In the series of 12 posts below, I discussed dreams, visions or mysterious voices that seemed to foretell a death or disaster:
More Dreams or Visions That Seemed to Foretell a Death
Still More Dreams or Visions That Seemed to Foretell a Death
Some More Dreams or Visions That Seemed to Foretell a Death or Disaster
When the Future Whispers to the Present
Let us look at some more cases of this type, along with a spooky event coinciding with a death.
Below we have a 1919 account of a daughter (Hazel Bonner) warned in a dream of the fatal shooting of her father:
You can read the account here. The account below appeared in a newspaper, and can be read on page 188 of the document here:
"A few nights ago a little boy of rare intelligence, named Fillmore, son
of G. Fisher, residing in Reistertown, Baltimore county, about the midnight hour, awoke his mother and informed her that he was going to die.
He told his father the same thing, and when told he was dreaming,
replied that he was awake and knew that he was going to die. The
parents thought nothing more about it, and the child slept comfortably
until morning. When he awoke in the morning, he repeated his presentiment to his parents; and as soon as breakfast was over he insisted on
being allowed to go and tell Mrs. Walters, a neighbor, that be was going
to die.
His mother told him that he had better go and see his grandmother, if
he was going to die. He made his visit to his grandmother, and also to
Mrs. Walters, after which he returned to his home. During the afternoon of the same day, his mother was called out of the house for a few
minutes, and when she returned she found the little fellow awfully burned
by his clothes having taken fire. As soon as the fire was extinguished
he said to his mother, 'I told you I was going to die.' A physician was
called in who dressed his injuries, telling him that he would soon be well.
He said, 'No, Fillmore is going to die;' and during the night the little
fellow breathed his last. This was a most extraordinary presentiment,
and during the whole day he spoke of dying, though he enjoyed excellent
health.-Baltimore Republican, Feb. 2."
Below is a newspaper account of a woman (Mary Scott Turner) who seemed to have a vivid dream of being warned by her late son, with the dream occurring the day before she died in a fire.
You can read the account here:
Below is a newspaper account you can read here, one which attracts our lurid interest. And things become even more fascinating when we check out what is referred to in the little box at the bottom right, saying Mrs. White says she was warned in a dream.
Scrolling down in the story to get details, we find a startling result. Apparently it was not just one person who had a dream warning of Eddie White's murder, but two different people: Eddie's wife and Eddie's brother. Eddie's wife dreamed Eddie was found dead in his car, murdered; and the headline above says he was murdered in a taxi. We read this:
Below is a newspaper account of a boy (Ellis Rogers) who had a dream foretelling his drowning death:
You can read the account here:
Below is a news account of a woman who had dreams and premonitions telling her that her missing husband was dead:
You can read the account here:
The newspaper account below tells us a woman (Stella Pivinski) having a vision warning her of a shooting that she soon experienced:
You can read the account here:
Below we read an account of a strange omen at the wedding of Eveline James, one that seems to have been fulfilled.
You can read the account here:
In the newspaper account below, we read of a woman (Mrs. I. H. Jones) who had a dream that seemed to foretell a death:
You can read the account here:
On the same page we have the dream account below. If we interpret the part about the brother rising out of the ocean as being a reference to rising up to an afterlife, the dream may seem one that accurately foretold a death:
In the 1901 news account below, which you can read here, we read of a woman who had three dreams predicting her death, shortly before she died:
Woman's Death Foretold by Dreams
New York Sun Special Service
"Middletawn, N. Y.. April 22.—Mrs. Maria Conkllng, wife of David Conkling. living near Rockhill. who died suddenly Thursday, had been warned in dreams three successive nights that her end was near. The story told by members of her family and by neighbors to whom she related her dreams while making preparations for death is
as follows:
She was 49 years old and apparently in perfect health. Monday night she dreamed that her daughter, who died twelve years ago, appeared to her and beckoned to her; Tuesday night her mother, who died about twenty-five years ago. appeared to her while she slept and beckoned to her; Wednesday night she dreamed that a black-robed figure of death stood by her bedside holding a taper, and while it beckoned, the taper suddenly went out.
Thursday afternoon, while engaged in household duties, the final summons came in the form of a stroke of apoplexy."
The account below is taken from page 41 of the document here, a document with many interesting accounts of the paranormal. The narrator is Philip Masey, the husband of Mrs. Masey:
"Mrs. Mary Masey, who resided on Redcliffe Hill, Bristol,
at the beginning at this century, was a member of the Society of Friends, and was held in high esteem for piety. A memorable incident in her life was that one night she dreamt that a Mr. John Henderson, a noted man of the same community, had gone to Oxford, and that he had died there. In the course of the next day, Mr. Henderson called to take leave of her, saying he was going to Oxford to study a subject concerning which he could not obtain the information he·wanted in Bristol. Mrs. Masey said to him, 'John Henderson, thou wilt die there.' Some time afterwards, Mrs. Masey
woke her husband one night, saying, 'Remember, John
Henderson died at Oxford at two o'clock this morning, and
it is now three.' Her husband, Philip Masey, made light of
it ; but she told him that while asleep, she had been transported to Oxford, where she had never been before, and that she had entered a room there, in which she saw Mr. John Henderson in bed, the landlady supporting his head, and the landlord with several other persons standing around. While gazing at him some one gave him medicine, and the patient, turning round, perceived her, and exclaimed, 'Oh, Mrs. Masey, I am going to die ; I am so glad you are come, for I want to tell you that my father is going to be very ill,
and you must go and see him.' He then proceeded to
describe a room in his father's house and a bureau in it,
'in which is a box containing a remedy; give it him, and he
will recover.' Her impression and recollection of all the persons in the room at Oxford was most vivid, and she even described the appearance of the house on the opposite side
of the street. Tbe only person she appeared not to have seen in the room was a clergyman who was present. The
husband of Mrs. Masey accompanied Mr. Henderson's father
to the funeral, and on their journey from Bristol to Oxford
by coach (the period being before railways and telegraphs
existed), Mr. Philip Masey related to him the particulars of
his son's death, as described by his wife, which on arrival
they found to have been exactly as told by Mrs. Masey.
Mrs. Masey was so much concerned about the death of
Mr. Henderson, jun., that she forgot all about the directions
he had given her respecting the approaching illness of his
father, but some time afterwards she was sent for by the
father, who was very ill. She then remembered the directions given her by the son on his deathbed at Oxford. She immediately proceeded to the residence of Mr. Henderson, and on arrival at the house she found the room, the bureau, the box, and the medicine exactly as had been foretold to her. She administered the remedy as directed, and had the pleasure of witnessing the beneficial effect by the complete
recovery of Mr. Henderson from a serious illness."
On page 32 of the book here, we read the following very interesting claim:
"Most people that have reached middle age have generally experienced some strange phenomena before a death has taken place. Some have heard noises like
a cannon going off ; others have heard sounds like the
ticking of a watch; or loud knocks at the door; birds
singing; loud knocks about the room or on the table;
candle lights that have gradually dissolved; cups and
saucers shaking, and various articles of crockery moving and breaking; sounds of music in the distance; also dreaming about some friend or relation that has passed on to the higher life ; pictures falling, and heavy articles of furniture, such as pianofortes, being moved out of their place; the falling of stars and meteoric
bodies from the sky; ravens taking rest on the tops
of houses; birds and animals making strange and unusual noises; dogs howling in front of a house; and a number of other things. Some people can tell almost to a day when there is going to be a death, because they have experienced the same phenomena
before. In some cases there will be a sign of death
about a week before it takes place; others will perceive the sign a few clays before or on the same day.
It all depends upon the development of the recipient."
We then hear the author tell some eerie stories of howling dogs that seemed to foretell a death. She says in the days just before her father died a howling dog appeared on her doorstop.
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