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Monday, December 1, 2025

They Too Said They Saw a Husband's Apparition

 My 2024 post "They Said They Saw a Husband's Apparition" describes quite a few accounts of people who claimed to see an apparition of their husbands.  Let us look at some additional cases of this type. 

We read below that a Mrs. George W. Mann saw an apparition of her late husband:

ghost of husband

You can read the account at the bottom of the page here

The headline below suggests a woman (Mrs. Joaquin Miller)  saw the apparition of her husband (a well-known poet, Joaquin Miller). The account (which mainly discusses telepathy between the wife and the husband while the husband was alive) can be read here

saw husband's ghost

The account below is from 1888:

apparition of husband

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022060/1888-03-30/ed-1/seq-2/

Below is a brief account by a woman reporting a less positive experience with the apparition of her dead husband:


You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85032801/1896-03-12/ed-1/seq-2/

Below is a case of a woman who said she had been haunted by her husband's ghost:

ghost in trial

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1933-02-21/ed-1/seq-3/

Below is another case of a woman who said she had been haunted by her husband's ghost:

haunted by husband's ghost

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086499/1909-04-09/ed-1/seq-3/

The account below tells of a husband's apparition warning a widow (Mrs. Duffy, wife of Patrick Duffy) not to take a sea voyage. 

warned by husband's ghost
You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1890-06-30/ed-1/seq-1/

On the newspaper page here, you will see a headline of "Engaged to Wed Ghost of a Dead Actor." We hear of some strange legal testimony involving Mrs. Lou Bates, who was seeking a legal separation from her husband Charles L. Bates:

"According to testimony introduced Mrs. Bates is engaged to marry the spirit of W. J. Florence in the next world. Mrs. Bates, according to evidence, says that she made love at different times to the ghost of the departed actor."

In the account someone (Mattie Brazil) gives this testimony:

"Mrs. Bates has often spoken to me of meeting the ghost of William Florence an actor long since dead. She told me how she made love to his spirit, and when I was dubious she informed me that though it was a spirit, he was just as tangible as if he had been mortal and existed in flesh. "

We cannot call that an account of someone claiming to see their husband's apparition, but we may count it as an account of claiming to see a fiance's apparition. The account may also qualify as a rare piece of evidence for the interesting concept of "sex after death." 

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