Psychic Vision During the American Revolution

[rashore]

Quote

Among the conflicts that were influential in turning the course of the American Revolutionary War (which serves as the historical background for the Independence Day - aka., "4th of July" - holiday commonly observed in the United States) were the two Battles of Saratoga, which took place in September and October of 1777, and ultimately ended in the surrender of General John Burgoyne's large British force that was invading the northern colony of New York. One of the casualties suffered by the British during the Battle of Bemis Heights (the second Saratoga battle, which broke out on October 7th) was Brigadier General Simon Fraser, who was struck by rifle fire while he was actively directing his troops on the battlefield

https://www.psychicalresearchfoundation.com/single-post/2019/07/04/A-Reported-Psychic-Vision-During-the-American-Revolution

 

[spartan max2]

Quote

Intriguingly, there's a written account that can be found in Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers, and Frank Podmore's classic 1886 anthology Phantasms of the Living which claims that very near the time that General Fraser had been shot, his wife (who was across the ocean in England) had suddenly experienced a psychic vision relating to the incident. This account (which appears listed as Case #586 in Volume II of Ref. 1) came directly from a distant relative of Fraser's wife, and went as follows:

One of my...grand-aunts was Mrs. F[raser], married to an officer, Major or Colonel F[raser] of the Dragoons, serving in [King] George III's time in America. He was killed at the [second] battle of Saratoga. My aunt lived at the time in Portland Place, W., and was entertaining a large party one evening. Suddenly they remarked [that] she seemed to be in great pain and agony, exclaiming quite aloud to her guests, "Oh do go home. I have seen a most fearful sight, and am compelled to break up the party." Some of her most intimate friends asked her what she had seen. She replied that she was certain "her husband F[raser] had been killed in a battle, and that she most distinctly saw his body being carried to the rear by his soldiers." She remained in great anxiety for weeks, when the sad news confirming her vision arrived from America, and that at the hour she made the exclamation to her guests, her husband F[raser] of the Dragoons (allowing for difference of longitude) was killed in an attack made on the enemy at the [second] battle of Saratoga. [1, Vol. II, pp. 538 - 539]

 

Edited July 14, 2019 by spartan max2