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| Death-Coincidences |
“About the 14th of September, 1882, my
sister and I felt worried and distressed by hearing the ‘death watch’; it
lasted a whole day and night. We got up earlier than usual the next morning,
about six o’clock, to finish some birthday presents for our mother. As my
sister and I were working and talking together, I looked up and saw our young
acquaintance standing in front of me and looking at us. I turned to my sister;
she saw nothing. I looked again to where he stood; he had vanished. We agreed
not to tell anyone... “Some time afterward we heard that our young
acquaintance had either committed suicide or had been killed; he was found dead
in the woods, twenty-four hours after landing. On looking back to my diary, I
found that the marks I made in it corresponded to the date of his death.” The
following case is reported in Podmore’s Apparitions and Thought Transference,
p. 265:
“The first
Thursday of April 1881, while sitting at tea with my back to the window, and
talking with my wife in the usual way, I plainly heard a rap at the window,
and, looking around, I said to my wife, ‘Why, there’s my grandmother,’ and went
to the door, but could not see anyone; and still feeling sure it was my
grandmother, and, knowing that, though eighty-three years of age, she was very
active and fond of a joke, I went around the house, but could not see anyone. My
wife did not hear it. On the following Saturday, I had news that my grandmother
died in Yorkshire about half an hour before the time I heard the rapping. The
last time I saw her alive I promised, if well, I would attend her funeral; that
was some two years before. I was in good health and had no trouble; age,
twenty-six years. I did not know that my grandmother was ill. “Rev. Matthew
Frost.”
Mrs. Frost
writes: “I beg to certify that I perfectly remember all the circumstances my
husband has named, but I heard and saw nothing myself.” The following case is
from Phantasms of the Living, Vol. II., p. 50: 9 “On February 26th, 1850, I was
awake, for I was to go to my sister-in-law, and visiting was then an event for
me. At about two o’clock in the morning, my brother walked into our room (my
sister’s) and stood beside my bed. I called to her, ‘Here is ——.’ He was at the
time quartered at Paisley, and a mail car from Belfast passed about that hour
not more than a mile from our village... He looked down on us most lovingly,
and kindly, and waved his hand, and he was gone! I recollect it all as if it
were only last night it occurred, and my feeling of astonishment, not at his
coming into the room at all, but where he could have gone. At that very hour, he
died.” Mr. Gurney writes: “We have confirmed the date of death in the Army
List, and find from a newspaper notice that the death took place in the early
morning, and was extremely sudden.” Cases such as the above could be multiplied
into the hundreds, but it is not necessary. For our present purposes, the above
samples will at least serve to show the character of these
“death-coincidences,” and how accurate and how numerous they often are.
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