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Arrival cases
The appearance of a person in advance of
his actual arrival. The arriving phantom appears in the
same clothing worn by the person at the time. Observers,believing the individual to be physically present, may
speak to the phantom, and it may respond. The projecting
individual usually is not aware of appearing in a distant
location until he or she is told about it.
There are various explanations made for arrival cases.
The most likely is that the individual somehow projects a
double, which is perceived as his solid, real self. Another
is that the individual projects himself out-of-body (see
BILOCATION). Still another suggests that arrival cases occur
in a quirk of time—a duplication of an event in time.
American author Mark Twain described his own
arrival case experience. At a large reception, he spotted a
woman whom he knew and liked. He lost sight of her in
the crowd, but met her later at supper. She was dressed in
the same clothes she had worn to the reception. However,
the real woman was on board a train en route to the town
where the party was being held—she hadn’t yet physically
arrived. Twain apparently had seen her double or a phantom
duplicate of her.
Arrival cases were collected and studied by the early
psychical researchers, the founders of the SOCIETY FOR
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH (SPR) in London, in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. The key researchers—EDMUND
GURNEY, FREDERIC W.H. MYERS and FRANK PODMORE—
chronicled arrival cases in their exhaustive survey Phantasms
of the Living (1918). In some cases, intent and
state of mind seem to be relevant factors—for example,
a person is expected to arrive, and in transit is intent
on getting there. Or, a person contemplates an activity
in another location. Phantasms cites the case of a young
girl whose arrival apparition was seen in a grove shortly
before she actually arrived to commit SUICIDE by hanging
herself. The girl’s intense emotional state may have
contributed to the projection of her double in advance
of her act.
In the Highlands of Scotland, the term for arrival cases
is “spirits of the living.” Highlanders believe arrival apparitions
are visible only to those with second sight (see
CLAIRVOYANCE).
In Norway, the arrival case phenomenon is called
Vardøger, which means “forerunner.” One unusual Vardøger
case occurred in Oslo to Erikson Gorique, an
Amer ican importer, in 1955. For years, Gorique had
wanted to go to Norway, a country he had never before
visited, but was forced to keep postponing the trip. In
July 1955, he was at last able to make the trip, to look
for china and glassware.
He did not decide on his hotel accommodations until
he arrived in Oslo and inquired which hotel was the best.
Much to his astonishment, he was greeted by name by
the hotel clerk upon his arrival to check in. The clerk
told him it was nice to have him return. When Gorique
protested that he had never before been at the hotel or in
Norway, the puzzled clerk insisted that he could not mistake
Gorique’s unusual name and American appearance.
He said Gorique had stayed at the hotel several months
earlier and had made reservations to return in July.
Gorique was more astonished when he visited a
wholesale dealer, who also greeted him familiarly, saying
it was a pleasure to have him back to conclude business
that had been initiated on his previous trip. Gorique
expressed his confusion, whereupon the dealer nodded
knowingly and explained the Vardøger phenomenon: it
is not uncommon in Norway, he said.
FURTHER READING:
Gurney, Edmund, Frederic W. H. Myers, and Frank Podmore.
Phantasms of the Living. London: Kegan Paul, Trench,
Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1918.
Knight, David C. The Moving Coffi ns: Ghosts and Hauntings
Around the World. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall,
1983.
Arundel Castle Haunted ancestral home of the dukes of
Norfolk in Sussex, England. The castle, of medieval style
and dating mostly to the 19th century, stands on what is
believed to be the remains of a 12th-century castle and an
earlier castle. It has belonged to the Norfolk family since
1580, when the uncle of Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s
fi fth wife, took possession of it.
Best known of the ghosts is the Blue Man, a Cavalier
dressed in a blue silk suit, who is usually seen reading
in the library as though searching for some bit of information.
The Blue Man has been seen since the time of
Charles II (1630–85, reigned 1660–85).
A second ghost is that of a kitchen boy said to have
been so badly treated some 200 years ago that he died
at a young age. His ghost has been both seen and heard
returning to furiously clean pots and pans.
A third ghost is a girl dressed in white, who, according
to legend, threw herself off Hiorne’s Tower over an unrequited
love. Her white form is sometimes seen near the
tower on moonlit nights.
The castle has its own DEATH OMEN, a phantom white
BIRD that fl utters against the windows to warn of the
impending death of a member of the Howard family. The
ghostly bird was said to have appeared just before the
death of the Duke of Norfolk in 1917.
Phantom cannon sounds also have been reported booming
in the vicinity of the castle. They are said to be from the
guns of Sir William Waller, who fought under Oliver Cromwell
in the English Civil War (1642–48) against Charles I.
Waller’s cannons battered Arundel Castle.
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