Materialized Apparitions

er controls, managing the séance with great skill and judgment, thus eliminating from her séances all chance of transfiguration or personat

open to criticism. A thorough examination of it, however, revealed no possi

across the corner of the room. Backed as it is by solid walls, the forms that come from this temporary

rrangement is so successful, and I know it is, there is some force in the objection made against using the other. Every medium is in just

éance with perfect nonchalance, selecting with ease and correctness the persons whom the spirits desired

the last, when her control, Cadaleene, who had promised to materialize, came out so perfect in action and voice that I shall never forget her grateful atte

up to the cabinet and kissed him; and while he was standing with both arms around her, talking, she dematerialized. This occurred fully three fe

we found Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, of Hartford, Conn.; Mr. Thomas Hazard, of Provide

he office of the Banner of Light, that while, to the best of my knowledge, after an examination, I believed Mrs. Fairchild's cabinet to be all right, still I would like to see the same results in a cabinet made by hanging a curtain a

experience occurred: A gentleman, who does not choose to have his name mentioned, had a communication the day before from a spirit-friend, in writing, through his own hand, promising to

be lit and the hall door opened. She then closed the sliding door in front of the cabinet, and fastened back the curt

could be seen by all present. The medium, still under control, passed behind the curtain, but came out in a moment, followed almost immediately by a form dressed e

rits with remarkable dexterity. Several others followed, and we might give names and personal

Hazard, and Mr. John Wetherbee have giv

hance for a confederate to be used. The séance lasted about two hours, during which time scarcely a minute passed that there were not forms out in the room, either to Mr. Brewer or myself; sometimes three or four at on

m around each, satisfying myself of their objective reality as well as if I had been walking with them outside in the room. While thus holding them, the one encircled by my left arm, and whose right arm was around my neck, instantly disappeared, without the slightest indication of any movement;-she was th

e no surprise, only an earnest desire to discover how or where the forms go,

le to skeptics; but to the experienced investigator they offer nothing new. Many of the forms come heavily veile