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__HYPNOSIS CLEARS MURDER SUSPECTS PADRE PIO—ITALY'S LIVING STIGMATIST - THE SCOTSMAN WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA _ THE LIKELIHOOD OF LIFE ON MARS MYSTERY OF HOUDINI'S DEATH -~MY DEATH AND RESURRECTION i Spent My Summer in a Haunted House © The Double Incarnation of Madame X ¢ Bringing the Bible Up to Date Latest News © Book Reviews True Mystic Experiences
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WHAT DO YOU SEEK FROM LIFE? PSYCHIC POWERS? SELF CONFIDENC , PERSONALITY? TEST YOURSELF Yes No OO Are you satisfied with your mental power? OO O Do you feel rested when you get up in the morn- ing? OO Do you finish every job you tackle? O OAre you in tip-top shape physically ? O01 0 Do you control tension, fear, worry, “nerves”? 0 0 Do people like you? O DaAre you “getting ahead” in your work? 0 0 Do you use the power of your subconscious mind? 0 !s your life full, success- ful, happy? If you have to answer NO to any of these questions you are not getting the most out of your life, Yogism can help you, and DON’T WAIT A MINUTE LONGER! YOU ARE STARTING ON THE WAY TO A NEW LIFE... ACT NOW! WRITE TODAY! YOU CAN TEST ITS RESULTS FREE! —THE ANCIENT WISDOM YOGA OF THE EAST adapted to the needs of Western man, gives you a healthy body and a calm, confident mind, turopean students have long marveled at the miracles accomplished by Yoga training — now available to Americans in the exclusive 12- lesson life-science course. The results are STARTLING ... IMMEDIATE. learn YOGA Success Secrets increase your ability to concentrate eliminate depression and fatigue change and improve your environment overcome age — roll back the years get and keep glowing health shut out worry and fear find and develop hidden capabilities relax and rest control ‘nerves’? and tension avoid sleeplessness use the power of THOUGHT develop inner resources, poise and SELP+ CONFIDENCE --- YOUR TRIAL LESSON °*****"""" SCHOOL OF YOGA, Dept. F 845 Chieago Ave., Evanston, II. I enclose 25¢e to cover cost of mailing and handling. Please send me TRIAL LESSON absolutely without obligation HOW TO: State
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YOU ARE PSYCHIC LEARN TO USE YOUR OWN POWERS IN 10 EASY LESSONS Why waste money on fake mediums and fortunetellers when Sophia Williams can show you how to develop your own true powers in a book just 96 pages long? Sophia Williams is a great medium from California. She has never used her powers for commercial purposes and she has writ- ten YOU ARE PSYCHIC to warn you away from cheating racketeers. In this book Mrs. Williams defines and Gescribes the five great areas of extra- sensory ability. Then she presents 10 com- plete lessons by which you can fully de- velop your own abilities. DEVELOP THESE EXTRASENSORY ABILITIES in 10 lessons: Clairvoyance—see beyond YOU ARE PSYCHIC—a com- Clairaudience—hear beyond : pletely new edition, in a complete- Physical Manifestations—produce voices ae : ly new printing just off the press. and writing z : Materializations—produce teleplasm Available to you, all postage paid, Physical Healing—calm worries and just $2.49. fears to cure physical disease HH YOUR TEACHER: SOPHIA WILLIAMS SEND THIS.COUPON NOW I VENTURE BOOKSHOP a I P.0. Box 671 : EVANSTON, ILL. i H Please send me ........ copies of YOU al You will succeed if you believe in | ARE PSYCHIC at only $2.49 each. f your teacher. To establish a har- | i monious relationship between you Name - and Mrs. Williams we have included i (Print Clearly) i in her book a reprint of an pratle Hs Street. I by the Saturday Evening Post writ- eo Maurice Zélstow: Bie Zolwlowa . cn. Cily = = one == State 4 words will assure you that Mrs. ’ Williams hag true powers. es 3
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AUGUST : Issue No. 161 1963 on ten bs Vol. 16—No. 8 ‘ Publisher; CURTIS FULLER Assistant Publisher: PAUL FOGHT Editor: MARY FULLER CO Managing Editor: CHESTER S. GEIER Science Editor: HENRY A. BOTT Art Director: SYDNEY BARKER | ARTICLES... TRUE REPORTS ON THE STRANGE AND UNKNOWN The Scotsman Who Discovered America ...........- Andrew E. Rothovius 26 The Problem Of Life On Mars ..... Jeffrey Liss 39 Mystery Of Houdini’s Death .... .. Vincent H. Gaddis 66 How Hypnosis Cleared Two Murder Suspects ..............-- Harry Arons 82 | STORIES... | DRAMATIC ACCOUNTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCES Italy’s Living Stigmatist — Padre Pio ..........:s:--- Marcus Bach 32 The Double Incarnation Of Madame & ........-.-------+ Michael Bouissou 48 My Death And Resurrection -.0.0.0.....c..sccccscssecssecsceseseeneseeesees Gene Albright 54 I Spent My Summer In A Haunted House ............-0.--- Danton Walker 75 a vews AND NOTES ON UNUSUAL TOPICS TeSeesBy- Dhhe> Pape tspacssscscsc ce toed iceycsbea aso en re ee Curtis Fuller 6 Rediscovering The Pygmy _ 47 Black Mass In Bedfordshire 53 True Mystic Experiences 59 The Wheel Of Fortune 65 Bringing The Bible Up To Date 0...........tcsssscssssesseeeeeeeoeee Alson J. Smith 80 MyeRroof Of Survival tn aoe = ee 93 New Books 99 Report From The Readers .... 109 Published every month by CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illi- nois. Second class postage paid at Evanston, Illinois, and at additional mailing offices. We do not &ccept responsibility for the return of unsolicited mavuscripts, photographs or artwork. Subscribers should notify us of address changes 80 days in advance, giving both old and new address. ————— ee —_ Copyright © 1963, CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY 4
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“ , .. the most methodical and thoroughly organized course available today’? . . . Maurice E. Bryant, M.D., in the Foreword, THE NEW MASTER COURSE IN HYPNOTISM By HARRY ARONS Director, Ethical Hypnosis Training Center; Editor, HYPNOSIS Quarterly; Member and Founder, Ass’n. to Advance Ethical Hypnosis This is not just a book on hypnosis. It is a course in book form. It is THE TEXTBOOK of the Course in Scientific Hypnosis that the author, a national leader in the field, has been giving to professionals and serious laymen all over the U.S.A. It is a “practical ‘college education’ in scientific hypnotism,’ writes a prominent Indi- ana judge in the Foreword. The instruction in the book was transcribed directly from tape recordings of actual class sessions. It gives the best methods and tech- niques for individual and group induction—in word-for-word, step-by-step detail—the exact words and phrases to use in hypnotizing! onty $6.00 postpai “ , .. OUTSTANDINGLY THE CLEAREST, SOUNDEST, MOST PRACTICAL BOOK I HAVE EVER SEEN” ... PROF. HORNELL HART, AUTHOR OF “” AUTO-CONDITIONING.” Here’s What You Gei: FR E E ! - MASTER DEPTH RULE e “Waking” Hypnosis Tests If you order the New Master Course promptly, © Best “Disguised” Methods you'll receive this unique, four-color, plastic eoStendacie Method ruler-bookmark free of extra charge. With it, you Baa CcHOUS can quickly judge the depth of your subject/s ® Methods of Old Masters trance. You'll like it! @ Advanced Techniques = ® Permissive Techniques 10-DAY MONEY-BACK Peele ‘ POWER PUBLISHERS, Dept. F-8 e; ” 7 P Instantaneous Methods Ii0 Washington Ave., Irvington, N.J. | Seen eat | EGBHSE aN VENOMS Tam Chelosing | e Seer Fo Ot yee E Ni . I am enclosing Self-Hypnosis Simplified ] $6.00 in full payment. Don’t forget the ra © How to Work as a Hypno- color, plastic MASTER DEPTH RULE. I un-I apechnician derstand my money will be refunded if I] | return the book in 10 days. I © Practical Uses - Cases RAMI Sos casas Sauest yiccees stasCoeer oa eS I © Phenomena of Hypnosis EDDHES@ = sh- int an I GUNNS 7. sone ol Ueeceanes ZONE: oss STATH...0ceccees | ® Photo-lIllustrated 5
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OT See by that agen QUOTE OF THE MONTH The Jews have a book they consider sacred. I have read Greek versions of this book which tell of mighty cities on the outskirts of Arabia. I traveled through this country by Caravan, though, and I can tell you it is only desert and a goat has a hard time finding browse. Hence we must conclude that this sacred history of the Jews is but a myth. — Curtius of Hadecan ESPITE THE iconoclasm of the above statement, the stor- ies in the Bible tell but a fragment of the mighty histories of the Near East. We still regard the “out- skirts of Arabia” as only desert, where civilization barely can cling. In this sense we still are children of the Middle Ages — those dark times when Europe lost all contact with and ail perspective on the rest of the world. For the desert did blossom like a rose — with vast cities, great pop- ulations, intensive agriculture. A kind of life existed there 3,000 to 1,000 years ago which never has been approached there since. Let us visit the diggings at Beth Shean in Northern Palestine, a city mentioned in the Bible as the town By Curtis Fuller upon whose walls the bones of Saul and Jonathan were hung. Few have heard of Beth Shean in any other regard, yet it was one of many im- portant cities in Palestine, and its history is easily traced from 1500 B.C. to the Byzantine period of perhaps 1,000 A.D. Three-hundred years B.C. Beth Shean was known as Scythopolis, a Greek trading center, famous for linen manufacture. A Roman the- ater, one of several that existed there was recently excavated at Beth Shean. This one seated about 8,000 spectators. The theater was two stories high and communication between the top story and the orchestra was by
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HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT BY USING THE POWER OF YOUR “INNER MIND” aaah PADRE NR IESE LOS PTE SHEERS OREN EIS TNT—The Power Within You by CLAUDE BRISTOL, Author of “The Magic of Believing” and HAROLD SHERMAN This amazing new book will show you how to release the forces inside you and get what you want. This is no “head-in-the-clouds’’ theory. It is as down to earth as the job you want to get, the house you hope to own, the person you want to marry. ‘‘TNT”’ shows you how to turn your desires into REALITIES ... how to make your subconscious work for you to help you overcome obstacles and accomplish whatever you set your mind to do, ‘‘TNT’’ will show you: e HOW: to make up your mind when you’re undecided what 0. @ How to blot out unhappy experiences of tha past. @ How to get what you want by making mental pictures. @ How to keep your mind free from upsetting fear and worry thoughts. @ How to make your subconsclous mind ‘click’? by using 10 Days the process of repetition or reiteration. FREE @ How to make your “pipe dreams’’ come true. One idea alone—which you learn in chapter two—can change your whole life for the better. It will release you from chronic neryous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach, restore your self-confidence, and enable you to face things you’ve been PROVED WORKABLE BY running away from for years! ACTUAL EXPERIENCE... Scientifically proved in case after case, this book tells you how to create a mental image of the thing you want—make your “More powerful than ‘The Mag- “pipe-dreams’’ come true—believe in a thing so firmly that it ic of Believing.’ Works every actually happens—think positively every minute of your life— time.’’ make your subconscious work on conscious problems—dispel fear —Charles Metro, Montgomery, and worry for once and for all—influence others to your way of Alabama. thinking through ‘‘mental suggestion’’ . . , accomplish anything “Contains an ‘open sesame’ to in the world you set your mind to do! all who use it. I use it and my Na eeeote ; FREE 10-DAY TRIAL—Why not see for yourself how ‘*T.N.T.— BUsinesAealeb mera lekaninag Hess THE POWER WITHIN YOU" can help you? Read it for 10 selling the same merchandise.’* —Kenneth BF, Korn, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “T’'ve gained more from its con- days free. Then, if you decide to keep it, pay only $4.95 plus few cents postage, Otherwise, just send it back and owe nothing. Mail the coupon now to get your free-trial copy. tents an ee 25 years of hard pmo emo meV AIL THIS COUPONS? === se25==/ —Margaret Walsh, Patchogue, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Dept. 5244-KT a ; Cee Sa Racy oR Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey , ‘I have used this force of he- , < 5 a liaying. and of images with’ very. vata obligation, , please _send ame fOr 10 DAYS’ FREE 1 gratifying results to improve my RIAL, a copy of ‘T.N.T.—THE POWER WITHIN YOU, 1 business ig by Claude Bristol and Harold Sherman, In 10 days I will —Alexander Pinter Tr. New either remit $4.95 plus postage, or return book and owe J York, N.Y e 432 nothing, Dept. 3 H “The most practical exposition es 1 on mind management and per- IN AI GOR 5 csarkroiore ol Bleters isle sheleieceterelm ere wenreie sie ieiainrgiare orere| ema ttlalelsrere Sa 1 sonal progress I have ever read.”’ —Jesse TI’. Hobbs, Jr., New York, PACHPOSS) -rs sissies peels ca Camere eae cqemrec ect ot a pet alata erate see - Nes City i oe =m
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS even the names of the cities were lost to a people who didn’t know India existed. Why -did the civil- ization last 2,000 years only to be extinguished for a millenium? Is it enough to say that peace, law and order made the difference? Do we fully understand the reasons why peace, law, order, were sus- pended for 1000 years? And do we have any assurance they are being reestablished today? ioe) ANOTHER KIND OF MYSTERY AN IS LESS interested in this sort of question than in what lies out beyond the Milky Way. One mystery disturbing physi- cists and astronomers is the enor- mous energies of Space they are catching glimpses of. Dr. William A. Fowler, physicist at Caltech, has calculated radio emissions from some superstars suggest energies equal to 100 billion stars like our sun. Recently John Linsley of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at M.1.T. detected a cosmic ray show- er over New Mexico that suggests similar unimaginable energies. Ap- parently the single nucleus of a single atom penetrated our atmos- phere, struck the nucleus of an atom in the air, and the resulting atomic debris chain reacted into a cosmic ray shower covering several square miles, DOOMED BY YOUR MEMORY? A NOTED publisher in Chicago reports there is a simple tech- nique for acquiring a powerful memory which can pay you real dividends in both business and social advancement and works like magic to give you added poise, necessary self-confidence and greater popu- larity. According to this publisher, many people do not realize how much they could influence others simply by remembering accurately every- thing they see, hear, or read. Whe- ther in business, at social functions or even in casual conversations with new acquaintances, there are ways in which you can dominate each sit- uation by your ability to remember. “ To acquaint the readers of FATE Magazine with the easy-to-follow rules for developing skill in remem- bering names, places, figures, dates, business .transactions, or even pas- sages of literary content, the pub- lishers have printed full details of their interesting self-training meth- od in anew book, “Adventures in Memory,” which will be mailed free to anyone who requests it. No obli- gation. Simply send your request to: Memory Studies, 835 Diversey Parkway, Dept. 318C, Chicago 14, Ill. A postcard will do. Advertisement
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Io The Brookhaven synchotron can accelerate protons to 30 billion electron volts over its half-mile track. But the atomic nucleus that caused the cosmic ray shower has three billion times as much energy! To produce that powerful a par- ticle, man would have to build a. synchotron as large as the earth’s orbit around the sun! Man’s view is expanding. As- tronomers say we now can see far- ther into the universe than pre- viously was believed possible. In April, a Swarthmore College sci- entist reported finding a dim planet around Barnard’s Star — some 36,- 000 billion miles away. It is the third such body discovered outside our solar system, but the one most nearly the size of our own planets. What triumphs of research and human ingenuity these finding are. Man is doing well with the macro- cosm— the large view. But he’s doing mighty poor with the micro- cosm — himself. GO FINAL WORD? HE 55-YEAR-OLD mystery of the Tunguska meteorite finally has been cleared up according to K. Florensky, head of the expedition sent to the site by the Academy of Science of the USSR. “Everything now indicates that the body was a comet,” Florensky writes. FATE What are these evidences? “It’s friable structure, due to which it exploded before reaching the ground; its trail of dust directed away from the sun, which had caused unusual sunsets over the whole of Europe at the time; its orbit which also resembled that of a comet; and the fact that there were no large fragments. “According to modern views,” Florensky continues, “the nucleus of a comet consists of cosmic dust cemented by solidified gases. Comets also include ammonia, methane and other volatile substances, which are stable only in the absolute cold of outer space. Thus, even the brak- ing action of the atmosphere is suf= ficient to cause such a body to va- porize explosively without ever hit- ting the ground.” Florensky’s expedition concluded that the slight increase of radioac- tivity in tree trunks at the Tun- guska site was the result of con- temporary nuclear blasts. No frag- ments ever were found, but the expedition sifted many soil samples and found infinitesimal particles of cosmic matter in many samples. Gradually an area of increased concentration of magnetic droplets was outlined. This revealed a nar- row strip of increased content of cosmic matter extending more than 150 miles northwesterly from the explosion site — all that was left of the newly defined Tunguska comet.
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ative Read Do You Know About EDGAR CAWCE? The Century’s Best-Verified Clairvoyant often described as the “Mystery Man of Miracles” He left a 90,000-page library of recorded psychic data which is being organized, indexed and gradually made available for general use, inform- and applicable to all. these booklets based on the Cayce readings: CI $1 CL] $1 WHAT I BELIEVE, by Edgar Cayce A collection of informal talks given by Edgar Cayce on various occasions in his lifetime. Unique as a first-hand account of the man and his work, they are ap- pealingly expressive of the sincerity, un- affectedness and _ kindly, helpful spirit which characterized him, ATLANTIS—FACT OR FICTION? Lives lived once upon a time in Atlantis by present-day people are indicated in the Cayce ‘‘life’’ readings. The kind on life lived there is also told about. Dp. DREAMS, the LANGUAGE of the UNCONSCIOUS, by Hugh Lynn Cayce, Tom C. Clark and Shane Miller. A useful guide to the study and interpre- tation of dream symbology as an index to the dreamer’s physical and _ psychological condition. Many dream examples are given, with analyses from the Edgar Cayce read- ings. A glossary of dream symbols is also given. THE GREAT PYRAMID AND ITS BUILDERS History of a lost race said to have built the Great Pyramid by scientific means as a prophetic symbol, Based on a study of 600 Cayce readings. 8 pp. BONUS BOOK wie an order amounting to a $1 00 or more you will receive complimentary copy of our booklet, 100 MORE QUES- TIONS AND ANSWERS, a con- tinuation of 100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. GOD’S OTHER DOOR A study of several hundred discourses from the Cayce readings on life after ger ang the world of the spirit. 100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The psychic readings’ verbatim answers to one hundred popular questions. Indexed. Arranged under general headings: Antiq- uity, Wternity, Health, International, Re- incarnation, ete. 7 pp. THE NORMAL DIET” An informal manual on health, including non-medical data from the Cayce readings on the nutritional value of various foods, daily food requirements of the normal per- son, correct food combinations and general care of the body. 46 pp. THAT YE MAY HEAL Practical discourses on the use of prayer and meditation for the purpose of healing. 76_pp. TWENTY-TWO GEMS, STONES AND MINERALS A study by a trained mineralogist of the physical, mental and spiritual influences of mineral objects on human beings, as_ told in the Cayce readings. 56 pp. EARTH CHANGES A striking study by a professional geolo- gist of data from the Cayce readings on future changes in the earth’s contour, some of which have already occurred and are confirmed by science, others to be SxDECIED: 90 DD. THE EDGAR CAYCE LEGACY A 16-page leaflet telling about the Cayce readings and the As- sociation now dispensing them. A complimentary copy will be enclosed with your order. eA a a a 1 A. R. E, PRESS Dale Date sa se en 9 i Virginia Beach, Virginia | : Please send me postpaid copies of the titles checked above and af leff. 1 # Correct remittance is enclosed: | 1 Please print 5 Bo Name cevecsccccsceccceseee seseee eserves + : Address (St. or Box No.) ..... - : QHyo Tiieisieic sein $0 eo tang lene: Kale balnncsisiaisie Zone | 5 attaching separate i BE Se en Oe eee Sere one ener eae It
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS CHANGING CLIMATE HE AUSTRALIAN Antarctic Expedition arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, late in March, with news that Antarctica seems to be getting warmer. On Heard Island, for example, Dr. G. M. Budd of Sydney Univer- sity found that the glaciers have been receding rapidly and that fur seals and king penguins are begin- ning to establish breeding colonies. Neither had been found breeding there between 1950 and 1955. Great masses of rock are visible on the mountains where there had been only ice, the expedition re- ported. Ice cliffs which once fell sheer into the sea have been re- placed by shingle beaches and in one case a glacier front has receded a quarter of a mile. oO BUT WHAT? OME FORCE, variously describ- ed as a sonic boom, a gas ex- plosion, or a small torando ripped away a good portion of the roof of a building at 1503 Shenandoah St., Hollywood, Calif., and deposited it in pieces up to 280 feet away. Police answered a “Code 20” alarm and rushed to the scene. They found a 50-foot section of the tile roof, weighing perhaps 500 pounds, had been carried across the street. The rain was pouring in on Mrs. Bertha Fink. Mrs. Rachel ABC’s of COLOUR SCIENCE A basic course in Colour Science. 14 lessons clearly explain each ray, how it is absorbed physically, mentally and spiritually. Regularly $14.00, With this ad, $10.00. Your order also entitles you to free membership in the Fellow- ship. COLOUR MEDITATION LAMPS YOUR NAME IN LIVING COLOUR Colour meditation lamps reflecting the colour value of the letters of your name. Personality ray lamps, rainbow meditation lamps. Send 25e for brochure, ANALYZE YOUR NAME WITH COLOR An interesting, lucrative hobby, as well as one that will prove helpful to your clients and friends. Handbook giving explicit direction on analysis of name by Qabalistic nesting of let- ters, numbers and colours. $10, each, “LET'S GET ACQUAINTED WITH JESUS” A 35-page booklet, ESET Many unknown facts concerning the life of sere the Man, The Teacher, The Messiah. $1.50 each, ALSO AVAILABLE: Incense and Peraey -cor- related with the 7 Rays, Incense, 28 cones, T5c. Perfume, 2-oz. bottle, $2.00—pure floral oils, no alcohol, AQUARIAN COSMIC COLOUR FELLOWSHIP, INC. 210 N. Oxford Los Angeles 4, Calif. “My Key Treatise” BY be ISIDORE KOZMINSKY, D.Sc. neers Gee aye Seat jee P.B.A., DM. (US Re as one of the world’s greatest astrologers A complete explanation of a DEFI- NITE LAW which selects winners of horse and. greyhound racing events with outstanding accuracy. Based on astrological principles. “* “My Key Treatise’ is the master- piece of a genius.’’—J. A. F., Hants. $9.00 postpaid For private distribution only. PHIPPS-COTON, LTD., (Dept. F2) 51, Bowyer Road, Abingdon, Berkshire, England
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14 Benveniste was thrown out of bed, and Mrs. Sarah Eisenberg reported her ceiling was cracked and leak- ing. Gas company officials checked for an explosion, but could find no char marks, and stated definitely: no explosion. No tornado had been reported. Some people complained of hearing a noise like a sonic boom, jarring the whole area. But how can that throw a 500-lb. chunk of roof across the street? CO PREDICTION ie FEBRUARY, Andrew Wash- ington Stackhouse, a Negro lay preacher of Conway, S.C., ordered a special upright casket from the Burlington Coffin Company, Bur- lington, N.C. The casket was birch and walnut, and stood four-and- one-half feet tall, with a champagne velvet interior and a plate glass window. This was so his congregations could see him after he was dead, Reverend Stackhouse explained. There was a chair inside for his body to be placed upon. On Thursday, April 4, Reverend Stackhouse, 58, went to the Horry County Courthouse to make out his death certificate. He explained that he did not expect to live out the night. Friday he was dead of heart disease. FATE Andrew Stackhouse’s body, in its sitting-up coffin, with the plate glass window, was seen by his own congregation, and was taken to four other churches where he had served. Between 8,000 and 9,000 persons came to.pay him their re- spects through the window. oo) OUCH! N SATURDAY, March 23, Mrs. Geneva Mulis, 6823 Mendota Ave., Chicago, was chat- ting with a neighbor in front of her home. Suddenly the paving collapsed, dropping three feet under Mrs, Mulis’ right leg. After the rest of Mrs. Mulis’ body followed her right leg into the hole she was tak- en to Edgewater Hospital where it was discovered she was only bruis- ed, with no bones broken. On Monday, back home, Mrs. Mulis got a telephone call from her mother, Mrs. Mary Mack, of In- dianapolis, Ind. “T had a terrible pain in my right knee Saturday,” Mrs. Mack said. “Ts anything wrong?” ioe) PHANTOM BELL RINGER 4 Be 2 CHURCH of the Pilgrim is an unpretentious building to the right of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City — the official church of the 100-man police force of Vat- ican State.
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16 a MEDIUM in PARIS IN PARIS, experiments with psi are known to run the gamut from horrifying trials of black magic to controlled research in healing conducted by members of the Faculte de Mediecine. Ma- dame Michael Bouissou has seen all, tells all in her autobiography THE LIFE OF A SENSITIVE. This 216-page book is a revela- tion from the hand of Europe’s leading medium! SAVE $1.00 | Order this book now at JUST $1.95 VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671, Evanston, Ill. [ose weight o Uh pills NO drugs crash diets Long Playing Record Key to Subconscious NO Similar to Hypnotism . ALSO: AVAILABLE Records Exercise for: Stop SMOKING @ Alp TO SLEEP e HEAD- ACHES @ RELAXATION Send $5.00 for Record. Money back guarantee or write for free information. HEALTH RECORDS CO. Dept. F » 2538 Mission St. « Pittsburgh 3, Pa. TT CE PE LE GD RMR S - 7) FATE The bell rope hangs into a closed courtyard. To seize it, the bell ringer must reach through a small grated window from inside the church, Beginning in mid-March, the bell began to sound at odd hours. Police hear the bell, go there, and see only the rope swaying gently. Guards have been stationed with binoculars trained —still no bell-ringer. Latest theory is that the bell must be rung by a cat climbing the rope! Has anyone seen a cat? CO OVER THERE E AREN'T the first to re- port it but Icelandic Spirit- ualist Medium Hafsteinn Bjornsson says he is in contact with the spirit of the late Marilyn Monroe. Jonas Thorbergsson, former director of the Icelandic state radio, says that he has talked with Marilyn through the mediumship of Bjornsson. Thorbergsson adds that Miss Monroe has had difficulty adjusting to existence “on the other side,” ac- cording to the New York Times Service. At least six clergymen of the Ice- landic Lutheran State Church are members of a spiritualist society, the dispatch from Reykjavik states. However, Prof. Sigurdur Nordal, head of the department of Iceland- ic Literature at the University of Iceland, doubts that Spiritualism as
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS a movement has much real influ- ence on the island. Belief in elves, ghosts, and earthbound spirits is far more widespread, he says. Professor Nordal is one of those who believes that ghosts exist. “But I am sorry to say that I have never seen them,” he adds. io) PROPHECY FULFILLED HREE YEARS AGO, when Princess Alexandra was on a trip representing the British royal family in Africa, a Nigerian sooth- sayer named M’Baluba told her that she would become engaged be- fore her 26th birthday to “a tall, dark man from the northern moun- tains of your country.” Last November, three weeks be- fore her 26th birthday, the Princess’ engagement was announced to An- gus Ogilvy, a Scottish businessman, who fits the seer’s description per- fectly. At the time, Ogilvy had not even been mentioned as a suitor. On April 24, of course, Princess Alexandra married her “man of des- tiny,” with more than 120 members of British and European royal houses present in Westminster Ab- bey. oO GHOST OF HALCYON HOUSE HE APRIL 21 issue of Parade carried a detailed article by Nick Roper who reports that he and his family live in a haunted 17 HAVE YOU BEEN CONFUSED BY MOST BOOKS ON THE TAROT? Have you longed for a simplified modern approach to this powerful occult symbolism? Aft last in TAROT REVEALED by Eden Gray you will find the easy to understand meaning opposite the picture of each of the 78 cards. Clear diagrams and directions for laying out the cards will have you divining the future after a few short hours. MATCHING TAROT DECK The famous Rider pack of A. E. Waite in full color, boxed. $5.00 Special price for both ............ $8.00 Send check or money order to: INSPIRATION HOUSE, Dept. F. 129 W. 56th St., New York 19, N.Y. ! CORRESPONDENCE COURSE | In Astrology for Beginners I | comprehensive course of 25 lessons sent one at | a time at $2 per lesson. Directions are easy | to follow, leading to thorough understanding and | appreciation. | your Birth Hour Corrected, $5, Send impor- peat dates, as births and deaths in family, | BOOKS AVAILABLE: ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS The interpretation of each of the 12 signs on] pees of the twelve .houses is fully explained, I with instructions as to the blending one ee Clements, 1. -s--eveccecncrccvcreverccsene INTERCEPTED SIGNS | this explains how to interpret such algae. ‘I pisech division of the wheel. Tyee ee BASIC PRINCIPLES, Clear and concise .instructions on The Moon I I and Its Influences, the Solar Return Chart, I; polars Lunar Polarities; Eclipses and the na I j BOOK the ae simple but comprehensive ee | instructions are given on The Moon’s Nodes, The Part of Fortune, The Aspects, The De- [ canates, The Elements, and 100 SEE Ra jou On AStrOlOBY, ...-sseeeeevesees | BESSIE LISPENARD I P.0. Box 867, Grand Central Annex I J New York 1%, Y.
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18 house in Washington, D.C. It is Halcyon House, a huge man- sion in the old Georgetown section, built in 1783. It has 47 rooms, 16 baths, a secret passage, nooks, cran- nies, a crypt, and a collection of ghosts — according to Roper. In Halcyon House, Roper writes, footsteps march the attics and run up and down the stairs, lights switch on and off without human agency, ash trays mysteriously fill with water, and other strange and unexplained things go on and on and on. Even the Roper’s dog Andy is getting nervous. For instance, at 3:00 A.M. one day, Nick’s father George swears he heard Nick from the garden whistling and calling “Andy, Andy, come here!” But Nick was in his room at the time and Andy was securely locked indoors. One night Nick descended the steep basement stairs, flashlight in hand, to check on one of the three furnaces. The basement consists of three rooms with a light bulb in each. At the bottom of the stairs he turned on the first light by screwing in the bulb. Then he saw light through the door of the third room. As he approached the room, Nick was filled with dread. He called, “Who’s there?” At once the light went out. Nick grabbed a stick and yelled for help. Police were there in three minutes and although FATE there was no way out of the room except past Nick no one, of course, was inside. George Roper, Nick’s father, was a foreign service officer until 1953 and now manages investment prop- erties for Georgetown University. The Ropers occupy only part of Halcyon house —the wings have become apartments. If this business keeps up there'll be difficulty rent- ing them. CO WAR OF THE BIRDS ANY READERS of this col- umn recently saw Alfred Hitchcock’s fantasy about the birds that attacked an English- village. Here’s one from the same book: Late in April, neighbors of Claude and Alice Hollicot, 14525 Horst Ave., Norwalk, Calif., saw a “swarm of birds” fly down the Hollicot’s chimney. In the Hollicot’s home, an esti- mated 50 starlings burst out of the fireplace and fluttered wildly about the house. Sheriff’s deputies and firemen were called and finally the birds were caught by hand and re- moved one by_ one. At this writing there had been no renewal of the warfare. CO WALK! RS. DAVID VAN SICKLE, 39, of Sycamore Dr., in Sar- nia, Ont., had been unable to walk
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A chain of amazing evidence indicates a Scottish nobleman reached American Shores almost a century before Columbus. INETY-FOUR YEARS before Columbus, Henry Sinclair, Earl of the Orkney Islands, and his Venetian navigator Antonio Zeno probably landed on North America. To mark the limit of his explora- tion of what we now know as Nova serious scholars on both sides of the Atlantic are now coming to accept the Sinclair voyage as “probably proven.” Only one actual documentary source gives details of the voyage —the fragmentary “Zeno Narra- tive” published in 1558 at Venice &, Sie ae é. Tithovius Scotia and Massachusetts, Sinclair appears to have carved the Sinclair heraldic arms on a rock ledge at Westford, Mass., where it was dis- covered in 1953. Discovery of this carving is the most recent and dramatic evidence to be added to the mystery created by the publication in 1558 of docu- ments claiming a voyage to North America in the year 1398. To be sure, there has been no headlong rush by conventional text- books to recognize Sinclair as hav- ing preceded John Cabot to North America by a full century. But by Niccolo Zeno. Zeno claimed that as a small boy he had come across some old letters and maps of his seafaring great-great-great- grandfather, and had unthinkingly ripped up many of them. Attaining manhood, he realized what their value was, and attempted to sal- vage and copy what he could still find of them. In substance, the narrative he published asserts that in 1390 his ancestor —also named Niccolo Zeno — left Venice with his brother Antonio on a voyage of trade and discovery to the British Isles and 26
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Sword carved in Westford, Mass., rock is believed to be 14th Century work of Henry Sinclair, Earl of the Orkneys. Scandinavia. They were ship- wrecked on “Frieslanda” and _ be- friended by its ruler, “Zichmni;” later they voyaged to Greenland, after which Niccolo died. Finally Antonio accompanied “Zichmni” on a cruise to “Estotiland” and beyond to a large and heavily wooded con- tinent where savages dwelled. An- tonio returned to Venice in 1402 and left the record of these events in the chest where young Niccolo came across them a century and a half later. From the day of its publication, the Zeno narrative aroused contro- versy. Many claimed it was a clum- sy forgery concocted by the Vene- tians to resurrect their fading mari- time glory by making a belated claim to priority in discovering America. Others, while willing to admit the story was essentially true, argued that the alleged discoveries really were limited to the Green- land-Iceland area and hence had not actually reached any lands un- known to the Europe of the 14th Century. The maps that young Niccolo Zeno claimed to have copied from his ripped-up fragments added to the confusion. They showed Green- land almost as accurately as does any modern chart; Iceland and the British Isles less clearly but still recognizably; but filled the North Atlantic with large and populous islands, headed by the “Frieslanda” where “Zichmni” ruled. Since no such islands could be found in those watery wastes the Zeno Narrative, by the mid-18th Century, was consigned to the limbo of medieval romances. However, starting in 1786, one scholar after another came across clues that restored credibility to 27
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28 the story. Dr. John R. Forster, by comparing handwritten scripts of the periods in question, showed that the hitherto unidentified “Zichmni” was only a misspelling of Sinclair, the well-known Lord of the Ork- neys. Additional corroboration came from many sources, including the Glooskap legends of the Nova Sco- tian Micmac tribes; until in 1873 R. H. Major of the British Mu- seum declared that the basic truth of the Zeno Narrative could no longer be questioned. Many problems still remained, however. Where had the Zeno-Sin- clair party actually landed in America? What was its exact date? Where was the Estotiland said to be peopled by the remnants of an Trish civilization? And how account for the non-existent Frieslanda? Over the past decades these points have been largely cleared up by the persistent work of Fred- erick Pohl and Dr. William H. Hobbs of the University of Mich- igan. The solution of the Frieslanda mystery turned out to be absurdly simple. The original Zeno map had shown greatly enlarged inserts of Fair Island (fer-islanda, hence Frieslanda) and others of the Ork- neys and Shetlands; this is a com- mon map technique today but rare- ly was employed in that era. The 16th Century Niccolo Zeno had FATE mistakenly supposed these inserts to be on the same scale as the main map and thus, in his copy, had shown Fair Island and its neigh- bors expanded to 100 times their true sizes and shifted out into the middle of the Atlantic. As reconstructed by Major, Pohl, Hobbs, Glynn, and other authorities, the story of the Zenos and their seafaring connection with Henry Sinclair can be briefly sum- marized as follows: Sinclair, a Scottish lord born in 1345 at his ancestral seat of Roslin near Edinburgh, had inherited the lordship of the Orkneys — then still nominally under Norwegian rule — from his mother, an Orkney prin- cess; and in 1379 he was formally confirmed in this by King Magnus of Norway. He exercised a vigorous sway over these bleak and stormy islands that bestride the sea-track from Scandanavia to Iceland, Greenland and beyond. Sinclair stamped out the pirates who infested the islands and quelled revolts against Nor- wegian authority. In 1390 he hap- pened to be on Fair Island when the Zeno brothers were shipwrecked there and, having succored them, he made them his chief admirals. In that capacity Niccolo Zeno the elder voyaged to Greenland in 1394-5 to visit one of the last sur- viving Norse colonies, but died on his return.
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THE SCOTSMAN WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA 20 Antonio remained in Sinclair’s service and was appointed to the command when the Orkney lord decided to seek a forested land across the ocean that a fisherman ‘claimed to have been storm-driven onto 26 years before. It evidently was the prospect of abundant tim- ber for augmenting and maintain- ing his large fleet in the treeless Orkneys and Shetlands, that chiefly motivated Sinclair to make his ex- pedition. Sinclair and Antonio Zeno sailed from Lerwick in the Shetlands on April 1, 1398; and after being re- pulsed by the hostile people of “Fstotiland” where they attempted to land, cast anchor in Guysborough Harbor, in eastern Nova Scotia, on June 1. The next day being Trinity Sunday they named it Trinity Har- bor. Pleased with the well-wooded na- ture of the country and with their friendly reception by the Micmac natives, Sinclair decided to send Antonio Zeno back to the Orkneys while he himself stayed for a year to reconnoiter the new land, retain- ing sufficient men to build a new ship from the plentiful timber. An- tonio arrived back at Fair Island after a 28 days’ eastward crossing of the Atlantic, reporting that he had left Sinclair at a place where smoke arose from a hill of burning coals, near which a spring of pitch flowed. This locality was Pictou Harbor, with its open asphalt deposits and. burning coal seams which, even to- day, flare up from time to time. Sinclair’s further movements in Nova Scotia can be traced easily from the detailed accounts preserv- ed in the Micmac traditions where he is enshrined as Glooskap, the hero from “beyond the sea.” He crossed over to the Minas Basin and spent the winter at Ad- vocate Harbor, near Cape D/’Or, building a new ship in which he sailed for home in the Spring of 1399. Perhaps driven onto the New England coast by a northeast gale after leaving Nova Scotia, Sinclair may have entered the Merrimac es- tuary. He may have been looking for the ancient stone village at nearby North Salem, N.H., (see Fate, Sept. 1962) rumors of which may have reached him through the Indians. At any rate, he probably did climb Prospect Hill, the highest elevation for 30 miles around, to survey the countryside. And there, if the present interpretation of the Sword Rock is correct, he carved in the ledge—by the cold-punch method of outlining a design by little rounded holes driven in with a hammer and steel punch —his sword and heraldic emblems, to mark the furthest point he had at- tained in the unknown trans-At- lantic land.
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30 Frank Glynn of the Connecticut Archaeological Society was the first to identify this carving as depicting a 14th Century Scottish knight carrying the armorial bearings of the Sinclair family. There is still no unanimity among the scores of scientists who have examined the rock but many are supporting Glynn’s major thesis—that the carving is tangible witness to the reality and extent of the Sinclair voyage. As can be seen from photographs the carving does show a long sword with a rounded pommel hilt. Be- yond that the details lack clarity and are open to many imaginative interpretations. Glynn scraped off the moss that partially covered the rock to reveal the full design; and Glynn and Frederick J. Pohl, the Brooklyn scholar who has been fore- most in locating the Vikings’ land- ing places on the New England coast, argue that right above the pommel are the Sinclair falcon crest and a helmeted head, and that to the right can be discerned a round- ed shield bearing the Sinclair em- blem of a galley with rowers. The fact is that erosion of the rock, though it is a highly resistant gneiss considerably harder than granite, has worn away so much of the carving’s original features that it probably never can be recon- structed in full. The glacial scratch- es and grooves that cut across the FATE ledge also tend to blend with and obscure the man-made markings. What seems incontestable, how- ever, is the presence of the sword and pommel. Almost all who have seen the rock agree that it does picture this European weapon. About three years ago William Fowler, of the Massachusetts Arch- aeological Society, suggested that an Indian “Long tomahawk” of the early 18th Century might be the object represented; but no other student of the rock has supported this contention. Nor was such an explanation ever advanced by the ‘white settlers of Westford, to whom the ledge has been known for cen- turies as “Indian Rock.” The carving most logically would seem to have been made at a time when swords were still common weapons in European hands. This was no longer fully true of the 17th Century Puritan settlers, whose swords in any event did not have the medieval pommel hilts. Nor are swords known to have been de- veloped by any native American Indian culture. Thus, since the calculated rate of erosion of the ledge suggests an age of about 400 to 500 years for the carving, it would appear that, whether or not it really does show the Sinclair heraldic arms, a very strong case can be made for its having been cut by the 14th Cen- tury Earl to mark the limit of his
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THE SCOTSMAN WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA 31 explorations in America. No other sword-bearing Europeans are known to have been on these shores at. that period; and the Vikings, who were here some centuries earlier, had swords of a distinctly different type than the one shown on the rock, Of Sinclair’s return from Amer- ica, we possess no record; apparent- ly this was in that part of the pa- pers of his ancestor that young Niccolo Zeno tore beyond salvaging. All we know is that in the follow- ing year (1400) the Orkneys were invaded by English sea-rovers; and in an obscure skirmish with them Sinclair was killed, leaving his dis- covery of America unknown to the world at large. Two years after the death of his patron Antonio Zeno returned to Venice and shortly thereafter he died. His papers and charts were stored away by his brother Carlo, who did not understand their sig- nificance, and so they lay undis- turbed for 150 years until young Niccolo stumbled upon them. Along with the Zeno Narrative and the Micmac legends that pa- tient researchers have taken down from the elders of this dwindling tribe, the Sword Rock at Westford today stands as one of three chief pieces of factual evidence that America was reached by a Scottish prince and a Venetian navigator, 94 years before Columbus. Additional support may be forthcoming from the work of Helge Ingstad, the Nor- wegian who discovered a 1000-year- old European settlement in north- ern Newfoundland in 1961. (Fates, - October 1962). While Ingstad believed the site to be principally Viking in origin and occupancy, there are a few in- dications it may yet prove to have some connection with the Irish monks who, according to medieval lore, fled across the Atlantic from the Norse raiders, and settled in “Treland the Great,” or “Estoti- land,” as the Zeno Narrative calls it. If Estotiland does turn out to be Newfoundland, the last remain- ing major problem in the Sinclair- Zeno epic of pre-Columbian dis- covery of America will have been solved. EEE NEW DISTANCE TO THE MOON HE MOON is nine miles farther away than the previously accepted distance, which has been in use for decades, accord- ing to a new figure announced by the United States Army Map Service in Washington, D.C. The new figure, based on experimen- tal methods which are accurate to within about a mile, is 238,866 miles.
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Up Ws Bach VERY MORNING at 5:00 o’clock in the Adriatic village of San Giovanni Rotondo an elder- ly priest named Padre Pio celebrates Mass in the modest hilltop church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. I had heard of this Italian cleric for many years and had looked forward to meeting him because he alone, among the world’s 200,000 Roman in 1962, She was the German stig- matist whose hands bled on Good Friday. Padre Pio’s stigmata are supposed to be continually bleeding wounds, one in each hand, in each foot, and an incision on his body near the heart, as if to signify the spear wound traditional of the crucifix- ion. Italy’s Living Stigmatist... UUTTTTTETEEUTTHTETPERHT TERETE LeeeeA LL LCGeELCLLEeeEA A LEGeeT LUE EEE Catholic prelates, bears in his hands the stigmata, the “mark of the nails.” Previously I had interviewed Theresa Neumann who passed away My trip to San Giovanni Roton- do, after many delays because of Italy’s worst winter in 100 years, finally came true in mid-January, 1963. I had to leave my car in the Fate author makes special pilgrimage to interview mystic whose stigmatic wounds make him source of mystery and miracles. ABOUT THE AUTHOR The present article is one result of a recent Euro- pean tour by Dr. Bach, during which he visited points of mystical interest. A former associate director and professor in the School of Religion at the University of lowa, he is internationally known as an authority on world religions. He is a popular lecturer on in- terfaith understanding and contemporary religious movements and is the author of an ever-growing list of distinguished books, the most recent of which are The Unity Way of Life and Make If An Adventure. 32
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town of Benevento, take a train to Foggia, and proceed by bus to what some have begun to call “Padre Pio town.” _ At 4:45 A.M. on the morning af- ter my arrival at San Giovanni Rotondo I made my way from the hotel up the dark, sloping, icy street that leads to the Convento Dei Minori Cappuccini. Shawl- PADRE PIO CHUUIUEEEEEUUUUUUUUVQESUEEETU AULA VAULT covered women and bundled-up men moved silently through the shadows as worshippers have done ever since Padre Pio’s miracle in 1918. My Italian companion who knew the village assured me that the love for this priest was unbounded among the people and that the good father was looked upon by many as a saint. The church, which we entered through a smallish door where the baptistry stands, was _ frightfully cold. However, I did not notice the cold for long, nor was I immediate- ly aware of the rather stark inter- ior, for the service already had be- gun and the priest officiating at the marble altar was notably different than most priests. His actions ap- peared inspired, his movements 33 breathlessly slow and subdued, his bearded face transfigured. “Padre Pio,” whispered my companion. We knelt among the 80 or more townspeople whose eyes were fixed on Padre Pio as he performed the ritual. Their glances, and mine, were intent on the sleeves of his white alb, sleeves unduly long whose embroidered cuffs permitted just a glimpse of blood-stained hands. The short leather boots he wore were reminders that he bore the wounds in his feet as well. My first impression of this 76- year-old .priest was one of rare captivation. Here was a cleric who gave the impression of complete isolation from the world of men.
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34 Some might say he is an actor in a drama as old as the church itself, but whatever he is, he made the Mass a rare and lovely symphony of thought and feeling. The enthralled worshippers were like characters out of some medieval fresco: enraptured faces, clasped hands, dangling rosaries, tear dim- med eyes, monks in brown habits, fascinated children —all made this a setting designed to draw any Christian nearer to the object of his faith. And during the intense mo- ment when the chalice was raised, the hands of the priest showed forth quite clearly the bloody scars. While the faithful received the sacrament, I thought about the mystery of religion and of all the strange and wonderful things con- nected with man’s quest. Details of the life of the amazing Padre Pio passed thoughtfully through my mind. Born near Benevento in Pietrel- cina on May 25, 1887, he was christened Francesco Forgione, son of a peasant farmer. His childhood, about which very little is actually known, now has been romanticized with stories of extreme holiness, mystical moods, and an uncommon zeal for a knowledge of God. In his early 20s he became a Capuchin priest, and the stigmata appeared on September 20, 1918, three days after the Feast of St. Francis. Padre Pio, then 31 years FATE old, was alone in a choir stall in the Capuchin Friary here on these very grounds, meditating on St. Francis, the 13th Century saint of Assisi who, two years before his death, discovered on his own body the marks of Christ’s crucifixion. While in prayer, Padre Pio was suddenly seized by a powerful un- seen force. With an agonized cry, he fell to the floor and, when reached by another monk, was bleeding from the five wounds. The report of the stigmata quick- ly circulated through the village of San Giovanni Rotondo and was re- layed to Rome. Photographs of the wounds were sent to the Vatican together with an account of the seizure and a commentary on the devotion of the young priest. Rome sent medical authorities to check on the case and then studiously ob- served the phenomena for several years. In fact, the Church is still observing it, but, in keeping with its characteristic reluctance to pass on the validity of these happenings, no official statement has been is- sued, _Church authorities requested Padre Pio to refrain from discus- sing the stigmata, asked him not to write letters, not to engage in lec- tures or sermons on the subject, and to remain obedient to his superiors, all of which he has rigorously done, as if seeking to be an example of humility.
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ITALY’S LIVING STIGMATIST . I already had noted, however, during my pre-dawn walk to the church that every little shop along the mile-long main street of San Giovanni Rotondo was filled with Padre Pio postcards, medallions, pamphlets, books and images. The priest was just now coming into his own. A great following of devotees was growing up around him and every person I had talked to on the train and bus between Rome and San Giovanni had a favorite story about him or an anecdote about the psychical power with which he is presumably endowed. The concierge at a hotel in Rome told me that the invisible presence of Padre Pio had protected a cer- tain man during a rainstorm. The man walked straight through the rain without getting wet because the spirit of Padre Pio was his um- brella! When I asked the concierge whether he believed this, he re- plied, “Maybe yes, maybe no.” Maybe yes, maybe no. I found the same response when I ques- tioned people on what they thought about other psychic phenomena as- sociated with this Capuchin priest. For example, his astral flights. It is claimed that he has been seen in more than one place at the same time. Once he is supposed to have “flown” to Milwaukee simply by spreading his arms in San Giovanni. In Milwaukee he was seen assist- ing at a funeral, and he was also . . PADRE PIO 35 still seen in San Giovanni Rotondo. I was told that he emits a spe- cial fragrance and that this has been noted by visitors while in his presence no less than after they re- turned to their homes. This “di- vine perfume”, described all the way from the fragrance of violets to the aroma of fresh tobacco, is said by followers to be an assur- ance that God’s grace is being be- stowed on them through Padre Pio’s intercession, or that the priest is making his own presence known. Then there is also the claim of glossalalia, the ability to “speak in tongues” or to suddenly speak a language with which one is not ordinarily familiar. This phenom- enon is usually associated with the Pentecostal experience recorded in Acts II, but people insist it is also happening in San Giovanni Rotondo through the spiritual prowess of Padre Pio. As these stories passed through my mind, I naturally was eager to meet the man at closer range. So when the service was over, I went with my companion to the sacristy for this privilege. I was told that Padre Pio had not been well for several days and that we would be very fortunate to see him. Women tarried at the sacristy door since they were not permitted to enter, but some 20 men already crowded around Padre Pio as he donned his brown habit and then
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36 seated himself on a chair in a cor- ner of the room. He pulled his cowl up over his head and a monk then covered him with another brown robe, wrapped him up, in fact, until he was completely en- shrouded like an incongruous bundle. A deep silence fell over our little group. I wondered how Padre Pio could breathe and why he resorted to this strange act. My companion explained that he guessed it was a way of “bringing the priest back to reality” after the deeply mystical experience of the Mass. Later I was told it was an act of humility and self-effacement which may have been true inasmuch as several of the men dropped reverently to their knees as if to worship him. Others stood lost in thought beside the motionless, cloth-covered form. After what seemed an incredibly long 10 minutes, Padre Pio stirred and his covering was removed. He sat there momentarily gazing into space with moist, half-seeing eyes. Then he raised a scarred hand in blessing. Some of the men spoke a few words to him to which he responded with a quiet nod. An elderly worshipper _ passionately seized and kissed the priest’s right hand. Padre Pio smiled patiently. At the door an emotional woman suddenly screamed as if in ecstasy, and a monk hurried to her side and led her away, securely closing the FATE door. My companion now led me to Padre Pio and in Italian explained to him that I had come from the United States, that I had heard about him and wished to meet him. “But the real reason,” mused Padre Pio, “the real reason for coming is curiosity.” ; “Ves,” I admitted, “but also something else. Questions about the miracle of faith. How do these things happen, such as the stig- mata? Why do they happen? Does God want us to have proof of His presence so that it will substan- tiate our faith? And if faith needs evidence, is it still faith?” “To such questions,” Padre Pio reflected, “no answer can be given.” His attitude was one of reflec- tion, quiet reflection and confidence in some inner light. But most of all, he manifested humble contrition, resignation to the physical pain of the wounds, perhaps, since he is said to lose nearly a cup of blood each day. Or perhaps resignation to his role as an unworthy servant of God and to interviewers who, like I, asked him obvious questions about the miracles attributed to him and his own appraisal of his place in the scheme of things. He had nothing to say specifically, but I gathered that he considered his major assignment simply to be a priest who hears confessions, spends much time in prayer, and counsels those who come to him
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ITALY’S LIVING STIGMATIST with their variety of problems. As to his “miracles,” he had just one thing to say, “Their stories have been told.” This is true. One biographer in particular, Fr. Charles Mortimer Carty, in an ambitious book titled Padre Pio the Stigmatist,* has assembled an incredible list of miraculous healings, all the way from simple bronchitis to terminal cases for one of which a grave al- ready had been prepared in an Italian cemetery. Among Fr. Carty’s reports is the story of a young girl, Gemma Di Giorgi, of Ribera, Sicily. She was born without pupils to her eyes and doctors declared there was nothing they could do to give her any vision. Her grandmother took her to San Giovanni Rotondo where Padre Pio heard the girl’s confes- sion and then stroked her eyes with his palm-scarred hand. “May the Madonna bless you, Gemma,” the priest said. “Be a good girl.” At these words the child gave a fraritic cry and announced that she could see. “The cure,” says Fr. Carty, “was permanent and complete, although her eyes still have no pupils. She has been ex- amined by many doctors who have testified to-the case and are able to offer no scientific explanation.” * Published by Radio Replies Press So- ciety, St. Paul, Minn. . . PADRE PIO 37 Spiritual healing has become in- exorably linked with this priest-of the Gargano Mountains and _ be- cause of this his following is bound to grow. But, although fantastic accounts of incredible cures are continually being reported, the be- nign cleric prefers to talk of other things as, for example, the hospital which has sprung up close to the church and which is part of Padre Pio’s plan for a mammoth “House for the Relief of Suffering.” Built at an 1800 foot elevation it will be under construction for years to come, but it already has 350 beds and a staff of more than 50 nurses and physicians. Eventually there will be homes for the needy, de- partments for incurables, and ultra- modern research laboratories. “Does this in anyway rule out the miraculous?” I asked. “Tt is part of the miraculous,” was the smiling reply. And I suppose this synthesis of faith and works is what makes Padre Pio most amazing. He ex- pressed it when, in answer to my question about a message for the youth of America, he replied, “Let them always be in search for truth and live a holy life in order to be disposed to accept it when they find it. There are no clouds on the horizon of the world that cannot be put to flight by work and prayer.” I bowed my head as he spoke a blessing and then watched as he
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38 made his seemingly painful way out of the room. Through the glass panel we saw him mount the stairs, turning once more to make the sign of the cross for our benefit. “Did you notice the wonderful aroma?” my companion asked as we turned to leave. “No,” I said. “Did you?” “Of course! Fragrant as flow- ers!” FATE “T smelled nothing,” I had to confess. “That may be,” was the thought- ful reply. “You see, it is not Padre Pio alone who does these things. We. must ‘bring the miracle with us. It is that way with the healings, with all the other miracles, and with the perfume, too.” Perhaps it is. And who am I to say it isn’t? Ce) PADRE PIO AND THE PLUNGING PILOT NE OF THE most amazing of the many miracles attri- buted to Padre Pio, the Capu- chin monk of San Giovanni Ro- tondo Monastery, in Italy whose hands for 40 years have dis- played the bleeding stigmata of the Crucifixion, involves an Italian fighter pilot during World War II. During an aerial duel, the in- cendiary shells of a Nazi Hein- kel caused the plane being flown by the pilot, Alberto Delfante, to explode in flames. Delfante baled out, but his parachute, also ablaze, failed to open. This was verified later by brother of- ficers who had seen him fall. As he plummeted to earth from a height of over 3,000 feet, Delafante gasped a plea: “Ma- ma—pray for me!” Below him the details of a stubbled wheat field were swift- ly growing larger. Then it seemed to Delfante that the scene abruptly steadied. He found, he reportedly later, that he was cradled in the arms of a bearded monk with bandaged hands. Moments later he stood unharmed in the muddy field, his smoldering parachute still in the pack on his back. When he told his mother of his experience, she explained, “Tt was Padre Pio who saved you. I asked him to pray with me each day for the safety of my son in the war.” Later Delfante visited Padre Pio to relate his incredible story. But he hardly had started when the bearded monk smiled and nodded. “Yes, I know,” he said. “Your plane was in flames over Monastir.” C9
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THE PROBLEM LIFE ON MARS A plant physiologist views the possibility of Martian life from a new angle—and scientists are taking another look. yee THE PAST few years there has been a subtle but profound change in the attitudes of scientists toward the possibility of life on Mars. A few years ago when a number of scientists began to ac- cept life there as a possibility, they also began to speculate on the kind of life it might be. In general, they began with an astronomical study of the environ- mental conditions of the Red Planet and compared them with those of 39 By Joffrey hiss Earth. And most of them came to the same conclusions. In 1954, however, a young grad- uate student at California Institute of Technology, Frank B. Salisbury, attacked the problem from a slightly different angle and presented at a seminar a paper with his own ob- servations. Today that student, now Dr. Salisbury, professor of plant physiology at Colorado State University, has elaborated on his hypothesis. The logic of his theory
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40 is causing scientists to take a sec- ond look at previous conclusions. The problem of life on Mars is the problem of energy and of a sufficient supply of certain chem- ical compounds in usable form. Among the chemical requirements for life as we know it are: carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Plants—and a few unicellular organisms — get their energy di- rectly from the source of virtually all the energy in the solar system: the sun. Through the process of photosynthesis, plants use the en- ergy of sunlight to reorganize in- organic materials (i.e. carbon diox- ide and water) into organic mole- cules, such as glucose. Then plants build up the glucose into more com- plex molecules out of which cells are made. The energy for this latter chemical: work is provided by the process of respiration, which is the burning or oxidizing of some of these organic molecules using free oxygen from the atmosphere. All other organisms, animal and unicellular, not capable of photo- synthesis, get both their energy and their organic materials either di- rectly or indirectly from plants. They feed on plants, oxidizing or- ganic plant tissues to convert them into their own tissues and to pro- vide energy for their own life func- tions. Thus, if conditions on Mars are such that there is sufficient energy FATE and sufficient quantity of the proper inorganic materials in an environment in which they can be converted into organic molecules, then life may exist there. When we consider the evolution of scientists’ attitudes we find that, to begin with, scientists examined the physical condition on Mars. They found that the Martian gravi- tational attraction is less than Earth’s, as is its atmospheric pres- sure, which would be equivalent to that encountered at twice the alti- tude of Mount Everest. ’ Temperatures on Mars are much lower than on Earth, varying from about plus 85° F. in summer to about minus 210° F. in winter, but well within the range in which life can survive. The daily fluctuation is not much greater than in many Earth deserts. The general ecolog- ical situation, according to the as- tronomer Hubertus Strughold, per- haps is comparable to conditions bordering the arctic or just under the snow-line of very high moun- tains. Mars tilts on its axis as does Earth, and therefore experiences the same changes of seasons. Carbon, the basic component of life as we know it, and carbon dioxide are both known to be pres- ent on Mars. Oxygen and water vapor, equally essential to life, also are present in very small amounts, most scientists believe, although the Earth’s own atmosphere has in-
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THE PROBLEM OF LIFE ON MARS 4 terfered with attempts to obtain conclusive spectroscopic proof. Sim- ilarly it has been impossible to prove conclusively the existence of nitrogen, but most authors assume —after a process of elimination — that it accounts for the bulk of the Martian atmosphere, as it does Earth’s. No poisonous gases have been detected. The American astronomer Wil- liam M. Sinton obtained absorption bands in the infrared part of the spectrum which are interpreted as evidence for carbon-hydrogen bonds, aldehydes and perhaps car- bohydrates. If correct, this inter- pretation constitutes the most posi- tive and direct evidence for the existence of vegetation on Mars. Although the intensity of sun- light reaching Mars averages only about 43 percent of that reaching Earth, it is more than adequate for plant photosynthesis. (Few Earth plants utilize more than 40 per cent of full sunlight.) The Russian astronomer Gavriil Andrianovich Tikhov discovered that infrared photographs taken of Earth plants in the arctic and at high altitude resembled infrared photographs of dark areas on Mars. ok CIENTISTS TOOK all this data and decided that it was-possible for some sort of life to exist on Mars. They began to look for an organism which can answer the question: What type of life could exist within the Martian environ- ment as revealed by our observa- tions? Their answer: lower plants, such as mosses or lichens, and particu- larly the latter. Of all the -multi- cellular Earth organisms, lichens, embodying what may best be termed a “partnership” among algae and a fungus, are the hardiest and can survive in the harshest en- vironments on this eplanet. They grow in deserts, on bare rocks and in snowbanks; they even have sur- vived temperatures near absolute zero. Dr. Salisbury, typifying newer thinking on the subject, was dis- satisfied with this theory, but be- gan seeking a solution in the same way. The question he asked him- self however, was a little different. He wondered: What type of life could best exist within the Martian environment as revealed by our observations and at the same time could account for other peculiar Martian phenomena? By putting the possibility of life within this context Salisbury hoped to explain the entire Martian en- igma. Along with the other environ- mental data he considered the fact that viewed through a telescope Mars appears to have a reddish- orange color due to vast regions, called “deserts,” which seem to
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42 have constituents similar to rust, or iron oxide. Closer examination of the planet- ary surface, however, reveals a number of irregularly-shaped dark markings. Although they are more or less constant in shape and ap- pearance, occasionally new areas appear or well-known ones vanish and reappear. More important are the seasonal changes of color. As Tikhov re- ported, these areas change from greenish-blue in spring, to a tawny color in summer, to a brown hue in winter. The color change begins in spring next to the polar cap and progresses toward the equator, in- dicating that the color change is closely dependent upon the melting of the polar cap. These color changes also occur from pole to equator along the famous “canals,” which never seem to terminate in the desert areas without connecting to something, such as another dark area. The white polar cap, which most observers think is very thin like a layer of frost, usually covers only the pole that is experiencing winter. As spring comes to one hemisphere, the polar cap begins to disappear, while another one simultaneously forms at the other pole. Although they once were thought to be solid carbon dioxide (dry ice), more re- cent observations, Salisbury says, indicate they are frozen water. FATE Occasionally various areas of the surface are obscured by yellow clouds, usually thought to consist of fine dust. Although planetary markings may be temporarily hid- den, within one to two weeks they are visible again. Salisbury, in reviewing what we know about Mars, first considered the strictly inorganic theories, and soon discovered that they all have serious defects, as follows: Inorganic salts which change color with changes in humidity. Al- though lack of knowledge cannot constitute absolute disproof, no known chemicals will account for the Martian phenomena. Volcanism. The markings could be caused by volcanic action at one end with their shapes being deter- mined by wind patterns. The color changes could be caused by wind disturbances of the ash. Salisbury determined that this theory would require more water in the atmos- phere than is believed present and doubts that wind would be constant enough to produce the Martian phenomena. Oxides of nitrogen. These com- pounds, of which there is some evi- dence in the Martian atmosphere, may occur as solids, liquids or gas- es of various colors, including all those seen on Mars. According to this theory the polar cap consists of bluish-white nitrogen tetroxide. Brown clouds of nitrogen dioxide,
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THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE ON MARS 43 produced as the cap melts, flow through depressions on the planet (the dark areas) and canyons or earthquake cracks (the canals). Al- though this theory accounts for most phenomena, Salisbury says it has several weaknesses: thermody- namics fails to agree with it, and the various postulated forms of nit- rogen oxides should appear in the observed spectra, but do not. heuer | Oe ai Salisbury considered the possibility that living or- ganisms could account for the Mar- tian phenomena — and he realized that they could! Certain additional. observations led him to his conclusions. @ The changes in color, size and shape of the markings are relative- ly extensive, suggesting densely packed living organisms. Through telescopes these areas resemble in appearance our heavy, flourishing cover of forest and grass as shown in rocket photographs. @ On a barren planet the fre- quent yellow dust clouds could be expected to cover the entire surface, or at least to fill the depressions. On Mars, however, planetary mark- ings soon reappear, as if something had grown through or shaken off the dust. @ Tikhov noted that the Mar- tian color changes resemble the color changes in the vast Siberian forests. @ And, of course, the environ- ment does not preclude life. Nonetheless, Salisbury realized that no Earth organism could both exist in the Martian envirenment and account for the Martian phe- nomena. But he also realized that modifications of Earth-like organ- isms could. But what kind of organisms? Not lichens, for they show vir- tually no seasonal color changes — the most pronounced of the Mar- tian phenomena. They are extreme- ly slow-growing and slow-spreading, their movement often being meas- ured in millimeters per year. In addition, they could not emerge from a covering of dust. Moreover, since their fungi com- ponents are parasitic, their existence on Mars would presuppose the ex- istence of other more complex life forms. Fungi never could have de- veloped unless there already exist- ed something on which they could feed. Thus, even if lichens are pres- ent on Mars, it still would mean that some other more advanced, predominant life forms exist there, too. ose gS Bee ORGANISMS that prob- ably do live in abundance on Mars, Salisbury suggests, are sim- ilar to higher plants. Modified ver- sions of these particular Earth or- ganisms, he reasons, are the easiest to visualize, and they could account
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44 for the Martian phenomena. They could form extensive vis- ible colonies, grow rapidly and change color in response to changes in temperature and atmospheric moisture. By migrating they could account for the observed changes in the size and shape of the markings as well as for the soil showing through. They could _ re-emerge from a covering of yellow dust, con- form to fundamental principles of ecology, such as the cycling of ele- ments, and exist within the Mar- tian environment. Dr. Salisbury feels that such plants are conceivable, and he even ventures to describe what they would be like. Each plant, he suggests in Science (April 6, 1962), “should present a broad, flat surface to sunlight dur- ing the day. Because of the low convection and conduction, a thin organism such as a leaf seems ideal- ly suited. If this leaf could roll up into a small cylinder at night (a phenomenon not without precedent on Earth), this would cut down the night-time heat loss by radiation. A change of color at night (toward white) also would help, and color- changing organisms are not un- known on Earth.” The plant should be adapted to increase the efficiency of radiant- heat absorption during the day and to decrease the efficiency of radiation through the thin atmosphere into FATE space at night. To be most efficient it should have pigment systems rela- tively black to ultraviolet, visible and infrared radiation, yet it should also have some pigments shielding it from the harshest ef- fects of occasional, but intense bursts of ultraviolet radiation (due to not-yet explained atmospheric changes). Similar pigments are known to Earth. At night, however, temperatures are so low that no cold-blooded organism, despite such adaptations, could keep from freezing. Salisbury feels that freezing-point-depress- ing solutes in the protoplasm are unlikely to provide the answer, and suggests rather, that the Martian plants probably do freeze every night and thaw out the next day. By such a procedure they undoubt- edly could conserve much of their energy, as they would not burn up their reserve food surplus while frozen every night. For this occur- rence, too, there are precedents on Earth. Some water would be essential to the Martian organisms, of course. They would have to develop some means of storing or conserving it. Because the amount of water on Mars is so small, however, Dr. Sal- isbury speculates that it might act more as a vitamin than as a pri- mary solvent or reaction medium, and that Martian biochemistry might not depend upon hydrogen
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THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE ON MARS 45 and oxygen as extensively as Earth’s. The Martian plants would have to overcome the major problem of the scarcity of oxygen in the at- mosphere. Earth biology is based upon the reversible chemical re- action of photosynthesis-respira- tion, to which oxygen is essential. Dr. Salisbury thinks the “inter- nal atmosphere” concept does not provide an answer, because the plant could not store up sufficient oxygen. “How,” he asks, “could an organism take up carbon dioxide (to produce oxygen in the photo- synthesis process) and not lose an- other gas, such as oxygen?” He sees two possible solutions to the dilemma. The photosynthes- is-respiration reaction can be rad- ically simplified to a reaction show- ing only an energy transfer be- tween carbon and oxygen atoms. On Mars, one theory suggests, the energy transfer can be between any two elements (nitrogen could be one) which differ in such a way that the energy involved is significant. Although such an energy-transfer system would be less efficient than with carbon and oxygen, it is con- ceivable. An alternative suggestion is that the Martian organisms may split off oxygen from iron oxides in the soil as plants on Earth split off oxygen from water during photo- synthesis. The oxygen would then be used in the organism’s metabol- ism, and the decay process might involve a direct return to the orig- inal combination with iron. * Ok O* R. SALISBURY’S hypothesis is based on logic and the most recent scientific data. In terms of logic alone, the predominant plant life forms which he suggests seem reasonable. Of course, the approach of as- tronomy has been quite different. As recently as this spring we still have Prof. Fred Hoyle, astronom- er at Cambridge University, saying that if life exists on Mars it is “likely to be confined to low forms of plant life.” No less an author- ity than Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel prize winner in chemistry, seems to be thinking of Martian plant life in terms of anaerobic Earth-type life (anaerobic means without need- ing free oxygen). The instruments on the un- manned stratoscope balloon of this past spring seemed to give prelim- inary results that were not encour- aging. Scientists evaluating the early data stated in March that if there is any life on Mars it “would be marginal at best.” And this is about where we might be, despite Dr. Salisbury’s daring theories, if it were not for a recent research which appears to be a break-through confirming his work. The work was done at the Union
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46 Carbide Research Institute at Tarrytown, N.Y., under the leader- ship of Dr. S. M. Siegel, a physiol- ogist. Dr. Siegel’s laboratory is en- gaged in creating simulated Mar- tian atmospheres and living condi- tions to determine if Earth-type plants and animals can survive un- der such difficult conditions. The answer is: they can — even complex organisms. Particularly important is Dr. Siegel’s unexpected findings that the tolerance of plants to low temper- atures is increased in low-oxygen atmospheres of the type expected on Mars. The Union Carbide Researchers further state that “it is reasonable to conclude that the “plasticity” of organisms as we recognize them is far greater than the teachings of modern biology indicate. “Thus, whatever environments may be encountered during future explorations of the solar system,” Dr. Siegel said in the British week- ly magazine Nature, “there is every prospect that those which are not too extreme relative to Earth, for example those expected on Mars, may well support forms of life that we could recognize readily.” In attempting to recreate the at- mosphere to be expected on Mars, the Union Carbide scientists used what astronomical data is known — an atmosphere as tenuous as that 10 miles above the Earth, for ex- FATE ample. Instead of assuming the most rigorous Martian climatic con- ditions, they assumed the mildest —those believed to exist in the south tropical latitudes. Here daily temperatures are believed to range between minus 40° and plus 70°. Experiments were conducted in inert atmospheres of nitrogen and argon and atmospheres of two per cent oxygen and 98 per cent argon, and five per cent oxygen and 95 per cent argon. (On Earth, the at- mosphere is about 21 per cent oxy- gen.) Cucumbers, onions, marigolds and carnations were tested. Cucum- bers were able to grow in all the test atmospheres. Onions did not germinate in an oxygenless atmos- phere but grew almost as well in a two per cent oxygen-containing at- mosphere as they do in normal air. Marigolds failed to grow in an oxygenless atmosphere but 33 per cent germinated after three to six days in an atmosphere containing only two per cent oxygen compared with 57 percent in normal air. Car- nations showed seven per cent ger- mination rates in an oxygenless at- mosphere. Small insects, such as black ants, also showed amazing tolerance to the low pressures, low oxygen and low temperatures of the test cham- bers. Earthworms were able to exist without oxygen and in atmos- pheric pressures only three per
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THE PROBLEM OF LIFE ON MARS Aap © cent those found on Earth. The Union Carbide scientists are not saying that carnations, onions or ants live on Mars, of course. But the implication of their work is that similar plants and animals, adapted by evolution to Mars, almost certainly would thrive there. The experiment seems to have confirmed Dr. Salisbury’s theories of biological mechanisms which would permit plants to flourish on Mars. Furthermore, the existence of such plants would explain Mar- tian phenomena which has puzzled us for so long. att REDISCOVERING THE PYGMY F KNOWLEDGE of the races of man is an indica- tion, the dark ages lasted in the Western World for more than 2,000 years. In the 18th Century, rumors from Portuguese sailors indi- cated that there were “little men” in the forests of Africa who were not Negroes. Every- one doubted their existence until Paul Belloni du Chaillu was sent to Africa by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Du Chaillu earlier had discov- ered the gorilla and established its difference from chimpanzees previously known as “gorillas.” In an expedition between 1863 and 1865—not a century ago— du Chaillu discovered, described, and measured pygmies. Yet pygmies were pictured in ancient Egypt and the Egyp- tians distinguished between them and dwarfs. A statuette of a pygmy is in the Cairo Muse- um and three pygmies appear on a frieze in the Festival Hall of Osorkon II in the Temple of Bubastis. There is even remaining to us a letter from a ruling Phar- aoh of the Sixth Dynasty which indicates that pygmies were known although considered rare curiosities to the Egyptians. The letter from the Pharaoh is di- rected to an Egyptian named Harkhuf who traveled south and obtained a pygmy. It directs Harkhuf to come north to the palace of Phar- aoh immediately and _ bring the pygmy with him, giving de- tailed instruction for care and protection of the little man. As quoted in Willy Ley’s “Exotic Zoology,” the Pharaoh promises: “My majesty desires to see this pygmy more than the pro- duce of Sinai and of Pwenet. If thou arrivest at the Resi- dence, this pygmy bring with thee alive, prosperous and healthy, My Majesty will do for thee a greater thing than that which was done for the Treas- urer of the god Werdjedba in the time of Issei, in accordance with the heart’s desire of My Majesty to see this pygmy.”
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BB nc ie INCARNATION — Madame X The two different men shouted at each other and then fought violently—while inhabiting the body of one woman! By Michacl Weouissou Reprinted by permission from THE LIFE OF A SENSITIVE, F by Michael Bouissou, published by Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd. Ae eee FROM his official pa- tients, Dr. E— had another clientele of which he never boasted. All those for some miles around who were suffering from diseases and who needed treatment had re- course to him. His wife, Marianne, collected warm clothing, tasty, nourishing food and medicine which all went to help their clandestine in- valids. It was during the course of these visits (the doctor at that moment was looking. after a little boy suf- fering from some infantile malady), that he made a curious discovery. After having nursed and cured the child, the mother, a concierge, re- tired in turn to bed. One day when Dr. E— was visiting her he was surprised to see her fall asleep and 48 reply to the questions he asked, fully unaware of the hypnotic state into which she had fallen. The thing that surprised him even more was the way she talked in this state of sleep. It was certain- ly not what would have been ex- pected from this respectable wom- an, a concierge of the real old-fash- ioned type. In fact, after a short time (and I must say here that never, either at this moment or at a later date, did she have any idea of the sleep into which the slightest hypnotic pass could plunge her), she began to speak with a wealth of detail about Tristan Cobriére. This poet, who died in 1875, is perhaps the first man in French literature to be enchanted by
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words: possibly an unconscious en- chantment. He made great use of the pun, and one recalls the terrible example he employed in a letter he wrote to his mother when he was transported in a dying condition to Dr. Dubois nursing home: “Je suis a Dubois dont on fait des cer- cueils.” Suffering from a physical in- firmity bordering on the monstrous, he cultivated all the exaggeration and exhibitionism which this cruel ordeal, joined to an awareness of his art, must impose upon such a man. Our concierge quoted at length from Les Amours Jaunes, Tristan Corbiére’s masterpiece, gave cir- cumstantial details of his life, his death and his burial. He was really the very last author one would have expected her to quote. Henri Bor- deaux or René Bazin (we were in 1930), were infinitely better suited to the absolute respectability of our good concierge. In order that the reader may more easily appreciate our amaze- ment I shall relate briefly every- thing we know today of the life and work of Tristan Corbiére. He was born on the 18th July, 1845, at Ploujean, a little Breton village near Morlaix. His Christian names were really Edouard Joachim— which were also those of his father —pbut later, aware of his hideous ugliness, he called himself Tristan because of the bitter significance of 49 this word, and also probably after the Breton hero, the unfortunate lover who, like himself, was a vic- tim of fate. Few lives have been so short and so bound to the same soil. Tristan Corbiére lived for 30 years and on his death was buried in the little cemetery of St. Martin des Champs, about an hour’s walk from the house where he was born. Two jour- neys, one to Naples and one to Paris, were his only infidelities to his Breton soil. Attracted no doubt by the ma- cabre fantasy inherent in the chil- dren of this ancient land, fraught with secret terror and legend, he settled in Roscoff, famous for its charnel-house. It is related that as a child he dressed up in a white shirt and galley slave chains but that, struck by his hideous ugliness which this costume merely en- hanced, his young playmates pur- sued him, crying “An Ankou’— Death, or according to other leg- ends, his purveyor, the sinister driver of the fantastic wagon on which the corpses were placed. It was at Roscoff that he wrote his poems and struggled against his disfiguring disease, which made him into a kind of caricature-like hump- backed martyr. There, in 1870, he met Marcelle, the very ordinary creature whom he made the heroine of his Amours Jaunes. When she left Brittany for Paris he followed
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50 her and was finally brought back by his mother in 1874. He died the following year. Six years later his father was laid to rest in the ceme- tery of St. Martin des Champs, in the tomb where the poet lies under the name of Tristan Corbiére—a name which does not appear in the register. He was to remain completely un- known until, some eight years later, Verlaine brought his work to the notice of the literary world. Al- though today it is well known and admired, it certainly cannot be classed as popular literature, and the details given by our concierge seemed so strange that Dr. E— took the trouble to go and check them on a short trip to Brittany: they were perfectly correct! He questioned and grilled his subject under hypnosis without ever being able to obtain from her in a state of wakefulness anything ex- cept a confirmation of her abysmal ignorance. One day, intrigued be- yond measure, he took stock of a few dusty books lying in a cup- board. Among them he found a copy of Les Amours Jaunes, forgotten, she maintained, by someone who had been waiting in her room for one of the tenants. She insisted that she had never opened it (I fully believe this), and in any case the book contained no biographical de- tails. The matter remained a com- plete mystery. FATE Bewildered and puzzled by the mediumistic possibilities of this woman, the doctor decided to con- tinue his experiments; and then something crazy began. To have better facilities he in- vited her home after dinner, at an hour when she could leave her room. This good woman was very grateful to him and was flattered by these evenings spent with us where we spoke of nothing but her little daily affairs. “It’s impossible,” said E—, with discouragement, “to tell her that she is a medium. She would think she was suffering from some shameful disease.” To achieve our ends, this is how we dealt with her as soon as she arrived. We installed her in a large, comfortable armchair in which she could lie almost flat. Making some excuse, we dimmed the lights and a friendly conversation started. After about a quarter of an hour the doctor stood up, went behind her and with two or three very slight passes above her forehead put her to sleep. I have never seen such docility to hypnotic suggestion. This was even more remarkable since she was a tall, powerful wom- an of considerable weight, as we found to our cost one evening. She had been endowed with generous physical charms which she enclosed in a knitted cardigan typical of the concierge. Add to this a voluminous black gleaming chignon, on top of
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THE DOUBLE INCARNATION OF MADAME X 51 her head, and it will give some idea of our subject. I have given this description at some length so that the reader may imagine our astonishment one eve- ning when this sleeping woman de- clared that she was a young dancer giving a gala performance at .. the Monte Carlo Casino. Jumping up lightly, and with ex- traordinary grace, she began to give a charming display of feminine coquetry before an imaginary mir- ror: she spoke vivaciously, asked a phantom dresser to hand her her make-up, perfumes and costumes and then went onto the stage and danced. Although it is 20 years ago, TI shall never forget the transforma- tion of this woman: pointes, en- trechats, fouettées, arm movements in the grand ballerina tradition. On this coarse, already withered face a smile appeared turning her, in fact, into the young, pretty and graceful girl she incarnated. We were flabbergasted. After some moments, fearing that she would grow tired, the doctor quietly suggested that the performance was over and that she should come and sit down quietly in an armchair. She left the stage, blowing kisses in the most professional manner, and sat down once more in the big armchair, where with equal ease the doctor woke her up. She found Marianne and myself in animated conversation, handing her with a smile the coffee and cakes which were her particular weakness. It was essential that she should not think anything abnormal had happened. Not once during the course of these experiments did she realize that she had fallen asleep; we pushed our precautions so far as to note the last word of our con- versation and our exact pose in or- der to resume them when she awoke. As soon as she had drunk her coffee and rested, the doctor drove her home in his car, and each time, on seeing the time by the town hall clock, she expressed with the same naiveté her surprise that the eve- ning had gone so quickly. We even made the study clock an accom- plice of our little mise-en-scéne- stopping it while she was asleep. In the experience I have recount- ed here it is not the subject inspir- ing the medium which is strange. The adventures and triumphs of a young dancer form the plot of many novels which our concierge might have read with interest. It was far less strange than her spontaneous revelations about the life of Tristan Corbiére and her word-perfect quotations from Les Amours Jaunes. But the really extraordinary fea- ‘ture was her perfect portrayal. She showed herself to be a “medium for transfigurations”, the most de- licate subject of all to handle and
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52 to regroup into the true personality which is often repelled by one of the fortuitously liberated personal- ities. There were other séances which were less interesting, but I must re- call one of them. One evening when she was lying peacefully asleep we saw this coarse but definitely honest face suddenly become the incarnation of vice. She stood up, went over to what must have seemed to her a bar and be- gan to drink. She spoke in a rau-. cous, masculine voice, using the most obscene expressions. The per- son she was incarnating — obvious- ly a man of the lowest type — was abusing somebody. Suddenly the second person replied. The medium was no longer incarnating one per- son but two. Although the vocabu- lary remained the same, the voices, the gestures and even the expres- sions were clearly different. Before our eyes two men were swearing at each other over a whore. The medi- um continued to make her gestures of drinking and suddenly a quarrel broke out. I know that it. seems hardly credible but now the two men in front of us were fighting, yelling, rolling on the ground, and suddenly, after a threat and a ges- ture of incredible violence, a ter- rible death rattle came from the mass writhing on the carpet: it sud- denly went limp. One of the men had killed the other. We were all FATE pale and at our wits’ end except the doctor, who very calmly felt the woman’s pulse and, after a brief ex- amination, told us that, as he had expected, there was absolutely noth- ing the matter with her but that it was impossible for the good soul to find herself lying there crumpled on the carpet. With a great deal of difficulty, for she was very heavy, we hoisted her back into her arm- chair. We had to tidy her chignon, adjust her cardigan and as soon as everything was in order the doctor woke her up. The woman’s first words, .with a deprecating smile, were: “How hungry I am this eve- ning.” “So much the better,” said Mari- anne with relief, handing her a plate of cakes. This was the only time I ever saw a simultaneous double incarnation by the same medium. However, is it really so aston- ishing if one thinks for a moment of the contradictions and even of the conflicting hatreds within us, in our feelings and our ideas in a lucid state? What we had been able to study above all, thanks to our medium, was the power of thought, desire and imagination, of everything which perhaps forms what we call the “subconscious,” over a human body which, all will-power and discipline . having been removed, had been de- livered over -to unknown forces.
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THE DOUBLE INCARNATION OF MADAME X This helped us and will doubt- less help my readers to understand the possibility of those phenomena with physical effects which are so frequent in countries where the power of this subconscious is known, admitted and used, countries which one quite wrongly calls “primitive;” BLACK MASS IN OLICE in Bedfordshire, Eng- land, were reported in March, 1963, to be investigating evidence that a Black Mass rit- ual, involving the skeleton of a girl who died in 1770, was held in the isolated ruins of a 10th Century tomb in the adjoining cemetery. The bones were found laid out in anatomical order near the southwest door of the church, St. Mary’s, in Clophill, which has a population of 909. The skull was impaled on an iron bar which had been torn from a window frame. More- over, the altar in the church had been cleared of debris and a cock’s feathers were found nearby. These features, according to authorities on black magie and witcheraft, are part of the Black Mass rite. They added 53 while the human powers released and used there are not the same as those employed by men of the so- called civilized countries, they achieve their end with a surety and a precision that has always sur- prised both the doctors and the mis- sionaries. BEDFORDSHIRE that the rite evidently held in St. Mary’s Church appeared to have included necromancy—com- municating with the spirits of the dead. The ruins of the church stand on an isolated hill and villagers reportedly avoid them because of their eerie ap- pearance. : Investigating officers are said to have expressed the belief that the Black Mass was held on the night of Sunday, March 10, during which there was a full moon, and that the celebrants may have been a group from the town of Luton. They have learn- ed that shortly before the time of the rite books on black magic and witchcraft vanished from public libraries in Bedfordshire. They reportedly were seeking a man who early in March toured the area explaining he was writ- ing a book on black magic. 9
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I saw my body on the couch, still and white —but it no longer was important to me. I found myself in a new world in that amazing interval between... by Gene Albright ID YOU EVER DIE? Impos- sible? Not really, for at 12:03 A.M. December 9, 1960, I died. My experience began with an at- tack of flu. I was not frightened by the illness, rather I was annoyed to think it would cause me to lose time from work. I was ill and uncomfortable. I . wanted to be rid of the headache and backache and to lose the crush- ing weight I felt in my right lung. But it never entered my mind that I might not survive this common- place disease. In fact, I had just assured my wife that I was feel- ing well enough to move to the bed when the great wave of pain and nausea struck me. With a second wave of pain, the vibrations began and I was in mor- tal combat with the great enemy — death. At first I thought I had been thrown into a huge vibrator or into the clutches of some un- earthly monster out of science fic- tion, but the terrible pain in my 54 right lung told me this was for real, Together with a great crush of pain, I felt something give in my chest and the air rushed out of my lungs. I could no longer force air in. I tried to scream, to get some- one to help me, but no sound came. My thoughts were disordered as I tried to combat this suffocating blackness. But fight as hard as I could, I was losing the battle. With every- thing I knew, I fought to hold onto my body and my life against the gigantic, overpowering force that was literally vibrating me loose and away from everything I held dear. It defies description, this being pulled out of your body; it doesn’t even make sense; but this is ex- actly what was happening. I could feel it as it happened. Suddenly, the darkness cleared. I became acutely aware. My mind seemed sharper and clearer than it ever had been. Just as suddenly, the pain and vibration were no
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more. J was aware of my body. In fact, I was counting its heart beat. That body, my body, no longer whole life experience helped me to understand what had happened. I looked closer at my wife and real- was important to me somehow. I was mildly interested in the process it was undergoing. I counted the heart beat until it became just a faint quiver and stopped. When the heart quit, the body became very still and white; the eyes rolled back; the mouth opened. With this I felt wonderfully and supremely free. And I was no longer alone. With my first distress my wife had rushed over to the couch where I lay and was desperately trying to help. It was all over, really, before she overcame her first shock and now, as I gazed at her, she was looking at my body lying on the couch. My oldest boy was standing by the hall door and my girl was crying and asking her mother what she could do to help. It was then I heard my wife softly, from the very bottom of her heart, praying for me. It was such a simple, direct prayer. She had turned to God, in utter faith and trust, on my behalf. I was puzzled. Nothing in my 55 ized something very startling .. . I was hearing the words of her silent prayer. How was I hearing this? Why was she so frightened? I was very much there with her and aware of everything. I thought this must be a new kind of experience which would be over in a few mo- ments. Besides, there were literally doz- ens of people in the room with her, and they were concerned for her. I never have known such beautiful, radiant people. I will call them people for lack of a better word.
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56 It was impossible to be afraid in their presence. I called to my wife. She didn’t hear me, so I spoke louder. Still she did not respond. She was focused on my body lying on the couch. I asked the closest person to explain to me what had happened; what was the meaning of this; -where had all these people come from. It isn’t possible to put into words the ultimate projection of pure love and oneness which I exper- ienced as I turned my attention to this person. He spoke no words to me. I just knew, directly and ex- actly, the answers to my many questions. Faster than questions could be formed, the answers came. I knew I was dead. Memories, long forgotten, re- turned and I began to understand. The people in the room were people I had known when I was born but since had forgotten. Gradually my memory recaptured other long-for- gotten events. I knew the exper- ience I was having was a necessary part of my present life. I knew that I was chosen to fulfill a tiny part in a process Christ had spoken of long ago when he taught that death would at last be understood. I knew I would return and once again activate my body. I knew I would remember this experience and that I would teach and prove FATE that death is not the end of life. Time had ceased to be either important or binding. I could “see” in either direction with ease. Yesterday or tomorrow were but two parts of the same time. I looked forward and recorded the rest of my life on this earth. I saw what I would do during the rest of this life, and I recorded the times and places where I would fulfill my new task of showing people what life can be when ignorance and fear have been removed. I also recorded the exact method for bringing about this “new age.” While undergoing these exper- ences, I realized I never could con- vert them into words to explain and describe them to others, because words are merely symbols, sounds which stand for something we have experienced. Thus they serve only after the experience. There are no words for my experience because it is new. No words exist which stand for or point to it. Therefore, there are no words to symbolize it. While I was one with my physi- cal body I had been using the senses or receptors of that body. These senses convert external energies, such as sound and light, into signals which are transferred to the mind, Words, spoken by human beings, are forms of energy. During my death experience I no longer was limited by the body’s sense receptors. I could observe di-
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MY DEATH AND RESURRECTION 57 rectly pure forms of energy without conversion. And I began to under- stand what Christ meant by “I and my Father are one.” I could see energies, forms and interlocking fields of the most beautiful colors and sounds, greater than the finest music played by masters. I could understand how it was that no one ever had been able to describe it with words. This experience will never be written . .. it doesn’t exist as words. During the death experience I learned that in exactly seven min- utes of normal, conscious time I would return to my body and to consciousness. In this very short time I had learned more than in my entire previous 34 years. I learned what love is and how it works. I realized that life ener- gy itself is love. The energy which is life to you is love. And this is why Christ taught love. I examined and found His teachings were ac- tually and in fact a pure expression of love and that this is how He could touch the very heart of every- one who turned to Him. This was the great secret of His unlimited power; He was life energy — love —made manifest. And this is how I would return to my body. This is how it would be possible for me to repair its dam- age. The answer? The beautiful love of my wife! I focused on her love and her warmth and went back through in- to consciousness. As I did, every- thing else faded away. The pain re- turned and the long battle began again. I opened my eyes. With con- sciousness came confusion. I could remember being somewhere and do- ing something.. But what? There was something new, something I never had known before. Someone or something was showing me every step of the way. Moment by mo- ment instructions came to me. From where? I did not, as yet, know. And I had lost something, something I had lived with most of my life— fear. It was after 9:00 o’clock the-next morning before my doctor could be located. Even so, after his examin- ation of my body, there was very little he could do. He told my wife, very honestly, that mine was a hopeless case. Too much damage to too many vital organs! Collapsed right lung! Liver badly damaged! Parts of the colon inoperative! Gross infection in most of my body! And blood pressure less than 40! He said unkindly, “I never have tried to treat a dead man before — T can’t understand how he is alive at all.” He came and explained to me what could be done in a hospital. They could operate; they could open my chest and place drains in my lungs. But he felt that I most
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58 probably would not survive the ad- ditional shock of the surgery. So I chose to go it alone, my own way. From December 8, 1960, when I “died,” until late in March, 1961, I was in constant pain. It was al- most a month before. I could sleep lying down. Many times I gladly would have given up and let go if it had not been for the constant awareness of love and direction. The exact techniques for each day’s activity were given to me, even the method for opening my collapsed right lung. In April, 1961, I lay across the bed on my back, as I had been instructed to do, and slowly began taking air into my chest. When I felt it was impossible to draw in more I was instructed to apply a little more effort. Quite suddenly air rushed into my chest and with a “plop” my lung opened up and I could breath freely for the first time in months. The last two years have brought forward into consciousness, grad- ually, the knowledge gained during my experience with death. Through the step by step repairing of my body I have learned how it is con- structed and how it works. In work- ing with my mind, I have learned how it works also. I know, by ex- bs bd FATE perience, what produced my fears, my guilts, my illness itself. Most important, new informa- tion exists for all men through my experience. It is teachable. It con- flicts with no church, but rather extends knowledge of life and of God into more real and directly use- ful methods. With the full memory return of this experience of death came a name to give to the body of or- ganized knowledge it contains, Uni- chotometrics. Literally, Uni-choto- metrics means “the method of one- ness.” It is the method of truly becoming, as has been taught for so long in our churches, all the chil- dren of one God. I have been shown how just four little words, if placed into action, could eliminate every psychological and physical problem. These words are: Be one... Love... Do. It is one human race inclusive of all its “parts;” to be one is to recognize this fact and act like it. To love is the very nature of your life energy; when expressed it creates health, sanity and well be- ing. And to do is the action of put- ting into practice the teaching of the great master of life — Christ.
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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, III. 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. THE PROPHETIC MIRROR By Alvin Thompson As Told To Clara Laster T SEEMS STRANGE that ona day in May, in 1909, when I was just 12 years old, I should have been thinking about the wom- an I would marry. But I recall that on this particular day, with the wild honeysuckles spreading a blanket of perfume over the world, a very beautiful southern Alabama world, my fancies began to turn, like my older playmates, to thoughts of love. Or maybe it was just an over-dose of curiosity. About five of us noisy, healthy teenagers ranging in ages from 12 to 16, bombarded my mother’s kitchen in search of refreshments. We had just returned from playing near an old dug well about one- half mile from our house. Mother placed us around the kitchen table and gave us sweet potatoes and milk. Then she sat down in a cane bottom chair by the window and smiled. “Well,” she said, “did you see your mates in the old well?” “Gosh, no,” the boys answered, all trying to talk at once. “and we don’t think there’s anything to that old legend ... no matter what Alvin says.” Mother’s gray eyes twinkled. She folded her hands in her lap and studied them a long time. Finally she spoke. “The legend is true, boys. You see, I know. I saw Al- vin’s paw almost six years before I married him.” The group stopped champing on ALVIN THOMPSON
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60 the potatoes, and waited. “See,” I told them, “I wasn’t lying.” : I had heard Mother’s story many times and it was always like some- thing inside me was warning me that I, too, would have the exper- ence, “Tell us about it, please,” the boys were pleading. “What did you see? Did you know him?” “Tl tell you what I saw,” Mother said. “But don’t ask me to explain how it could happen. I am a religious woman and my faith doesn’t put stock in such things. However, I did see what I saw and I cannot deny that either. “Tt was years ago and I was 18, living with my widowed mother, brothers, and sisters, on a farm near River Ridge, Ala. Like all the young people thereabouts, I had heard the legend of the mirror; how, if a young man or woman on the first day of May, looked into the mirror, letting the bottom of an old dug well be reflected therein, they would see their future mate. But if they were never to marry, they would see their casket instead. “T wasn’t well at the time and on this particular day all my sisters were visiting, having fun, leaving me alone and lonely. It was then I remembered that it was the first day of May. I recalled the old dug well that was located not far from our house. I decided, at once, to FATE try my luck. As I lifted the mirror from the wall, I kept wondering which I would see—a man or a casket. Strange, I never at any time on that walk to the old well, doubted that I would see something. “T found a comfortable place near the edge, sat down, and gazed into the mirror. I guess I must have sat there at least two hours before I decided to give up and go home. Just at that moment, however, it happened! First, a skim-like fog passed over the mirror then, as I looked, a scene appeared. A man sat in a buggy with blue sky over- head. He had a black beard and what appeared to be a crutch in his arms. The picture soon faded away. “T got up quickly and almost fell, either from sitting so long in one position, or from the excite- ment of my experience. I was happy that I would live to be*mar- ried, but sad that I must marry a crippled man.” “What happened,” one boy yelled. “Was he crippled? Did you recognize him when you met?” “About six years later, in 1894, a man stopped at our house to ask directions. I followed Mother to his buggy and there I saw again the scene I had witnessed that day at the old well. But the object I had thought was a crutch was a fiddle and bow which he clutched in his arms.” “Let’s go back,” the boys sang
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES out. “Now we know. what to ex- pect.” So, once again, we borrowed Mother’s mirror and made our way back to the old well. After all, it was the first day of May, and to- morrow would be too late to try our luck. But the boys were too impatient, too noisy. Finally they gave up and went their ways, leav- ing me beside the old well with Mother’s mirror. I stood there in the bright sun- light, listening to the lilting notes of the birds, smelling the sweet honeysuckle perfume and letting a warm feeling spread over me. I was about to see the woman I would marry. I remember the strange as- surance I felt, that all I had to do was look and I would see. Slowly, I made my way to the old well and took up my position, as Mother had done, beside its edge. Only, I did not sit down. I stood there gazing into the mirror, seeing the reflection of the bottom of the well. I did not have long to wait. First, the mirror appeared to get smoky. Then it cleared up so I could see as plain as any daylight scene. It was as if I was standing in a door looking into a room on my left. I saw a bedstead and a quilt. I could see the quilt pattern very well; it had round, dark cir- cles. I could see the tops of two cane bottom chairs. To the right . a lady sat with her back to me. 61 T took it all in a glance, for I was scared stiff. Sure enough the picture faded quickly and, looking back now, I wonder how I ever got home that day. I was so excited. I ran every step, in my eagerness to tell Moth- er. But time dims memory and as I grew up I forgot all about it. I served in World War II and shortly after my return home, I went to see a friend I had met at a party. I knocked on the door but, when no one answered, I walked down the open hall that separated the bed- rooms from the parlor and kitchen. Many of the old southern homes are made like this. As I passed one bedroom I looked in, then stopped dead in my tracks. Memory flood- ed my senses. There before me was the room I had seen in the mirror that day back in May, 1909. The woman with her back to me, sat at a sewing machine and she was piecing blocks for a quilt. An- other quilt, with big round, dark circles was stretched on a frame being supported by four cane bot- tom chairs. The woman was the sister of the man I had come to see. We were married a year later. Like my dear mother, I cannot explain how such a thing could happen. But I did see these things, just as I have told them, and I cannot deny it either. — Tulsa, ORla.
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62 THE GHOST BOLOGNA By J. P. J. Chapman NV) Gabe YEARS AGO my late father-in-law rented a large farm near Bampton in North Dey- on. The farm buildings and the dwelling house were situated half way up a steep hill overlooking the River Exe. During a warm summer it was quite nice but with a linger- ing threat of bitter winds and snow in winter. There was a lane going from the farm to a large moor which was quite 300 feet higher than the til- lage. Now, it is well known that large open spaces, devoid of any useful vegetation and situated atop a high hill, frequently possess a bad reputation. Of a summer eve- ning my wife and I frequently took a walk to the moor. It commanded a wonderful view, while the sunsets were a sight to behold. The lane ended at a gate which led into this moor. Quite a while before the events to be related my wife and I frequently remarked that it was an eerie spot and the sooner passed the better. Personal- ly, I never gave it much thought for, being a “country lad,” I knew of many such places which were not nice—and that was all that could be said. However, things proved other- wise. My wife and her sisters rode a lot and took turns exercising the horses. Sometimes they went out FATE together. I can still see them up on the moor, putting the horses into a gallop and thoroughly enjoying the wild ride. On one occasion one of the girls was asked by her father to go on the moor to see if some cattle had strayed. It was in the autumn and, the sun having set, it would soon be dark. My wife’s sister decided to ride up. Having seen that all was well she was just about to leave the moor, through the gate which she had left open, when the horse suddenly shied. Nothing would in- duce it to pass through the gate. There was no alternative route ex- cept by a long detour, so go through they must. After several attempts she de- cided to dismount and lead the horse through. This time as they reached the gate a curious lumin- ous shape could be seen drifting nearby. It was like an elongated sausage, with baleful eyes. The whole thing seemed to be pulsating, from dim to bright. It was in a vertical position except for a side- ways, wavering movement. To say the least, the girl was frightened but made up her mind to face it. Placing herself between what- ever-it-was and the horse she coaxed the animal through. When the horse was half way it broke loose and galloped down the lane for about 50 yards where it stopped and waited.
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“TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES There were several curious facts concerning this particular haunt- ing. It took place only at dusk — no other time. No other animals, except horses—any horse—were affected. But here again was a most remarkable fact. It had to be a horse and a human. If there was not this combination nothing hap- pened. The “Ghost Bologna,” as I dubbed it, seemed anchored to one spot, its movements restricted as related. Several times I visited the place but, while noticing there was something there, never could decide what. The ghost seemed quite harmless. I got the impres- sion that it was neither good nor bad. It was just some form of ghost — nothing more. There was a big disused quarry nearby; possibly some earth spirit had been released. My sister-in-law stated it was a greenish color, about a foot across and five feet high. This is the end of my story. If the present residents of the farm ever see it, I don’t know, as we have not been near the place for the last 35 years or more. What it was, how it originated, I do not know. I never could find out. Your answer will be as good as mine!—Ferndown, England. TRANSPORTED FROM WORRY By Lula Greer WAS BORN with a caul and I and I have had many psychic experiences but I have gone into trance only once. We were living on a farm near Chesapeake, Ohio, in the winter of 1931. My son, Frank, and one of his friends had been gone from home for about two weeks and we had had no word from either of them. The weather had been fair when Frank and Theodore Comstock left, but when the temperature sudden- ly dropped and the newspapers car- ried an item about two unknown boys who were found with their feet frozen so that one of the boy’s legs had to be amputated I was be- side myself with worry. My heart was so heavy I went up to my room and sat on the edge of the bed, leaning my head on one hand. I remember looking at the clock, it was approaching 5:00 P.M., and the next instant I was standing on a warm, sandy beach. My son stood facing me, about 10 feet away. He was wearing blue swim trunks. I knew he had just come out of the water as I could see little rivulets running out of his hair onto his face. Then I was back in my room again. I looked at the clock. Ex- actly five minutes had passed. That evening I told my husband we would hear from Frank soon, that he was somewhere in the South and getting along all right. The next week I received a card
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64 from him. He was at his Aunt Jen- ny Thompson’s in Jacksonville, Fla. He and his cousins had been swim- ming. We later learned they had gone swimming on the same day I had gone into trance, and my son had borrowed a pair of blue swim trunks. — Medina, Ohio. BROTHERLY EMPATHY By Marjorie Schmalz HERE WERE five in our fam- ily, three boys and two girls. We lived on a farm in the Thumb of Michigan as children and were very poor because of the depres- sion. We had no close neighbors so had only each other to play with. Possibly as a result of this kind of remote life, we were very close. Through the years, as we grew up, married and went our separate ways, this closeness remained appar- ent every time we had a reunion. Our older brother, Dwight, lived at home in Ypsilanti, Mich. He was unmarried and a struggling lawyer. John lives in Los Angeles, a con- tinent away, and is an auto mechanic, On February 7, 1961, shortly after 5:00 P.M., on a Tuesday, Dwight was coming home from work when his car was struck on the right side by another car which came speeding through-a stop sign. The force of the blow threw him against the right side of the car. FATE The resulting injuries to his body were so severe that he died in the University of Michigan hospital a little over a week later. Of course, when we heard of the accident we all came home as fast as possible. John, being the furth- est away, arrived last. One of the first things he wanted to know was the exact time of the accident. Then he related the following story. He had been working one after- noon, along with a couple of other fellows. He’d just stopped working on a fender and was about to light a cigarette when he suddenly felt a terrific, jarring blow on his right side. He blacked out momentarily. When he came to he was still stand- ing with the unlighted cigarette in his hand. He was amazed that he was all right. He saw his fellow workers staring at him curiously. “What happened?” he asked. “What hit me?” They told him that nothing had hit him but that his body had sud- denly jerked violently and that his eyes had subsequently become glaz- ed and staring. For some unknown reason he had checked the clock. It was approx- imately 2:20 P.M. And it was Tuesday, February 7, 1961. John figured his experience oc- cured simultaneously with Dwight’s accident, given the time difference between California and Michigan. — Ironwood, Mich.
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AUVVREAUSAT RES TECECO TEL ECODE EEE EEE REET at TTT In France a burglar trying to break into an apartment from a roof, tripped in the dark and hit a wire which was bracing a chimney top. The wire snapped and freak- ishly coiled around the neck of the burglar, hanging him. ) Mrs. J.R. Elmore of Des Moines, Towa, recently was in a hospital for treatment of injuries suffered when she was in three auto accidents in one day. It all started when Mrs. Elmore was riding with her hus- band, James, on a park road. The car door flew open and she was thrown out. Elmore started to take her to a doctor. His car missed a curve, went into a ditch, and Mrs. Elmore was thrown out again. Another man, Vic Anderson of Des Moines, took Mrs. Elmore in his car. It went off a gravel road into the ditch. An ambulance took Mrs. Elmore to the hospital. e April 20th is now a triple birth- 65 TMU ete ec The WHEEL of FORTUNE By Paul Steiner © THA eee day in the Kenneth Perkins fam- ily of Los Angeles. Mrs. Perkins, 30, gave birth to a daughter, Nancy Kay, at White Memorial Hospital, on April 20, 1962. Her sons Gary, eight, and David, five, also were born on April 20th. And, what’s more, Dr. A. Warren Olson, who delivered Nancy Kay, was born on an April 20th, and so was his nurse, Winifred Nagamine who assisted at the delivery. S In British Malaya, Cassim Bin Osman, a well-known medium, was asked to go into a trance and lo- cate a missing corpse. He did so and was convicted of the murder. e In Los Angeles Joseph Payny sat on the sidewalk in front of his burned home and moaned, “Seven years a fortune teller and I had no warning, no suspicion that this would happen.” His crystal ball and a suitcase of clothes were among the few possessions saved from the flames. TLE Sret ELUTE RE ENR
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Mystery of HOUDINTS Death His enemies, the Spiritualists, predicted his end—and a series of odd mishaps made their forecasts come true. Before he died in 1926, Harry Hou- dini achieved fame as a magician, escape artist, author and lecturer. Eat Cee, FYARRY HOUDINI became ; an American legend in his own lifetime. Since his strange death over 35 years ago, the legend has grown. Today his name is synony- mous with magic, mystery and vic- tory over physical confinements. Houdini was a stunt man, lec- turer, author, historian, aviator, in- ventor and athlete. As a magician, he apparently walked through brick walls and threaded dozens of nee- dles in his mouth. But his principal fame came from his ability to es- cape from handcuffs, milk cans, packing cases, boilers, safes, coffins, trunks and prison cells. He was a superman — his feats symbolic of the conquest of re- 66 ye NTT eed ABOUT THE AUTHOR A long-time contributor to FATE, Vincent H. Gaddis has appeared in some 60 national publications. He has been a professional magi- cian, newspaper reporter and ra- dio news editor. He now lives in California and is writing his first book. COU CC TAU ees Fi straints that confront all men. During the later years of his sen- sational life, Houdini attained fame in yet another field—the exposure of fraudulent spiritualistic medi- ums. He was known as the supreme sceptic insisting that he could dupli- cate all alleged supernatural phe- nomena by natural methods. His
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Mary Fairfield McVickers, 73, Los Angeles Spiritualist, had predicted in 1922 that a photo taken over her body on the day of her funeral would show her spirit form. Houdini personally supervised the taking of photos, one of which revealed the above phenomenon. He delighted in exposing frauds-but failed to explain what photo shows. 67 :
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68 national campaign against mediums attained an astonishing scope and intensity that never has been equalled. Yet Houdini did encounter a mystery he could not explain. And at the time of his death, strange in- cidents occurred that bewildered several of his close friends. It was at the height of his battle with spiritualistic frauds that Hou- dini met the unknown. On July 16, 1922, Mrs. Mary Fairfield McVickers was the hon- ored guest at a party celebrating her 73rd birthday. The party was held at the First Spiritualist Tem- ple, Los Angeles, where she was a member. “T have had a vision of my ap- proaching death,” she told the 200 persons present. “I feel that if a picture is taken over my body about 5:00 P.M. on the day of my funeral I will be able to appear in spirit form.” Her friends assured her she would live to see many more birthdays, but Mrs. McVickers only smiled and reiterated her request. Houdini was in Los Angeles when Mrs. McVickers died the following April. A friend of the deceased woman, Albert H. Hetzel, told the Magician about the request and Houdini agreed to conduct the test which was held on April 11, 1923, at the church, Larry Semon, the movie produc- FATE er, said he would secure a photo- grapher. Shortly before 4:00 P.M. Nathan B. Moss, of the Keystone Press Illustration Service, appeared with his camera and 14 loaded plateholders. “He (Moss) had no idea what I wanted,” Houdini wrote in his re- port, “but was under the impres- sion that I was going to do a stunt and wanted a stunt picture. I told him that I wanted to reload his plateholders with brand new plates which I would buy. He, not know- ing the importance of the test, de- rided the fact of my not wanting to use his plates, but I told him I might have to take oath that I bought the plates and that there- fore it was important.” Houdini and Moss went to the Howland and Dewey Photo Store for the plates. Frank Hale, the clerk, laid four packages of a dozen plates each on the counter. Mat Korn, a customer in the store and a stranger to Houdini, was asked to select one of the pack- ages. But as Houdini handed the package to Moss he noticed that one end was not tightly glued. - Houdini returned to the counter and asked for five perfect packages. One of these packages was selected by another customer who identified himself as a Mr. Wheeler, photo- grapher for the Los Angeles Record, “I personally handled the pack- age and walked into the dark room
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MYSTERY OF HOUDINI’S DEATH 69 with Moss,” Houdini continued. “Moss took out his own plates and as he handed them to me, the plates just purchased were loaded into the plateholders. He then placed all the loaded plates into his regula- tion grip. The grip never left my possession after it was placed in the motor car.” At the church the body of Mrs. McVickers was in a white open casket, surrounded by floral pieces, at the right of the pulpit. At the left of the pulpit, but several feet in front of it on the auditorium floor was a black folding screen about five feet in height. Ten photographs were taken un- der the same time exposure of three minutes, f. 4. In addition to Mr. Hetzel, the witnesses were Messrs. J .M. Hall, Virgil Viasek, and Stan- ley Bruce of the Los Angeles Examiner. After the pictures were taken, the men went immediately to the Key- stone office. “We entered the dark room,” Houdini reported, “‘and in my pres- ence the plates were developed and on one we beheld a peculiar streak. Mr. Moss became very much ex- cited. He had a print made from this plate which caused a great deal of talk, not one photographer could explain how this could be tricked.” The picture with the mysterious light was the second one taken. The streak was a heavy band of light in front of the black screen, and it extended from a point a few inches above the floor to about two feet above the screen. At its upper end, the light became a diffused lumi- nous mass. The formation of the streak is interesting. Above the floor it was a sharply-defined broad band, ta- pering as it rose. At the half-way point it changed direction slightly, then formed two parallel lines. Just before it burst into-a globe of lumi- nescence a third line began to ap- pear. The nature of the streak is such that it would be practically impos- sible for it to have been caused by a defective plate, plateholder or camera. Houdini’s signed reports on this occurrence, kept in a separate file, were among the magician’s posses- sions that passed into the hands of Joseph Dunninger, well-known con- juror and mentalist, after Houdini’s death. The reports and the photo- graph were published in 1928 by Dunninger in his brochure, Hou- dini’s Spirit Exposes. Dunninger said that Houdini of- fered a thousand dollars to any per- son who could duplicate the effect under similar conditions. The offer never was accepted. “Houdini made no attempt at an explanation,” Dunninger wrote, “he did not see the light. It made itself evident only on the photograph.
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7o This report ... shows that Houdini was willing to believe if the proof was brought before him ... and was willing to give credit wherever the credit was due.” x ok ok HREE YEARS later, in 1926, a series of events ended in Houdini’s own death. In New York an Egyptian fakir named Rahmen Bey was making theatrical appearances. The fakir’s principal feat was being buried alive for periods up to an hour. Bey claimed he used self-hypnosis, and his pulse, respiration and tem- perature were close to normal when he emerged from his casket. Houdini, who believed all hyp- notic feats were frauds, accused Bey of claiming to have supernor- mal powers. With his usual publici- ty, Houdini said he would equal and even surpass Bey’s feats. Houdini had developed “shallow breathing” to a remarkable degree so that he could safely perform his under-water escapes. He could re- tain his breath under water for over four minutes. On August 5, sealed in a bronze coffin, Houdini was lowered into the swimming pool at the Hotel Shelton. One hour and 31 minutes later he made the signal for his re- moval. Houdini’s face was pale; his body wringing wet with perspiration. He had a pulse of 142. His blood pres- FATE sure, respiration and temperature were abnormally high. Attending physicians told the magician he should go to bed at once. But Houdini, insisting that exercise is the cure for exhaustion, went to the gym and played hand- ball for almost an hour. William Lindsay Gresham, Hou- dini’s latest biographer “Houdini: The Man who Walked Through Walls,” says that Houdini had taken no chances. He quotes Joseph Dunninger, who was present, as stating that the escape artist had a little cartridge of compressed oxy- gen taped to his side under one arm. It is not known, of course, whether Houdini had to use this reserve supply of air. There can be little doubt that the ordeal of this performance weakened Houdini. Indirectly, it contributed to his defeat in his fight for life later. Now Houdini plunged into the work of preparing his show for the fall season. It was a full evening performance, divided into escapes, magical illusions and a demonstra- tion of the methods of fraudulent mediums. Among Houdini’s New York friends was the late Fulton Oursler. Oursler, who died in 1952, was a prolific writer of factual books on many subjects, mystery novels, stories and Broadway plays. As editorial director for Macfadden
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MYSTERY OF HOUDINI’S DEATH 71 Publications, he edited Liberty magazine for many years during that periodical’s era of popularity. During his later years he had a syn- dicated newspaper column “Modern Parables,” and was a senior editor for Readers Digest. Oursler wrote under a number of pseudonyms. Under the name of Samri Frikell, he published a book- let entitled Spirit Mediums Exposed in 1930. Its circulation was limited and it never was reprinted. The material included incidents Oursler could not explain—and one ac- count covered events surrounding Houdini’s death. “I believe that I am in posses- sion of certain information that is known to but few others, if, indeed, it is known to anyone at all,” Ours- ler wrote. “Because of the remark- able nature of this information, and because some of it seems too in- credible to be true, I shall be most circumspect and circumstantial in its narration.” Shortly before Houdini left New York for the opening of his tour in Boston, he telephoned Oursler. “T have news for you,’ Houdini said. “I am a marked man, marked for death. My detective system re- ports that they are predicting my death in spirit circles all over the country.” Oursler explained that Houdini at this time had a comprehensive espionage system in Spiritualistic churches and groups throughout the nation. While individual medi- ums occasionally had predicted Houdini’s death on certain dates, this was the first time the forecasts had been widespread. “TI could detect by the tone in his voice that he felt bad about it,” Oursler wrote. “Houdini said he didn’t put any stock in it but, nevertheless, he admitted that it had made an impression on _ his mind.” From Boston, the show moved to Providence, R. I. Houdini’s wife, Beatrice, was stricken with food poisoning. She was so ill on October 7 that Houdini sat up with her all night. She was better the next day and she accompanied the show to Albany while Houdini made a fast trip back to New York on business. In New York Houdini had ap- pointments until after midnight, and at 4:00 A.M. he caught a train to Albany. For three successive nights he had not been to bed. When he arrived in Albany, he slept for about an hour, then arose to meet with newspaper reporters. A busy day followed. That night, during the show, Houdini felt something snap in his ankle as he was lowered into the Chinese Water Torture Cell for his usual escape. Hopping about on one foot, he finished the show. Later, at a hospital, surgeons said he had an “incomplete frac-
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72 ture of a bone in his left foot.” They set the bone and advised him to lay off for at least a week. Instead, Houdini sat- up all night in his hotel room making a special sup- port which would permit him to continue with the show. Back in New York, Oursler read a brief news story from Albany about Houdini’s injury. He sent the magician a telegram and a letter of condolence. On the following day Oursler re- ceived a letter from Mrs. Alice A. Wood. Attached to the short letter was a copy of the newspaper story about Houdini’s injury. Mrs. Wood, a medium, was for years secretary to Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, then principal re- search officer of the American So- ciety for Psychical Research. In her letter, Mrs. Wood refers to Dr. James H. Hyslop (1854-1920), professor at Columbia University from 1889 to 1902, and one of the most distinguished American psy- chical researchers. The letter follows: “Three years ago Dr. Hyslop (meaning the spirit of Dr. Hyslop), said to J. Malcolm Bird of the Psy- chical Research Society, “The wa- ters are black for Houdini,” and he predicted that disaster would be- fall him while performing before an audience in a theater. “Dr. Hyslop now says the injury is more serious than has been re- FATE ~ ported and that Houdini’s days as a magician are over!” From Albany, the show jumped to Schenectady. Here, from the Van Curler Theatre on October 15, Houdini wrote Oursler thanking him for his message and telling him the injury was minor. Schenectady was a split week, and the show moved on to Montreal, opening October 17. Several days later Houdini lectured to the stu- dents at McGill University. One of the students made a few sketches of Houdini and gave them to him after the lecture. Houdini invited the boy to come backstage at the theater and make some more. Three nights later the student, accompanied by a friend, appeared at Houdini’s dressing room. While the student made his drawings, his friend suddenly asked Houdini whether it was true that Houdini could let a man strike him a sharp blow in the abdomen without in- jury. Houdini said this was true if he knew the blow was coming and was braced for it. “How about letting me try it right now?” the young man asked. Houdini was lying on a couch, reading his mail. Absorbed in a letter, he absentmindedly made a remark that the youth interpreted as permission. Then came the blow. When the youth realized that Houdini had
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MYSTERY OF HOUDINI’S DEATH 73 been surprised, he apologized. A few. minutes later the two young men left, and Houdini was on stage. The pain in Houdini’s abdomen was not great at first, but it slowly increased. At the Saturday matinee the following day, Houdini had agonizing cramps. They became worse during the evening show, the final performance in Montreal. The show moved to the Garrick Theater in Detroit. On Sunday Houdini typed several letters in his dressing room. One of the letters was to Oursler, and it stated that Houdini hoped to go to Toledo and have a seance with the medium, Ada Besinnet. “Were is evidence that he had no real suspicion that his days were numbered,” commented Oursler. But Houdini had a fever. A doc- tor diagnosed his trouble as a rup- tured appendix and advised an im- mediate operation. But the theater had been sold out in advance and Houdini said the show must go on. That night Houdini gave his final performance. Houdini was groggy and in ago- ny. His chief assistant, Jim Collin had to lift the magician into a large cabinet being shown empty. Some- how, the performer remained on his feet until the final curtain. Then he was rushed to a hosptal. The oper- ation disclosed that peritonitis had developed. For seven days Houdini stub- bornly fought for life. But his re- markable body and his vitality had been steadily weakened for weeks —by his under water ordeal, by his foot injury and sleepless nights, by his ceaseless activity and inad- .quate rest. In Toledo, where Houdini had hoped to go, lived a well-known magician of the time. His name was Robert F. Gysel. He specialized in unusual feats and he was also a sceptic regarding all things psychic. Gysel wrote the following letter to Oursler: “Something happened to me in my room Sunday night, October 24, 1926, at 10:58 P.M. Houdini gave me a picture of himself which I had framed and hung up on the wall. “At the above date and time the picture fell to the floor, breaking the glass. I told this to 2,000 rail- road men at the Labor Temple, Oc- tober 29, 1926. I now know that Houdini will die. Maybe there is something to this psychic phenom- ena after all.” On October 31, Halloween, Hou- dini looked at his brother, Hardeen, who was sitting beside the bed. “I’m tired of fighting,” he said, “I guess this thing is going to get me.” He died a few minutes later, in the arms of his wife. Houdini’s body was returned to New York City. He was buried in the bronze coffin that he had used at the Hotel Shelton in his under-
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74 water challenge to Rahmen Bey. + F ID HOUDINI make a final escape, from that mysterious realm beyond the grave? Did he successfully communicate with his wife through the mediumship of the Rey. Arthur Ford using a secret code? Mrs. Beatrice Houdini, at first, definitely said the message had come through. She signed a state- ment to that effect on January 9, 1929, and confirmed it in a letter to Walter Winchell 10 days later. Then apparently her faith waver- ed. She began to wonder if the message was conclusive. It was pointed out that several persons knew the code, which Mr. and Mrs. Houdini once had used in a mind- reading act. But it was alleged that the actual message in this code had been known only to Houdini and this was confirmed later by opening a sealed envelope the magician had left in a New York bank safety box. Mrs. Houdini never denied that the message was the correct one but, in later years, she did insist that she was not convinced that she had heard from her famous hus- band. As for Arthur Ford, he said: “If asked to say on oath whether I know beyond a shadow of a doubt FATE that I actually got the Houdini message, I could not do so except on the basis of Mrs. Houdini’s statement, and I cannot do more.” The bitter controversy over this message—a labyrinth -of contra- dictions and befuddlement—has continued to this day. It is unlikely now that it will ever be cleared up. Mrs. Houdini, before her death in 1943, did state that she had made serious attempts at communication without success. According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, such an attempt was in progress in 1938 when Pat, Hou- dini’s pet parrot, began to speak strangely after a long silence. Witnesses said it sounded like Pat was talking in an unidentified language. When he resumed Eng- lish, he was less talkative than be- fore. One morning soon afterward Pat performed in the tradition of his late master. He picked a special “escape proof” lock on his cage and flew into the Hollywood hills. For several days he frightened residents with his weird cries and his favorite expression, ‘“Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf!” Then Pat vanished. Perhaps he rejoined his master in that mysterious bourn that lies — beyond all earth’s hills. CAI)
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University Official Tells What Happened When | SPENT MY SUMMER IN A HAUNTED HOUSE By Denton Wr dis From SPOOKS DE LUXE, by Danton Walker, copyright 1956 by Danton Walker, published by Franklin Watts, Ino. Cé HEN I ADMITTED to you over the phone the other day that I once spent some nights in a haunted house, it was not with the idea of whetting your interest in a possible story!” Thus spoke William Sloane, Di- rector of the Rutgers University Press, whom I had called about a wholly different matter. This article being very much on my mind at the moment, however, I mentioned it to him and found that, naturally, he too had a story! “The experience itself was far less dramatic than the expressions 75 on the faces of those to whom I have described it,’ writes Mr. Sloane. To profess to a belief that some houses are haunted, and to confess to having had a personal experience in one of them, isn’t considered in- tellectually respectable, so I am al- ways a little sorry to unsettle my friends by such a confession; sor- rier, still, to reveal that, in the final analysis, I am compelled to believe in the evidence of my sens- es, which once in a while turn in such a nonscientific report. “Here’s the story:
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76 “Some years ago I was president of my own small New York publish- ing house. Its affairs fell upon pre- carious days and, in an attempt to find solutions for its difficulties, it became necessary to spend several nights a week working late in New York City, too late to catch the last train for my home in Rockland County. “Some of my friends knew about this situation and one, also a pub- lisher, suggested that I rent her house for the summer, while she was spending some months abroad with her children. I explained that my expense account didn’t include money for house rent. “<Money’s not the point,’ she re- plied. ‘You can rent the whole place for 25 dollars a month.’ “<That’s ridiculous,’ I told her. ‘You have a four-story house on a good street on the upper East side. The town is crawling with people who want summer rentals such as you have to offer.’ “She hesitated a moment, then said: ‘Well, you’re something of a friend of the family. I’d like you to have it. I got it myself at a real bargain, and if you'll stay in it, I won’t: have the expense of having it looked after while I’m gone.’ “You wouldn’t, with really pay- ing tenants, either,’ I pointed out. ““No,’ she said, ‘but actually I don’t want to rent it to just any- one. You take the place for the FATE three months that I’m gone. [ll lock up the house and send you the keys from my office, the first of the month.’ “That’s how it was arranged. “T packed some sheets and towels into a suitcase and went around to the house soon after my landlady departed for Europe. The house was one of those ugly, sturdily-built mansions that solid New York citi- zens built themselves in the years between 1900 and 1915. It was of brick and stone, with a bow window on the street, a stoop going up to the front door, with conven- tional foyer, and the usual interior floor plan. “Downstairs, in the half-base- ment, was a furnace room and stor- age and servants’ space. On the main floor, a large living room on the street side, a dining room be- hind it, and a kitchen on an ell extending into the back yard. On the floor above there were two master bedrooms, a dressing room and a large bath in the center of the house. The top floor contained two smaller rooms, a bath, a hall and a double bedroom. “The main stairway started in the front hall and ascended toward the back of the house. The door to the real master bedroom on the third floor — the room I had picked out for my own occupancy — was almost opposite the head of this flight of stairs (it’s rather impor-
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I SPENT MY SUMMER IN A HAUNTED HOUSE 77 tant to this story to keep this in mind). The hall then ran toward the front of the house, and the fi- nal flight of stairs to the top floor ascended from it and toward the rear. When my landlady’s family was in residence, the top floor was devoted to the children. “As I recall it, I reached the house very late this first night, a Monday evening, and I was tired to the bone. Tired as I was, however, -I decided to take out the flashlight that I usually carried in my brief- case and check the doors and win- dows on the two lower floors. I then went up to the master bed- room, hauled forth my sheets, made the bed and fell instantly into a dreamless and uninterrupted sleep. “Not so the second night! On Tuesday, I arrived at the place after dinner, with several manu- scripts under my arm. Once again, I made the rounds of the two lower floors. Frankly, I admitted to my- self, I wished I hadn’t taken the place: a whole house seemed too much of a good thing. Burglary is common enough in the city, and while my presence would make the place appear occupied a part of the time, it would be dark and empty more often than not — an ideal tar- get, I thought, for breaking and entering. “After turning a good many lights on and off, and browsing among the bookshelves, I returned ‘confronting me. to my manuscripts, which I intend- ed to read in bed. “The evening was fiercely hot, so I took off all my clothes and didn’t bother with pajamas. I also left the door onto the stairs and hall open, in the hope of some small amount of breeze through the rooms. I read for an hour or so, then switched off the light and lay back to think about the problems In perhaps five minutes, I heard the sound of foot- steps coming up the stairs, appar- ently those of a man. The tread was firm and regular; not at all the step of someone coming up a dark staircase, unless it were a person completely familiar with the house. “The steadiness of the steps re- assured me, at first. No burglar would make that much noise. I snatched for the top sheet, turned on the headboard reading light over the bed and called out that most clichéd of all phrases: ‘Who’s there?’ “There was no reply, but the steps stopped. I plunged into my pajama bottoms, picked up the flashlight, and strode into the hall, shining the light in front of me. The light had a good, strong beam and I could see clear down to the front door. There was no one there. “To be quite honest, I wasn’t en- joying myself at this moment, and it was only after some self-exhorta- tion that I decided to go over the whole house again. I did, and I
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78 found everything locked tight, in- cluding all the windows except the one in my bedroom. “The following morning, I went over the place again, paying par- ticular attention to the architectural structure of the house. Those stairs were, so far as I could tell with- out tearing off the panelling, of the best construction. I went up and down them, trying to locate possible sound of treads or beams springing back into position. There was no such sound. Indeed, for the rest of that summer, I never heard any of the usual night noises that I, like everyone else, grow accustomed to in a house, whether it is in the city or in the country. “On Thursday, which was my next night to spend in the city, I took back to the house, in addition to the manuscripts, a pint bottle of my favorite bourbon. That bottle was still almost half-full when the summer ended, but I did derive some obscure kind of comfort from its presence on the bathroom shelf. “Again, soon after I had turned out the reading light, the steps came up the stairs, as firmly as be- fore. This time they went along the hall and on up to the top floor, - where they stopped. Again I in- vestigated, and again found no trace of anyone. This, I decided, was the moment to sample the bourbon. “All summer long those steps re- turned, sometimes once a week, FATE sometimes once every night that I was in the house. Many nights I cannot vouch for, because I devel- oped a knack for going quickly to sleep, after closing my bedroom door. “Once or twice I tried talking to the invisible owner of those foot- steps, asking what it was all about, and even using the prescribed rou- tine of suggesting that they go away in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I did learn that turning on the light, or speak- ing, stopped the steps. If they later recommenced, I was asleep before they did, but they never came down the stairs. ny > ESS ES 14 A® YOU SEE, this is a very simple story of haunting. The best word I can think of for the sensation that it gave me is ‘disquieting.’ I have had my share of real fright, in and out of war- time, and this was not fright — merely a kind of unpleasant un- easiness, “When the summer ended and my landlady had returned, I went around to the house with my set of keys. “¢Thanks,’ I said, handing her the keys, ‘I understand now why you didn’t try to rent the place.’ “Her face assumed an expression of relief, gratification and amuse- ment, and I knew that I didn’t have to explain further.
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I SPENT MY SUMMER IN A HAUNTED HOUSE 79 “<¢Then you heard him, too?’ she asked. : “How could I Help hearing him?’ TI countered. “ ‘No wonder the house was so cheap,’ she continued. ‘I have never been able to find out the history of this place, but someone told me that an elderly manservant died here years ago and that his room was on the top floor.’ “Since I never expected to make any use of the story,” Mr. Sloane concluded in his letter to me, “the need for the usual ‘corroborative witness’ didn’t occur to me. I do know that my landlady and all four of her children heard the footsteps, - and I know also that the house had been sold for much less than its true worth. “Since that time, the house has changed hands again, and I don’t know whether the steps continue or not, since I have never been back. “The haunting seemed like so many others— more dramatic and carefully authenticated stories — that I didn’t follow it up, but here it is, for what it is worth, to add to your collection of true ghost stor- ies.” ee THE VENERABLE SUMANGALO DIES T° IS WITH sorrow and regret that we report the Venerable Suman- galo (Robert Stuart Clifton) died on February 6, 1968, at the Penang Buddhist Association headquarters in Malaya, at the age of 60. Fate has published a number of articles by this distinguished author, the last of which, The Quick and the Dead in Malaya, appeared in our June, 1963, issue. Born in Alabama, he was converted to Buddhism at the age of 13, and was ordained a Buddhist priest in 1933. He attended Columbia University, Chicago University, the Language Institute of Paris, the National University of Mexico and the University of California. He held the degree of Doctor of Philoso- phy. In 1954 he was elevated to the rank of Dai Sojo, or archbishop. He traveled around the world several times spreading the Dharma. Through his efforts, over 100 Buddhist organizations were established in North America and Europe. His last six years were spent in resi- dence at the Buddhist Institute of Penang. -
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By ALSON * Bringing THE BIBLE AENEAS MADE WHOLE AND TABITHA RAISED — From Acts 9:23-43 — 82 And it came to pass, as Peter passed. throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda. 83 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. 84 And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise and make thy bed. And he arose immediately. 385 And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. 86 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named ‘Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. 387 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. 88 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had ay 80 heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them. 88 Then Peter arose, and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them. 40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Ta- bitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. 41. And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive. 42 And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord. 43 And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner. US Pie,
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J. SMITH UP TO DATE IN THE LIGHT OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND MODERN KNOWLEDGE ENEAS WAS, presumably, a member of the thriving church at Lydda. For eight years he had been bedridden with palsy, a nervous disease with loss of function. Peter did not tell Aeneas thathe had been healed through his own faith or through Peter’s prayers. There was no prayer and there was no exhortation to believe. There was merely the statement, made with tre- mendous authority and charismatic power, that wholeness of life was once again present in the man. Palsy, or paralysis, is considered today at least in part a psychosoma- tic disease which responds to emo- tional changes in the patient. Peter’s authoritative words, said in the name of Jesus, produced a great emotion- al change in Aeneas, and he recov-~ ered at once his wholeness, his power of attack, on life. The most common criticism made of all the miracles in which the dead are restored to life is that the sub- jects were not really dead but mere- ly in comas. This incident cannot escape that criticism, for Tabitha had been “dead” for only a short time when Peter saw her. However, even if Tabitha was merely in a deep coma, she would have died had she not been brought 81 out of the coma. The prayer and the charismatic authority of Peter were responsible for that. In a practical sense, therefore, she was restored to life and this “raising” was “miracu- lous.” Modern parapsychology, however, would insist that such miracles as the raising of Tabitha, the raising of Lazarus, et cetera, are in the long run pointless because they are only temporary. Eventually Tabitha suc- cumbed, Lazarus succumbed, and ey-. ery human being succumbs to the inexorable laws of time and space that decree physical dissolution. However, parapsychology has dem- onstrated in laboratory experiments that there is within the human per- sonality a spiritual component (call it soul if you like) which is not subject to the space-time limitations of the physical order and, therefore, we can suppose that this time spir- itual component is able to survive the space-time halt we call death. So that, while the temporary res- pite from physical death produced by a miracle may seem important to earth inhabitants of all ages, what really is important is the exis- tence within the human person of a spiritual component that survives physical dissolution.
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How! by oe!) arry A, rons Harry Arons has been active in the field of hypnosis for over 30 years, as an instructor and as a consultant to the medical, dental and Jaw-enforcement professions. He has been for seven years Executive Secretary of the Association to Advance Ethical Hypnosis, which he help- ed found, and is Director of the Ethical Hypnosis Train- ing Center in Irvington, N.J. He also is editor of Hyp- nosis Quarterly and author of such authoritative text- books as Master Course in Hypnotism. Circumstantial evidence pointed to the pair as the killers— until a remarkable hypnosis technique was employed. ee case described in this paper illustrates graphically the ef- fectiveness of hypnosis in clearing up a situation which confused law- enforcement officers for 11 years. During this time, standard investi- gation methods, polygraph examin- ations and even a sodium pentothal, (truth serum) examination had led the investigators to be almost cer- tain that the two suspects were guilty of the crime of murder. It was only the circumstantial nature of the evidence that caused the authorities to hesitate in seeking an indictment. The murder occurred early on Easter morning in 1951. The vic- 82 tim was Lou (Romeo) Beaudry, 49, a service station employee. He was shot four times as he sat at a desk in the service station office. The shots entered his abdomen, chest, throat and left eye, almost in a straight line; the bullets in the stomach and chest entered
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horizontally, while those in the throat and eye followed an upward course, indicating that he was fall- ing backward at the time. When found, the lower part of his body was still on the chair with his shoulders and head on the ground behind it. Beaudry wore leg braces, which had to be locked at the knee in order for him to stand or walk. When found, his braces were not locked, indicating that he was either unaware of the intruder or that he knew him and remained seated when shot. The shots could only have come from an open win- dow space leading into the grease rack about four or five feet from the desk. The killer had to be a good shot to pump four bullets in an almost straight line before the victim fell to the floor. Investigating officers of Oka- loosa County, Fla., arrested Mrs. Cora Beaudry, the victim’s wife and William Conerly, a friend of the family now deceased. Both were released after questioning for lack of evidence. Investigations continued for several years without definite developments. The case was then placed in the inactive file. The case was reopened in 1957, when Sheriff Ray Wilson came . into office. The sheriff and Walter _ R. Steinsiek, Jr., polygraph exam- iner and Superintendent of Iden- 83 tification who worked closely with him, may be familiar to television viewers who happened to watch the Armstrong Circle Theater pres- entation of December 3, 1960. It told the story of how Ray’s father, then sheriff of Okaloosa County, was killed by political enemies and how the son ran for and won the office of sheriff when he was only 28 years old. Percy Hamilton, then reporter for the Pensacola News and now its state editor, was a strong supporter of the young sheriff and followed the Beaudry case from the very start. For almost a year Steinsiek in- terviewed about 25 suspects and conducted lie detector tests on many of them. By the middle of 1958, all but two suspects had been eliminated. These two, a man and a woman were subjected to inten- sive questioning and several poly- graph examinations. The tests on both were inconclusive. The tests on the man showed deception, but his personality and temperament were such that no definite conclu- sions could be reached. The woman, while having fairly normal reac- tions under standard interrogation, would get sick upon being subject- ed to the polygraph. She reacted with coughing and asthma spells, with nausea and vomiting. The investigators theorized that the woman bought or had someone buy the murder weapon (a .32 cal-
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84 iber snub-nosed pistol) and that the man, known to be a crack shot, used it in the killing. Credence was lent to this theory. by the fact that $68.00 was paid for the weapon on the same day that the woman had drawn out $87.00 from her ac- count in a Pensacola bank. The gun had been purchased from a sport- ing goods store in Pensacola; the store owner, about to go out of business, had neglected to properly record the sale and therefore could not supply much information about the purchaser. There had been some ill feeling between the victim and the male suspect; in fact, the sus- pect had once shot at Beaudry. Both suspects denied any connec- tion with the murder gun. The woman also denied having been in Pensacola on that day or of draw- ing out the money. Others, how- ever, had given testimony to the original investigators that she had visited a friend in a radio shop in Pensacola on the day in question, February 13, 1951. The male suspect was apparent- ly extremely cooperative in the in- vestigation. On several occasions, he traveled 40 miles to visit Stein- siek in the Pensacola Police Depart- ment and voluntarily submitted to interrogation. During the course of these interviews the suspect di- vulged that he had information about the murder that he claimed he obtained through “dreams” or FATE “visions.” Some of this information was checked out and found to be correct. As an example, he made a rough drawing of the three converg- ing streets at the victim’s service station, although he said he never had been there. He also described a beautiful woman looking out of a window upstairs from a night club near the service station, a wom- an who did indeed exist and who was subsequently questioned. He claimed also to know in his dreams just how the murder was commit- ted, but denied any part in it. His stories lacked consistency however, thus causing considerable confusion for the investigators. On March 27, 1960, the suspect volunteered for narco-interrogation. Dr. Walter B. Tomlinson of Pensa- cola, who for several years had been helping law enforcement agen- cies as a medical investigator, was engaged to conduct the examina- tion in a local hospital. Sodium penothal, sodium seconal and scop- olamine were administered and the entire procedure recorded on tape. Information gleaned from the sus- pect’s statements under narcosis strongly indicated that he was guilty of the killing, but under sub- sequent regular interrogation the usual denials were forthcoming. In December, 1961, Steinsiek at- tended one of my seminars in hypnosis conducted at the Palmer House in Chicago. During private
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HOW HYPNOSIS CLEARED TWO MURDER SUSPECTS 85 discussions he told me about the Beaudry case and asked whether I would be willing to come to Pensacola to assist in its investiga- tion. Ordinarily, I would not have considered it advisable to attempt hypnosis on a suspect in a major crime, for legal as well as prac- tical reasons. From a_ practical standpoint there are too many un- certainties involved; the suspect could merely refuse to be hyp- notized; he could pretend hypnosis and continue to lie nevertheless. From a legal standpoint, the de- fense making the most of the pre- vailing prejudice about hypnosis could use the “illegal search and seizure of the brain” argument to thwart the prosecution. In this case however, I felt there was an angle through which the suspect could be influenced in- directly, possibly without his knowl- edge that hypnosis was involved at all. His “telepathic” or “clair- voyant” visions or dreams might readily supply an avenue through which he might agree to let me help him get clearer impressions and consequently more definite information about the killing. Ac- cording to Steinsiek, the suspect considered himself clever enough to agree to anything, with the expecta- tion of being able to continue to lie. Of course, my main objective would be to set him up for the “autonomic lie-detection” tech- nique, which, if my theories are correct, would strongly indicate deception in spite of his cleverness. My decision to accept the invita- tion to go to Pensacola was due mainly to the fact that Steinsiek seemed so certain of the case against the two suspects. He felt hypnosis was absolutely the last resort and that it was worth a trial before a decision to seek an indictment or to drop the case was made. I arranged to spend two days in Pensacola. Early on the morning of the first day I met the various investi- gators concerned with the case in the office of Acting Chief Clyde Lewis of the Pensacola Police De- partment. Present were Lewis, Steinsiek, Sheriff Ray Wilson of Okaloosa County, Chief Deputy Harvell Enfinger of Santa Rosa County and Percy Hamilton, state editor of the Pensacola News Jour- nal, Later that day State Attor- ney William Frye also participated. Three counties were involved be- cause the murder occurred in one and the suspects lived in two oth- ers. Most of the morning was con- sumed with detailed accounts by — each investigator of the various as- pects of the crime and the subse- quent investigations. They all dis- played great patience with me and answered my numerous questions some of which I suspect may have
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86 been irrelevant to the best of their abilities. Then we all lis- tened for several hours to the re- cording of the narco-interrogation of the male suspect. I also talked to Dr. Tomlinson on the telephone to clear up some questions in my mind. Having had some previous ex- perience with narco-interrogation, I was impressed at the outset with the fact that proper precautions had not been taken in the ex- amination in question. By the time the recording was half over I felt quite certain that the material ap- parently divulged was of no value in making a valid determination about either the suspect’s guilt or his innocence. To begin with, it must be recog- nized that under sodium pentothal a person is simply and literally in a “drugged” state. When the de- gree of the narcosis is slight he is able to exercise conscious control and therefore guide his answers ac- cordingly. When the dosage is in- creased to the extent that the con- scious control is impaired, he be- comes extremely lethargic and wants to drop off to sleep. He has to be forced to talk and when he does respond verbally he is usual- ly thick-tongued and incoherent. His verbalizations are more aptly described as mumblings and are most often unintelligible. He has to be constantly prodded to reply FATE and must be kept going in order to prevent his falling asleep. In order to obtain valid informa- tion leading questions should be avoided. It is best to start him talking on certain topics in the hope that something significant _will develop. Often, when an inci- dent has emotional connotations for the subject he will talk almost un- controllably —in effect, he will “babble” as one might in a deeply inebriated state. In this manner, information of significant and rele- vant character may be elicited. To this limited extent therefore, sod- ium pentothal might be referred to as a “truth-serum.” Most of the time, however, a subject can in- hibit material which might prove incriminating. In this case, direct questioning was used with constant prodding to “Say it!,” “Come on — answer me!” and similar urgings to respond to questions. In most of the an- swers nevertheless, there was noth- ing which could be termed direct or unequivocal. The subject, when he did answer, mumbled “I reckon so” or gave similar vague indicat- tion of acquiescence. Most of the time, the replies were subject to a variety of interpretations because of the barely audible thick-tongued mumblings. Pieced together this was the in- formation elicited: The killer (the suspect referred to the killer in
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HOW HYPNOSIS CLEARED TWO MURDER SUSPECTS oy the second person) came in through the grease rack around the side of the building, leaned on the win- dow sill and pumped five bullets at Beaudry, four of which struck the victim. (The suspect raised himself on one elbow during the interrogation and, pointing his finger gun-wise at the doctor’s stomach, chest, neck and eyes, mumbled drunkenly “here here . .. here . . . and here.”) When asked where the fifth bullet went the suspect replied fairly clear- ly “that’s what I can’t figure out.” The fifth bullet never was found. Then the killer ran out across an empty lot behind the station, ap- parently tripped on something and dropped his gun. The weapon was later found under a broken tin sign by two children, Paul and Arthur Bond. The killer then got into a car with license plates that had been stolen the night before the killing. During the narco-in- terrogation, the suspect seemed to say he could see the plates hidden in a “wall over a door,” but these plates were never found. The suspect also talked about a tree with bullets in it. Such a tree actually stood in front of the female suspect’s house and the bullets in it were due to. target prac- tice by her husband. The suspect, in the waking state, denied ever having been near this house. There were many other indications that the suspect knew more than he claimed while in his normal state. The assumption that he was guilty was understandable. All in all though I was far from © satisfied as to the validity of the narco-interrogation. As an example, the suspect seemed to say that the killer came in around the side “by the grease rack;” even though this section of the tape was re- played several times, I could not be certain that I heard the words “orease rack.” Still, there were too many things that the suspect seemed to know that defied explanation unless he were the killer. So I accepted it. The suspect was picked up im- mediately after he got out of work and brought in. Much to everyone’s surprise, he was now completely uncooperative and insisted upon a subpoena. We soon found that his resentment was due to the feeling that he had been tricked into the narco-interrogation, although at the time his agreement had been freely and voluntarily given. This unexpected turn of events caused me to modify my strategy some- what. When he was brought into the office I was introduced as a psy- chic investigator engaged in writing a book on “clairvoyant and _ tele- pathic” dreams, and Chief Lewis, who had not previously met him, was presented as my assistant. I
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88 explained that I had a dual pur- pose: to obtain material for my book and if possible, help the police find the killer whom he apparently saw in his visions. I stressed the fact that since he claimed to be in- nocent, he must certainly want to help the police in tracking down the perpetrator of this crime. His an- swer was direct and to the point: “You're not going to hypnotize me or do anything else to me un- less my doctor and my lawyer are present!” No indirect method was possible with this man! Nevertheless, we talked for more than an hour and ’ he repeated many of the things that he “saw” in this dreams. I could now understand why the in- vestigators were so certain that he was guilty even though he admitted, nothing that could definitely con- nect him with the crime. The project at this point appeared a dismal failure and -the man was permitted to go home. Questioning the woman had not originally been our intention, but it was now decided to bring her in on the off-chance that she might be helpful. We had to go to Wil- son’s office at Crestview in the ad- joining county to question her. In the interrogation room with me at this time were Lewis and Wilson. Steinsiek kept out of both inter- views because he felt that a cer- tain amount of resentment might FATE have been built up against him. As Steinsiek had already warned me, the woman was coughing and wheezing violently and complain- ing that she had been having al- most constant asthma attacks for the past three weeks. So violent were her reactions that it was al- most impossible to carry on a con- versation with her. More in des- peration than hopefully, I sug- gested that hypnotizing her might help to subdue her coughing tem- porarily so that she could be questioned. Somewhat to my sur- prise she readily agreed. At first I tried a method called “progressive relaxation.” Her coughing was so loud and violent however, that I soon stopped in irritation. Almost as an afterthought I suggested using an instrument that I had brought along with me. I told her it was capable of pro- ducing hypnosis so quickly that her reactions probably would not interfere. I then unveiled the Brain Wave Synchronizer, an invention of the Schneider Instrument Com- pany which has been used suc- cessfully by professional hynotists for several years. This method was likewise futile because her re- actions prevented her from keeping her attention on the pulsing light for more than a few seconds at a time. I gave up in disgust. Wilson and Lewis continued talk- ing to her, pursuing two points in
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HOW HYPNOSIS CLEARED TWO MURDER SUSPECTS 89 which her statements were com- pletely at variance with facts gleaned in the investigation. One of these discrepancies concerned an insurance policy, on which she claimed to have been paid $1,000, while the insurance company proved that it had disbursed $2,500. The other discrepancy had to do with the fact that she had been seen in Pensacola on February 13, the day that money had been drawn out of her account and the gun had been purchased. She denied having been: anywhere near Pensacola for three months prior to that date. This line of questioning continued for about 30 minutes, until sud- denly Lewis said, “Look! She has stopped coughing.” Sure enough, she had! And no- body seemed more genuinely sur- prised than the woman herself. At this point I jumped to the oc- casion, saying, “Oh, it’s the after- effect of the Brain Wave Synchron- izer! It often has a delayed action effect.” I then suggested using the ma- chine on her again in order to achieve even more relief. She read- ily agreed and again I switched on the instrument, setting it at the Alpha rhythm. She gazed at the pulsing light for a few moments and then appearing slightly an- noyed, she suggested that I remove the telephone from the desk near the Synchronizer as its flickering red signal was distracting her. The sheriff placed the telephone on the floor and in less than a minute the woman was in hypnosis. Upon testing, I found her to be in a near- somnambulic trance. First I set her up for the rapid- fire interrogation technique, in- structing her to answer instantan- eously the simple questions I put to her. I started with questions of an irrelevant nature requiring “yes” and “no” answers. Questions like “Ts today Monday?,” “Is it rain- ing outside?,” “Are you married?,” etc. By repetition I conditioned her to reply in split-seconds, urging her not to stop to think but to reply automatically. At every fifth or sixth question I threw in a relevant query, but her responses continued to come with split second precision. I employed the devices known to polygraph examiners by interject- ing such control questions as “Do you masturbate?” and “Did you have an affair with So-and-So?,” but her replies kept coming with- out hesitation. One would have to see this type of hypnotic interrogation in order to fully appreciate how reliable it can be in detecting deception. In the hypnotic state the subject is conditioned to respond more rapid- ly than is possible in the waking state; it would not be possible for the subject to lie without dis- playing some slight lag in the re-
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go sponse. Actually, being in a sub- jective (subconscious) state, the subject would have to call upon some degree of conscious effort in order to lie. The lag thus caused could readily be detected. To be- gin with, a person intending to lie would probably not permit him- self to become conditioned to the rapid-response technique. As the interrogation continued, the subject’s head dropped down more and more until it almost rest- ed on her left shoulder. Her replies kept coming with barely percep- tible movements of the lips. The words seemed to slip out of her mouth as if impelled by some in- ner force. She maintained this position for more than an hour with no apparent discomfort. The sheriff, the chief and I took turns in the interrogation, going over the im- portant points again and again. There were not the slightest varia- tions in the relevant aspects of her story. In effect, she said she had not had any part whatsoever in the killing, had no knowledge of the purchase of the gun, had not been in Pensacola for three months prior to the murder, and had not even seen the male suspect during that period or immediately after the crime. Finally, I tested her to make absolutely certain that she was not faking hypnosis (there are several most reliable tests for this pur- FATE pose) and awakened her. She im- mediately complained about the stiffness of her neck due to the position of her head, a position of which she had not been aware until awakening. After dismissing the woman, Wil- son, Lewis and I got together for the final evaluation. Remarkable as it may seem, each of us had ar- rived at the same conclusion inde- pendently of the others: the woman knew absolutely nothing about the crime and was completely innocent! What is more remarkable still is that we arrived at this conclusion in spite of two obvious and serious discrepancies: the withdrawal of the $87.00 from a Pensacola bank on February 13, when she claimed not to have been there, and the in- surance company’s statement that they had paid out $2,500, whereas she insisted she received only $1,000. The investigators now dug deep- ly into their files, parts ‘of which it must be remembered, were ac- cumulated by previous investigat- ors. Here is what was discovered: An investigator had accepted hear- say evidence that the woman was seen in a radio shop in Pensacola on the day in question. The bank withdrawal record, moreover, was barely legible. where it contained* the date and appeared to show signs of tampering. The insurance company had indeed paid out $2,-
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HOW HYPNOSIS CLEARED TWO MURDER SUSPECTS oI 500, but $1,500 of this amount went to several children and the woman had no knowledge of this aspect of the matter. The female suspect’s innocence, of course, de- stroyed the male suspect’s motive s0 that he had to be exonerated as well. In discussing the matter with Steinsiek afterwards, I questioned him regarding the male suspect’s signs of deception during polygraph examinations and his apparent knowledge of certain aspects of the crime. Steinsiek explained that the knowledge could have been gleaned from newspaper accounts of the crime and from periodic question- ing by a variety of investigators. Deception can show on the poly- graph because of feelings of guilt to unrelated aspects of the situa- tion; since the suspect did know the victim and had once actually shot at him, this could adequately account for guilt reactions. His “dreams” caused the rest of the ' confusion. “Because of the inconclusive _ polygraph examinations,” says Steinsiek, “and the misleading facts and intentional lies of the male suspect on matters not relative to the case, I would have gone on be- lieving that they were involved, whereas I now have no doubt they were not involved — thanks to the use of hypnosis in this case!” This case points up how hyp- nosis might have been used in com- bination with the polygraph much earlier in the case, contributing to more conclusive lie-detection re- sults. By eliminating the innocent, it would have permitted the investi- gators to pursue the real criminal. ce ge ds On March 9, 1963, the Florida newspapers announced that the murder of Lou (Romeo) Beaudry had been confessed by Anthony F. Glionna of Johnstown, N.Y. The 32-year-old father of three chil- dren stated that he and a former Elgin Air Force Base buddy had shot and killed a crippled man in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on Easter morning, March 25, 1951. Thus the conclusion of Harry Arons after his interrogation with hypnosis, that the two police sus- pects were innocent, has been validated. This story of a remarkable tech- nique, used successfully by a well- known hypnosis authority will be included as a chapter of the book, Hypnosis In Criminal Investigation, to be published later this year by Charles C. Thomas, Publisher. A few details of this case have been slightly altered to avoid iden- tifying some of the people involved and to protect the innocent. — TS
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INTERRUPTED WORK By L. Berger Copeman URING HIS LIFETIME my fa- ther, Lloyd G. Copeman, a well- known research engineer and profes- sional inventor, maintained an ex- perimental laboratory in the base- ment of his home, near Metamora, Mich. He spent a great deal of time there, often working through the early morning hours. Foliowing his death in 1956 the house remained vacant for several weeks during which time a routine inspection of the premises revealed that several expensive tools and pre- cision instruments were missing. From then on I kept a close watch in an effort to catch the prowler. I was working nights in a plant near Detroit and drove by Father’s place on my way home from work about 3:00 every morning. On Fri- day night, October 19, 1956, as I came past I noticed a light on in that part of the basement which contained his laboratory. I left my car some distance from the house, returning on foot. Cautiously ap- proaching one of the low basement windows, I peered in—to receive the shock of my life. The room was aglow with a soft, eerie, greyish-blue phosphorescence that seemed to come from everywhere. Seated at his desk, his back towards 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, III. Manuscripts must give author's name and address and include a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. 93 They me, industriously writing something on a large sheet of paper, was my father! As I continued to stare, scarcely believing what I knew I was seeing, he suddenly laid aside his pen, put his hands on the arms of his chair, and slowly swung around to look me straight in the eye. I can still see the expression on his face— slightly annoyed at being interrupt- ed; questioning; impatient to get back to whatever he was doing. As much as to say, “Well, speak up! What is it you want?” Then, as he continued to look di- rectly at me, the glow filling the L. BERGER COPEMAN
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REPORT FROM THE READERS of a “weeping goddess” who existed in their prehistory—before 1000 A.D. At that time Oriental types in- vaced the island of Japan and con- quered the ancestors of the Ainu. As legend has it, the ‘weeping god- dess“ fled the island when it was ob- vious her people were unable to stem the invasion. A fleet of ships bear- ing the “weeping goddess” and her people sailed east, following the shoreline. After many months, they reached a land far to the south and established a civilization near a lake on top of the highest mountain there. From my point of view, the con- nection appears to be obvious. I submit that the “weeping god” on the ruin near Lake Titicaca is not a male, but is a depiction of the “weeping goddess.” As to how the story of the location reached Japan, I think it is safe to assume that some of the refugees returned to Japan to lead others to safety. An- other item to strengthen this theory is that the language of the remaining Ainu in Japan is not Oriental, but similar to the Indian languages of the Americas. Of course, the legend also may be a condensation of the facts. It is quite possible that the ancestors of the Ainu had spent many centuries exploring and settling the Americas, and that their civilization here was well established when the “weeping goddess” fled the island of Japan. The “weeping goddess” title appears to be the fancy of legend. She may have been a princess or a queen.— D. Bruce Berry, Chicago, Ill. FOR “YI-KING” FANS My feature story The Prophetic Wands of Yi King appeared in the October, 1961, issue. I am grateful 115 TSS SR RR EE TE EE SE ee Learn to use ASTRAL PROJECTION Free Lesson. No obligation. Gnostic Society For Self-Development 114 Broderick Street San Francisco 17, Calif. es Pe ey Vo oe CLAIRVOYANT Any four questions answered. Exintendule and address, enclose $1.00 bill and sen 0; K. KENNEDY 823 MAIN ST., ST. JOSEPH, MO. Give it a chance! The Amazing MYSTIC EYE has the answer! Ask it any question about love, health, business, money — past, present or future! Determine the sex of unborn children! Find missing valuables}! Two sets available: Standard Set complete with pendulum, reading board and booklet of in- structions, $1.50 postpaid, Deluxe Set in ruby- red vellum-covered box. $3.25 postpaid. Order yours today. CLARK PUBLISHING CO. 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Illinols
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