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An Amazing Experiment

Publisher: Lectures Universal Ltd
Published: 1936
Pages: 128

Introduction

 - Charles Drayton Thomas -

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         I AM about to relate a remarkable incident in my researches describing how a number of convincing messages from their deceased child were transmitted to distant strangers.

Bobbie, aged four, with Mr. Hatch.

The messages of affection were intended for his own people, but I have permission from the family to make public the evidence by which the boy's identity was established. This includes his reference to a most unusual photograph which was taken shortly before his death in which he is seen in the fancy dress he wore at a local festival.

I shall show how he described a favourite walk which his people instantly recognized. As this comprised no fewer than eight separate points, all of which proved correct, the description passes far beyond any likelihood of chance. The boy further described roads and streets near his home, including the name of one where he went to school; readers will be able to compare these descriptions with the sketch afterwards sent by the family to show me how accurately this message had come through.

How the boy came to be infected by the disease from which he died had never been guessed, but these messages led to the discovery that he had frequently played near an infected pool; a fact which had been entirely unknown to the family until inquiries were set on foot after receiving these communications.

The whole story is here set forth in full, together with a numerical valuation of the evidence which shows how small a proportion of the messages failed of recognition. The account was first published in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, and has been subject to the keen examination of critics, some of whom were stout disbelievers in the possibility of communications from the next life. I shall give the more important of these criticisms together with my replies.

The whole case forms a strikingly forceful argument for the reality of communication from the Beyond.

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