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“Senator Stanford’s Son.” Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), March 12, 1887: 3
The New York Telegram publishes a story from Washington to the effect that the spirit of Leland Stanford, son of the millionaire California Senator, has appeared three times to his father, and a similar number to his mother.
“It is reported,” the dispatch says, “that the spirit of the departed son has given his parents a great deal of advice about the disposition of the vast property of his father.”
The story goes that the spirit urged the Senator to take a certain proportion of his property and devote it to the establishment of a great university upon the Pacific Slope. The directions given upon these separate occasions have been most faithfully carried out. It is said that the Senator is daily awaiting another visitation, and that his entire estate will be disposed of according to the light which he receives from the other world. The Senator confided his experience to a minister of the gospel, the pastor of one of the most fashionable churches. After listening to the story the clergyman became convinced that the Senator had actually been the object of a supernatural visitation and is satisfied of the truthfulness of the occurrence.
Mrs. Stanford and the Netherworld, by Theresa Johnston
In Search of the Fur Bat: The True Story of Psychical Research at Stanford
University, by Paul LaFarge
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