Mental Telegraphy

0:00 Exact fitting of all the circumstances is something very remarkable,

0:04 and makes one of those stories that seem hardly accidental in their nature.

0:10 Something that happened the other day brought my hoary manuscript to mind,

0:14 and that is how I came to dig it out from its dusty pigeonhole grave for publication.

0:21 The thing that happened was a question.

0:23 A lady asked it.

0:25 Have you ever had a vision when awake?

0:28 I was about to answer promptly when the last two words of the question began to grow and spread and swell,

0:35 and presently they attained to vast dimensions.

0:38 She did not know that they were important, and I did not at first,

0:43 but I soon saw that they were putting me on the track of the solution of a mystery which had perplexed me a good deal.

0:51 You will see what I mean when I get down to it.

0:53 Ever since the English Society for Psychical Research began its searching investigations of ghost stories,

1:00 haunted houses, and apparitions of the living and the dead,

1:04 I have read their pamphlets with avidity as fast as they arrived.