Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Eleven famous hauntings examined by a man who believed the question deserved evidence — Loudun, Tedworth, the Wesleys' parsonage, the Cock Lane ghost — and then the investigators who went after them.

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg

7 pages in this part of Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg

N mid April of the memorable year 1745, IN two men, hastening through a busy London thoroughfare, paused for a moment to follow with their…

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg: Charles

Returning to Sweden to assume the duties of assessor of mines, he speedily proved that he was no mere theorizer, his inventive genius…

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg: Conceive

Conceive his astonishment, therefore, when, his dinner still unfinished, he felt a strange languor creeping over him and a mysterious…

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg: Gottenburg

Toward the end of July in the first of these years, Swedenborg (whose fondness for travel The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg 69 ceased only…

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg: Marteville

It was thus in the case of Madam Marteville, widow of the Dutch Ambassador to Sweden. In 1761, some months after her The Visions of Emanuel…

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg: Christmas

A decade more, and again we meet him in London, his whole being, at eighty-four, animated with the same energy and enthusiasm that had led…

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg: Sidis

Now, arguing by analogy from the cases scattered through the writings of Janet, Sidis, Prince, Myers, Gurney, and many others whose works…

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