THE KGB PERFORMS THAT OLD RED MAGIC BY VICTOR ZORA

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There is no question that there is an unseen world. The
problcm,,is, how far is it from midtown and how late Is it
open? Unexplainable events occur constantly. One man
will see spirits. Another will hear voices. A third w ill ake
up and find himself running in the Preakness. How many of
us have not at one time or another felt an ice-cold hand on
the back of our neck while we were home alone? (Not me,
thank God, but some have.) What is behind these experi-
ences? Or in front of them, for that matter? Is it true that
some men can foresee the future or communicate with
ghosts? And after death is it still possible to take showers?
Fortunately, these questions about psychic phenomena
are answered in a soon to be published book, Bowl, by Dr.
Osgood Mulford 'I'waweigc, the noted parapsychologist and
professor of ectoplasm at Columbia University. Dr. Twelge
has assembled a remarkable history of supernatural inci-
dents that covers the whole range of psychic phenomena,
from thought transference -to the bizarre experience of two
brothers on opposite parts of the globe, one of whom took a
bath while the other suddenly got clean. What follows is but
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a sampling of Dr. 'Fwclge's most celebrated cases, with his
comments.
APPARITIONS
On March 16, 1882, Mr. J. C. Dubbs awoke in the middle
of the night and saw his brother Amos, who had been dead
for fourteen years, sitting at the foot of his bed flicking
chickens. Dubbs asked his brother what he was doing there,
and his, brother said not to worry, he was dead and was only
in town for the weekend. Dubbs asked his brother what it
was like in "the other world," and his brother said it was
not unlike Cleveland. He said he had returned to give
Dubbs a message, which was that a dark-blue suit and
Argyle socks are a big mistake.
At that point, Dubbs's servant girl entered and saw
Dubbs talking to "a shapeless, milky haze," which she said
reminded her of Arnos Dubbs but was a little better-looking.
Finally, the ghost asked I?ebbs to join him in an aria from
Faust, which the two sang with great fervor. As dawn rose,
the ghost walked through the wall, and Dubbs, trying to
follow, broke his nose.
This appears to be a classic case of the apparition
phenomenon, and if Dubbs is to be believed, the ghost
returned again and caused Mrs. Dubbs to rise out of a chair
and hover over the dinner table for twenty minutes until she
dropped into sonic gravy. It is interesting to note that spirits
have a tendency to be mischievous, which A. F. Childe, the
British mystic, attributes to a marked feeling of inferiority
they have over being dead. "Apparitions" are often associ-
ated with individuals who have suffered an unusual demise.
Amos Dubbs, for instance', had died under mysterious
circumstances when a Earner accidentally planted hire.
along with SUITrc tiirnil)s.
SPIRIT DEPAR'T'URE
Mr. Albert Sykes reports the following experience: "I was
sitting having biscuits with some friends when I felt uiv
spirit leave my body and go make a telephone call. For
some reason, it called the Moscowitz Fiber Glass Company.
My spirit then returned to my body and sat for another
twenty minutes or so, hoping nobody would suggest cha-
rades. When the conversation turned to mutual funds, it left
again and began wandering around the city. I am con-
vinced that it visited the Sta tut: of Liberty and then saw the
stage show at Radio City Music Hall. Following that, it
went to Benny's Steak House and ran up a tab of sixty-eight
dollars. My spirit then decided to return to my body, but it
was impossible to get a cab. Finally, it walked up Fifth
Avenue and rejoined me just in time to catch the Tate ne? s.
I could tell that it was reentering my body, because I felt a
sudden chill, and a voice said, `I'm back. You want to pass
me those raisins?'
"This phenomenon has happened to me several times
since. Once, my spirit went to Miami for a weekend, and
once it was, arrested for trying to leave Macy's without
paying for a tie. The fourth time, it was actually my body
that left my spirit, although all it did was get a rubdown
and come right back."
Spirit departure was very common around 1910, when
many "spirits" were reported wandering aimlessly around
India searching for the American Consulate. The phenome-
non is quite similar to transubstantiation, the process
whereby a person will suddenly dematerialize and remateri-
alize somewhere else in the world. This is not a bad way to
trai,el, although there is usually a half-hour wait for
lug age. The most astonishing case of transubstantiation
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',as chat (il ~.ir Arthm- Nurnt.y, who vanlshcd .Willi an
audible pof) wlnlc he was taking a bath and suddenly
appeared in the scrim section of the Vicuna Symphony
Orchestra. I-Ic siaycd on as the first violinist for twenty-
seven years, although he could only play "Three Blind
Mice," and vanished abruptly one day during Mozart's
Jupiter Symphony, turning up in bed with Winston
Churchill.
Mr. Fenton Allentuck describes the following precognitive
dream: "I went to sleep at midnight and dreamed that I
was playing whist with a plate of chives. Suddenly the
dream shifted, and I saw my grandfather about to be run
over by a truck in the middle of the street, wher- he was
waltzing with a clothing dummy. I tried to. scream, but
when I opened my mouth the only sound that came out was
chimes, and my grandfather was run over.
"I awoke in a sweat and ran to my grandfather's house
and asked hint if he had plans to go waltzing with a
clothing dummy. He said of course not, although he had
contemplated posing as a shepherd to fool his enemies.
Relieved, I walked home, but learned later that the old
man had slipped on a chicken-salad sandwich and fallen off
the Chrysler Building."
Precognitive dreams arc too common to be dismissed as
pure coincidence. Here a man dreams of a relative's death,
and it occurs. Not everyone is so lucky. J. Martinez, of
Itt.entic;~;:nk nrt. M;sine, dic?anic I he won the Irish Swcep-
4':;iYtius. '~ tan lit' avo,ltil`. i;is Iit'tl li,A tlo4ted out to sea.
Sir Hugh SwiggIes, the skeptic, reports an interesting seance
experience:
We attended the home of Madame Reynaud, the noted
medium, where we were all told to sit around the table and
join hands. Mr. Weeks couldn't stop giggling, and Madame
Reynaud smashed him on the head with a Ouija board. Tie
lights were turned out, and Madame Reynaud attempted to
contact Mrs. Marple's husband, who had died at the opera
when his beard caught fire. The following is an exact
transcript:
MRS. MARPLE: What do you see?
MEDIL.M: I see a man with blue eyes and a pinwheel hat.
MRS. MARPLE: That's my husband!
MEDIUM: His name is . . . Robert. No . . . Richard . . .
MRS. MARPLE: Quincy.
MEDIUM: Quincy! Yes, that's it!
MRS. MARPLE: What else about him?
MEDIUM: He is bald but usually keeps some.leaves on his
head so nobody will notice.
MRS. MARPLE: Yes! Exactly!
MEDIUM: For some reason, he has an object . . a loin of
pork.
MRS. MARPLE: My anniversary present to him! Can you
make him speak?
MEDIUM: Speak, spirit. Speak.
QUINCY: Claire, this is Quincy.
MRS. MARPLE: Oh, Quincy! Quincy!
QUINcY: How long do you keep the chicken in when you're
trying to broil it?
MRS. MARPLE: That voice! It's hiin!
MEDIUM: i'.verybody conccntratc.
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QUIrrcY: Not bad, except it takes four days to get
cleaning back.
MRS. MARPI_F.: t4Uincy, do you miss me?
QUINCY: Huh? Olt, cr, sure. Sure, kid. I got
going. . . .
MEDIUM: I'm losing it. Tie's fading. . . .
I found this seance to pass the most stringent tests of
credulity, with the minor exception of a phonograph, which
was found under Madame Reynaud's dress.
There is rio doubt that certain events recorded at seances
arc genuine. Who does not recall the famous incident at
Sybil Seretsky's, when her goldfish sang "I Got Rhythm"-
a favorite tune of her recently deceased nephew? But
contacting the dead is at best difficult, since most deceased
are reluctant to speak up, and those that do seem to hem
and haw before getting to the point. The author has
actually seen a table rise, and Dr. Joshua Flcagle, of
Harvard, attended a seance in which a table not only rose
but excused itself and went upstairs to sleep.
CLAIRVOYANCE
One of the most astounding cases of clairvoyance is that of
the noted Greek psychic, Achille Londos. Londos realized
he had "unusual powers" by the age of ten, when he could
lie in bed and, by concentrating, make his father's false
teeth jump out of his mouth. After a neighbor's husband
had been missing for three weeks, Londos told them to look
in the stove, where the man was found knitting. L ondos
could concentrate on a person's face and force the image to
come out on a roil of ordinary Kodak film, although he
could never- seem to t;ct anybody to smile.
Dusseldorf Strangler, a fiend who always left a haked
Alaska on the chests of his victims. Merely by sniflintI t
handkerchief, London led police to Siegfried Lcnz, ha(id) -
man at a school for deaf turkeys, who said he was the
strangler and could he-please have his handkerchief hack.
Londos is just one of many people with psychic po'rtiwers.
C. N. Jerome, the psychic, of Newport, Rhode Island.
claims he can guess any card being thought of by a squir-
rel.
Finally, we come to Aristonidis, the sixteenth-century count
whose predictions continue to dazzle and perplex even the
most skeptical. Typical examples are:
"Two nations will go to war, but only one will win."
(Experts feel this probably refers to the Russo Japanese
War of 1904 05-an astounding feat of prognostication,
considering the fact that it was made in 1540.)
"A man in Istanbul will have his hat blocked, and it will
be ruined."
(In I86o, Abu Hamid, Ottoman warrior, sent his cap out
to be cleaned, and it came back with spots.) -
"I see a great person, who one day will Invent for
mankind a garment to be worn over his trousers for
protection while cooking. It will be called an `apron' or
`aprone.' "
(Aristonidis meant the apron, of course.)
"A leader will emerge in France. He will be very short
and will cause great calamity."
(This is a reference either to Napoleon or to Marcel
Lurnet, an eighteenth-century midget who instigated a plot
to rub bearnaisc sauce on Voltaire.)
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