 1948 when I started our two-thirds-acre spread as an aid to my son who was then a college student and who is now with the California fish and wild life service. This activity brought me in contact with other waterfowl collectors and breeders and eventu- ally I met the Canvasback, king of all the ducks, The Canvasback (Nyroca_ val- isneria) is a distinct species of wild duck. They are diving ducks as dif- ferentiated from dabbling ducks such as Mallard, Pintail and Teal. Canvasbacks find their food be- low the water, on the very bottoms of lakes and rivers. Dabbling ducks are essentially surface feeders and have adapted to civilization by learning to enjoy dining out in corn fields. Apparently the Canvas- back finds it too hard to adapt to the spread of civilization with its polluted waters and other chemi- cal side-effects, so each spring there are fewer Canvasbacks to join the familiar and thrilling Canada- bound formations. The Canvasback breeds in the prairie provinces of Canada and in Alaska, migrating each winter to California and northern Mexico. I made my first acquaintance with these magnificent birds FATE through William Parsonson, owner of a wonderful collection of water- fowl gathered from all parts of the world, and including a few pairs of Canvasbacks. He explained that he obtained his Canvasbacks by or- dering some dozens of eggs from Canada. The eggs were collected in the wild and shipped by air in the last stage of incubation. Mr. Parsonson explained that the Canvasback is a freedom-loving species and would not breed or even lay in captivity. Watching the handsome birds I was possessed by an irresistible desire not only to possess these Canvasbacks, but also to compel them to breed. I sent at once to Canada for eggs, but in this venture I failed miserably. My eggs did not hatch but simply rotted away in the in- cubator. In the meantime, Parson- son’s Canvasbacks not only refused to breed but also began to die off, one after the other, until the tiny flock was gone. Two years passed—ryears of search and expectation — during which I sought to locate some cap- tive Canvasbacks for my breeding experiment. Nobody seemed to have Canvasbacks. For a com- mercial waterfowl breeder this spec- ies is a waste of time and money, since their inability to breed in captivity has been a long-establish- ed fact. Finally in 1954 I learned that a
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PRAYER AND MY CANVASBACKS : 85 Connecticut waterfowl collection had Canvasbacks for sale. It de- veloped that these birds were from the pond of Dillon Ripley, the great ornithologist, Yale professor, and curator of the Peabody Mu- seum of Natural History. Professor Dillon’s manager, Richard Bates, offered me a pair of unrelated birds, and these were flown to California when they were about seven months old. In the spring of 1957 these birds were old enough to breed, and they began an intense and ardent courtship. With great emotion and excitement I watched them cop- ulating in the water. Then they walked around together, looking for a nesting site. I had placed three boxes in their enclosure, to give them a good choice. Mama Canvasback unhesitatingly chose the one placed on a low wall right above the water. On the first Sunday of May she walked in and set on her nest. I must say I walked on tiptoes, in great hope. She sat for a long time, from 11:00 in the morning, ’til about 3:00 in the afternoon, then finally left the nest. When I took a care- ful peek I was greatly surprised to find that there was no egg. Mama Canvasback was just teasing me. She repeated this performance day after day for about 14 days. All the while Papa stood by in a belligerent mood, watching me sus- piciously. I wrote to many authorities for an explanation for Mama’s failure; but I received none. It was plain and evident that nobody knew the correct answer. Just about this time I became acquainted with Rev. Franklin Loehr, and his interesting experi- ments in praying over plants. Rev- erend Loehr demonstrated beyond all doubt that by concentrating in prayer over plants, or rather seeds, he could compel them to grow faster and better. By praying against them he was able to retard their growth until the plants withered and finally died. I con- sidered this work a clear demon- stration of the power of mind over matter, with the help of God, of course. Reverend Loehr wrote an in- teresting book about his experi- ments, Power Of Prayer On Plants. When I read it I was immediately impressed and later on I met Rev- erend Loehr and we became friends. After we met I was inspired to at- tempt to reproduce Reverend Loehr’s experiments but using a much higher organism than plants, an organism that is governed by in- stinct and will of its own: my Can- vasback ducks. When the next breeding season came around, day after day, in deep reverence and humbleness, I
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86 prayed fervently to the Creator to help me with my Canvasbacks. I prayed to the Universal Divine Mind, the Universal Creative Spirit and Creative Energy. I asked the Creator to inspire my Canvasbacks with the breeding spirit and inclination, to compel them to cooperate, to inspire the hen te develop eggs in her body and to move into her box and lay. My prayers were very fervent, and at the same time humble. Here is how I prayed: Universal Divine Mind, Univer- sal Creative Consciousness and Cre- ative Spirit. Help me with these Canvasbacks. These are Your Crea- tures, not mine. You brought them into this world, they came into this life by Your own hand, and it is Your will and Your law that they create and multiply. Inspire them to obey Your will, inspire them with the breeding spirit. With Your Cre- ative Spirit inspire them to cooper- ate as a pair; inspire the hen to cre- ate eggs in her body, and with the inclination to build her nest and lay those eggs. Those eggs are already created in her body by Your own Spirit, that resides in them. This will be a. manifestation of Your power, love, and wisdom, for which I will be eternally grateful. Amen. Day after day I prayed. At night, before retiring, early in the FATE morning sitting in my comfortable arm chair and sipping my morning coffee, I conversed with the Cre- ator, asking for help. Help came far sooner than I dared to expect. With great de- light I noticed that the tummy of my Mama Canvasback was becom- ing rounder and bigger each day. Standing quietly by the enclosure, watching my Canvasbacks closely, I prayed and prayed. My Canvasbacks understood quite well. Under the spell of my prayers they became somewhat restless, moving about and eying me from time to time, but in a more friendly manner. Finally I again saw my Mama Canvasback move into her nest. She sat for about a half an hour. Imagine my excitement when I took a peek and found, carefully hidden under cover, one large and beautiful Canvasback egg! Besides my prayers and ardent desires I use visualization. My mental picture of the egg in the nest is so clear, so realistic, that I could almost reach into the nest of my mind’s eye and touch that egg. This thought never leaves me and I don’t swerve from it. I see, because I desire and want to see. This ardent desire and compelling wish is a prayer in itself. Then I use insistent persuasion and direct command. I stand very quietly by the enclosure and talk to
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PRAYER AND MY CANVASBACKS 87 my Canvasbacks as if they were humans. During my talk the hen swims excitedly around the edge of the pond, head upraised, chatter- ing excitedly. Then she gets out, moves about, and then goes back into the water. Papa Canvasback evidently does not understand what all the fuss is about. He just swims around, eying me _ suspiciously. However, my persuasive talk is not addressed directly to him. Here is the speech I address to Mama Canvasback: You will obey the command and will created in your body; you will build your nest and lay those eggs. I already see those eggs in your body; they are growing big- ger, until finally you feel the in- clination to move out of this water, build your nest, and lay. And you will do just this: build your nest and lay. This is the will of your Creator who brought you into this world alive and wants you to do just this: build your nest and lay. At this time I myself change slightly. Standing by the enclosures and watching my Canvasbacks as I say a silent prayer, I feel some- thing like a slight electric current moving through my body. I shake slightly and tears come to my eyes; I feel the hand of God. I believe, and believe firmly, that I have a subtle telepathic com- munication with my Canvasbacks. As soon as I come around, even before they see me, there is a slight commotion on the pond. They know that their friend and protector is near. The first year that Mama Can- vasback laid eggs even I was not enough protection to convince her to hatch them out. Marauding ’pos- sums broke into my enclosures and frightened Mama into abandoning her nest. But the following year she hatched a beautiful brood of ducklings and she has produced a fine new family every year since. My old Mama and Papa now are joined by four other pairs of breed- ing Canvasbacks. Two pair are Mama’s offspring, one pair origin- ated in Pennsylvania, and one pair were sent me by H. Albert Hoch- baum, chief of the Delta Water- fowl Research Station at Delta, Manitoba, Canada. Each year my flock produces about 15 young pair of Canvas- backs that I can supply to other researchers. Every year I have many requests for Canvasbacks, even at $100 a pair, and I sell only to those I consider worthy of my Canvasbacks. Unfortunately none of these other researchers have used the power of prayer over their birds and none of these Canvas- backs have proved fruitful. All of my breeding activities are conducted right in the city of Los
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88, Angeles. Our five ponds are built into a gently sloping hill, divided by terraces and rock gardens. The rock gardens are planted with seeds from England, and the ponds and runs are planted with plants and wild grasses suitable just for Canvasbacks. Certainly, I provide the best possible environment for the birds, but so do other would-be breeders. The thing that I do, and that they do not, is to pray for help for my cherished Canvasbacks. I ask the Creator to inspire them and awaken FATE in them the breeding spirit and in- clination, persuading them to obey the will of their own Creator. Year after year, season after sea- son, my Canvasbacks respond to my treatment and lay their eggs, bringing into life their precious ducklings, God’s offspring. I feel very humble and grateful. I know perfectly well that this is not my work, nor my cleverness, nor my knowledge. I know it is the work of the Creator, that my Can- vasbacks come to me out of the Hand of God. oh DEATH CARRIED THE BALL OST OFTEN death seems to strike indiscriminately, but at times a strange pattern is noticed. How such a pattern involved the four best players on the 1952 Boston University football team recently was re- lated by Red Smith in his Chicago Sun-Times sports col- umn, John Pappas was the center, Tom Gastalla a quarterback, Harry Agganis an end and Jim Meredith also an end. These four, according to Red Smith, were superior athletes and help- ed to make up, if not a great team, at least a pretty good one. John Pappas, who still was playing for the university in 1953, made two consecutive head-on tackles in a game against Syracuse. He walked unassisted from the second— but died before morning from a massive brain hemorrhage. Agganis turned to baseball after graduation from the uni- versity. He was playing for the Red Sox in June, 1955, when he died from a blood clot. After he was graduated, Tom Gastalla, who held a civilian pilot’s license, began flying a small plane. During a flight over Chesapeake Bay his en- gine failed. His body, found several days later, was identi- fied by his Boston University belt buckle. Jim Meredith was commis- sioned in the paratroops after graduating. He broke a leg in a bad landing and the leg was amputated after cancer devel- oped. Recently a news report stated that Meredith, 29, had died of cancer.
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GRAVES: IN: THE WOODS By Ruby L. Mitchell Y CHILDREN and I had been travelling all day and’ it was very late. In 1981 I was sales rep- resentative for the Health-O-Bonded Products Co. of Ohio. Sometimes when my schedule was not too strenu- ous my small children went along for the nice drive. This particular day we had driven farther than we planned and had been late starting back home. About midnight, as we drove along, the little ones curled up on the car seats and went to sleep. The night was beautifully clear. The moonlight was so bright it was al- most like day. I could see for miles across the hills. Coming off the mountains the old road between Kingsland and Llano curved sharply away into the timber. On the right as it made this curve there were a few trees and low shrubs, a kind of thicket. As we passed this I was thinking: only a few more miles and we will be home to our nice soft beds. The day had been nice; the babies had been perfect little angels. Already I was planning the morrow’s work. Then I slowed the car. It seemed that suddenly I had driven into a deep bank of snow-white fog. 1 could not see beyond the windshield FATE will pay $5 for each story published in this department. Stories should. deal with an actual experience proving spirit survival. 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. 89 They or windows in any direction. Fear- ing we might meet another car head- on in the fog: I stopped and got out of the automobile.. But as I stepped out and looked about, again it was a clear moon- light night; there was no trace of fog or mist. I took a handkerchief and polished the windows and wind- shield then happily singing an old favorite song, climbed back behind the wheel and started off again. But. as soon as the car started forward there was the fog. It looked like a heavy snow-white sheet had been draped over us, completely closing out the view. It was impossible to drive blind so I rolled down the window, leaned out far enough to see the highway and in this manner was able to drive home. Arriving at home I told my fa- ther of this queer occurence and described the locality where it had started—about eight miles west of Kingsland. He seemed amused at first but then told me that at this bend of the highway, in the patch of trees and shrubbery, there were two lonely graves with old and faded headstones. They had been there for many, many years, he said, and were the graves of a man and his wife who were mur- dered in the early days of the coun- try.
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106 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 ts 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 1s’" 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!) FATE The non-eating thesis, of course, is directly opposed to the accepted theory that plants, animals and men derive sustenance from chemical forces, liberated by combination of physical substances with atmos- pheric oxygen. Professor Hotema sums up his ideas thus: “The world is flooded with books on food and feeding. No one seems to realize that eating is not natural, but an acquired habit, like smoking and drinking, and that Air is the Cosmic Reser- voir of all things, including the substance that builds and sustains the human body.” Is this nonsense, or is it New Age material? Read the book for yourself and form your own opin- ion.—A. EF. Powell. | BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, by Kathryn Kuhl- mon. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962. 206 pages, $3.50. Carey Reams had been almost fa- tally injured on Luzon during World War II. He had been crushed from the waist through the pelvis; his right eye was gone; he had lost all his teeth; his jawbone was frac- tured; his neck was broken; and his back was broken in two places. The lower part of his body was completely paralyzed. Veterans’ hospitals had done what they could for him, but by Decem- ber, 1950, he was unable to eat any food, he was suffering repeated hemorrhages, and his life was slow- ly but surely ebbing. Then he read an article about Kathryn Kuhlman in a national magazine, and at the same time he received letters from friends telling him about her heal- ing services in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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NEW BOOKS Convinced that if he visited her church he would be healed, Carey made a supreme effort. He got on a bus and rode from his home in Florida to Pittsburgh. Totally ex- hausted and in almost intolerable pain, he managed to wait until the service was almost over, but noth- ing happened. Then, in his own words: “Miss Kuhlman raised her hand for a benediction, but she didn’t speak a word and my heart sank. At that moment all my hope was gone. Then, very slowly her hand came down and she looked directly at me, and pointing her finger at me she said, ‘Are you from Florida?’ My hopes soared as I replied, ‘Yes.’ Then she asked me to stand up and I said, ‘I can’t’— and she said, firmly, ‘IN THE NAME OF JESUS, STAND UP AND LOOK UP AND WALK!” Walk Carey Reams did, and he reportedly has been walking with a jaunty step ever since his miracu- lous healing 11 years ago. Most of us look with some skep- ticism on stories of persons arriv- ing at a church in a pitiable con- dition and being healed by faith. If the healing seems to have been permanent we wonder if it might not have been psychosomatic to be- gin with. And even if it was evi- dent that the disease was really terminal cancer or something else as terrible, we wonder if the cure might not have been one of those temporary natural remissions which are known medically to occur in rare instances. Because she knew that most of her readers do have such reactions to stories of faith healing, Kath- ryn Kuhlman has given in I Be- lieve in Miracles only cases which 107 MIND POWER THE INNER SECRET Realize your desires by the practical use of your mind. Most books on the subject tell you how to visualize, but overlook the INNER SECRET of focusing thought toward a definite objective. This information has for centuries been one of the World’s most closely guarded secrets, known to a select few, but suppressed and withheld from the masses. Anything can be within your reach, if you master and use the INNER SECRET, the Master key. Sold to adults only, with the understanding that persons using this system will not attempt to do so for ulterior purposes. Send for “MIND POWER — THE INNER SECRET”, only $2.00 postpaid. Send to: Cc. H. GARLANGER 1019 Pearl St, St. Joseph, Mich. THIS CHART PREDICTED THE WINNER OF THE ROSE BOWL FOOTBALL GAME! THE 1047 ROSE BOWL CLASSHE enuary 5, 1947 — Pasadena, Calilormia, Time 2227: p mL MT, Science Will Teach YOU How To FORETELL! This is a scientific astrol- oger’s chart for Pasadena, Cal. on New Year’s Day— and it correctly predicts the winner of the Rose Bowl Read A TO Z HORO- by Llewellyn and learn to make predictions through Natal Astrology. New 813-page edition just published. Guaranteed. IN- CLUDES FREE CHARTS. ONLY $10.00 Postpaid VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671, Evanston, Ill, George similar scientific
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REVIEWER'S REPLY My review of The Great Flying Saucer Hoax by Coral Lorenzen in October, 1962, issue of FATE was my honest and true opinion of the book. Mrs. Lorenzen, in her letter in the December, 1962, issue, takes many issues with my review. For exam- ple, she states: “Miller also insinu- ates that the book contains little new information. It is true that there is little information which is new to APRO members, but the average UFO researcher, or the layman who is not familiar with the APRO Bulletin, will find much in the way of reports, new ideas and theories, interpretation of facts and attitudes which he could not find elsewhere.” In reality, I wrote of the book: « ...Mrs. Lorenzen has had access to untold quantities of UFO lore for a good many years. Her contacts in South America are particularly un- ique, and have given APRO many ‘exclusives’ in this field.” Coral Lorenzen accuses me of not having read her book. I wonder if she has read my review? Regarding Dr. Fontes, I stated (quite objectively): “Dr. Fontes has uncovered many spectacular events over the years, including an alleged rape of a Brazilian farmer by a somewhat uninhibited female from space, but not enough of these ac- counts have been sufficiently veri- fied for us to establish Dr. Fontes’ SEE the HUMAN AURA! | a vital step toward PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT Aura researchers have now developed a mechanical means of learning to see the human aura — permanent optically per- fect filters mounted in a pair of gog- gles adjustable to your head-size. They leave your hands free! Up to now the most highly developed psychics have had to learn to see the human aura with the aid of awkward physical means—ex- pensive fragile screens and hand-held films, treated with obscure dyes of short-lived power. AMONG THE FIRST NOW — YOU CAN BE . . . to Own aura goggles in this coun- try. To detect aura radiation from the human body, animals or inanimate things you need only a few minutes practice with AURA GOGGLES. The leather frames fit close to your head to shut out all unwanted light rays. The filters are pinacyanole bromide, a coal tar de- rivative that is not expensive and will not deteriorate with age or use. Of the few researchers who have had the pri- vilege of testing the goggles, more than peck have seen the aura on their first Ty AURA GOGGLES . ». . are a scientifically manufactured psychic appliance, with pinacyanole bromide filters, boxed with complete instructions... = 5 ORDER IMMEDIATELY AND GET ABSOLUTELY FREE a copy of specially-prepared pamphlet, “Seeing the Aura,”’ a book about what aura vision means to YOU! ee ee ee es mes es SS EN Cores te Py CLARK PUBLISHING CO. | 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, ih. | i Please sent me AT ONCE ....-+eeeeee pair of | | AURA GOGGLES, and include booklet eT I the Aura’’ at no additional cost. I enclose (J cash [] check [] money | Order fOr $..sssceceeeceecees on eyems sce ceecccvee=seececesasscsssoeeeescrnen | Address ..... | cary ae eee erm rnsie Zone .... 109
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REPORT FROM THE READERS | ters you would like to see discussed in such an article.” An article by Dr. Fontes never was published in Saucers because of the suspension of publication a few months later. Before closing, I wish to clarify a few points. My intent via my re- view and this letter is not to at- tack Coral Lorenzen or Dr. Fontes. They both are pioneer investigators who have made lasting contribu- tions to UFO research. Rather, my intent has been, as objectively as possible, to cover the questions raised. I have tried to look at these things the way they are, not as they have been, will be, or should be. Noelle Fojut suggests that my “unfair” review of Mrs. Lorenzen’s book may have been inspired by jealousy. I can only ask: Jealous of what, Mrs. Fojut? Nevertheless, I appreciated her obviously sincere comments.—Max B. Miller. REMEMBER A PAST LIFE? I am making a survey and analy- sis of two kinds of cases suggestive of survival, cases of people who say they remember a past life and those of people who have the exper- ience of being out of the body. I would be grateful if your readers who have had such experiences would write me about them. Because the value of such cases usually depends on particular de- tails, I would like to hear from cor- respondents who will be willing to answer questions about details I may put to them. Correspondents can be assured that although I may use cases they write me about in my analysis of these cases, the identity of corres- pondents who wish to remain anony- IIl Is Today Your Day? “Today’s just not my dayl’’ yer hear that? Fact is, we all have our ups and downs . . . our periods of high and low vitality and capability. If we only could predict these changes and be able to plan for them in advance, Swiss scientists say we can! They have discovered that these ecycles— called biorhythms—are caused by regulated periods of ebb and flow in our cell system, and that the fluctuations can be pre-cal- culated. Write today for information on how you can plan ahead for your good and bad days. BIOCRHYTHM COMPUTERS 28 East 22nd St., Dept. FF: New York 10, N.Y. REV. BABBS CAN HELP Perplexed? At the end of your rope? Don’t know which way to turn? You can be helped! Many, many others have been, by Rev. Babbs, Founder of the First Church of the Elder Brothers of Prophecy. Now, through FATE, you can reach him, asking the most personal and intimate questions about your affairs that you would hesitate to ask him in person, should you be able to meet him on his lecture tours. Time is so limited on his public appearances. Rey. Babbs answers your questions ONLY after prayer and meditation during 24 hours of fast- ing on Wridays. Your mail is not opened ex- cept on Fridays, while fasting. Answers are not dictated to a Secretary but written by Rey. Babbs personally. He is the only mortal who sees your letter. Rey. Babbs again wishes to thank the many who recently wrote in response to his adver- tisement in FATE, having lost contact over the years. It is very gratifying to regain touch via mail with those he has helped in the past, You too can be helped. Your 7 questions answered in plain unmarked envelope for $5.00. You also will receive two Bible verses of con- solation. “Believe in the Lord, your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophet, so shall ye prosper.’” 2 Chron., 20:20. Write NOW to: REV. BABBS 2756 Georgia Ave., W. Palm Beach, Fla.
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REPORT FROM THE READERS To understand this we also must understand that the high-frequency field mentioned in the article is an actual high-frequency voltage ap- plied to the body of the person un- dergoing this electronic contact pho- tography. This high frequency acts to expose the photographic film and therefore produces this photogra- phic effect after the film is de- veloped. This applies also to the leaves shown on page 27. Electronic photography dates back to my early work in this field. A plate is attached to the negative low amperage voltage high-frequen- cy current supply, the photographic film is placed on the hand, leg, etc., and then the body of the person is placed in contact with the positive source of power. The process can be reversed and sometimes the photo- graphic paper is dampened to ob- tain desired results. In using film, the plastic base of the film insulates it from the charge between the ap- plied negative currents and there- fore acts to photograph by static forces of galvanic currents. The Russians are researching what we did in our laboratory in 1934 and thus I speak with some authority on the subject. The leaves and other objects used by the Rus- sian researchers were found to pho- tograph while moisture and chemi- cal activity remained in the matter under investigation. Time will show them that after a few hours the leaves appear to die, the glow fades under the miscroscopes and in pho- tographs, since as the living matter dies its moisture content and chemi- cal activity diminish. Should the Russian scientists wish to observe undeniable proof, they need only conduct a simple dehydrate test. Re- 119 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. My Dream of Heaven Rebecca Springer’s Actual Experience! Almost too sacred to reveal! Seventeen exciting chapters. Gates of pearl, the glory land, great mysteries, reunion of loved ones, home life in heaven, etc. Over 250,000 copies sold! If you've lost a loved one, you'll treasure this blessed book! ‘‘The grandest book I ever read,”’ says one reader. Order your copy to-day. Postpaid only $1.00. Edition limited. Gospel Books, Dept. FA-2, Rowan, Iowa ASTROLOGER Let Astrology light your way. Life Chart and year’s directions, $10. The same in more detail, $15. Two charts compared, $20. Detailed di- rections for one year covering more than 60 important dates, $30. Give time, date and place of birth, along with exact dates of four major events, ene deaths, marriages, etc. State your problems. = . DOUGLAS MILLER 2414 Liddesdale, Detroit 17, Michigan 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 more of these readers but the best of them. Write for an advertising rate card today! Advertising Director, Clark Publishing Ceo., 845 Chicago. Ave., Evanston, Il.
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