INFERENCES FROM HAUNTED HOUSES AND HAUNTED MEN

BY THE HONBLE. JOHN HARRIS

1901




Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men




The lack of interest in so-called psychical matters is somewhat
surprising.

There is, however, more hope of the clearing up of the scientific aspects
of these phenomena than ever before.

Sir William Crookes, late President of the British Association, has no
doubt that thoughts and images may be transferred from one mind to
another without the agency of the recognised organs of sense, and that
knowledge may enter the human mind without being communicated in any
hitherto known or recognised ways! The word recognised is important;
perhaps "not by the recognised action of the organs of sense," would be a
better expression.

In the "Alleged Haunting of B---- House," p. 33, Miss Freer says:
"Apparitions are really hallucinations or false impressions upon the