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W. T. Stead. Real Ghost Stories
Real Ghost Stories
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
A PREFATORY WORD
REAL GHOST STORIES
PART I
THE GHOST THAT DWELLS IN EACH OF US
PART II
THE THOUGHT BODY, OR THE DOUBLE
PART III
CLAIRVOYANCE—THE VISION OF THE OUT OF SIGHT
PART IV
PREMONITIONS AND SECOND SIGHT
PART V
GHOSTS OF THE LIVING ON BUSINESS
PART VI
GHOSTS KEEPING PROMISE
APPENDIX
SOME HISTORICAL GHOSTS
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W. T. Stead
Published by Good Press, 2019
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On January 17th, 1887, he went from his home in Coventry, R.I., to Providence, in order to get money to pay for a farm which he had arranged to buy, leaving his horse at Greene Station, in a stable, expecting to return the same afternoon from the city. He drew out of the bank 551 dollars, and paid several small bills, after which he went to his nephew's store, 121, Broad Street, and then started to go to his sister's house on Westminster Street. This was the last that was known of his doings at that time. He did not appear at his sister's house, and did not return to Greene.
Nothing was heard of him until March the 14th, when a telegram came from a doctor in Norristown, Philadelphia, stating that he had just been discovered there. He was entirely unconscious of having been absent from home, or of the lapse of time between January 17th and March 14th. He was brought home by his relatives, who, by diligent inquiry were able to make out that Mr. Ansel Bourne, five weeks after leaving Rhode Island, opened a shop in Norristown, and stocked it with toys and confectionery which he purchased in Philadelphia. He called himself A. J. Brown, and lived and did business, and went to meeting, like any ordinary mortal, giving no one any suspicion that he was any other than A. J. Brown.
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