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occasionally with heavenly music,” they wrote,
adding that not everyone who is in the room
sees it.
The Fenwicks quote a woman named Penny
Bilcliffe, who was present when her sister died:
“I saw a fast-moving ‘Will o’ the Wisp’ appear
to leave her body by the side of her mouth on
the right. The shock and the beauty of it made
me gasp. It appeared like a fluid or gaseous diamond,
pristine, sparkly, and pure, akin to the
view from above of an eddy in the clearest pool
you can imagine…It moved rapidly upwards
and was gone.”
Such misty vapors and “lights” around the
deathbed have been reported by other researchers,
including Dr. Bernard Laubscher, a
South African psychiatrist. “I was told by different
‘Tant Sannies’ (caregivers) how, while
watching at the bedside of the dying, one with
one or two candles burning they had seen the
formation of a faint vaporous body, an elongated
whitish purplish-like cloud; parallel with
the dying person and about two feet above the
body,” Laubscher wrote in a 1975 book, Beyond
Life’s Curtain. “Gradually this cloudlike appearance
became denser and took on the form, first
vaguely and then more definitely, of the person
in the bed. This process continued until the
phantom suspended above the body was an absolute
replica of the person, especially the
face.”
Laubscher further wrote that these caregivers,
some of whom were apparently clairvoyant,
reported seeing a ribbon-like cord
stretching from the back of the phantom’s
head to the body below and also said that the
phantom would begin to glow as it was fully
formed.
“They noticed that some were more luminous
than others and there was a light all
around the outline of the [phantom], which I
could only compare to a neon tube,” Laubscher
added, going on to say that as the
phantom righted itself, the connecting cord
thinned out as if it was fraying away. Sometimes
these clairvoyant caregivers would report
joyous faces of other deceased gathering
around to welcome the person to the spirit
world before the “silver cord” was severed and
the visions ceased.
Laubscher theorized that the vaporous material
has the same makeup as ectoplasm, the
mysterious substance given off by physical mediums
before materializations, seeing it as a sort
of glue bonding the physical body with the
spirit body. He also theorized that the more
materialistic a person, the denser the ectoplasm
and the more difficulty the person has in
“giving up the ghost.”
In the January 25, 1945, issue of Psychic Ob-
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Peter Fenwick
server, reporter Ed Bodin, wrote about a young
soldier who claimed he saw ectoplasm on the
battlefield. “I have watched it emanate from a
badly wounded soldier and then disappear as
that soldier breathed his last,” the young soldier
was quoted. “One hillbilly comrade from Kentucky
called it ‘soul mist,’ revealing that many
natives in his part of the country considered it
quite a normal thing, although they seldom
talked about it.”
Because his orthodox Christian family
frowned on discussion of such occult matters,
the young soldier asked not to be identified.
However, he went on to tell how, after being
wounded by shrapnel, another soldier lay badly
wounded about 10 feet from him. “I looked at
him with pity, forgetting my own pain. Then in
the deepening twilight I saw strange smoke
begin to curl above him as though coming
from his stomach as he lay on his back
moaning. The stump of his arm was in the
thick mud congealing the blood to some extent
and making death slower. Then I remembered
what my friend had said about soul mist, and I
watched fascinated as the ectoplasm became
denser and began to flow toward me. For a moment
I thought I saw in it the face of a kindly
old lady. Presently it reached me and for a
second I was bewildered by the strange sensation
that came over me. I felt stronger. With
my left arm I raised myself and began to crawl
to the dying soldier. I reached for my canteen
of water. The mist was still around me, and
with a sudden effort I was on my feet and beside
the soldier.”
The other soldier died, and the young soldier
telling the story rose and walked nearly a
mile to the Red Cross representative. He remained
unconscious for three days, and medical
attendants later told him that they could
not understand how he had lived, to say
nothing of walking the near mile to safety. “…to
my dying day, I shall believe the ectoplasm
from the body of that dying soldier had helped
me in a mysterious way,” the young soldier
added. “It had given me sufficient strength to
save my life. That soul mist of a sacrificed soldier
was like the spiritual light of Jesus about
whom it was said: ‘He could save others, but
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