Phantasms of the Living

Somebody sees a person, usually a relative, at or right around the moment of a death that they don't know yet has happened.

The foundation text is Phantasms of the Living by Edmund Gurney, FWH.

Myers and Frank Podmore, published in 1886 by the Society of Psychical Research.

Two volumes, more than 700 documented case studies.

The specifics were reconstructed 30 years later by a man calling his mother.

That's the normal shape of every family story ever told, and the timing is the first thing that tightens it up over those three decades.

But what I can't really explain is the objection applies to every single use of phantasms of the living.

All 700 of them.