More Old Newspaper Accounts of Telepathy or Clairvoyance

In the 1908 newspaper account below, we read of a case that seems to be evidence of telepathy. A grandmother reported to others that she seemed to hear her granddaughter crying for help 300 miles away, at about the same time her granddaughter drowned. The article also mentions a sighting of a vision of Mrs. Wilmot, reported to have been seen by her husband (on a ship) when Mrs. Wilmot was far away.  His roommate said he  saw the same thing. The husband soon later learned that Mrs. Wilmot had a dream of visiting him on the ship, about when the vision was seen. Click on the image to read the text more clearly. 

You can read the entire newspaper article here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92051126/1908-10-04/ed-1/seq-22/

The biologist Rupert Sheldrake has compiled evidence that dogs may have telepathy or clairvoyance. He authored a book entitled "Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home."  He reports a recurrent effect of dogs who seem to stay near the door or a window in the minutes preceding the return of their owners to a home. You can read here a chapter he wrote on this topic and related topics. Here is an excerpt about formal tests Sheldrake did with Pam Smart's dog Jaytee, tests suggesting some telepathy or clairvoyance in the dog:

 Here is the following paragraph from the same paper:

The aftermath (discussed on page 353 of the paper) seemed to be a case example of deception by skeptics of the paranormal. One skeptic testing the same dog produced evidence strongly supporting the dog ESP idea, but used deceptive data exclusion tricks to try to portray his positive result as a negative result. Another skeptic claimed to have experimental results discrediting the experimental results produced in the tests involving the dog Jaytee. The claim was very suspicious from the beginning, because you can never discredit a result suggesting ESP by some other experimental result in which ESP is not observed (just as you never discredit reports of meteorites falling into fields by showing that some fields do not get meteorite falls). Sheldrake kept pressing the skeptic to produce the claimed experimental results on this topic, but the skeptic never produced the results.  It seems the skeptic was simply lying about having contradictory experimental results. 

 Sheldrake would not be surprised by the 1950's news account below. We read of a cat that made sounds the owners had never heard before, at the very time when the sons of the owners were in danger from a forest fire. (Click on the image to read it better.)

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1959-07-05/ed-1/seq-118/

The newspaper account below is one of many that appeared in the press regarding the team of Joseph Mercedes and Nellie Stantone. The two had a theater act in which Stantone would be blindfolded on a stage, sitting next to a piano. Far away Mercedes would ask audience members to select a random piece to be performed, with the request being only whispered. Innumerable times Mercedes played the requested piece of music. The team seemed to have been successfully tested by parapsychology researchers. See for example the article in the top left of the page here. The article is from 1914. 

You can read the story here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1914-06-21/ed-1/seq-51/

Using the link below, you can see many different newspaper articles on this couple:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?dateFilterType=yearRange&date1=1756&date2=1963&language=&ortext=&andtext=Mercedes+Stantone&phrasetext=&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=20&searchType=advanced

Below is a 1923 account of the psychic Rafael Schermann:

You can read the full account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038485/1923-11-04/ed-1/seq-3/#

 We read this in the account above:

"One shows Schermann a piece of paper with a few lines written on it. The paper may he turned upside down — it makes no difference. Schermann  does not examine it as the ordinary graphologist would  —he merely glances at it for one or two seconds. On the strength of this glance he will tell you what the writer looks like, what diseases he had as a child, what color his wife’s hair is and how many children he has. He ran tell you where, under what condition  the lines were written. Once he said to me about a sample writing: 'This was written by a chronic drunkard in prison.'  So it was. Again, by way of experiment, 1 wrote a few lines while sitting in the bathtub. Schermann said: This was written in a bath tub."

Below is another article about the same person, written by a professor of psychiatry and neurology who tested him:

You can read the full article here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1923-11-05/ed-1/seq-10/

Another newspaper article on the same mind marvel can be read here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1923-11-26/ed-1/seq-26/

The account below tells an astonishing tale of extrasensory perception or conceivably a willful out-of-body experience:

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86090330/1907-12-07/ed-1/seq-8/

The distinguished editor W. T. Stead makes this report of the results of a telepathy test he and others supervised, with the sender and receiver being located 125 miles apart. He says there was a perfect reception of the telepathy targets: the word "Scotland," the number 579 and a time of 7:20 PM. 

You can read the full article here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99062034/1903-09-12/ed-1/seq-1/

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