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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

MYSTERIOUS TELEGRAM From Beyond the Grave

The following anecdote was sent by Dr. Margaret Vivian and later published in the "London Evening News" on December 23, 1954. An interesting account and mystery.

"Many years ago when I was a medical student Mr. X., an old friend, would call occasionally at the college to take me out to lunch. One day a letter from him asked me to meet him off the 1:30 train the next day at a small country station nearby. Later, a telegram was handed to me telling me Mr. X. had been killed in a street accident. It was unsigned and I thought it might be a hoax.

The next morning I cycled to the station, leaned my bicycle against the bridge across the lines, and leaned on the parapet. As the 1:30 train pulled up at the platform, I watched anxiously to see who alighted. There were three passengers, two men, and a girl, and to my relief, I saw that one was my old friend, in his familiar raincoat and pork pie hat rather far back on his head. I shouted to him and he looked up smiling, waved his hat, and hurried out of sight towards the station exit. I ran to meet him there. The two other passengers emerged, by not Mr. X. I went onto the platform but there was no sign of him.

I spoke to the ticket collector. He said only two passengers had gotten off the train, a 'gent' and a young lady.

"But the other gentleman, wearing a pork pie hat," I insisted. "I saw him from the bridge!"

"I never seen but two," he replied, showing me the two tickets he had taken from them.

I rode back to college, fearing now the telegram must be genuine, and I learned later that Mr. X had been knocked down by a passerby, and had been taken unconscious to hospital, where he died as the result of a fractured skull.

I never discovered who sent me the telegram." 




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