Rug en de randen iets verdonkerd. Hoekjes licht gestoten en voorop onderaan een klein haaltje in het linnen (zie foto). Bladzijden gaaf schoon en nauwelijks verschoten. Eerste schutblad enkele lichte roestvlekjes en onderaan en in spiegelbeeld op de achterkant van het voorplat een plekje (zie foto). Een stevig gebonden aantrekkelijk exemplaar.
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CONTENTS

Foreword
Preface

A broadcast on apparitions and haunted houses, 3rd March 1934

I. Recognized or Identified Apparitions
II. Unidentified or Doubtful Apparitions
III. Apparitions of the Living
IV. Apparitions of Animals
V. Apparitions of Inanimate Objects

Summary and Conclusion
Index
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Tekstfragment

**CASE 43**

From Miss Pearson, 15 Fitzroy Square, W.C.

*April, 1888*

The house, 19 St. James’s Place, Green Park, had been taken on a very long lease by my grandfather, a solicitor in large county practice, having his offices in Essex Street, Strand.
There my father was born and his two sisters, Ann and Harriet. Aunt Ann died in 1858, leaving all she possessed to Aunt Harriet, who remained in the house. They had been devotedly attached to each other. In November 1864 I was summoned to Brighton. My Aunt Harriet was then very ill there. Mrs. Coppinger, the daughter of Mr. Thomas Pearson, my father’s brother, was there, and Mr. George James (her son by her first husband) came up and down. Eliza Quinton was nursing her. She only craved to go back to the old house where she was born, and I made arrangements with the railway company and took her home.

This was in the second week in December. She became worse and worse. Eliza continued to nurse her, and Mrs. Coppinger, Mrs. John Pearson, the wife of a nephew, and myself helped with the night work.

Miss Harriet Pearson slept in a large three-windowed bedroom over the drawing-room. The room behind was occupied by Mrs. Coppinger and myself though one of us was generally in the patient’s room at night. On the night of December 22nd, 1864, Mrs. John Pearson was in the room, Mrs. Coppinger and myself in the back room; the house lighted up on the landings and staircases, our door wide open.

About 1 or 2 a.m. on the morning of December 23rd, both Mrs. Coppinger and myself started up in bed; we were neither of us sleeping, as we were watching every sound from the next room.

We both saw some one pass the door, short, wrapped up in an old shawl, a wig with three curls each side and an old black cap. Mrs. Coppinger called out, ‘Emma, get up, it is old Aunt Ann.’ I said, ‘So it is, then Aunt Harriet will die to-day.’ We jumped up, and Mrs. John Pearson came rushing out of the room and said, ‘That was old Aunt Ann. Where is she gone to?’ I said to soothe her, ‘Perhaps it was Eliza come down to see how her mistress is.’ Mrs. Coppinger ran upstairs and found Eliza sleeping in the servants’ room. She was very awestruck but calm, dressed and came down. Every room was searched, no one was there, and from that day to this no explanation has ever been given of this appearance, except that it was old Aunt Ann come to call her sister, who died at 6 p.m. that day.

**EMMA M. PEARSON**

The housekeeper, who is still with Miss Pearson, writes as follows:

I was living with Miss Ann and Miss Harriet Pearson, in 19 St. James’s Place. After the death of Miss Ann I remained with her sister, and when she became very ill and was ordered a change of air, I went with her as nurse to Brighton. Mrs. Coppinger was there and Mr. George James now and then. Miss Emma Pearson was sent for and came down. She brought her aunt back to London. I continued to nurse her. I remember on the early morning of December 23rd being called up by Mrs. Coppinger, who said that she, Miss Emma, and Mrs. John Pearson had seen some one come upstairs and pass into the patient’s room. Was it I? I said no. Mrs. Coppinger said, ‘They said it was old Aunt Ann.’ We searched the house and could find no one. Miss Harriet died in the evening of that day, and before that told all of us that she had seen her sister and knew it was her, and she had come to call her.

**ELIZA QUINTON**

*April 3rd, 1888.*

In a separate letter of the same date Miss Pearson adds:

‘I now remember my aunt saying “her sister had come for her, for she had seen her”.’

In this case the apparition was seen by four persons, and it moved into a room where the sister of the deceased woman was lying on her death-bed. We have therefore in this instance an indication of some knowledge of earthly events, though not of any earlier or fuller knowledge than the survivors themselves possessed.
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Trefwoorden
apparitions; haunted houses; parapsychologie; psychical research; casuïstiek; getuigenverslagen; negentiende eeuw