When did you last have a psychic experience? Are you in the habit of seeing – or sensing – the presence of spirits and ghost? Have you ever spotted a lake monster or sighted a UFO? When did you last consult a fortune-teller, approach a medium work an Ouija board, or read an astrology column? Have you ever had a premonition that some odd event would occur, and then witnessed it actually occurring? Did you ever experience a sense of déjà vu or a moment of pure bliss?
Extraordinary Experiences: Personal Accounts of the Paranormal in Canada is a collection of over seventy short yet curiously gripping accounts of experiences and events that may be regarded as abnormal or paranormal. Colombo has collected highly readable accounts of unusual experiences from the past and the present. The supernatural practices of the Indians of the 18th and 19th centuries are described by Samuel Hearne and Paul Kane. From the turn of the century come accounts of "crisis apparitions," poltergeists, and haunted houses, as reported by spiritualists and other observers. But the majority of the personal narratives derive from letters sent to the editor in response to his requests featured in daily newspapers across the country, for first-hand accounts of the supernatural and the paranormal. Over one hundred readers responded; here are some of there responses…
Extraordinary Experiences is an extraordinary reading experience. No book quite like it has ever before appeared in Canada.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-278)
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- 001.9/0971
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Preface 10
- Native Spirituality 20
- Conjuring and Curing among the Indians 21
- The Shaking Tent Mystery 31
- The Last Sun Dance 34
- I Actually Went into the Astral Heaven 40
- Beasts and Beings 44
- The God of the Waters and of the Lakes 45
- Abducted by the Sasquatches 49
- The Profile of a Head 65
- Maybe This Was a Sasquatch 67
- The Monster of Lake Massawippi 71
- The Art of Healing 74
- The Laying on of Hands 75
- The Endless Power of the Human Spirit 77
- Calling upon a Witch 82
- Crisis Apparitions 84
- The Awful Sight Aroused Her 85
- The Sinking of the Asia 86
- Apparition of a Person about to Die 89
- A Death in Ireland 91
- A Crisis Apparition 93
- Thousands of Miles Away in Spain 95
- The Death of Roger 97
- A Thanatological Experience 99
- Ghosts and Spirits 104
- Completely Clad in White 105
- One May Imagine My Astonishment 108
- The Ghost of the Boy on the Bridge 112
- Now They Had My Attention 114
- The Graveyard 117
- The Woman Appeared to Me with Perfect Clarity 119
- Poltergeists and Hauntings 124
- The Baldoon Mystery 125
- Story of the Haunted House 128
- A Singular Case of Poltergeist Haunting 131
- The Old House on MacGregor Side Road 133
- The Farmhouse on Bow Park Farm Road 136
- The Spoon that Moved 138
- The Ghost of Rock Creek 140
- I Tried to Imagine What It Could Be 143
- Not the Creakings or Groanings... 146
- Exorcism by Two Witches 150
- Ecstatic States 154
- One Drop of the Brahmic Bliss 155
- A Giggle in a Guru's Throat 157
- Mediums and Psychics 162
- She is Certainly a Witch 163
- A Very Ingenious Sort of Spiritoscope 167
- But Mother Davis Could Read Minds Fluently 173
- The Appearance of Sir John A. Macdonald 177
- Experience with a Mind-Reader 182
- Winnipeg's Psychic Possibilities 186
- On the Threshold of the Unknown 190
- A Gypsy Fortune-Teller Beckoned Me 195
- Watching Uri Geller 197
- It Was Something I Was Picking Up 200
- Visions and Premonitions 204
- As One in a Dream I Followed Her 205
- The Singular Case of Mr. M----- 209
- My Days Are Nearly Numbered 211
- The Tragic Death of Edward Thomson Foreshadowed 212
- Saved by the Song 216
- An Odd Thing Happened 218
- Many Odd Things that Have Happened... 220
- An Older Man with Little Hair 226
- Vision of a Body without Legs 228
- An Out-of-Body Experience 230
- A Mystery of Memphremagog 234
- The Vision of a Crime 239
- Unidentified Flying Objects 242
- A Cloud of Very Remarkable Appearance 243
- I Knew Then that They Were Space Beings 245
- The Biggest and Weirdest Ship 251
- It Spun Rapidly in the Bright Sunlight 253
- This Machine Was Going Away from Us 255
- A Motionless, Noiseless, Stationary UFO 257
- Two UAO Sightings 259
- This Long, Dirigible-shaped Object 263
- The Appearance of Lights and Ships 266
- The Platform of Light 268
- You Should Find It Interesting Reading 271
- The Falcon Lake Encounter 277
- Sources 284
- Bibliography 285
- Acknowledgements 288
