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...Book. Haunted Houses falls into three main divisions: death haunts; personal haunts; house haunts. Scientifically, each haunt is inexplicable unless the psychic influence of mediums, conscious or unconscious of their power, is taken into undefined account. The death haunts are all connected with mysterious happenings-the fall of a picture, the rumblings of a clock or the sudden functioning of a rusty and unused clock. In each instance, at the precise time of the mystery, a death occurs. The explanation is purely psychic; no cosmic clues can be discovered...
...Next day Mr. Christo, who did not know or admit the possibility of psychic phenomena, resolved to call in the aid of a policeman. ... An officer and two constables were placed at his disposal. . . . After searching and inspecting every corner of the house, the lights were extinguished. Knocks on the front door were immediately heard downstairs. 'Do you hear that?' said Mr. Christo to the constables. 'Perfectly,' they said...
...enabled him " to describe the sky so as to make people who did not know it love it." Perhaps it was this combination of poet and astronomer that made M. Flammarion write Haunted Houses. The appeal of astral bodies is, after all, only faintly removed from that of the psychic world. The book is disappointing from a scientific point of view; but from that of the layman it provides eeries but fascinating enjoyment...
...wife of a Boston professional man, as yet anonymous, is the most likely candidate for the $2500 prize offered by the Scientific American (TIME, June 4, 1923), for a demonstrated proof of genuine psychic phenomena. J. Malcolm Bird, Secretary of the Committee, says: "Her demonstrations are infinitely more convincing than any of the others were." Precautions have 'been taken to preserve her anonymity, for she is a woman of culture, position and means, has never given public exhibitions, and wishes no publicity...
...medium's "control" is her dead brother "Chester," who performs a great variety of activities, such as rapping, talking, juggling, whistling, singing, pinching, scratching, kissing, moving heavy objects, making visible clocks strike, playing victrolas, producing psychic photographs. No evidence of fraud was found, and the moral factors were all in favor of the medium, who has put every convenience at the disposal of the investigators. But elaborate objective tests are to be made by the scientists to preclude fraud or error...