"No," I replied.

"The very same words he spoke to your wife," said Colonel Fox.

This is the story I refer to in my book "Bible Mystery and Bible
Meaning" as that of "the Ghost that I did not see." I do not attempt to
offer any explanation of it, but merely give the facts as they occurred,
and the reader must form his own theory on the subject; but the reason I
bring in this story in the present connection is, that in this instance
there could be no question of the physical body contributing to the
psychic phenomenon, since the person seen had been dead for nearly
twenty years; and coupling this fact with the distance from the physical
body at which the psychic action took place in the other cases I have
mentioned, I think there is a very strong presumption that the psychic
powers can, and do, act independently of the physical body; though of
course it does not follow from this that they cannot also act in
conjunction with it.

On the other hand, a comparison of the present case with those
previously mentioned, fails to throw any light on the important question
whether the deceased feels any consciousness of the action which the
percipient sees, or whether what is seen is like a sort of photograph
impressed upon the atmosphere of a particular locality, and visible only
to certain persons, who are able to sense etheric wave-lengths which are
outside the range of the single octave forming the solar spectrum. It
throws no light on this question, because, in the case of my being seen
by Mr. S. in Edinburgh and that of Miss B. and her mother being seen by
me at Norwood, none of us were conscious of having been at those
places; while in the case of my psychic visit to Lanercost Abbey, and