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 There is no question that there is an unseen world. The
 problcm,,is, how far is it from midtown and how late Is it
 open? Unexplainable events occur constantly. One man
 will see spirits. Another will hear voices. A third w ill  ake
 up and find himself running in the Preakness. How many of
 us have not at one time or another felt an ice-cold hand on
 the back of our neck while we were home alone? (Not me,
 thank God, but some have.) What is behind these experi-
 ences? Or in front of them, for that matter? Is it true that
 some men can foresee the future or communicate with
 ghosts? And after death is it still possible to take showers?
 Fortunately, these questions about psychic phenomena
 are answered in a soon to be published book, Bowl, by Dr.
 Osgood Mulford 'I'waweigc, the noted parapsychologist and
 professor of ectoplasm at Columbia University. Dr. Twelge
 has assembled a remarkable history of supernatural inci-
 dents that covers the whole range of psychic phenomena,
 from thought transference -to the bizarre experience of two
 brothers on opposite parts of the globe, one of whom took a
 bath while the other suddenly got clean. What follows is but
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 a sampling of Dr. 'Fwclge's most celebrated cases, with his
 comments.
 APPARITIONS
 On March 16, 1882, Mr. J. C. Dubbs awoke in the middle
 of the night and saw his brother Amos, who had been dead
 for fourteen years, sitting at the foot of his bed flicking
 chickens. Dubbs asked his brother what he was doing there,
 and his, brother said not to worry, he was dead and was only
 in town for the weekend. Dubbs asked his brother what it
 was like in "the other world," and his brother said it was
 not unlike Cleveland. He said he had returned to give
 Dubbs a message, which was that a dark-blue suit and
 Argyle socks are a big mistake.
 At that point, Dubbs's servant girl entered and saw
 Dubbs talking to "a shapeless, milky haze," which she said
 reminded her of Arnos Dubbs but was a little better-looking.
 Finally, the ghost asked I?ebbs to join him in an aria from
 Faust, which the two sang with great fervor. As dawn rose,
 the ghost walked through the wall, and Dubbs, trying to
 follow, broke his nose.
 This appears to be a classic case of the apparition
 phenomenon, and if Dubbs is to be believed, the ghost
 returned again and caused Mrs. Dubbs to rise out of a chair
 and hover over the dinner table for twenty minutes until she
 dropped into sonic gravy. It is interesting to note that spirits
 have a tendency to be mischievous, which A. F. Childe, the
 British mystic, attributes to a marked feeling of inferiority
 they have over being dead. "Apparitions" are often associ-
 ated with individuals who have suffered an unusual demise.
 Amos Dubbs, for instance', had died under mysterious
 circumstances when a Earner accidentally planted hire.
 along with SUITrc tiirnil)s.
 SPIRIT DEPAR'T'URE
 Mr. Albert Sykes reports the following experience: "I was
 sitting having biscuits with some friends when I felt uiv
 spirit leave my body and go make a telephone call. For
 some reason, it called the Moscowitz Fiber Glass Company.
 My spirit then returned to my body and sat for another
 twenty minutes or so, hoping nobody would suggest cha-
 rades. When the conversation turned to mutual funds, it left
 again and began wandering around the city. I am con-
 vinced that it visited the Sta tut: of Liberty and then saw the
 stage show at Radio City Music Hall. Following that, it
 went to Benny's Steak House and ran up a tab of sixty-eight
 dollars. My spirit then decided to return to my body, but it
 was impossible to get a cab. Finally, it walked up Fifth
 Avenue and rejoined me just in time to catch the Tate ne? s.
 I could tell that it was reentering my body, because I felt a
 sudden chill, and a voice said, `I'm back. You want to pass
 me those raisins?'
 "This phenomenon has happened to me several times
 since. Once, my spirit went to Miami for a weekend, and
 once it was, arrested for trying to leave Macy's without
 paying for a tie. The fourth time, it was actually my body
 that left my spirit, although all it did was get a rubdown
 and come right back."
 Spirit departure was very common around 1910, when
 many "spirits" were reported wandering aimlessly around
 India searching for the American Consulate. The phenome-
 non is quite similar to transubstantiation, the process
 whereby a person will suddenly dematerialize and remateri-
 alize somewhere else in the world. This is not a bad way to
 trai,el, although there is usually a half-hour wait for
 lug age. The most astonishing case of transubstantiation
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 ',as  chat (il  ~.ir  Arthm-  Nurnt.y,  who vanlshcd .Willi an
 audible pof) wlnlc he was taking a bath and suddenly
 appeared in the scrim section of the Vicuna Symphony
 Orchestra. I-Ic siaycd on as the first violinist for twenty-
 seven years, although he could only play "Three Blind
 Mice," and vanished abruptly one day during Mozart's
 Jupiter Symphony, turning up in bed with Winston
 Churchill.
 Mr. Fenton Allentuck describes the following precognitive
 dream: "I went to sleep at midnight and dreamed that I
 was playing whist with a plate of chives. Suddenly the
 dream shifted, and I saw my grandfather about to be run
 over by a truck in the middle of the street, wher- he was
 waltzing with a clothing dummy. I tried to. scream, but
 when I opened my mouth the only sound that came out was
 chimes, and my grandfather was run over.
 "I awoke in a sweat and ran to my grandfather's house
 and asked hint if he had plans to go waltzing with a
 clothing dummy. He said of course not, although he had
 contemplated posing as a shepherd to fool his enemies.
 Relieved, I walked home, but learned later that the old
 man had slipped on a chicken-salad sandwich and fallen off
 the Chrysler Building."
 Precognitive dreams arc too common to be dismissed as
 pure coincidence. Here a man dreams of a relative's death,
 and it occurs. Not everyone is so lucky. J. Martinez, of
 Itt.entic;~;:nk nrt. M;sine, dic?anic I he won the Irish Swcep-
 4':;iYtius. '~  tan lit' avo,ltil`. i;is Iit'tl li,A tlo4ted out to sea.
 Sir Hugh SwiggIes, the skeptic, reports an interesting seance
 experience:
 We attended the home of Madame Reynaud, the noted
 medium, where we were all told to sit around the table and
 join hands. Mr. Weeks couldn't stop giggling, and Madame
 Reynaud smashed him on the head with a Ouija board. Tie
 lights were turned out, and Madame Reynaud attempted to
 contact Mrs. Marple's husband, who had died at the opera
 when his beard caught fire. The following is an exact
 transcript:
 MRS. MARPLE: What do you see?
 MEDIL.M: I see a man with blue eyes and a pinwheel hat.
 MRS. MARPLE: That's my husband!
 MEDIUM: His name is . . . Robert. No . . . Richard . . .
 MRS. MARPLE: Quincy.
 MEDIUM: Quincy! Yes, that's it!
 MRS. MARPLE: What else about him?
 MEDIUM: He is bald but usually keeps some.leaves on his
 head so nobody will notice.
 MRS. MARPLE: Yes! Exactly!
 MEDIUM: For some reason, he has an object .  . a loin of
 pork.
 MRS. MARPLE: My anniversary present to him! Can you
 make him speak?
 MEDIUM: Speak, spirit. Speak.
 QUINCY: Claire, this is Quincy.
 MRS. MARPLE: Oh, Quincy! Quincy!
 QUINcY: How long do you keep the chicken in when you're
 trying to broil it?
 MRS. MARPLE: That voice! It's hiin!
 MEDIUM: i'.verybody conccntratc.
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 QUIrrcY: Not bad, except it takes four days to get
 cleaning back.
 MRS. MARPI_F.: t4Uincy, do you miss me?
 QUINCY:  Huh? Olt, cr, sure. Sure, kid. I got
 going. . . .
 MEDIUM: I'm losing it. Tie's fading. . . .
 I found this seance to pass the most stringent tests of
 credulity, with the minor exception of a phonograph, which
 was found under Madame Reynaud's dress.
 There is rio doubt that certain events recorded at seances
 arc genuine. Who does not recall the famous incident at
 Sybil Seretsky's, when her goldfish sang "I Got Rhythm"-
 a favorite tune of her recently deceased nephew? But
 contacting the dead is at best difficult, since most deceased
 are reluctant to speak up, and those that do seem to hem
 and haw before getting to the point. The author has
 actually seen a table rise, and Dr. Joshua Flcagle, of
 Harvard, attended a seance in which a table not only rose
 but excused itself and went upstairs to sleep.
 CLAIRVOYANCE
 One of the most astounding cases of clairvoyance is that of
 the noted Greek psychic, Achille Londos. Londos realized
 he had "unusual powers" by the age of ten, when he could
 lie in bed and, by concentrating, make his father's false
 teeth jump out of his mouth. After a neighbor's husband
 had been missing for three weeks, Londos told them to look
 in the stove, where the man was found knitting. L ondos
 could concentrate on a person's face and force the image to
 come out on a roil of ordinary Kodak film, although he
 could never- seem to t;ct anybody to smile.
 Dusseldorf Strangler, a fiend who always left a haked
 Alaska on the chests of his victims. Merely by sniflintI t
 handkerchief, London led police to Siegfried Lcnz, ha(id) -
 man at a school for deaf turkeys, who said he was the
 strangler and could he-please have his handkerchief hack.
 Londos is just one of many people with psychic po'rtiwers.
 C. N. Jerome, the psychic, of Newport, Rhode Island.
 claims he can guess any card being thought of by a squir-
 rel.
 Finally, we come to Aristonidis, the sixteenth-century count
 whose predictions continue to dazzle and perplex even the
 most skeptical. Typical examples are:
 "Two nations will go to war, but only one will win."
 (Experts feel this probably refers to the Russo Japanese
 War of 1904 05-an astounding feat of prognostication,
 considering the fact that it was made in 1540.)
 "A man in Istanbul will have his hat blocked, and it will
 be ruined."
 (In I86o, Abu Hamid, Ottoman warrior, sent his cap out
 to be cleaned, and it came back with spots.)            -
 "I see a great person, who one day will Invent for
 mankind a garment to be worn over his trousers for
 protection while cooking. It will be called an `apron' or
 `aprone.' "
 (Aristonidis meant the apron, of course.)
 "A leader will emerge in France. He will be very short
 and will cause great calamity."
 (This is a reference either to Napoleon or to Marcel
 Lurnet, an eighteenth-century midget who instigated a plot
 to rub bearnaisc sauce on Voltaire.)
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