General Sedgevik was known as a brave man in the American Civil War. More than once or twice he raised himself above the parapet - under the bullets, and finally, believing that some force must be leading them aside, he rose above the parapet to his full height “Hey … Mazily! Would you like to get into the gene …"
Missing leg
There is such a law of life: let there be measure in things. Medium Hafstay Bjorisson, penetrating into subtle matter, was convinced at every session that only highborn could get in touch with him, a well-born Icelander … In 1938 he began a session for the “ladies of Reykjavik”, when suddenly an unknown male personality appeared. “I'm the skipper! That same Jonsson - you see, on a crutch. I wish you a glass of rum … And then - why the hell and knit to me, so, you see, to be presented … . And when asked what else the person would like, the skipper replied: to help find his leg.
He was a legendary drunkard in Iceland, and so he came for a glass of rum. The self-confident Bjorisson, who had previously believed that only someone who "was considered a decent Icelander with good manners" could get in touch with him, recalled that in October 1879, Jonsson was walking along a steep bank, stumbled … And in November he threw his body on the stones … However, the leg was missing. The skipper explained that he attended his funeral, he liked the funeral. And now he asks the "ladies of Reykjavik" to find and bury his leg … And what, they say, to his manners, he likes them, and why now give them up?
The materialist drives out the spirit
Paranormal researcher Stuart Gordon once started projecting himself from Scotland to London. Actually, he was sitting at a typewriter and no title was given. To distract himself, he concentrated on this, which was always easy: "how to be there, where he had recently lived."
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Stewart knew that the main thing was "to be confident, not to fall into logic", and concentrated to not only mentally see himself in the room from which he had recently left, but so that its current occupant, some "vulgar materialist", would testify its projection.
Perhaps the hostility of the materialist in his room had a destructive effect? .. Not in this house, but in another, where his relatives lived, they heard the clatter of a typewriter with a rhythm typical for him. They called him in Scotland. Gordon decided that he had been distracted enough, and suddenly he saw on a sheet of paper in a typewriter the title "The Materialist Cast Out the Spirit."
Mediums William O'Neill and George Meek conceived "a device for the manifestation of the intellect of the departed - from the other world." During an experimental session, they summoned an (disembodied) Italian scientist, whose intellect was not too much in demand, was undeveloped during his lifetime … And instead of gratitude they heard: "From here no one will show himself to the fullest if you put us in the position of guinea pigs.
Shock invention
Inventor Carl Wickland convinced himself of the ability to drive disembodied beings out of man. He forced the spirit to move into the body of his assistant, and then removed it from the aura, acting on an electric charge (similar to the machine of Dr. Frankenstein - as he saw it in the movies). However, the low-voltage shock had such an effect, together with his obsession, on something else, that the machine broke down when discharged, but in a curious way, revealing to the inventor the principle of a new sewing machine. This was recorded when Wickland talked about his discovery in Thirty Years Among the Dead - Thirty Years of Death (1924), but soon forgotten. And it is no less curious that although in 1918 he founded the Psychological Institute to study "obsession", but now in his building in Los Angeles there is a factory of sewing electric machines, to which he has nothing to do.
Broken Oath
Merry sailor S. R. Wilmot shared a cabin with another sailor, John Toyot, who had a red beard. Under the whiskey "from a strong storm", they, free from watch, started talking, as usual, about women, and the storm intensified - it seemed that the ship would turn over. And Wilmot vowed that if he saved himself, he would never visit any bored passenger again. However, when he woke up, Wilmot heard: “You're good! It is not for nothing that they say that you are a merry fellow. The women themselves visit you!"
John-with-the-beard claimed that at night, when they almost turned over, he saw a woman from the top shelf … Wilmot returned home, and his wife told how, during that terrible storm, which was talked about on the radio, she fancied that he was dying, and so she somehow found herself on a steamer and found a cabin … I saw his red beard hanging from the shelf!
Medium Chief of Police
Once the medium Daniel Home was levitating in St. Petersburg with Baroness Belugina-Pradt. In arrogance, he pushed off the ceiling … When suddenly, abandoned by his strange strength, he grabbed the chandelier and soon collapsed with it, almost on Baroness Belugina-Pradt.
Then, while touring Russia, he somehow lost his "support" and another unknown force that helped him to de-materialize and return the jewel, which suddenly did not want to return it … However, unknown forces were subordinate to the police chief and carried out a "reverse aport" as it was called then - however, bringing the jewelry into the secret pocket of the medium. Needless to say, Daniel was completely unaware of this.
What can't you do in your hearts
The artist Joens painted from memory the wife of Henry XVIII, Catherine, the "minx" (who was beheaded for pranks). The king exclaimed: “Yes! It is she - Catherine! Ah, if she hadn’t been naughty!.. The most beloved is my fifth wife … The minx was no longer afraid that I would punish her in my hearts, - poked her nose where it was not necessary. And now - again, as if alive!"
It is curious that when the artist continued to paint, from some sort of contiguous reality (between him and the easel), ghostly fingers poked through and seemed to tease him: Katrin, not afraid of anything, was naughty even after death. In the end, Joens grabbed those fingers, thrust between the worlds, and took off the ring … The most curious thing is that it was identified as Katrin's jewelry.
Mysterious combination
The famous medium Ted Serioz also became a famous photographer, possessing an amazing gift: he took pictures of everything that he imagined, looking into the lens of his "polaroid". His "mental pictures" were published in 1967 by Professor Jail Eisenbaod in a serious work titled "The World of Ted Serios One Can Only Guess." But he finished jokingly: “The devil himself must be helping him. However, we will define it in a nutshell, as optical combinations."
Ted arrogantly stated, “Professor! Light up your pipe again and maybe you will guess that the devil is not helping me - if you ask me to introduce Westminster Abbey. " But at the behest of some strange force, the Polaroid did not betray the abbey that Ted had introduced. “The devil must be helping you, Serioz,” said the professor. He defined the manifestation as "a combination of three fingers."
Shadow-boxing
Suspension bridge over the ravine (Ohio, near Elmore). There, Mr. Jackson, a medium and former boxer, got angry, went out to fight with a shadow that suddenly rose from the hollow and, frightening by the absence of a head, stopped the passers-by. A motorcyclist once fell off this suspension bridge, and his head was blown off by a cable. Mr. Jackson understood that it would be difficult to knock out such a "headless horseman". However, he had a successful fight, he must have won on points. The shadow did not rise anymore.