Phenomena in Missouri

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1858

Phenomena in Missouri.

THE editor of the Cape Girardeau (Mo.) Eagle makes the following statements:

Our devil is a medium, and by holding a pen loosely in his hand, it will, involuntarily on his part, write answers to questions; turning his eyes from the paper, he knows not what is written till he examines. Though sometimes correct in his replies, he frequently makes mistakes. But he made our little writing table perform some most wonderful feats a few nights since. It went anywhere about our sanctum, that it might be directed. It traveled about with a boy on the top of it, and when required to careen and slide him off, it did so, notwithstanding a youth of considerable strength tried to hold him on.

The table was told to shake hands with a certain man; it went to the place where he was standing, and diagonally held up one of its legs. It was required to get into the lap of another, when it approached him and placed one leg on his knee. Now, these are facts, which several of our best citizens can testify to, and who are still incredulous with regard to its spiritual origin. We do not know what motive power caused the table to move about as it did. The youth could not have been in collusion with any other person, and that, to us, renders the whole thing so much the more mysterious. The youth inquired the name of the spirit, and to his utmost surprise wrote down the name of his father, who had died many years ago.—Spirit. Age.