Article in Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries 1895
Goethe states that he one day saw the exact counterpart of himself coming towards him.
Pope saw an arm apparently come through the wall and make inquiries after its owner.
Dr. Johnson heard his mother call his name in a clear voice, though she was at the time in another city.
Swedenborg believed that he had the privilege of interviewing persons in the spirit world.
Loyola, lying wounded during the seige of Pampeluna, saw the Virgin, who encouraged him to prosecute his mission.
Descartes was followed by an invisible person, whose voice he heard urging him to continue his researches after truth.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, leaving his house, thought the lamps were trees, and the men and women bushes agitated by the breeze.
Oliver Cromwell, lying sleepless on his couch saw the curtains open and a gigantic woman appear, who told him he would become the greatest man in England.
Ben Johnson spent the watches of the night with interested spectators of a crowd of Tartars, Turks, and Romans, who rose up and fought around his arm-chair till sunrise.
Bostock, the phrenologist, saw figures and faces, and there was one human face constantly before him for twenty-four hours, the features and head gear as distinct as those of a living person.
Benvenuto Cellini, imprisoned at Rome, resolved to free himself by self destruction, but was deterred by the apparition of a young woman of wonderous beauty, whose reproaches turned him from his purpose.
Napoleon once called attention to a bright star he believed he saw shining in his room, and said: "It has never deserted me. I see it on every great occurence urging me onward. It is my unfailing omen of success."
Nicolai was alarmed by the appearance of a dead body, which vanished and came again at intervals. This was followed by human faces, which came into the room, and, after gazing upon him for awhile, departed.—The Humanitarian.
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