Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (Volume 7) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN PSYCHIC PHENOMENA WITNESSED ON THE EVENINGS OF NOVEMBER 18, 19, 20, 1911. On-Saturday evening, November 18, immediately after supper, Henry, Belle, Anna, Gill and I went into the study. This room is on the second floor of the house, and a ground plan of this floor is attached to this account. I should judge this study room, which extends across the front of the house, to be about 25 feet square. It is partially divided by an alcove in which there are bookshelves extending to within a few feet of the ceiling, and in it were a leather lounge and a small writing desk near the window. In the study itself the more prominent articles of furniture were: an unusually large study desk, weighing certainly 550 pounds, standing before the bay windows. A fireplace is on the side of the room opposite the alcove. Two large leather easy chairs, a large Morris chair, two leather bottom Hepplewhite chairs, and a table were in the room, and some smaller chairs. Entrance to the room was from the hall by double doors, and also by a single door which led into a closet leading in turn to Henry's bedroom in the rear. The room was lighted by two clusters of electric lights, one in the middle of the ceiling of the study proper, the other in the middle of the ceiling of the alcove, both controlled by switch and buttons at one side of the double doors of the study, electric lights at either side of the fireplace, and an electric lamp on the desk. A telephone stood on the shelf made by the alcove partition and near the double doors. In the rear was a bedroom with adjoining bathroom and with passage way into the study. Gill sat down at the study desk and began automatic writing, purporting to come from a control calling himself " Bellyache ." Among other things he wrote reference...